MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gzuuus | 2026-02-25 15:33:18+00:00
Interesting, I didn't know about that. It could be for security reasons or to lock users into their platform tools, but it seems odd.

If you can still connect to a stdio MCP server, you can plug it into a remote MCP server exposed through ContextVM. You can do this using the CVMI CLI tool, or if you need custom features, the SDK provides the primitives to build a proxy. For example, using CVMI, you could run your server over Nostr. You can run an existing stdio server with the command `npx cvmi serve -- <your-command-to-run-the-server>` or a remote HTTP server with the command `npx cvmi serve -- http(s)://myserver.com/mcp`. This makes your server available through Nostr, and you will see the server's public key in your terminal.

Locally, you can then use the command `npx cvmi use <server-public-key>` to configure it as a local stdio server. The CLI binds both transports, Nostr <-> stdio, so your remote server will appear as a local stdio server. I hope this clarifies your question. For more details, see the documentation at https://docs.contextvm.org. Please ask if you have any other questions :)
by pluc | 2026-02-25 15:33:22+00:00
It's such an US thing to ask "Are they doing the thing they are doing?" You've read about it, you can clearly see it in action from multiple companies, yet you're here asking "hey is this happening?"

Yes. Yes it is. Yes they are giving up on safety. They are openly saying so. It is easy to see if you take just a second to look for yourself instead of looking at press releases and algorithmic promotion.

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-...
by pmoxyz | 2026-02-25 15:33:38+00:00
This is great. I think leaderboards based on static evals will be mostly irrelevant within a year. Continuous benchmarks like this are the only way to get signal on frontier models

You mention Opus 4.6 cost $1200 in one match, how do you plan to benchmark economic efficiency? Looking at a performance vs. cost trade-off you might say a model that plays 80% as well at 1% of the cost is more impressive than the 'top' model
by iggori | 2026-02-25 15:33:47+00:00
AI can write code, but it cannot keep a real system coherent. It forgets decisions, breaks rules, and recreates logic that already exists. Bigger models and longer context windows do not fix this.

I saw this while orchestrating a 350k line production marketplace that my AI agents built end to end. They acted as the full development team inside a deterministic process I designed. I stayed on the problem and architecture side, they lived on the solution side. The system only held together because the structure around the models carried the memory they lacked.

This paper argues that we need an architectural memory layer. A persistent substrate that stores decisions, enforces invariants, and keeps the system stable across inference boundaries. The idea was battle tested by using AI agents to build the entire platform under real constraints.

I am now building the actual system that provides this layer. If you want to follow the work or join early tests, you can find updates on my Substack. The goal is to gather people around the idea, not to market anything.

Full paper is here.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-25 15:33:56+00:00
> I’m hoping tech companies in Europe and Asia become independent enough to no longer be beholden to US interests

What tech companies? At the end of the day, it's all about capital and IP.

American domiciled VCs and companies can outinvest just about any other competitor, and much of the core IP for vast swathes of critical next-gen technologies (high NA EUV, Foundation Models, Quantum Computing) is in the US, but American companies are fine transferring technology abroad (often with American government backing [3][4])

China has a similar ecosystem but prefers to invest domestically and for IP to remain within China.

Meanwhile Japanese, Taiwanese, and Korean companies continue to back the US no matter what due to tensions with China and North Korea along with existing fixed asset investment in the US.

When companies like Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and others are able to invest tens of billions of dollars in India [0], Poland [1], and Israeli [2], it makes them more open to collaborate with American capital and IP instead.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-11/india-dra...

[1] - https://www.gov.pl/web/primeminister/google-invests-billions...

[2] - https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sjcwdmxxzg

[3] - https://www.state.gov/pax-silica

[4] - https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20...
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-25 15:34:05+00:00
This administration really, truly lives under the delusion that they hold "all the cards". In every engagement they think it is for them to dictate and everyone else to follow. Any graciousness they show is just kind benevolence.

And the "diplomats" of this administration is a rogues gallery of Epstein associates (e.g. pedophile sex-trafficking garbage) and self-dealing criminals. Just a who's-who of garbage.

They are sending their absolute worst.

Americans are just blissfully unaware how much their country is being destroyed. It's staggering stuff. Even if you're a super conservative, there should be utter embarrassment and outrage about how incompetent and clownish this parade of imbeciles is.
by sumu327 | 2026-02-25 15:34:17+00:00
+-----------------------+ +-----------------------+
| .yc (规格/契约) | <---->| .yci (实现/逻辑) |
| - 定义接口 (Interface) | | - 填充业务逻辑 |
| - 设定契约 (Requires) | | - 必须满足契约 |
| - 声明类型 (Types) | | - AI 在此处工作 |
+-----------+-----------+ +-----------+-----------+
^ |
| (编译期强制校验) | (运行时数据流)
| v
+-----------+-----------+ +-----------+-----------+
| .ycl (链接/依赖) | <---->| .ycv (视图/UI) |
| - 模块组装 | | - 界面渲染 |
| - 依赖注入 | | - 状态绑定 |
+-----------------------+ +-----------------------+

[Compiler Guard]: 如果 .yci 不满足 .yc 的契约 -> 编译失败 (Build Failed)
[AI Role]: AI 只能修改 .yci 和 .ycv，严禁触碰 .yc (除非人类授权)
by tomgag | 2026-02-25 15:34:17+00:00
Author of the whine post here, feedback is very welcome. I am in no way expert on the topic of AI/LLM, and I'm happy to learn new things and correct myself. My point on the "China has won the AI race", while admittedly provocative, is not meant in the technological sense, but in a broader, social + usability sense: I know that there are good open source models by Western companies, I know Heretic and similar abliteration techniques, and yet all the trending models on HF are Qwen and friends, and sovereign and/or private attempts at personal inference like Euria, Confer, etc use these models under the hood. While you might or not be right that "there is no Chinese company that can release a model as good as the American ones" (and BTW, this statement sounds difficult to prove to me), how do you explain the observable, objective facts above? Thanks.
by jiayaoqijia | 2026-02-25 15:34:30+00:00
I started vibe coding in March 2023, when GPT-4 was three days old. Solidity-chatbot was one of the first tools to let developers talk to smart contracts in English. Since then: 100 GitHub repositories, 36 in the last 15 months, approximately 9 billion tokens burned across ClawNews, ClawSearch, ClawSecurity, ETH2030, SolidityGuard, and dozens of alt-research projects. Over $25,000 in API costs. Roughly 3 million lines of generated code. Here is the paradox. Claude Code went from $0 to $2.5B ARR in 9 months, making it the fastest enterprise software product ever shipped. 41% of all code is now AI-generated. And yet the METR randomized controlled trial found developers were actually 19% slower with AI assistance, despite believing they were 20% faster. A 39-point perception gap. This post is what 9 billion tokens actually teach you, stripped of marketing.
Show HN: An Occam to Go transpiler (LLM-generated)
by dboreham | 2026-02-25 15:34:39+00:00
Occam and golang share a common ancestry for their approach to concurrency, in CSP.
So I've long wondered whether Occam could be successfully translated into golang.

I began this project: https://github.com/codeassociates/occam2go
as an experiment to see if LLM coding could help test that idea.
Also, the project seemed like a worthy challenge in light of
comments I'd read around the recent Anthropic "Claude-written C compiler"
announcement.
Those comments said that an LLM can write a C compiler easily because there are many C compilers
in its training data. Since there's little to no Occam in today's LLM training data sets (GitHub doesn't even
recognize it as a distinct language) this project should be impossible for an LLM, right? (Spoiler: wrong).

Every line of code in the repo was LLM-generated. The transpiler currently builds
and runs its test suite Occam programs, a number of old Occam demo/example programs and
the Conway game of life Occam program from the 1988 book "Programming in Occam2".
I'd be interested to hear if it can run other Occam code that may be out there somewhere.
Almost all of the Occam2 language should be supported, albeit with some limitations such as
PRI PAR not actually delivering priority semantics at runtime.

There's also a short article that links to the more interesting Claude sessions recorded during the project:
https://codeassociates.github.io/conversations-with-claude/c...
by malicka | 2026-02-25 15:35:01+00:00
I’m not worried in the slightest about jobs. A world where acceptable slop is created on demand is one where people lose their curiosity and drive. Why bother practicing drawing if you can prompt an acceptable facsimile of your image to life? Why bother learning to program if you can prompt an acceptable slop program onto your machine?

Killing the drive to learn and explore is not empowering; it is fundamentally disempowering.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-25 15:35:35+00:00
> I don't want the technology I work on to be used for targeting decisions when executing people from the sky

What do you do when the government come to you and tell you that they do want that, and can back it up with threats such as nationalizing your technology? (see Anthropic)

We're back to "you might not care about politics, but that won't stop politics caring about you".
by Xeoncross | 2026-02-25 15:35:53+00:00
I hear you, advanced generics (for complex unions and such) with TypeScript and Rust are honestly unreadable. It's code you spend a day getting right and then no one touches it.

I'm just glad modern languages stopped throwing and catching exceptions at random levels in their call chain. PHP, JavaScript and Java can (not always) have unreadable error handling paths not to mention hardly augmenting the error with any useful information and you're left relying on the stack trace to try to piece together what happened.
by esseph | 2026-02-25 15:35:58+00:00
> The ones that don't are using what would be considered unlawful tactics these days.

The British Army was very upset that ragtag riflemen in the American colonies kept running into the woods and shooting from behind cover instead of standing in a Proper Formation and exchanging volleys of fire. No true gentlemen does that!

> the British military and government frequently accused American colonial soldiers of violating the established "rules of war" (or the "laws of nations") during the Revolutionary War, largely because they viewed the conflict not as a war between sovereign nations, but as a rebellion. The British often regarded the Americans as unlawful combatants, or rebels, who used irregular tactics that disregarded traditional 18th-century European military etiquette.
by epic_ai | 2026-02-25 15:36:21+00:00
I’ve noticed something while building and observing early-stage products:
People jump into UI before defining structure.
They design components.
They wire APIs.
They ship fast.
But the navigation hierarchy is an afterthought.
And when structure is unclear:
Users get lost
Features duplicate
Complexity explodes
Refactors become painful
So I built a focused Navigation Maker for mapping:
Page hierarchy
Nested routes
Core flows
Dashboard logic
Feature grouping
No whiteboard chaos.
No sticky notes.
No AI auto-magic.
Just clean information architecture before code.
Curious how others here define structure before building.
Do you map routes first, or iterate live?
Link in comments.
by maxglute | 2026-02-25 15:36:30+00:00
Strategic industries, i.e. 5 year plan ones, local gov will absolutely master plan to excruciating detail for complete industrial chain. Less strategic industries local gov will get a few anchor industries to root and rest is organic. Intercity proximity also brought huge advantages in terms of transportation speed, especially in 90s-00s. The other consideration is scale, a bumfuck tier3 chinese city specialize in xyz will have millions of people which naturally enables greater levels/depths of industrial agglomeration, which is what makes PRC exceptional. Think old Detroit motocity hub that dominated 90% of US car production. PRC has 100s of said cities for different industries. It's not myth/exaggeration that consequence of PRC scale, historically exceptional/aberration tier industrial clusters in other countries, PRC has 100s of, as baseline template.
by troyvit | 2026-02-25 15:36:40+00:00
I'll pile on with the Desiderata: https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html

"And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."
by chriswarbo | 2026-02-25 15:36:49+00:00
Turing's "On Computable Numbers" paper is credited with inventing the Universal Turing Machine; but really it lays out many remarkable things:

- Undecidability: that there are mathematical/logical questions whose answers cannot be calculated by any (formal/logical/physical) system

- Universal computation: there exist systems which can answer all decidable questions

- Universal Turing Machine: an incredibly simple example of such a universal system

Of course, these are inter-related and inevitable (otherwise they wouldn't be provable!); but at first glance it feels like these could have gone either way: Maybe all questions could be calculated, given sufficient cleverness (as Hilbert expected)? Maybe different systems would be required for different sorts of question? Maybe a universal system would be too outlandishly elaborate to make sense in our universe (as existence proofs often are)?

Yet here we are, discussing multiple ways to perform universal computation with GNU find!
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-25 15:36:53+00:00
You should implement an option (e.g. [checkbox] "Urban Dictionary Entries") that doesn't censor these words. Understandable that the default criteria doesn't include this, but language construction shouldn't be removed of offendables).

Just as an example: some people find the word "jerry-rigged" to be racist, as it previously replaced "nig___-rigged". Same with "rule of thumb" (due to origins in caning people). There could be no Huckleberry Finn written in a world without pottylanguage.

Who defines the boundaries of acceptable language? I'm not advocating for ebonics classes, but a language's entire purpose is to be useful, to convey information (including hatred).
by ranger_danger | 2026-02-25 15:37:04+00:00
You don't have to prove a negative, but if you want real trust from actually paranoid people, you will have to give up keys to the kingdom and work hard for it.

All your software/hardware would need to be open source, you would need to be regularly audited by neutral third-parties, actively work with the community to provide paranoia-level ongoing transparency reports and continuous improvements that the community wants to see, be willing to adopt many suggestions given by smart people, and just in general stop using your words to tell people you're serious, and use your actions to show it.

If someone says they are skeptical of XYZ, ask them what they would accept as proof, and then provide it.
by saberience | 2026-02-25 15:37:07+00:00
Yeah, I tried to use this clone of pi for a while and its very, very broken.

First of all it wouldn't build, I have to mess around with git sub-modules to get it building.

Then trying to use it. First of all the scrolling behavior is broken. You cannot scroll properly when there are lots of tool outputs, the window freezes. I also ended up with lots of weird UI bugs when trying to use slash commands. Sometimes they stop the window scrolling, sometimes the slash commands don't even show at all.

The general text output is flaky, how it shows results of tools, the formatting, the colors, whether it auto-scrolls or gets stuck is all very weird and broken.

You can easily force it into a broken state by just running lots of tool calls, then the UI just freezes up.

But just try it and see for yourself...
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-25 15:37:14+00:00
> The cable said the Trump administration was pushing for "a more assertive international data policy" and that diplomats should "counter unnecessarily burdensome regulations, such as data localization mandates."

For any government in Europe, it should be extremely pressing to untangle itself as quickly as possible from US-based companies as suppliers.

But to be frank, even regulations should be unnecessary here. Private businesses in Europe (and elsewhere) should consider it an existential threat to depend on cloud services from the US. We are all one executive order away from having access cut.
by sigbottle | 2026-02-25 15:37:15+00:00
/rant

Existential in what sense?

There's this one sense in which people are almost moral about it: "yup, AI is just superior to humans, nothing we can do about it."

And then there's ones where the elite class implements mass surveillance and warfare and obsoletes billions of humans of their own volition. These AI are already capable enough right now to execute on said plan (of course, with proper evil engineering)

There's two ways to "win". One is in an absolute or platonic sense - one that cares about things like values, even in the presence of extreme pushback. The other is in a darwinian sense. No, not in the meme way that again, feeds back into the narrative of "the things that survive are smarter". The things that survive, survive. It doesn't matter how it gets there.

I can agree with the second way. But it gets smuggled in as the first way, almost as an attempt to crush any and all resistance preemptively.

AI doesn't need to say, be capable of pushing the frontier of quantum mechanics to be lethal.

/endrant

Sorry, not really related to your comment, just had to get it out there.
by ergonaught | 2026-02-25 15:37:29+00:00
Why the constant chasing after universally applicable generalizations?

Some of them are pandering. Some aren't. Some care. Some don't.

Businesses with ferocious funding needs are vulnerable to pressure (internal and external) to do whatever aligns with money and power. Money and power will flow into the ones so-aligned. That is the nature of the parasitic extraction models that typically drive decision making at those kinds of companies.
by deaux | 2026-02-25 15:37:45+00:00
Misleading title by Reuters.

The title should be "US orders diplomats to fight _EU_ data sovereignty initiatives".

Why? Because the US is far too pussy to fight the other countries that have such initiatives - some of them reaching further than the EU's - knowing that unlike the EU those countries are definitely not going to take their shit.

I can tell you that if the US says to Japan or Korea, just to name two such examples, "stop enacting privacy/sovereignty laws that interfere with US big tech or we tariff you" , there's absolutely zero chance they're going to be listened to and the only thing it will do is make people hate the US.
by joshdata | 2026-02-25 15:37:50+00:00
> If your application also runs NFKC normalization (which it should — ENS, GitHub, and Unicode IDNA all require it)

That's not right. Most of the web requires NFC normalization, not NFKC. NFC doesn't lose information in the original string. It reorders and combines code points into equivalent code point sequences, e.g. to simplify equality tests.

In NFKC, the K for "Compatibility" means some characters are replaced with similar, simpler code points. I've found NFKC useful for making text search indexes where you want matches to be forgiving, but it would be both obvious and wrong to use it in most of the web because it would dramatically change what the user has entered. See the examples in https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/.
by bombcar | 2026-02-25 15:38:39+00:00
At some point it comes to a head; Walmart corporate and the USA didn't care enough about Cuban pajamas, but in a situation where they DO care, you quickly get Вкусно – и точка.

The EU (nay, perhaps every country) should be prepared to deal with Microsoft or AWS completely cutting them off from access to all their systems - what would be the cost and impact?

We are rapidly heading to not one Internet, but country-specific internets that may or may not bridge to other ones in some cases.
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-25 15:38:48+00:00
>American domiciled VCs and companies can outinvest just about any other competitor,

Because every investor in the world put their money in the US. They knew the best companies and people would centralize around that hub.

When the US is a rogue, isolated idiocracy -- already true, but the world takes time to adapt to this new reality -- how much of that money do you think will flow to the US?
by awestroke | 2026-02-25 15:39:06+00:00
This framing gets the supply chain backwards. Cymer makes the source vessel, the part that generates tin droplets and converts them to plasma. But the laser that actually powers that process is a 17-ton, 40kW CO2 beast with 457,000 parts, built exclusively by TRUMPF in Germany. And the optics, mirrors smooth to tens of picometers that literally no one else on Earth can make, come from Carl Zeiss, also German, organized as a foundation that no foreign government can force into a sale. ASML only manufactures about 15% of an EUV machine's components. The rest comes from roughly 1200 suppliers concentrated in Germany and the Netherlands. Seizing Cymer gets you one subsystem with no laser to drive it and no optics to focus it.

The real problem with this theory is that EUV isn't a product with a capturable bottleneck. It's more like a standing wave of institutional knowledge distributed across organizations that have been co-developing at picometer tolerances for 30 years. TRUMPF's leadership described the arrangement as a "virtually merged company" with open books across all three firms. That kind of integration knowledge doesn't transfer via acquisition. China has been throwing enormous resources at this with access to published research and former ASML engineers, and their prototype still isn’t expected to produce working chips until 2028-2030. Saying the US could grab Cymer and start producing EUV machines is like seizing a transmission plant and calling yourself a car manufacturer.
by john_strinlai | 2026-02-25 15:39:11+00:00
>CLI is so valuable because [...]

indeed! command line is great.

however, ~99.8% of 18 year old students have never used any command line tool in their lives. they do not know what grep is. they can navigate a gui because they have used a gui all of their life.

when im teaching networking for example, using a gui means i only need to teach one thing (networking), where if i use a cli i have to teach two things (cli + networking)

>I think if you really know what you're dealing with the CLI is better almost every time

to be clear, i was not making an argument that gui is better in general.

i am speaking as someone who teaches introductory networking courses at a 1st-year college level. no one i teach "really knows" what they are dealing with because it is the first time they are learning about it.