MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by georgemcbay | 2026-02-28 04:52:48+00:00
It is possible the DoD might later give them the same ultimatum that they gave Anthropic, especially if the fallout of that breakup turns out to be as bad as they are threatening (which remains to be seen, of course).

Also possible that OpenAI expects this outcome and has decided that when/if that happens they can claim their hands are tied and they have to agree because it would be fiduciarily irresponsible to suffer the same fate as Anthropic.

Obviously this is all baseless speculation on my part.
by dataflow | 2026-02-28 04:53:27+00:00
> Now, you need to verify your age... on your microwave?

What part of the bill makes you think this would apply to a microwave? https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

And what part makes you think you need to verify your age, as opposed to just specifying it? Nobody is requiring any verification. The only requirement is on there being an interface for you to input whatever age you want to input.
by cvhc | 2026-02-28 04:53:32+00:00
I know this sounds absurd. But let me try not to be cynical and explain how we got here, according to what I understand:

First, let's admit the push for age verification laws isn't a partisan or ideological thing. It's a global trend. This California law has bipartisan sponsorship and only major org opponent is the evil G [1]. While age verification is unpopular in tech community, I imagine a lot of average adult voters agree that limiting children's access to wilder parts of the Internet is a good thing.

On this premise, the discussion is then who should be responsible for age verification. The traditional model is to require app developers / website owners to gatekeep -- like the Texas and Ohio laws that require PornHub to verify users' IDs. But such model put too much burden on small developers, and it's a privacy nightmare to have to share your PII with random apps.

This is why we see this new model. States start to believe it seems more viable to dump the responsibility on big tech / platforms. A newer Texas law is adopt this model (on top the traditional model) to require app stores to verify user age (but was recently blocked by court) [2]. And this California law pretty much also takes this model -- the OS (thinking as iOS / Android / Windows with app store) shall obtain the user age and provide "a signal regarding the users age bracket to applications available in a covered application store".

While many people here are concerning open-source OSes, and the language do cover all OSes -- my intuition is no lawmaker had ever think about them and they were not the target.

[1] https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab...
[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/big-tech-won-in-tex...
by connorshinn | 2026-02-28 04:53:55+00:00
Honestly the entire "redesign" just feels uninspired and poorly executed.

Another problem I have with it - they state that the red text was such a huge problem, but then their solution is to... Keep only using red? Why not, for example, make certain non-failure notifications yellow or some other color? Surely using other colors should at least be tested as a solution, right? The whole process seems bizarre to me
by alnwlsn | 2026-02-28 04:54:07+00:00
I happen to be working on an RP2350 TRS-80 emulator, and I've been using this one [0] as the z80 core (because I figured this had been done enough times and why reinvent the wheel?).

Looking at the two z80.c side by side, it definitely doesn't look like a copy-paste job (at least compared with [0], I'm sure it was trained on many others). The AI version is a lot better commented, although [0] is probably closer to how I would have structured it had I written one.

The interfacing between the two is very similar though, so I was curious to try the AI version to see if there was any cycle efficiency difference. Running the same short loop in Level II basic, I find the AI version to be just about 1.5% slower. Make of that what you will.

On one RP2350 core, I figure these versions top out about equal to a 6Mhz Z80. I do wonder what you would get if you asked for a version optimized for ARM Cortex-M33.

0 - https://github.com/superzazu/z80
by skissane | 2026-02-28 04:54:11+00:00
This tweet (from Under Secretary of State Jeremy Lewin) explains it:

https://x.com/UnderSecretaryF/status/2027594072811098230

https://xcancel.com/UnderSecretaryF/status/20275940728110982...

The OpenAI-DoW contract says "all lawful uses", and then reiterates the existing of statutory limits on DoW operations. So it basically spells out in more detail what "all lawful uses" actually means under existing law. Of course, I expect it leaves interpreting that law up to the government, and Congress may change that law in the future.

Anthropic wanted to go beyond that. They wanted contractual limitations on those use cases that are stronger than the existing statutory limitations.

OpenAI has essentially agreed to a political fudge in which the Pentagon gets "all lawful uses" along with some ineffective language which sounds like what Anthropic wanted but is actually weaker. Anthropic wasn't willing to accept the fudge.
by ajam1507 | 2026-02-28 04:54:16+00:00
There are several reasons. Most obviously it's because the markets are closed which keeps immediate panic from affecting stock prices. It's also at the start of the weekend so the idea is that people might be more focused on weekend activities instead of the news. Also, news coverage on the weekend is often reheated stories written during the week meaning that a Friday story is less likely to get picked up.
by colonCapitalDee | 2026-02-28 04:54:24+00:00
There's a hell of a difference between "we don't like your terms so we're going to use a different supplier" and "we don't like your terms, so we're going to use the power of the federal government to compel you to change them". The president is the commander-in-chief of the military, but Anthropic is not part of the military! Outside serving the public interest in a crisis, the president has no right to compel Anthropic to do anything. We are clearly not in a crisis, much less a crisis that demands kill bots and domestic surveillance. This is clear overreach, and claiming a constitutional justification is mockery.
by akersten | 2026-02-28 04:54:29+00:00
> Don't use passkeys

Better title.

Mom can't figure out what they are or how to use them. They bind you to your device/iCloud/Gaia account so if it gets stolen/banned you're out of luck (yeah yeah multiple devices and paths to auth and backup codes, none of that matters). It's one further step down the attested hardware software and eyeballs path. Passwords forever, shortcomings be damned.
by blackjack_ | 2026-02-28 04:55:07+00:00
Just as the comment above says. This discussion is a lot of armchair software engineers who don't understand the processes arguing about things they don't have any actual insight into. Just normal HN pedantry and certainty in subjects they have no expertise in. Also loads and loads of either astroturfers, or true believers in SpaceX. Mixed with a lot of hate for NASA, which having spent many 80+ hour weeks with working with many of their engineers, I find extremely sad (but maybe fitting for these political times).
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-28 04:56:43+00:00
It really isn't—it's all perception. Hegseth has a much more outgoing and public persona so it's more visible.

Heck, can you even name the last 5 Secretaries that preceded him? I can't.

The last one that was this widely known was probably Rumsfeld (Bush II) or Robert Gates during Obama I (bin Laden raid).
by cvhc | 2026-02-28 04:58:05+00:00
No. Age verification law is not a partisan or ideological thing. It's a global trend. This law is sponsored by both parties: https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab... , and Texas has a newer law (App Store Accountability Act) that requires app stores to verify user ages and obtain parental consent for minors.
by rconti | 2026-02-28 04:58:18+00:00
Yeah, mine's the same (2013 981 S 6MT). As you know, they're geared to the moon, and taking a surprising amount of rowing to get the most out of the powerband, so often I'll merge onto the freeway and just be hanging out in 3rd at 70 as I look for my spot in traffic and you don't even know you're not in 6th. Turbine smooth.
by hedora | 2026-02-28 04:58:48+00:00
It seems like it will only be a matter of time before consumer sites start requiring a patched OS with an attestation bit set in the key.

Also, as I understand it, sites can whitelist credential hardware.

If not, then the attestation is security theater. I (or an attacker on your machine), can just make a sw emulator of a hw attestation device, and use that to protect my choice of OS, (and skim your credentials).
by vicchenai | 2026-02-28 04:58:52+00:00
$730B pre-money is remarkable context for an industry that barely existed commercially a decade ago. Worth noting the implied revenue multiple here - OpenAI reportedly hit $4B ARR in 2024, so this round prices them at ~180x forward revenue. For comparison, Salesforce peaked at ~12x. The bull case obviously requires AGI-level defensibility that makes traditional SaaS multiples irrelevant. The bear case is that frontier model costs continue compressing (DeepSeek effect) and commoditization erodes the moat before the network effects lock in. Either way, this is a defining data point for how markets price transformative but uncertain technology.
Show HN: Magicreader – shorten and simplify web articles in-place
by mzelling | 2026-02-28 04:58:55+00:00
Hey HN! This is Michael from magicreader. We’ve just released a Chrome extension that enables you to read web articles in the style and length you prefer.

The idea is similar to Violentmonkey/Tampermonkey and Tweeks, but focused on reading. For example, let’s say you want to read a research paper online, but you’re not an expert in the domain. You can use magicreader to rewrite the paper for a general audience and swap this simplified version directly into the page. While you’re reading, you can seamlessly flip back and forth between the simplified version and the original.

How this is different from using Claude/ChatGPT: with magicreader, there’s no need to copy-paste the text into a chat window, and there is no sidebar. Instead, the HTML of the article simply changes in-place, maintaining the core reading experience.

We currently support the following use cases:
- Shorten: shorten web articles in-place to read 4x faster
- Simplify ("ELI5"): adapt specialist writing (e.g., research papers) for a general audience
- De-spin ("Honest"): annotate marketing/PR materials to quickly spot unsupported claims
- Clean: rewrite unclear or old-fashioned writing in a clean, modern style

Notes:
- We don’t bypass paywalls. We only operate on text you can already view in your browser.
- When you rewrite a webpage, we send the full HTML to our backend; the rewritten text is then locally stored in your Chrome extension storage. The extension only sends data to the backend when you actively invoke magicreader. We don’t track your browsing activity across pages.
- We use AI to rewrite content, and AI can make mistakes. That’s why we made it easy to flip back and forth between the rewritten version and the original—without losing your place in the text.

Rewriting full web articles using large language models is expensive, so we’re offering a limited free tier plus two paid plans. We’re planning to expand the free tier by using smaller and on-device LLMs.

Demo video: https://youtu.be/pckMSxCFUDo

Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/magicreader/phncpke...

We'd love feedback, particularly on 1) which reading mode is most useful, 2) where it breaks on real sites, and 3) any suggestions you have for new features.

You can reply directly here or email me at michael@magicreader.com.
by WD-42 | 2026-02-28 04:59:23+00:00
I'm sure it's a matter of interpretation. Anthropic thinks the DoW's demands will lead to mass surveillance and auto-kill bots. The DoW probably disagrees with that interpretation, and all OpenAI needs to do is also agree with them.

My bet is that what the DoW wants is pretty clearly tied to mass surveillance and kill-bots. Altman is a snake.
by vicchenai | 2026-02-28 04:59:28+00:00
The leaderboard framing is clever - forces apples-to-apples comparison on a task where you can verify correctness deterministically. What I find interesting is the architectural constraints: 10-digit addition requires maintaining ~20 digits of working state across the carry chain, which is fundamentally sequential. The fact that tiny transformers can learn this at all (rather than just memorizing) suggests they are finding some form of positional carry representation in their attention patterns. Would love to see ablations on how attention head count vs depth trade off here - my intuition is that carry propagation needs depth more than width.
by 5o1ecist | 2026-02-28 04:59:49+00:00
> We hope our leaders will put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War's current demands for permission to use our models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people without human oversight.

This is a trap.

Domestic mass surveillance. Domestic.

Remember the eyes agreements: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/are-the-eyes-agreements-abo...

Expanding:

> These pacts enable member countries to share signals intelligence (SIGINT), including surveillance data gathered globally. Disclosures, notably from Edward Snowden in 2013, revealed that allies intentionally collect data on each other's citizens—bypassing domestic restrictions like the US ban on NSA spying on Americans—then exchange it.

Banning domestic mass surveillance is irrelevant.

The eyes-agreements allow them (respective participating countries) to share data with each other. Every country spies on every other country, with every country telling every other country what they have gathered.

This renders laws, which are preventing The State from spying on its own citizens, as irrelevant. They serve the purpose of being evidence of mass manipulation.
by jrflowers | 2026-02-28 05:00:24+00:00
It doesn’t seem like anybody has addressed “If they are the good guys with principles why did they work with Palantir?”

There’s a comment that’s sort of handwaving and saying “because America”, but I would imagine that someone with direct knowledge of the people involved would have something more substantive than “thems the breaks” when it comes to working with Palantir
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-28 05:00:30+00:00
Tao Te Ching Thirty-Six (Hogan's translation):

>To make something ameller, you need to appreciate its size.

>To make something weaker, you must recognize its strength.

>To get rid of something, you must hold it tight.

>To take something, you must give it up entirely.

>To put it another way: sensitivity and weakness overcome unfeeling strength.

Tao Te Ching Thirteen (partial, J.English's translation):

>Misfortune comes from having a body.

>Without a body, how could there be misfortune?
by busko | 2026-02-28 05:02:24+00:00
Exactly. Attracting talent is not the same as having talent.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/education...

You attract talent for the same reasons china attracts sales; at the cost of your very own rights.

Look at the towns suffering around data centres for a start. The rest of us are happy to pay for what you'll do to yourselves.
by rolph | 2026-02-28 05:02:30+00:00
space has been around for a lot longer than earth, its possible that inter planetary generation of nucleic acids may be primarily a matter of chemistry.

Nucleobase synthesis in interstellar ices[2019]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12404-1?error=ser...

Chemistry of Abiotic Nucleotide Synthesis[2020]

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00546
by oefrha | 2026-02-28 05:02:42+00:00
They are pretty clear about this:

> the mass domestic surveillance of Americans

This they say they don’t like. The qualifiers tells you they’re totally fine with mass surveillance of Palestinians, or anyone else really, otherwise they could have said “mass surveillance”.

> fully autonomous weapons

And they’re pretty obviously fine with killing machines using their AI as long as they’re not fully autonomous.

All things considered they’re still a bit better than their competitors, I suppose.
by verisimi | 2026-02-28 05:03:44+00:00
It's great that people are taking a moral position re their work, and are seemingly prepared to take a bit of a risk in expressing themselves.

However, if we're honest, Google has a long history of selling 'the people' out on domestic surveillance. There is even a good argument that this is what it was created for in the first place, given it was seeded with money from inqtel, the CIA venture capital fund. So, while I commend acting with your conscience in this (rather minor) case, and I'm glad to see people attempt to draw a line somewhere, what will this really come to? I strongly suspect this is event itself is just theater for the masses, where corporates and their employees get to stand up to government (yay!). The reality is probably all that is being complained about, and far worse, has been going on for years.

How far would these signatories go? Would they be prepared to walk away from all that money? Will they stop the rest of the dystopian coding/legislation writing, or is that stuff still ok (not that evil)?

Ultimately, is gaining the money worth the loss of one's soul? If you know better, and know that it is wrong to assist corporations and governments in cleaving people open for profit and control, but do it anyway for the house, private schools, holidays, Ferrari, only taking a stand in these performative, semi-sanctioned events - is this really the standard you accept for yourself? If so, then no problem. If not, what exactly are you doing the rest of the time? Are you able to switch your morality/heart/soul off? Judge yourself. If you find you are not acting in accord with yourself, everything is already lost.
by jart | 2026-02-28 05:04:43+00:00
I don't think it's a slap in the face. The slap in the face is devoting your life savings to giving away your work for free and then have it sold back to you. It's really smart what Anthropic is doing. They're encouraging the most influential developers to use their product. If you take the Anthropic money then you probably won't be able to join a class action lawsuit against them. That's fine by me since I'd rather get $200/month back from Anthropic than a $200 cheque in the mail from some lawyers who got rich claiming to represent FOSS developers. Microsoft used to let open source developers use LLMs for free via Copilot. However they took that privilege away a few months ago. I'm glad Anthropic is bringing it back. Even if I only use it for coding tests and experiments.

In fact, Anthropic should go further and let open source developers invest in them before their IPO. I've been trying to do that for a while but they haven't let me :'(
by angry_octet | 2026-02-28 05:06:52+00:00
It's also completely pointless because users routinely use shared accounts. It was thus on the WinXP machine at home, and still is today on iPads and android tablets. Yes, Apple has made it dysfunctional so that rich people will get one iPad per person, but many children use games and social media apps via their parents accounts. Who is going to set up an AppleID for their 8 year old? (Well I did, but normal people?)

The people who wrote this law work for Microsoft and think people have individual laptops and phones with a cellular plan. They care nothing for user privacy, in fact they want persistent digital identifies for advertising.
by impulser_ | 2026-02-28 05:07:35+00:00
For the people that don't understand how they got a deal with the same redlines, it probably because OpenAI agreed to not question them. The safeguards are there, both parties agree now fuck off and let us use your model how we see fit.

Anthropic probably made the mistake of questioning the Military's activities related to Claude after the Venezuela mission and wanted reassurance that the model wouldn't be used for the redlines, and the military didn't like this and told them we aren't using your models unless you agree to not question us and then the back and forth started.

In the end, we will probably have both OpenAI and Anthropic providing AI to the military and that's a good thing. I don't think they will keep the supply chain risk on Anthropic for more than a week.
by blueblisters | 2026-02-28 05:07:42+00:00
My knee-jerk reaction to this was looks like an opportunistic maneuver that Sam is known for and I'm considering canceling my subscriptions and business with OpenAI

But what's the most charitable / objective interpretation of this?

For example -
https://x.com/UnderSecretaryF/status/2027594072811098230

Does it suggest that determination of "lawful use" and Dario's concerns falls upon the government, not the AI provider?

Other folks have claimed that Anthropic planned to burn the contentious redlines into Claude's constitution.

Update: I have cancelled my subscriptions until OpenAI clarifies the situation. From an alignment perspective Anthropic's stand seems like the correct long-term approach. And at least some AI researchers appear to agree.
by biaachmonkie | 2026-02-28 05:07:55+00:00
We also have to consider the other major Musk lead company Telsa had the best selling car in the world and string of successful cars leading up to that before completely shitting the bed on the Cyber Truck.

I want Starship to be a success and reduce the cost to orbit and beyond, but past success does not in any way guarantee future success.
by kkfx | 2026-02-28 05:08:42+00:00
Personally, while living in Emacs (EXWM), I still can't live on eshell, the issue is "the terminal", too many commands are simply uncomfortable to use in eshell while run smoothly in a real terminal.

I've also tried some new shells, the one I last more is xonsh, but generally I came back to zsh even if I use in general much less the shell than before thanks to Emacs, the 2D shell.

Emacs completion also it's very nice for text, but slower than tab-cycle in zsh as well and for quick commands that's matter.
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-28 05:08:43+00:00
It's a clear enough moral issue that whichever side of it you end up on is likely to have life-shaping consequences 5 or 10 years down the line. It's predictable that there will be domestic or international conflict with a high cost in lives and political coherence over that timescale, and being someone who 'was in AI' at a government scale vendor is qualitatively different from being a database admin o font designer or UX specialist.

Substantively, individual employees of these firms may have little or no actual impact on this. But AI is ubiquitous enough and disruptive enough that being professionally connected with it at a time of great geopolitical instability has the potential to be a very very bad look later.
Show HN: Wardrowbe – I kept staring at a full closet with nothing to wear
by rabbi7 | 2026-02-28 05:08:56+00:00
Every morning, same thing. Full closet, no idea what to put on. End up wearing the same jeans and black shirt again. Meanwhile half my clothes just sit there.

I built something to fix that for myself. Take photos of what you own, it handles the rest. Checks the weather, remembers what you wore, picks something. Self-hosted, runs with docker compose.