MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nextaccountic | 2026-02-27 01:29:42+00:00
But.. the US doesn't perform mass surveillance on foreign people only when it's at war. It doesn't perform mass surveillance only on adversarial nations it potentially could be at war either.

This absolutely is about privacy.

> I'm not worried about foreign governments spying on Americans, as long as the US government is aligned. I'm worried about my own government becoming misaligned

Those foreign governments are spying on Americans and then sharing the results with the US government because the US government is misaligned with the interests of its own people
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-27 01:30:12+00:00
> Much like pitches from the Free Software Foundation of a world without copyright and IP.

If there exists no copyright, you cannot force an entity to release the source code of their software.

A world without copyright and IP is for sure an interesting thought experiment, but very different from the FSF vision:

In such a world, there would be much more reverse-engineering and monkey-patching of existing (non-open) software that gets copied around very liberally.

On the other hand, because there exists no enforcable copyright, companies would of course invest a lot of ressources into developing hard to crack copy protection schemes. Similarly, freedom-loving hackers would invest serious ressources into cracking such copy protection schemes.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-27 01:30:59+00:00
'but I took time off because I was injured and Beth asked if I could come in and cover Mannie's shift. You can't lower be pay compensation because of my metrics that shift'

'sorry, the system says this is your new pay rate. If you meet quota without failing to meet quota for the next 6 months, you will be eligible for a rate promotion if your manager requests it'
by anonnon | 2026-02-27 01:31:49+00:00
> I needed to invest a significant amount of my net worth in Google simply as hedge against AI destroying knowledge work jobs

I felt similarly, and did similarly, with both GOOGL and MSFT. I'm not an AI "doomer" in the Yudkowski/LolzWrong sense, but I do think it's quite sad that generative AI is first branch of the AI "tech tree" we raced up. AI art, especially, is tragic.
by lovich | 2026-02-27 01:32:08+00:00
Agree with you on their failure of messaging, Biden was the most progressive President since Carter and I only limit myself to that because I am not as well versed in history at that point.

Yet somehow the progressives found him more unpalatable than the MAGAs if you look at people like Brianna Gray and Jill Stein.

It’s too far out for me to say I will definitively vote for Newsome but so far he’s the only Democrat whose started throwing hands both legislatively and on social media.

I hope the dems figure out how to do more of that and better, instead of returning to shit like the October shutdown and the exchanging leverage for pinky promises from Mr. John “I am an obligate pinky promise liar” Republican.
Show HN: AI that turns CSV files into structured executive analysis
by kiroid123 | 2026-02-27 01:32:12+00:00
I’ve been building a tool called Introspect.

The core idea:

Most CSV tools visualise data.
Most AI tools summarise data.

Very few consistently interpret data in a way that feels executive-ready.

Introspect takes a CSV and generates:
• An executive summary grounded in the actual dataset
• Structured, tagged insights (risk, concentration, change, opportunity, etc.)
• Primary driver analysis
• Visualisations tied directly to interpretive claims
• A strategic conclusion layer
• Regeneration that reframes the narrative from a new analytical angle

The important part isn’t “AI summary.”

It’s enforced analytical structure.

The AI layer is constrained to:
• The actual headers and sampled rows
• Deterministic chart logic
• Insight density requirements
• Structural normalization before render

If the AI under-produces, fallback logic guarantees:
• A minimum number of meaningful insights
• Non-generic observations tied to row/column counts
• No empty dashboards

The regeneration feature is particularly interesting.

It doesn’t change the underlying data logic.
It reframes the interpretive layer.

For example:
• Focus on volatility instead of growth
• Emphasise concentration risk instead of performance spread
• Shift from descriptive to operational framing

It uses controlled variation while maintaining structural constraints.

The goal is not to replace BI tools.

It’s to reduce the gap between:
“I have a CSV”
and
“I have something I can send to a board or leadership team.”

Still early. I’d value feedback from people building AI-native data tools.
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-27 01:33:02+00:00
> And what if congress renames it tomorrow?

Then tomorrow it will be the Department of War. Just like When Congress voted to split the old Department of War into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force, and to take both of those and the previously-separate Department of the Navy under a new National Military Establishment led by the newly-created Secretary of Defense (and when it later to voted to rename the NME as “Department of Defense”), things changed in the past.

> They have the votes.

Perhaps, but the law doesn't change because the votes are in a whip count on a hypothetical change, it changes because they are actually cast on a bill making a concrete change.
by giraffe_lady | 2026-02-27 01:33:14+00:00
I'm a member of a local maker space that has been around a while and it has changed so much over the years in response to what people are asking for and what gets used.

I don't know if it's a local trend or what but the last 5-7 years the most in demand thing by far are sewing machines, knitting machines, and sergers. They ended up completely scrapping the woodworking area to fit a digital jacquard loom and that thing is booked around the clock, you have to plan 4-5 weeks in advance to get a session. Jeweler's bench is similarly busy.

In contrast the soldering and electronics workstations get regular use but I can usually just walk in and get a spot without scheduling or waiting much, which is almost never the case with the fabric stuff.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-27 01:33:17+00:00
We've seen hackathons where attendees build a SaaS business in a weekend. More than just Startup Weekend validation and a shitty MVP. A pretty-much complete SaaS product. It's a step change.

But this means the market for SaaS products is going to get hit hugely. If you can vibecode up a specific service for your specific requirement in a few days, why bother buying a SaaS product?

And, of course, if you can build a me-too SaaS product that imitates a successful competitor over a weekend, and then price it at 10% of their price, that's going to hit business models.

I think the SaaS startup gravy train is definitely over and done.

Personally, my sense is that there's a lot left to do in batteries + motors + LLMs. The drones in Ukraine could be smarter. Robot companions that can hold a conversation. Voice interfaces for robots generally [0]. Unfortunately, the people making all the batteries, motors, and increasingly the LLMs, are in China. So those of us stuck with idiot governments protecting their fossil-fuel donors are going to miss out on it.

[0] the sketch of two scots in a voice-controlled lift still resonates, though. There's probably still work to do here.
by al_borland | 2026-02-27 01:33:52+00:00
I work in a large enterprise. On one hand, we’re being told we should think of ways to use AI more. On the other hand, to even start (beyond just using Copilot to develop what I’m already working on), I need to have an idea and sell it to some AI board to get their blessing. At that point, I will have a microscope on me, tracking everything, to watch if this wild experiment is a success or failure. No thanks.

If they really want me to try something new, they will give me the space to try things where I am free to fail quietly and privately, pivot, and continue trying things. Asking for ship dates on day one is no way to operate projects with so many unknown unknowns. No one wants to learn and fail with an audience.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-27 01:33:56+00:00
> and the fact that it doesn't remove assembly as a manufacturing step

Prusa is working on a Pick & Place Toolhead for the Prusa XL to enable at least some very specific assembly steps to be done on this 3D printer:

> https://blog.prusa3d.com/xl-in-2026-new-toolheads-lower-pric...

"One Print, Multiple Components: Pick & Place Tool

Some technical prints require additional components, such as magnets, threaded inserts, or bearings, to be placed during the build. Without automation, this typically means you have to pause the print and insert the part(s) by hand. Although PrusaSlicer made this process easier a while ago, The Pick & Place toolhead can do it for you, completely autonomously. This reduces manual intervention and improves placement accuracy.

We’ve co-developed the toolhead with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and it’s designed for models that combine 3D-printed models with off-the-shelf components. We’re currently targeting late 2026 with its implementation."
by Godofall | 2026-02-27 01:34:04+00:00
I've been building a sovereign mobile computing platform
for the past year. The core thesis: most "secure" phones
are policy-secure, not architecturally secure. A court
order, a national security letter, or a compromised
update server can still get your data. We're trying to
make that architecturally impossible.

The stack:

seL4 microkernel (formally verified, capability-based)
RISC-V ISA (open, auditable, no vendor backdoors)
Post-quantum crypto: ML-KEM-1024, ML-DSA-87, CRYSTALS-Dilithium
BeskarVault HSM: 32 key slots, physical tamper destruction
Continuous Guardian: 50ms integrity checks, lives in ROM
BeskarLink: Signal Protocol + post-quantum augmentation
Shield Ledger: immutable Merkle-tree audit log
Zero cloud dependency — fully offline capable
Honest status: Phase 1, running on VisionFive 2 (JH7110). Not a phone you can buy. Architecture validation platform. 11/11 tests passing. CI/CD configured. Dual licensed (open source core + commercial tiers).

What we're looking for: cryptographers, seL4 developers, RISC-V engineers, formal verification people. Not hiring — contributing. This exists because the problem is real.

Happy to answer technical questions about the seL4 capability model, the post-quantum primitives, or why we chose RISC-V over ARM for this threat model.
by rafark | 2026-02-27 01:34:07+00:00
I said exactly this a few days ago elsewhere. It’s disappointing that they (and often other American companies) seem to restrict their “respect” and morals to Americans only. Or maybe it’s just semantics or context because the topic at hand is about americans? I don’t know but it gives “my people are more important than your people”, exactly as you said in your last paragraph
by robinwassen | 2026-02-27 01:34:28+00:00
They kind do if you prompt them, I had mine reimplement the Windows calc (almost fully feature complete) in rust running with 2mb RAM instead of 40mb or whatever the win 11 version uses as a POC.

A handwritten c implementation would most likely be better, but there is so much to gain from just slaughtering the abstraction bloat it does not really matter.
by wiltsecarpenter | 2026-02-27 01:34:57+00:00
Oh dear, what a mess of a statement that is. He wants to use AI "to defeat our autocratic adversaries", just what or who are they exactly? Claude seems to think they are Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. Is Claude really a tool to "defeat" these countries somehow? This statement also seems pretty messy: "Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions.", well then just how do they think Claude is going to be used there if not to make or help make military decisions?

The statement goes on about a "narrow set of cases" of potential harm to "democratic values", ...uh, hmm, isn't the potential harm from a government controlled by rapists (Hegseth) and felons using powerful AI against their perceived enemies actually pretty broad? I think I could come up with a few more problem areas than just the two that were listed there, like life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, etc.
by sfRattan | 2026-02-27 01:35:55+00:00
I'm stubborn enough to use Google Maps in my web browser (signed out) and then copy/paste the actual destination address into the app for turn-by-turn directions (e.g. CoMaps, OsmAnd). It's inconvenient, but it's also one less Google app on my phone.

The Google Maps moat has always been its breadth of accurate, current business information. It is unfortunately the Yellow Pages of the Internet era.
by keeda | 2026-02-27 01:36:00+00:00
Cursor and Claude Code are amongst the fastest selling products in history.

Cursor: 1 Billion ARR in 24 months -- https://andrew.ooo/posts/cursor-fastest-growing-saas-1b-arr/

Claude Code: 2.5 Billion ARR in 10 months -- https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-s...
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-27 01:36:20+00:00
Something that's puzzling in that XZ backdoor attempt is that the attacker had to hide the evil payload. And he hid it in test files and AIUI it was injected at build time through a modified build script and that went unnoticed (it's a compiled, deployed, version that got caught by someone and raised alarm bell).

Why are build scripts not operating in a clean directory, stripping away all test related files?

Isn't this something we should begin to consider doing, seen that it's all too easy to put arbitrary things in test files (you can just pretend stuff is "fuzzed" or "random" or "test vectors" and whatnots: there's always going to be room to hide mischief in test files)?

Like literally building, but only after having erased all test directories/files/data.

Or put it this way: how many backdoors are actually live but wouldn't be if every single build was only done after carefully deleting all the irrelevant files related to tests?
by atomicnumber3 | 2026-02-27 01:36:29+00:00
Very cool. I would've used this a lot in a past life. It's interesting how many different ways there are to manage cron jobs, too. I've seen:

Place 1: Cron jobs edited on the box via vim, and every night they're scraped and off there are diffs, they're committed. Kind of like reverse management. It was actually a pretty elegant solution for the environment it was in, where devs just could not be convinced to not just edit the crontab directly.

Place 2: no cron jobs, it's all either airflow tasks or a bespoke managed clustering cron-like thing.

Place 3: all k8s scheduled job pods, conceptually the same but somehow less enjoyable.

Honestly I liked the airflow version the best, python is just better than bash, and often cron jobs end up developing dependencies anyway. Plus Python lets you wire in many niceties.
by tzs | 2026-02-27 01:36:47+00:00
Someone having met Epstein is about as interesting and concerning as having met Theodore McCarrick [1] or Harvey Weinstein [2].

Those kind of people aren't cartoon villains who only meet with people as part of their villainous activities.

The vast majority of people they meet with are for their other activities and interests. Most people meeting with McCarrick for example were meeting for the reasons they would meet with any Archbishop (or priest or bishop, depending on when they met him), or met with him for some other mutual, legal, interest or business reason.

Same with Weinstein. Most people he met would be meeting for the same reason they would meet any producer, or for some other mutual, legal, interest of business reason.

And same with Epstein. Epstein fancied himself as a patron of the sciences and made contact with a lot of scientists over their research and possible funding of their labs. He also fancied himself a philanthropist and had many contacts related to that.

[1] Former Archbishop of Newark and of Washington.

[2] One of the biggest and most successful Hollywood movie producers.
by estearum | 2026-02-27 01:36:53+00:00
"Needed to win the war," no. The US could've continued to firebomb and then follow with a land invasion, which would've killed both more Japanese and more Allies.

Was it the best path to end the war? Certainly.

The modern argument around targeting civilians or not was not even relevant at the time due to the advent of strategic bombing, which itself was seen as less-horrific than the stalemated trench warfare of WW1. The question was only whether to target civilian inputs to the military with an atomic weapon (and hopefully shock & awe into submission) or firebomb and invade.
by rbliss | 2026-02-27 01:37:08+00:00
Agree with this. I have Codex do analysis and feedback for Claude code. For whatever reason, Claude code seems to produce successful code more frequently, but it tends to have blind spots in performing analysis that Codex does a good job of picking up. The two together feel like a step up in state of the art.

I need a tool to put them in a loop together to get this done more efficiently…I guess I’ll plug this in as a prompt and go from there!
by wrqvrwvq | 2026-02-27 01:37:13+00:00
It has always been a part of democratic rule, in peacetime and war. All telco's share virtually all of their technology with the government. Governments in europe and elsewhere routinely requisition services from many of their large corporations. I think it's absurd to think llm's can meaningfully participate in realworld cmd+ctrl systems and the government already has access to ml-enhanced targeting capabilities. I really have no idea what dod normies think of ai, other than that it's infinitely smarter than them, but that's not saying much.
by Retric | 2026-02-27 01:37:26+00:00
There was a great deal of hype around the atom changing everything, but electricity was just too slow to see such breathless anticipation takeoff.

200 years ago the was some hype around how electricity caused mussel contractions in dead flesh, but unless you consider Frankenstein part of the hype cycle it really doesn’t compare to how much people hyped social media etc etc.

Public street lights long predated light bulbs as did both indoor and outdoor Gas lighting 1802 vs 1880’s was just a long time. People were burn, grew up, had kids, and become old between the first electric lighting and the first practical electric bulb. People definitely appreciated the improvement to air quality etc, but the tech simply wasn’t that novel. Rural electrification was definitely promoted but not because what it did was some unknown frontier.

Similarly electric motors had a lot of competition, even today there’s people buying pneumatic shop tools.
by neom | 2026-02-27 01:37:29+00:00
I've had so much abuse thrown at me on here for saying this very thing over the last few years. I used to be friends with Jack back in the day, before this AI stuff even all kicked off, once you know who people really are inside, it's easy to know how they will act when the going gets rough. I'm glad they are doing the right thing, but I'm not at all surprised, nor should anyone be. Personally I believe they would go to jail/shut down/whatever before they do something objectively wrong.
by jez | 2026-02-27 01:37:42+00:00
I have used this in the past when building shell scripts and Makefiles to orchestrate an existing build system:

https://github.com/jez/symbol/blob/master/scaffold/symbol#L1...

The existing build system I did not have control over, and would produce output on stdout/stderr. I wanted my build scripts to be able to only show the output from the build system if building failed (and there might have been multiple build system invocations leading to that failure). I also wanted the second level to be able to log progress messages that were shown to the user immediately on stdout.

Level 1: create fd=3, capture fd 1/2 (done in one place at the top-level)
Level 2: log progress messages to fd=3 so the user knows what's happening
Level 3: original build system, will log to fd 1/2, but will be captured

It was janky and it's not a project I have a need for anymore, but it was technically a real world use case.
by tombert | 2026-02-27 01:38:13+00:00
I got a number of finance recruiters reaching out then too but nothing stuck. I got a few interviews (even got to meet a few interesting characters like Martin Shkreli) but nothing panned out until my friend gave me a referral to my current gig.

I think recruiters will just carpet bomb emails out and then only respond like ten percent of the people that email them back.
by Cyph0n | 2026-02-27 01:39:09+00:00
Absolutely. People can ignore it all they wish, but the Gaza genocide is a testbed for weapons, surveillance technology, and techniques for squashing resistance and protests in general.

I hope US folks understand that, with the learnings from Gaza, the 2nd amendment will mean absolutely nothing in the not too distant future.

Try to set aside ideology and preconceived notions for just a minute here and really think about it. A Qassam (Hamas military wing) fighter in Gaza is approximately as equipped as a typical US militia fighter would be in a hypothetical US uprising. Gaza is an extremely urban setting akin to a mid-sized US population center (combination of a few cities).

Outside of the scorched earth policy (b/c you would hope the US wouldn’t raze a city to the ground), the Israelis have been experimenting with all sorts of techniques to squash any form of resistance. And the US is learning and advising.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2026-02-27 01:40:03+00:00
I agree if they weren’t simultaneously claiming to be a successful growing company.

> they should have had 12,000 to begin with

This is how successful growing companies work. They hire as many people as they can afford. Those people bring in more money to hire more people, and repeat.

A successful growing company has more opportunity than resources.

Reducing resources while also claiming to have un-captured opportunity makes no sense
by johnfn | 2026-02-27 01:40:30+00:00
My statement is that if your only hallucinations are type errors, that can be solved by simply wrapping the LLM in a harness that says "Please continue working until `yarn run tsc` is clean". Yes, the LLM still hallucinates, but it doesn't affect me, because by the time I see the code, the hallucinations are gone.

This is something I do every day; to be quite honest, it's a fairly mundane use of AI and I don't understand why it's controversial. To give context, I've probably generated somewhere on the order of 100k loc of AI generated code and I can't remember the last time I have seen a hallucination.
by wongarsu | 2026-02-27 01:40:36+00:00
> No, a non-engineer can't just spin up the next great app. Even with the newest models and a great prompting/testing system, I don't think you can just spit out high quality, maintainable, reliable code

I think most engineers vastly overestimate how important high quality, maintainable, reliable code is to product success. Yes, you need an experienced engineer to steer Claude into making good high-quality code. But your customer doesn't see your code, they don't see how many servers you need or how often an on-call engineer is woken up. They just see how well the app meets their needs

I predict we will see a lot of domain experts without engineering background spin up incredibly successful apps. Just like the Tea app many of them will crash and burn from poor engineering. But there will also be enough people who've grown wise to this and after reaching some success with their app spend the resources to have others mitigate all the unknown-to-them issues
by kace91 | 2026-02-27 01:40:50+00:00
>If the business is not able to be profitable everyone is screwed.

Sure, we agree there. It’s not like needing profitability is a weird quirk of the American system. I am not criticizing the layoffs, but the layoffs while mentioning business is booming and they have no reasons forcing their hand.

I’m curious about your point of view, would you applaud and support your employer taking this attitude? Firing half the workers while agreeing that there is no pressure to let anyone go looks good to you?