MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tomhow | 2026-02-27 22:53:17+00:00
It’s fine to just flag things and move on. We’re considering adding additional parameters to the flag function, but till then, emailing us with “LLM?” in the subject and the comment ID/URL in the body is great, and should be faster for you than a comment and faster for us to be able to act.

The community is well aware of the issue and off-topic meta discussion has always been against the guidelines here. We’ve discussed this publicly and privately with top HN contributors and the consensus is that this is the least-worst approach.
by mmooss | 2026-02-27 22:53:31+00:00
I think they demonstrate a welcome and sophisticated understanding of technology. Their solution to age verification maximizes privacy by not sending any data off the computer besides a simple signal of age category (if I understand the design). They show more sophistication than the parent commment:

> 3D printers should have a magical algorithm to recognize all gun parts in their tiny embedded systems

Color scanners and printers have long had algorithms to recognize currency and prevent its reproduction, implemented with the technology of decades ago. It seems relatively simple to implement gun part recognition today, especially with the recent leap in image recognition capability.

(Rants and takedowns, IME, may entertain fellow believers, but signal a comment that's going to go well beyond any facts.)
by sq_ | 2026-02-27 22:53:53+00:00
Echoing a sibling comment, lots of landlords require it now, and the basic packages that insurers offer you as a bundle with auto or other forms of insurance are pretty decent, depending on state.

Typically seems like $100-200 per year for coverage that would handle the loss of most of one's possessions, provided you don't get screwed by "well, you don't have the receipt" or "we only cover water ingress, not floods or leaks".
by idle_zealot | 2026-02-27 22:54:19+00:00
As with any law like this, it should apply to systems made for normal end-users with over some minimum number of users. If your hobby Linux distro picks up a million home users then yeah, you're responsible for making it suitable for purpose for as long as you're distributing it. It's the same with accessibility requirements, safety requirements, labor laws, etc.

If California starts knocking on the door of random distros and hobby OSes designed for power users or servers with 2000 average monthly downloads then I'll go to bat defending them.

Though to re-iterate, I'm pretty sure the requirements here are for asking a user to set an age, not to do age verification, so if you did want to comply it would mean adding a Date field to your setup flow and then wiring that up to applications that ask for it.
by tgma | 2026-02-27 22:54:23+00:00
What are you suggesting here? US government breaching the contract already signed? I am not aware of that happening here.

> Anthropic's terms were laid out in the contract the Pentagon signed, which they want to forcibly amend.

It's called negotiation in business. I am sure both sides are clear-eyed on what the consequences were and Anthropic made a calculated bet (probably correctly) that some segment of their employee/customer base would get wet by hearing this news and it more than offsets the lots business, thus is worth it.
by tombert | 2026-02-27 22:54:39+00:00
I had the co-founder of Levels and current head of the US Treasury Sam Corcos reach out to me a few weeks ago for a job. I was initially kind of excited because I had really wanted to work for the Treasury a couple years ago, so I took the phone call with him.

He called me and he seemed like a nice enough guy, but I realized that he's one of the DOGE/Elon acolytes and he started talking about how he's "fixing" the Treasury and that every engineer is apparently supposed to use Claude for everything.

It would have been a considerable pay downgrade which wouldn't necessarily be a dealbreaker but being managed by DOGE would be, but mostly relevant is that I found it kind of horrifying that we're basically trusting the entire world's bank to be "fixed" with Claude Code. It's one thing when your ad platform or something is broken, but if Claude fucks something up in the Treasury that could literally start a war. We're going to "fix" all the code with a bunch of mediocre code that literally no one on earth actually understands and that realistically no one is auditing [1].

If they're going to "fix" all the Treasury code with stuff generated by Claude, I'm not sure they will have a choice but to stick with it, because very it seems very likely to me that it will be incomprehensible to anything but Claude.

[1] Be honest, a lot of AI generated code is not actually being reviewed by humans; I suspect that a lot of the AI code that's being merged is still basically being rubber-stamped.
by 827a | 2026-02-27 22:55:04+00:00
Its one thing to say "we cannot abide by these terms, so let's part ways", and its another entirely to respond this drastically. The Trump administration will look back on this decision as the most consequential in their efforts to win the 2026 midterms and Republican efforts in 2028. This is a $400B+ American company that has significant partial ownership from Amazon, Google, and other private equity sources; they just made serious enemies in SV, many of whom supported Trump in his 2024 election victory.
by coolThingsFirst | 2026-02-27 22:55:05+00:00
Yeah. We are coping. Just today, I had a simple bug where the data received was throwing undefined because it was in 2 alternate formats.

I showed ChatGPT(free-tier) the API response and the part of the code reading it, and it fixed it in 5 seconds. Would've been pretty short either way less than 30-40 mins but it's very good for simple tasks like these. The solution is just correct.
by WaitWaitWha | 2026-02-27 22:55:16+00:00
i did not even think of that! As the current law reads, will smart devices with OSes require age verification? Many IoTs are just tiny Linux versions running on a small processor. This makes all smart GE washing machines, dryers and refrigerators illegal in California.

come to think of it, maybe there is something good about this law. :D
by Johngreetme | 2026-02-27 22:55:24+00:00
We are rapidly approaching a point where AI agents (running local LLMs like Ollama) are moving from generating text to executing physical, financial, and network state changes. Everyone is trying to solve "AI safety" with software prompts or cloud-based API wrappers. But software guardrails on a probabilistic model feel fundamentally flawed when dealing with real-world actuation.

I’m building an architecture that forces probabilistic AI to pass through a deterministic, air-gapped hardware bottleneck before it can execute anything. I call it the State-Locked Protocol (SLP).

Instead of a single board doing everything, the system is split:

The Brain (Probabilistic): An Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada / Jetson AGX Thor running the LLMs and generating "aspirations" (intents).

The Brake (Deterministic): A completely separate, low-power MCU (currently prototyping "SLP-Zero" using an ESP32-S3 LilyGo T-Dongle).

The Execution Flow:

The AI decides it wants to execute a skill (uploaded manually by a human, not downloaded straight into the node via web).

Before the host can route the command to the actuators or network, the intent is translated via a custom deterministic compiler (Resin DSL).

The command payload is sent via SPI to the ESP32-S3. The host thread is entirely suspended.

The ESP32 holds the payload in what we call the "Amber Zone" (an infinite loop displaying the intent on a local screen).

It requires a physical human GPIO interrupt (a button press) on the MCU to break the loop.

The MCU generates a cryptographic hash of the state, passes the "GO" signal back to the host, and execution proceeds.

I've been writing the firmware for the ESP32 prototype using Antigravity IDE and have an architectural dossier mapping out the "12 Pillars" of this mechanical safety logic.

My questions for the HN community:

Hardware Bypassing: If the host OS (Linux) is completely compromised, what is the most mathematically secure way to ensure the output pins (e.g., to a robotic arm) remain physically severed unless the ESP32 actively holds an ENABLE pin high?

IPC Latency: For the host-to-MCU handshake, is SPI with DMA the absolute best route for sub-10ms latency without starving the host's sensor-fusion pipelines?

Philosophical: Are any of you working on physical/mechanical brakes for local AI, or is the industry totally blind to the hardware layer of agentic safety?

I'd love to hear critiques on this architecture or trade notes with anyone thinking about sovereign hardware.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-02-27 22:55:50+00:00
I ran into a performance issues a few months ago where native streams were behaving terribly, and it seemed to be due to bad back-pressure implementation.

I tried several implementations, tweaked settings, but ultimately couldn't get around it. In some cases I had bizarre drops in activity when the consumer was below capacity.

It could have been related to the other issue they mention, which is the cost of using promises. My streams were initiating HEAPS of promises. The cost is immense when you're operating on a ton of data.

Eventually I had to implement some complex logic to accomplish batching to reduce the number of promises, then figure out some clever concurrency strategies to manage backpressure more manually. It worked well.

Once I was happy with what I had, I ported it from Deno to Go and the result was so stunningly different. The performance improvement was several orders of magnitude.

I also built my custom/native solution using the Effect library, and although some people claim it's inefficient and slow, it out-performed mine by something like 15% off the shelf, with no fine-tuning or clever ideas. I wished I'd used it from the start.

The difference is likely in that it uses a fiber-based model rather than promises at the execution layer, but I'm not sure.
by drnick1 | 2026-02-27 22:55:50+00:00
It is very easy to get rid of Google, at least for the kind of person on HN.

Search -> DuckDuckGo

Drive -> Own networked file server

Phone -> Flash Graphene on your Pixel

Browser -> Firefox

Email -> Host your own (this is the hardest)

Youtube -> uBlock Origin (for Firefox), logged out

The last one isn't really a replacement, but Google certainly isn't making any money. Now do the same with Apple and Microsoft by running Linux on your machines and you are close to 100% free of big tech.
Ask HN: Can our bootstrapped startup keep up?
by lewq | 2026-02-27 22:56:24+00:00
fuck - it's been a rough week. we've been pouring our hearts and souls into building an agent orchestration layer with streaming desktops for months, and on wednesday, cursor launched the exact same feature. THREE DAYS BEFORE WE MANAGED TO LAUNCH OURS! and claude code launched remote control on the same day - you can see where it's going. keeping an edge in this white hot market is basically impossible

oh well, take a look at what we built anyway, you can at least run it on your own infra, in your enterprise: https://helix.ml/
by johnbarron | 2026-02-27 22:56:46+00:00
Silly me...its true!

- $1,000,000 donation from NVIDIA CORPORATION to the Trump–Vance Inaugural Committee.

- $1,000,000-per-head Mar-a-Lago dinner where Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended.

- Jensen Huang’s contribution toward Trump’s "White House ballroom" project. Confirmed, but undisclosed value...lets says at least another $1,000,000?
by noplacelikehome | 2026-02-27 22:56:50+00:00
As a user of an unsigned Firefox fork, Turnstile has ruined a moderate portion of the Internet for me. The way Cloudflare doesn’t think twice about eroding user freedoms, for the sake of a gate that can be trivially bypassed with solvarr or similar, is deeply disturbing. They are no longer a force for good on the web.
by mcbits | 2026-02-27 22:57:18+00:00
These are geopolitical activities akin to the arms buildup of the Cold War, but happening somewhat more openly through the guise of private sector investments. The names of the companies involved are ephemeral. The numbers "invested" are largely imaginary, just play money pumped into the system over the last few years, flowing around, searching for a place to park. The result will be a certain amount of tangible infrastructure in the form of datacenters, power plants, semiconductor fabs. It's a Hail Mary move to keep pace with a certain geopolitical competitor. This process may propel society to the next level or may collapse it, depending on how society chooses to use these resources and how successful the competitor is at its own similar endeavor.
by seliopou | 2026-02-27 22:57:23+00:00
I don’t see a contradiction here. If control is out of the hands of decision makers, that’s a supply chain risk
. Were it not for that, the service is seen as critical to national security.

I dunno, safeguard seems like a weasel word here. It’s just reserving control to one party over another. It’s understandable why the DoD(W) wouldn’t like that.
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-27 22:57:49+00:00
> it cannot allow private companies to control the use of military equipment.

The big difference here is that Claude is not military equipment. It's a public, general purpose model. The terms of use/service were part of the contract with the DoD. The DoD is trying to forcibly alter the deal, and Anthropic is 100% in the clear to say "no, a contract is a contract, suck it up buttercup."

We aren't talking about Lockheed here making an F-35 and then telling the DoD "oh, but you can't use our very obvious weapon to kill people."

> Surely autonomous murderous robots is something U.S. government has interest in preventing

After this fiasco, obviously not. It's quite clear the DoD most definitely wants autonomous murder robots, and also wants mass domestic surveillance.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-27 22:57:52+00:00
What a laughably elitist attitude. Contractors are perfectly capable of obtaining materials on your behalf. Although these days it often makes more sense to place online orders yourself.

There's nothing wrong with hiring an interior designer to handle all the work for you. The important thing to realize here is that modern generative image models have significantly reduced the barrier to managing these things for yourself.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-02-27 22:57:55+00:00
Anthropic is getting what it deserves. I feel pretty comfortable assuming you’ve never served, but the idea that you could be in a life and death situation (that is your life and your death) and your equipment fails because otherwise it would violate an AI code of conduct document some sanctimonious dweeb made up is completely unacceptable. It’s a very simple question about guaranteed reliability. Anthropic is, in fact, a supply chain risk and not fit for tasks of serious consequence. Furthermore, a quick survey of the disturbing racial calculus all of these models perform for the “trolley problem“ should be a sign that there are no AI providers fit to make any moral judgments on any subject whatsoever. I think we would all be much better off with a product that just works and then regulate users. If Sam Altman is your moral compass, then you are in trouble.
by elxr | 2026-02-27 22:58:04+00:00
I use gmail, and I've managed to get about halfway there.

Almost every newsletter I get, I'm happy to see, even if I won't have the time to read 95% of them. I get close to no spam (I'd maybe get 1 spam mail every 2-3 weeks).

Just unsubscribe from everything you don't want, use a separate account for services that generate a lot of receipts/notifications, and block as soon as you stop caring about a particular sender. It's doable, just be diligent and be willing to spend some time curating what's allowed to go in.
by amelius | 2026-02-27 22:58:30+00:00
> Those who are wealthier pay more into the tax system, allow those who are less well off to gain access to things they normally wouldn't. This is a good thing.

And what if there was a company (let's call it Google) that was extracting huge sums of money out of this social security system? Would this make you think that perhaps something was wrong about it? And that the system could be more efficient without this company?
by bostik | 2026-02-27 22:58:40+00:00
One should expect that in a few months there will be a claude.mil service, accessible only by the various branches of military, intelligence community (including contractors) and the entirety of DHS.

Because the answer that makes most sense will have been along the lines of "if you really want an un-nerfed Claude, you will have to pay us to train the thing specifically for you".
by cogman10 | 2026-02-27 22:58:40+00:00
> They somehow thought the lesser evil was actually a greater evil somehow.

Trump is a monster, he's evil, and he had a less evil position on Gaza than Biden did.

In 2 years, Biden did jack shit to curtail Israel's genocide. The majority of the genocide happened while he was president. He continued to sign and promote bills funding Israel and he openly talked about how he was a Zionist and believed in the Israel project. His foreign policy advisors were horrendous. Israel killed so many American citizens and aid workers under Biden and his admin took Israel's side each time or would simply put out a "it's troubling, we are looking into it" which they never did.

But you know why I say Trump was better on Gaza? Because he did 2 things Biden and Kamala refused to do. He met with people that supported Gazans and he forced peace negotiations. Negotiations, mind you, that are worthless and israel is violating. Negotiations that have allowed Israel to illegally take over a huge swath of gaza. But none the less, peace negotiations.

Biden would put up a red line, watch Israel cross it, and then literally just move the line (the goalposts) or ultimately ignore the issue all together. There would not be even a peace deal today under a Biden presidency. Literally, we were told to just hope that Kamala who was shutting down this conversation, would be better.

And the autopsy on this issue shows that the Campaigns of both Biden and Kamala were well aware that if they didn't shift on this, they'd lose the election. There are reports that campaign when getting issues from phone banks was instructed to hang up on people that raised Gaza as a problem.

It's not the voters problem that Trump won. It's the Biden and Kamala campaign who prioritized supporting a genocide to continue getting AIPAC funding and support over doing the right thing and the thing their voters were screaming at them to do.

People were watching Nazis go on a rampage and their government giving them billions to do that rampage. They did not vote believing there was no difference between the two parties. That was a glorious failure of the biden and kamala campaign. And something we know they knew because of a leak of an autopsy which democrats don't want to reveal because they still want AIPAC support today.
by rectang | 2026-02-27 22:59:25+00:00
You can't discuss this topic without broaching the idea that the government is acting in bad faith — that they don't actually believe that Anthropic is a supply-chain risk and that this action is meant to punish the company. But this is in the HN guidelines regarding comments:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

If a commenter who supports the government makes the same argument that the government is making, the guidelines tell us to assume good faith.

My conclusion is that any topic where a commenter might be making a bad faith argument is outside the scope of Hacker News.
by moomoo11 | 2026-02-27 22:59:28+00:00
hey man, first of all i empathize with your situation and wish you the best. What i say here is just my opinion, and since I don't know your exact situation this is just me trying to be helpful. if it isn't, feel free to ignore i mean no harm.

May I ask what interests you? And also, what do you see yourself doing in optimal (but realistic - don't give me you want to be Elon Musk or something) outcome?

if you're close with your parents, at your age I think you would probably want to be closer to them. i think being there for them as they get older is way more valuable than simply an economic improvement (unless it is magnitudes better, ofc).

what problems have you faced in your own country? do you have good friends around who might have various skills in similar situation or looking to do something different? maybe a gathering of imaginations and skills could result in something nice that you guys do and start small to keep busy and make money? for example, even offering your services via a consulting firm you form to people in foreign countries (USA, Canada, Euro the currency) could be good. If you get paid in foreign currency you could maybe kick the economic uncertainty bucket down the road.

but, if you do relocate to Europe i think you could look into getting cheap/free education there and improving your conditions. it is never too late to learn and do new things.

good luck bro
by geraneum | 2026-02-27 22:59:30+00:00
> In short: the implementation was performed in a very similar way to how a human programmer would do it, and not outputting a complete implementation from scratch “uncompressing” it from the weights.

> Instead, different classes of instructions were implemented incrementally, and there were bugs that were fixed…

Not sure the author fully grasps how and why LLM agents work this way. There’s a leap of logic here: the agent runs in a loop where command outputs get fed back as context for further token generation, which is what produces the incremental human like process he’s observing. It’s still that “decompression” from the weights, still the LLM’s unique way of extracting and blending patterns from training data, that’s doing the actual work. The agentic scaffolding just lets it happen in many small steps against real feedback instead of all at once. So the novel output is real, but he’s crediting the wrong thing for it.
by lysace | 2026-02-27 23:00:11+00:00
Cisco did this in 1999. That's how my apartment building in Linköping, Sweden ended up with a kick-ass 100 Gbps switch in its basement.

https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y1999/m11/ci...

Cisco survived but it took them until last year to reach the same stock value (26 years).
by next_xibalba | 2026-02-27 23:01:26+00:00
If we were able to give the Ukrainians fully automated kill bots, and those kill bots enabled Ukraine to swiftly expel the Russians from their territories, would that not be a good thing? Or would you rather the meat grinder continue to destroy Ukraine's young men to satisfy some moral purity threshold?

If we could give Taiwan killbots that would ensure China could never invade, or at least could never occupy Taiwan, would that be good or bad? I have a feeling I know what the Taiwanese would say.

While we're at it, should we also strip out all the machine learning/AI driven targeting systems from weapons? We might feel good about it, but I would bet my life savings that our future adversaries will not do the same.
by tempest_ | 2026-02-27 23:01:29+00:00
As bad as cloudflare is there is a reason people use it.

If you try and run a site that has content that LLMs want or expensive calls that require a lot of compute and can exhaust resources if they are over used the attack is relentless. It can be a full time job trying to stop people who are dedicated to scrapping the shit out of your site.

Even CF doesnt even really stop it any more. The agent run browsers seem to bypass it with relative ease.
by fluidcruft | 2026-02-27 23:02:49+00:00
Anthropic didn't even say "no", it was more of a "not yet, let's work on this".

I really wonder what Palantir's role in all this is because domestic surveillance sounds exactly like Palantir and whatever happened during the Maduro raid led to Anthropic asking Palantir questions which the news reports is the snowball that escalated to this.