MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kubb | 2026-02-28 14:03:33+00:00
The land promised to the Israelites generally extends from the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates River in Iraq/Syria, encompassing modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, and parts of Syria and Saudi Arabia.

If you're a religious Jew, then you believe you have a mandate from God (so an irrefutable right, or even obligation, needing no justification) to settle and rule not only the West Bank but the entire region. So there will always be that motivation, as long as religious Judaism exists in Israel.
by instig007 | 2026-02-28 14:04:50+00:00
> Uh sure, yes, it generalizes. Not sure what that does for you, but yes.

ok, let's see

> do you have a source? The fact that nobody in this subthread has an answer to this and is instead, as you put it, evading the question by getting distracted by whether America is negotiating in good faith should speak volumes to anyone reading this.

No it shouldn't, there's no substance in your position, let alone volumes of any meaning to derive from it: "the other side must be acting in bad faith, because I don't like getting home late".

First off, I'm waiting for you to apply your previously stated principle, that you admitted to be general, to Iranian diplomats' negotiating track. And right after that, let's discuss why you did omit commenting on the other part with the substitutions around "giving in to America or Iran" and the respective interest groups having to save face.

I, as a barefoot landlord, am still wondering: why do you think your timings and preferences are the only ones to be respected?
Show HN: Decided to play god this morning, so I built an agent civilisation
by urav | 2026-02-28 14:05:27+00:00
at a pub in london, 2 weeks ago - I asked myself, if you spawned agents into a world with blank neural networks and zero knowledge of human existence — no language, no economy, no social templates — what would they evolve on their own?

would they develop language? would they reproduce? would they evolve as energy dependent systems? what would they even talk about?

so i decided to make myself a god, and built WERLD - an open-ended artificial life sim, where the agent's evolve their own neural architecture.

Werld drops 30 agents onto a graph with NEAT neural networks that evolve their own topology, 64 sensory channels, continuous motor effectors, and 29 heritable genome traits. communication bandwidth, memory decay, aggression vs cooperation — all evolvable. No hardcoded behaviours, no reward functions. - they could evolve in any direction.

Pure Python, stdlib only — brains evolve through survival and reproduction, not backprop. There's a Next.js dashboard ("Werld Observatory") that gives you a live-view: population dynamics, brain complexity, species trajectories, a narrative story generator, live world map.

thought this would be more fun as an open-source project!

can't wait to see where this could evolve - i'll be in the comments and on the repo.

https://github.com/nocodemf/werld
by c54 | 2026-02-28 14:05:41+00:00
Your language suggests you’re an ideological supporter of trump but I’m curious:

What exactly is being imposed by anthropic?

This is from the anthropic letter:

> We held to our exceptions for two reasons. First, we do not believe that today’s frontier AI models are reliable enough to be used in fully autonomous weapons. Allowing current models to be used in this way would endanger America’s warfighters and civilians. Second, we believe that mass domestic surveillance of Americans constitutes a violation of fundamental rights.

Do you see these views as “left wing”? Or what do you disagree with here?
by lioeters | 2026-02-28 14:05:46+00:00
I've been running local language models on an existing laptop with 8GB GPU, currently using ministral-3:8b. It's faster than other models of similar size I used previously, fast enough that I never wait for it, rather have to scroll back to read the full output.

So far I'm using it conversationally, and scripting with tools. I wrote a simple chat interface / REPL in the terminal. But it's not integrated with code editor, nor agentic/claw-like loops. Last time I tried an open-source Codex-like thing, a popular one but I forget its name, it was slow and not that useful for my coding style.

It took some practice but I've been able to get good use out of it, for learning languages (human and programming), translation, producing code examples and snippets, and sometimes bouncing ideas like a rubber-duck method.
by Bender | 2026-02-28 14:05:53+00:00
Well hopefully this is short, minimally lethal, and leads to regime change for all those involved.

That would be ideal but unfortunately not likely. US ships are sitting ducks. They have minimal ammo per the pentagon and no oilers. No oilers and low ammo means no prolonged conflict. Most of Iran's military and weapons are deep underground in a massive series of underground cities and tunnels. The US would require boots on the ground if they manage to breach the tunnel openings under the mountains. Should that fail the only viable targets are civilians and that won't win favor with anyone.

Iranian military could just wait it out if they wanted and then smoke Israel with supersonic missiles when the US leaves. Then we find out if Israel does have the nukes for the Samson option and that would result in the destruction of Israel. Iran's military could survive a nuclear strike but would have to clean up the fallout and I am not sure they could.
by throwawayheui57 | 2026-02-28 14:06:02+00:00
Ok I get your point. You mean the uptick in US/Western media coverage? I do agree and don’t think whatever we’re witnessing right now is for the good of the people of Iran!

Also the scale in which people were killed in Iran in such a short time (even if you believe the Iranian state media) was unprecedented. So there’s that too.
by CapricornNoble | 2026-02-28 14:06:03+00:00
1. The Russian position in 2014 was that the Ukrainian people in Donbas were being oppressed by the new Ukrainian central government.

2. There's a lot of domestic political/information suppression in Ukraine but I consider this somewhat normal for a nation in a pretty existential conflict.

3. The Ukrainian military is 70-80% conscripts, increasingly of the "forcibly mobilized" variety (look up "TCC busification" for examples), with almost all military-age males banned from leaving the country. Dudes are getting beaten up, stuffed into vans, and sent to trenches to eat Russian artillery and FABs (air-to-ground bombs)....against their will. I think that definitely counts as suppression.
by temp8830 | 2026-02-28 14:06:13+00:00
There's also that large scale effort ongoing to make those energy costs higher and take those raw materials away.

And even still - there's a lot of manufacturing in Easter Europe. Go to IKEA or an appliance or auto store. You might be surprised to find where things are made these days. Often they'll say "made in EU" instead of the actual country name though.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-28 14:06:54+00:00
I agree. A foreign powered civil war is worse than that.

Thriving in a dictatorship, even not as an enforcer, is possible. It's a worse life in general but still a life you can live.

Generally speaking, the only life that truly sucks in a dictatorship is if you become an enemy of the state. That doesn't generally apply to all citizens because, if it did, a dicatorship would quickly end in revolt. That is the theory behind strong sanctions. It's believed that if you starve a nation eventually the citizens revolt. The problem is it takes little resources to keep people happy, ultimately.
by galangalalgol | 2026-02-28 14:07:30+00:00
Who still does business with open ai and why? They are usually 5th or sixth in the benchmarks bracketed below and above by models that cost less. This has been the case for quite some time. Glm is out for us government purposes I'd imagine, but if google agrees to the same terms I don't see why the us government would use open ai anyway. If google disagrees it would be rather confusing given the other invasions of privacy they have facilitated, but if they do then using open ai would make sense as all that would be left is grok...
by duskdozer | 2026-02-28 14:07:51+00:00
I don't really see why age limits would be exempt for "voters need to take responsibility for their voting".

IMO, the real issue is that voters are coerced to accept candidates put up by the parties due to FPTP. The threat of the wrong side winning gets people to accept someone they don't want. The primary process does not need to be democratic, and the results are pressured by the future threat of losing to the other side in a head-to-head.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2026-02-28 14:08:49+00:00
> Only virgins could take part in the final initiation ritual, which involved lying open-eyed beneath a waterfall to cleanse themselves of the pollution caused by having seen a woman’s genitals. Nearby, teasing girls would sing: ‘I urinated further up this creek. Where did you purify your eyes?’

So fucking hot.
by charlangas | 2026-02-28 14:09:03+00:00
It's owned by Automattic, isn't it? I assume they're simply keeping the lights on for whoever wants to use it.

For about a year I've noticed that it tends to quit on its own on my Mac. Whenever I need to look for a note I realize the app is inactive and I need to re-launch it. Then it works perfectly well, until somehow, at some point, it quits without me realizing.

It's sad that they're not fixing it, and that eventually it probably won't work with newer Mac OS and iOS versions. I should start looking for a way to migrate off of it.
by lstodd | 2026-02-28 14:09:17+00:00
N1's upper stages were designed to function standalone as lower-capability carriers, just like Saturn IVB / Saturn IB. A few more test flights and most probably USSR would have had N1-base lineup to replace R-7 and Proton and have 100-ton class heavy booster. However, Chelomei pushed his UDMH-fueled UR plan which resulted in the Proton, and Glushko wanted OKB-1 for himself.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-28 14:09:19+00:00
> How would you get out? It’s impossible. Every exit is shut.

Of course it isn't, it's entirely porous to the IDF. I'm an American citizen. If I were teleported to Gaza I'd probably be fine. At material risk of being fucked up. But I'd take my chances there over being an American teleported to North Korea.
by bluGill | 2026-02-28 14:09:19+00:00
The protests were there before. Maybe you didn't know about them, but many people have been protesting. These are 40 day protests - iran funerals are 40 days afer the death, and 40 days ago iran killed tens of thousands of protesters who now are having funerals. (Iran deach culture is more complex than that, but for discussion the above works)
by jmnicholson | 2026-02-28 14:09:22+00:00
I'm a co-founder at Scite. We've built an MCP server that lets AI assistants search and read full-text scientific articles.

We have 50M+ full-text articles from licensed publisher agreements. If your institution subscribes to a journal, you can authenticate with your institutional credentials and your AI assistant gets the same access you'd have through your library. No scraping, no workarounds, fully licensed.

For anything outside your subscription, you get metadata, abstracts, and direct linkouts to the publisher page.

It works with Claude, Cursor, and anything that supports MCP.
by techjamie | 2026-02-28 14:09:32+00:00
> [...] the same people claim that AI is both a bubble but also fear job losses from AI. But also think that the billionaires get rich out of this. How all of these things can happen together, I don't know.

One can believe the thing is a bubble, while also acknowledging the existential fear that if it isn't, then it might come and basically ruin your life. It's a balancing scale, and one side is weighted much more heavily than the other. Plus, as we've already seen, some executives are really jumping on the bandwagon and using AI as an excuse for massive layoffs, and finding a job in the current market unless you're particularly valuable is difficult.

So in that last case, AI can be a useless bubble that takes your job anyway because of trigger-happy CEOs.
by tim333 | 2026-02-28 14:10:42+00:00
You'd have a job arguing it's treason legally. In the US that's "levying War against [the United States], or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort".

They were going to do him for conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, re. the 2020 stuff before he got reelected.
by ysleepy | 2026-02-28 14:10:57+00:00
I like the article, but knowing they sell a polished plain text editor for 50 bucks makes the final conclusion less powerful.

I like iA Writer, but I don't think distraction free writing will solve our office problems.

PS: Also, fuck their AI bullshit, slop engine integration is so disgusting, I can't believe I've paid for this shit.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2026-02-28 14:11:11+00:00
> I'd frame it as "How resource-producing capital promotes inequality". It could be livestock in a migratory herding society, or boats and nets when those were critical for fishing, or whatever.

I agree, but nitpick: capital by definition can be put to use to produce or gather something. So resource-producing capital is redundant.
by oftenwrong | 2026-02-28 14:11:11+00:00
>The browser extension doesn’t work half the time. In addition to being frustrating, that makes it a less secure system, as one of the benefits is that it only fills the password on the specified domain. A lack of reliability of the extension leaves people more vulnerable to phishing, since they have to copy/paste passwords out of the app.

This is my main frustration with it as well. It is one of the main features in my mind, and it often does not work. It seems to work for many sites I use on desktop (Firefox on Linux, Mac), but doesn't work well at all on Android (Android app and Firefox). I can understand if this issue is outside of 1password's control because it possibly is due to specifics of Android's APIs, but I would prefer transparency in the matter.
by mpalmer | 2026-02-28 14:11:19+00:00
"OAI wins by playing the government's game" is such a catastrophically bad take.

> anthropic has ruined their relationship with the US govt, giving oai a good negotiating hand

You want to try defending this ridiculous statement a bit more thoroughly?

For a start, the designation by the government of a company as a supply chain risk is not a negotiating tool. It may well be found to be arbitrary and capricious once the courts look at it. Business have rights too.

For another, why do you think OAI was able to make what looks like the same deal? Anthropic was willing to say yes to anything lawful up to their red lines, and it was still a no. Why turn around and give OAI exactly the same thing, unless it's not really what it looks like?

And Altman is always looking for the next buck.

All these supposedly impressive complex funding arrangements have OAI on the hook to firms like Oracle in the hundreds of billions of dollars. No indication at all how this unprofitable business will become a trillion dollar juggernaut.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-28 14:11:44+00:00
> I'm waiting for you to apply your previously stated principle, that you admitted to be general, to Iranian diplomats' negotiating track

I've applied it. (That's why you asked for a general principle. Because I'd applied it to this specific case.) They have not been negotiating in good faith.

A case you've sustained by being unable to find any credible sources arguing Iran was negotiating in good faith.
by medi8r | 2026-02-28 14:12:42+00:00
There are a lot of people who can't program but can do specifity. Researchers and lawyers for a start. It does widen the pool and there might be suprising people who never coded who can now build. Maybe people previosuly dismissed as not academic or "blue collar".

Paradoxically this may mean there are more jobs for programmer and programmer-likes alike as new cottage industries are born. AI for dentists is coming.
by findthebug | 2026-02-28 14:12:52+00:00
all what i hear is mimimimi...

guys big tech is playing this game for decades now. what changed? they selling private data, manipulating society, turning children in doom scrolling addicts. facebook, google and others doing this for years an no one cares. i deleted fb and whatsup years ago, 99% of my friends and fam still using it until today.

as long as they can flip some dollars nothing will change and 99% will not delete anything because of 99% are to lazy and give a shit.
by drujensen | 2026-02-28 14:13:23+00:00
Exactly!

I installed nanoclaw to try to out.

What is kinda crazy is that any extension like discord connection is done using a skill.

A skill is a markdown file written in English to provide a step by step guide to an ai agent on how to do something.

Basically, the extensions are written by claude code on the fly. Every install of nanoclaw is custom written code.

There is nothing preventing the AI Agent from modifying the core nanoclaw engine.

It’s ironic that the article says “Don’t trust AI agents” but then uses skills and AI to write the core extensions of nanoclaw.
by shiandow | 2026-02-28 14:13:48+00:00
LLMs seem quite successful when considered something like a natural langiage interface, but expecting intelligence seems a step too far. For one they do not learn, at least not online, and that is a somewhat important requirement for truly intelligent behaviour.

Arguably programming is as much learning as it is writing code. This is part of the reason some people copy an entire API and don't realise they're not so much building useful code as building an understanding.
by gyomu | 2026-02-28 14:13:51+00:00
Yeah, it’s pretty wild. Even pg is tweeting stuff like

“An experienced programmer told me he's now using AI to generate a thousand lines of code an hour.“

https://x.com/paulg/status/2026739899936944495

Like if you had told pg to his face in (pre AI) office hours “I’m producing a thousand lines of code an hour”, I’m pretty sure he’d have laughed and pointed out how pointless that metric was?
by adamtaylor_13 | 2026-02-28 14:14:15+00:00
Not OP, but AI is fundamentally in another category than any other technology before it. It requires moral fortitude to wield in a way that guns and books didn't require. It augments human judgement in a way that needs a moral framework to clearly guide it.

Unfortunately, as a species we seem to be abandoning morality as a general principle. Everything is guided by cold hard rationality rather than something greater than us.
by Bender | 2026-02-28 14:15:00+00:00
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by yobbo | 2026-02-28 14:16:57+00:00
Also knowing (archaic?) Scandinavian helps a little more.

"swa" is like a contraction of german "so wie". sindon is probably like german "sind": is/were.

soþ - sweet? gefeohte - past-tense born. ƿælfæst - wellfed. sƿylce - equivalent to modern "swole"? andƿlite - cognate with "anlete" which means face. ƿynsum - "finesome". searocræftum: specially-forceful (fantasy modern swedish cognate "särkrafigt"). "for þy" - since/because ("fördi"). forlætan: forgive.

ofslean: probably closer to modern "avslå or "Abschlagen" than "slain". Defeat?

Ac - maybe like "ach"?

naƿiht: antonym to "evig"?

geƿitan - go/leave/escape/flee?

Nefne - negation of efne: "not even"?

stede - places

gefultumige - feels like past-tense of a verb that means "filled with"?

Squinting:

"And what she said was all sweet. I married her, and she was fully? beautiful wife, wise and wellfed . Not met I ever "swoler" woman. She was born so bold as any man, and though-whatis her face was fine and fair.

"Alas we ever? free not were, since we never might from Wulfsfleet left, and never that Hlaford find and him defeat. That Hlaford had these places with such force bound, that no man may him forgive. We are here like birds in net, like fishes in weir.

"And we him secaþ git, both together, man and wife, through the dark strife this grim place. Whathere God us filled-with!"
by jmull | 2026-02-28 14:17:23+00:00
> The consequence should have been for all insurrectionists and Trump himself to be tried for treason and be imprisoned indefinitely.

People have this intuitive sense that there's some kind of authority of truth or justice, an available recourse that we could've and should've used.

But that sense is incorrect.

What we actually have the political and justice systems that Trump and his adherent have, so far, quite successfully subverted.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-28 14:17:58+00:00
Google is a godsend for SMEs: it's the way out of Microsoft. Many a small mom and pop shop ties themselves to Google Workspace, pay the subscription, and this allows them to manage their entire SME from either a Mac, a PC running Windows, a PC running Linux (yup), a Chromebook and/or even their phone. Don't tell me it's not happening: I know several companies doing just that.

It's an "all in one" solution that allows SMEs to not have to use Windows.

The lock-in is real: once several employees all have their Google Workspace account and some Google Drive docs are shared with people from outside the company, it's hard to decouple from Google.

But at least you're not tied to the shittiest OS out there (Windows) and the mediocre company that produces it.
Show HN: LazyGravity – I control my local AI coding setup from Discord via CDP
by masaTokyo | 2026-02-28 14:18:04+00:00
I built LazyGravity to solve a personal itch: wanting to trigger real coding tasks when I am away from my desk, using an interface I already have (Discord on my phone).

It's a local-first bridge that forwards messages to my desktop AI coding setup, then reports results back. Instead of exposing my dev machine through public ports or relying on cloud relays, it uses Chrome DevTools Protocol (WebSocket) to drive the editor UI locally and securely.

I posted a short video demonstrating how it handles UI generation and hot-reloading here:
https://x.com/m_web3/status/2027743280923086968

Repo: https://github.com/tokyoweb3/LazyGravity

I would love to hear your thoughts on this architecture, especially regarding local CDP security boundaries.
by vehemenz | 2026-02-28 14:18:13+00:00
Can you provide some support for your moral position? You’ve also put “insane horror” in scare quotes, which honestly I find troubling.

Does your moral account provide some justificatory, non-antisemitic framework based on colonialism or oppression that allows us to sidestep the issues with Gazans’ support of Jihad, other extremist doctrines, and the extermination of Jews?

It’s kind of a rhetorical question, but it’s the least I would expect for someone to argue credibly about the morality of the conflict.