MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lebovic | 2026-02-27 05:41:58+00:00
Hah, you're right, I meant Dario Amodei, Jared Kaplan, and Sam McCandlish.

They're all cofounders of Anthropic. Dario is the CEO, Jared leads research, and Sam leads infra. Both Jared and Sam were the "responsible scaling officer", meaning they were responsible for Anthropic meeting the obligations of its commitments to building safeguards.

I think neom is referring to Jack Clark, another one of the seven cofounders.
by palmotea | 2026-02-27 05:42:42+00:00
> If you own 1/1000000000 of the state and put in 100% of your labor power,

FFS dude. How much of my employer do I own now? It's probably less than 1/1000000000 of it.

> how much of that labor power output is now yours after you perform it?

More than now. Your "argument" seems to be: owning 0 is better than owning 1/1000000000.

Like, are you even thinking about what you're saying? Or are you playing LLM and just mindlessly regurgitating slop?

> And your reward? If you're lucky and things are not mismanaged, you get to eat and you might have a place to lay your hat.

You totally ignored my idea of just wiping out the shareholders and turning everything into worker-owned cooperatives, I, and every worker, would own a helluva lot more in that case (even though I own a fair amount of shares overall), and the economy would keep chugging along, more or less as-is.
by agnishom | 2026-02-27 05:42:53+00:00
> i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now.

Sounds like a false dichotomy. The third option is that he could have kept them around. It would be financially feasible given that "our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving.".
by card_zero | 2026-02-27 05:43:58+00:00
Potentially, universal human rights is what's wrong with it. Much depends on what "get away with" and "leeway" actually mean. There's a difference between owning a jacuzzi and owning a high court judge. Between these there's a gray area of things people vaguely disapprove of, and sometimes it turns out that they're decided to be illegal.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-27 05:44:23+00:00
Which companies are these? Google and Facebook already bribed Trump under the cover of “settling” a frivolous case he personally brought forward. Tim Cook personally donated to his inauguration fund and gave him an expensive trinket. The Netflix CEO is now kissing up to him trying to get the WB acquisition approved. Even companies that are hurt by the tariffs won’t say anything bad about him. The only CEO that has spoken out against any of his policies is Chase’s CEO.
by ghoshbinayak | 2026-02-27 05:44:40+00:00
Not everyone can afford the best interior designers, my sister had hired one to design the interiors of her new cafe.. the designer did not provide any renders, just a basic CAD drawing. Then I used nano banana pro to create some renders from the photos of the empty space. These turned out great, and she decided to ditch the designer and use the designs created by nano banana. The cafe has opened now, and it looks great!
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-27 05:44:50+00:00
That is what I gathered tho, Organic Map seems to have lost not just the interest of the cummunity but everything in between.

When you have an option like CoMaps that is opensource friendly and very active, I got 2 maps updates within like 2 weeks, you already lost it all.

What I am impressed with is the app, it is so clean, polished and well designed so is the map.
by fuckinpuppers | 2026-02-27 05:45:51+00:00
“AI-powered item naming” is confusing to me. Do we need AI for that? It’s the site name, it’s worked fine for years.

Anything else seems self explanatory and a single thing the user needs to decide (title for a secure note, things like that)

It’s amazing how things are more efficient but at the same time more expensive because enshittification and capitalism.

This is a pretty big change percentage wise. Instead of the simple $1/month style bump like Spotify or all the other services.

If I recall correctly 1P used to be a one-time purchase then it wound up becoming a subscription. Unless they’re losing money as a company I don’t see a reason for this much increase. There isn’t a huge demand for a lot more features, their cloud bills for their services for sync and stuff should be benefitting from efficiencies…

This concerns me because this feels like the writing on the wall for the application. It’s going to become even more complex, bogged down and expensive, when it was working so well without all of that for so long.

I still have issues on my iPhone with the extension enabled. It makes safari reload pages and crash oddly. Not sure why, just makes it unstable for some reason, and has for easily a year if not a couple. I’ve just dealt with the headache. I’ve got no way to reproduce it in a meaningful enough way, but disabling that makes safari behave normally. That’s how I isolated it.
by onSmallMessage | 2026-02-27 05:46:35+00:00
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by rotub | 2026-02-27 05:46:50+00:00
My background is in website development which I left to pursue indie game development full-time.

I'm currently making a game called Doggy Don't Care on Steam.

Anyway, I've been curious how much AI has changed the web development scene since I left 5 years ago. So today I put together this website in a couple of hours with the help of Claude AI.

It fixes a real problem for me as an indie dev: The data source is howtomarketagame.com/festivals (google spreadsheet) which is quite bloated and full of old/redundant entries. This website updates itself once a day based on that spreadsheet and throws out all the irrelevant ones.

It's been a wake up call for me being able to "vibe-code" a whole web app idea from concept to published within a couple hours and on top of that it will run itself for the foreseeable future. I hardly recognize the web development industry today
by jmyeet | 2026-02-27 05:47:10+00:00
What China is doing in the South China Sea? The South China Sea.

Let's just compare to the Monroe Doctrine [1]. What this actually means has gone through several iterations by since I think Teddy Roosevelt's time, it's that the United States views the Americas (being North and South America) to be the sole domain of the United States.

This was a convenient excuse for any number of regime changes in Central and South America since 1945. The US almost started World War Three over Cuba in 1962 after the USSR retaliated to the US putting nuclear MRBMs in Turkey. We've starved Cuba for 60+ years for having the audacity to overthrow our puppet government and nationalize some mob casinos. Recently, we kidnapped the head of state of Venezuela because reasons.

But sure, let's focus on China militarizing its territorial waters.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
by _def | 2026-02-27 05:47:26+00:00
On a long enough timeline literally everything has 100% chance of failure. I'm not trying to be obnoxious, I just wanna say: we only got this one life and we have to choose what to make of it. Too many people pretend things are already laid out based on game theory "success". But that's not what it's about in life at all.
by doctorpangloss | 2026-02-27 05:47:38+00:00
> The DOW is acquiring instruments of war

that may be, but the bigger picture purpose of the military is, welfare republicans like. in that sense, republicans are in charge, republicans want stuff that isn't "woke" (or whatever), so this behavior is representative of the way it works.

it has little to do with acquiring instruments of war, or war at all. its mission keeps growing and growing, it has a huge mission, very little of that mission is combat. this is what their own leadership says (complains about). 999/1,000 people on its payroll are doing duty outside of combat or foreseeable combat.
by atmavatar | 2026-02-27 05:49:34+00:00
With all due respect, a lack of curiosity towards the moral implications of how tech is used in the world is an extremely irresponsible take for anyone working in the tech industry, which is presumably a large cohort here in Hacker News.

If you happen to be part of this cohort, you should absolutely always question the moral implications of any project you work on, and you're in a better position than the average person to fully explore the possible ways tech can be used and abused. I'd argue that should be considered one of the primary purposes of Hacker News.
by figassis | 2026-02-27 05:49:43+00:00
I have just done a performance audit on some endpoints of a very fast moving team. Man, it is disheartening. A simple GET request to fetch one record has loops in the controller with nested database and external api calls.

And this is in a well architected and documented repo, where directness is prioritized over magic, with little to no useless abstractions, on a typed codebase, with development guidelines that address these sorts of specific issues.

Ironically, if you ask it to figure out why this endpoint is slow, it will answer correctly.
by qsera | 2026-02-27 05:50:14+00:00
>multi-billion parameter LLM

This is equivalent to an `if` statement with multi-billion levels of nesting.
It is just a "traditional program", just unimaginably huge.

Just because it is not "traditionally programmed" does not mean that it is not a really huge "traditional program".

Scaling something by many order of magnitude does not put it in a different category. A computer program, no matter how big, is still a computer program.
by def13 | 2026-02-27 05:50:22+00:00
If you live in the west/developed world, the solution for hobbyists/small projects/individuals is generally to use the a local ccTLD. I'm from Australia, I use a `.au`. Between `.au` (which they opened up recently) and `id.au` its not hard to find a memorable/useful url for about $20/year, as people/companies have been mostly keeping to the `.{org,com,net}.au` names.

I see a lot of .fr, .de, .jp (and many other European ccTLDs) used by people from those places for their hobbyists/small projects/individual purposes. The regulators and operators of these domains tend to be pretty decently reputable. They often require proof of either local residence/citizenship or local business, which keeps domains more available, at the cost of requiring you to hand over some identifying information.

Now for whatever reason, I don't really see the `.us` one in use at all, so that is potentially a big exception to the initial premise for people from the US. I presume that its due to combination of it being operated by GoDaddy and the fact the `.com` and `.org` are sort of defacto US ccTLDs..
Show HN: Conduit – Automatic Port Forwarding for Docker Containers
by orandaio | 2026-02-27 05:50:26+00:00
A small Go library built to make it dead simple to expose internal ports from a Docker container (can be used anywhere, but this was my use-case).

I had trouble finding a simple tool to expose internal ports consistently. E.g. Codespaces, Dev Containers, etc have different mechanisms to expose ports.

To keep exposure agnostic, this tool can be run directly in the container.
Show HN: Nano Banana 2 – Sub-second AI image gen via Gemini 3.1 Flash
by naxtsass | 2026-02-27 05:50:34+00:00
Hi HN,

I wanted to see how far I could push the "Flash" in Gemini 3.1. Most AI interfaces feel bloated and slow, so I built Nano Banana 2 to focus on raw speed.

Technical Highlights:

Stack: Next.js + Edge Runtime to minimize TTFB.

Optimization: Custom streaming pipeline for Nano Banana 2 image preview tokens.

Locales: Automated i18n for 13 regions (MS, IL, PL, etc.) based on real-time search breakout data.

The goal was to build a globally responsive UI that feels native regardless of where the user is. Would love your feedback on the latency and the streaming implementation.

Free to try for the HN community: https://nano-banana2.me/
by CRConrad | 2026-02-27 05:51:18+00:00
I'm almost certain it's the imperative form of a verb, in the grammar of the time apparently "to swien", "to be silent" or "to shut up".

"Swie!" from "swien" looks kind of exactly like "Schweige!" from "zu Schweigen" in modern German. Must go back to the same root (closer to "swie" than "schweigen", I'd guess) in Proto-Germanic.
by dfabulich | 2026-02-27 05:51:51+00:00
Today, the entire Web API is defined in WebIDL, a specification-only interface-definition language that inherently assumes you have access to JavaScript strings, objects, exceptions, promises, etc. None of those are available in WASM.

WebAssembly Components aren't nearly enough to accomplish what this article offers to accomplish. Even once components are a thing, you'd then have to restandardize the entire Web API in their new IDL, WIT.

The WebIDL specifications have taken decades to standardize. It requires Apple, Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft to agree on everything. Getting all of them to agree to restandardize on a new IDL is not going to happen this decade.
by 827a | 2026-02-27 05:52:43+00:00
If the United States is ever, in the future, at war with an adversary using truly autonomous and functional killing machines; you may find yourself praying that we have our own rather than praying human nature changes. Of course, we must strive for this to never happen; but carrying a huge stick seems to be the most effective way to reduce human death and suffering from armed conflict.
by viking123 | 2026-02-27 05:53:13+00:00
At least with Altman you know the guy just wants money, with Amodei you get this grandstanding and 6 more months fear mongering every 6 months and it is insufferable. Worst person in the AI space BY FAR. Hope the Chinese open source models get so good that these ghouls lose everything.

The product is actually good though, I could pay for it if Amodei just shut up but by principle I won't now and just stick with codex.
by palmotea | 2026-02-27 05:53:28+00:00
> Sorry, the toothpaste doesn't go back into the tube with social issues. Interracial marriage isn't going away either lol.

Sorry, that's just naive, overconfident liberalism. There is no mandatory "direction" to social change. Given enough time, every bit of that toothpaste will go back in that tube, and enough more time it will come out again, only to go back in after a spell.
Show HN: MotionDesk: Physics-driven, Metal-accelerated wallpapers for macOS
by motiondeskapp | 2026-02-27 05:53:59+00:00
I built MotionDesk, an aesthetic macOS wallpaper app that uses Metal shaders and native display APIs rather than playing a video file in the background, which is what most wallpaper engines do.

The app renders wallpapers that respond to your environment in real time. A few of the modes (16 total):

- Physics-based + Interactive: your cursor disturbs magnetic fields or contour fields rendered on the desktop. (These 2 modes are free forever)

- Weather: You can have it rain, snow, thunder, etc on your desktop, or even pull live weather data and have your weather app basically be your wallpaper.

- Liquid glass overlay: a refraction effect applied over your existing wallpaper.

- Space: Travel through stars (more items such as blackholes being added soon)

- Dock plants: places cute flowers and cactus on your dock :)

- and more: Glyph swarm (popular), ASCII Field (popular), Smoke, Tide, Pulse Rings, Neon Wireframe, Net, Math, DNA.

Performance

This was a hard constraint from the start. The app currently averages under 10% CPU time, around 300 MiB memory, and 35% GPU core time. It can run very smoothly on hardware as old as a 2015 MacBook Pro :) Battery impact is very low, which was one of my main concerns when starting its development.

Where it stands

500 downloads in the first week since launch. Early feedback has been very positive, and we have addressed some popular feature requests and fixed some bugs that were not caught on our test devices.
by hellojesus | 2026-02-27 05:55:20+00:00
Glad to hear you're doing well. Hopefully it continues and you don't have to enter the job market.

I'm hoping the same for myself, but hopefully at some point in the future I at least try to go for something new. I'm torn between the status quo of the cushy role I have now and the feeling that I've never accomplished anything noteworthy. But until the kids grow a bit more I think I'll remain stationary but try to enhance my skills when possible. I'm also just starting llm integration on a project where we'll be implementing mcp for agents with google-adk. Between that, vertex ai services, etc. it seems mostly like gluing things together more than actual innovation.
by _alaya | 2026-02-27 05:55:28+00:00
You are either completely uneducated on world history or willfully ignorant.

There is no limit on how far back the clock is allowed to turn.

Things that will be targeted:

* homosexuals (often the first)

* non whites

* interracial marriage

* voting rights

* voting right for women

* women’s suffrage

* education for girls

* no fault divorce

* freedom of speech

* freedom of mobility (like to leave the country)

* trade unions / labor unions

* Freemasons (Oddfellows, etc)

* practicing a religion other than Christianity

* environmental regulations

* public lands, federal parks

* etc etc etc

Look not to China or North Korea for the operating model but East Germany during the Cold War. There was a massive surveillance operation in place then and technology has only improved.

Freedom is not guaranteed and for most of human history was not a goal.
by retsibsi | 2026-02-27 05:56:52+00:00
> And it's in those situations that our true morality, as measured against our basic needs, comes out.

This is far too binary IMO. Yeah, the higher the personal stakes the bigger the test, and it's easy for someone to play the role of a principled person when it doesn't really cost them anything significant. But giving up millions of dollars on principle is something that most people aren't actually willing to do, even if they are already rich.

How someone acts in desperate circumstances reveals a lot about them. But how they act in less desperate circumstances isn't meaningless!
by Nursie | 2026-02-27 05:58:10+00:00
Interesting, we could add in an 'arm' from the pancake local group, heading out from American pancakes, via traditional English pancakes (approx 1 cup of whole milk, 2 eggs, 3/4 cup of flour) to Crepes.

I guess the only difficulty there is we English don't eat those for breakfast, and really only make them on one day of the year. Which I missed this year!

Dammit, we're going to be having a belated pancake day here soon...
by seertaak | 2026-02-27 05:58:37+00:00
First, I'd be remiss to point out we went from LLMs are vaporware to people are becoming slaves to their LLMs awful quick.

> [I'm scared] you are growing dependent on stilts that could disappear any moment.

First, I do control the RTX3070 I own, and that can actually do a pretty decent job nowadays with some of the 3B parameter models.

Second, maybe if people like you showed as much concern for that LGBT people can expect family violence for daring to come out of the closet -- instead of worrying about Dr. Strangelove scenarios --, then I wouldn't have to lean on LLMs so heavily.

Third, it's hilarious that your response to a comment pointing out how difficult it was to get help from another human without being degraded, was to degrade me by calling me an LLM junkie. Self-awareness is also an important human trait, and you appear to be lacking in that department.

Fourth, given that you show absolutely zero concern for the difficulties faced by LGBT people or ADHDers, my advice to you is to take your fears and shove them up your ass.
by Rohansi | 2026-02-27 05:58:44+00:00
> Crazy thing is that computers have 1000x the memory and like 10,000x the CPU and it would still be a challenge to paints screens in 2 seconds.

It's not though, is it? Even browsers are capable of painting most pages at over 60 FPS. It's all the other crappy code making everything janky.
by t0lo | 2026-02-27 05:59:13+00:00
I've had similar thoughts, alongside these rapid advancements maybe suggesting the universe really is only "recently created" - it's no absolute comfort but I enjoyed this boston review article of AI psychosis being a longstanding historical phenomenon https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-brief-history-of-ai-....

The confines of our reality really are so small in the face of technology like this aren't they.
by phatskat | 2026-02-27 05:59:39+00:00
> $@ being an extreme example

From the bash man page via StackOverflow:

> @ Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one. When the expansion occurs within double quotes, each parameter expands to a separate word. That is, "$@" is equivalent to "$1" "$2" ... If the double-quoted expansion occurs within a word, the expansion of the first parameter is joined with the beginning part of the original word, and the expansion of the last parameter is joined with the last part of the original word. When there are no positional parameters, "$@" and $@ expand to nothing (i.e., they are removed).

That’s…a lot. I think Bash is interesting in the “I’m glad it works but I detest having to work with it” kind of way. Like, fine if I’m just launching some processes or tail’ing some logs, but I’ve rarely had a time when I had to write an even vaguely complex bash script where I didn’t end up spending most of my time relearning how to do things that should be basic.

Shellcheck was a big game changer at least in terms of learning some of the nuance from a “best practice” standpoint. I also think that the way bash does things is just a little too foreign from the rest of my computing life to be retained.
by palmotea | 2026-02-27 06:00:13+00:00
> It’s honestly terrifying that efforts to ban books and restrict what teachers can teach have made such a big comeback in the US. When I was in school, we always discussed banned books from the perspective of “we used to ban things that made people uncomfortable in the bad old days, but that could never happen in the 21st century”.

Except that's never gone away, and it was always happening, even when you were in school. For an obvious example: try teaching creationism in a public school. That's more of a ban than any of these book bans anyone's been complaining about. On a more similar note, I don't think school libraries ever carried bodice-rippers or porno mags or all kinds of stuff, and if some librarian decided to try, the local school board would uncontroversially have done something about it.
by kqr | 2026-02-27 06:00:26+00:00
I realised I never shared this with HN! My first proper Pico-8 project was a minimalistic arrival air controller game, where instead of vectoring planes you assign them to routes.

Early versions of the game were extremely challenging and lasted only a few minutes, but play testers thought a more chill experience would fit the game better, so while the game does ramp up its difficulty, most people should have no problem going for at least half an hour.
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-27 06:02:02+00:00
There's something in-between law and suggestion, which is a Schelling point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory) ; these points can be influenced by information.

If we can establish, through published doctrine, what we will do in certain situations, then other nations can reason about our decisionmaking process. They can compare our actions to our policy, and make judgements about our trustworthiness as national actors. If we choose to act irrationally, or against our own doctrine, we become untrustworthy and other players have to adjust their game accordingly. That's the "enforcement" - and you can see this in action, e.g. with Mark Carney's recent speech.