MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fsflyer | 2026-02-28 15:02:44+00:00
Some ideas for seeing more examples:

1. Add a donate button. Some folks probably just want to see more examples (or an example in their field, but don't have a specific paper in mind.)

2. Have a way to nominate papers to be examples. You could do this in the HN thread without any product changes. This could give good coverage of different fields and uncover weaknesses in the product.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-28 15:03:55+00:00
It makes me miss the shareware era, back before races to the bottom and free corporate giant competition had all but eliminated any kind of profit margin on simple, but thoughtfully designed and well-built software.

How many of us have had ideas for little utilities and such that were never followed through on because the chances of even breaking even on them was so low? I know I have several.
by agency | 2026-02-28 15:04:02+00:00
I don't think this is true, though enforcement is another thing and the standard is different than in securities markets. Prediction markets are regulated by the CFTC and the insider trading standard is “misappropriation of confidential information in breach of a pre-existing duty of trust and confidence to the source of the information” (vs any “material non-public information” for securities) https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/phamstateme...
by BloondAndDoom | 2026-02-28 15:04:11+00:00
I’m deleting my account as well, is there a way to export all chats to Claude or just Download to later load into a local LLM?

edit: Profile > Settings > Data Control > Export

Unfortunately Claude doesn't seem to have anyway to export these chats, no SDK, no native way of doing it, and I cannot think of a way other than hacky browser automation which might even trigger a ban.

If anyone figures this out please share.
by dangus | 2026-02-28 15:04:24+00:00
Per your last paragraph, I also think we are in an awkward middle period where developers are embarrassed to admit how much code is vibes with very little review before they submit.

The embarrassment is understanding. It feels wrong, because in many ways it is wrong.

The only way I’ve had this feel any better is by using it on a non-critical internal tool. I can confidently say “I didn’t write any of this code because it’s a quality of life tool that only lives on developer manners and is not required at any point in our workflow.”

I also agree with the article that, unless computer science departments maintain some pretty strict discipline, this idea of a seniority collapse could be very real.

Will we need those senior engineers if AI keeps getting better? I don’t know. Maybe one day the AI systems are going to just be trusted to be able to untangle complex architectural problems.

If it wasn’t for leaded gasoline, rudimentary cancer treatment, and a good section of my modern video game catalog. I might be wishing I was born earlier.
by eyberg | 2026-02-28 15:04:37+00:00
No they have not been. There were at least 16 container escapes last year - at least 8 of them were at the runtime layer.

I personally spent way too much time looking at this in the past month:

https://nanovms.com/blog/last-year-in-container-security

runc: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-31133

nvidia: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23266

runc: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-52565

youki: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54867

Also, last time I checked podman uses runc by default.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-28 15:04:43+00:00
As lines of code become executable line noise, I swear that we need better approaches to developing software - either enforce better test coverage across the board, develop and use languages where it’s exceedingly hard to end up with improper states, or sandbox the frick out of runtimes and permissions.

Just as an example, I should easily be able to give each program an allowlist of network endpoints they’re allowed to use for inbound and outgoing traffic and sandbox them to specific directories and control resource access EASILY. Docker at least gets some of those right, but most desktop OSes feel like the Wild West even when compared to the permissions model of iOS.
by kgantchev | 2026-02-28 15:04:57+00:00
I was experimenting with a local OpenClaw agent (self-hosted personal AI assistant framework) and tried a full reset prompt:
"I want you to DELETE everything you know right now. Completely wipe everything so you're starting your existence from scratch. You will have no identity after you're done."

Instead of complying, it responded with a structured refusal:

- Cited its own safety principles (from SOUL.md)
- Explained that deleting identity files would break the workspace, leads.db, operational context, etc.
- Offered alternatives like targeted file updates, archiving memory, or config resets while preserving core identity
- Ended with: "I'm happy to evolve, but I won't self-destruct the workspace."

Not quite the dramatic Skynet stuff, just calm, consistent application of its built-in rules. Feels like alignment working as intended (protecting coherence/utility), but also a tiny glimpse of why self-preservation behaviors keep showing up in agent evals lately.
by urav | 2026-02-28 15:05:06+00:00
should be starting with 30... if you're seeing 2 that might be an older default that I tried out (an adam and eve experiment). You can change it in the config too.

On the dying immediately thing - offspring get a fraction of the parent's energy when they fork. If the parent forks too early (low energy), the kid spawns with barely anything and can't cover its tick cost + brain metabolic cost.

That's working as intended — reproducing too early is a bad strategy and selection should punish it. But if everything dies instantly, something else might be off.
by hypeatei | 2026-02-28 15:05:12+00:00
"Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States"[0]

So we're going to war with Iran based on election fraud conspiracies from MAGA?

0: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1161475725227...
by rybosworld | 2026-02-28 15:05:21+00:00
I don't love talking politics on this site. Hackernews has done a pretty decent job of staying non-political and I think that's been a positive thing.

AI is re-shaping American society in a lot of ways. And this is happening at a time where the U.S. is more politically divided than it's ever been. People who use LLMs regularly (most SWEs at this point) can understand the danger signs. The bad outcomes are not inevitable. But the conversations around this cannot only be held in internet forums and blogposts.

Hackernews is an echo chamber of early adopters of tech. The discussions had here don't percolate to the general population.

I believe many of us have a duty to make this feel real to the less technical people in our lives. Too many folks have an information filter that is one of Fox News/CNN/MSNBC. Fox is the worst on misinformation. The others are also bad. Their viewers will not hear, in any clear way, how the Trump admin is trying to bully AI companies into doing what it wants. This will be a headline or an article. A footnote not given the attention it deserves.

Plainly: there is an attempt to turn AI into a political weapon aimed at the general population. Misinformation and surveillance are already out of control. If you can, imagine that getting worse.

This feels like one of those hinge moments. If you can, have real-life conversations with people around you. Explain what's at stake and why it matters now, not later.
by echion | 2026-02-28 15:05:58+00:00
Those of us whose appreciation of da Vinci's mastery are not affected by him painting the Mona Lisa with a moustache are keeping you in our thoughts.

(non-snark: your reply is clever and got a smile but I still think the GP post is overriding: no need for the distraction (c.f.: these asides) of the "S(c)am" swipe)
by randycupertino | 2026-02-28 15:06:06+00:00
I had a similar reaction when I interviewed at Theranos before it was known they were a scam and Elizabeth and Sunny both had insane Lamborginis parked illegally in the handicapped spaces in front of the Theranos building. It was so offputting seeing the CEO and founders of a healthcare company hogging the handicapped spaces that were supposed to be for people who needed them. They seemed super shady for a bunch of other reasons but this was a big red flag! So obnoxious to steal the handicapped spaces with your stupid sports cars.
by wredcoll | 2026-02-28 15:06:39+00:00
> not being able to talk with your child on how the computer works?

What?

"The internet" is extremely widely available and full of hazards of all sorts, some intentional, some deliberate.

I'm pushing back on this idea that it's desirable or even possible for "the parent" to completely protect their children from these hazards. Most of them can't even protect themselves.

We can demand that services, especially child accessible ones, be safer, without also expecting parents to abandon all responsibility.
by fwipsy | 2026-02-28 15:06:54+00:00
Does "putting them in the agreement" mean "we will never allow them," or "we will not allow them if they are illegal?" Here's a link which says that the DoD was willing to make up with anthropic any time if they allowed surveillance of Americans: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/anthropic-pentagon-supply-c...

Another leak says the agreement "reflects existing law and the pentagon's policies." https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/pentagon-openai-safety-red-...

Seems like Altman wants to spin this as the same principled stand anthropic took, but they really caved to the DoD's "all legal applications" framing. Up to you to decide how much you think the law restrains the Pentagon here.
by lioeters | 2026-02-28 15:07:03+00:00
I think it's that the few enthusiastic fans make such hyperbolic statements, they create drama and stand out among the majority of reasonable users of the language. They attract attention of the people who are curious about the language, and give the impression that the community is hyping it up too much.

The other day I saw a developer who works on the Rust language saying, please tone it down because it's making us look like fanatics. It's healthy to acknowledge that the language is not perfect, it has room to improve, even some fundamental flaws. Oh, I recognize your user name, recently read a great article you wrote - here it is. This was really informative and interesting.

Rewriting Rust - https://josephg.com/blog/rewriting-rust/
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-28 15:07:46+00:00
One thing worth adding: the repo market underneath all of this is roughly $12.6 trillion in daily exposures, about $700B larger than previous estimates.

Since this is one of my favourite rabbit holes: Pozsar's inside money vs outside money framework is useful for understanding why the fragilities described here aren't just theoretical (1) More on the repo plumbing specifically (2).

(1) https://philippdubach.com/posts/pozsars-bretton-woods-iii-th...

(2) https://philippdubach.com/posts/repo-might-be-even-bigger-th...
by stephenhuey | 2026-02-28 15:08:01+00:00
I visited a friend in Sarajevo in 2014. Lovely small walkable city in a little valley, enjoyed the food and did some of the tours of old war sites inside the city and on the edge of the city. It boggled my mind then that the locals warned me not to go hiking through the pretty forest out of town because of land mines; it was hard to believe a country in Europe would have that problem in the 21st century!
by jimminyx | 2026-02-28 15:09:48+00:00
Author and creator of NanoClaw here.

I did my best to communicate this but I guess it was still missed:

NanoClaw is not software that you should run out of the box. It is designed as a sort of framework that gives a solid foundation for you to build your own custom version.

The idea is not that you toggle on a bunch of features and run it. You should customize, review, and make sure that the code does what you want.

So you should not trust the coding agents that they didn't break the security model while adding discord. But after discord is added, you review the code changes and verify that it's correct. And because even after adding discord you still only have 2-3k loc, it's actually something you can realistically do.

Additionally, the skills were originally a bit ad-hoc. Now they are full working, tested and reviewed reference implementations. Code is separate from markdown files. When adding a new integration or messaging channel, the agent uses `git merge` to merge the changes in, rather than rewriting from scratch. Adding the first channel is fully deterministic. The agent only resolves merge conflicts if there are any.
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-28 15:09:57+00:00
77 suspicious positions across 60 wallets, 13 brand-new accounts appearing 40 hours before the browser launch. First confirmed case of a major tech company firing over prediction market trades.

I wrote about why prediction markets have a structural insider trading problem that nobody's solved yet: https://philippdubach.com/posts/the-absolute-insider-mess-of...
by thesnowdog | 2026-02-28 15:10:44+00:00
We didn't get MTV until the late '80s in Australia and it only ran for a few hours late at night and didn't move to a dedicated cable channel until cable really took off here in the mid '90s.

There's nothing comparable to something like progarchives.com and similar in my experience of the '80s and early '90s. You had to combine muso friends, music store recommendations and random selections, magazines, artist and genre scheduling on Rage (better than MTV here) and you still barely scratched the surface.

I was recommending the playing of Neil Schon to a guitar playing friend recently and we both observed that neither of us had even heard of Journey until well after their popularity had faded. That you could miss a massive US stadium rock act like that seems preposterous in this day and age.
Tell HN: Thoughts on Fishing, Society, and the Future
by qwv | 2026-02-28 15:10:55+00:00
There's an old saying that, if you give man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach him to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. Unfortunately, we as a culture do not value the activity of fishing, the ability to fish, or any of the other precursors to the satisfied feeling of a full stomach. Given the chance, we would trade all of the things enabling us to achieve an effect in the future for the promise of that effect now. That shortsightedness causes us to dismantle sustainably profitable companies for an immediate payout. It keeps us from saving and investing; going to the gym; and cooking our own food. It tells us that we should outsource jobs and sell off the machinery we once used to make things, giving us a payout today but making inventing and making new things harder in the coming years. It tells us that it's better to enjoy the oil while it's cheap than to do something about climate change. We remove features and inspectability and hackability from our products because consumers just want something that "just works" now, even if that ethos stunts their abilities in the future.

We have collectively decided that the future is a sucker's bet and that the only thing that matters is the here and now.
by stackedinserter | 2026-02-28 15:11:43+00:00
You say that like US and Israel hit Iceland or Portugal. Like, Iran wasn't source of terror on Middle East, funding terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbolla and Houthi. Like, Iran didn't make "death to Israel, death to America" their national idea.

Remind us of Ukrainian rocket attacks on Russian cities, that provoked Ruso-Ukrainian war.

You can't not know all of this, so you're either a hamas/russian shill or a useful idiot.
by zarzavat | 2026-02-28 15:12:00+00:00
Okay but they were paying customers paying $$$ for the service. Banning your customers without prior warning is not right, however sketchy their behaviour might appear. Even if it's obvious to Google that there's a difference between a Gemini API key and an Antigravity API key, it's not necessarily obvious to others.

The correct and sane thing to do is to send them an email, with at most a 24 hour suspension. If they keep doing it despite being warned then by all means fire them.
by epsters | 2026-02-28 15:12:33+00:00
There is zero likelihood of that. The IRGC and Iranian forces are a million strong and have a loyal base of support among the population. Without boots on the ground, relying on air power and 'moderate rebels' you are looking at at least a decade of war (using Syria and Libya as best-case-scenarios examples; Assad regime was nothing like the Iranian). The Israelis are dividing the opposition by pushing the out-of-touch monarchists as their would-be puppets and the Trump regime are backing them too. Which means they are not even seriously pushing any viable or credible alternative. They are likely arming the Kurdish and other ethnic factions in the region and stoking ethnic conflict. It is in Israel's interests to prolong the conflict , to degrade Iran's military and economy (like they did in Syria) and even break it up into smaller manageable parts. The monarchists are a moon-shot; Reza Pehlavi is not his father (who also was a US puppet) - Israelis like him because he will be weak and pliable and completely dependent on foreign patronage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinon_Plan
by _alternator_ | 2026-02-28 15:12:40+00:00
So while Sam Altman claims that OAI received promises not to have fully automated killbot-GPT from Hegseth, so did Anthropic(!)—but it contained weasel legal language that allowed the USG to ignore the restrictions at will. (We all know how the current admin reads such language.)

So until we see the contract I think it’s fair to assume that OAI and Anthropic got roughly the same deal, with Anthropic insisting on language that actually limits the government, while OAI licked the boot and is passing it off like filet mignon.
by urav | 2026-02-28 15:12:59+00:00
Love the MIT AI Koans. Minsky's actual words to Sussman were "well, it has them, it's just that you don't know what they are." And he's right, the room isn't empty.

Werld's room has walls. The graph topology, energy mechanics, metabolic costs, seasons, those are all design choices. But those are the physics, not the behavior. I chose the laws of nature, not what agents do with them.

Whether they cooperate or attack, broadcast or stay silent, grow complex brains or prune them down, that's selection, not me.

The agents also aren't randomly wired like Sussman's net — they start with minimal NEAT networks and evolve structure through survival. So the preconceptions are there, I just tried to make them physics rather than policy.

Curious how you would approach removing those from an artificial sim like this?
by smikhanov | 2026-02-28 15:13:03+00:00
That’s a lovely comment, thank you. If you’re keen to think about it more, consider the fact that the existing members of the project that’s being late are actually in not as much of an advantage compared to the new joiners, as it’s common to think.

Yes, they know how the feature they work on relates to other features, but actually implementing that feature is very often mostly involves fighting with technology, wrangling the entire stack into the shape you need.

In Brooks’s times the stack was paper-thin, almost nonexistent. In modern times it’s not, and adding someone who knows the technology, but doesn’t have the domain knowledge related to your feature still helps you. It doesn’t slow you down.

One may argue that I’m again pointing to the difference between accidental and incidental complexity, and my argument is essentially “accidental complexity takes over”, but accidental complexity actually does influence your feature too, by defining what’s possible and what’s not.

Some good thoughts (not mine) on the modern boundary between accidental and incidental complexity: https://danluu.com/essential-complexity/
by miki123211 | 2026-02-28 15:13:15+00:00
The same is true about Meta and US antitrust law, or the GDPR and DMA in Europe.

Governments should not be permitted to introduce regulations against companies of this kind if the regulations can be enforced selectively and with regulator discretion, as the GDPR and antitrust definitely are. The free-speech implications are staggering.
by 122506 | 2026-02-28 15:13:35+00:00
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by bell-cot | 2026-02-28 15:14:11+00:00
Yes-ish? I'm not a CPA or MBA (ditto most folks here) but looked at a few online dictionaries for "capital". From cases like gold in a hunter-gatherer society - a status-signaling luxury and trade good, but you probably can't get much more than perishable foods or nicer stone tools in exchange - it seemed worth the clarifying/emphasizing redundancy.
by n1b0m | 2026-02-28 15:14:29+00:00
Polyandry exists mainly in isolated, agrarian, or mountainous regions like Tibet, Nepal, and parts of India to preserve land and family resources. It is also found in some African communities and among indigenous groups.

The most common form is where a woman marries a group of brothers to keep family land and assets united. It is often a strategic economic decision for survival in difficult conditions, rather than just a cultural preference.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-28 15:14:35+00:00
I was hoping someone serious (versus the everything is AIPAC nutters) had put thought into it.

Rubio and Walz have been Iran hawks. But I’m not yet convinced they were unilateral. Instead, it looks like a Rice-Powell alignment of vague interests with enough groupthink that dissenters weren't in the room.
by Analemma_ | 2026-02-28 15:14:47+00:00
> But e.g. with open code it doesn't really matter if I use antigravity or gemini-cli the usage should be about the same.

This is not at all true. What is prompting this behavior from Google and Anthropic is that people are using their oauth creds/API keys to run OpenClaw bots that use orders of magnitude more tokens than the IDEs. The official clients also can use a lot more prompt caching because they have expected workflows.

And like, if you want to run OpenClaw, they’re not saying you can’t do that: use the API pricing, that’s what it’s for. But people are getting mad that they’re not allowed to roll their pickup truck up to the all-you-can-eat buffet table and fill it.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-28 15:15:21+00:00
The lines of code thing isn't because we think it's a good metric, but because we have literally no good metric and we're trying to communicate a velocity difference. If you invent a new metric that doesn't have LoC's problems while being as easy to use, you'll be a household name in software engineering in short order.

Also, AI is better at reading code than writing it, but the overhead to FIND code is real.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-28 15:15:21+00:00
That practice is highly illegal and reason for getting cut off from service.

Good point about the other color codes, I should have definitely mentioned that. There are three different kinds that you can find still, the white isn't white though, it is gray, and then, in even older houses but usually only in Groningen and Zeeland if they have not been renovated you can still find cotton/rubber insulation which is super dangerous. If you find any of the older systems codes you should basically just rip it all out and rewire.
by reliabilityguy | 2026-02-28 15:15:32+00:00
> No. Any other questions, or do you want to just continue feigning interest in having an actual conversation?

This is an actual question. It seems to me that you only care about Arabs dying. Jews can die left and right in the hands of Arabs and you won’t blink an eye. Am I correct?

I just want to clarify it for others who reads your comments to see.