MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aaronharnly | 2026-02-27 21:30:49+00:00
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/us/politics/anthropic-mil...

Text (it is short):

> President Trump on Friday ordered all federal agencies to stop using artificial intelligence technology made by Anthropic, an order that could vastly complicate intelligence analysis and defense work.

> Writing on Truth Social, Mr. Trump used harsh words for Anthropic calling it a “radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about.”

> Still, Mr. Trump announced a “Six Month phase out” for the Pentagon and some other agencies, a period of time that could allow for more extended negotiations between Anthropic and the Defense Department. Calling the company “Leftwing nut jobs,” he said they had made a mistake trying to strong-arm the Pentagon.

> Mr. Trump’s statement came as the Pentagon and Anthropic were, despite an escalating war of words, continuing to negotiate a compromise. While some current and former American officials had expressed hope of some sort of deal before the Pentagon’s 5:01 p.m. deadline, Mr. Trump’s comments will undoubtedly complicate matters.

The Truth Social post, which is, well, you can decide for yourself: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1161445529692...
by Slaboli | 2026-02-27 21:30:54+00:00
Thanks for your input! I think I overvalued the prospect of Portugal from the start. I see now that it’s an ideal place for wealthy Western retirees who want to enjoy the weather, beaches, and EU mobility. For someone like me who isn't poor but isn't wealthy either it doesn't offer much in terms of career growth.Even for the Portuguese themselves.

When you say "better luck elsewhere" I assume you mean both Portugal and Turkey?
Show HN: Smart card eID driver written in Zig
by ubavic | 2026-02-27 21:30:59+00:00
In Serbia, for a long time, the only way to use an eID was by having a Windows machine. Over the last year, I slowly implemented an open source module by reading the PKCS#11 standard and sniffing the USB traffic of the official (Windows) module. The result is a shared library that can be used on *nix systems, removing the need for Windows for many citizens of Serbia.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-27 21:31:45+00:00
agreed. I've never thought that fiduciary duties meant tossing out all morals and considerations of right/wrong to the point that one must make any decision in a way that will make the most money within legal bounds. I'm no economist or lawyer, but I've always taken it that the duty is to not do dumb shit that will lose money and to do things that protect it. The reading of "make money at all cost" just seems like a strained interpretation, yet it's trotted out very frequently with not enough push back.
by hogwasher | 2026-02-27 21:31:53+00:00
Indeed, that article doesn't support a single part of that claim.

It kinda feels like an LLM-generated article that another LLM picked as a "citation", and then no human bothered to check if it actually said what the LLM said it did.

And, really, advergroup.com? Who sites an advertising agency as if it's a reliable resource?

https://advergroup.com/digital-marketing/

"AdverGroup Web Design and Creative Media Solutions is a full service advertising agency that delivers digital marketing services. We manage Google Ad Word campaigns and/or Meta Ad Campaigns for local clients in Chicago, Las Vegas and their surrounding suburbs."

So credible a resource on Gemini's performance/profitability... /sarc

But yeah it doesn't even actually say anything about profits, let alone attribute any specific percentage of profits to Gemini. It just vague marketing copy.
by indubioprorubik | 2026-02-27 21:31:57+00:00
I find it increddible, that almost the whole personal that allowed putin to wage this war, is still in some ways in office and power in europe. What happened to disgraced figures stepping back, to give the new and capable a chance to recover ? Steinmeier, Van der Leyen, the posts change and become more honorific, but with such a legacy of ashes, who would want to stay at the press conference?

[Link is in german]
https://schmid.welt.de/2026/02/25/braucht-deutschland-einen-...
by pcthrowaway | 2026-02-27 21:32:04+00:00
In the repeater callback, you're both calling the stop argument and awaiting it. Is it somehow both a function and a promise? Is this possible in JS?

edit: I found where stop is created[1]. I can't say I've seen this pattern before, and the traditionalist in me wants to dislike the API for contradicting conventions, but I'm wondering if this was designed carefully for ergonomic benefits that outweigh the cost of violating conventions. Or if this was just toy code to try out new patterns, which is totally legit also

[1]: https://github.com/repeaterjs/repeater/blob/638a53f2729f5197...
by engineer_22 | 2026-02-27 21:32:09+00:00
Will they maintain an edge over other AI companies long term? With so many market participants will it become a race to the bottom?

This valuation puts their P/E around 40.

Anthropic $380B valuation on $13B ARR. P/E around 30.

5 years ago Uber was in similar territory. Tesla... Well we won't mention Tesla.
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-27 21:32:10+00:00
Only if the SuperHeavy booster can achieve the same performance as the SLS (payload to orbit), with similar levels of operational complexity.

The SLS has already proven it can fly to lunar orbit and back on one single launch. In contrast, even if everything goes according to plan, Starship requires at least a dozen re-fueling flights while it hangs in orbit around the Earth to be able to then fly to the Moon.

Will one Starship launch, when it eventually works, be cheaper than SLS? Very likely. Will 12+ Starship launches + the time in orbit be cheaper than a single SLS launch? Much, much less likely.
by collingreen | 2026-02-27 21:32:25+00:00
It's a logical mistake to say that because an extremely motivated person can still cause harm somehow that implies no regulation or policy can have any positive impact anywhere.

I don't have a stance here on what "the right" policies around gun control are but it is clearly a much wider field than just a preplanned assassination with diy parts.

A non-exhaustive list of a few very different scenarios that are all involved with anything touching or rejecting gun control:

- highly motivated, DIY-in-the-basement assassination plots like you mentioned
- hunting for food
- hunting for fun
- wilderness safety
- organized crime and gang related violence
- mass shootings at things like concerts, sporting events, colleges. Sub point of mass shootings at schools where the law requires children to be.
- gun violence involved with suddenly escalating impromptu violence like road rage and street/bar fights
- systematic intimidation / domestic terrorism of particular groups or areas
- gun related suicides

All of these are very very different. None of them have perfect answers but that doesn't make thinking about it "an act of banging your own head against the cold, hard wall of reality" nor does it make anyone interested in working on some of these problems naive or stupid like you imply.

If you're being earnest or maybe jaded, I'd say dont give up hope and don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

If you're just being a dick then so be it, maybe someone else gets something out of this comment.
by hirvi74 | 2026-02-27 21:32:56+00:00
"Ninety-eight percent of warrant reviews eventually result in an approval, and over 93% are approved on first submission. Further, we find that the median time for review is only three minutes, and that one out of every ten warrants is opened, reviewed, and approved in sixty seconds or less. [1]"

Mind you, this data only represents the state of Utah's electronic "e-Warrant" system. It would not surprise me is results were not too different across other states.

[1] https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-138/unwarranted-warra...
by mvkel | 2026-02-27 21:33:07+00:00
Again, these are just words, and they're a salad of legal terms of art that provide cover for virtually any action. "We prevent the -illegitimate- use..." [define illegitimate plz?]

In your second link, that team was defunded; the person heading it just left ceremoniously: https://x.com/mrinanksharma/status/2020881722003583421?s=46
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-27 21:33:26+00:00
"Smart mines" specifically can be designed so that they're literally incapable of exploding once a deployment timer expires, or a fixed design time limit is reached.

It just makes the mines themselves more expensive - and landmines are very much a "cheap and cheerful" product.

For most autonomous weapons, the situation is even more favorable. Very few things can pack the power to sit for decades waiting for a chance to strike. Dumb landmines only get there by the virtue of being powered by the enemy.
by tombert | 2026-02-27 21:33:30+00:00
Yeah, it wasn't lost on me that a lot of job listings are fake, even at the time (I think I even wrote comments saying as much on this very forum). I did reach out to contacts asking if they had openings but of course that's a finite set and most of them told me they didn't.

What I had tried to do was start randomly requesting connection invites with people on LinkedIn in fields I was interested, and a surprisingly large number of them accepted my requests, but that didn't actually pan out to anything productive, which is a little depressing.

I hope I don't get laid off from my current gig, because now I really don't have a clue on the best way to find a job. Maybe I could try that "CEO at a big corporation" thing, it doesn't look too hard and apparently you can lay off half your staff and still be rewarded.
by bentley | 2026-02-27 21:33:47+00:00
Except, of course, that the Bible in any translation is not NSFW, certainly in the common usage of the term. It contains depictions of violence and sex, yes. But so does Fanny Hill, and that hasn’t legally been considered obscene in the UK or the USA in over fifty years. F-Droid’s excuse, that they needed to restrict Bible apps to protect F-Droid from legal liability, is not believable.
by cedws | 2026-02-27 21:33:59+00:00
The billion engineers building sandbox tools at the moment are missing the point. Sandboxing doesn't matter when the LLM is vulnerable to prompt injection. Every MCP server you install, every webpage it fetches, every file it reads is a threat. Yeah you can sit there and manually approve every action it takes, but then how is any of this useful when you have to supervise it constantly? Even Anthropic say that this doesn't work because reviewing every action leads to exhaustion and rubber stamping.

The problem is not what the LLM shouldn't have access to, it's what it does have access to.

The usefulness of LLMs is severely limited while they lack the ability to separate instructions and data, or as Yann LeCun said, predict the consequences of their actions.
by CWuestefeld | 2026-02-27 21:34:09+00:00
It's not stated here, but is it implied that app platforms that, themselves, have an "app store", would be required to read this datum and pass it to their app store?

For example, I've got a map application on my phone that lets me download maps, widgets, POI lists, etc. from their app store. It seems like enabling that age signal through this exchange is exactly what the politicians are looking for.
by LeoPanthera | 2026-02-27 21:34:10+00:00
Robert Llewellyn is just a lovely person in general. He now produces a YouTube/TV show about electric cars, but his outtakes from Red Dwarf are delightful. He stays mostly in character during the outtakes (perhaps that's easy in the suit) and he's very funny.

Some random Red Dwarf outtakes: https://youtu.be/l6VTzq5N0Mo
by burnte | 2026-02-27 21:34:21+00:00
It's also still bound only to companies in CA. I'm in GA, I don't have to comply, for example, if I were making operating systems. People REALLY need to push back when governments try to extend their reach beyond their borders, like EU regulations. The more we let them the more enshrined in law it will become. We have the right and duty to say no, that only applies in your jurisdiction.
by stickfigure | 2026-02-27 21:34:31+00:00
I don't want to dogpile on the other comments (atheist, loved the book) but I think there's something interesting here.

Most science fiction tends to assume that religiosity will fade as humanity matures, and in a few thousand years we'll all have a good laugh at those silly ancient humans. This feels generally right to me. But it's not the only possible future, and Hyperion explores a far future in which religiosity becomes more ingrained.

I thought it was one of the more interesting aspects of the book, and contributed to the feeling of "not just another space opera". You don't have to appreciate religion to like the story.
by skipkey | 2026-02-27 21:34:39+00:00
Back in the 90s and the early aughts Simmons was on my “automatically buy everything he writes” list. But it seemed like he had stopped writing. But then I happened to browse Barnes and Noble beyond the SF&F and horror aisles and discovered he had been writing crime novels. And they were good.

I think if he had ever decided to write romance novels I would have probably enjoyed those as well.
by mikestew | 2026-02-27 21:35:07+00:00
If you think there is actual fraud going on via the US mail, report it. The Postal Service takes mail fraud very seriously.

But I suspect you mean to say 90% of what ends up in your mailbox is junk. If that's the case, there's a fix for that, too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36131222
by gambiting | 2026-02-27 21:35:19+00:00
I mean, it's a very common argument and it's simply flawed.

You as a human are allowed to read the contents of say IMBD and summarise it to your friends free of charge. You can even be a paid movie critic and base your opinions on IMDB just fine. But if you build a website that says "I'll give you my opinion about a film for £5" and it's just based on the input from IMBD I'm sure we can both agree that you crossed the line - and that you're using another person's service to make your own business without compensating them. That's what LLMs are doing.

Honestly I'm just so tired of the whole "yeah but humans are the same because we also learn by reading stuff". These companies have effectively "read" everything ever made, free of charge, and are selling it back to us packaged in stupid bots that can only function because they were given that data. It doesn't compare at all to how a human learns and then uses information, unless you know someone who can do it on that kind of scale. LLMs don't "gleam" - they consume wholesale.
by mort96 | 2026-02-27 21:35:21+00:00
But it does matter to their opinion of the site: is it down because the author took it down, is it down due to a technical problem, or is it is it down because the hosting provider took it down?

"This deployment is temporarily paused", if anything, sounds like the people who put the site up took it down again. That sends the wrong message.

Personally, if my hosting provider took my post down, I'd want them to make that obvious to my visitors. Or at the very least make it look like a technical issue. Not make it look like I took it down.
by why_at | 2026-02-27 21:35:37+00:00
I agree. The headline says "all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup", which is pretty inaccurate.

It's just asking for some OS feature to report age. There's no verification during account setup. The app store or whatever will be doing verification by asking the OS. Still dumb to write this into law, but maybe not a bad way to handle the whole age verification panic we're going through.
by commandersaki | 2026-02-27 21:36:07+00:00
Price increases are always annoying, but I will stay the course.

I don't see myself switching to free competitors like Apple Passwords or Google (doesn't do E2EE). While I am pretty much in the Apple Ecosystem, my family members who use 1P are not, you won't get the same support, it doesn't autofill entries with custom fields, you need to use separate apps to store notes and documents/images, etc. It is just a barren password manager that Apple provides for free and doesn't get the same love as 1P does.

As for competitor cloud based password managers, most of them just don't have a tight security model compared to 1P, and I'm including some of the newer entrants like Proton Pass. 1P made a really smart decision of having a separate password and secret key and using a PAKE to authenticate. I don't think anything has come close except maybe Enpass with its notion of a keyfile. For me, the security story is of utmost importance. Also a lot of the status quo can't seem to get the basics of encryption right, a few still supporting non-authenticated encryption, bleh.

As for Keepass or local (FOSS) password managers, I would rather just write in an encrypted plain text file instead and store everything there. I don't need to be forced into using a database for that.
by packetlost | 2026-02-27 21:36:11+00:00
Because it's the lowest common denominator between the user and every online interaction. The bill basically says provide a date-of-birth as metadata to accounts and provide an API to query the age bracket, not even the age, of the user to applications. It's a privacy-aware, mostly reasonable approach that shifts responsibility to the owner/administrator of a device to enforce it. It's basically just mandating parental controls.
Show HN: AgentGames.co – my interactive story game creator
by imightbekyle | 2026-02-27 21:36:37+00:00
Hey all,

I recently built the first version of my project to play and create interactive story games with AI agents.

Each game can have up to 20 agents, each agent can have an image, voice, access to other agents, and resources to enhance the experience. All game configuration has logic conditions you can set. For example, from agent A you can only access agent B if you've visited agent C or you have a specific resource item.

You can create anything from a murder mystery to a dungeon crawler. The resources are dynamic and can set drop rates, make stackable for currencies or health, and give them their own images as well.

To play: Type or speak in game. If you want to go somewhere, say where you want to go.
To create: Describe what you want. You can manually configure as well.

You can try it for free. I'd really love your feedback. There was a lot of trickiness along the way to build this, so I learned a lot. More improvements to come

Happy to answer any questions, thank you!
by ryaker | 2026-02-27 21:36:47+00:00
Built this after watching agents go rogue because their safety instructions got compressed away mid-task. Summer Yue's inbox incident this week is exactly the failure mode I designed around.
The core problem: "confirm before acting" lives in chat history. Chat history gets compacted. Instruction disappears. The agent keeps going.
Zora uses HMAC-SHA256 signed intent capsules that travel separately from the conversation context. Compaction can't touch them. The original mandate stays intact no matter how long the task runs.
Three commands to try it:
npm i -g zora-agent
zora init
zora ask "summarize files in ~/Projects"
Multi-model with automatic failover (Claude, Gemini, Ollama). Policy file controls exactly what it can touch. Full audit log. OWASP LLM Top 10 hardened.
MIT. Happy to answer questions about the security architecture.
by aspbee555 | 2026-02-27 21:37:00+00:00
this is why I am building a communications software that has no concept of accounts, devices can connect and keys are generated on device and blind to relaying/directing server/network. people can only connect directly with other people/devices. there is no concept of lists of people/devices to connect to, you need to know someone/have access to the device to connect.

no accounts to compromise. no passwords to remember. end point devices control their connectivity. no vpn needed to connect, no intermediary to see all traffic and peer traffic is specifically what is needed/allowed/requested, not a wide open network connection/accounts to be compromised
by whynotmaybe | 2026-02-27 21:37:06+00:00
How does that apply to windows server with active directory for a school ?

Does that mean that the admin will have to manage dob of every student when creating accounts ?

> A developer shall not willfully disregard internal clear and convincing information otherwise available to the developer that indicates that a user’s age is different than the age bracket data indicated by a signal provided by an operating system provider or a covered application store.

>If a developer has internal clear and convincing information that a user’s age is different than the age indicated by a signal received pursuant to this title, the developer shall use that information as the primary indicator of the user’s age.

So, I have a button "I'm older than 18" on my app but the signal is "under 13", I can decide that the user is older than 18 ?
by dismalaf | 2026-02-27 21:37:49+00:00
Pro tip: Gemini Flash is the new Google. Bypasses all the SEO and ad garbage.

Also I still haven't found anything that replaces Google for finding local, physical businesses.

And Gmail? I have it mainly to give to random businesses. I like Hey.com more but I don't want the utility company or some online service I barely care about cluttering it up.

Also there is no YouTube equivalent. They pay creators the most so creators are all on YouTube.
by Henchman21 | 2026-02-27 21:38:07+00:00
Remember that all critiques of Hollywood require you to think like you’ve just consumed a massive line of cocaine. Because that is how they think and live. So, empathy reduced to zero, all your ideas are great, everything else is dumb, etc. Making decisions under the influence of strong narcotics is a recipe for idiocy.

Source: me, I had a huge cocaine problem and worked many years in the tech side of music and movies
by elteto | 2026-02-27 21:38:17+00:00
> When SpaceX launches a rocket, they think it will work. When NASA launches a rocket they know it will work.

That is such an ignorant thing to say. You think Falcon 9 has had 500+ successful launches because they _think_ it will work?

The difference is that SpaceX is a private company that has the ability to iterate fast. NASA is a jobs program and Artemis/SLS a barrel of pork, simple as that.
by chrisg23 | 2026-02-27 21:38:17+00:00
"This insistence that acknowledgement of facts has an ideological narrative is a pernicious strain of anti-science thinking."

That is very well put. This should be added to the general list of fallacies in argument, and like the other ones (the slippery slope, hasty generalization, Post hoc ergo propter hoc, etc.) more general awareness should exist about these.

The current wave of anti-science, anti-logic, rejection of objective data, etc. is like nothing I've experienced in my lifetime. This is a subjective observation, maybe it has always been this way and I never paid attention because I was caught up in whatever I used to be caught up in.
by hogwasher | 2026-02-27 21:38:18+00:00
And your grandma and parents pay for it, do they?

Free ChatGPT chat has made the company a household name, and helped it to persuade investors, but every single one of those free users costs the company money. Most of those free users have proved unwilling to convert to paid users, and adding ads to the free service promises to send it into the same enshittification death spiral so many other companies have fallen into.

Also, how on Earth would your grandma and parents not have heard of crypto? Crypto is frequently front page news, even in print newspapers. There have been crypto superbowl ads. Are they living under a rock?