MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by musicsnob | 2026-02-28 22:21:52+00:00
That the highest earners pay the most taxes in nominal terms should not be a surprise, it's just basic math. 10% of $1B is still more than 20% of $1M. These self-annointed elites are still hoarding an incredible amount of wealth, with average tax rates that are often more lower than lower income brackets. Yet, they consume more services than lower income people.

Social Security is more than 90% funded by payroll taxes collected exclusively for that purpose. Combining that budget item with HHS and other departments funded by more general income taxes is quite misleading. Defense is the largest single expenditure in the US budget -- even more so when factoring in the VA.

Finally, more dollars can always be printed because the US dollar holds the highly privileged position of being the "world's currency", and exploiting the benefits from that, such as printing a near-endless supply of USD without causing a gallon of milk to cost $1500 (yet).

Numbers aside, you seem to suggest that The Free Market could correct our path to fascism, and that pesky human services and wanton over-regulation are what are really preventing us from reaching our final enlightened form... We are all much closer to being destitute than we are to being next in line for billionaire-dom. "It's a big club, and you ain't in it."
by chadpaulson | 2026-02-28 22:22:48+00:00
The market forces (the Jack Dorseys of the world) have made the decision for us. I have since attempted to embrace automatic programming / vibe coding and have seen interesting results. AI is a tool and we are living through the infancy of its evolution. I have concerns, not counting the current DoW drama with Anthropic and OpenAI. The next 5 years will significantly shape the direction of AI and how it is implemented in our workflows and every day lives. I'd rather involve myself and help shape its future instead of pretending it doesn't exist because I don't want to deal with it.
by aljarry | 2026-02-28 22:23:31+00:00
There are 3 new commits, and the only actually fixes are: Go update and revert to earlier version of console.

But there are a bunch of changes to docs, CI workflows and issue templates. Which is what is the easy part of managing a fork, and I've seen a bunch of forks that ended up only updating readme-s, CI, etc.

I'll have more faith in the fork when the maintainers do actual fixes.
by alexpotato | 2026-02-28 22:23:33+00:00
I recently wrote a guide on getting:

- llama.cpp

- OpenCode

- Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct in GGUF format (Q4_K_M quantization)

working on a M1 MacBook Pro (e.g. using brew).

It was bit finicky to get all of the pieces together so hopefully this can be used with these newer models.

https://gist.github.com/alexpotato/5b76989c24593962898294038...
by AyanamiKaine | 2026-02-28 22:24:02+00:00
That is true, but society as a whole does not reward "making software to make the world a little bit better". No one will come and say wow, only you self in the mirror.

I have the same feeling when creating my art-works I suffer through the process of creation and learning. While someone makes money with an ai generated art work.

Sometimes I wonder if it matters at all.
by silentvoice | 2026-02-28 22:24:17+00:00
I have no submission for this but I joined the hype in my own way by optimizing the training loop. These tiny models are not really well suited to frameworks like pytorch, and with highly patient AI agents we can now just inline the whole thing into C++ just to see what happens, which I do below:

https://www.reidatcheson.com/transformer/llm/ml/cuda%20graph...
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-28 22:24:29+00:00
I think the 27B dense model at full precision and 122B MoE at 4- or 6-bit quantization are legitimate killer apps for the 96 GB RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell, if the budget supports it.

I imagine any 24 GB card can run the lower quants at a reasonable rate, though, and those are still very good models.

Big fan of Qwen 3.5. It actually delivers on some of the hype that the previous wave of open models never lived up to.
by getnormality | 2026-02-28 22:24:56+00:00
I think this author could consider thinking of the AI as more than just a task rabbit that allows us to not code, not think, not understand.

If the LLM is indeed such a master at complex coding tasks that we don't understand, why not ask it some questions about how the code works?

You can even ask directly about the concern. "I am worried that by letting you do everything I am not learning how the system works. Could you tell me more about what you did and how I might think through it if I needed to do it myself?"
by DharmaPolice | 2026-02-28 22:25:07+00:00
I don't cringe because it's for dramatic/narrative effect. It's the same reason the crew of the Enterprise regularly beam into dangerous locations rather than sending a semi-autonomous drone. Or that despite having intelligent machines their operations are often very manual, as it is on many science fiction shows. The audience (if they think about it) realises this is not realistic and understands that the vast majority of our exploration would be done by unmanned/automated vessels. But that wouldn't be very interesting.

Other universes take it further - Warhammer 40k often features combatants fighting with melee weapons. Rule of cool and all that.
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-28 22:27:50+00:00
The Qwen3.5 27B model did almost the same as Sonnet 4.5 in this[1] reasoning benchmark, results here[2].

Obviously there's more to a model than that but it's a data point.

[1]: https://github.com/fairydreaming/lineage-bench

[2]: https://github.com/fairydreaming/lineage-bench-results/tree/...
by kubb | 2026-02-28 22:27:53+00:00
> At some point I thought you were claiming something along the lines that says religious Jews believe they are under an order from God to expand Israel to its maximal biblical geographical area.

I just meant that there's a part of the religious spectrum prone to that interpretation, and it mixes very well with nationalism, and expansionism. And that it isn't a meaningless fringe, but has a significant political representation. What I wrote was a reasonable way the scripture can be interpreted by someone who believes it's a true word of God.

If I'm wrong, and e.g. the Miflaga Datit Leumit party explicitly rejects this kind of intepretation then I stand corrected, but judging by what its leader says publicly this isn't the case...
Show HN: Constrained Chess, Play Stockfish with custom natural-language rules
by vigrant | 2026-02-28 22:27:57+00:00
Built this mostly with AI assistance (vibe-coded). Stockfish 16 runs in the browser via WASM. Constraints are parsed in two layers: a hand-written rule parser handles common patterns (no captures, piece restrictions, no castling, etc.), and anything it can't match falls through to Claude Haiku, which generates a JavaScript matches(uciMove, chess) function on the fly. That function runs client-side and filters the list of legal UCI moves before being passed to Stockfish's searchmoves parameter, so Stockfish's skill level, depth, and randomness all still apply correctly within the allowed set.

Constraints can target the engine, the player, or both. Shareable via URL (FEN + constraints + ELO encoded as query params).

Pre-loaded challenge if you want to skip setup:

https://constrainedchess.vercel.app/?skill=5&c=player%7Ccan%...
by gbcfghhjj | 2026-02-28 22:28:08+00:00
Wish the effort well. I has plans to self host s3 with minio that took some time to actually get around to and when I did they had done the enterprise rug pull. I do think one maintainer may be able to pull it off with AI assistance if the scope is limited to security bug fixes. Minio is one of the nastiest rug pulls I can think of.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-28 22:29:24+00:00
It’s nice to see people taking this on, but for a project like this I’d prefer to wait and see if the maintenance continues.

This blog post is extremely heavy on LLM written content, which isn’t a promising early sign

> Normally this is where the story ends — a collective sigh, and everyone moves on.

> But I want to tell a different story. Not an obituary — a resurrection.

I’ve seen several announcements of forked open source projects from people who thought that maintaining a fork is easy now that they can have an LLM do all the work. Then their interest trails off when they encounter problems the AI can’t handle for them or the community tires of doing all of the testing and code review for a maintainer who just wants to prompt the LLM and put their name on the project. When someone can’t even write their own announcement without an LLM it’s not an encouraging sign.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-02-28 22:29:28+00:00
I think the praise of the strategic value to US military interests are rationalizations and poor ones at that. The Gulf monarchies are allies in a meaningful sense and provide useful material support to the United States. Our “ally“ on the other hand was recently caught running a child prostitution ring and money laundering operation to control business and political leaders in the United States. Kidnapping children and removing their teeth so they can’t bite their rapists for political leverage is going to be remembered by future generations with the same horror and disgust as medieval torture and 20th century concentration camps.
by robot-wrangler | 2026-02-28 22:30:03+00:00
That seems barely related and settles nothing? Bottom line is simple, saying "you can't spec out something you have no clue how to build" is saying you cannot desire coldness unless you understand how to build a refrigerator. It's just the difference between what and how. If you don't know the difference between implementation and specifications, just try a whole day of answering "what" and "why" questions with "how" answers and see how it goes.
by wrs | 2026-02-28 22:31:33+00:00
Well, only if the increased speed doesn't result in a quality or staffing time bomb. Which none of us really knows at this point. You could always write code faster if you don't care if it works or is maintainable (and indeed many companies work that way for a while), and you could always put your developers in a pressure cooker until they leave from burnout.
by indubioprorubik | 2026-02-28 22:31:47+00:00
Maybe .. the revolutionary guard is fed up though with ineffective empire rule? Like to be rubbed in the dirt face first repeatetly as inheritor of the mighty persian empire sucks bad enough, to reconsider the way things are run?
Sorry, but whatever israel & the us are doing, seems to work way better than - whatever has happened the last decades in iran?
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-28 22:31:59+00:00
Yep. The political donation was the main thing. But let’s not forget AI Czar David Sacks has been crying about Anthropic being woke for a couple years. He has probably been trying to kill every single non right wing AI company. After years of whining about lawfare on the All In podcast, these people are all too happy to engage in the worst kind of lawfare.

There is a cabal of extremists steering technology contracts in this administration and among their donors. The names are familiar - Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale, Elon Musk, David Sacks, Palmer Luckey, etc. A future administration will need to purge all their companies from our government and investigate them for corruption and treason.
by mindslight | 2026-02-28 22:32:40+00:00
> Your first sentence is bizarre, considering this post is longer than you last

Half my post was trying to explain some context where I am coming from. I was addressing the general tone of your post, and pointing out why I was not going to pick through each point line by line trying to tease out nuance. What's bizarre is for you to go here, as it seems exactly like a condemnation "keyed to knock down "the other guy".

As far as both the parties ? I just said that I have long acknowledged the commonalities. I had never voted for a major party candidate in a national election until I voted Biden in 2020. Doing so required swallowing a lot of pride, and I considered it as voting conservatively due to getting older. I can certainly imagine Trumpism's core message of "burn it all down" as being highly appealing to younger me - remember how I said I was telling aghast friends in 2016 that Trump had a good chance at winning?

You also dodged my direct question of whether a President Harris would be threatening war with Canada. Details like this are precisely why there is something here worth fighting for and not merely "both sidesing" it as merely a communication style.

Trying to move on to constructive topics, you say this is about "how" is it discussed. How exactly do you think the bare repetition of partisan propaganda should to be discussed, regardless of the actual intentions? Do we need to treat every commenter with kid gloves, detail the actual wider context, get lost in the semantics of whether it is a "legal name change" (even though the legality is not the actual reason to reject the name!), all the while hoping they will be receptive to those points, etc?

Because the way I see it, a comment that is merely a "correction" in terminology is nothing but flamebait - essentially the same thing as tone/terminology policing by the blue extremists. It's exactly the type of thing that needs to be shut down quickly if we're trying to have constructive discussions.
by _pdp_ | 2026-02-28 22:33:16+00:00
One of our projects has 1.2K open pull requests.

https://i.postimg.cc/Jnfk9b8g/Xnapper-2026-02-28-22-25-42.pn...

We probably accept 1-2 per day.

I personally discard code for the tiniest of reasons. If something feels off moments after I open the PR, it gets deleted. The reason we still have 1.2K open PRs is because we can't review all of them in time.

The most likely solution is to delete all of them after a month or two. By that time the open PRs on this project alone will be at least 10-20 more.
by idobaiba | 2026-02-28 22:33:43+00:00
Hey HN!

I built Wezzly Companion because I was exhausted by the copy-paste dance with AI or not being able to upload videos and going back and forth 4-5 times before I get to the point!

Every time I wanted help debugging, I’d screenshot my terminal, paste it into ChatGPT, wait, then manually apply the fix. Repeat dozens of times a day.

So I built an AI that just… sees what I’m doing in real time.

How it works,
Runs as a lightweight Tauri desktop app (Rust backend, ~15MB)

Continuously captures your screen (configurable interval)

Sends context to your choice of AI: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, or local via Ollama

Can also execute commands, click, and type — full agent mode if you want it.

All within the Wezzly companion desktop assistant, visible blob that lives on your screen with you and gets stuff done and makes jokes.

How I use it daily
“What’s wrong with this error?” → it reads my terminal
“Summarize this video” → it watches with me
“Help me fill out this form” → it sees the webpage

No screenshots. No explanations. No copy-paste.

Privacy
Everything runs locally.
Your API keys stay on your machine (system keychain).

Your screen data never touches my servers.

Tech - Tauri + Rust + TypeScript

macOS signed & notarized

Windows build available (unsigned for now)

Open-source pledge
I plan to open-source at 10k users.
Keeping it closed for now to protect early development.

Demo: https://youtu.be/ya1Kz_iAraE

Would love feedback — what would make this useful in your workflow?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-28 22:33:55+00:00
> I don't think Anthropic is a saint that will never do anything unethical. I don't think ChatGPT is any better or worse.

I sort of agree and think that over a long horizon, Open weights models are going to be the best / are the best

I do think only a fraction of companies might do what Anthropic did here. There must have been quite a significant pressure on them to fold but they didn't. So to me, I'd rather try to do atleast something to show companies that people do care about such things and its best if we have at the very least some unconditional morals which are not for sale no matter the price.

I think that we can still have disagreements with Anthropic on matters and I certainly still have some disagreements about their thoughts on Open Models for example but in all regards I would trust them as more trustworthy than OpenAI imho.

That being said, I do think that its worth telling that given that I don't have good GPU, I am gonna stop using Chatgpt as well and will use either Claude/(Kimi?) as well like many people are doing too. I do think that it might be the path going forward.
by EddieB | 2026-02-28 22:34:13+00:00
Had this thought multiple times over the years. However, reality in the UK is training cost and time (~2 years with 2 days a week college + at least ~£5k cost and further 2 years gaining experience) can be quite a blocker- difficult to achieve with dependents for most. Then throw in the reality of domestic work and building up experience. Greener grass and all that
by Saline9515 | 2026-02-28 22:34:46+00:00
It was a non-proliferation issue, I believe? The same could have been said about the pressure for Ukrainians to renounce the nukes. I agree that in retrospect Ukraine would have been safer with nuclear weapons.

However, a lot could have happened in two decades, and Ukraine had to go through many issues typical of post-Soviet countries at the time. The risk associated with warheads being sold by generals or oligarchs was seen as a real one, see for instance:

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/1997-09/press-releases/russi...
by georgemcbay | 2026-02-28 22:34:47+00:00
Fair point, Stackoverflow didn't exist for quite a while after I started using the internet for information, and while I made as much use of it as anyone for googling answers to questions such as "What does this specific 32-bit HRESULT error code from the Win32 API mean in this context", I'm not sure if I ever posted a single question on the site.
by hirpslop | 2026-02-28 22:35:02+00:00
This may or may not lead to a weaker Iran. From FP:
“Iran is frequently portrayed as a political order bound tightly to individuals. Yet the architecture that emerged after 1979 was formed by a different logic, one founded in the revolutionary experience itself. Khomeini captured this hierarchy in a remark (https://abdimedia.net/en/ruhollah-khomeini/system-ahead-life...) often cited within Iran’s political elite: “Preserving the Islamic Republic is more important than preserving any individual, even if that individual were the Imam of the Age”—a reference to Shiism’s 12th Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi.
It is still unclear whether the system will always follow this principle. But one should expect a change in leadership in Tehran to be treated less as an ending and more as a chance for the country’s institutions to show they can survive.”

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/28/iran-khamenei-ayatollah...
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-28 22:35:40+00:00
> What do you make of AI?

Let me put it this way: I do have my opinion on this topic, but this whole topic is insanely multi-faceted, and some claims that I am rather certain about are more at the boundaru of the Overton window of HN, so I won't post it here.

But the article which the whole discussion is about

> https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/01/22/history-software-sim...

offers in my opinion a rather balanced perspective regarding using AI for coding (which does not mean that this article is near to my opinion).

I will just give some less controversial thoughts and advices concerning AI:

- A huge problem when discussing AI is that the whole topic is a hodgepodge of various very diverse topics.

- The (current) AI industry has invested a lot of marketing efforts to re-define what AI stood for in the past (it basically convinced the mass of people that "AI = what we are offering")

- I cannot say whether AI will be capable of replacing lots of people in office jobs or not (I have serious doubts). Media loves to disseminate this topic, but in my opinion it does not really matter: the agenda is rather to spread fear among employees to make them more obedient.

- Even if AI will be capable of replacing only few office workers (a scenario that I rather believe in), it does not mean that management will not use "AI"/"replace by AI" as a very convenient excuse to get rid of lots of employees. The dismissed workers will then mostly vent their spleen on the AI companies instead of the management; in other work: AI is a very convenient scapegoat for inconvenient management decisions.
And yes, I consider it to be possible that some event that leads to mass layoffs might happen in a few years (but this is speculative).

- While I cannot say how much quality improvement is possible for current AI models (i.e. I don't know whether there exists a technological barrier), the signs are clear that as of today AI companies have hit some soft "cost barriers". I don't know whether these are easily solvable or not, but be aware of their existence.

- So, my advice is: if an AI model is of use for some project that you have (e.g. generating graphics/content for your web platform; using it as a tool for developing the next scientific breakthrough; ...), do it now. Don't assume that the models will do this nearly freely for you anymore in the future (it can be that this will stay possible in the possible, but be cautious).
by _alternator_ | 2026-02-28 22:36:48+00:00
The language allows for the DoD to use the model for anything that they deem legal. Read it carefully.

It begins “The Department of War may use the AI System for all lawful purposes…” and at no point does it limit that. Rather, it describes what the DOW considers lawful today, and allows them to change the regulations.

As Dario said, it’s weasel legal language, and this administration is the master of taking liberties with legalese, like killing civilians on boats, sending troops to cities, seizing state ballots, deporting immigrants for speech, etc etc etc.

Sam Altman is either a fool, or he thinks the rest of us are.
by idiotsecant | 2026-02-28 22:37:00+00:00
It's always funny how many people think that the only font of altruism is taking care of children who have your DNA, like that's some kind of selfless act. It is, in fact, the ultimate vanity of which humans are capable. Raising little variations of yourself might make you feel good, but if you think it's a unique path to a fulfilling life I suggest you are the one in the little bubble.
by holysoles | 2026-02-28 22:38:08+00:00
I'll plug that Chainguard has been maintaining a fork for awhile and seems to have a history with supporting forks like this: https://github.com/chainguard-forks/minio

For a web GUI, I had been using this project: https://github.com/huncrys/minio-console

I switched to rustfs this week though and am not looking back. I'd recommend it to others as well for small scale usage. Its maturing rapidly and seems promising.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-28 22:38:15+00:00
I agree completely. I know everyone is tired of AI accusations but this article has all of the telltale signs of LLM writing over and over again.

It’s not encouraging for the future of a project when the maintainer can’t even announce it without having AI do the work.

It would be great if this turns into a high effort, carefully maintained fork. At the moment I’m highly skeptical of new forks from maintainers who are keen on using a lot of AI.
by tim333 | 2026-02-28 22:38:26+00:00
I think this misses the main reason. I mean ads have been a thing for a while now. What's new is:

* Brockman donates $25m to a pro Trump super PAC

* Altman is in talks with talks with the Pentagon since Wednesday

* Now it's announced Anthropic is dropped by the military, designated a supply chain risk, and OpenAI takes over its military contract, after Anthropic objected to surveilling US citizens and allowing autonomous kill bots.

The thing stinks rather.