MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw0101c | 2026-02-27 02:12:09+00:00
> Why the hell should companies get to dictate on their own to the government how their product is used?

Well:

"""

Imagine that you created an LLC, and that you are the sole owner and employee.

One day your LLC receives a letter from the government that says, "here is a contract to go mine heavy rare earth elements in Alaska." You don't want to do that, so you reply, "no thanks!"

There is no retaliation. Everything is fine. You declined the terms of a contract. You live in a civilized capitalist republic. We figured this stuff out centuries ago, and today we have bigger fish to fry.

"""

* https://x.com/deanwball/status/2027143691241197638
by Retric | 2026-02-27 02:12:17+00:00
> It absolutely is.

It was published as Fiction. The vast majority of people didn’t think it was anymore realistic than Interstellar etc.

There’s plenty of stories where we cure cancer, but the 50% improvement in cancer treatments over the last 40 years just doesn’t get much hype because it’s so slow. It’s hard to get excited about the idea cancer may be gone in 200 years because while that will be awesome for people alive then it doesn’t do anything for the people I know.

> electric telegraph came online people where hyped.

Objectively it got way more of a meh reaction than you’d think simply based on the timelines involved.

France was happy to continue using its network of optical telegraphs long after the electrical telegraph became a practical thing. Transatlantic telegraphs got hyped up somewhat, but again the technology took so long from the first serious attempt to a practical working system people understood the limitations inherent to having such limited bandwidth between the contents.

Obviously new technology gets attention because it’s a net improvement, being able to send messages across the US much faster was useful. But hype is different, it’s focused on second order effects not what it does but what will change. The original iPhone isn’t just another cellphone that also takes pictures, it’s “the internet in your pocket.”
by keeda | 2026-02-27 02:12:59+00:00
I agree, I'd say we're talking about the same thing, just in different terms. When I said CRUD apps, it was a crude stand-in for what you call the "closing" work. Over-simplifying, but it's unglamorous, not too complicated, somewhat mechanical, mostly a translation into working code from high-level designs that come down from the "innovators."

But I am concerned precisely because AI is usurping that closing work, which accounts for the bulk of the team. Realistically the innovators will be the only people required. But the innovators are able to do the hard stuff by learning through a lot of hands-on experience and painful lessons, which they typically get by spending a lot of time in the trenches as closers.

And we're only talking about coding here, but this pattern repeats ALL over knowledge work: product, legal, consultancy, finance, accounting, adminstration...

So now the problem is two-fold: how do we get the closers to upskill to innovators a) without the hands-on experience b) faster than AI can replace them?

I can see where Dario is coming from.
by morelandjs | 2026-02-27 02:13:09+00:00
You took the words out of my mouth. In a megacorp, AI multiplies into about 10% of my work and 10x’s it making me roughly 10% more efficient. When I use AI for side projects and don’t have to work with a bunch of stakeholders, dependency owners, and opinionated management, that 10x multiplies into my full effort and the project moves 10x faster.
by dakolli | 2026-02-27 02:14:20+00:00
This is a PR play by Anthropic, likely in coordination with the administration. They don't care, they just need the public to view them as a victim here, and then its business as usual.

I prefer they get shutdown, llms are the worst thing to happen to society since the nuclear bomb's invention. People all around me are losing their ability to think, write and plan at an extraordinary pace. Keep frying your brains with the most useless tool alive.

Remember, the person that showed their work on their math test in detail is doing 10x better than the guys who only knew how to use the calculator. Now imagine being the guy who thinks you don't need to know the math or how to use a calculator lol.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-27 02:14:47+00:00
I believe London is one of the only parts of the UK that generates more tax revenue than it uses.

In general, denser cities are more efficient in very measure. It makes sense, you have the same amount of stuff with less space and less materials.

Basically everywhere the way it works is that the non-cities are on perpetual welfare from the cities because the cities have all the economy, but you still have to run miles of roads and sewage into the non-cities.
by gdhkgdhkvff | 2026-02-27 02:14:58+00:00
Flagship LLM companies seem like the absolute worst possible companies to try and nationalize.

1. There would absolutely be mass resignations, especially at a company like Anthropic that has such an image (rightfully or wrongfully) of “the moral choice”.
2. No one talented will then go work for a government-run LLM building org. Both from a “not working in a bureaucracy” angle and a “top talent won’t accept meager government wages” angle (plus plenty of “won’t work for trump” angle)
3. With how fast things move, Anthropic would become irrelevant in like 3 months if they’re not pumping out next gen model updates.

Then one of the big American LLM companies would be gone from the scene, allowing for more opportunity for competition (including Chinese labs)

It would be the most shortsighted nationalization ever.
by freakynit | 2026-02-27 02:15:09+00:00
I appreciate that the HN community values thoughtful, civil discussion, and that's important. But when fundamental civil liberties are at stake, especially in the face of powerful institutions and influence from people of money seeking to expand control under the banner of "security", it's worth remembering that freedom has never simply been granted. It has always required vigilance, and at times, resistance. The rights we rely on were not handed down by default; they were secured through struggle, and they can be eroded the same way.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
by belval | 2026-02-27 02:15:21+00:00
> you could reduce headcount via attrition which is better in some ways

I don't think reducing via attrition is better for the company, for the employees 100%, but attrition would be your people moving to other companies and retirement. It means that you are effectively bleeding your people with options (usually above average) and those with the most experience in favor of "the rest".
by stosssik | 2026-02-27 02:15:30+00:00
I mapped the major players building the OpenClaw ecosystem, just 2 months after its release.

What's unfolding around OpenClaw is unlike anything I've witnessed in open-source AI.

In 60 days:
- 230K+ GitHub stars
- 116K+ Discord members
- ClawCon touring globally (SF, Berlin, Tokyo...)
- A dedicated startup validation platform (TrustMRR)
- And an entire ecosystem of companies, tools and integrations forming around a single open-source project.

Managed hosting, LLM routing, security layers, agent social networks, skill marketplaces.

New categories are taking shape in real time.

Some of these players are only weeks old. And established companies like OpenRouter, LiteLLM or VirusTotal are shipping native integrations.

Whether you're a VC exploring AI infra, an operator running agents, or a founder building in this space, this is the landscape right now.

Some of these startups are already pulling real revenue. Alternatives are stacking thousands of GitHub stars on their own. OpenRouter recently raised funding. The money and the users are already here. Most of what's on this map didn't exist 60 days ago.

This is what happens when an open-source project launches with the right building blocks at the right moment.
by frisbm | 2026-02-27 02:15:33+00:00
It's not remotely the same, there is no recognized consensus among any scientific community that individuals can personally identify with being born in a different year and that the dissonance they feel causes harm. On the flip side, there's endless research, studies, and articles detailing gender dysphoria and even references going back through ancient times and totally widespread across different cultures and geographies. Forcing trans women to get ids labeling them as male may not cause them any inherent harm, or it may, but imagine what's going to happen as this already vulnerable group gets pulled over or attempts to vote and they don't "look" the gender on their Id? Find something more important to care about.
by princevegeta89 | 2026-02-27 02:16:50+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. I chose the latter.

I don't know why CEOs and other executive members end up writing such useless language in their posts. Essentially, both these points are the same if you look at the employees. However, the writing has to be bloated in such a way that there is something else involved here, which there is not. This is just drama.

Also, these decisions are not hard, regardless of whatever the hell has been claimed. They are actually easy decisions and choosing not to do layoffs is actually the hard decision. There is no need to sugarcoat so much.
by mediaman | 2026-02-27 02:17:23+00:00
The product is a service, and they agreed to a contract. Now they don't like the contract.

Is your view that contracts with the government should be meaningless? That the government should be able to unilaterally, and without recourse, change any contract they previously agreed to for any reason, and the vendor should be forced at gunpoint to comply?

If you do believe this, then what do you believe the second order effects will be when contracts with the government have no meaning? How will vendors to the government respond? Will this ultimately help or hinder the American government's efficacy?
by isodev | 2026-02-27 02:17:38+00:00
> It's up to courts to decide what lawful use is

No, it’s up to the government to create policy and legislation that outlines what is lawful or not and install mechanisms to monitor and regulate usage.

The fact that an arm of the government wants to go YOLO mode is merely a symptom of the deeper problem that this government is currently not effectual.
by AnonHP | 2026-02-27 02:17:59+00:00
I skimmed through the article. I didn’t understand what role AI supposedly plays in this case for tracking aid deliveries. For tracking you need sensors and connectivity from the mode of delivery, location information, some analytics and databases. What does this AI do for tracking? I can understand a sales pitch that says AI decides where to provide aid, how much, when, etc. But tracking deliveries? It’s a head scratcher for me.
by johnny_canuck | 2026-02-27 02:18:24+00:00
> I think the scary thing going forward is that, over the past 25-30 years or so, tech provided a huge amount of the average wage growth, at least in the US.

This is the thing that keeps me up at night. Tech has allowed a very solid middle class lifestyle for a lot of people. I can't think of another good paying job where someone is self-taught, or went to a 12-month certificate program at their local community college and now has a very good career.

If those jobs disappear, or wage growth is non-existent, I don't know where the next generation will find those jobs.
by sickcodebruh | 2026-02-27 02:18:44+00:00
Started looking in November, four offers by end of January, all decent, last two competing offers were fantastic with great companies and I accepted one. Past few months and even now I’ve had more inbounds from recruiters than any time since Covid boom. Offer salaries aren’t as high as Covid boom days but there are a ton of startups that need people.
by dhx | 2026-02-27 02:19:00+00:00
The situation with retail chains is improving thanks to projects such as https://alltheplaces.xyz/ (disclaimer: I'm a contributor) and efforts of some OSM contributors to focus their contributions towards comparing OSM and ATP features to add missing shops, remove closed shops, update opening hours, etc. For one such example, see https://matkoniecz.codeberg.page/improving_openstreetmap_usi... for a tool (created by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=matkoniecz) which is used to match and compare OSM and ATP features.

This work has been slow to take off though as the OSM community has traditionally been stuck on time wasting debates about whether opening hours displayed on the wall of a shop are copyrighted (just the raw data, not a photo of their presentation), and debating the merits and pitfalls of armchair mapping vs. on-the-ground mapping. At least these historical roadblocks seem to now be mostly resolved.

For OsmAnd, you might be able to use the OBF import feature (see https://www.osmand.net/docs/user/personal/import-export/) to add the raw ATP dataset, or potentially other open data such as Overture Maps if that is more to your liking. Data is mostly sourced direct from brand websites, APIs, etc (as if you were using a storefinder map on their website).
by dghlsakjg | 2026-02-27 02:19:32+00:00
Typically, yes.

It conveys an informality and casualness inappropriate to situation of declaring that you are about to disrupt a few thousand people's life in a massive way. Even posting it to Twitter before everyone has been notified is... a choice.

Some people won't perceive that, but plenty will, and appropriately so.

I severely doubt if the hiring teams at this company would take someone seriously if their application was sent in in this style. I severely doubt that they communicate with their clients and investors this way.

This is a financial services company, it goes with the territory that they should project careful attention to detail.

Even if this was a company in a much less serious industry, this is just not the kind of announcement that a CEO should send out without fixing all the squigly lines that helpfully tell you when you are about to come across as uneducated or unserious.
by SirensOfTitan | 2026-02-27 02:20:03+00:00
LLMs are obviously a transformative technology, but I think as tech people we have to be deeply thoughtful about how we ensure humans can apply meaning through their work.

A lot of my peers not in tech are worried about their capacity to work. And work isn’t just about making money but finding meaning. LLMs if not used correctly can transform meaningful labor into some perverse form of consumption.
by mrcwinn | 2026-02-27 02:20:57+00:00
Keep in mind: the government is very invested logistically in Anthropic.

So no matter what xAI or OpenAI say - if and when they replace that spend - know that they are lying. They would have caved to the DoW’s demands for mass surveillance.

Because if there were some kind of concession, it would have been simplest just to work with Anthropic.

Delete ChatGPT and Grok.
Show HN: Zenboard – A native macOS reference board for creatives
by mdgr44 | 2026-02-27 02:21:25+00:00
PureRef is pretty much the standard in this space, but Zenboard offers a more intuitive interface with a broader set of features — built exclusively for Apple Silicon, so it feels right at home on Mac with smooth, responsive performance.

It is still in beta, and there is much room for improvement. It is provided for free, so if you were looking for something like this, please feel free to use it.
by rasz | 2026-02-27 02:21:44+00:00
There were multiple periods in history we experienced ram price shocks.

1. Ram was relatively cheap between 1985 and 1987 hovering around $100-150 for 1MB using 256Kbit chips. Then 1987 anti dumping laws lined up with fabs upgrading to lower yielding new 1Mbit chips and things got crazy. In 1988 256Kbit chips went from $3.5 to $7 in less than a month. Some companies coped better than others. Atari was the first to offer computer shipping with 1MB below $1000 thanks to Tramiels little secret of smuggling ram from Japan and skirting anti dumping restrictions :) Even SUN Microsystems was caught buying that smuggled ram from Tramiel.

2. 4MB $150 January 1992, lowest in went would be $100 in December 1992, and back to $130 in December 1994.

3. September 1999 Jiji earthquake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Jiji_earthquake#Economic_...

https://www.edn.com/panic-buying-sets-dram-prices-on-wild-ri...

https://www.eetimes.com/dram-prices-rise-sharply-following-t...

128MB DIMM prices: May 1997 $300. July 1998 $150. July 1999 $99. September-December 1999 $300. May 2000 $89.

Then overproduction combined with dot-com boom liquidations started flooding the market and Feb 2001 $59, by Aug 2001 _256MB_ module was $49. Feb 2002 256MB $34. Finally April 2003 hit the absolute bottom with $39 _512MB_ DIMMs

Sadly now is not like any of those times. Its like the Jiji earthquake lasted couple of years straight.
by mylifeandtimes | 2026-02-27 02:21:53+00:00
It is not clear to me that the power here lies with the US Govt.

Imagine Anthropic is declared a "supply chain risk" thus cannot be used by all sorts of big industry players. How will the CEOs of those companies feel about the govnt telling them they cannot use what their engineers say is the best model? How many of those CEOs have a direct line to powermakers?

How many of those CEOs are already making the phone calls? The "supply chain" threat is a threat to every US company that currenly uses Anthropic.

Oh, and that includes Palentir, who is deeply embedding in the govt.

Side example: remember the 6 congresspeople who made the video about military orders? They won.
by grnwood | 2026-02-27 02:22:07+00:00
Hi HN —

I built StillPoint as a local-first workspace for notes, tasks, and planning.

It’s runnable locally (desktop app + server), and the vault is always just folders + Markdown files.

Architecture in short:

[Desktop UI] --HTTP--> [StillPoint Server] --files--> [Vault: folders + Markdown]
|
+--> Web UI
+--> PWA (tasks/capture) (still in progres)
+--> SQLite FTS index

The idea is to treat the file system as the source of truth, but build everything around a server model so multiple clients (desktop, web, PWA) can operate on the same vault.

Core ideas:

Local-first by default

Markdown-first, folder-per-page structure

Notes + tasks + planning in one surface

Keyboard-first navigation (optional vi-style mode)

AI is optional and opt-in

Features:

Hierarchical Markdown wiki

Task parsing directly inside notes (- [ ], dates, priorities, tags)

Calendar/journal workflows

Graph navigation with “project mode” (filter from a root node)

Attachments stored alongside pages

PlantUML + Mermaid authoring

Focus mode and audience mode

Fast SQLite FTS search

Remote models:

Remote Vault (server-trusted)

Server stores plaintext Markdown

JWT-based auth (admin / read / read_write roles)

Homebase (distributed / zero-trust model)

Encrypted object replication

Server stores opaque blobs

Client-side key derivation

Offline-first push/pull sync with conflict handling

Non-goals: SaaS hosting, proprietary sync service, real-time collaborative editing.

If StillPoint disappeared tomorrow, you would still have a folder of Markdown files.

Quickstart instructions are in the README. No signup required.

I’d especially appreciate feedback on the sync model and trust boundaries.

NOTE: PWA still in progress.

Apps for linux, windows, and macos (also a linux headless api package for running on server/VPS/ etc)
by empath75 | 2026-02-27 02:23:06+00:00
I think because art is usually so difficult to create that “popularity” is sort of an unstated metric that most people use to judge its quality, but ai can make disposable art for one person on demand and if doesn’t matter at all if anyone else sees it, let alone likes it.

If someone makes a dumb video that they got an AI to make of a panda surfing on mac and cheese, giggles and deletes it, that’s maybe good art? I don’t know. The scale they are able to produce stuff is unbelievable and changes a lot of assumptions you make about the way that world works.

The future isn’t watching TV, it’s talking to your tv show while it is created in real time based on your feedback.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-27 02:23:18+00:00
From https://nypost.com/2026/02/26/media/paramount-skydance-victo...

> Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos failed Thursday to convince a skeptical Trump administration to approve his proposed takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery – and with that, his nearly done deal to buy WBD’s streaming service and studio went into a death spiral.

Is this about the price of the deal or the administration not approving mergers that they think don’t align with right wing ideology?
by jorl17 | 2026-02-27 02:23:18+00:00
It is still the case.

In fact, OpenAI's billing, "usage tracking" and billing alerts UX are terrible. They look like completely independent features.

For example, you can set alarms on how much you've spent in a month, but not on how much you have left in your credit bank. So you never really know how much you can still spend unless you go check their slow and confusing UI. You can set it to auto-refill your credits and to limit that to some amount per month (I think?), but again the alerts for this are absolutely atrocious or entirely missing.

Another insane thing I've seen with OpenAI is that, for some reason, your account can be thousands in the red, and some prompts, with some models, or some feature set, still go through. I haven't been able to figure out what heuristic or rule they are using to determine when they let your request through and overbill you, or when they just deny it altogether. Maybe they let all text requests through? Or perhaps it just lets websearch requests through and denies anything else? Maybe it profiles your your most common request and lets those go through? Maybe it had something to do with specific endpoints and APIs? Who knows.

We've moved entire projects off of them in part due to these issues. We got tired of constantly being in the red without a proper notification system (actually: with an insufficient, deceitful system), or of having seemingly random drops in requests only to find out suddenly that combination of parameters got blocked. Please, just completely block me and make me pay. Or give me a better alerts system. We have the money. What we haven't got is the patience to deal with such an obtuse system
by deathanatos | 2026-02-27 02:23:39+00:00
You're not wrong, but at my place, our main repository does not permit cloning into a directory with spaces in it.

Three factors conspire to make a bug:

1. Someone decides to use a space
2. We use Python
3. macOS

Say you clone into a directory with a space in it. We use Python, so thus our scripts are scripts in the Unix sense. (So, Python here is replacable with any scripting language that uses a shebang, so long as the rest of what comes after holds.) Some of our Python dependencies install executables; those necessarily start with a shebang:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

Note that space.

Since we use Python virtualenvs,

#!/home/bob/src/repo/.venv/bin/python3

But … now what if the dir has a space?

#!/home/bob/src/repo with a space/.venv/bin/python3

Those look like arguments, now, to a shebang. Shebangs have no escaping mechanism.

As I also discovered when I discovered this, the Python tooling checks for this! It will instead emit a polyglot!

#!/bin/bash

# <what follows in a bash/python polyglot>
# the bash will find the right Python interpreter, and then re-exec this
# script using that interpreter. The Python will skip the bash portion,
# b/c of cleverness in the polyglot.

Which is really quite clever, IMO. But, … it hits (2.). It execs bash, and worse, it is macOS's bash, and macOS's bash will corrupt^W remove for your safety! certain environment variables from the environment.

Took me forever to figure out what was going on. So yeah … spaces in paths. Can't recommend them. Stuff breaks, and it breaks in weird and hard to debug ways.