MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-27 21:18:18+00:00
The sharp results all came from pairing domain expertise with detailed AGENTS.md files. The impressive Rust output happened because someone who knows Rust was steering it. Vague prompts got mediocre output. A model on its own converges to the mean of its training data, which is why the "vibe code everything" thesis keeps not holding up: https://philippdubach.com/posts/the-impossible-backhand/
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-27 21:18:51+00:00
Netflix has the distribution already, it doesn't need legacy IP. Paramount is betting that combining DC, Harry Potter, GoT, Top Gun, and Star Trek under one roof creates enough gravity to survive. Maybe, but aggregators tend to win online and content suppliers compete each other down to cost.

I covered the competing bids when this was still an open question: https://philippdubach.com/posts/not-logan-roy-netflix-vs.-pa...
by dlev_pika | 2026-02-27 21:19:04+00:00
Brave and DuckDuck have been my defaults for a long time.

There are two reasons I can think I use Google and Chrome for:

- Search: If I want to be sold something - say I’m in the market for an electric heater, I’ll search for it on Google to be tracked and advertised.

- Chrome: because there are some flows and UX that simply don’t work well in other browsers
Ask HN: What's the best engineering interview process?
by ylhert | 2026-02-27 21:19:44+00:00
I'm working on building a new interview process for an engineering team I'm working on, and I wanted to get feedback from HN.

What's the best interview process out there, from both the perspective of the candidate and the company? What are interviews that give high signal/applicability of a good mutual fit?

Who does eng hiring particularly well?
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-02-27 21:20:02+00:00
The number of people who die each year just in the United States for causes attributable to medical errors is believed to be in the hundreds of thousands. A doctor’s opinion is not the golden yardstick.

It may be interesting to study if there is some kind of signal in general health outcomes in the US since the popularization of ChatGPT for this purpose. It may be a while before we have enough data to know. I could see it going either way.
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-27 21:20:21+00:00
You don't need Anthropic for any use case. They don't ship VLAs either - nothing from Anthropic's entire model lineup can run on a killer drone.

Which raises the question: why did the Pentagon try to pressure Anthropic at all?

On the principle of it? Political reasons? Or was the real concern "domestic warrantless surveillance"?
by furyofantares | 2026-02-27 21:20:25+00:00
Tip for those who want to skip shit like this, excessive headings glued together by bullet points is quicker to spot, especially since the headings almost always start with "The".

I now scroll any AI-adjacent article I see and just read headings and if I see this I know what I'm getting into:

The Dexterity Deadlock

The Problem

The Geometric Curse

The Sim-to-Real Gap

The Structural Gap f(⋅)

Seeing It in Motion

The N^2 Impedance Mismatch

The Chaos Term ϵchaos

The Information Wall

The Weakest Link

Why Manipulation Needs Better

What We Built

From 288 to 15

Does It Work?

Hardware Validation

Robot Hand Landscape

The Take-Home
by cyrusradfar | 2026-02-27 21:20:45+00:00
Totally understandable.

I didn't open up the source for this as I have a mono-repo with several experiments (and websites).

Happy to open the source up and link it from the existing website.

I can get that done by Tuesday assuming no one reports big issues I'd like to hot fix in the current setup before the migration.

Side note: It would be awesome if YC had a semi-automated security review you could submit your product to before releasing on show.
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-27 21:21:04+00:00
The problem is here:

> Let's say I give you $100 on the condition that you buy $100 worth of product from me. And let's say that product cost me $80 to produce. Isn't that basically the same as me giving you $80?

Why limit myself to $100 for a product that costs $80? I could just as well give you $1 000 000 to buy this same product from me. That way, I have a $1 000 000 share of your company, and I have $1 000 000 in revenue, and it only cost me $80.

This distorts the market for the product we're trading, and distorts the share price for both my company and yours.
by jajuuka | 2026-02-27 21:21:24+00:00
These types of articles always remind of conspiracy theorists. Being so excited to view something in a new way, to degradate something popular, to view themselves as unique individuals and in control again. That they are outside the mainstream and that is superior because they have the secret knowledge.

Also the "if something is free you are the product" is so obviously false if you think about it for a minute. A lot of people pay for Amazon Prime, yet they are still the product. Just because you had a company money does not mean they will won't maximize profit by monetizing your information. Not to mention Blender is free. Are they the product as well? It's just a saying with good mouth feel and nothing else. Definitely not something anyone should change their life around for.
by ben_w | 2026-02-27 21:22:37+00:00
The problem with AGI is not that it's undefinable, but that everyone has a different one. Kinda like consciousness in that regard.

Fortunately, OpenAI already wrote theirs down. Well, Microsoft[0] says they did, anyway. Some people claimed it was a secret only a few years ago, and since then LLMs have made it so much harder to tell the difference between leaks and hallucinated news saying this, but I can say there's at least a claim of a leak[1].

[0] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/02/27/microsoft-and-op...

[1] It talks about it, but links to a paywalled site, so I still don't know what it is: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/microsoft-and-openai-have-...
by CrzyLngPwd | 2026-02-27 21:23:06+00:00
Pushing aside the fact that OpenAI is just a tool of the US regime.

Will OpenAI release the same for other government officials from any other states?

I can't wait to see Starmer's chats with ChatGPT.

Anyway, all of this smells like 1934, "accusing them of what we are already doing"
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-27 21:23:14+00:00
I'm not convinced those are the "smartest people" as much as the people with the correct ambitions and connections in the current system.

IMO, the "smartest people" are really fucking bored and doing nothing meaningful right now. You really think "the smartest" people are people who find working on Google's ad machine enjoyable? That they are programmers or traders?

Since when has "smartest" meant seeking the highest wage? Einstein didn't look for the highest paying job he could get, he took a do-nothing job and worked on what he cared about instead.

Fermi too took jobs that allowed him to pursue his passion, rather than accumulate wealth.

Newton blew a shitload of money on a pump and dump scam and spent all his time on proto-chemistry and calculus.

Bell basically ignored his company after patenting the telephone, giving almost all of his shares of the company to his new wife, who in turn entrusted them to her father, the guy who helped Bell make the company and who was defacto in control of the company. Bell spent a good amount of time studying the new field of Heredity.

The brilliant people involved in the invention of computing as a field during WW2 were doing it because it fascinated them. The military would have been happier with simpler computing machines. Von Neumann distributed a document describing EDVAC that helped nullify patent claims of the inventors.

The internet itself runs nearly entirely on free software and volunteer work!

It's insane that people are so utterly propagandized in the US "Hyper capitalism is best" mindset that even those who think the system doesn't work still implicitly believe that the system works to put the smartest people in the top earning jobs! Why do you believe smart people are primarily motivated by money?

Maybe, just maybe, smart people don't actually align their preferences to a market system at all! Maybe their priorities aren't actually money, or fame, or power.
by kgwxd | 2026-02-27 21:23:22+00:00
I was just at some .gov site from another HN post. It asked are you Over 18, I clicked No out of curiosity. Showed Access Denied, but the buttons stayed. I clicked Yes, and got in. I don't attribute to stupidity that which is clear malice. They'd don't actually give a flying fuck about what "kids" can get to, they only care about controlling everyone, of every age, as much as they possibly can.
by scott_w | 2026-02-27 21:23:36+00:00
> Plumbers typically provide services to individuals, not businesses

> But if that same plumber were delivering services to a corporation meeting Chapter 10 criteria, the client would have to perform a status determination

So? You’ve spent 2 days arguing it’s about ownership structure and something about classism and now suddenly you agree with me that it’s actually about the specific nature of the contract? Make up your mind instead of just deciding what undermines my argument. You don’t even seem to understand your own.

> You dismissed the tax yield comparison

Because it’s irrelevant to what the law is trying to achieve which is to ensure an employer/employee cannot reduce the tax they pay. Whether it’s the optimal tax strategy is a different question. Given you have no clue about your own argument, I’m not going to take your word that it’s actually better to allow Inside IR35 to pay less tax.

> The working structure is identical.

There are literally three different types of contract, which creates different working structures.

> You have repeatedly described how you think IR35 works, inaccurately in several places

And yet at no point have you actually pointed out where. Instead you run victory laps.
by imiric | 2026-02-27 21:23:55+00:00
> And if we switch to a payment model, then the internet becomes another system where the poor are naturally disadvantaged and the rich get unlimited benefit

As opposed to the current system where everyone is disadvantaged and the rich get richer?

Every business transaction in history has had a producer and a consumer, where both parties are in direct contact. Advertisers, on the other hand, insert themselves in the middle, promising to help both sides, while actually being a leech without doing any of the work. It is a despicable industry based on psychological manipulation, responsible for countless deaths, the corruption of every form of media ever invented, and of democratic processes throughout the world.

Sane business models are possible on the internet. Some of them exist already. But it's too late now for any of them to gain traction when advertisers are the same corporations that control it, and they have convinced the world that their products are "free".
by tzs | 2026-02-27 21:25:24+00:00
This law doesn't do anything that prevents non-anonymous access. Here's how you would access things anonymously if you bought a new computer that implemented this.

1. When you set up your account and it asks for your birthdate, make up any date you want that is at least far enough in the past to indicate an age older that what any site you might use that checks age requires.

2. Access things the way you've always done. All that has changed is that things that care about age checks find out you claim to be old enough.

The only people it actually materially affects on your new computer are people who cannot set up their own accounts, such as children if you have set up permissions so they have to get you to make their accounts.

Then if you want you can enter a birthdate that gives an age that says non-adult, so sites that check age will block them.

From a privacy and anonymity perspective this is essentially equivalent to sites that ask "Are you 18+?" and let you in if you click "yes" and block you if you click "no". It is just doing the asking locally and caching the result.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-02-27 21:25:38+00:00
>Cool. So if those mythical people actually exist and do so, we can address it if it ever happens.

My original comment that you and others replied to gives the name of the book, the author, the name of the site you can view the book for free, and tells you which page to turn to. It's not mythical, I all but deep-linked to it.

There is no baby in the swampwater you peddle. You probably don't have a baby and never had a baby... I have children. This is actually important to me.
by baggachipz | 2026-02-27 21:26:09+00:00
NASA has been directed by Congress to use the remaining Space Shuttle RS25 engines on SLS. There aren't that many RS25's left, so Artemis requires that they make the most of each launch. Getting more RS25's produced is one of those "nobody's made them in a long time and it would be terribly expensive and time-consuming to do so" type of situations.

correction: there are 16 RS25's left, but production has begun on more for the Artemis V mission. However, production is slow so they can't just yeet SLS's into space and test rapidly.
by fuzzy2 | 2026-02-27 21:26:13+00:00
Well, yes, DuckDuckGo is not Google. You have to accept that. Not just surface-level, but for real.

What made this easy for me is that Google is also no longer Google. Ever since it started basically ignoring my actual search query, I stopped using it. I used to be very good at using Google, too.

DuckDuckGo is quite bad at times, yes. But then, so is Google. If I need to find something I cannot put into search terms, LLMs are helpful. From my trial experience I would say Kagi is also a capable search machine, for some niches.
by asyx | 2026-02-27 21:26:24+00:00
I think doing this on an OS level might be the most privacy focused way to do this but the issue is that this is not going to be the way this is implemented.

Like, I’m not American and in Germany we have ID cards that actually have your age encoded on an NFC chip in the card and an ID number that encodes the age. Like, age is part of the ID number and checksum.

You could totally do all of this age verification offline on device and just expose an API that offers the age of the user to applications. You’d never need to talk to the internet for this, the API just says if you are a minor or adult, the browser can pass that to websites who don’t need to collect personal data and everything is fine.

But that’s not going to happen. It’s gonna be some AI facial recognition kinda garbage that is gonna send your face in every angle to Apple or Microsoft or another third party.

As is common these days they are going to try really hard to absolve you as the user of any responsibility for the sake of protecting kids so they can’t let this be a simple offline thing where your personal information never ever have to leave the device because what if kids find a way around it? Well the obvious answer is don’t let your kids just use a computer without supervision but if people would do that we’d not be in need of this garbage anyway.
by karmelapple | 2026-02-27 21:26:34+00:00
I used to use DuckDuckGo, until I realized I was using "!g" far too often.

Then I tried Kagi, and I find that works the majority of the time, including their AI. Someone else in the comments here said Kagi's AI models are bad, but I don't think they are for answering the fairly basic questions that I typically search. I'm not going to have Kagi's AI model refactor code or something though.
by MerrimanInd | 2026-02-27 21:26:36+00:00
It could absolutely be false nostalgia since I was a Mac fan from about 2005 to 2009 with an MBP that had the breathing feature but this really felt like a high point for computer hardware. It felt slick and performant but still serviceable.

Ironically, after a series of uninspiring Windows machines the next laptop that made me feel any level of enthusiasm like that Mac is my current Framework 13 running COSMIC on NixOS. Quite an about face!
by mindslight | 2026-02-27 21:26:39+00:00
You said "I'm not american" as the lead in to your comment. What was the point of saying this other than to disclaim the responsibility I invoked? (which technically wasn't even directed at you directly)

For the overall argument, you called out a comment for calling out a comment whose only contribution was to promote the term "DOW". If it had been a substantive comment that someone jumped on for merely using the term, you'd have had a reasonable point. But it wasn't.
Show HN: WhenItHappens–family resource after traumatic death
by Fratua | 2026-02-27 21:27:07+00:00
I spent 15 years doing biohazard remediation — cleaning up after suicides, homicides, and unattended deaths. Watching families navigate the aftermath with zero guidance, while contractors and estate attorneys circled, pushed me to build this.

WhenItHappens gives families practical, free guidance: what to do in the first 24 hours, insurance coverage basics, avoiding predatory cleanup bids, probate/property steps, and grief support resources.

Built with static HTML/CSS on Netlify, Twilio for 24/7 intake, and Stripe for directory subscriptions.

I’d love feedback on both usefulness and clarity from the HN community.
by indubioprorubik | 2026-02-27 21:27:10+00:00
The clean slate of banks - where we discarded culture to embrace the "culture" and look where this "winging" it got us. Turns out the operating system of a society is important- and the atheist distilled synthetic one is not really working - same goes for alot of others.

The utopist urge for cultural tabula rasa is a retardation, a attempt of the brain to shirk embracing and discovering complexity. One has to look at the "backwards" parts to start to understand what works in a society and with the actual human beeings lifing in a actual society, not the wingless Star Trek Angels in PJs.

Embrace complexity, embrace analysis, build something without defining the endstate first. Make small things that work, combine them into bigger things that work. Way less calling for cullings of the "sabotaging traitors" as they are usual with utopists on the march.
by lstodd | 2026-02-27 21:27:55+00:00
I read it last some years ago too but I think it was in relation to many early moonshot failures - first half of Luna program and also early attempts at Mars and Venus.

Have to reread it too.

Still, while R-7 was initially funded as ballistic missile system, that was abandoned quite early, since it was very unwieldy, basically unusable.

Ballistic program in OKB-1 continued separately resulting in superchilled-LOX R-9.

N1 failure is attributed mostly to Korolev - Glushko rivalry that resulted in N1 lacking engines in time. It is widely belived that Kuznetsov bureau delivered just a bit too late - Korolev died, Moon race was lost and N1 project was literally buried.

EDIT: Mishin (OKB-1 head after Korolev) had no administrative push, and Glushko ended up heading it and building Energia-Buran. It's all a sad story of unchecked emotions leading to monumental waste.
by SllX | 2026-02-27 21:28:17+00:00
The incentives are all wrong. You can serve up to 6 two-year terms in the Assembly or up to 3 four-year terms in the Senate, but regardless of which combination you do, nobody in the California legislature can serve more than 12 years combined across both Houses of the legislature.

So we don’t have professional legislatures with long-term electability incentives or leadership goals, we have a resumé-building exercise that we call the legislature. They’re all interchangeable and within 12 years, 100% of it will be changed out.
by MaulingMonkey | 2026-02-27 21:28:32+00:00
> They didn't need more unmanned testing to find the issue; they needed to stop ignoring it.

Should such testing have been needed? No.

Was such testing needed, given NASA's political pressures and management? Maybe. Unmanned testing in similar conditions before putting humans on it might've resulted in a nice explosion without loss of life that would've been much harder to ignore than "the hypothesizing of those worrywart engineers," and might've provided the necessary ammunition to resist said political pressures.
by notatoad | 2026-02-27 21:28:55+00:00
>Grift is cyclical, and any period of high grift will soon give way to a period of high skepticism

so how do you explain the immediate jump from crypto grift straight into AI grift? i'm not saying all crypto or all AI is pure grift, but both of those industries have had higher than average levels of grift, without any skepticism in between them. The NFT crash did not seem to be followed by any period of skepticism at all.
by rvnx | 2026-02-27 21:29:08+00:00
They had a first-mover advantage for sure.

It used to be revolutionary, but now there is a huge difference: plenty of competition, and a growing number of high-quality models that can run offline (for free!) or cheaper (Gemini-Flash for example).

They are in some way the Nokia of AI, "we have the distribution, product will sell", but this is not enough if innovation is weak.

They are even lagging behind (GPT-5 is a weaker coder than Claude, Sora is a toy compared to Seedance 2.0, etc).

One Apple releases the AIPhone, running offline models, with 32 GB of unified memory, with optional cloud requests, then it's going to be super though for OpenAI.
by dctoedt | 2026-02-27 21:29:23+00:00
> You can’t take people’s use of symbols out of the context in which they use them.

So: What a symbol means to the writer (or speaker) is supposedly more important than what the symbol means to readers — who (according to the writer) must accommodate themselves to the writer's mindset instead of vice versa. This sender-oriented approach is in contrast to the writer's seeking to serve his readers — and the writer's intended message — by using the readers' language, if you will.

(I'm curious whether you've found the sender-oriented approach to work when writing a legal brief for a court or agency — in my own experience, it was decidedly suboptimal.)
by loss_flow | 2026-02-27 21:29:36+00:00
That's what it reads like. Hard to be certain while everything is in flux.

Ilya seems to think this is the case as well: https://x.com/ilyasut/status/2027486969174102261 though Zvi's point that any stands from OpenAI are ~2 orders of magnitude smaller seems right: https://x.com/TheZvi/status/2027493723269992661
by sbarre | 2026-02-27 21:30:15+00:00
Anyone else read Rob Grant's book Colony[0]?

It's a pretty funny sci-fi book, similar dry wit.. I picked it up at a yard sale only because it said "from the creator of Red Dwarf" even though I mostly only knew of the show through others..

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_(Grant_novel)
by nine_k | 2026-02-27 21:30:46+00:00
Sorry, what? Starship 11 proceeded with a totally nominal ascent, orbit, descent, and powered landing that would end up with it standing on the ground, were it not deliberately landed into water.

What SLS currently has achieved had been achieved by Falcons and Dragons years ago, only way more cheaply and successfully.

No matter what we may think about Mr Musk, SLS is dead end.