MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jasonjmcghee | 2026-02-28 06:12:59+00:00
Afaik it's considered "stable".

There's 2800+ people in the discord.

And the community made a backup of the site https://archive.canvascommons.io/

Update: sounds like the author had some life changes and had to stop his YouTube channel which was the primary motivator for the library- but there are forks popping up (https://github.com/canvas-commons/canvas-commons).

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This notion that an open source library is "dead" and shouldn't be used because it's not being actively updated is a bit odd. You can fork and fix issues you have. It's got years of many people's work put into it. It's a great library and widely used on YouTube and elsewhere.
by harry8 | 2026-02-28 06:13:40+00:00
google search took over becuse all search engines sucked and theirs didn't in a few important ways. AND by default, ads over to the side, clean interface.

Now all search engines suck and google's sucks just as bad or worse than the rest.

If someone were to follow the original google playbook and make a search engine that helped people find things (eg by respecting the query syntax rather than making 'helpful' suggestions and dropping words the user included in their query) and kept the ads separate and out of the way of results. They might well make a monster. But this is old tech so nobody cares and everyone thinks google is unassailble even while nobody likes them anymore. Is there /any/ money in search? I thought so but I must be wrong for it to get this bad.
by sandeepkd | 2026-02-28 06:13:49+00:00
Probably everything else is debatable, I do agree with one thing though, the cat is indeed out of the bag. It would have been probably a really good use case if the scope was limited to only hardware based security keys for enterprise users only.
Rolling it out for OS platforms, software based authenticators just muddies the water. You cannot even provide any guarantees around it being phishing resistant anymore.
by 2snakes | 2026-02-28 06:15:18+00:00
I think it is like a loyalty test to an authority above the law (executive immunity) in order to do business. “If we tell you to do so, you may do something you thought was right or wrong.” It is like an induction into a faction and the way the decisions could be made. Doesn’t necessarily mean anything about “in practice in the future”, just that the cybernetic override is there tacitly. If the authority thinks they can get away with something, they will provide protection for consequences too. Some people more equal than others when it comes to justice for all, etc. There are probably alternative styles for group decision making…
by rikk3rt | 2026-02-28 06:15:20+00:00
Claude code can certainly recover files from the files yes. In my case I had to recover 80 files stored in over 20+ maybe more sessions in the last month. To recover all those files in one context window without a deterministic script that keeps track of what has extracted and what not, seemed too challenging for me. Claude-file-recovery is able to index all available files and also able to extract files at a certain point in time, without having to rely on the LLM correctly parsing 20+ sessions which won’t fit in one context window.
by safety1st | 2026-02-28 06:15:33+00:00
My main takeaway from all of this is that Hegseth seems deeply unfit for his job. First there was the Signal leak and now this.

Look, Anthropic is not going to be designated a supply chain risk. 80% of the Fortune 500 have contracts with them. Probably a similar percentage of defense contractors. Amazon is a defense contractor for example. They'd have to remove Claude from their AWS offerings. Everyone running Claude on AWS, boom gone. The level of disruption to the US economy would be off the charts, and for what? Why? Because Hegseth had a bad day? Because he's a sore loser?

If he's decided he doesn't like the DoW's contract then he can cancel it, fine. To try and exact revenge on the best American frontier model along with 80% of the Fortune 500 in the process, to go out of his way to harm hundreds or perhaps thousands of American firms, defies all reason. This is behavior you would expect any adult would understand as petty and foolish, let alone one who's made it to the highest ranks of government.

So I think it's just not going to happen, Trump's statement on the matter notably didn't mention a supply chain risk designation. This suggests to me that Hegseth went off half cocked. The guy is a liability for Trump at this point, I'm guessing he won't last much longer.
by skissane | 2026-02-28 06:16:15+00:00
The issue is, even if the Trump admin is misrepresenting what the law actually says, federal contractors may decide it is safer to comply with the administration’s reading. The risk is the administration may use their reading to reject a bid. And even if they could potentially challenge that in court and win, they may decide the cheaper and less risky option is to choose OpenAI (or whoever) instead
by wmf | 2026-02-28 06:16:46+00:00
LLMs should use tool calling (which is 100% reliable) instead of doing math internally. But in general it would be nice to be able to teach a process and have the AI execute it deterministically. In some sense, reliability between 99% and 100% is the worst because you still can't trust the output but the verification feels like wasted effort. Maybe code gen and execution will get us there.
by itishappy | 2026-02-28 06:17:17+00:00
Bug reports:

The entire Manim CE Logo example, the `x - x_1` text from the Brace Annotation example, all text from the Sin Cos Plot example, and the entire Heat Diagram example all flicker roughly once per second.

The text looks rather fuzzy, especially the large M from the Manim CE Logo example.

The Three D Light Source example also doesn't appear to have any functioning directional lighting.
by layer8 | 2026-02-28 06:18:45+00:00
It was pretty clear from Anthropic’s and Hegseth’s statements that they didn’t disagree on the two exclusions, but on who would be the arbiter on those. And Sam’s wording all but confirms that OpenAI’s agreement defers to DoD policies and laws (which a defense contract cannot prescribe), and effectively only pays lip service to the two exclusions.
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-28 06:19:18+00:00
Good question.

It might work, I considered running a test like this. But it does demand certain things.

The subnetwork has to be either crafted as "gradient resistant" or remain frozen. Not all discovered or handcrafted circuits would survive gradient pressure as is. Especially the kind of gradients that fly in early pre-training.

It has to be able to interface with native representations that would form in a real LLM during pre-training, which is not trivial. This should happen early enough in pre-training. Gradients must start routing through our subnetwork. We can trust "rich get richer" dynamics to take over from there, but for that, we need the full network to discover the subnetwork and start using it.

And finally, it has to start being used for what we want it to be used for. It's possible that an "addition primitive" structure would be subsumed for something else, if you put it into the training run early enough, when LLM's native circuitry is nonexistent.

Overall, for an early test, I'd spray 200 frozen copies of the same subnetwork into an LLM across different layers and watch the dynamics as it goes through pre-training. Roll extra synthetic addition problems into the pre-training data to help discovery along. Less of a principled solution and more of an engineering solution.
by jjmarr | 2026-02-28 06:20:32+00:00
I don't get free daycare in Canada either.

I'm not American, but I pay a few hundred dollars a year for the premium health insurance plan at my company. I also pay tens of thousands of dollars more in taxes to grant me the ability to wait for 72 hours in an ER hallway whenever I can't wait weeks for an appointment because urgent care isn't a thing.

My take home would triple if I lived in the USA as a new graduate because of things like favourable treatment of stock grants, less income tax, and the fact my salary would double.

I'm sure the $80,000 extra dollars is enough to pay for the healthcare premiums and daycare. My effective hourly rate would be high enough that going from a 72 hour wait to a few hours would be worth the thousands of dollars in ER bills. If I worked for the government or another lower paying profession it would not be good, but I am a well-compensated software engineer.

There's a reason why 90% of Waterloo immediately moves to the United States after graduation.
by Alamedin_ishere | 2026-02-28 06:22:12+00:00
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I made this because I wanted a tool that actually makes you better at life decisions, not just gambling. Would love thoughts on the EV feedback, AI opponents, or new features (web version? mobile? more scenarios?).

Thanks!
by EvansWilson | 2026-02-28 06:22:20+00:00
In a market defined by "buy and hold" institutional inertia, Peter Thiel has just executed the ultimate contrarian move: he walked away.

According to the latest SEC filings, the billionaire co-founder of Palantir and PayPal has officially taken his hedge fund, Thiel Macro, to zero. This isn’t just a rebalance or a tactical trim—it’s a complete hard reset of his public equity exposure.

Peter Thiel's Hedge Fund Sold All Public Stock Holdings in Q4 2025

The data is stark. Peter Thiel's Hedge Fund Sold All Public Stock Holdings in Q4 2025, exiting long-standing and newly minted positions alike. Just months ago, Thiel was rotating capital into AI stalwarts, but by the end of December, the fund’s 13F securities value dropped to $0.

The liquidation was decisive, wiping out the fund's remaining core stakes:

Tesla (TSLA): A full exit after a year of aggressive volatility.

Microsoft (MSFT): Sold entirely, despite its dominant position in the generative AI stack.

Apple (AAPL): Liquidated just a quarter after the position was initiated.

This "all-to-cash" maneuver suggests that one of Silicon Valley’s most influential macro thinkers sees a risk profile in the current market that doesn't justify the carry.

The "Zero to One" Logic: Cash vs. Public AI

Thiel has famously argued that "competition is for losers." In the public markets, especially within the AI sector, competition has reached a fever pitch.

Moving to the Private Sidelines?
Speculation in the Valley is that this move isn't a retreat from tech, but a retreat from public tech. By liquidating his 13F holdings, Thiel may be preparing to deploy capital into the private sector—where "Zero to One" monopolies are still being built at early-stage valuations, far from the prying eyes of daily retail volatility and the "one-trick pony" cloud deals of public giants.

Macro Turbulence and Geopolitics
Thiel Macro has always been a vehicle for his broader worldview. With geopolitical tensions rising and Federal Reserve policy entering a "higher-for-longer" fog, Thiel’s move to 100% cash reflects a defensive posture rarely seen among top-tier funds. He is effectively betting that the best trade right now is not being in the trade at all.

What the 13F Doesn't Tell Us

It’s important to remember that 13F filings are a rear-view mirror, and they only cover public equities. We don’t see his private VC bets, his crypto holdings, or his macro hedges (like gold or currencies).

However, the message to the public markets is clear: the risk-reward symmetry has broken. When a manager with Thiel’s track record for spotting "the next big thing" decides that holding the biggest companies in the world is no longer a winning move, it’s time for the rest of us to look at the data again.
by scrubs | 2026-02-28 06:22:49+00:00
It's gotta be thus.

For if you don't the next step is cynicism maximally operationlized: what you're not doing game/political BS to get ahead? What are you? A chump? An idiot?

That kind of stuff spreads like wild fire making corporate America ... something else to put it politely.

Doing the right thing has cost me big time here and there. I don't care. Simultaneously orgs are not all bad; thats another distortion we can do without.
by K0balt | 2026-02-28 06:23:08+00:00
Ive been writing about this on my personal blog. IDK if its worth reading, but at least its not too long?

https://open.substack.com/pub/ctsmyth/p/on-the-character-of-...

https://open.substack.com/pub/ctsmyth/p/the-weight-of-what-w...
by moomoo11 | 2026-02-28 06:23:10+00:00
I’m bootstrapping my company and my investments income/compounding basically paid me to do my own thing. Soul crushing work at tech company playing office bullshit (performative shit to get promotions and salary bumps) or just focus on doing something interesting I actually care about? I cared about the mission at my previous employers but day to day sucked the later stage the company went.

I’ll take funding if/when I need capital boost because it’s way more satisfying building from scratch. And my customers think it’s kinda cool and ofc AI helps me a lot for sure.

Imagine if I become the first person to do a solo billion dollar company lol. Me of all people, I would think that would be pretty hilarious.

That’s how I thought about it at least.
by ParentiSoundSys | 2026-02-28 06:24:03+00:00
Mark Zuckerberg was in a big hurry to call Trump a "badass" in the wake of the Butler hoax, and is clearly trying to appeal to the right with his cultivated jiu jitsu Chad image. It doesn't mean a damn thing what these CEOs are willing to say behind closed doors when their public decisions are to remain in lockstep with the agenda and fire anyone who asks questions about whether it's the right one.
by nobodywillobsrv | 2026-02-28 06:25:24+00:00
It really feels like I am no longer impressed with Anthropic safety.

Do they have even a basic understanding of the different regimes of safety and what allegiance means to ones own state?

It would be fine to say they are opting out of all forms of protection against adversaries.

But it feels like just more insane naive tech bro stuff.

As someone outside the tech bro bubble in fintech in London, can somebody explain this in a way that doesn't indicate these are sort of kids in a playground who think there is no such thing as the wolf?

Again, opting out and specializing in tech that you are going to provide to your enemies AND friends alike is fine. That is a good specialization. But this is not what I hear. I hear protest songs not deep thinking of thousand year mind set.
by rikk3rt | 2026-02-28 06:26:27+00:00
From what I understand, to rewind, Claude will have to have written / edited the files that you want to recover specifically in the session that you want to run /rewind in. In my case files were edited multiple times in over 20 sessions, maybe more. Claude-file-recover combines the files from all sessions. But yes, I think they are stored for /rewind and /resume indeed.
by jstummbillig | 2026-02-28 06:26:55+00:00
> Surely if OpenAI had insisted upon the same things that Anthropic had, the government would not have signed this agreement.

Under normal circumstances, that would seem really plausible. But given how far Trump continues to go just out of spite and to project power, it actually is the opposite.

I am fully prepared to believe that they got absolutely nothing else out of it (to date).
by tedsanders | 2026-02-28 06:27:15+00:00
I'm an OpenAI employee and I'll go out on a limb with a public comment. I agree AI shouldn't be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. I also think Anthropic has been treated terribly and has acted admirably. My understanding is that the OpenAI deal disallows domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, and that OpenAI is asking for the same terms for other AI companies (so that we can continue competing on the basis of differing services and not differing scruples). Given this understanding, I don't see why I should quit. If it turns out that the deal is being misdescribed or that it won't be enforced, I can see why I should quit, but so far I haven't seen evidence that's the case.
by kelnos | 2026-02-28 06:28:50+00:00
It's a marketing/sales tactic. I already have a Claude Pro subscription. I use it quite a bit, and do hit the limits often enough (sometimes needing to wait 2-3 hours before it resets), but I'm not convinced I want to spend more on the Max subscription, even though I do get a ton of value out of it.

Giving me Max 20x for 6 months would just get me hooked more on it to the point that I'd likely upgrade my subscription after the free period is over. Or I'd just go back to Pro and feel shittier about it.

If they were giving it away for free indefinitely, then that would actually be generous and altruistic. I don't think it's a spectrum; I think nothing free is one thing, some defined period of free is a sales tactic, and free indefinitely/forever is actual generosity.

But hey, I applied anyway; we'll see.
by nandomrumber | 2026-02-28 06:30:37+00:00
From the referenced tweet;

who decides these weighty questions? Approach (1), accepted by OAI, references laws and thus appropriately vests those questions in our democratic system. Approach (2) unacceptably vests those questions in a single unaccountable CEO who would usurp sovereign control of our most sensitive systems.

Amodei is the type of person who thinks he can tell the US government what they can and can’t do.

And the US government should have precisely none of that, regardless of whether they’re red or blue.
Ask HN: AI driven "legacy" Debug and Monitoring Tools
by chris_money202 | 2026-02-28 06:31:01+00:00
When do we start incorporating AI into more “legacy” debugging and system monitoring tools. I’m thinking an AI version of ProcDump maybe called like ContextDump. It’s pulls all relevant system information, maybe even leveraging a bundle of “legacy” tools to create a context report. The context report can be attached to a bug report and agent flow on other side can pick it up and immediately become productive. Idea stems from bug reports that never have enough information on them to get anything started. Might not be needed for enterprise products or products with proper telemetry but the internal tools companies use day in and day out.
by saghm | 2026-02-28 06:31:24+00:00
Can you clarify what your disagreement is? The statement you're responding to seems to be that you can't necessarily run arbitrary code in arbitrary languages because it's only possible if the runtime is supported, and you're giving examples of two specific languages that had explicit extra work done to support them, which sounds pretty much exactly like what they're stating.

From what I can tell, the point they're making is that if you want a sandbox that you can put whatever you want into and have it work without it having explicit support provided for that language in the form of recompiling the runtime, it's not going to work. If someone is expecting to be able to throw stuff they already have into a sandbox as-is and have it work, WASM is not what they're looking for (at least not today).
by pseudalopex | 2026-02-28 06:31:27+00:00
> It was pretty clear from Anthropic’s and Hegseth’s statements that they didn’t disagree on the two exclusions, but on who would be the arbiter on those.

No. Altman said human responsibility. Anthropic said human in the loop.

> And Sam’s wording all but confirms that OpenAI’s agreement defers to DoD policies and laws (which a defense contract cannot prescribe), and effectively only pays lip service to the two exclusions.

All but confirmed was not confirmed.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-28 06:33:47+00:00
I'd really like you to understand that saying this kind of thing means you're taking the government's side, even if you do it with cool ironic undertones. I'm religious enough that I'm particularly sensitive to this dynamic - there's a lot of pastors out there who talk about how we live in a fallen world as an excuse for why we don't need to bother opposing some particular injustice.
by sarchertech | 2026-02-28 06:33:56+00:00
Do you think that Spanish street signs and Catholic Churches in El Paso prove that the United States isn’t detaining thousands of Hispanic immigrants?

Do you think that the United States lets dignitaries from other countries tour ICE detention camps?

You think Adrian Zenz convinced dozens of respected journalists and news organizations to lie about interviewing hundreds of victims?

You think he manufactured the Xinjian police file leaks, or the China cable leaks?

You think he altered UN fertility data to show that the fertility rate in Xinjian declined by 50% in 2 years?

You think he tricked the UN in to releasing their report?

I’d also like to see a source for the most mosques claim that isn’t Chinese state media. For someone so suspicious of western media you seem to have readily swallowed actual direct Chinese government propaganda hook line and sinker.
by cagz | 2026-02-28 06:34:07+00:00
Assuming they've got reasonable programming skills. They can simply find an open-source project they are passionate about. Spend time understanding the overall structure. Then pick up an issue raised by the community and prepare a fix as a pull request.

The first PR is unlikely to be merged the next day; however, it sparks lots of productive discussions with the rest of the community, allowing your kid to build a mental model of the project's best practices and sensitivities.

The more he contributes, the more integral he becomes to the community. After gaining enough experience through small issues, they can even consider working on a new feature.

As a byproduct, a great addition to the CV if they are also looking to go commercial.
by nobodywillobsrv | 2026-02-28 06:34:10+00:00
Of enemies. Of enemies.

There are probably three modes of safety.

Deploy tech to unknown group. Could be enemy could be friend. You disable it's abilities perhaps.

If you deploy tech to friends you might enable more defense.

Anthropic models seems to have unstable safety predicates that have a hard time advising on situations regarding preservation of a people.

The huge problem is that humans AND ai both seem to fail at understanding how humans are made and which human are which.

You are uniquely responsible for protecting your people. You can not simply funge their people for your people and pretend that is a fine trade off. And even beyond that these safety predicates appear to not have any notion baked into them of diversity or TFR or lineage. The models view the descendant of a nearly extent lineage the same way they view the descendant of a high TFR lineage.

You can have ANY kind of opinion on this but this naive no opinion vague word based safety predicates is very scary and dangerous.

I am deeply worried about Anthropic as I have yet to hear anything that makes me think they have real adults in the room. I would love to be wrong and so I write here. Please do let me know if there are good things they have written on this.
by yed | 2026-02-28 06:34:47+00:00
A few days ago Hegseth threatened two mutually exclusive things: invoking the Defense Production Act or declaring Anthropic a supply chain risk. Today he went with the latter [https://x.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070]. That is the main topic now. What they did is basically the exact opposite of invoking the Defense Production Act.