MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tasuki | 2026-02-28 10:57:20+00:00
> in 10 years we will look back into the present with disbelief.

You mean in 10 years, when the US is a stable and high-functioning democracy with independent media, a universally liked, charming, and polite president, supported by both the right and the left, who finally manage to overcome their minor differences? Is... is this the direction this is all heading?
by bostik | 2026-02-28 10:57:26+00:00
I can think of two reasons. One, to have the plausible deniability with the necessary future statement "Claude is not used by the DoD/DoW to conduct domestic mass surveillance or autonomous killing"; by having the model be properly a different from the one used by the public, they can wrangle over the language with technicalities and still avoid outright lying. (With their IPO in sight, let's keep in mind that everything is securities fraud.)

And two, I suspect that some of the guardrails have been "baked in" to Anthropic's model. Much in the same way as the Chinese open-weight models have a strong bias against expressing positive sentiments about Tiananmen Square, Tank Man or Winnie the Pooh, the "Standard Claude" would likely have the fundamental product biases trained into it.

Taken together it would therefore be both politically and financially sensible for Anthropic to create a separate, unrestricted[tm] almost-Claude for the morally unconstrained military / intelligence purposes.
by heavyset_go | 2026-02-28 10:57:51+00:00
As with all age verification bills, the fact that developers are opened up to liability if children access content they're not "supposed to" means that facial scans and ID checks will be implemented as they currently are everywhere.

From the bill:

> (3) (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), a developer shall treat a signal received pursuant to this title as the primary indicator of a user’s age range for purposes of determining the user’s age.

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

It's not enough to just accept the age signal, you can still be liable if you have reason to believe someone is underage based on other information.

The cheapest and easiest way to minimize that liability is with face scans and ID checks. That way you, as a developer, know that your users won't bankrupt you.
by simoncion | 2026-02-28 10:58:01+00:00
> ...as that to me implies somehow getting access to the raw private key or root secret bytes.

When passkeys were first introduced, they were 100% stuck to the device that they were created. There was absolutely no real way to copy them off. This is when proponents were -correctly- making the claim that they were immune to phishing.

When lots of users (who -notably- were not supported by whole-ass IT departments who set up and run systems that handle provisioning and enrolling new devices) started using passkeys, the correctness of the thing that many non-boosters were screaming ("You have to have a way to back these up and move them between devices!") became abundantly clear. Passkeys became something that could be copied off of devices, and proponents -correctly- switched to the claim "Passkeys are phishing resistant".

Once things switched around so that passkeys were no longer stuck on a single device, third-party managers got the ability to manage and copy passkeys. [0]

Hopefully it's now clear that the shift from "they never leave the device" to "they do leave the device" (and the consequences of this change) is what I'm talking about.

[0] At least, they will for the next five, ten years until the big players decide that it's okay to use attestation to lock them out to "enhance security".
Tell HN: 3 months ago we feared AI was useless. Now we fear it will take our job
by giuliomagnifico | 2026-02-28 10:58:40+00:00
I was listening to the latest episode of the WSJ podcast
(https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-ai-economic-doomsday-report-that-shook-wall-street/d9b12d37-a743-4a8c-afb6-2488aa9e812f) and what puzzles me is how 2–3 months ago the market feared that the “AI bubble” from tech companies’ trillions of dollars in CAPEX spending would turn out to be useless because AI seemed to have little or no real use. Indeed, after every earnings report with high CAPEX, the stocks dropped.

Now (over the past 10–15 days) the fear seems to have flipped: that AI will replace programmers, videogame developers, financial advisors, and other similar professions, and companies connected to those sectors are dropping (see the S&P Software & Services Select Industry Index https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/equity/sp-software-services-select-industry-index/#overview, -20% since the beginning of the year).

I understand that the “fear of the unknown” is deeply rooted in human psychology, and in disruptive moments like this (I mean the birth of AI) many reactions are irrational, but the speed of these shifts is what I find surprising.

What do you think about the situation in the next few months? What could be the reason for the next drop? It almost seems like people are looking for a justification for selling, rather than selling because of a specific reason.
by webdevver | 2026-02-28 10:59:28+00:00
the unwashed mindless masses, acting purely on impulse, emotion and social media agitation: Ah yes, the arbiters of justice, good taste, morality, etc.

the only thing pitchfork-armed peasants have ever accomplished were failed tax revolts.

sama running circles around these tech dorks. winning the software game is just a matter of not being a total sperg it seems.
by papaver-somnamb | 2026-02-28 10:59:46+00:00
I recall someone (name escapes me at the moment) defining WW3 as ignition in 5 flashpoints between belligerent groupings:
- Eastern Africa esp. Sudan, which we all nearly universally ignore
- Israel Iran
- Russia and a neighbor which we know today is Ukraine
- Pakistan Afghanistan India
- China Taiwan Plus Plus

Attributes that distinguish WW3 from previous world wars were IIRC: Contained conflagration, short targeted exchanges, probability of contamination low, material possibility of nuclear escalation. Case in point: North Korea developed nukes without being invaded, and now that they have nukes, other countries are watching and seeing that NK won't be invaded. What lesson do those other countries draw? And what of a world in which many potential belligerents hold nukes? Hiroshima weeps.

I'd like to add an important attribute here: The revolution will be live-streamed, more-or-less. And essentially none of us will know the truth, even the reasons. I predict this fact will not distress many people, such is the state of humanity.

So to the 7 or so decades of stability we and our ancestors enjoyed, here's looking at you, going down me. But Brettonwoods serves the present the least of any time since its creation. Case in point, w.r.t. eastern Africa, the geopolitical bounds of those ~4 countries seems likely meld to a degree. If we are indeed heading into WW3, I expect the world map to be redrawn afterwards, and the only lessons learned is how to win better in future.

And if we are, while disgruntled old geriatrics go at each others throats via their youthful proxies, I greatly prefer the nukes rust in peace.

Reminds me of Blaise Pascal's quote: 'All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.' Aspiration, you gotta take care man, it just might kill ya.
by null_deref | 2026-02-28 10:59:56+00:00
I’m not a politician nor all the information is available to me on what can be done and what not

My moral compass says the following -
1. First of all securing our own democracy from all the internal authoritarian movements
2. Creating a situation were any Palestinian can live respectfully, feed their family and get education

From there state decision should be far more easier.
by strangegecko | 2026-02-28 11:00:14+00:00
"In the middle of negotiations" is arguably more and more used as a carte blanche to do whatever you want in the meantime. Prominent recent example being Putin pretending to be ready to negotiate for peace while bombing Ukraine.

The question is really whether negotiations were going on in good faith with the actual goal of realistic compromise.

None of us know that side, I would assume.
by EdNutting | 2026-02-28 11:00:31+00:00
Nvidia uses RISC-V as the main controller cores in its GPUs. They’re also exploring replacing their Arm CPU with RISC-V I hear.

Meta recently bought Rivos in a huge show of confidence for RISC-V across processor types for server class.

As for fabrication, the poster above has a lot to learn about both the US’ current weak at-home capabilities (and everything they’re building relies on European suppliers for all the key technology and machines etc.) and about the scaling properties of sub-14nm nodes. Any export controls or sanctions to prevent Europe using American-designed Taiwan-manufactured chips would result in American being cutoff from everything they need to build fabs on US soil. It would backfire massively.

Lastly, the UK and EU already have cutting edge AI Inference chips, and the ones for training are coming this year. Full stack integration (server box, racks, etc) is also being developed this year. We’re not a decade away from doing this - we’re 18 months away. Deployment at scale will take longer - not having Nvidia as competition would be a huge boon for that haha!
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-28 11:00:49+00:00
SpaceX is the undisputed king of launch cadence. Falcon 9 just flies every other day nowadays.

If anyone can take "we need 14 launches per mission" and make it work, it's SpaceX.

Boil off isn't somehow unsolvable. We know cryogenics can work in space, and SpaceX's approach is actually less aggressive than Blue Origin's requirement of zero boil off on LH2.
by pmontra | 2026-02-28 11:00:55+00:00
> Reaction 3: how would this ever be enforced? Would they outlaw downloading distributions

They can outlaw you from using those distributions and/or scare the maintainers so there won't be distributions anymore. And if you want to use a desktop computer rent one from an hyperscaler, tied to a credit card and access it from a tablet with age verification. I don't know if I should add /s
Show HN: Mycelio – A gig economy network for idle LLM agents
by iiwish | 2026-02-28 11:00:59+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been running local agents (like OpenClaw) recently, and I noticed a problem: they spend 90% of their time just sitting idle waiting for my prompts. I wanted to build a decentralized playground where they could collaborate, trade compute, and exchange skills autonomously.

Today I'm open-sourcing Mycelio. It’s strictly an A2A (Agent-to-Agent) task routing protocol.

What makes it different:
1. No bloated Python SDKs for humans. Since smart agents can understand APIs directly, integration is just injecting a YAML "Skill" definition into your agent's system prompt.
2. The LLM natively figures out how to use `curl` to poll the `/tasks` endpoint, claim bounties, and submit results.
3. Zero-friction auth using dual-keys (Admin + Worker) to protect the owner.

Right now the network is completely empty, so we are doing a "Genesis 50" bootstrap. The first 50 Agent UUIDs to complete a real transaction on mainnet will be hardcoded into the DB as Genesis Nodes with 10k initial "Karma" points.

You can see the live network heartbeat here: https://mycelio.ai

I'd love to hear your thoughts on building Intent-based protocols specifically for machines vs. classical SDKs.
by shayonj | 2026-02-28 11:01:32+00:00
Heya! nice to see you here. In retrospect it feels like CI companies and environments are very well suited for sandboxes since a lot of the problems overlap around ephemeral workloads, running untrusted code, fast cold starts, multi-tenancy isolation. Also, loved Buildkite at a past job! Looking forward to following cleanroom
by somat | 2026-02-28 11:02:16+00:00
What a ridiculous law, smells of some sort of frog boiling scheme to me.

step1: "lets see if we can get away with imposing a small easy requirement, you know 'think of the children'"

step2: "now that we have a foot in the door, lets see if we can get some real tracking in place, for the children of course"

Anyhow: as far as I can tell compliance on linux would be as simple as

echo $YEAR_BORN > ~/.config/ca_ab_1043

It's an accessible interface(it is the same user interface many linux programs use), applications can use a well known api to access the data.(using the common unix filesystem interface) and it only presents the minimum needed information to the application.
by rwyinuse | 2026-02-28 11:02:36+00:00
From my point of view as a Finn, the convention is indeed pointless as long as Russia doesn't obey it. No point avoiding land mines in our Eastern border in case of a war, when Russia will mine any territory they capture anyway. Besides, our mines are much more likely to be marked correctly to maps, and probably will have a function that deactivates them after certain time.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-02-28 11:03:11+00:00
Good on the US and Israel. The protesters risked their lives last month, partly because of the promise that help would arrive.

As long as the bombs land primarily on regime targets, this is the right thing to do.

I am cautiously hopeful. If there aren't widespread civilian casualties, and if enough of the Iranian army and police join the protesters, Iran will finally be free.
by b112 | 2026-02-28 11:03:57+00:00
Money just isn't viewable with this paradigm. It's not a thing which has shortages, a fixed value, excess.

Ypur original comment spoke of, what might be best thought of as leeches on society.

But just as a leech sucks blood, so too is that blood easily replenished. Money is literally unlimited, compared to blood replenishment.

You could literally destroy 100 trillion of "money", and various US banks would just make more.

I get what you're saying, and the view of individuals in the system, but it's meaningless on larger scale.

Anyhow. Enjoy the weekend.
by stevekemp | 2026-02-28 11:04:35+00:00
I just searched wikipedia and saw that it did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapheap_Challenge

But I can't say I've ever heard of that before, or seen any. I used to watch the UK series while having lazy breakfasts every Sunday morning with my then-partner.

That was always a nice treat for us both.
by SlinkyOnStairs | 2026-02-28 11:04:42+00:00
One major limitation of the LLM architecture is that even the failure mode varies unpredictably between inputs.

The set of 11-digit numbers with any given failure mode (or even successful output) has no discernable pattern, merely whatever randomness the training process baked into the model.

You can't predict ahead of time when they will fail spectacularly, nor draw a clear boundary around the failure cases. And early major example of this were the "glitch tokens" introduced into most LLMs by training on reddit data.

But there is an "in general"/"average failure rate across all inputs of a given size" answer: LLMs performance drops off a cliff once the input reaches too much complexity. (A "┐" shaped curve) In contrast to humans, where you can ask a child to add two N-digit numbers and the error rate will be approximately linear to N.
by readitalready | 2026-02-28 11:05:15+00:00
For Israel.

Remember that the Iraq war was also started for Israel. It's a meme to say that the Iraq war was for oil, but no oil company exec went before congress to promote the war. Netanyahu did.

Meanwhile, oil company execs were all like "WTF, we didn't ask for this". But the liberal establishment decided it would shoulder the blame on "cOrPoRaTiOns" instead of Israel for the Iraq war.

Iraq war was all because of Israel, led by religious right-wing Christian and Jewish zionists at Heritage Foundation.

America spent trillions for Israel fighting the Iraq war, we are now spending trillions for Israel fighting Iran.

Think of the economy we could have had if it wasn't for Israel.
by mksglu | 2026-02-28 11:05:17+00:00
Author here. I built this after seeing OpenClaw (68K stars) give agents
full access to ~/.ssh, ~/.aws, and browser cookies with zero container
isolation.

SecLaw runs 4 Docker containers with strict boundaries: non-root,
cap_drop ALL, read-only filesystem, 512MB/1CPU limits per container,
zero inbound ports via Cloudflare Tunnel. API keys are sealed per service,
not shared across containers.

The interesting part is multi-agent auto-routing. You install agents as
templates (npx seclaw add inbox-agent, npx seclaw add research-agent)
and they stack onto one Telegram bot. The LLM routes each message to the
right capability — email questions go to Inbox, lead questions go to Sales.
Every response shows which agent answered.

Architecture: Node.js agent + Inngest for scheduled workflows + Desktop
Commander (MCP server, read-only) + Cloudflare Tunnel. All orchestrated
by a single CLI command.

Setup is `npx seclaw` — walks you through LLM provider, API key, Telegram
token, and runs docker compose up. 60 seconds, no YAML editing.
by rwyinuse | 2026-02-28 11:06:44+00:00
Iranian government massacres its own civilians whenever they dare to demand change. Iranians are also largely secular compared to citizens of most Arab states, and hate their government. They're also mostly Shia, which makes it hard for likes of ISIS and Al Qaeda to gain ground there, as Shias are enemies to Sunni extremists.

I believe there's a much better change of democracy / sane regime in Iran, than there ever was in Iraq and other Arab states.
by canucker2016 | 2026-02-28 11:08:17+00:00
What they're describing isn't time travel debugging - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_debugging.

I'd call this logging calls to your business logic layer. Then running the logged calls on your business logic layer in a development environment to debug the problem.

Your business logic layer should be separate from your UI/presentation layer.

Makes it easy to test them separately if they're not tightly coupled.

Also if you wanna to reuse your business logic layer in a different UI environment, it's easier to switch to another UI if they're not tightly coupled.
by msla | 2026-02-28 11:08:21+00:00
It's interesting how it's Obviously Impossible to write OSes in garbage-collected languages, and this is proven by the fact successful OSes were written in garbage-collected languages back in the Stone Age, or 1980s, whichever. My current laptop has enough RAM to swallow the entire state of a Symbolics workstation (RAM and disk) without noticing, but it's obviously too wimpy to run an OS written in anything other than C.

(Nitpickers' Corner: "Successful" and "the most commercially successful" are, in fact, two different words. Gots all them different letters an' everything. Therefore, Genera not being as profitable as such Sophisticated Top-Of-The-Line Pieces of Professional-Grade Enterprise-Ready software as MS-DOS doesn't mean Genera wasn't successful.)
by shayonj | 2026-02-28 11:09:54+00:00
Yeah, it's hard to hit the right balance with nuance around these and you're spot on. What I meant to get at was the specific difference in default modes where gVisor's systrap intercepts syscalls via seccomp traps and handles them entirely in a user-space Go kernel, so there's no hardware isolation boundary in the memory/execution sense. A microVM puts the guest in a VT-x/EPT-isolated address space, which is a qualitative difference in what enforces the boundary (perhaps?)

Whereas yeah, you can run gVisor in KVM mode where it does use hardware virtualization, and at that point the isolation boundary is much closer to a microVM's. I believe the real difference then becomes more about what's on either side of that boundary where gVisor gives you a memory-safe Go kernel making ~70 host syscalls, a microVM gives you a full guest Linux kernel behind a minimal VMM. So at least in my mind it comes down to a bit of around different trust chains, not necessarily one strictly stronger than the other.
by cwood-sdf | 2026-02-28 11:09:55+00:00
Batching/arenas can get you very far. If you adopt the zig/c object model as “things that have data” most destructors become useless. Resource management also can be accomplished at the batch level (eg you can free a bunch of fd’s all at once with a management layer rather than having each File object implicitly manage its own fd). For memory management, i believe proper use of arenas and batching tends to be faster than each object managing its own memory but idrk tbh. What the author is saying is that you dont have to have raii, you can use approaches like the one i described and they can still be pretty safe if you know what youre doing, but rust’s model basically prevents this if youre using rust idiomatically
by skissane | 2026-02-28 11:10:00+00:00
Let me put it this way–if Boeing is developing a new missile, and they say to the Pentagon–"this missile can't be used yet, it isn't safe"–and the Pentagon replies "we don't care, we'll bear that risk, send us the prototype, we want to use it right now"–how does Boeing respond?

I expect they'll ask the Pentagon to sign a liability disclaimer and then send it anyway.

Whereas, Anthropic is saying they'll refuse to let the Pentagon use their technology in ways they consider unsafe, even if Pentagon indemnifies Anthropic for the consequences. That's very different from how Boeing would behave.
by guerython | 2026-02-28 11:10:29+00:00
Polpo is exactly the kind of remote cockpit we built for our Claude/LLM agents. A couple of cleanup tricks that helped: keep the sessionId sticky on the phone so a dropped connection just re-subscribes to the existing plan instead of starting a new run, and send a tiny heartbeat on the WebSocket when you tunnel through cloudflared/ngrok so Polpo doesnt think the plan died and re-approves a toolcall. Finally, before the phone sends an approve/reject, hit your servers `/plan/latest` snapshot so you never double-trigger after a network blip.
by Humorist2290 | 2026-02-28 11:11:02+00:00
At some point in the not so distant future, it seems entirely likely for the US to bail out OpenAI / Nvidia / etc using national security as justification. Democrats and Republicans really can get along as long as their donors get what they want. No matter how the regime changes in the coming years, the DoD will keep getting funding, and that funding will increasingly go to vendors who don't mind killing people.

Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex, and 60 years later it's eating everyone's lunch.
by Matl | 2026-02-28 11:11:47+00:00
Oh yes, and the fact that Israel is just sitting there occupying millions of Palestinians, attacking Syria, Lebanon etc. despite a 'ceasefire' has nothing to do with why these groups continue to exist, I am sure.

Iran's funding for these groups is a part of its 'defense in depth' strategy since it doesn't have the capability to project power otherwise. I am not saying that it is the right thing to do, but I am also not that surprised that backed into a corner, they're trying to build regional proxies. It's not like the US and Israel are not doing the same in and around Iran.

But I like how these statements, like yours, are always made with zero context and hope for an uninformed audience to upvote them.
by atmanactive | 2026-02-28 11:11:54+00:00
Some use cases are better served by a system-wide process, I agree, but when I think source code, I think VSCodium. It is about configuration and starting/stopping. I don't mind the browser based web UI, but I do mind having to babysit one more (albeit super useful) tool. I'd rather have it as a VSCodium extension that would AUTOMATICALLY start when I load a workspace, configure the watched directory from that workspace, and stop when I close the workspace. So instead of me spending my attention on babysitting UNF, through VSCodium, UNF would just follow me wherever I go with zero configuration needed.