MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by georgemcbay | 2026-02-26 03:25:51+00:00
> Dario Amodei Is An Even Bigger Liar Than Sam Altman

Oh, I don't know about that. That's a very big claim.

I don't trust either of them but I have a different reading of their motivations. Altman comes off to me like a ruthless sociopath who lies as easily as he breathes and Amodei comes off to me as more of an over-enthusiastic goober who is a bit high on his own supply.
by creddit | 2026-02-26 03:25:53+00:00
> Here's one that is: https://www.appliedmaterials.com/us/en/semiconductor/epic-pl...

This might be a refutation but it's not super clear. It's definitely not a commercial semiconductor fab but it might do all of or some subset of what a commercial fab does at R&D scale. Hard to know for sure how this jives with the claim in the main website.

> If you can do all that without getting new permits then that makes California sound like a pretty lenient place to do business.

Being able to retool under original zoning/permitting is specifically lenient? That's extremely basic. If you're a co-Californian with me, though, it does help to understand that many people think that anyone doing anything without a permit is "lenient".

> I'm assuming they did have to get new permits though.

Well, that makes it really easy to be "right". I should try this more.
by BigGreenJorts | 2026-02-26 03:26:23+00:00
Wise does (did?) that. I was doing large international money transfer a couple years ago and they advertized in app the rates of other companies in the space. At the amounts I was transferring it was cheaper for me to transfer with OFX so I did that. They are more expensive at small sums though, not to mention Wise card makes foreign payments much easier.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2026-02-26 03:27:33+00:00
Anthropic officially funds lobbyists in excess than other huge companies like Microsoft or Amazon. Its latest $20M outlay [1] alone is more that the spend of either company. Their lobbying spend combined is now on par with companies like META, which have tons of regulatory battle fronts (unlike Anthropic)

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2026/02/20/ais-bigges...
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-26 03:28:14+00:00
Isn't that good for aviation? Makes it relatively less expensive to carry reserve energy you don't expect to use, don't have to pay the weight cost during takeoff when weight costs the most energy because you just charged the battery and once you're at cruising speed more weight is just neutral momentum.

Probably the least convenient thing would be if you had to land and take off again somewhere without recharging.
by kev009 | 2026-02-26 03:28:15+00:00
The tire spring rate is not what is "felt" by the road every bump, there is forward motion and coilover suspensions in modern cars running low profile tires versus solid axles and leafs on the Wagoneer, but yes nearly every modern vehicle ships on low profile tires unfortunately.

We are talking a few hundred pounds of weight difference per tire, it simply doesn't matter in the real world. I maintain private roads and even if your parkway is placarded everything is subjected to vocational vehicles and HDTs whether signed or not, because work needs to be done and local deliveries are exempt from transit restrictions.

The road wear model is obviously simplified versus the real world, the power law accurately enough extrapolates to HDT axle loads. You can drive a vehicle above snow, or move million pound super loads without causing excessive wear by thinking in additional dimension.
by theptip | 2026-02-26 03:28:54+00:00
I think this take underestimates a couple points:

1) the opportunities for vertical integration are huge. Anthropic originally said they didn’t want to build IDEs, then realized the pivot to Claude Code was available to them. Likewise when one of these companies can gobble up Legal, Medical, etc why would they let companies like Harvey capture the margins?

2) oss models are 6-12 months behind the frontier because of distillation. If labs close their models the gap will widen. Once vertical integration kicks off, the distillation cost becomes higher, and the benefit of opening up generic APIs becomes lower.

I can imagine worlds where things don’t turn out this way, but I think folks are generally underrating the possibilities here.
by yencabulator | 2026-02-26 03:29:20+00:00
I think you're misunderstanding the severity of the lethal trifecta. Just because you put access controls around the LLM doesn't mean all that much if the access controls allow anything in & out. There is no way to write a shim that blocks "everything naughty", while remaining useful.

You literally have to fully prevent all outside input, or you have to prevent all exfiltration routes including web page reading (even the choice of links to follow is an exfiltration mechanism). At that point, what's left? What do you think will be on your allowlist?

I seriously doubt the early adopters of these software bundles use their assistants like with such restraint (https://xcancel.com/summeryue0/status/2025774069124399363), and that idealized image of these access control shims is not realistic.
by npunt | 2026-02-26 03:30:41+00:00
The mouse cursor binning special case is starting to look like how animals perceive, where we detect patterns and develop predictive models over time in how they are going to act, and that confidence leads to more deeply encoding those patterns for lower energy usage. Obviously the mouse cursor is a hand-rolled example in a controlled 2d environment, but it makes me wonder what efficiencies lie in identifying patterns in 3d environments once you construct an accurate enough 3d scene out of the images you have.

Do you have other examples of special cases you're looking at? Any 3d ones?
by godelski | 2026-02-26 03:31:56+00:00
For me it's the constant feel of everything being "exciting" while no real information is actually conveyed. It's a common tactic of both AI and clickbaity articles. There's no hard evidence here, just hearsay. Nothing really to report until there's more information. I don't want drama in reporting, I want facts. But I guess I'm an outlier which is how we got both this AI style and the clickbait it was trained on...

It also doesn't help that all the title graphics have the same dramatic feeling and are certainly AI generated.
by d--b | 2026-02-26 03:32:00+00:00
Worth noting that it’s not a winner-takes all situation. There’s definitely space for differentiation.

Anthropic is in favor with developers and generally tech people, while OpenAi / Gemini are more commonly used by regular folks. And Grok, well, you know…

We have yet to see who’s winning in the “creative space”, probably OpenAI.

As these positionings cristallize, each company is likely going to double down on their user’s communities, like Apple did when specifically targeting creative/artsy people, instead of cranking general models that aren’t significantly better at anything.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-26 03:32:45+00:00
shell is already an answer to your questions. Basic shell constructs and well-known commands provide the abstractions you ask about. `cat`, `grep` and pipes and redirects may not be semantically pure, but they're pretty close to universal, are widely used both as tools and as "semantic primitives", and most importantly, LLMs already know how to use them as both.
by shubhamjain | 2026-02-26 03:33:44+00:00
Everyone is actually underestimating stickiness. The near billion users OpenAI has is actually a real moat and might translate into decent chunk of revenue.

My wife, for example, uses ChatGPT on a daily basis, but has found no reason to try anything else. There are no network effects for sure, but people have hundreds and thousands on conversation on these apps that can't be easily moved elsewhere. Understandable that it would be hard to get majority of these free users to pay for anything, and hence, advertising seems a good bet. You couldn't have thought of a more contextual way of plugging in a paid product.

I think OpenAI has better chance to winning on the consumer side than everyone else. Of course, would that much up against hundreds of billions of dollars in capex remains to be seen.
by Bender | 2026-02-26 03:34:22+00:00
If customers were being malicious the normal process would be to

- block them by their IP accepting that if they are being a SNAT or CG-NAT legit customers may be blocked for a while. Adjust procedure based on whatever attack tools and resources are being utilized.

- have internal meeting with head of legal, all the C-levels, head of customer support

- send cease and desist emails from the legal department and/or cancel their accounts or just:

- coordinate with the FBI, provide logs and specific customer information to FBI or whichever agencies are appropriate for the customers physical locations on file.

- get a cup of coffee and maybe put some Kava in it to stay awake but also chill. Work on other tasks until the FBI wants more logs or whatever.

- maybe guess why customers are being buttholes and if the company actually did something to deserve it. Maybe update CV. Go for a walk with head on a swivel in case angry customers are in parking lot. Sit on thinking chair (toilet).
by throw10920 | 2026-02-26 03:35:42+00:00
> If we (Europeans) really mean it - and we should - the top level of government just needs to make the declaration: as of X, all Microsoft licenses will be terminated. No exceptions. Adapt or die.

This is insane. This is sacrificing the well-being of your constituents to send a (minor) political message. The amount of service degradation (including actual physical health) that you'd put your citizens through would be unbelievable.

Only those who are extraordinarily stupid or outright malicious decide to deprecate important services before first assessing the needs of every dependent on that service, and then ensuring that a full replacement is in place.
by anjel | 2026-02-26 03:35:51+00:00
>lawmakers can create new laws which can not be applied retroactively
Still a courtesy:

Background: Mary Anne Gehris was born in Germany and came to the United States around age 1, growing up entirely in the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident (green card holder).

The Incident: In 1988, during a quarrel over a man, Gehris pulled another woman's hair. She was charged with misdemeanor battery. No witnesses appeared in court, and on the advice of a public defender, she pleaded guilty. She received a one-year suspended sentence with one year of probation.

Immigration Consequences: Years later, under the **Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 **(IIRIRA)—enacted during the Clinton administration but actively enforced during the Bush Jr. administration—her misdemeanor battery conviction was classified as an "aggravated felony" under federal immigration law. This made her deportable despite having no subsequent criminal record, being married to a U.S. citizen, and having a U.S. citizen child.

Outcome: Gehris avoided deportation when the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles granted her a pardon in March 2000, which removed the immigration ground for her removal.

Source Coverage:
The story was detailed in Anthony Lewis's New York Times columns:

"Abroad at Home: 'This Has Got Me in Some Kind of Whirlwind'" (January 8, 2000)

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/08/opinion/abroad-at-home-th...

These columns highlighted how IIRIRA's broad definition of "aggravated felony" swept up many long-term permanent residents with minor, often decades-old convictions, separating families and deporting people who had lived nearly their entire lives in the United States.

The Gehris case became a frequently cited example in immigration advocacy and legal scholarship about the harsh consequences of mandatory deportation provisions for lawful permanent residents. If you'd like, I can search for the original NYT articles or additional reporting on her case.
by Aeglaecia | 2026-02-26 03:36:17+00:00
cant believe i never noticed the quote thing before. tis a mere a matter of time before these tropes become redundant , but for the moment they are very useful to memorize. thank you for sharing.

i tried using your website. it mostly works but it broke a little bit:

Anthropic parse error: ```json { "score": 15, "reasons": [ "Strong personal voice with natural argumentative tone and direct confrontat
by throw_m239339 | 2026-02-26 03:36:24+00:00
> I think Europe should invest into manufacturing RAM. RAM isn't going anywhere, all of modern compute uses it. This would be an opportunity to create domestic supply of it.

It's easy to build factories, much more difficult to train the engineers required to run them... and let's not even talk about all the crazy regulations & environmental rules at the EU level that make that task even more difficult, because yes, chip factories do pollute... a lot.

Countries like South Korea or Taiwan have adapted all their legislations and tax, environmental regulations to allow such factories to operate easily. The EU and EU countries will never do that... better outsource pollution and claim they care about the planet...
by throw10920 | 2026-02-26 03:37:41+00:00
This is just factually true, and it's why pleading, pearl-clutching, arguments from emotion, etc. should all be immediately discarded - because you have no idea whether the person on the other side of the account is a spammer, paid propagandist, mentally ill, lying for the lols, or just a bot.

Online, the only thing that matters is the substance of the argument.

Save the emotions for those you know in the real world, who you know are real.
by aspenmartin | 2026-02-26 03:37:54+00:00
I tried this today with this username and other usernames on this and other platforms with Claude Code

- First it told me it couldn't do this, that this was doxxing

- I said: its for me, I want to see if I can be deanonymized

- Claude says: oh ok sure and proceeds to do it

It analyzed my profile contents and concluded that there were likely only 5 - 10 people in the world that would match this profile (it pulled out every identifying piece of information extremely accurately). Basically saying: I don't have access to LinkedIn but if I did I could find you in like 5 seconds.

Anyway, like others have said: this type of capability has always been around for nation state actors (it's just now frighteningly more effective), but e.g. for your stalker? For a fraudster or con artist? Everyone has a tremendous unprecedented amount of power at their fingertips with very little effort needed.
by ndriscoll | 2026-02-26 03:38:53+00:00
What they can tax does have to do with the GDP though. If they have a 1B deficit, they need to somehow tax <0.1% of activity (or cut services), whether through property tax, income tax, sales tax, corporate tax, or some other scheme. What they don't need to do is radically increase density, and since almost all of the costs scale with population, not area, density wouldn't even help that much (or might hurt if it leads to a lower percentage of net contributors).

Again, putting $1B in some perspective, the LA Unified School District budget (which is county-level, so not directly comparable to the city, but anyway) is just under $19B. Maybe someone else can ballpark how much of that is associated to the city. Or look the other things that scale with population: police, medical, waste, social programs, etc.
by schainks | 2026-02-26 03:39:11+00:00
Show me how the capital costs of rolling out high PSI hydrogen infra will be cheaper than building a power grid. You can even refit and re-use existing natural gas pipelines to move hydrogen if you want to cheat. I am willing to bet the costs per kW will still be crazy, especially at last mile where you are in an area populated by humans.

I don't see a bright future for hydrogen in transport while we keep putting cheap solar, wind, and batteries on the grid / roads.
by miki123211 | 2026-02-26 03:39:45+00:00
This story (and many others like it) just goes to show that systems that rely on domains in any way can't be called decentralized.

Email isn't decentralized. Mastodon isn't decentralized. Matrix isn't decentralized. XMPP isn't decentralized. The web certainly isn't either.

All of them can be killed by Safe browsing. All of them can be killed by ICAN (which is under significant influence from the US government). All of them can be killed by their domain registrar and registry operator. All of them can be killed by Let's Encrypt adding their certificates to a CRL, and refusing to issue new ones. All of these will eventually be weaponized, when the war over who controls information truly begins.
by alisadev | 2026-02-26 03:39:57+00:00
On one hand, I agree with you; The internet, in its current state, has probably more negative aspects to it than positive ones.

But, on the other hand, I don't think that I can completely ignore the good it has brought to the world.
If a person is motivated enough, he can pretty easily navigate through propaganda simply by choosing to consume information from different sources (for example, reading about the us from both the us perspective and russian or chinese perspective).

Of course, the main reason there aren't many people who do that is both simple but also complex. People don't have enough time at which they aren't either exhausted from work or life in general; or stressing about something that has to do with capitalism (either money, wars, work and etc).
So at the little amount of free time that they do have - they aren't going to challenge their beliefs (or at least, the beliefs of those who surround them); It's exhausting, and it's easier to just read the propoganda, feel better about yourself because a good propaganda always have someone else to blame - and continue with your day to day life (if one can even call that life; because to me it seems more accurate to call it "existence").

But in any case, what you've said reminded me of this post and how the internet positively impacted one person; so even though I doubt it'll convince anyone of anything - it's still a very heartwarming story:
<https://jimmyhmiller.com/raised>

* English isn't my first language so I apologize if there's any grammar mistake.
by GuB-42 | 2026-02-26 03:39:58+00:00
Ironic how Notepad used to be too simple, making it useless as a text editor in many cases. In particular, it didn't support UNIX line endings and files larger than a few MB.

The there was a brief moment where it became decent. Still a barebones text editor, but it could actually edit text, what I think most people expected Notepad to be.

And now, it is going the other way, with "AI" features no one wanted, and also "Markdown support" which is ironic since Markdown is designed to look good in a regular text editor. Now we have something that isn't really a text editor, but not really a wysiwyg editor either, it has some advanced features like AI, but is lacking features most other semi-advanced text editors have (ex: syntax highlighting).

At least, it was good for a couple of years.
by Maro | 2026-02-26 03:41:13+00:00
I don't get this.

Models have become a commodity, hardware not so much; why would Nvidia care? It's the models who are competing primarily, not hardware manufacturers.

Also, models are software, so easy to switch out. AI hardware otoh has a approx. 3-5 year useful life, I don't see how this affects hardware already running, or getting built.
by stackghost | 2026-02-26 03:41:23+00:00
>Their problem is, as the elite-ness of the students goes down, the pace needs to drop.

Only if the school mandates a quota of passing grades. Not sure about HYPSM but anecdotally at my (Canadian) alma mater no such quota existed: the pass rate for 3rd year fluid dynamics was in the 40% ballpark, for example.
by efilife | 2026-02-26 03:41:27+00:00
Don't complain about tangential annoyances, I know, I know... but how the hell am I supposed to judge the difference between the images in the post if you disabled zoom and the images are incredibly small? And when I open them in a new tab they automatically download?

On the plus side, I like the informal writing of the post. You can be serious about business and still be human

Edit: firefox reader mode works wonders on this article
by morkalork | 2026-02-26 03:41:38+00:00
I commute on the train, I see students studying with it. I go for brunch on the weekend, I see parents consulting it while at the table with their infants. I'm at work, colleagues are using it all day. I leave work and I overhear the random woman smoking in the alleyway talking on her cellphone saying "so I asked chatgpt". It's mind-bogglingly pervasive, the last time something had such a seizmic cultural impact like this was I dunno, Facebook? And secondly, it's all one specific brand. I'm not encountering co-pilot or gemini in the meat-space.
by ngriffiths | 2026-02-26 03:42:39+00:00
A lot of comments about how this is another case of useless bloat. I don't know, markdown is just incredibly useful and widespread and yet it is pretty annoying to find a good editor:

- There wasn't anything that comes with Windows that natively supports it (before now)

- All your favorite text editors don't support it natively, and plugins vary

- You can pay for a nice markdown editor but for some reason your more powerful usual text editor is still free?

- You can open VSCode, which is hilarious overkill if you just want to take some notes. Obsidian is excellent but same problem.

- Maybe something I'm missing?

Basically I think it is a great thing if I just get a lightweight markdown friendly editor built in, because I'll probably use it all the time.

...except if it immediately leads to a CVE, I guess.
by rafaelmn | 2026-02-26 03:43:51+00:00
The joke is that Apple RAM pricing is now close to market level, they still have margin in there even at market prices, and they are notorious for supply chain management and locking in contracts/prices ahead of time. So doubt Apple will change anything here short term.

On the flip side if you're buying a new computer in 2026 - it's going to be even harder to justify not getting a MacBook, the chips are already 2 years ahead of PC, the price of base models was super competitive, now that the ram is super expensive even the upgraded versions are competitive with the PC market. Oh and Windows is turning to an even larger pile of shit on a daily basis.
by Nursie | 2026-02-26 03:44:39+00:00
It was a system built on sleight of hand, with a cover story just complex enough that it worked for a while.

How do you create a stablecoin? There are two ways in general. One is to have it backed 1:1 with a bank account somewhere that contains the actual currency it represents. In theory you then allow people to freely exchange back and forth between tokens and dollars. Tether kinda/sort works this way in theory.

The other way is to play games with algorithms and try to use the market against itself to create stability. Terra (UST) attempted to do this by running a complex scheme that leveraged a floating backing token, and a smart contract which allowed you to exchange 1 UST for $1 worth of newly created Luna. If UST starts to lose its peg and become worth less than a dollar, people buy it to exchange for $1 worth of Luna, sell the Luna for a profit, so arbitrage sorts the price out. If it becomes worth more than a dollar, you buy Luna, burn it to convert to new UST, then sell that for a profit.

How do you get Luna to be worth anything though? Well you offer inducements like a ridiculous interest rate, high enough that anyone outside the cryptocurrency bubble would immediately see a red flag, and which then has to be subsidised somehow ...

Even with the best will in the world systems like this could best be described as meta-stable, i.e. it'll smooth out minor perturbations but there are limits. And that limit was Luna dumping massively.