MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vitus | 2026-02-28 18:36:35+00:00
> That’s PCIe 3.0 x4 or PCIe 4.0 x2, which a decent commodity M.2 NVMe SSD can use and can possibly saturate, at least for reads.

Given that there's a separate item for sequential disk reads vs SSD reads, I think it's pretty clear that particular item meant hard drives specifically. Agreed that modern SSDs should be able to pull that off.

> That being said, all the connections over 100Gbps are currently multi-lane AFAIK, and the heroic efforts and multiplexing needed to exceed 100Gbps at any distance are a bit in excess of the very simple technology that got us to 100Mbps “fast Ethernet”.

Yeah. Terabit networking is not here yet, and it's certainly not "commodity network"-grade. We can LACP a bunch of 100G optics together, but we're probably 5-10 years out for 800G ethernet to become widely adopted and for 1600G to even be developed.
by ActorNightly | 2026-02-28 18:36:51+00:00
If you are admitting that you voted R in 2024, and only now you won't vote R, that really doesn't fix anything. Your bar is set so insanely low that you will vote R on someone who is slightly better than Trump.

As a life long D voter, I am personally going to vote R every election now because I want US to sink into the ground so low that people like you experience actual pain and suffering.
by weatherlite | 2026-02-28 18:37:06+00:00
> If you're a religious Jew, then you believe you have a mandate from God (so an irrefutable right, or even obligation, needing no justification) to settle and rule not only the West Bank but the entire region.

Well not really , most Orthodox definitely don't believe this in fact some of them are anti Zionist and the ones who accept Israel's existence definitely do not think Israel needs to expand its borders like that. So no to that.
by in-silico | 2026-02-28 18:37:34+00:00
I think some of the visualizations would be much better if you used a pixel-space model instead of a latent diffusion model.

Right now we are only seeing the denoising process after it's been morphed by the latent decoder, which looks a lot less intuitive than actual pixel diffusion.

If you can't find a suitable pixel-space model, then you can just trivially generate a forward process and play it backwards.
by lukifer | 2026-02-28 18:37:58+00:00
The fascinating paradox: there are clearly "tells" (slop-smells, like code-smells?) of LLM-generated text. We're all developing heuristics rapidly, which probably pass a Pepsi challenge 95+% of the time.

And yet: LLMs are writing entirely based on human input. Presumably there exists a great quantity of median representative text, some lowest-common denominator, of humans who write similarly to these heuristics.

(In particular: why are LLMs so fond of em-dashes, when I'm not sure I've ever seen them used in the wilds of the internet?)
by ninkendo | 2026-02-28 18:38:18+00:00
Yeah, I guess that's kinda my point. LLM detractors on HN seem to straw-man what they think the average LLM user is doing. I'm an experienced programmer who is using an LLM as a speed boost, and the result of that is that it produces thousands of lines of code in a short time.

The impressive thing isn't merely that it produces thousands of lines of code, it's that I've reviewed the code, it's pretty good, it works, and I'm getting use out of the resulting project.

> What would you say is your multiplier, in terms of throughly reviewing code vs writing it from scratch?

I'd say about 10x. More than that (and closer to 100x) if I'm only giving the code a cursory glance (sometimes I just look at the git diff, it looks pretty damned reasonable to me, and I commit it without diving that deep into the review. But I sometimes do something similar when reviewing coworkers' code!)
by Supernaut | 2026-02-28 18:38:33+00:00
> excruciatingly difficult

As the author of the article notes, the NES was not popular in the UK or Europe as a whole, and indeed, I've still never seen one in the flesh, so to speak.

But we did have arcades in the town I grew up in, and when Ghosts n' Goblins was current, I can remember discussing it with another kid in our schoolyard. He told me that someone he knew had made it all the way to the end of the game. Totally agog, I asked what happened when you completed it, and he told me, "There's a message that says, "This was all an illusion created by Satan." And then you have to do it all over again."

I was privately skeptical that this could be true, because I couldn't believe that the programmers would be that mean, but also because the game was so bloody difficult. I didn't believe that anyone actually could make it all the way through, unless they had a six foot-high pile of ten pence pieces.

But about fifteen years later, I discovered MAME and ROM repositories, and with the aid of its cheat system, I pushed through to the bitter end of Ghosts n' Goblins. And damned if I wasn't rewarded with the message, "This was all an illusion created by Satan."

Tokuro Fujiwara, j'accuse.
by gck1 | 2026-02-28 18:38:47+00:00
Yes, I have. And it's obvious that restriction was put there for a reason. The most obvious possible reason is that snatching OAuth made it possible for third party tools to utilize subscription to the fullest - like OpenClaw.

But these tools, including openclaw, didn't have to snatch the OAuth tokens, they could have used claude code built in headless stdio and consequences for Anthropic would be exactly the same. OAuth was just faster to plug in.

So if I open source my solution that allows opencode & openclaw to go through claude cli's headless mode, is this allowed? Is this a product that allows claude.ai login?

What if I open source a 1 line bash loop (e.g. ralph loop) that does the same?

What if I build a more complex bash loop that goes through my tasks in a text file, and calls claude cli for each?

I don't know at which point this becomes "offering claude.ai login" or a "product", or "building agents".

Here's my product:

while :; do cat PROMPT.md | claude ; done

Am I blacklisted now?
by kubb | 2026-02-28 18:38:48+00:00
Thanks for this information, I'd like to offer something in return.

Only certain Hasidic groups oppose Israel, including Satmar Hasidim (over 100k followers), and Neturei Karta (fringe, only about 1k supporters). That's less than millions, and a minority within the Hasidic world.

Theologically, they oppose it based on an interpretation a Talmudic passage saying that establishment of Israel has to happen after the coming of the Messiah.

Additionally, there are a lot different denominations of Jews within Israel, some of whom have more pragmatic views. But a significant, politically influential minority wants all biblical land.
by jfengel | 2026-02-28 18:39:06+00:00
It's bizarre seeing the outright bribery.

A lot of things that people call "bribery" is really just ensuring that your preferred candidate gets in office. You couldn't give money directly to the candidate for personal use. Donations went to the campaign of the guy who already agreed with you. The FEC used to take a dim view of outright pay-for-service, even dressed up.

This is new. And now people need to decide how they feel about that. They get one chance to say "no, that's not how we do things." Even if the administration suffers a blow this November, if they hear that this is mostly acceptable to their base, it will be what every politician does from here on.
by azernik | 2026-02-28 18:39:16+00:00
This is insane conspiracy theory nonsense, and is also not how actual Jews read the Tanakh.

(Which is also not referred to as "the Book", since it's a collection of books. This may seem like a nitpick, but I think is indicative of you getting your information from non-Jewish conspiracy theorist circles rather than anything related to Jewish theology or culture.)
by juanpabloaj | 2026-02-28 18:39:31+00:00
> The second is absorption: mental models form, edge cases become intuitive, architectural relationships solidify into understanding. ... . The friction of implementation creates space for reasoning.

> This gap between output velocity and comprehension velocity is cognitive debt.

I have felt that lack of absorption during the last months, adding doomscroolling to the equation, I have felt how my thinking is disappearing.

I tried to speculatively expand that idea in this post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186004
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2026-02-28 18:39:46+00:00
You get the same when your company employs a lot of low to medium skilled offshore devs. Every morning or every week you get a huge pile of code that sort of works but there is simply no way to review it in a meaningful way. It's just too much. Thats how I feel working with Claude Code. It cranks out a lot of code really quickly but how do I know it's not creating subtle problems?
by Robdel12 | 2026-02-28 18:40:02+00:00
Whether we want to accept it or not, we’re now QA. That’s not derogatory, at all.

But I don’t think the answer here is to double down on reading the code and understanding that deeply. We’re rapidly moving past this.

I think the answer is to review the code for very obvious bad choices. But then it’s about proper validation. Check out the app, run the flows, use it for real. Does it _actually_ function?

Or that’s what is working for me. I cannot review all the LOC and I’m starting to feel like I don’t want.
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by thisislife2 | 2026-02-28 18:40:36+00:00
Yeah, the possibility of a regime collapse / change due to this military action is unlikely. The military goal seems to be to destroy Iran's military-industrial complexes to hamper its missile production. Note however that while Iran has potent missile capability, Iran's underground complexes where it is stored presents its own problems - in the absence of adequate air defence and an Air Force, its enemies can just bomb the openings of these underground complexes, making it very, very difficult for the Iranians to use its missile arsenals from there. (This is what Israel did the last time). As for the scenario you outlined, I highly doubt the US would be willing to send boots to the ground to blow up their missiles manually - urban warfare takes a heavy toll and I doubt if the Trump administration can withstand the criticism if body bags start coming home. Even the MAGA crowd has been unexceptionally hostile to Trump's attack on Israel.
by j1elo | 2026-02-28 18:40:57+00:00
I know the topic won't probably be about this -and I'll be reading the article next-, just wanted to share that this title perfectly reminded me the feeling of attempting the speed reading technique explained in this old gem of a video (minute 20:15)

BOOKSTORES: How to Read More Books in the Golden Age of Content

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lIW5jBrrsS0&t=1215s
by jamamp | 2026-02-28 18:41:16+00:00
I hope people can ask themselves why the goal is "winning" and "winning big", and not making a product that you are proud of. It shouldn't be about VC funding and making money, shouldn't we all be making software to make the world a little bit better? I realize we live in an unfortunate reality surrounded by capitalism, but giving in to that seems shortsighted and dismissive of actual problems.
by null_deref | 2026-02-28 18:41:31+00:00
Thanks god, what a contribution to the world! Hope you having a nice time in this historic tiny minuscule moment of peace your continent is having, while you sit on an economy based on generations that robbed entire continents naked and then benefited from child labor of those continents!
But in this tiny point of peace you don’t dedicate any portion of your life to help 3rd world countries or any global causes like the environment
But tell me to move one of your countries that have right wing parties rising in the polls because some tiny percent of your population became Muslim.
You will watch with me your politicians throw away this high morality you hold the second a Russian missile hit the ground in Western Europe and you with them
Show HN: Time-travel debugging and side-by-side diffs for AI agents
by hireclay | 2026-02-28 18:44:49+00:00
agent-replay provides time-travel debugging and side-by-side diffs to pinpoint exactly where AI agents hallucinate or fail. It replaces manual log diving with a local-first toolkit to replay, fork, and automatically evaluate agent traces for faster iteration. It's a work-in-progress. I'd love any feedback. Thank you.
by oscarcp | 2026-02-28 18:44:58+00:00
I must say, I find the experience curious to say the least. It prompted me to write something, and I immediately got frustrated that my text was gone, followed by a feeling of "well, it was ephemeral anyway" and then finding the reader mode and say "hmmm, does that take away from the experience?". In any case, I might come back to this every now and then, nice work.
by kyboren | 2026-02-28 18:45:22+00:00
What you said is a pathetic lie. The regime itself claims they killed over 3000.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-memorials-chehelom-...
https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-crackdown-hospitals...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/02/20/how-man...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62v248xkl5o

Honestly I don't even know why I bother. You're not debating in good faith.
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-28 18:45:37+00:00
Israel literally has minted coins with the image of Greater Israel (they claim this is only in reference to some ancient coin designs). The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has just a few days ago given an interview where he explicitly stated that Israel / the Jewish people has a right to that entire land, from the Euphrates to the Nile. The Israeli opposition leader was then asked about this, and he agreed with the US ambassador that yes, they do have this right, but that of course it must be viewed realistically given security and operational limitations.
by afthonos | 2026-02-28 18:45:43+00:00
No, that’s not accurate at all, and in case you are genuinely confused:

1. Anthropic should be free to sell its services under whatever legal terms and conditions it wants.

2. The Pentagon should be free to buy those services, negotiate for different terms, refuse to buy those services, and terminate contracts subject to any termination clauses.

You may or may not agree with what the Pentagon wants to do, but if things had stayed there, there would be no real issue.

The problem is that the Pentagon is trying to bury Anthropic as a company, calling it a danger to the United States because it exerted its non-controversial right in (1).

Any “explanation” that doesn’t address that is confused itself or trying to confuse the issue.

I leave it to you as to which category the linked source falls under.
by CodeBit26 | 2026-02-28 18:45:44+00:00
Working in big tech right now feels like being a pilot on autopilot. AI tools like Copilot and Cursor have definitely removed the "syntax friction," but they’ve added a massive "architectural burden." We are spending less time writing boilerplate and much more time debugging complex RAG pipelines and agentic workflows.
The real challenge isn't the code generation itself; it's the integration and knowing where the AI's "hallucination boundary" lies. I’ve noticed that engineers who don’t master the underlying ecosystems (especially the Python/AI stack) are the ones struggling most with the transition.
I recently did a deep dive into why Python’s ecosystem is still the critical "glue" for AI innovation in 2026, despite the rise of newer languages. It might add some context to this discussion: https://codebit-daily.hashnode.dev/why-python-is-still-the-k...
by dkarl | 2026-02-28 18:46:22+00:00
We've known since Zeno that all of our ways of visualizing infinity in finite terms are incomplete and provably incorrect, despite being unavoidable in human thinking. In other words, we knew the "gaps" reflected incomplete reasoning, not real emptiness between "consecutive" numbers. If Dedekind and Cantor only changed how we visualize infinity, I don't understand why it would cause a stir.

> This method created a new sort of infinity that mathematicians were unfamiliar with, and it was vastly larger

I understand that the construction of the reals paved the way for the later revolutionary (and possibly disturbing, for people with strongly held philosophical beliefs about infinity) discovery that one infinity could be larger than another. But in the narrative laid out by the article, that comes later, and to me it's clear (unless I misread it) that the part I quoted is about the construction of the reals, before they worked out ways to compare the cardinality of the reals to the cardinality of the integers and the rationals.
by dijit | 2026-02-28 18:46:39+00:00
Playing devil's advocate for consistency isn't racism. I'm not Israeli,
not Jewish, this isn't my nation. I object to the reasoning.

You're defending a position that doesn't actually care about Palestinian
lives. Iran has funded Hamas for decades not because it wants a Palestinian
state: it wants the end of Israel. Those aren't the same goal. You've
let a theocracy that hangs gay people and flogs women position itself as
the voice of Palestinian liberation and you haven't noticed.

I've seen the footage of Shani Louk. German tattoo artist, half-naked,
paraded on a truck while people celebrated. Then months of stories she
was alive in a Gazan hospital, used to extort money from her family. I saw a Thai farmer gruesomely beheaded by a shovel while the perpetrator screamed with joy on camera.
You want to call that resistance? Go ahead. I'll call it what it is.

Criticising Hamas doesn't mean supporting the IDF. Find one line in this
thread where I defended an Israeli war crime. One.

You called me far-right. The far-right wants ethnic cleansing. I want a
two-state settlement and both sides held to the same legal standard...
which is apparently a controversial position in this thread.

Palestinians are people. Israelis are people. The children dying in Gaza
are a catastrophe. So is raising children to believe their highest calling
is killing their neighbour. You can hold both of those thoughts unless
you've decided one side's dead children count and the other's don't.

That's where critical thinking left the chat.
by sneak | 2026-02-28 18:47:42+00:00
> No, the OAuth token is supposed to be used solely with the context of a first-party app only.

The web doesn't work like that. The operators of google.com saying you must only use Chrome to load it is a ridiculous concept. It's not spoofing to use your own access credentials on your own computer to access your own account on an HTTP API.
by antasvara | 2026-02-28 18:47:42+00:00
Take something like the integers (1,2,3,etc.). They are infinite; given an integer, you can always add 1 and get a new integer.

However, there are "gaps" in that number line. Between 1 and 2, there are values that aren't integers. So the integers make a number line that is infinite, but that has gaps.

Then we have something like the rational numbers. That's any number that can be expressed as a ratio of 2 integers (so 1/2, 123/620, etc.). Those ar3 different, because if you take any two rational numbers (say 1/2 and 1/3), we can always find a number in between them (in this case 5/12). So that's an improvement over the integers.

However, this still has "gaps." There is no fraction that can express the square root of 2; that number is not included in the set of rational numbers. So the rational numbers by definition have some gaps.

The problem for mathematicians was that for every infinite set of numbers they were defining, they could always find "gaps." So mathematicians, even though they had plenty of examples of infinite sets, kind of assumed that every set had these sorts of gaps. They couldn't define a set without them.

Cantor (and it seems Dedekind) were the first to be able to formally prove that there are sets without gaps.
by azernik | 2026-02-28 18:47:47+00:00
Not entirely accurate:

1. Many Israeli Jewish Zionists are either "traditional" (religious but not that much) or Religious Zionist, and they are generally part of the right wing coalition. Actual atheists tend to be in the Israeli (still-Zionist) left.

2. The Zionist conception of Jewish identity is not "racial" in the American sense. The most obvious sense in which this is true is that it considers converts and their descendants full members of the nation. Probably the closest analogies are some Native American nations' identities or Armenian nationalism.

But you're directionally correct - Zionism is not a particularly religious ideology within the Jewish world, and outside of the Religious Zionist minority the political class is (openly!) on the less observant end even on the right.
by kubb | 2026-02-28 18:48:07+00:00
Israeli have a diverse spectrum of religious denominations. Dati Leumi (the religious Zionists) are by far the most hawkish. They want all of the biblical land. They account for about 15% and are incredibly politically influential.

The Haredim (the ultra-Orthodox) are more complicated, and in general don't want all the land (they believe that the state established militarily/politically isn't the "spiritual" state that was promised). But, when it comes to the currently occupied land, they have been shifting right in recent years. They vote in coalition with the nationalist right, and their communities increasingly overlap geographically with settlements.
by xp84 | 2026-02-28 18:48:41+00:00
I switched to a product called StrongBox which is an Apple-specific app (iOS and Mac clients) that uses standard KeePass vaults. Various free clients exist which I use for my Android and Windows devices, and you can sync using either direct integration with Dropbox, OneDrive, etc, or use the device’s filesystem and sync it to whatever you like that way. It supports passkeys as well and you can have your iOS devices save your passkeys in StrongBox instead of the Apple thing.

The UI isn’t quite as slick as old versions of 1PW were, but since 1PW went Electron I don’t see a difference in quality.

I still refuse to rely on iCloud’s functionality for this since it is a one-way door, giving you no native way to export your vault without painful, one-at-a-time password typing. I had to do that once to escape 6 years ago — never again. Literally every other password manager lets you export a plaintext CSV.
by Saline9515 | 2026-02-28 18:48:45+00:00
Well this is not fascism, this is, as you said, a populist regime.

The far left loves to categorize everything at its right as "fascist". The infamous Berlin wall was the "antifascist protection wall". In Yugoslavia, you'd hear every day at the radio a rant about the "fascists", even though the country was communist.

There are many definitions of what "fascism" is. The best I think is to refer to the historical italian fascist government, to understand it.

Btw presidential immunity is not fascist, many countries have similar laws.
by aerhardt | 2026-02-28 18:49:02+00:00
The article is hard to read, paywall notwithstanding, and tells us very little about Herzog's book other than that the critic didn't like it.

I really appreciate Herzog as an artist. I think Grizzly Man is a unique piece of art, and Herzog's commentary is an integral part of it - original, and very worth listening to.

Tonight I was planning to watch either Fitzcarraldo or Aguirre after having listened to Herzog on the Freakonomics podcast earlier this week. But after hearing about the book there, I was really put off by some of the things he said and concluded that the book would be a hard pass for me. Nothing persuaded me that he had anything interesting to add - neither rationally, nor aesthetically - about a topic which has been covered by philosophers throughout the millennia.