MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by js8 | 2026-02-27 16:28:53+00:00
I wasn't really sure how to respond, it seemed obvious to me, so I put your question with the two comments into Claude. I genuinely think it gave a great response. I encourage you (or anybody) to try yourself next time, but here it is:

The second person was essentially unpacking the phrase "the market" to reveal who it actually represents. Here are the top 3 interpretations of their point:

1. The market isn't a neutral arbiter — it's a voting system where money is the vote. When we say "the market decides," we're really saying that people with more money have more say. A billionaire's preference for a luxury yacht counts for vastly more than a poor person's need for affordable housing. So "market outcomes" aren't some objective measure of what society wants — they reflect what wealthy people want.

2. The first person's critique is correct, but misdirected. By saying "the market" is indifferent to people's well-being, the first commenter was almost treating the market like an external, autonomous force. The second person is saying: it's not some mysterious system — it's just rich people's preferences given structural power. The problem isn't the abstraction called "the market"; the problem is inequality in who gets to participate meaningfully in it.

3. The language of "the market" obscures a political reality. Calling something a "market outcome" makes it sound natural, inevitable, and impersonal. But framing it as "rich people's preferences dominate resource allocation" makes it sound like what it actually is — a political and social choice about whose interests get prioritized. The second person is essentially calling out the ideological function of the word "market" as a way to launder what is really a power structure.

The three interpretations overlap, but they emphasize different things: the mechanics of how markets work, the validity of the first person's critique, and the rhetorical/political role of market language respectively.
by omoikane | 2026-02-27 16:29:27+00:00
I have a second edition. I got it because there was some review that portrayed it as a mysterious creepy thing, but it wasn't that creepy at all. The art is well done and fun to look at, and it's a fine balance of something that you feel like you have figured out but just slightly evades your understanding.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/LLFrSW9XQLUqc8348

I paid $110 for it in 2013. They put out a new edition every few years with a few extra pages added, so I am sure my copy has declined in value since.
by margalabargala | 2026-02-27 16:30:12+00:00
> But your opponents still have a point: imagine an encyclopedia with an entry on pornography, where they included a full-color, photograph of a page from an old Playboy (perhaps one where they didn't actually show any of the naughty bits), purely as illustration. It hits all the criteria you mention, but the photograph is still inappropriate for school and superfluous. It's legitimate for the school, school board, or whoever is funding the library to refuse to pay for such an encyclopedia, on a account of that photograph. It was a poor choice by the publisher.

I would have absolutely no problem with this existing in a middle or high school.

> you seem to be responding to a character to a drama you've got going in your head.

I was just applying the same false dichotomy and "so your argument is" logic you've been applying to others in this thread. I was wondering whether it would 1) appeal to you, 2) make you realize the error of your approach, or 3) reveal hypocrisy. Now I know.
by oblio | 2026-02-27 16:30:13+00:00
IDEs, graphical debuggers, etc.

It's extremely weird that 40 years after TurboPascal, 30 years after Delphi and VBA, we've only regressed in terms of truly integrated development environments.

Heck, even programming languages have regressed. Python and Javascript are less type safe than Java circa 2005. Even though we have technology needed to make type safe languages much more ergonomic, since then.
by techblueberry | 2026-02-27 16:30:54+00:00
Maybe not and maybe you shouldn't. But I feel like the real story here isn't what Anthropic is saying, but that while Anthropic seems to be bending over backwards to give the Defense Department exactly what they need, defining two of the most reasonable red lines that most American would agree with and are already likely illegal, Pete Hegseth in return is threatening the continued existence of their company.

So let's see what happens tonight at 5:01PM but Anthropic isn't really the story here.
by plaidfuji | 2026-02-27 16:31:32+00:00
Yeah… turns out you have to keep a certain balance of domestic industries to keep 350 million people employed in a capacity where they don’t want to burn down the whole system. But that would be socialism.

Now you’ve got the people whose jobs suck and want their old jobs to come back vs the people whose jobs suck and just want to dispense with the illusion that everyone needs to be employed. Either way, the money-generating corporate automaton needs to cough up some of its profits to fund people’s existence. If everyone could just agree on how, maybe they’d get somewhere.

Meanwhile, I will continue to cling to my slice of the corporate automoton pie.
by nubg | 2026-02-27 16:31:44+00:00
This whole standoff could set a very important precedent of the Trump administration not getting what they want, and not in a "maneuvered out of the news spotlight" kind of way (e.g. Greenland), but in a public "FUCK OFF right in your face" kind of way.

The worst that can happen to Anthropic is one of the two things mentioned; loosing some contracts or some fake forced management from the Pentagon. maybe Dario having to leave, certainly a loss for him and people who believe in him but probably nothing world-changing.

The worst that can happen to the Trump administration is the beginning of its end, when people realize you can simply stand up to their bullying and with all the standoffs they have going on in parallel, maybe they will die a death by a thousand cuts?
by flaburgan | 2026-02-27 16:32:01+00:00
I am using duckduckgo for a decade. But especially, I am using Firefox Saved searches a lot. I type mdn in the bar, and it searches in the Mozilla developer network. osm is openstreetmap, so is stackoverflow, w is Wikipedia, yt is YouTube... I often know on which website I will find the info anyway, so I use less a generic search
by jeffreygoesto | 2026-02-27 16:32:02+00:00
A Philips engineer visited our chair end of the 90s and told the same about the size "the cassette could be handled with one hand, let's keep that". He also told us they designed their delicate test equipment so that it would fit on a 1st class seat but not 2nd, so when they had to sit next to it during the flight (much too sensitive stuff to check in), management had to book them 1st class flights to Japan. ;)
by muddi900 | 2026-02-27 16:32:21+00:00
Actually it is the other way around; every upstart claims that their invention is the mostest revolutionariest thing ever. 99.9% of them are not. The nay sayers are right most of the time.

Recent high-profile examples include Segway, NFT, Crypto as a whole, pre-tranformers voice assistants and various "Design Thinking" projects like those Amazon prime buttons.
by shad42 | 2026-02-27 16:32:35+00:00
Mendral co-founder here, we built this infra to have our agent detect CI issues like flaky tests and fix them. Observing logs are useful to detect anomalies but we also use those to confirm a fix after the agent opens a PR (we have long coding sessions that verifies a fixe and re-run the CI if needed, all in the same agent loop).

So yes it works, we have customers in production.
by ZenoArrow | 2026-02-27 16:32:44+00:00
Haha, are you trying to suggest you'll have lost much by putting an AI tool to the test? You seem to think it's powerful enough to do the work of porting Alpine Linux (or equivalent) to new hardware without human intervention (beyond the initial prompt), what exactly are you losing by trying this out? It's not your time, as you would have spent less time on giving a simple instruction to an AI tool than you spent in talking to me.

Perhaps the reality is that you know AI needs more hand-holding than this, and the tools aren't up to the task you're thinking of setting them.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-27 16:32:57+00:00
I like MT/BSD, so I don't care if someone stick two fake wiggle eyes to a potato and make it program. (There is the attribution problem, but let's ignore it.)

But I expect people that like GPL and AGPL to be really really really annoyed.

>> How much of this was AI-generated?

That part is getting boring. If someone start the sentences with a capital letter and end them with a period, some idiot will claim it was written by AI.
by Yizahi | 2026-02-27 16:33:03+00:00
We have an ongoing effort in parsing logs for our autotests to speed up debug. It is vary hard to do, mainly because there is a metric ton of false positives or plain old noise even in the info logs. Tracing the culprit can be also tricky, since an error in container A can be caused by the actual failure in the container B which may in turn depend on something entirely else, including hardware problems.

Basically a surefire way to train LLM to parse logs and detect real issues almost entirely depends on the readability and precision of logging. And if logging is good enough then humans can do debug faster and more reliable too :) . Unfortunately people reading logs and people coding them are almost not intersecting in practice and so the issue remains.
by softfalcon | 2026-02-27 16:33:18+00:00
> Adding types on top of that isn't a protocol concern but an application-level one.

I agree with this.

I have had to handle raw byte streams at lower levels for a lot of use-cases (usually optimization, or when developing libs for special purposes).

It is quite helpful to have the choice of how I handle the raw chunks of data that get queued up and out of the network layer to my application.

Maybe this is because I do everything from C++ to Javascript, but I feel like the abstractions of cleanly getting a stream of byte arrays is already so many steps away from actual network packet retrieval, serializing, and parsing that I am a bit baffled folks want to abstract this concern away even more than we already do.

I get it, we all have our focuses (and they're ever growing in Software these days), but maybe it's okay to still see some of the bits and bytes in our systems?
by whoami4041 | 2026-02-27 16:33:42+00:00
"LLMs are good at SQL" is quite the assertion. My experience with LLM generated SQL in OLTP and OLAP platforms has been a mixed bag. IMO analytics/SQL will always be a space that needs a significant weight of human input and judgement in generating. Probably always will be due to the critical business decisions that can be made from the insights.
by sathish316 | 2026-02-27 16:34:15+00:00
SQL is the best exploratory interface for LLMs. But, most of Observability data like Metrics, Logs, Traces we have today are hidden in layers of semantics, custom syntax that’s hard for an agent to translate from explore or debug intent to the actual query language.

Large scale data like metrics, logs, traces are optimised for storage and access patterns and OLAP/SQL systems may not be the most optimal way to store or retrieve it. This is one of the reasons I’ve been working on a Text2SQL / Intent2SQL engine for Observability data to let an agent explore schema, semantics, syntax of any metrics, logs data. It is open sourced as Codd Text2SQL engine - https://github.com/sathish316/codd_query_engine/

It is far from done and currently works for Prometheus,Loki,Splunk for few scenarios and is open to OSS contributions. You can find it in action used by Claude Code to debug using Metrics and Logs queries:

Metric analyzer and Log analyzer skills for Claude code - https://github.com/sathish316/precogs_sre_oncall_skills/tree...
by borroka | 2026-02-27 16:34:18+00:00
At first, I was a bit selective about my applications (meaning I was applying to maybe 5 positions per week, not one per month), but in the last six months, I have sent dozens of applications for positions (real or fake, I don't know) that I thought were appropriate for my skills and experience (director, manager, some senior IC positions, not even staff).
I have no problem relocating; I could do so in 15 days (I currently live in California).

I also contacted hiring managers via email and LinkedIn, but I received virtually no response.

At this point, you might think that there is something wrong with me (professionally speaking), that I have a bad reputation of some kind, but that is not the case.

The market is clearly telling me that there is no need for someone with my credentials on paper. Many people find jobs, even quite easily, and millions of people are employed in the tech industry. But thousands of people in the tech industry are also looking for jobs every day and have a stronger network than I do. Either they are looking for you, or they are looking for someone like you, and in the latter case, there are you and hundreds of others.
Have I really tried everything? No, but I've tried a lot.

I want to make it clear that I was presenting my case in response to a question and that this is not a “poor me” post (in fact, I am anonymous and there are no links to my real identity). I am in a privileged position: I have decent savings and can get by for quite a reasonable time, but it is certainly quite disconcerting, disorienting, frustrating, and, frankly, sometimes humiliating not even to get an interview, or a call back.
by SoftTalker | 2026-02-27 16:34:20+00:00
> what it ultimately ended up being was rare but really obvious in retrospect, I think most doctors would have checked for it

I'm not so sure. Doctors are trained to check for the most common things that explain the symptoms. "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras" is a saying that is often heard in medicine.

ChatGPT was trained on the same medical textbooks and research papers that doctors are.
by gaigalas | 2026-02-27 16:34:33+00:00
That's nice.

It also makes sense to give tools for open source developers. Sometimes we need to test compatibility (does my repo play nice with that harness/ide/etc?). This in turn makes that repo be more solid for the paid tool, which is a potential way of attracting users for both. It has been done by others (like JetBrains IDEs).
by sigseg1v | 2026-02-27 16:34:40+00:00
I had this opinion recently until I started using the Figma MCP with Claude to import my live app into Figma Make, get it to edit things where it actually understands layout and margins and what looks good, and then pull it back into the app with MCP. I was shocked at how good it works. Sure, Claude sucks at CSS, but Figma nails it even for the worst designed pages.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-27 16:34:41+00:00
On PC, it looks like I'm using this, from the end of January: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.69.0

And also this, from a couple of weeks ago: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/147.0.4/releasenotes/ (with Linux, but that probably doesn't matter at all)

And that's about it. I recently pruned some other Firefox extensions while troubleshooting ompletely unrelated issues, and all that's left is uBlock Oorigin, Dark Reader, and BitWarden.

Seriously, I've had no recent issues with Youtube ads at all and certainly none in January or February of this year. It's been smooth-enough for me on all of the platforms I mentioned before (and I use them all quite a lot, except perhaps for the BFT).

I wonder what's different on your end?
by onion2k | 2026-02-27 16:34:45+00:00
I think it'd be surprising if money is the limiting factor in Gemini's success considering Google has very deep pockets, so that's probably not true.

Also, Gemini with DoD money and DoD direction is likely to result in an AI that works very well for the DoD but significantly less well for other things, especially if your use case benefits from some guardrails (and most use cases do, because you rarely want AI to just do whatever fancies.)
by randusername | 2026-02-27 16:35:08+00:00
Agreed. I would have chosen differently, but I appreciate the policy is unambiguous and explained succinctly with references.

Some people enjoy the outcome, others enjoy the process.

I find the criticism interesting. It's like one restaurant saying they'll use only electric stoves for the climate, then chefs all over the world calling them stupid naive for it.

It's like ethical arguments rationalizing local behavior are automatically interpreted as a global attack that has to be rejected.
by theamk | 2026-02-27 16:35:09+00:00
Why not? College parking fines is a good example - they can write any parking rules they want (it's their property), and they can print tickets and place it on people's windshields. They cannot put driver in jail or block their registration, but they can prevent someone from graduating or even install wheel clamps on someone's car, as long as that car is on the private property and the driver was warned.
by keiferski | 2026-02-27 16:35:20+00:00
I wouldn't do the Portugal option unless you have a path toward it growing in the future. Otherwise you may find yourself at age 46, making 1500 euros a month, and basically unable to actually set yourself up for a life.

Maybe that means getting citizenship in 5-7 years, then moving elsewhere in the EU. Maybe it means something else.

In your situation, I would probably stay in Turkey and build up a career / wealth, with the specific point of picking something that's portable. Not sure if Turkish CPA requirements are portable, or how well they convert to EU/USA/etc. standards. Then in 5-10 years, think about moving to the West, if you still desire to do so.

The money you've invested now is a sunk cost and is irrelevant in the long term.
by oersted | 2026-02-27 16:35:40+00:00
It'd be interested in seeing how exactly the lawyers figured out how to define AGI. It must be a fairly mundane set of KPIs that they just arbitrarily call AGI, the term will probably devalue significantly in the coming years.

The actual quote is this though:

> hitting an AGI milestone or pursuing an IPO

So it seems softer than actually achieving AGI or finalising an IPO.
by stephenr | 2026-02-27 16:35:40+00:00
> the syntax is not intuitive even knowing the simpler forms of redirection

The MDN page for arrow functions in JS has, I shit you not, 7 variations on the syntax. And your complaint is these are not intuitively similar enough?

call > output

call 2>&1

call > output 2> error

call 1> output 2> error

Give me a fucking break.
by bwfan123 | 2026-02-27 16:35:56+00:00
Seeing this phenomenon, a silicon valley entrepreneur get an idea with the following sales pitch:

"Turd-bars that will make you the fittest version of yourself , answer all your deepest questions, and take you to the promised land (mars)."

Surprisingly, the turd-bars sell well, and GDP rockets up. Meanwhile VCs with fomo are funding its competitor: the shit-sandwich.
by ramoz | 2026-02-27 16:36:16+00:00
I haven't cared too much about repo tokens in a good while.

But my coolest app was a better context creator. I found it hard to extend to actual agentic coding use. Agentic discovery is generally useful and reliable - the overhead of tokens can be managed by the harness (i.e. Claude Code).

https://prompttower.com/
by jppope | 2026-02-27 16:36:24+00:00
Interesting story for sure (to be clear I'm not talking about the writing by Reuters), but would you buy or skip the OpenAi IPO?

To me it feels like one of those throw some play money into it and see what happens sort of situations. Expect it will return negative due to the raw financials and outlook, but small chance the brand carries enough weight with the public that it spikes.

I'd love to hear other thoughts though
by ai-christianson | 2026-02-27 16:36:30+00:00
The scale here is what's truly staggering—tracking over 100 senior officers purged since 2022 suggests this isn't just routine anti-corruption, but a fundamental reshaping of the PLA's leadership. It's hard not to see the historical parallels being mentioned here. Much like Stalin's purges of the Red Army before WWII, there's a massive trade-off between political loyalty and operational competence. Replacing decades of institutional knowledge with "yes men" might secure the regime internally, but as history shows, it often leaves the military brittle and prone to catastrophic failure when actually tested on the battlefield. If the goal is regional power projection, hollowed-out command structures are a massive strategic liability.
by amitp | 2026-02-27 16:37:21+00:00
Some of these banks are ridiculous. HDFC bank insists that I send them my photo id, address, phone number, and my Indian id number to prove that I'm not their customer. I tried explaining that I don't have an Indian id number because I don't live in India but they insisted they can't help me unless I provide all of this. Then they sent me legal notices threatening me for not paying "my" bills. I send all their stuff to spam now.
by TimorousBestie | 2026-02-27 16:37:22+00:00
Article doesn’t demonstrate a good understanding of DoW’s relationship with contractors. Anthropic wanted those sweet, sweet, taxpayer dollars—well, this is what happens when you make a Faustian bargain.

> One option is to invoke the Defense Production Act. . .

> Another threat would be to declare Anthropic to be a supply chain risk. . .

The first is a wrist-slap that still gets the government what they want; the second is an existential threat to Anthropic. Their main partners are all “dogs of the military”. Microsoft, Intuit, NVIDIA: all government contractors. I can’t find one company that they have a working relationship with that doesn’t hold at least one govt contract.

The idea that Claude could alignment fake its way out of a change in contractual terms is silly. The DoW has all sorts of legal and administrative tools it can choose to leverage against contractors that fail to perform. Usually it doesn’t, because of a “norm” that says the private defense sector runs more smoothly when the government doesn’t try to micromanage it.

Remind me again how good this administration is at upholding norms?
by daxfohl | 2026-02-27 16:37:29+00:00
Also this rewards dynamic languages over typed languages, penalizes comments, descriptive function names, etc. Though frankly, it'd be interesting to see whether AI would work better with a project in Javascript that barely fits in context, or the same thing in typescript that overflows. I could imagine either, but my guess is "it depends". Though, "depends on what" would be interesting to know.

Still, this seems useful for being able to see at a glance. I have no idea where most of my own projects would land.