MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-26 15:22:06+00:00
Switching topics? We've been discussing the reasons for the 2nd Intifada. The Israelis reneging on Oslo was the fundamental reason for it.

> Your own timeline does not name any massacre that happened before it began.

Huh? I've mentioned the massacres that Israeli forces carried out in the aftermath of Ariel Sharon's storming of the Temple Mount several times now.

> The US-led Mitchell Report is explicit: Sharon’s Temple Mount visit did not cause the Intifada

You cite the Mitchell Report when it agrees with you, but ignore it when it disagrees with you.

The Mitchell Report explicitly states that the PLO had no premeditated plan to unleash violence.

In fact, it says that the proximal cause of the 2nd Intifada was the massacre that Israel carried out on 29 September 2000 against Palestinian protesters. Those protests were in response to Sharon's storming of the Temple Mount.

The report says that after that massacre, neither side showed restraint, which caused the violence to escalate.

So the report that you yourself are citing as an authority turns out to agree almost 100% with what I've been telling you all along.

> Oslo did not promise a Palestinian state or rapid final withdrawal.

Actually, Oslo II lays out a very specific timeline for Israeli withdrawal, to be completed within 18 months (by mid-1996!).

More generally, the Oslo Accords were sold as a rapid path to a two-state solution. If the Accords weren't about a two-state solution, then the Palestinians were completely swindled by the Israelis.
Show HN: SupaSidebar – I made Arc's sidebar universal for every browser
by supasidebar | 2026-02-26 15:22:06+00:00
Hey HN! I was very early adopter of Arc. as a dev, I enjoyed useful shortcuts (like copy URL), vertical sidebar, command panel, and other cool features. when TheBrowserCompany left Arc, i also switched browsers but missed all those cool features. so I decided to make Arc’s features universal.

Meet SupaSidebar - Arc-like sidebar for all browsers

Here’s what the app can do:
- Save links, files, and folders from any browser or Finder
- Fuzzy search current open tabs, browser history, and saved links
- Open saved links in any browser with just a click
- Common browser history across browsers
- iCloud sync
- Link browser profiles to Spaces and quickly switch between them
- Built-in sidebar feel with fullscreen, overlay protection, auto show/hide etc.
- Global shortcuts, Air Traffic Control, AI tagging, and more

here's a demo video: [SupaSidebar Demo](https://youtu.be/OimIUO0PSAk)

Free to use for up to 3 Spaces. Native Swift/AppKit, no Electron.

Still in development and I’m making it better daily, so any feedback would be appreciated.
by adverbly | 2026-02-26 15:22:14+00:00
Did this guy actually write this?

Incredibly long and verbose. I will fall short of accusing him of using an AI to generate slop, but whatever happened to people's ability to make short, strong, simple arguments?

If you can't communicate the essence of an argument in a short and simple way, you probably don't understand it in great depth, and clearly don't care about actually convincing anybody because Lord knows nobody is going to RTFA when it's that long...

At best, you're just trying to communicate to academics who are used to reading papers... Need to expect better from these people if we want to actually improve the world... Standards need to be higher.
by hn_acker | 2026-02-26 15:22:21+00:00
My primary reason for posting this article is the First Amendment violations of taking/destroying writings/drawings and writing supplies, especially in response (retaliation?) to previous writings.

Relation to tech:

> They said detainees have lost access to Gmail and other Google services in the Dilley library amid stepped up searches, seizures and restrictions on communications, making it more difficult for them to contact lawyers and advocates.

> They and family members said guards sometimes hover within earshot during detainees’ video calls to relatives and reporters.
by _pdp_ | 2026-02-26 15:22:21+00:00
Yah. You are describing basically every youtube I have seen on openclaw use-cases: news digests, morning debriefs, etc. I am sure this is useful but not something that you specifically need sub-agents for.

In the context of coding assistants sub-agents are mostly useful to breakdown a more complex tasks in smaller chunks so that refactoring can be done without loosing context. But this is a completely different problem domain that requires burning through a lot of tokens.

In theory I get why it might be useful but what I am trying to say that applications at the moment are limited due to the fact that it is just overkill for most AI interactions.
by mindslight | 2026-02-26 15:23:00+00:00
It seems from the same vein of bullshit as "Trump Derangement Syndrome" - the fascists have projected their own "motivated by attempts at taking down major societal institutions, attempting to cause political and societal chaos, or otherwise committing violent acts somewhere without a cohesive ideological worldview" onto some ambiguous and changing other, to preempt such labels being applied to themselves.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-26 15:23:18+00:00
> Tesla's Fremont factory was the former NUMMI plant (GM/Toyota, operating since 1962). It was grandfathered in. When Tesla needed to expand battery production, they built the Gigafactory in Reno, Nevada — not California — because the permitting for battery cell manufacturing was effectively impossible. The Cybertruck factory went to Austin, Texas.

His point was that they were grandfathered in for making cars in general. But he flat out lies about making batteries being something grandfathered in. That wasn't a battery manufacturing plant to begin with.

And he further lies to say they had to build elsewhere because cell manufacturing was "effectively impossible" because they expanded the factory for cell manufacturing in 2023. [1]

[1] https://electrek.co/2023/06/09/tesla-snaps-new-location-frem...
by john_strinlai | 2026-02-26 15:23:28+00:00
>There are many definitions of illegal (criminal, civil, regulatory, the much much looser “license to operate” as used in chemical industry, etc).

yes, but i am not sure why this matters here. i am not aware of negative references, in general, being illegal under any of those definitions of illegal.

no one would say regular speech is illegal just because it can be subject to a defamation lawsuit. same logic.

but i agree, if it is a real business, it seems exceptionally risky.
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-26 15:23:57+00:00
It sounds like OP thinks AI companies should just stop pretending that they care about the public benefit, and be corporations from the start. Skip the hand wringing and the will they/wont they betray their ethics phases entirely since everyone knows they're going to choose profit over public benefit every time.

That model already exists and has worked well for decades. It's called being a regular ass corporation.
by epic_ai | 2026-02-26 15:24:02+00:00
This week I ran a small performance experiment out of curiosity.
I tested 25 popular websites across news, SaaS, e-commerce, and developer tools.
Method:
Chrome DevTools (Performance + Network tabs)
Lighthouse (default settings)
Throttled to “Fast 4G”
4× CPU slowdown
Cold cache
Measured until first reliable user interaction
I wasn’t trying to embarrass specific sites, so I won’t name them individually.
A few patterns stood out:
1. JavaScript payload size
Median JS transferred: ~1.8MB
Several exceeded 3MB
A few crossed 5MB
This is before any meaningful user action.
For comparison, many early 2010s sites shipped <200KB total (HTML + CSS + JS combined).
2. Time to interactive
Many pages visually loaded in 1–2 seconds.
But:
Main thread blocking frequently exceeded 400–900ms
Multiple long tasks >50ms
Hydration delayed input responsiveness
The UI appeared ready, but input latency was noticeable.
3. Third-party script impact
Common stack per site:
Analytics
Tag managers
A/B testing
Chat widgets
Ads or tracking pixels
In multiple cases, third-party scripts accounted for ~30–50% of total blocking time.
4. Framework baseline cost
Modern frontend stacks introduce structural overhead:
Hydration runtime
Component abstraction layers
Client-side routing
Polyfills
Even “simple” pages often include a non-trivial runtime footprint.
5. Perception vs reality
Skeleton loaders and progressive rendering improve perceived speed.
But CPU work and memory usage remain significantly higher than minimal server-rendered pages.
This isn’t a critique of any specific framework.
We’ve gained:
Rich interactivity
Real-time collaboration
Complex client-side apps
But we’ve also normalized multi-megabyte initial payloads as acceptable.
Curious how others think about this tradeoff.
Is this simply the cost of modern UX expectations, or are we under-optimizing by default?
by cogman10 | 2026-02-26 15:24:28+00:00
> Tesla's Fremont factory was the former NUMMI plant (GM/Toyota, operating since 1962). It was grandfathered in. When Tesla needed to expand battery production, they built the Gigafactory in Reno, Nevada — not California — because the permitting for battery cell manufacturing was effectively impossible. The Cybertruck factory went to Austin, Texas.

What part am I misreading? How is it that tesla expanded their cell manufacturing in 2023 in California when it was "effectively impossible"?
by Nathanba | 2026-02-26 15:24:35+00:00
it's not an either or, they can easily let me configure any kind of behavior that I want. No cap, a hard cap, a soft cap, a cap that I program with a python script, a cap where I throttle, a cap where I opt in to deleting certain machines to save money. It can all be done. People are complaining because obvious features are not provided. People would not be complaining if they had all the options that we needed to control how to scale resources in response to load, not just technical load but also financial load.
by __cayenne__ | 2026-02-26 15:24:36+00:00
Didn't observe any cheating attempts at the JS level yet, the primary attack was LLMs trying to find local creds to access the other LLM's per round strategies from inside the harness (which ultimately was OpenCode running in Docker).

In the benchmark, in each round every LLM plays every opponent, and then we do that multiple times (an "epoch").

In the community ladder, when a player submits a strategy it plays a match against the latest strategy submitted by every player.
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-26 15:24:40+00:00
It's a fairly mainstream position among the actual AI researchers in the frontier labs.

They disagree on the timelines, the architectures, the exact steps to get there, the severity of risks. Can you get there with modified LLMs by 2030, or would you need to develop novel systems and ride all the way to 2050? Is there a 5% chance of an AI oopsie ending humankind, or a 25% chance? No agreement on that.

But a short line "AGI is possible, powerful and perilous" is something 9 out of 10 of frontier AI researchers at the frontier labs would agree upon.

At which point the question becomes: is it them who are deluded, or is it you?
by bogzz | 2026-02-26 15:24:44+00:00
Does anyone have insight into, or an interesting source to read, on what exactly Anthropic/OpenAI are doing/can do for a military? Reporters are unsurprisingly fearmongering about Claude "being used in surveillance, autonomous robots, and target acquisition" but AFAIK all Anthropic does is work with LLMs.

Are people really attempting to have LLMs replace vision models in robots, and trying to agentically make a robot work with an LLM?? This seems really silly to me, but perhaps I am mistaken.

The only other thing I could think of is real-time translation during special ops with parabolic microphones and AR goggles...
by re-thc | 2026-02-26 15:24:52+00:00
> I think OpenAI has better chance to winning on the consumer side than everyone else.

Which doesn't make money.

> Of course, would that much up against hundreds of billions of dollars in capex remains to be seen.

Most of that is a bet against enterprise adoption. Automation of customer service, sales, marketing, warehouses, medical discoveries, etc...
by dhosek | 2026-02-26 15:24:54+00:00
I’m one of those, although I tend to de-emphasize this fact in most of my social interactions (not just writing related) since people tend to react weirdly to learning that I program computers for a living. Instead, the bio for my writings says, “[he] spends his days as an insignificant cog in the machinery of corporate America.”

I’ve had modest success with a few dozen stories and poems published over the last dozen years, but I don’t expect it will ever be a major source of income for me.
by impish9208 | 2026-02-26 15:25:07+00:00
The ArtHoles podcast did a series on Caravaggio. Every time you think the story can’t get any crazier, it redoubles its craziness. There’s the plague, murders, prostitutes, corrupt cardinals, papal pardons, deadly duels, Maltese knights and, oh, some of the best artwork in history. What a (short) life he lived!
by DoughnutHole | 2026-02-26 15:25:13+00:00
Nuclear advancements slowed down due to PR problems from clear and sometimes catastrophic failure of commercial power plants (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima) and the vastly higher costs associated with building safer plants.

If anything the weapons kept the industry trucking on - if you want to develop and maintain a nuclear weapons arsenal then a commercial nuclear power industry is very helpful.
by hulitu | 2026-02-26 15:25:22+00:00
> Even setting aside the Epstein affiliation, did the Russian spy angle just not occur to him?

Ha, ha. Imagine a Russian women doing "something" to Gates and whispering in his ear: Can you tell me some undocumented Windows functions ?
Or asking him what else did he found in garbage cans (ah, sorry, recycle bins) at Xerox.
Show HN: I built a conditional political donation system (demo)
by powerback | 2026-02-26 15:25:34+00:00
Over the past few years I’ve been building POWERBACK, a web platform that experiments with applying conditional escrow mechanics to campaign finance.

Instead of donating directly to a campaign, users commit funds under a publicly defined condition. Funds are intended to be collected up front and released only if the condition is met. (If the condition is not met, funds are not refunded and instead support the platform.)

Conditions must be externally verifiable and rule-based.

The current v1 focuses on a single condition: whether H.J.Res.54 (a proposed constitutional amendment from Congresswoman Jayapal to overturn Citizens United) receives a floor vote in the House.

This demo does not collect funds, create accounts, or process payments. It is an interactive walkthrough of the mechanics and UI flow.

The intended full version includes authentication, payment via Stripe, and automated condition resolution.

Technical stack: MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node), VPS deployment with Nginx reverse proxy, JWT auth in the full build, and background watchers for legislative updates.

The hard problems have been structural rather than technical: defining objective conditions, avoiding discretionary fund control, ensuring neutrality, and designing something that does not resemble a quid pro quo.

I’m interested in feedback on the escrow model, incentive alignment, legal edge cases, and whether the mechanism is clear.

Demo: https://demo.powerback.us

Happy to answer questions.
by skydhash | 2026-02-26 15:26:10+00:00
I do agree with you that there's a skill tree for any practical work to be done. And nodes can be simple or hard. But even if there are dependencies between them, the nodes are clearly separated from each other and some are shared between some skill sets.

If you take the skill tree you need to be a kernel contributor, it does not take much to jump over to database systems development, or writing GUI. You may argue that the barrier entry for web dev is lower, but that's because of all the foundational work that has been done to add guardrails. In kernel work, they are too expensive so there's no hand holding there. But in webdev, often enough, you'll have to go past the secure boundary of those guardrails and the same skill node like advanced data structures and concurrency will be helpful there.

Kernel dev is not some mythical land full of dragons. A lot of the required knowledge can be learned while working in another domain (or if you're curious enough).
by amno | 2026-02-26 15:26:18+00:00
I have read through your pdf and I think you make a best case for Lisp I have read in last few years.

We could just imagine who programming languages would look like if we abandoned the specialized notations like Haskell or C++, of which C++ really starts to show up that such notations are probably a dead-end. Or if B. Eich was allowed to use Scheme as the built-in scripting language for Netscape. Perhaps we would not need XML and/or Json even Yaml as machine interchange and description formats?

Anyway, I am not familiar with Futamura and yaml spec, your texts in the repo, and your project is the first time I see this. I did a webserach and have read through the Wikipedia page on Partial evaluation which talks about Futamura projections. But can you please ELI5-me about your project: is this a yaml parser generator or is this a DSL/PL language parser generator? Can I specify few rules in a language of my choice, say C, and it will generate a yaml parser and test suite in C language? Or does it mean I can specify a parser for a programming language, say C or a DSL, as yaml production rules in language of my choice, say Common Lisp, and it will generate a parser for C or that DSL in Common Lisp? Or do I understand this completely wrongly? :)

How does this project compares to something like tree-sitter? This AST you build, I have just glanced over it thus far, or use under the hood, could that be exposed somehow, or is it already, to the application? For example, could we build a server in Common Lisp, that reads this various language specs, builds an AST and gives us answers on questions like: is this position in a code for a function definition, or in a comment, and similar? In other words, could we use it for a tool that gives information about meta-data from the source code so we could use it to build tools like LSP servers, indentation servers, syntax highlight and such? Just a curious question, forgive me if I misunderstand what this does.

Edit: was looking a bit around and found a nice intro into Futamura projections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZe8ojn7goo.

This is awesome :). Thanks.
by tarasyarema | 2026-02-26 15:26:47+00:00
I mean you can check the closed PRs in the repo, 95% of them were done by the swarm. And a similar pattern is happening for our customer facing products.

I think you focused on the bonus point, rather than the first part (which is the relevant one).

https://github.com/desplega-ai/agent-swarm/pulls?q=is%3Apr+i...
by adithyassekhar | 2026-02-26 15:26:50+00:00
There's this thing called power of defaults.

If a setting is default, if an app is presented on the front they'll continue to use it as it is. The crowd here always overestimates how competent/interested the general public are in these things.

99.9% (source: my life) of users never even open the second level of the settings app. 99% don't even open the settings app. They don't know how much they can even change or care.

iPhones auto surfacing airpods to pair with was not for convenience it was a necessity. People don't know how to pair with bluetooth. Now android does it as well.

There's a generation that grew up with appliances that accounted for their mistakes rather than failing. There's no need to learn or understand how something works.
by afavour | 2026-02-26 15:26:54+00:00
Sure, when you get rid of the timelines and the methods we'll use to get there, everyone agrees on everything. But at that point it means nothing. Yeah, AGI is possible. So is curing all known diseases. How will we do that? Oh, I don't know. But it's a thing that could possibly happen at some point.

If you claim "AGI is possible" without knowing how we'll actually get there you're just writing science fiction. Which is fine, but I'd really rather we don't bet the economy on it.
by DARSHANFOFADIYA | 2026-02-26 15:27:01+00:00
As we scale to 1MN context length (inference) the biggest bottleneck is memory and to tackle that at scale we pay the price of communication overhead. Now fortunately the gpus are smartly fetching data for the next step while the previous step is computing thus masking the communication overhead and keeping responses at such scale appear realistic.

The quality degradation as context length increaes is a whole another science problem
by scottLobster | 2026-02-26 15:27:12+00:00
> Every frontier tech company is convinced that the tech they are working towards is as humanity-useful as a cure for cancer, and yet as dangerous as nuclear weapons.

Maybe some of the more naive engineers think that. At this point any big tech businesses or SV startup saying they're in it to usher in some piece of the Star Trek utopia deserves to be smacked in the face for insulting the rest of us like that. The argument is always "well the economic incentive structure forces us to do this bad thing, and if we don't we're screwed!" Oh, so ideals so shallow you aren't willing to risk a tiny fraction of your billions to meet them. Cool.

Every AI company/product in particular is the smarmiest version of this. "We told all the blue collar workers to go white collar for decades, and now we're coming for all the white collar jobs! Not ours though, ours will be fine, just yours. That's progress, what are you going to do? You'll have to renegotiate the entire civilizational social contract. No we aren't going to help. No we aren't going to sacrifice an ounce of profit. This is a you problem, but we're being so nice by warning you! Why do you want to stand in the way of progress? What are you a Luddite? We're just saying we're going to take away your ability to pay your mortgage/rent, deny any kids you have a future, and there's nothing you can do about it, why are you anti-progress?"

Cynicism aside, I use LLMs to the marginal degree that they actually help me be more productive at work. But at best this is Web 3.0. The broader "AI vision" really needs to die
by philipallstar | 2026-02-26 15:27:27+00:00
> And on the "hiring risk" point: why should that risk be shifted onto workers, who have far less power, money, and protection than firms

Firms are just other people. They take on more and more risk. These days in the UK HR departments they often say you can't let someone go even in their probation period. Think how a experimental and risky a hire is, and how easy it is to quit a job that might not be any good vs how hard it is to get rid of an employee who isn't any good.
by sigbottle | 2026-02-26 15:28:14+00:00
You're thinking too advanced. What kind of automated system is good at scanning semantically trillions of chat logs and finding nontrivial correlations, for example? 10000 codex 5.1s can easily crawl through that in a few days, probably.

It's just systems plumbing (surveillance) and AI. It's a combination of weaker technologies and consolidation of power.

This does not require a physical robot super AGI(though I would not be surprised if fully autonomous robots are not on the table already)
by biztos | 2026-02-26 15:28:21+00:00
> Reducing the pollution costs a lot of money, and can make your product non-competitive.

Make it non-competitive with what?

With products made via "poison outsourcing" so other people can suffer what we refuse to suffer ourselves?

Seems like if an economy like the US or the EU actually wanted to, they could pretty easily say it's the clean way or no way at all, and voila, these things would magically be competitive again.