MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thephyber | 2026-02-25 03:19:54+00:00
All of the coverage of this is about the negotiation points of Anthropic vs Pentagon.

Anthropic doesn’t want their software used for certain purposes, so they maintain approval/denial of projects and actions. I suspect the Pentagon doesn’t want limitations AND they dislike paying for software/service which can be withheld from them if they are found to be skirting the contractual terms.

And THAT is why the Pentagon is using maximum leverage (threatening Anthropic as a supply chain risk label).
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-25 03:20:54+00:00
You weren't concerned by Tesla recalling 5.1 million cars in 2024, more than Ford, and recalling the Cybertruck 5 times in 18 months[1]?

You weren't concerned by Consumer Reports ranking Tesla in last place out of 26 manufacturers for reliability[2]? Or their quality control so poor that customers are buying their own delivery inspection checklists[2]?

You weren't concerned by Tesla Owners reporting Tesla authorized repair centers keeping their cars for months unable to source parts to repair them, or consumers unable to buy replacement parts[3]?

You weren't concerned by the worker awarded $130M for hostile work environment filled with racial abuse at a Tesla factory, after paying another worker $1M for racist abuse at their factory, and facing a class action about racist discrimination[4][5][6]?

You weren't concerned about Tesla's telemetry tracking all details about every drive and sending it back to HQ to train their FSD?

You weren't concerned by any of Musk's behaviour, such as his misleading statements about FSD delivery dates and abilities for years, about the sportscar that would jump with compressed air, about the Cybertruck and Semi truck abilities, about the Hyperloop, about getting Tesla to buy his cousin's failing SolarCity, about trying to get a trillion dollar paycheck out of Tesla, etc?

[1] https://www.carscoops.com/2025/04/which-tesla-models-have-ha...

[2] https://www.carscoops.com/2025/04/which-tesla-models-have-ha...

[2] https://www.jalopnik.com/teslas-quality-control-is-so-bad-cu...

[3] https://www.teslaownersonline.com/threads/tesla-cant-supply-...

[4] https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/usa-form...

[5] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-laws...

[6] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/18/business/tesla-black-work...
by pksebben | 2026-02-25 03:22:05+00:00
It's that second point. We live in an age of artificial scarcity created by a system of social organization that we've mostly not argued about since the 50s, that's now showing it's stretch marks.

If it weren't for the need to 'earn' a living, I'd say to the other two points: Por que no los dos? Save for the capital argument (which is valid, I'm not saying it isn't. You will starve if you don't make money), why is it necessarily true that the two (AI and people) are in competition?

In fact, I think "actual" artists would benefit incredibly from the use of AI, which they could do if it weren't a shibboleth (like I said, for good reason). You'd no longer have to have an army of underpaid animators from vietnam to bring your OC to life - you could just use your own art and make it move and sing. We'd not need huge lumbering organizations full of people who, let's be honest, work there making other people's dreams come to life in large part because it's a better bet than taking a joe-job at the local denny's (after all, you're doing the thing you love even if it isn't truly "yours").

I've had this discussion with younger folks, who are legitimately shook by the state of things. They're worried that all the work they've done to this point is going to be moot, because they've correctly assessed that the whole capital system isn't going anywhere any time soon, and they've been prepping to try and get a job at netflix, or disney, or paramount - because that's the world we've handed them. They see those positions drying up and what else are you going to do? They have the power financially and politically and without them you're doing "not art" for work, which sucks because you need to work.

I say; eat the rich. General wildcat strikes until UBI. Tax the everloving shit out of capital gains and peel back personal income taxes. We (the millenials) were handed a steaming pile of shit for a world, so at least we know what would constitute not an absolute disaster for Zeds, Alphas, etc. Have I gone totally off the rails for a conversation about AI? Actually, I don't believe so. The cultural pushback is a function of a busted system. After all, it's the economy, stupid.
by ignoramous | 2026-02-25 03:22:48+00:00
> intellectual(1), but evil(2), people love to play make pretend ... argue endlessly ... understanding of the real world and empathy (in questions of ethic/moral) but ... nit picking stuff like as if the word is just a game you find holes in the rules with to "cleverly win"

I get what you're trying to say, but ...

> playing devil advocate

One look at my comment history on this topic should help dispel the notion.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-25 03:23:36+00:00
Fascinating, thank you!

Playing around with it, seems that Safari simply stops hyphenating entirely when when text-wrap is pretty, regardless of whether it's justified or not. (If you smoothly resize the browser width, it makes it pretty easy to tell if hyphens ever come up.)

Which means the image on the left seems like it might be the wrong image?

And now I wonder if text-wrap: pretty is supposed to avoid hyphenation? Are hyphens not pretty? Or is it just a partial implementation by Apple, that they haven't gotten around to supporting hyphenation for it yet?
by CGamesPlay | 2026-02-25 03:23:55+00:00
> if I start the agent in ./folder then anything outside of ./folder should be off limits unless I explicitly allow it, and the same goes for bash where everything not on an allowlist should be blocked by default.

Here's the problem with Claude Code: it acts like it's got security, but it's the equivalent of a "do not walk on grass" sign. There's no technical restrictions at play, and the agent can (maliciously or accidentally) bypass the "restrictions".

That's why Pi doesn't have restrictions by default. The logic is: no matter what agent you are using, you should be using it in a real sandbox (container, VM, whatever).
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-02-25 03:23:58+00:00
Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840321 And more developments and analysis since:

An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367744

Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468283

Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544610
by SEJeff | 2026-02-25 03:24:33+00:00
I did some research for a large financial library we were helping maintain to improve CI and did a writeup on the best way to redo the ci for:

* pushing a container image to docker hub

* pushing a sdk to npm

* pushing a rust crate to crates.io

* publishing a cli executable and some docs to GitHub as a release

We settled on a eeeily similar approach as caddy sans the release proposal. We are also heavily focusing on trusted publishing and attestation (via cosign) for any platform that supports it.

I went through this today and it is just work of art. Mohammed Al-Sahaf Is an artisan in CI, truly.
by dvt | 2026-02-25 03:24:51+00:00
> I usually tell them to just look at what game developers are doing for pathfinding.

The example in the article doesn't quite apply, as baking pathfinding given a mesh (like baking lighting) isn't really the same thing as what A* pathfinding is (just how it's not the same thing as, e.g., raytracing). So I'm not sure if I fully agree with the logical inference there. In my defense, I know nothing about etching PCBs, so I'm likely missing something.
by sarchertech | 2026-02-25 03:25:06+00:00
You don't know that you had access though based on what you said. You think you might have had access looking back.

>I could have easily gotten a teenager to get me cigarettes (and drugs, but I didn’t know what those were really). I had also already tasted alcohol. Any of this I could have stolen from any number of places.

You never tried it so you have no idea how well it would have worked. You really think those teenagers would have kept giving you cigarettes for free? You didn't even know what drugs were so I don't know how you could possible know there were teenagers you knew who would have just given them to you.

Again I'm sure you could have stolen a few cigarettes, or a few bottles of alcohol. But your parents would have smelled both on you or caught you quickly because 8 year olds are idiots. Then they would have cut your access to teenagers or locked up their liquor better. And because of age restriction laws, that's all it would take for them to keep you away from it.

It doesn't sound like you have kids and it's probably been a while since you were 8, but you are severely overestimating the ability of a 2nd grader to get away with anything.

>but lacking that, it was my parents

Of course it was your parents. Mandatory ID laws aren't going to stop terrible parents from letting their kid have a beer every night before bed time. They make it easier for well well meaning parents to do the right thing and keep their kids out of stuff they shouldn't have.

Again minimum age and ID laws have been proven to reduce access and reduce alcohol and cigarette use. Even if you were some kind of criminal genius 2nd grader capable of stealing a few bottles of wine a week, you would be an outlier. There's no room for debate that these laws have their intended effect.
by aschla | 2026-02-25 03:25:07+00:00
Cancelled my Prime subscription last month after the past year of worsening experiences with Amazon:

Received several orders that were returned items, with broken open packaging and sometimes the item was something else entirely, purely put there for weight by whoever returned it.

When I went to return some things at a major Amazon distribution center, the return area was closed for the week for some sort of construction or renovation, with no indication of that anywhere on the site. The only messaging was a piece of paper in the window once you got there.

At another separate major distribution center, the return area was a small room with pieces of paper taped to a door with an arrow pointing to the Amazon lockers where the returns are accepted.

Orders are now often so delayed that it makes the Prime subscription pointless. Have had multiple orders over the past year that didn't ship for 3 or 4 days.

Amazon listings are almost half Sponsored listings now, and there are unrelated ads on the side of listings.

Half of the listings are some random made-up brand name, like XIJGNU, which is just a Chinese seller selling low-quality products, and when the reviews get bad enough, they re-list the product under another made-up brand name.

Fake reviews were already rampant before LLMs, but now reviews are effectively useless because they are so easy to fake.
Show HN: Reunited My Cats in Code – yet another lightweight OpenClaw alternative
by zane__chen | 2026-02-25 03:25:39+00:00
# I Reunited My Cats in Code

Pickle is yelling for food right now. She does this 8PM everyday.

Cookie was her step-brother. The chill one. He lives somewhere else now.

So I reunited them in code - Pickle handles the chat, Cookie handles the memories. They're still together.

---

Okay, enough cat story.

I built *pickle-bot* - yet another lightweight OpenClaw alternative.

OpenClaw is incredible, but I wanted to understand how agents work. So I built my own:
- Runs on Raspberry Pi
- A clean and manageable codebase
- Create agents, add skills, schedule crons
- Chat via CLI, Telegram, Discord
- Web Search, API server, all good stuff.

*Chatting with "Pickle" while Pickle yells at me? Just so much fun.*

Check the repo: [pickle-bot](https://github.com/zane-chen/pickle-bot)

Pickle is mine. Bring your own cats :)
by defrost | 2026-02-25 03:26:25+00:00
@godelski clearly indicated 8 days ago they were not referring to to formal ZIP files.

Your misunderstanding might be due to not being exposed to long standing casual usage of "zipping" something up to include many archiving formats, a number of which do include lossy compression methods.

Congrats on being a 15 year old developer, though .. some of the folk kicking about on HN wrote the books(?) you may have read.
by koalux | 2026-02-25 03:27:16+00:00
I built Puzzme out of pure nostalgia. Growing up, I loved those physical 3x3 sliding puzzles. After recently resigning from my career as a process engineer, I finally found the time to recreate that experience for the web.

As a kid, once I solved a 3x3 puzzle, the only way to get a new challenge was to buy a different version with new art. Now, using what I’ve learned in web development, I’ve made it so anyone can turn their own gallery photos into a custom puzzle.
by echelon | 2026-02-25 03:27:29+00:00
Folks have little appreciation for how soon we're all about to transition to something new.

I don't know what that entails, but something is going to happen.

I got into a discussion with some Rust compiler folks yesterday. I called Rust the "final human language we'll serialize our thoughts to": it's easy to write for LLMs, is super type safe, ergonomic, easy for humans to read and reason about, and has really nice deploy characteristics - single binary, no GC, bare metal, etc. If Python and Rust are equivalently easy to emit, you'll probably choose Rust if you're not bound to other choices.

People quipped back that this was absurd and that Rust is built for decades of future human use, that this kind of talk would put people off of Rust, and that they need to think of the future.

As if anything will be human in the coming decades.

Programming languages were punch cards.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-25 03:28:34+00:00
It should, and that SOP is essentially always going to say something like "file a tracking ticket and immediately forward to legal for all further conversation". It sounds like the author really was just trying to be a helpful guy, but the typical person who emails a company about "multiple GDPR violations" is absolutely trying to get them in trouble, and a random developer with no comms training risks putting their foot in their mouth in legally consequential ways.
by CGamesPlay | 2026-02-25 03:28:43+00:00
To me, the most interesting thing about Pi and the "claw" phenomenon is what it means for open source. It's becoming passé to ask for feature requests and even to submit PRs to open source repos. Instead of extensions you install, you download a skill file that tells a coding agent how to add a feature. The software stops being an artifact and starts being a living tool that isn't the same as anyone else's copy. I'm curious to see what tooling will emerge for collaborating with this new paradigm.
by akclr73 | 2026-02-25 03:29:58+00:00
Fantastic. Never coded? What's your background actually. What prompted you to build this? I am tech dude n mostly manage teams and have been coding less and less for the last several years. You would be open to sharing your github? This is tough place to continue chatting and any other your availble to chat like social media or slack or whatever it is. Cheers!!
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-25 03:30:40+00:00
This is very bad math on the part of the article. You can’t just take total revenue/number of households. I mean have they not heard of a little side business Amazon has called AWS?

Amazon is not just a US company either.

They also have an ad business. You could rightfully argue that ad spend gets passed on to the consumer.
by ethbr1 | 2026-02-25 03:31:02+00:00
The root issue is epistemological.

If one puts their faith in answers that come out of a black box, then one must justify the black box's omniscience, specifically by prioritizing it above human intellect and deprioritizing attempts to reason through its logic.

You saw it with older people blindly following sat navs because they'd forgotten how to navigate. And those were much less believable sounding devices!

It's not going to stop until/if the first execs are thrown in jail because the 'I just trusted AI' defense fails.
by adamtaylor_13 | 2026-02-25 03:31:10+00:00
Pre-tribulation rapture is a 19th century invention by John Nelson Darby that most Christians worldwide have never held. The entire Orthodox and Catholic traditions reject it. Treating it as 'what Christians believe' is like treating Mormonism as mainstream Islam. It tells you more about the speaker's ignorance of the subject than about the subject itself.
by zhongyongxu | 2026-02-25 03:31:37+00:00
Thanks for the brutal honesty — exactly what I needed.

Made a video demonstrating the method — comparing two paths: https://youtu.be/C2bAB-s-lb4

Still need that "video said no, saved $20k" real case. Running 3 free pilots now to get it.

48h in: 12 comments, 3 DMs, 0 "shut up and take my money" yet. Learning that method demos get "interesting" but case studies get buyers.

Know anyone with a feature they're debating? First validation is free in exchange for case study rights.

Re: solo vs seed — still torn. Who actually acts on validation data vs just wants reassurance?
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-25 03:31:37+00:00
Rust can't even dynamically link!

I'm super on board the rust train right now & super loving it. But no, code hot loading is not common.

Most code in the world is dead code. Most languages are for dead code. It's sad. Stop writing dead code (2022) was no where near the first, is decades and decades late in calling this out, but still a good one. https://jackrusher.com/strange-loop-2022/
IPnews: The IP Tool That Fixed My Global NetOps Workflow (No Fluff)
by Lumimoon | 2026-02-25 03:31:57+00:00
Network engineer here, managing 50+ global nodes. For months, my workflow was:
·2AM alert: Singapore node lagging
·Waste 2hrs troubleshooting, realize IP tool only shows “Malaysia” (country-level)
·Block legitimate users because free IP DB is outdated
·Repeat.
Then I switched to IPnews. Here’s the hard NetOps value:
·City/ISP-level global geolocation (pinpoints routing issues in minutes)
·Real-time risk scoring (blocks scanners/proxies before they hit servers)
·Stable API (integrates with Prometheus/Grafana, no timeouts)
·Bulk lookup (up to 3,000 IP addresses per query)
It’s not a “enterprise tool” with 100 unused features — it’s built for engineers who need accurate IP data to fix things faster.
If you’re in NetOps/DevOps managing global infrastructure, it’s worth the free tier test.
by smartbit | 2026-02-25 03:32:19+00:00
Using Enpass, migrated from 1Password when in need of a Linux client some 10years ago. As early user I was grandfathered into a free lifetime account and eventually was required to pay a discounted lifetime fee $70 through Apple, which I’m fine with, it’s Indian developers need to pay their rent too.

Enpass has all features I need, on all platforms including iOS. It syncs using the api of one of the free storage providers, WebDAV or even over WiFi. Having some 600 entries and a few attachments (copy of ID Cards etc) and never had any performance issues, nor issues with subdomains. Regular updates, most recently added PRF (Pseudo-Random Function) for passkeys. It lacks a command line client, which I can live with. Nor does it support the fingerprint reader on Fedora, instead has a pin option for quick unlocking.
by g-technology | 2026-02-25 03:32:21+00:00
Like saying putting paint on a brush and wiping it on paper is the easy part of painting.

Even with coding agents, there is still a need to understand what it’s doing, how it will interact with other systems, where bugs or edge cases will show up and many other aspects that become security risks when ignored by someone that YOLO’s their vibe coded app into production
by dmix | 2026-02-25 03:32:34+00:00
That sounds like quitter talk to me. There’s nothing China produces that America or Europe can’t figure out. There’s also nothing stopping them from doing it affordably (labour is only one small piece of the puzzle, but still one that is never static).

The main limitation is our own commitment to developing industry and keeping costs low. If nobody wants to sacrifice on how money is spent and rulemaking then yes China will remain dominant and all America can offer is high paid office jobs and costly protectionism. But the west has shown they won’t even solve basic economic issues like housing costs through supporting development, so I’m also a bit skeptical they will ever compete on anything on the open market besides high paid office jobs.
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-25 03:32:40+00:00
I felt compelled to write this email to 1password today:

Dear 1password,

Please stop trying to "innovate". I really like your password manager. That's all I want. I don't want "automatic watchtower AI phishing prevention" I just want a password manager that works across my devices. Make it simple, make it secure, and don't change it. You have a great product. Adding more features will only make it worse. If you keep this bullshit up I will churn.
by spoj | 2026-02-25 03:32:52+00:00
A lot of valid concerns against arb code execution in prod for security, performance, auditability etc.

However, I do resonate somewhat with the post if I think about some accounting processes.

Accounting is where I came from, and a lot of data processing we do is mostly determinstic, with some "smartness" or judgement sprinkled in. Take for example bank reconciliation, the basic process is to match bank statement lines with accounting entry lines. In practice, dates, descriptions, and amounts often mismatch between the 2 for various reasons (typos, grouped bookings, value date vs transaction date differences, truncated values). This impacts a lot of SME's and these basic accounting processes are still manual as you need eyeballing. You look at a typical back office excel spreadsheet and will understand this.

You can pre-program the matching rules up to a certain point until it becomes unmaintainable. Or you can use LLM to generate data-dependent matching logic on the fly. I think there is a space for the latter approach, if we keep the scope tight and well contained. As with all engineering, it's about the trade-offs.

Useful targets for LLM to generate can be subsets of sql statements (create views and selects) or pure functions (haskell?), where side effects are strictly limited and there is only data in - data out. I am toying with SQL idea myself (GH: https://github.com/spoj/taskgraph).
by niam | 2026-02-25 03:33:25+00:00
The discussion is probably better started from the question of "why should that data be centralized?" and "why should the government be able to purchase this data, and why are those reasons more compelling than the downsides?".

I have to guess that the folks clamoring to put computer vision "back in the bag" are somewhere on the margins, and resemble straw more than steel.
by LordDragonfang | 2026-02-25 03:33:35+00:00
It's a little weird, too, because Claude definitely isn't the only one approved for use on classified systems in general; both Grok and OpenAI have models approved, at the very least.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azuregov/azure-openai-authori...

https://x.ai/news/government
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-25 03:33:38+00:00
Let me check that claim using a dictionary:

mathematician /măth″ə-mə-tĭsh′ən/

A person skilled or learned in mathematics.

One versed in mathematics.

An expert on mathematics.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik

None of the definitions require creating or advancing mathematics.
by notpushkin | 2026-02-25 03:33:48+00:00
You can get it if you carefully adjust the window width! Or there’s one example in the author’s post – the word “implementation” is hyphenated for me [1].

So it looks like the algorithm tries to minimize hyphenation, which makes sense to be honest.

[1]: https://matklad.github.io/2026/02/14/justifying-text-wrap-pr...