MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cobolcomesback | 2026-02-27 23:57:04+00:00
The DoD’s spend on cloud contracts is measured in single-digit-billions per year. It’s peanuts compared to the hyperscalers investments in Anthropic.

Think of it this way: each of the hyperscalers have built a handful of data centers specifically for government contracts. A handful each.

Meanwhile, AWS has specially built over 50 new data centers solely for Anthropic to train new models.
by verdverm | 2026-02-27 23:57:05+00:00
I'd put it somewhere in the middle, but closer to the pull end.

- I force the AGENTS.md into the system prompt if the agent reads a directory, or file within, that contains one such file. This is anecdotally very good and saves on function calls and context growth in multiple ways. Sort them. I'm now doing this with planning and long-term task tracking markdown files.

- Everything else is pull, ideally be search, yet to substantially leverage subagents for context gathering. Savings elsewhere have pushed the need out.

btw, hi Al, I see you are working on a new company since our last collaboration, want to catch up sometime and talk shop?
by alephnerd | 2026-02-27 23:57:32+00:00
JWCC is not the only project. Vendors like Crowdstrike also rely on hyperscalers to serve their products to federal customers, and the codebase is shared.

This announcement has made Anthropic toxic in the entire dependency chain because it means years of efforts and tens to hundreds of millions of dollars rearchitecting entire platforms and renegotiating contracts.

The entire cybersecurity industry has a TAM of $208 BILLION [0]

[0] - https://www.bccresearch.com/market-research/information-tech...
by DivingForGold | 2026-02-27 23:57:36+00:00
Supply chain risk ? Seems the risk here is the US Gov't wanting free reign to do whatever they want - - when they want.

Look no further than the famous expose by Mark Klein, the former AT&T technician and whistleblower who exposed the NSA's mass surveillance program in 2006, revealing the existence of "Room 641A" in San Francisco. He discovered that AT&T was using a "splitter" to copy and divert internet traffic to the NSA, proving the government was monitoring massive amounts of domestic communication.
by lacoolj | 2026-02-27 23:57:56+00:00
Feels like they're trying to implement a new wide-reaching protocol/spec by requiring it by law first, then expecting someone to magically develop something, and god forbid it's a different standard than anyone else's.

By next January there will be 30 different methods of age input signalling between OS and application. And then by 2030 we might have the top 3 adopted as established defacto standards.

somewhat related-ish https://xkcd.com/927/ :)
by moregrist | 2026-02-27 23:57:58+00:00
If OpenAI folded, you’d have the one LLM company that consumers know suddenly gone. Which seems like the opposite of an AI success story.

People will start looking at valuations more carefully. Investors will get jittery. Spending on GPUs will drop, as will NVidia’s stock price.

I’m not sure that NVidia views OpenAI as replaceable.
by mavhc | 2026-02-27 23:57:59+00:00
Going to Mars takes about the same delta-v as the moon.

SpaceX launches 80% of the world's mass to orbit, they probably know what they're doing.

Starship is an extremely hard problem, and their aim is to reduce cost of getting mass to orbit by another 10x after Falcon 9 did the same.

Falcon 9 needs about 4% of fuel to land on a ship, 14% to return to launchpad

Why would you say they've had 100% failure rate? What did you think the reason was to launch and how did it fail?
by Bender | 2026-02-27 23:58:08+00:00
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup

Curious how they plan to do this. Maybe digital rights management tied to TPM. If so it will take 3 ... 2 ... 1 .... cracked ... spoofed. DVD's were cracked with Perl. Curious what language this will be cracked in.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-27 23:58:27+00:00
I've got a relatively early printed book, from 1575. It's a book about plants [1]. It's in old french and although I'm a native french speaker it is definitely not an easy read. Now it's as alien as the old english text in TFA but then it's from 1575, not 1000. If you take "french" from 1000, I take it it'd basically as unreadable for a native french speaker as that "english" text is for a native english speaker.

[1] btw my daughter loves that book because we gave her the name of a plant and that plant is described in that old book... But I only found that out way after she was born.
by sarchertech | 2026-02-27 23:58:31+00:00
So here’s some of the evidence that we have

The Xinjiang Police Files: A 2022 leak of over 5,000 police photos, internal documents, and spreadsheets revealing the scale of detention, with images showing prisoners shackled, hooded, and under guard in 2018.

The China Cables (2019): Leaked, classified instructions on how to run the camps, including directives to ensure "no escapes" promote "repentance" and use full video surveillance.

Satellite Imagery Analysis: Researchers from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) identified over 380 suspected detention sites, including new construction and expansion, often featuring guard towers and razor wire.

Testimonies and Research: Former detainees have reported torture, rape, forced sterilization, and intense indoctrination to abandon their religious and cultural practices.

Government Documentation: The Karakax list, a leaked document, provided detailed, case-by-case justifications for detention, such as having too many children or wearing a veil.

Are you this incredulous when someone reports that the US locks up more Black people capita than White?
Someone defending the US could make the same claims you are that everyone is out to make the US look bad. That multiple independent groups are fabricating evidence etc…
by davidw | 2026-02-27 23:59:28+00:00
I saw this the other day:

> Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

https://bsky.app/profile/mtsw.bsky.social/post/3lnbrfrvmss26
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-02-27 23:59:38+00:00
This is a pimple on the arse of said consequence. It's one tiny thing in a chain of many bigger things.

It's magnified because it's right now, but this won't affect midterm results barely a whisker compared to many other daily headlines.

There are no serious enemies to this administration in SV and I can't see this changing that. SV has bent the knee exactly like Anthropic didn't. They're not going to stand up because of this, they've proven they don't have those muscles.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-27 23:59:42+00:00
> there might be a casino somewhere near there.

That's approximately my whole point. We have zoning laws. We have age verification laws. We have lots of ordinances about what is and isn't appropriate in public and around children and similar. You can't open a strip club across the street from a public school and I think that's a very good thing.

The vast global unfiltered internet is increasingly pervading our lives. I think it is entirely reasonable to enact minimal regulation that stems the tide with respect to a narrowly defined goal.
by bitwize | 2026-02-28 00:00:16+00:00
Claude Code isn't smart in its own right. LLM "intelligence" is really just other people's intelligence ground up into a thought-slurry and piped through your PC. The irony is, things like emulators for popular systems are absurdly good targets for LLMs because they've been done so many times before that there's lots of training data for such a thing to draw from—but an emulator is also the sort of project which, because it's been done so many times before, the biggest benefit a programmer will get from writing a new one is the learning experience of doing it on their own.
by chronostates | 2026-02-28 00:01:21+00:00
ChronoStates (chronostates.io) is an interactive alternate-history worldbuilding and narrative engine that blends simulation gameplay with AI-assisted storytelling and publishing tools. At its core, ChronoStates lets you explore historical “what if” scenarios or build your own worlds from scratch using decision-driven event chains with cascading in-game consequences. Instead of static timelines, choices you make change world-state variables like politics, culture, alliances and technology as you progress.
by lovich | 2026-02-28 00:01:41+00:00
You should take up a day job in comedy

> I don't like trump and I think this is a travesty. However, he has objectively done more. Biden did nothing for peace in Gaza. And it's not like Biden didn't have a lot of levers to pull. He simply refused to pull any of them because he full heartedly supported Israel's actions. I wish he didn't.

Trump is advocating for Israel to go whole hog while Biden tried, and I agree failed, to rein them in but Biden is the one you classify as fully supporting their actions?

Also in your third source

> The source said that Hamas has already handed over arms and tunnel schematics “through a mechanism that has not yet been revealed.”

Totally happened bro just trust me

You’re also ignoring the air drops for aid, inb4 you yell that people died from the crowds of hungry people rushing in for some food.

If you think Trump is better for the Palestinians than Biden despite all evidence and stated goals, then I kinda just think you have a mental issue going on. good luck
by tgma | 2026-02-28 00:01:54+00:00
How did you get the "destroy your company" part? If HN sentiment is any evidence, they are even more popular than before. GPU is a constrained resource and I am sure they are going to have enough business to saturate what they got. I'm certain they would have just removed (and still will remove) two paragraphs from the terms had it really "destroyed their company."

> full power of the US government

Haha, I can assure you that is not even close to the full power of US government. Ask the crypto people during Biden admin for just a little more power (still not even close to "full.")
by meatmanek | 2026-02-28 00:02:04+00:00
For the truncated session logs issue, it sounds like it's auto-compacting the context (or just truncating it), because LLMs can only handle a finite amount of context.

I haven't used Perplexity, but many LLM harnesses like Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, etc. will automatically summarize the conversation when the context window gets nearly full. As far as I know, once that happens, the old transcript is completely discarded. (I could be wrong though.) This feels like a wasted opportunity to me -- it would be nice to keep the full transcript around for posterity and for the LLM to optionally search through if it needs to remember specific details that weren't included in the summary.
by joeljoseph_ | 2026-02-28 00:03:04+00:00
[Experimental Project]

I use both OpenAI Codex and Claude Code daily on the same codebase. The biggest pain — they don't share memory. Claude fixes a bug, Codex repeats it next session. Every session starts from zero.

So I built Open Timeline Engine — a local-first engine that captures your decisions, mines patterns, and gives any MCP agent shared memory.

It also support gated autonomy
by kypro | 2026-02-28 00:03:29+00:00
I can't answer this for you because it's objectively very subjective, but if I were to give advise it would be to minimise regrets. Which option, if you didn't make it, would you regret more?

I'd also add that "menial" work can be really enjoyable... My favourite job ever was working in retail. On paper it was the most "menial" job I ever had, but it was also by far my favourite. If I could have a good quality of life working a job like that again, I do it in a heartbeat.

Finally, you don't know how things will play out. I had a "good job" early on in my career which I thought I'd never leave because I didn't think I'd find something better. Then I lost my job and within a year my life trajectory had completely changed, and for better. This change in trajectory was largely a direct result of me losing my job. You have no idea what opportunities might await you. If you're a smart person you'll find interesting things to do wherever you are.
by philipp-gayret | 2026-02-28 00:04:04+00:00
You write to Claude in the way in which you wrote this comment. The LLM is designed for the most part to be a conversantional partner. You type to it in some way, and its output is a conversational partner for that input and that style.

"without any form of prompt injection". What do you mean? Your input is what makes the LLM output this style. You gather documentation about what exactly? That your style of writing generates this output? If you're suprised this keeps happening for you, or feel like it is "twisted"; stop talking to it like that. This is bordering on AI psychosis and I agree with the other commenter.
by mh2266 | 2026-02-28 00:04:36+00:00
Do all of the employees want to move to Europe suddenly? Unless it’s the UK or Ireland, do they speak the local language? If it is the UK or Ireland, do they prefer the weather in California? Do they have children in school or in college locally? Do they have family they’d rather not move 9 time zones away from? Elderly parents they’re taking care of?
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-28 00:04:39+00:00
I'm just a geek who studies wires (and anything using them) for fun, and sometimes for profit. I work with wires in some capacity nearly every day. Sometimes low-voltage, sometimes RF, sometimes mains, and seldom fiber. Every now and then I get to bend some pipe or work with tightly-specified systems like Motorola R56.

My grandfather did rural electrification for the power company (bringing light bulbs, motors, and safe electric heat to the agricultural industry) until he retired, so I had good opportunities to get a solid understanding at a very early age.

In terms of licensing and rules: The area of Ohio I'm in has never adopted the NEC for normal residential homes. That means no permits needed for household electrical work, no licensing required, and no inspections -- there's nothing to permit or license or inspect when there are no adopted rules to judge against.

So we've got a much richer DIY culture surrounding electricity here than many places have and we still somehow succeed in not burning down entire neighborhoods.

But that means I don't have a journeyman card. I've never needed one. At home, I follow the NEC even though I don't strictly need to (and I'm frustrated as hell that public standards like this aren't freely available by design). For jobs at work, there's almost always already a preferred electrical contractor and/or staff electricians, and we're not trying to compete in that space. The sparkies and I can chat on like terms and get good things done together, and I think we both finish up these jobs with a bit of new knowledge about the others' trades.

But I did try a written practice test once. A lot of it was very easy for me. The parts that were hard were the bits I've never had to worry about. Like the rules about conduit fill, feeder ampacity, and derating: I know of those concepts well enough to ask the right questions and find good answers, but those are things I never interact with -- they're beyond the scope of what I normally do.

And I could learn those things and understand them and get through the whole test just fine, but then: In order to get a card, I'd also need to work as an apprentice for at least 2 years and that's just not very likely to happen. :)
by etchalon | 2026-02-28 00:04:39+00:00
The operating system needs to be involved because its the easiest set of actors to penalize for non-compliance.

There are essentially two desktop operating systems, Windows and macOS. Linux is a decimal point and too fractured to worry about.

There are essentially two mobile operating systems, Android and iOS. And while Android is fractured, Google still has reasonable control they can exert.

This is (weirdly) the smart way to do this type of law.

Make the consumer OS providers add an age signal. That property can be bound to an account with the inability to change it.

Behold, "universal enough" parental controls which will require only a handful of lawsuits to litigate.
by nephihaha | 2026-02-28 00:05:18+00:00
I agree with you. Kochanski was meant to be a fun loving girl who ended up working on a mining ship and made the best of it, not a stuck up snob who liked to crack bad jokes about the second city of Vietnam. If Kochanski had been the genius that Chloe Annette played then she probably would have found work elsewhere. They did fix CA's version of the character a bit later on.
by marssaxman | 2026-02-28 00:05:24+00:00
For most modern guns, it would be the firing pin, also called the "striker". Nobody manufactures microstamped guns, but if they did, the striker is a $20 part you can replace in ten minutes - or you could just spend half an hour on target practice at your local range, because 200 rounds are apparently enough to wear the etching down to illegibility.
by arduanika | 2026-02-28 00:05:52+00:00
I can see both sides as pertains to Trump's initial decision to stop working with Claude, but now, this over-the-top "supply chain risk" designation from Hegseth is something else. It's hard to square it with any real principle that I've seen the admin articulate.

> What I don’t understand is why the two parties couldn’t reach agreement.

Someday we'll have to elect a POTUS who is known for his negotiation and dealmaking skills.
by cobolcomesback | 2026-02-28 00:06:18+00:00
> because it means years of efforts and tens to hundreds of millions of dollars rearchitecting entire platforms and renegotiating contracts.

This is exactly why this announcement has not made Anthropic toxic. The entire industry knows how ridiculous this move is from Hegseth, and it’s going to be rolled back next week once the adults get back from their weekend.
by uean | 2026-02-28 00:06:33+00:00
Thanks for the reply.

"They" is exclusive. "We" is inclusive. One goes with the other. The point I was getting at was that when you use that language in a discussion it comes off as if you are directly involved, rather than commenting from the outside, or having an opinion.

I didn't want you to use "we" either :) Here's your comment, rewritten twice, that fits in better with HN rules and avoids emotion:

> The left are also absolutely shameless about lying and feel no obligation to stick to facts or data, but rather appeal to and cultivate ignorance, binary thinking, fear, us-versus-them thinking, and scapegoating. In short, the left's propaganda is more effective because they lean into it being propaganda.

> The right are also absolutely shameless about lying and feel no obligation to stick to facts or data, but rather appeal to and cultivate ignorance, binary thinking, fear, us-versus-them thinking, and scapegoating. In short, the right's propaganda is more effective because they lean into it being propaganda.

As you can see, I couldn't tell which side you were talking about. I hope the above example helps. A lot of political discussion denigrates to us-vs-them. It is not helpful.
by defrost | 2026-02-28 00:06:41+00:00
> some version of it’s been passed in the UK and Australia.

Really? Can you expand on the version of Australian legislation that requires an OS to have age verification?

The AU legislation I'm aware of requires various social media sites to verify that users of those sites are not under some age, 16 or so.

That is not a constraint on the OS or on potential users, that's a legal requirement for Social Service providers.
by msephton | 2026-02-28 00:06:55+00:00
Some early CDs were mastered with pre-emphasis. On players that don't recognise and correct (de-emphasize) this, the sound can sound full of treble. Every hardware CD player should be able to play such discs as intended. iTunes knows about such discs and will rip them correctly, maybe Foobar2000 and CUERipper, but most other software has no clue. I know The Blue Nile "Hats" it's one such disc in my collection. I believe some pressings of The Nightfly were mastered with pre-emphasis. https://www.tnt-audio.com/vintage/procrustes2_pt1_e.html
by puppycodes | 2026-02-28 00:07:03+00:00
Help me understand the line Anthropic is drawing in the sand?

Don't get me wrong i'm glad they are unwilling to do certain things...

but to me it also seems a little ironic that Anthropic literally is partnered with Palantir which already mass surveills the US. Claude was used in the operation in Venezuala.

Their line not to cross seems absurdly thin?

Or there is something mega scary thats already much worse they were asked to do which we dont know about I guess.
by jongjong | 2026-02-28 00:07:06+00:00
We can actually get a glimpse of how AI might wipe out humanity here.

Model collapse making models identify everyone as a potential threat who needs to be eliminated.

Companies should have a right to refuse such requests on moral grounds though.

This stance is vindictive. Just don't use Claude in the military. Extending it to all government agencies is not right. They do great work. Can't deny that.
by XorNot | 2026-02-28 00:07:25+00:00
> Starting with a box they want to put in the basement of the Pentagon where Antropic can't just switch off the ai.

They already have that. By definition. If Anthropic has done the work to be able to run on classified networks, then it's already running air-gapped and is not under Anthropic's control.

The thing is, just because you're in a SCIF doesn't (1) mean you can just break laws and (2) Anthropic don't have to support "off-label" applications.

So this is not about what they have and what it can do today - it's about strong-arming anthropic into supporting a bunch of new applications Anthropic don't want to support (and in turn, which Anthropic or it's engineers could then be held legally liable for when a problem happens).