MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lurkshark | 2026-02-24 23:32:12+00:00
Seems like the two main threats are Defense Production Act and Supply Chain Risk. I'd assume Anthropic would sue if either were invoked. I could imagine Supply Chain Risk being easier to push back on because it's pretty clearly being used punitively rather than because of an actual risk. DPA might be a bit harder to push back on if the banned functionality (i.e. mass surveillance and autonomous weapons) exists in the LLM itself and it's just a matter of disabling external checks. If the banned functionality is baked into the training data/weights directly they could probably push back on the DPA by saying the functionality isn't something they can reasonably create.

Only other precedent I can think of in the case where pushback fails is Lavabit with Edward Snowden's email, but I feel like Anthropic is too big to "fail" in the same way Lavabit did to avoid complying. The penalty for refusing to comply with the Defense Production act is $10k and/or a year in prison, but I think if the government actually pursued that they would burn a bunch of bridges and Amodei would be a folk hero.
by em-bee | 2026-02-24 23:32:13+00:00
you are ignoring that even among animals, and mammals specifically the amount of nurture vs nature varies a lot. some animals, especially those who are prey, are born with the capacity to run. others are born blind or weak and need more nurturing before they can get around on their own.

but no matter which animal you look at, none of them spend nearly two decades or more in training their children before letting them go off into the world. (ok, the orang utan comes close with 8-12 years, but that includes everything they ever have to learn for their life before they go off to live on their own, unlike humans who don't stop learning from their parents until they have children of their own)

how can you even argue that the influence of nature on humans is comparable to any animal in the world? regardless of the classification of humans
Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back
by Humanista75 | 2026-02-24 23:33:58+00:00
Hi HN,

I wanted to share a web game I’ve been building in HTML, JavaScript, MySQL, and PHP called LINEX.

It is primarily designed and optimized to be played in the mobile browser.

The idea is simple: you have an 8x8 board where you must place pieces (Tetris-style and some custom shapes) to clear horizontal and vertical lines.

Yes, someone might think this has already been done, but let me explain.

You choose where to place the piece and how to rotate it. The core interaction consists of "drawing" the piece tap-by-tap on the grid, which provides a very satisfying tactile sense of control and requires a much more thoughtful strategy.

To avoid the flat difficulty curve typical of games in this genre, I’ve implemented a couple of twists:

1. Progressive difficulty (The board fights back): As you progress and clear lines, permanently blocked cells randomly appear on the board. This forces you to constantly adapt your spatial vision.

2. Tools to defend yourself: To counter frustration, you have a very limited number of aids (skip the piece, choose another one, or use a special 1x1 piece). These resources increase slightly as the board fills up with blocked cells, forcing you to decide the exact right moment to use them.

The game features a daily challenge driven by a date-based random seed (PRNG). Everyone gets exactly the same sequence of pieces and blockers. Furthermore, the base difficulty scales throughout the week: on Mondays you start with a clean board (0 initial blocked cells, although several will appear as the game progresses), and the difficulty ramps up until Sunday, where you start the game with 3 obstacles already in place.

In addition to the global medal leaderboard, you can add other users to your profile to create a private leaderboard and compete head-to-head just with your friends.

Time is also an important factor, as in the event of a tie in cleared lines, the player who completed them faster will rank higher on the leaderboard.

I would love for you to check it out. I'm especially looking for honest feedback on the difficulty curve, the piece-placement interaction (UI/UX), or the balancing of obstacles/tools, although any other ideas, critiques, or suggestions are welcome.

https://www.playlinex.com/

Thanks!
by balder1991 | 2026-02-24 23:34:10+00:00
I guess the thing here (which they admit in the post) is that they’re just porting it to Vite, which is the real champ of the story. The LLM basically worked as a translator instead of rebuilding the whole thing from scratch.

So maybe the project is sort of maintainable, as long as people maintain Vite.
by tills13 | 2026-02-24 23:34:50+00:00
I get the gist here but I hate the tone of these sorts of posts. Imagine being a NextJS developer, pouring your heart and soul into it day after day, knowing the codebase inside and out, and seeing some dude on the Cloudflare blog bragging about how he rewrote your project in a week using AI. It's tone deaf. It's not impressive.

The tool is hella useful. The messaging is ignorant. This should have been a "we built a tool to deploy NextJS on cloudflare natively" instead of this AI brag.
by Confiks | 2026-02-24 23:35:32+00:00
> This whole end-to-end attestation with play integrity is supposed to make setting up token-as-a-service things impractical.

Indeed according to some (i.e. the Commission) it's supposed to, but they should know better. And many member state wallet developers do.

Play Integrity can easily be bypassed unless you want to exclude a very large amount of users – especially disadvantaged people using older phones – because there are many vulnerable phones in use by those users, and you only need one to build such an age attribute faucet.

See also this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45363853
by tzs | 2026-02-24 23:36:05+00:00
Worldwide, the top models are Tesla Model Y, Toyota RAV4, and Toyota Corolla, all pretty close together (in 2024 it was 1.09 million Y, 1.08 million Corolla, 1.02 million RAV4 [1]). Sources for 2025 have the same 3 at the top in a close spread, with some disagreement over the exact order.

When you look at brands rather than models then it is no contest. For 2025 the top 15 was Toyota with 11.3 million sold, VW with 9.0, Hyundai Kia at 7.3, GM at 6.2, Stellantis at 5.6, Ford at 4.6, BYD at 4.6, Honda at 3.5, Suzuki at 3.3, Nissan at 3.2, Geely at 3.0, Changan at 2.9, BMW at 2.5, Renault at 2.4, and Mercedes at 2.2.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/239229/most-sold-car-mod...
by tartoran | 2026-02-24 23:36:07+00:00
We should stop using this term terror/terrorist, it's lost any meaning. If Hamas are terrorists because they're terrorizing Israeli population then so are Israelis' IDF or whatever force kills other country's population. And the list extends beyond that. To paint a resisting force/army as terrorists is just charged language to emotionally manipulate and pollute discourse. It would be more useful to put in balance what each side is fighting for.
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-24 23:36:15+00:00
>Well they should be, because actually putting 2/3rds of the workforce out of work in a short, sudden fashion is probably not going to end well for them.

Maybe. The ruling elite being a small fraction compared to the downtrodden masses is hardly a new manifestation. Regardless, money won't be the primary issue. Again it's just (intrinsically) worthless paper. All of its current value is a social construction and new ones could take its place if necessary.
by basilgohar | 2026-02-24 23:36:19+00:00
Israel is an oppressive, genocidal, apartheid illegally occupying force. You can't compare the two sides.

Palestinians have been under this assault by Israel and Zionists in general for nearly a century. Defending anything Israel does at this point is indefensible. Their context has ALWAYS been wrong and they've been caught lying so many times it's more accurate to believe exactly the opposite of anything the IDF says.
by mengchengfeng | 2026-02-24 23:36:59+00:00
I don't believe you need internet connection - IRRC jailbreaking steps were plug in the Kindle, drop the jailbreak folder into the root directory, then choose `Update` from the Settings screen.

The hardest part was finding the `Update` menu item. It's only visible if you go to Settings, then press the menu button again while on the Settings page.

Not sure if registering the Kindle was required.
by broken-kebab | 2026-02-24 23:37:19+00:00
"Hundreds of years of records" sounds like a big exaggeration. I don't think we can reliable talk about more than 150 years, and even that would be sparse, covering only some lucky countries. And this data is hard to evaluate as adjusting it to culture shifts, economy changes, and even to what constitutes "cruel" in different periods isn't easy.

I think, it's reasonable to suspect that demonstrative cruelty in crime punishment may have bad side-effects in the long run, but there are just a few cases in recent history where at least short-term outcomes seem to support the claim that it may reduce crime levels.
by brendyn | 2026-02-24 23:37:59+00:00
Same issue as Monds comments. When arch pushes an update the package database becomes inconsistent until cachyos syncs it, which can take 30 minutes. Cachy packages just increment a nonce on the package version numbers so when arch pushes updates they get considered to be more recent than the Cachy versions, cause .so dependency errors. It's all just one fragile stateful system
by Sean-Der | 2026-02-24 23:38:07+00:00
WebRTC is a real super power on this stuff :)

I also love seeing it used for 'kill the jump box' and file transfer. Just drives me crazy that we lets files sit on file providers.

Especially if you are transferring in the office! Send it right over the LAN and could be instant. Being forced to upload + download from remote servers frustrates me.
by hnlmorg | 2026-02-24 23:38:28+00:00
> In my experience, I've introduced DGG* to some colleagues and friends and later on, the feedback received was "I now use DGG"

I use DDG too, but that’s not the point of the original comment.

> Not everything needs to be a jingle I suppose..

While true, what’s also true is that jingles exist precisely because they are effective messaging. And DDG is missing out on that. Hence the comments about verbing.
by mingus88 | 2026-02-24 23:38:34+00:00
Yeah, I’m old enough to remember buying boxed software. It was a veritable product in every sense.

Your o365 example just shows that even with stodgy old office suite software, we pay rent to be the product. Copilot has to be added everywhere so a VP will get a promotion showing how many new users they have (for features nobody wants but are forced into paying for)
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-24 23:38:46+00:00
> thus the actions of your government are those you are partly morally responsible for and partly have some control over

America has global force projection power. It has about as much influence in Gaza as it does in e.g. Venezuela or even, arguably, Iran.

Everyone has good reasons for why their pet war is the most central to our interests. I think it’s fair to accept that there are multiple good answers.
by mohsen1 | 2026-02-24 23:39:04+00:00
I used to live in the United States and recently moved to Germany. Using PayPal for payments is a lot more common here than Germany. In fact I connected my Uber account to my credit card via PayPal and my partner pays for a lot of things online via PayPal.

PayPal is also used for transferring money between friends and family quite frequently
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-24 23:39:47+00:00
> A root cause solution is proper sandboxing. Google and apple will not do this, because they rely on applications have far too much access to make their money.

Oh they do this quite well. Thing is, these sandboxes are meant to protect apps from you, not the other way around. That's why some apps - not just platform vendor apps but also select third-party apps - get special access and elevated privileges, while you can't even see what data they store in `/storage/emulated/0/android/data` even with ADB trickery.
by george916a | 2026-02-24 23:40:06+00:00
That’s total BS.
Hamas used hospitals as their headquarters and war rooms. Deliberately hiding in buildings and institutions that are supposed to be strictly civilian. Moreover, it hid the hostages in the hospitals, making their discovery harder.
Moreover hospital and ambulance workers admitted and were implicated by evidence. they were working for the Hamas and using medical worker and press worker as a disguise.
By doing any of this it violated every convention pertaining to the special status of such entities.

Note for the those unaware: Haaretz is not an official Israeli newspaper, certainly not an IDF one. In fact it is the most anti Israel newspaper, along with Al Jazeera there is.
by atomic128 | 2026-02-24 23:40:29+00:00
Probably not.

We have witnessed, over the past few years, an "AI fair use" Pearl Harbor sneak attack on intellectual property.

The lesson has been learned:

In effect, intellectual property used to train LLMs becomes anonymous common property. My code becomes your code with no acknowledgement of authorship or lineage, with no attribution or citation.

The social rewards (e.g., credit, respect) that often motivate open source work are undermined. Your work will be assimilated and sold by the AI companies to reduce human economic value.

The greatest theft of intellectual property in the history of Man.
by stefan_ | 2026-02-24 23:41:46+00:00
"The case" is fundamentally flawed, because you can not judge a war crime by recovered evidence and post-hoc reconstructions. That's simply not what matters. It comes down only to the knowledge and intent of the soldiers and their command structure in the moment. In a war where their opponents frequently refuse to display identifying markings and indeed use subterfuge routinely, there is essentially no case to make.

War, of course, can not be prosecuted any other way. It is not police work, the artillery man, fighter jet pilot and indeed the simple infantry is routinely going to shoot at what they can not see and do not independently confirm. There is no crime in that.
by habinero | 2026-02-24 23:42:08+00:00
I actually had a perfect use case for slopcoding - I needed to scrape a search result and turn it into a csv and a bunch of files.

Totally possible with a hour or so or coding but annoying and not that fun. Completely trivial, tons of stuff like it, piece of cake

Claude got something that looked like it was worked, and didn't. I figured out why, told it what to fix, and it didn't.

Finally after several rounds, it kicked off...and then hung on...something? idk what, it doesn't look like it was rate limited

Also it said the code would check to see it had already downloaded the file and if so, skip it. It definitely did not do that lol

At this point it was 90 minutes--an hour of yelling at the computer and another 30 minutes of my ADHD ass forgetting that I had it running

I like it as fancy autocomplete because it's usually helpful and I can silence it for 20 minutes if it's annoying me, but man.
by kccqzy | 2026-02-24 23:42:52+00:00
A company like Apple has very little incentive to care about geopolitics, other than by current or future government laws and regulations (a government mandate, tariffs, etc). In the absence of government intervention, Apple has determined that investing a quarter trillion dollars is the cheap choice; getting the same result in the United States would probably need much much more than a quarter trillion dollars worth of investment. If the United States thought that such investments by Apple would have undesirable geopolitical implications, Congress should have acted a long time ago.
by pzo | 2026-02-24 23:43:09+00:00
haven't tested yet but I'm wondering how it will behave when talking about many IT jargon and tech acronyms. For those reason I had to mostly run LLM after STT but that was slowing done parakeet inference. Otherwise had problems to detect properly sometimes when talking about e.g. about CoreML, int8, fp16, half float, ARKit, AVFoundation, ONNX etc.
by hkljjkl | 2026-02-24 23:44:17+00:00
What Vibe Coding Taught Me
Code review skills matter more than coding skills: I spend 70% of my time reviewing generated code, understanding it, catching subtle bugs. The AI writes fast but confidently wrong.
Architecture conversations are gold: The most valuable prompts aren't "write this function" but "let's discuss the tradeoffs between X and Y architecture."
Technical debt accumulates differently: I have less "I wrote this at 2am" debt, more "the AI suggested this pattern and I didn't push back" debt.
Debugging is harder: When you didn't write the code, you don't have muscle memory for where things might break.
Current State
Not open source: The system integrates with 30+ APIs requiring paid subscriptions. Maintaining compatibility is a full-time job I can't delegate to the community.
Business model: Freemium. 50 free points/month (10-20 images or 2-3 videos). Subscriptions for power users.
What's working: NL2Workflow accuracy (~85%), multi-modal pipelines (image→video→audio), streaming UX
What's not: Complex requests (>50 nodes), specific style transfer edge cases, real-time collaboration
The One-Person Team Reality 4 months, one person, vibe coding. But let me be honest about what that means:
I work 10-12 hour days
The AI doesn't replace a team – it amplifies one person
I still need to understand every subsystem deeply
Customer support, marketing, DevOps – I do those manually
Vibe coding let me compete on product scope, but it didn't eliminate the other hats a founder wears.
by lee_wc | 2026-02-24 23:44:22+00:00
This is great! I love seeing e-ink/Kindle related displays. I thought I saw a HN article about it 'awhile ago', turns out, time flies, that was back in 2024!

This is the link: https://lilymara.xyz/posts/2024/01/transit-kindle/ from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41923753

The author went from rendering a pixel-perfect image on Kindle to building a separate HTTP server to do it in rust!

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37661387
by maltalex | 2026-02-24 23:45:26+00:00
It’s the 2019 playbook all over again. Back in 2019, they moved the production of some Mac Pro models to the US to appease the first Trump administration.

Token gesture, but real benefits from the administration.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/made-in-the-usa-mac-pro-will-be...
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-24 23:46:05+00:00
I think that the point of the comment was not that he does not sell any products, but that he predominantly sells dreams & visions, if you use TSLA market cap as a guide. If you look strictly at the products he sells, the valuation of his company ought to be somewhere between 50% and 100% of Ford. By that analysis it seems like TSLA is about 97% hopes and dreams.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-24 23:46:12+00:00
What's the threat model for cookie theft? That if someone gets access to your company hard drive, but not enough access to install a keylogger, then instead of invalidating a session you also have to invalidate the password too?

It's an issue but I wouldn't call it a particularly big issue. I don't think it's very damning for how much the company cares about security.

And it sounds like the turnstiles did work for actual security? Sure, they gave up on per-floor security, but that's a lot less important.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-24 23:46:15+00:00
> Haaretz is not an official Israeli newspaper, certainly not an IDF one.

No such claim was made.

Other papers back up the statement. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-believes-70000-gazans-kill...

> Deliberately hiding in buildings and institutions that are supposed to be strictly civilian.

Yes, this is not allowed.

The rules of law still say you can’t do whatever you like as a result.
by adventured | 2026-02-24 23:46:39+00:00
Stripe is overvalued by about 10x judging by Block and PayPal.

Best case scenario: Stripe gets larger, gets bloated, slower, eats some competitors, becomes their competitors. The street presses down on their valuation as their growth races toward single digits. Congratulations.

Block is fetching ~13 times op income. PayPal is fetching ~7 times op income.
by ytoawwhra92 | 2026-02-24 23:47:34+00:00
Back in the 2015-2020 self-driving investment boom I recall all kinds of dire predictions about the impact that robo-taxis and trucks would have on the US economy. There was an immediacy to these predictions. That once a viable driverless truck became widely available all truckers in the US would need to find new jobs the next day.

We can now see that it's going to take a lot longer for the technology to become viable and widespread. The impact is going to be felt in small pieces over many years, likely decades.

I think the impact of LLMs will be similar.
by Teever | 2026-02-24 23:47:35+00:00
This is what a lot of people don't get. The magic genie that lets you wish for more wishes isn't a a rack of GPUs in a DC somewhere.

It's a domestic robot that can do full maintenance on another domestic robot.

Self replicating machines are the genie that grants you more wishes. They are the genie that can turn that land, energy, and precious metals into copies of themselves.
by yosamino | 2026-02-24 23:47:50+00:00
Yes, there is a long term effort by the State of Israel to remove Palestinian life from Palestinian land.

The term "genocide" noes not mean "kill every single member of a group", it refers to the destruction of the group itself by whatever means.

> you’re just repeating what you read unthinkingly if you say genocide.

Your policy of deeming everybody who does not have the same opinion as you to be too stupid, is smug, self serving and lazy.

See, I could just also go ahead and tell you that you are too "unthinkingly" to know that "ethnic cleansing" is a euphemism for "genocide" and that "long term ethnic cleansing" is exactly congruent in meaning with "genocide" (look it up).

Instead of doing that, I would like you to consider that when I say that the state of Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people, I have thought long and hard about whether that is the appropriate term, and without taking it lightly, I have for myself concluded that that is actually the correct term.
Show HN: Upvoicy – Simple feedback management tool for teams and creators
by optinghost | 2026-02-24 23:47:51+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Upvoicy to help teams, freelancers, and small businesses collect and manage user feedback in a simple way.

While working on my own projects, I felt that most feedback tools were either too complex, too expensive, or packed with features I did not really need. So I decided to build something lightweight and straightforward.

With Upvoicy, you can:

Create a public feedback board

Let users submit ideas and vote

Manage suggestions in one place

Keep your roadmap clear and organized

The goal is to make feedback collection simple and practical without unnecessary complexity.

I would really appreciate your honest feedback, suggestions, or criticism. I am actively improving it and would love to hear what you think.
by tartoran | 2026-02-24 23:48:39+00:00
> I’m not sure why the Palestinians and allies are complaining. Their stated aim is the genocide of Jews and the destruction of Israel. That’s Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran, Yemen. And they’ve tried but are too incompetent to succeed.

It's not like the other side is peaceful and wants to make love and fight war. Israel has been violently kicking out Palestinians from their lands for the past 70-80 years. Before that, among 'Palestinians' there were Muslims, Jews, Christians and other religions coexisting just fine. The ambition to create an ethnic state of Jews only gave rise to misery for everyone and only grew the the intrareligious hate. They could have taken a different path and give us all, the rest of the world a break.