MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by goku12 | 2026-02-28 08:03:03+00:00
How does eat detect a visual command in eshell? I use vterm in Emacs for visual commands like nvim and htop. But it's triggered manually with a simple custom prefix command (just 'v') added to the actual command. I wonder if that trigger could be automated. It sounds from your description like vterm is faster than eat. If so, a similar automatic trigger for vterm could be very beneficial.
by zamalek | 2026-02-28 08:03:48+00:00
Rust happens to be an extremely good tool. There are definitely situations where it absolutely sucks. e.g. Zed is a heroic effort, but look at the code and you'll see that we still haven't figured out how to do Rust UIs.

We may disagree on the premise that humans are generally incapable of correct and safe manual memory management, but that's a degree of distrust I hold for myself. You may have never written a memory bug in your life, but I have, and that renders me completely incompetent.

If a project in an unsafe language has ever had a memory bug (I'm looking at you, Bun), the maintainers objectively have a track record of not being capable of manual memory management. You wouldn't put a person who has a track record of crashing busses at the wheel of a school bus.

And Rust isn't the only memory-safe language. You can turn to Java, Go, C#, Type/JavaScript, and whole bunch of others. Rust just so happens to have ocaml tendencies and other things that make it a joy to read and write, so that's definitely preference on my part. One of these days I'll learn ocaml and possibly drop Rust :)
by Meekro | 2026-02-28 08:04:01+00:00
There seem to be two separate lines of thought in this conversation: first, that the AI tech isn't smart enough for us to trust it with autonomously killing people. Second, even if it was smart enough, maybe such weapons are immoral to produce?

The first line of thought is probably true, but could change in the next 5 years-- so maybe we should be preparing for that?

The second line of thought is something for democracies to argue about. It's interesting that so many people in this thread want to take this power away from democratic governments, and give it to a handful of billionaire tech executives.
by lucketone | 2026-02-28 08:04:24+00:00
In previous attack by US, midnight hammer, single location was targeted. And event for that they prepared - moved part of stockpiles away.

> how can Iran both be so powerful we must avoid it becoming a blackmail state, and so weak and feckless it's not a threat to anyone?

baby and a granade. You want to keep granade out of the hands of the baby.

Acquire weapon = acquire power;

Keep it without weapon = keep it weak(er).
by alt227 | 2026-02-28 08:04:56+00:00
> He can fucking afford to have some fucking principles.

Who is to say he doesnt? Just because they dont align with yours doesnt mean he doesnt have his own principles.

> he's choosing to do the wrong thing

To many millions he is doing the right thing. I am on the fence personally, but I know many people who think that increasing defense capabilities at any cost is something that the governmetn should be doing. Any company that helps them do that is 'doing the right thing'.

> I wouldn't let being a coward stop me from doing the right thing

The 'right thing' is always subjective, and for you it is decided by you alone. Try to remember that and see things from both sides.
by anonnon | 2026-02-28 08:05:32+00:00
Can any Iran simps explain why the regime couldn't just agree to zero enrichment and cease its weekly ritual of organized mobs chanting:

> DEATH TO AMERICA

in the streets like blood-thirsty lunatics, something for which there was no equivalent in the US even after 9/11 (mobs chanting "Death to Muslims/Islam"), let alone doing so with governmental encouragement as happens in Iran?

Do they not realize how many Americans aren't pro-Israel and aren't invested enough in the Middle East and its politics, proxy wars, and human rights abuses to want the US to support Israel in military action against Iran, except for their nuclear ambitions, and regularly professed eternal hatred for our country?
by dsign | 2026-02-28 08:06:00+00:00
> It's incredible how quickly we've devolved into full-blown sci-fi dystopia.

It's pretty bad, but at least the AI industry is still run by humans. Wait a decade or two, when the AI lobby is run by AIs, and the repressive apparatus of the day uses autonomous weapons to do what ICE and friends do today but perhaps focused on "alignment" of the ... humans. You know, if they sufficiently worship AIs in the way they express themselves. Forget about Anthropic and OpenAI; we will look back and rue the day mathematics was invented.
by eecc | 2026-02-28 08:06:10+00:00
And that’s where the authoritarian in you is shining through.

You see, Obama droned more combatants than anyone else before or after him but always followed a legal paper trail and following the book (except perhaps in some cases, search for Anwar al-Awlaki).

One can argue whether the rules and laws (secret courts, proceedings, asymmetries in court processes that severely compress civil liberties… to the point they might violate other constitutional rights) are legitimate, but he operated within the limits of the law.

You folks just blurt “me ne frego” like a random Mussolini and think you’re being patriotic.

SMH
by nomilk | 2026-02-28 08:06:21+00:00
Are there any accurate sources on how many Iranian citizens the Iran regime has killed in the past couple of months? (some sources suggest tens of thousands, but I wonder if it could be a 'WMDs' situation [lie to get support for a war]).

Trump said in the State of the Union [0]:

> in just over the past couple of months with the protests they've killed at least 32000 protestors

And just moments ago Trump says 'tens of thousands' [1]

Is this confirmed or conjecture?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l-iErpskb8&t=1h21m20s

[1] https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/2027651077865157033
by maxbond | 2026-02-28 08:06:36+00:00
1000x yes. Rust is not a One True Language, there exists no One True Language. Rust made some improvements over previous languages (many of which were ported over from previous languages that demonstrated the value but weren't break out successes) and serendipitously those improvements added up to something that was really significant and unlocked interesting and useful capabilities. I'm never going back to how my workflows were before I learned Rust (though I still write in other languages everyday).

But there will be other languages in the future that will continue to deliver small improvements until one day they result in another phase change. The honeymoon with Rust will be over and it will start feeling more antiquated.

C, Python, Java, are just a couple random languages that were/are similarly influential. (C is of course orders of magnitude more influential, the only language more influential is probably COBOL?)
by CapricornNoble | 2026-02-28 08:06:53+00:00
>We don't know the details of the strikes, but I hope it doesn't go into a full blown war

Well, if the Chinese are smart, they will capitalize on this opportunity. They can prop up the Iranian regime with intelligence, weapons, and financial support the same way US & EU prop up Ukraine. The purpose would be to bleed US munitions stocks even faster than they already are, as well as increase attritional losses in platforms and personnel. China's stranglehold on rare earths and their export restrictions are making it more difficult for the US to restore its weapons stockpile. I'm sure China can crunch some numbers to identify the point of maximum weakness if the US is forced to sustain an anti-Iran air and naval campaign 30/60/90+ days. Then Xi can try to overlap that window of weakness with one of the two invasion windows against Taiwan (mostly due to weather in the Taiwan Strait). I don't think the PLA is dumb enough to try a full amphibious assault, but they could definitely initiate their blockade then.
by RadixRegistry | 2026-02-28 08:08:00+00:00
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by pfannkuchen | 2026-02-28 08:08:10+00:00
On Israel, is it possible that they feel their influence on US foreign policy is waning and they want to push over Iran before they can’t do it anymore, even if the propaganda in America hasn’t been sufficiently set up yet to provide cover? Where pushing Iran over is useful because having weak neighbors is good for their expansion?

Possibly wishful thinking, but that’s the only way I can make it make sense in my head.
by tombert | 2026-02-28 08:08:26+00:00
He posted like seven hours ago about these principles and changed them like twenty minutes after the president had a temper tantrum about Anthropic.

Whether or not he agrees with my principles isn’t the issue. He doesn’t even agree with his own stated principles. He posted his stipulations about AI models used by the department of defense to presumably get social credit, and then changed his mind over the course of a few hours.

He claims that the Department of Defense principles just happen to now align with these principles but as far as I can tell he seems to just be trusting their word. The word of a Fox News TV host and a convicted fraudster.
by PacificSpecific | 2026-02-28 08:08:50+00:00
I'm gonna have to see if I can get my company to switch off openAI. Hopefully we can make a small dent and if enough of us do it, a larger dent.

Sounds like it won't really be a pain for me though based off comments on HN indicating Claude is the better product and I doubt I personally would hit any sort of token limits with the amount I use agentic coding.
by Davidzheng | 2026-02-28 08:08:53+00:00
How much value is there in individual values?

Many of us remember that OpenAI was also started by people with strong personal values. Their charter said that they would not monetize after reaching AGI, their fiduciary duty is to humanity, and the non-profit board would curtail the ambitions of the for-profit incentives. Was this not also believed by a sizeable portion of the employees there at the time? And what is left of these values after the financial incentives grew?

The market forces from the huge economic upside of AI devalues individual values in two ways. It rewards those that choose whatever accelerates AI the most over any individuals who are more careful and act on individual values--the latter simply loses power in the long run until their virtue has no influence. As Anthropic says in their mission statements, it is not of much use to humanity to be virtuous if you are irrelevant. The latter, as is true for many technologies, is that economic prosperity is deeply linked to human welfare. And slowing or limiting progress leads to real immediate harm to the human population. And thus any government regulations which are against AI progress will always be unpopular, because those values which are arguing future harm of AIs is fighting against the values of saving people from diseases and starvation today.
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-28 08:08:57+00:00
I'm very skeptical that external attacks bring about a resurgence of domestic Iranian protest resulting in a tidy regime change. I think the downward lurch of BTC tells you how it's going to go, because Trump's mouth is writing checks others are going to have to cash and there's a lot of contradictions involved.

How is he guaranteeing immunity to members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard if they do nothing? Likewise, if he's telling the general Iranian public to simultaneously rise up and stay home, how does he plan to manage the hoped-for happy ending? In the event they succeed and topple the regime, are they just going to let bygones be bygones with the suddenly displaced IRGC while also giving Trump the keys to their treasury?
by P2Chill | 2026-02-28 08:08:58+00:00
Thanks for making this! It's a great application, and in stark contrast with the 'competitors', everything is so polished and it's not full of half baked features. That's a huge plus in my book. More features =/= better if the core isn't solid. I love how right moltis gets this.

I've really been enjoying it. Heavily added onto my fork already. Not at all because it wasn't good already, exactly because it is so it's worth building on top of!

I tried fixing bugs in some alternatives but there were just so many and it felt like a losing battle.

I'll definitely be submitting some (more) PRs in the future. I've pushed one upstream so far for review, but I have a lot more ready to submit later on.

Again, thank you so much for making this! Stellar work!
by mmooss | 2026-02-28 08:09:22+00:00
The GGP said he threw people under the bus. That's different than making changes to a program.

> true

I don't believe you can know that. Saying it with assurance - by Internet randos or by the NASA administrator - is more a signal of a lack of analysis. Other people aren't idiots and complex technology issues aren't that certain - those are self-serving fairy tales.
by testdelacc1 | 2026-02-28 08:10:10+00:00
The contradiction is that they’re weak at this minute - militarily and economically and politically. But they won’t be this weak in the future.

- Military - their regional proxies destroyed, missile and drone stocks low, provably weak air defences.

- Economically - the currency is worthless, extreme inflation for seven years and hyper inflation for a few months, the economy is currently producing nothing due to unrest, they have a massive water shortage of their own making. They have no goods worth exporting. Their oil is sanctioned, meaning only China will buy from them and at a steep discount. And oil is extremely cheap at this minute.

- Politically - they have no friends willing to bail them out. Russia has no money to spare. China doesn’t care about anyone outside of China. North Korea is even poorer. All sections within Iranian society detest the mullahs running the government. They’re hanging on by killing tens of thousands of protestors.

Trump bets that Iran’s leaders are at their weakest since their war with Saddam ended in 1988. Meaning now is the best time to negotiate a deal where they hand over their fissile material and uranium enrichment equipment. In return they could get a heavy water reactor(s) that produces energy but no fissile material.

If he lets this opportunity slip Iran could fix all of their many problems in a year or three. Manufacture more missiles and drones. Build up their proxies once more. Maybe the price of oil recovers. Russia’s war ends and they aid Iran best they can. The economy recovers and the Iranian people stop trying to overthrow the government. Maybe a conflict starts elsewhere that draws America’s full attention.

Will Trump get that deal? Probably not. That fissile material is the only leverage the mullahs have. If they give it up they’ll be toppled like the other dictators who gave up their weapons programs - Gaddafi and Saddam.

But if you don’t ask you don’t get, right?
by ifh-hn | 2026-02-28 08:10:23+00:00
I don't know, it depends on context and intent, like nearly all things. But this is put aside because most on HN immediately go: police == bad.

If the cop is illegally parked to get lunch, sure ticket them, and/or report them for discipline.

If the cop is attending an incident and that is the only place to park within a reasonable distance, then that's fine.

However the suggestion that irrespective of context and intent, and even for the first contrived example, the cop should lose their job and pension... Ridiculous.
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-28 08:10:33+00:00
“In the future” is not “now”.

Neither the current administration nor Israel are particularly popular with the US public today, and those are correlated in that Israel has particularly lost support from Democrats and Independents in the US, suggesting that a change in power (legislative or executive, and especially both) in the US government could very easily spell much less favorable US policy toward Israel.
by ZYZ64738 | 2026-02-28 08:10:36+00:00
> NTransformer
High-efficiency C++/CUDA LLM inference engine. Runs Llama 70B on a single RTX 3090 (24GB VRAM) by streaming model layers through GPU memory via PCIe, with optional NVMe direct I/O that bypasses the CPU entirely.

untested:

https://github.com/xaskasdf/ntransformer
by CapricornNoble | 2026-02-28 08:11:12+00:00
>If nukes are so good why Israel isn't safe?

Israeli nukes are the main reason we haven't had regime change in Tel Aviv at the hands of a Turkish/Egyptian/Saudi/Iranian coalition. Israeli nukes are why Iran has had to settle into a pattern of slow, distant, annoyance via proxy forces (which lack a capability for existentially challenging the IDF).
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-28 08:12:34+00:00
You are incorrect.

Chase uses a "provisional credit" system, but for small amounts, this credit often becomes permanent almost instantly.

Wells Fargo utilizes an automated system called the Wells Fargo Dispute Manager which is also similar.

Technically, it is Self-Insurance. Banks set aside a portion of their interchange revenue (the fees they charge merchants for every swipe) into a "Provision for Credit Losses." They use this pool of money to "buy" customer satisfaction for small errors rather than paying an employee $30/hour to investigate a $12 dispute.
by echelon | 2026-02-28 08:12:55+00:00
> Zed is a heroic effort, but look at the code and you'll see that we still haven't figured out how to do Rust UIs.

Only a handful of apps and frameworks have figured this out. Most of the world moved onto HTML+Javascript plus Electron. Or mobile UI.

Who is using native UI in 2026? GTK and QT don't feel great.

I'm glad Zed is trying. We need more efforts.
by esperent | 2026-02-28 08:12:57+00:00
> But there will be other languages in the future that will continue to deliver small improvements until one day they result in another phase change

I agree, and I'm interested to see what it is in the age of LLMs or similar future tools. I suspect a future phase change might be towards disregarding how easy it is for humans to work with the code and instead focus on provability, testing, perhaps combined with token efficiency.

Maybe Lean combined with Rust shrunk down to something that is very compiler friendly. Imagine if you could specify what you need in high level language and instead of getting back "vibe code", you get back proven correct code, because that's the only kind of code that will successfully compile.
by moxifly7 | 2026-02-28 08:13:18+00:00
Target selection?

"Here is 5000 petabytes of signals intelligences, you can run queries, give me the hierarchy of my enemy, the house address of anyone within 3 degrees of separation of their leadership or weapons industry, the next house address they're likely to be at if trying to flee my strikes, and the time they're all most likely to be there. Then schedule drone strikes on the houses."
by deaux | 2026-02-28 08:13:18+00:00
It accomplishes the goal of diverting attention away from the recent revelations of a pedophile ring among the elites having operated from a private island for decades, with current US president and serial rapist Trump being best friends with the ring leader.

It's bound to be incredibly successful at accomplishing that goal.

Similarly, wars against Iraq and Afghanistan were very successful in diverting attention away from 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers being from Saudi Arabia, and later on from the funding provided to one or more of the hijackers by Saudi officials. With a certain Ms. Maxwell being asked to join the investigatory committee on the event in question.
by alt227 | 2026-02-28 08:14:05+00:00
We live in a capitalist economy. What do you expect, a company to just say 'Thats fine we have enough money we dont need any more'?

How does a $100 billion dollar company grow? By taking on massive government and military contracts, they are the only clients big enough left in the world.

If a company does not show continual growth then it is classed as failing. That is the society we have built, and you cannot blame one man for following those principles. Every CEO in existence does the same.
by bjackman | 2026-02-28 08:14:57+00:00
Nobody is saying it makes "financial sense", it's about control.

I have always taken plenty of care to try and avoid becoming dependent on big tech for my lifestyle. Succeeded in some areas failed in others.

But now AI is a part of so many things I do and I'm concerned about it. I'm dependent on Android but I know with a bit of focus I have a clear route to escape it. Ditto with GMail. But I don't actually know what I'd do tomorrow if Gemini stopped serving my needs.

I think for those of us that _can_ afford the hardware it is probably a good investment to start learning and exploring.

One particular thing I'm concerned about is that right now I use AI exclusively through the clients Google picked for me, coz it makes financial sense. (You don't seem to get free bubble money if you buy tokens via API billing only consumer accounts). This makes me a bit of a sheep and it feels bad. There's so much innovation happening and basically I only benefit from it in the ways Google chooses.

(Admittedly I don't need local models to fix that particular issue, maybe I should just start paying the actual cost for tokens).
by echelon | 2026-02-28 08:15:05+00:00
If your LLM can output 10-100x the LOC output, and it's equally good at all languages, and you're not bound to an existing language choice or ecosystem, why not choose Rust?

Rust code will be faster, safer, and easier to ameliorate bugs in.

Rust seems like the best language to serialize business logic to now that LLMs are so good at it.

If the LLM makes a mistake in Javascript or Python, you literally won't know until runtime. With Rust, you'll know immediately and have really good compiler recommendations for fixes.

I think Rust is the best LLM language. I am somewhat biased: I've written Rust code for ten years, and I'm having a blast with Claude Code writing it for me instead now. But I've also used so many other tools and languages - enough to say that Rust has some unique advantages here. And also that Claude does a fantastic job emitting Rust.

LLMs emitting Python feels like building with clay. LLMs emitting Rust feels like building well-engineered steel skyscrapers.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-28 08:15:40+00:00
Saying it has nothing new seems like an uncharitable take. Yes, it has influences (that rust docs dedicate a page to [0]), but PL theory has such a rich body of literature that you can make a similar claim about virtually any language. It's the whole package that matters, and I don't think there's anything "rust but earlier" to point to there. Certainly isn't Ada.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html
by anonnon | 2026-02-28 08:15:43+00:00
> The rational move for Iran to prevent itself from being bullied is to have nukes like North Korea

North Korea invaded South Korea, stole a US Navy ship (the Pueblo, which they still proudly exhibit), dug large infiltration tunnels under the DMZ, kidnapped hundreds, or even thousands people from SK (and Japan, to a lesser extent), and have assassinated, or attempted to assassinate, multiple SK heads of state, and perpetrated acts of terror like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_858

What did the US or SK do to them before their nuclear program that constituted "bullying?"
by timr | 2026-02-28 08:15:56+00:00
The rule in question is exactly meant for “this”, where “this” equals ”a complete ban on use of the product in any part of the government supply chain”. That’s why it has the name that it has. The rule itself has not been misconstrued.

You’re really trying to complain that the use of the rule is inappropriate here, which may be true, but is far more a matter of opinion than anything else.