MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saintfire | 2026-02-27 14:39:59+00:00
Reduced security has always annoyed me a bit as an argument. Sort of in the same way as signal deprecating SMS because it's insecure.

I get all or nothing when your threat model is state actors. However, for most people, the benefit is just freedom from corporate agendas.

Not everyone needs kernel hardening, or always E2EE (as with signal). Personally I just like the features it provides (e.g. scoped storage, disabling any app including Google play services, profiles etc etc

Its also an easier sell to people who are apathetic to security when the product is just better and more secure, the same way apple does (for whatever their reasons may be).

All that said, I get they're limited in funds and manpower, plus the things mentioned at the end there, so I can only be so peeved they chose a target and stuck with it. They typically cite security as the reason, not those other ones, however.
by getnormality | 2026-02-27 14:40:03+00:00
I grew up with a very strong sentimental sense of moral universalism. I loved Beethoven's Ode to Joy and the romantic idea of universal brotherhood.

But as I bank years in the adult world, as a worker and a neighbor, I've been progressively disillusioned. I don't find universalism to be a common viewpoint. I've found it to be very rare that anyone wants to be my "brother" or "sister". And sometimes those that seem to, end up being exploitative.

I'm not resentful or anything. I have a happy family and a few close-ish friends, and life feels full. But I can understand how the loneliness and coldness of the world makes people more particularist. People may think: "if the world acts like it owes me nothing, then what do I owe the world?"
by Octoth0rpe | 2026-02-27 14:40:05+00:00
> But it’s clearly not here just yet.

That's not clear to me, and apparently not to Block.

> There’s definitely going to be a shift over time.

Yep, and as the transition happens, it'll probably be bell-shaped. Someone will be on the left side of the bell, and someone will be on the right side. Block has chosen to be on the left side.
by shimman | 2026-02-27 14:40:30+00:00
Even if they were valued around $100million they would still have more enough resources to solve this problem. Stop excusing companies that hate hiring people and are so greedy they would rather punt this problem to the commons fucking over an entire community that literally enabled them to exist.

Come on here, even Meta hires people in Kenya to look at CP and snuff films to label this stuff. Meta! They literally profited off of a genocide and they still know how to do this.

Excuse after excuse for these greedy companies.
by rob74 | 2026-02-27 14:40:45+00:00
3D printing is helpful too. The infrastructure created during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s was also helpful. The UK is still profiting from the railway infrastructure created during the railway craze of the 1840s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania). The question is just how much of the valuation of AI companies is because they are useful and how much is speculation...
by litenboll | 2026-02-27 14:41:14+00:00
Very nice job, got hooked immediately!

Some feedback/thoughts:

1. I don't think the current approach to difficulty is fun, its just feels limiting without any interaction or ways to turn it into an advantage.
Some other ideas would be to have non-tetris pieces that are more difficult to place (but might be very good if you find agood placement), or temporary board obstacles that you can work around until they are gone/removed.
Or pieces that do something else when placed like become obstacles until adjacent pieces are cleared. There are many ways to find a more fun difficulty approach :)

2. As others have pointed out it's frustrating to lose when you have "powers" left

3. The difficulty progression vs leaderboards are not clear to me. Am I only competing against players in the same difficulty? Can I choose a lower difficulty? (I would rather get the difficulty from competition than the fixed blocks on board)

4. Getting "holes" in normal tetris feels a lot less punishing than in your game. Here it almost feels unrecoverable at times. I don't have suggestion, and maybe it's not even a problem. Just wanted to mention it.

5. The powers feel a bit "meh". They are useful sure, but seem pretty similar in a way.
by bpt3 | 2026-02-27 14:41:15+00:00
It does seem like we agree for the most part.

> I notice that you didn't address my remark about "adult daycare service". The presence of directionless "students" attending only to tick a box has serious negative impacts on the rest of the system. Add in student loans that can't be discharged and you've created an absolutely bizarre and (IMO counterproductive) set of economic incentives.

I didn't, because it seemed like a cheap insult. I don't know that directionless students have serious negative impacts on the rest of the system. They can have serious negative impacts on themselves due to student loan debt and a lack of a financially viable skillset when they stop attending college (with a degree or not).

What do you propose people who are 18 - 22 or so do to figure out what they want to do with the rest of their lives? And I'm not defending the status quo, which certainly can be improved.
by pmontra | 2026-02-27 14:41:25+00:00
This is asked again and again. Apparently you guys in the USA or in other parts of the world are still lucky, but in Europe banks must be compliant with regulation that more or less force them to do 2FA through their app with the biometric authentication of either an Android or an iOS phone. There are other ways (eg giving a hardware OTP generator to customers,) but apps are the cheapest solution.
by us-merul | 2026-02-27 14:41:28+00:00
For a while, I mistakenly thought that “Germanic” meant related to German specifically. Old English makes more sense if you’re aware of Frisian, Dutch, and other non-Scandinavian Germanic languages, since that’s the area it originated from. German and Spanish make this distinction explicit (Deutsch/Germanisch and Alemán/Germánica).
by arctic-true | 2026-02-27 14:41:51+00:00
The conditions are either an IPO or achieving AGI. I’d be curious to know how the contract defines AGI. If I recall correctly, the OAI-Microsoft deal just defined it as “AI-shaped tech that can generate $100 billion in annual profits”, which I think is actually close to the correct answer, insofar as we will have AGI when the markets decide we have AGI and not when some set of philosophical criteria seem to be satisfied.
by conartist6 | 2026-02-27 14:41:58+00:00
I got a lot of comments all saying the same thing so it's hard to know what to reply to. For posterity I'll expand on my meaning here. I live in the US. One of our biggest points of national pride here is our status as "back to back world war champs" and tied up in that pride is the creation of Israel in its modern form. As a country built around a military/industrial complex trust them enough to sell them all our most advanced weapons, which is good for business obviously. We think of Jewish people sharing our religious beliefs much more readily than we think the same of the followers of Islam.

Most importantly as a nation we're guilty of pretty much all the same crimes as they are. We built our country on land that we took from indigenous people. After Sept 11 we went collectively ballistic and did wanton violence. Hell I just recently read that we used artillery to strike a populated city in a grid pattern. Boom! Morals my fucking ass. And because the soldiers firing those howitzers fired all day every day, they all basically killed themselves even if they are still technically alive because we now understand that that much repeated shockwave trauma turns your brain to jelly, literally, until you see ghosts, do some homicides, or kill yourself. Mmmmmmhm yes sir, moral leaders of the free world right here.
by clouedoc | 2026-02-27 14:42:25+00:00
I'm really curious what were the magic words.

> Alex had actually tried to brute force the hash earlier, but had downloaded a list of the top 10,000 most popular words to do it, which turned out not to be big enough to find it. Once he had a big enough word list, he got the answer.

They don't reveal the answer.
by StephenSmith | 2026-02-27 14:43:48+00:00
I had to dig this up. Elon Musk signed an open pledge in 2016 to disallow Robots/AI to make kill decisions.

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/lethal-autonomous-weapo...

He's now on X bashing Anthropic for taking this same stance. I know this would be expected of him, but many other Google AI researchers signed this as well as Google Deep Mind the organization. We really need to push to keep humans in the kill decision loop. Google, OpenAI, and X-AI are are all just agreeing with the Pentagon.
by hu3 | 2026-02-27 14:43:54+00:00
I understand there's an avalanche of vibe slop PRs.

But to be clear their AI instance is as clear-cut as can be. Their instance IS INDEED to "prevent AI-assisted code to reach their codebase".

> The following is not allowed in postmarketOS:

> Submitting contributions fully or in part created by generative AI tools to postmarketOS.

source: https://docs.postmarketos.org/policies-and-processes/develop...
by Tepix | 2026-02-27 14:44:08+00:00
Tried it with REVERSI.EXE from Windows 3.0 from https://winworldpc.com/download/c2bbc28f-177a-c2b2-5311-c3a4... DISK02.IMG

(you have to first uncompress it, for example with 7zip).

$ sha256sum REVERSI.EXE
a9e319c8f479d1568beec03858fdbb27c71747b2bbed6cd7c9f5e2daa23b40e9 REVERSI.EXE

Result:

The game starts, it begins rendering the board, but then hangs.
by shimman | 2026-02-27 14:44:16+00:00
Ah yes, they totally subsidize public research with no strings attach. Right up there with cigarette companies subsidizing public health research. Or oil companies subsidizing public research. Or all the other various industries funding research that somehow always seems to agree with what they want, weird right?

Good lord. Why do you think these greedy entities that have devoted their entire lifespans fucking over consumers, competitors, nations, and children are suddenly having a change of heart and aren't enforcing their will upon researchers?
by rvz | 2026-02-27 14:44:28+00:00
> It’s not craze. It’s technology shift.

It is a bubble with extreme levels of debt + funding from too many promises from companies that are in these sort of rounds.

People being consumed by the hype will also be completely consumed by the crash.

Comments like this is exactly how a 2000 and a 2008 style crash will happen.
by dctoedt | 2026-02-27 14:45:47+00:00
> Your argument shifts between two frames--from talking about "successive generations" to events in a specific individual's life--without explaining why we should treat those frames as equivalent.

It's an analogy: If the relationship isn't apparent, then I chose a poor analogy.

> They were simply born into particular circumstances by random chance, just like everyone else in the world. ...

Would it be unfair to summarize this position as — ultimately — "yeah, it sucks to be you, but that's a problem for you and your family, not for me and mine"? (Perhaps we even leave out families, so that in life it's sauve qui peut, every man for himself?) The group-selection disadvantages of that position are obvious, I'd think.

The short YouTube video I linked to is worth the time. TL;DR (paraphrasing Barry Switzer): Some people like to think that they hit a triple in life but conveniently forget that they were born and raised on second base, while some other people's antecedents were forced to bat with balsa wood yardsticks and to run with 50-pound weight vests — that is, if they were allowed to step up to the plate at all.
by tshaddox | 2026-02-27 14:45:57+00:00
Over the last 10 years or so in SF and LA, I’ve seen so many countless POS systems at restaurants and small businesses that it’s difficult to believe that Square is anything more than 1 player in an enormous field.

And businesses I frequent over many years seem to change their POS systems often. I’ve always assumed that every year there are a bunch of new startups using their VC funds to give away free iPad minis. When the cheap hardware breaks or the software company goes under, there’s always a new one to take its place.
by Pinkert | 2026-02-27 14:45:57+00:00
That's actually a great question. and the answer is yes and no;
While it does disable the caching mechanism for the conversation history (and not for the system prompt, who remains constant), there is a difference between a chatbot with a constant chat history (just exchange of messages) and an agent who uses a large part of the conversation as a type of "scratchpad", sometimes even holding variables value in the beginning of the chat (to be sort of 'stateful'). if these variables change, the scratchpad changes (can be even 30%-40% of the entire conversation), there is a timeout in the cache (Claude gives you 5 minutes of cache for normal caching) or any other change to the exact history - you get a recaching of the entire conversation. additionally, caching still costs money.

The main advantage of the librarian is that is an 'insurance policy' for this caching mechanism. combining it with solving the context rot issue - and you get improved performance at scale.
by GuB-42 | 2026-02-27 14:46:25+00:00
Great if you know where to look, but most people who ask themselves the question don't know they have to look up the bash manual in the "redirection" section.

The usual thing (before LLMs) is to Google the question, but for the question to appear in Google, someone has to ask it first, and here we are.

Also the Stackoverflow answers give different perspectives, context, etc... rather than just telling you what it does, which is useful to someone unfamiliar with how redirections work. As I said, someone who doesn't know about "2>&1" is unlikely to be an expert given how common the pattern is, so a little hand holding doesn't hurt.
by kg | 2026-02-27 14:46:29+00:00
It's a real shame that BYOB (bring your own buffer) reads are so complex and such a pain in the neck because for large reads they make a huge difference in terms of GC traffic (for allocating temporary buffers) and CPU time (for the copies).

In an ideal world you could just ask the host to stream 100MB of stuff into a byte array or slice of the wasm heap. Alas.
by schwartzworld | 2026-02-27 14:46:48+00:00
So the difference in expression is in the oscillator type?

Are we using the same definition of "expressive"? I play synth, guitar and trumpet, and the trumpet is by far the most expressive of the three, both musically and physically. You have basically all the same options for expression that you do with a human voice (vibrato, dynamics, glissando, etc) plus the expressive techniques offered by the instrument mechanics (for example: half-valving, trills, lip slurs, using a plunger as a LPF).

Sure you need a microphone or contact mic, but again that's just your source of your oscillator. After that, sound design is just sound design. I'm not saying everybody should play electric trumpet, but it's just absurd to make blanket statements like "electric guitar is the most expressive electronic instrument".
by whynotminot | 2026-02-27 14:47:46+00:00
> Actually it is not about this stage. It is about the sustainability of this when training data runs out

This is an argument from 2024. Somehow, the models have continued to improve.

If they stopped improving today they are good enough as they already are to generate profound change.

The wave front is already visible, we’re just on the shore waiting for the impact.
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by vonneumannstan | 2026-02-27 14:48:34+00:00
This is just a weird Trump talking point. This situation is unprecedented on many levels. The pentagon already had a signed contract with these stipulations and wanted to unilaterally renegotiate with Anthropic under threat of deeming them a foreign adversary and destroying their business if they didn't accept the DoD demands. It's totally absurd to turn this around on Anthropic and paint them as trying to determine US Military policy.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-27 14:49:05+00:00
To be fair they're ex cabinet ministers. The current shambles are Labour and that book was written by Tories. But you're correct that they weren't exactly Pick of the Bunch Tories, Liz Truss in particular has the unenviable distinction of having been Prime Minister for such a short period that a lettuce famously outlasted her.
by pixl97 | 2026-02-27 14:49:10+00:00
The thing is the same hardware does both, Deepmind should be the best example of a company that's developed both.

Also there is no such thing as 'cancer' it is '_____ cancer' which seems to be about one of a million different things. So technically you have to cure cancer a million times. Expanding our compute ability and smart algorithms to solve the medical issues are a far more scalable option than having humans work on it alone.
by thesameerpanda | 2026-02-27 14:49:20+00:00
This resonates. Prompts are commoditized now, but the real value is in that messy middle layer you're describing - when to loop in a human, which tools to chain, what quality bar to enforce.

The execution context matters more than the prompt itself. Been thinking about this from the opposite angle - not just capturing workflows, but making them actually repeatable when you're the only person doing everything. The judgment calls are the hardest part to systematize.

How are you handling versioning when a workflow evolves based on what actually worked versus what you planned?
by ericd | 2026-02-27 14:49:39+00:00
It’s an important function, but the guys making these bets frequently pull down $10-$100M per year, each. That’s a huge toll to extract from the productive economy for playing this game.

And then there are the guys managing things like pensions, skimming a percentage every year, just because they happen to be locked into that position, meanwhile underperforming a basket of index funds. Just happily eating away at the retirement savings of thousands-millions.
by horsawlarway | 2026-02-27 14:49:40+00:00
Sure it is - it's factually incorrect, misleading, and has an impact to my reputation.

> Libel is the publication of writing, pictures, cartoons, or any other medium that expose a person to public hatred, shame, disgrace, or ridicule, or induce an ill opinion of a person, and are not true

They literally show a giant red banner to every user of their browser that tries to access my site, calling me unsafe. Which is factually incorrect, and absolutely induces a negative opinion.

There's nothing on my site except a login page, it wasn't compromised, and it wasn't available for public access or registration. They can't "opine" on safety - it's just factually incorrect.

Convenient for them that the only way to resolve the issue is to sign up for Google products, though. Wonder how that works...

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Next you'll try telling me that calling someone a cheat is also just an opinion, but it's standard legal libel.
by tovej | 2026-02-27 14:49:52+00:00
That's rich. If "talk of colonization" is propaganda, why did Herzl write about "important experiments in colonization" in Palestine? and why did Jabotinsky say "Zionism is a colonization adventure"? Why did Max Nordau say: "the existing and promising beginnings of a Jewish colonization shall be looked after and maintained till the movement will be possible on a large scale"?

Why would the founders of Zionism engage in "ahistorical propaganda" against themselves?

Zionism is one of the most brutal examples of colonialism ever, and the founders of Zionism don't disagree. Zionists are equivalent to Nazis in their treatment of the "other" and their belief in a pure ethnostate, the consequences of these beliefs are exactly the same. And young people are finally waking up to this.

Shame on you, you zionist pig.
by mittermayr | 2026-02-27 14:50:09+00:00
I may sound unthankful here, but it strongly smells of Antropic amping up their PR campaigning, even the headline on the post seems kinda off. Plus, while 6 months is better than 1 month, I kinda wonder why the time limit. If they'd say it is a recurring renewal after check-ins (like educational discounts), it'd be no problem to have a time limit. This sounds like an Apple TV+ offer you get for every Apple product you buy. A hook, more than a treat.

Plus, a fantastic way to build a lead list of people you can hard-hit with upsells after the 6 months.

Thank you for everything you ship*

*our display of gratitude is limited, 6 months to be exact.
by gormen | 2026-02-27 14:50:09+00:00
I approached the puzzle using an A11‑style reasoning architecture, which focuses on compressing the hypothesis space rather than decoding every neuron. Instead of “understanding the network”, the task reduces through successive narrowing: model → program → round‑based function → MD5 → dictionary search for the target hash. The key steps were:

Input → the integer weights and repeated ReLU blocks indicate a hand‑designed deterministic program rather than a trained model.

Weighting → the only meaningful output is the 16‑byte vector right before the final equality check.

Anchor → the layer‑width pattern shows a strict 32‑round repetition, a strong structural invariant.

Balancing → 32 identical rounds + a 128‑bit output narrow the function family to MD5‑style hashing.

Rollback → alternative explanations break more assumptions than they preserve.

Verification → feeding inputs and comparing the penultimate activations confirms they match MD5 exactly.

Compression → once the network becomes “MD5(input) == target_hash”, the remaining task is a constrained dictionary search (two lowercase English words).

The puzzle becomes solvable not by interpreting 2500 layers, but by repeatedly shrinking the search space until only one viable function family remains. In this sense, the architecture effectively closes the interpretability problem: instead of trying to understand 2500 layers, it collapses the entire network to a single possible function, removing the need for mechanistic analysis altogether.
by j45 | 2026-02-27 14:50:26+00:00
Learning about the difference collapse the differences. The best thing to say is I want to understand and saying we don’t understand is a big step in that direction.

Ads are just information too. Where you search good content or bad content, the results (videos and ads) align with that easily. If you really want to unites how it’s really easy to go read something written by someone sorry experienced. In case you work in or around adtech it’s your call but ignorance isn’t really a reason.

Your secondary point speaks to m, meta data, which can be as good as identifiable data.

If someone removes your name from your bank statement it will still tell a lot about you.

If we think it can’t be tied to, the grocery store loyalty program which can also share your individually purchased item data will now share what groups of items you buy and potentially for what purpose.

Then there’s the clickstream of what your browser visits. Let’s remove the name from that, but that data is available too.

Your cell phone location data can’t be attributed to you, but generated maybe it can overlap and then everything wider in it.

All is this kind of data has been commercialized by tech and conveniently available for other privacy invading purposes as well.