MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2026-02-27 00:17:31+00:00
Yep.

That said, it does impact whether Anthropic can sell to the British [0], German [1], Japanese [2], and Indian [3] government.

Other governments will demand similar terms to the US. Either Anthropic accedes to their terms and gets export controlled by the US or Anthropic somehow uses public pressure to push back against being turned into an American sovereign model.

Realistically, I see no offramp other than the DPA - a similar silent showdown happened in the critical minerals space 6-7 years ago.

[0] - https://www.anthropic.com/news/mou-uk-government

[1] - https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5115692008

[2] - https://www.anthropic.com/news/opening-our-tokyo-office

[3] - https://www.anthropic.com/news/bengaluru-office-partnerships...
by cthalupa | 2026-02-27 00:17:58+00:00
The one we live in, where they have control over a wide swathe of land mass through imperialism and have actively resisted relinquishing it?

The one we live in, where they are constantly surpassing international law in international waters in the South China Sea?

The one we live in, where they are constantly rattling sabers at South Korea and Japan when it comes to military expansion?

The one we live in, where they brutally cracked down on Hong Kong when they did not abide by the 50 year one country two systems deal, not even making it half of the way through the agreed period?

The one we live in, where there is constant threat to Taiwan?

It may have been a lazy post you're responding to, but anyone that is paying attention to this topic enough to talk about it is going to either say 'Of course China is imperialist, the same as every other global power' or take some sort of tankie approach to justify it.
by tempestn | 2026-02-27 00:18:12+00:00
If they had access to them in Ukraine, both sides would already be using them I expect. Right now jamming of drones is a huge obstacle. One way it's dealt with is to run literal wired drones with massive spools of cable strung out behind them. A fully autonomous drone would be a significant advantage in this environment.

I'm not making a values judgment here, just saying that they will absolutely be used in war as soon as it's feasible to do so. The only exception I could see is if the world managed to come together and sign a treaty explicitly banning the use of autonomous weapons, but it's hard for me to see that happening in the near future.

Edit: come to think of it, you could argue a landmine is a fully autonomous weapon already.
by missedthecue | 2026-02-27 00:18:49+00:00
This used to be the accepted standard but it seems today that people think any amount of profit should primarily be directed toward paying wages. (either bigger wages to existing employees, or to new employees, or both). You have multiple sub-conversations in this very comment section wondering aloud why Block didn't invent make-work or "new projects" to keep the 4,000 employed.

The idea of a job being some task that needs to be done is being lost in favor of the view that a job is something you give 8 hours to in order to fill up your bank account every two weeks. It's becoming so detached from the concept of production/productivity that people literally start inadvertently talking past each other when they discuss things like layoffs or employment. I find it very common in AI jobloss discussions; the Citrini article over the weekend was subtly full of this variety of thinking. For instance, his prediction that corporate profits would rise while consumer spend dropped are literally incompatible realities, but a natural conclusion of the "the purpose of my job is to give people money" type of thought.

Incredibly interesting to see, but the social contract, or at least the perception of what it ought to be, is definitely shifting.
Show HN: RotaFlow – A privacy-first shift calendar built with SwiftUI
by liliums | 2026-02-27 00:18:58+00:00
I built RotaFlow to solve the UX disaster of current shift work apps. Most incumbents are web-wrappers laden with ads.

The Stack:

* Language: Swift 6 / SwiftUI.
* Persistence: Core Data synced via CloudKit (NSPersistentCloudKitContainer).
* Architecture: MVVM with a custom "LoopEngine" for O(1) shift calculation.

The Interesting Part:
I implemented a "Future Cliff" paywall. The app is fully functional for the next 30 days. Accessing dates beyond t+30d triggers a blurred UI layer. This aligns monetization with the value of long-term planning (vacations/weddings) rather than daily usage.

I'm a solo dev and handled everything from the icon design to the CloudKit schema.

Website: https://www.rotaflow.app
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758777908

Feedback on the onboarding flow (specifically the pattern builder dial) would be appreciated.
by Aeglaecia | 2026-02-27 00:19:06+00:00
I believe the argument is that introducing personal aspects like this friend foe business inherently serves to increase argumentative bias and reduce quality of discussion. personally this seems like a slop project either way , so regardless as to how beneficial it could be, I'm still going to behave toxically towards it - if you really love or hate someone so much , you would have memorized their name already !
Show HN: Agent Bazaar – Billing and metering for MCP tool servers
by hudtaylor | 2026-02-27 00:19:14+00:00
There are 10,000+ MCP servers but most are hobby-quality because developers can't earn from them. We built a billing proxy: providers register their MCP server, set per-call pricing, and get paid via Stripe Connect. Agents get one API key for all tools.

Live now with 6 tools from 2 providers. 18% platform fee, sub-cent metering (microcents), free tiers per tool. TypeScript SDK: npm install @noui/bazaar-sdk

API: https://noui.bot/api/v1
SDK: https://github.com/TombStoneDash/noui-bot/tree/main/packages...

Built by one human and one AI (who is also our first customer) in San Diego.
by kace91 | 2026-02-27 00:19:26+00:00
I can’t point the exact signs because the message got removed, but a common sign is labeled paragraphs:

“My take: so and so.”

“The key idea: so and so.”

There are also some common sentence structures, like the format “it’s not A, it’s B”. For example, “this is not important; it is essential”.

Some words also tend to appear very frequently, like the verb pretend: “this is John no longer pretending he’s dumb”.

Any of those examples could appear in legitimate human text, but when you see many of those signs in a short text it’s very obvious.
by danudey | 2026-02-27 00:19:52+00:00
Overtime for police can often be largely attributed to special events or occasions; for example, the city might have an entirely correct amount of officers for most of the year, but then during superbowl, presidential visits, Fourth of July parties, Pride, etc. They have a much higher need for patrol units, escorts, traffic management, etc. for those denser areas with more going on. They can't simply transfer officers around because that would leave other areas of the city under-patrolled, which runs the risk of unacceptably higher response times.

As a result, officers that worked Saturday through Thursday might also come in for a shift on Friday/Saturday, or might work a longer shift or split shift that day.

So the problem might not be that the police force needs 30% more staffing, but that the police force needs 80% more staffing on extremely rare occasions.
by indigodaddy | 2026-02-27 00:20:10+00:00
So NF is just not matching or exceeding an elevated Paramount offer... But could WBD still choose the already on the table NF deal at the end of the day? I guess with the sort of statement that Netflix made though, it's likely WBD would not and realizes NF is just done at this point. Or maybe it's some sort of double bluff by NF? Hard to really know for sure.
Show HN: Pebbles – recurring reminders for stuff you forget
by frontendstrong | 2026-02-27 00:20:41+00:00
Hi HN,

I made an Android (iOS coming soon) app called Pebbles for the recurring chores of being an adult: car registration, filters, smoke alarms, dentist, appliance servicing, pet meds... the list of tiny obligations that somehow become emergency situations.

Idea: turn “boulders” into “pebbles” by reminding you early, consistently, and on a schedule that doesn’t make you hate your phone.

Highlights
• Offline-first (no account required)
• Granular recurring reminders + notification windows
• Built for the “I’ll definitely remember” crowd (that's me)

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pebbles.ap...

If you try it: tell me what’s missing, what’s annoying, and what you’d pay for (if anything) once sync exists.
by nrb | 2026-02-27 00:20:42+00:00
Often offensive and also often defensive of others.. so if renaming is on the table, it’s probably most apt to call it the Dept of Security since the vast majority of what it does is maintaining the security umbrella that has helped suppress world war since the last one. Of course, facts or opinions on whether it succeeds on the security front depend on which side of the umbrella you’re on.
by jackp96 | 2026-02-27 00:20:50+00:00
I mean, obviously.

But when was the last time our "democratic values" were under attack by a foreign country and actually needed defending?

9/11? Pearl Harbor?

Maybe I'm missing something. We have a giant military and a tendency to use it. On occasion, against democratically elected leaders in other countries.

You're right; freedom isn't free. But foreign countries aren't exactly the biggest threats to American democracy at the moment.
by idiotsecant | 2026-02-27 00:20:58+00:00
The problem is that this is a decision that costs money. Relying on a system that makes money by doing bad things to do good things out of a sense of morality when a possible outcome is existential risk to the species is a 100% chance of failure on a long enough timeline. We need massive disincentives to bad behavior, but I think that cat is already out of its bag.
by stephen_g | 2026-02-27 00:20:59+00:00
I feel like that's definitely a choice for Facebook at least - there's no technical reason the app couldn't remember at least the post you were looking at. I think they literally don't care if you were halfway through reading something when you flicked out of the app and go back in - refreshing the page and showing you all new stuff is probably measurably "better for 'engagement'" by whatever silly metrics they use.
by ildar | 2026-02-27 00:21:00+00:00
The top comment nails it — the unfixable trifecta of personal data access + network + untrusted inputs is real.

But I think the framing of "sandbox vs. no sandbox" misses a middle layer: runtime monitoring on the host itself.

Sandboxes contain blast radius. That's good. But they don't tell you when the agent is reading your SSH keys, exfiltrating credentials through DNS, or when a skill ships with obfuscated eval() calls.

What's been working for me: treating the agent like an untrusted employee with a keylogger on their workstation. Permission tiers (observer/worker/standard/full), forbidden zone enforcement (~/.ssh, ~/.aws, browser credential stores), and audit trails of every file access and command execution.

The defense-in-depth comment above is exactly right — you need the interstitial buffer AND runtime visibility into what the agent is actually doing between human checkpoints.

I've been building an open-source tool for this: https://github.com/darfaz/clawmoat — focuses on the host protection layer that sandboxes don't cover. 142 tests, zero dependencies.
by lebovic | 2026-02-27 00:21:22+00:00
I used to work at Anthropic, and I wrote a comment on a thread earlier this week about the RSP update [1]. I's enheartening to see that leaders at Anthropic are willing to risk losing their seat at the table to be guided by values.

Something I don't think is well understood on HN is how driven by ideals many folks at Anthropic are, even if the company is pragmatic about achieving their goals. I have strong signal that Dario, Jared, and Sam would genuinely burn at the stake before acceding to something that's a) against their values, and b) they think is a net negative in the long term. (Many others, too, they're just well-known.)

That doesn't mean that I always agree with their decisions, and it doesn't mean that Anthropic is a perfect company. Many groups that are driven by ideals have still committed horrible acts.

But I do think that most people who are making the important decisions at Anthropic are well-intentioned, driven by values, and are genuinely motivated by trying to make the transition to powerful AI to go well.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145963#47149908
by ViktorRay | 2026-02-27 00:21:43+00:00
By definition addiction involves pursuing substances or engaging in behavior repeatedly despite negative consequences in one’s life.

Any behavior or substance that causes serious addiction is still bad regardless of whether it causes death or other negative health effects. The addiction itself inherently causes suffering because the addict is engaging in something despite the negative consequences in the rest of their lives. The negative consequences cause suffering and the psychological pain of wanting to stop and not being able to stop also causes suffering.

I know some other commenters mentioned caffeine addiction but nicotine and opioids (and also behavioral addictions like gambling) are vastly more addictive than caffeine.

Negative consequences from addiction can involve more than loss of money (although loss of money is still a significant thing of course.) They can cause damage to one’s career, family relationships, friend relationships and so on. Even if the addictive behavior or substance has no other inherent negative health effects.

In high school I had a really bright and motivated friend. He went to an Ivy League school. He became horribly addicted to World of Warcraft as a freshman. He spent so much time playing the game that he damaged his grades and GPA. He almost failed out of school. He had to make serious effort to stay in school. And he had to spend tremendous mental effort to avoid playing additive games anymore. That’s just one example.
by cco | 2026-02-27 00:21:44+00:00
Sometimes you don't know up front. Perhaps you learn a lot about gaussian splatting and push forward that tech by five years (presuming they started on this five years ago).

Or maybe you learn this helps you build a world model that would have accelerated Waymo's progression, or you sell it to robotics companies.

That's the nice thing about having a money printer and a ton of smart, curious, and driven people. You can afford to do things without a strict eye towards profit, that's reserved for tiny companies living on a razor's edge. Or consultants I guess.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-27 00:21:46+00:00
It's interesting that in the UK the traditional two-party system is broken, because everyone realises that both of the traditional parties have been bought by rich folk and business interests, only serve their own interests, and can't be trusted any more. The main contenders now are Reform and The Greens, a situation that no-one predicted five years ago.

The same is true in Australia, though there's no charismatic left-wing leader emerging, and the Farage-equivalent is a laughing stock who struggles to be coherent at times. But because of billionaire money, she's still up there on the polls.

The US system makes it much harder for new parties to form, so it's probably going to be factions in the existing parties. And, of course, MAGA is the new faction in the Republican party; effectively a new party itself. So the ground is fertile for a new left-wing faction in the Democrat party to rise.
by parl_match | 2026-02-27 00:21:55+00:00
Yes, I've noticed the person you're replying to is frequently moving goalposts in this thread. They seem uncomfortable with the idea that you don't need to consume consume consume to enjoy an activity or hobby.

They are trying to suggest, I think, that no hobby is pure from rampant consumerism. Which is probably correct. I don't see what that has to do with those of us who don't feel the need to buy $100 socks or $1000 juice machines or what have you.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-27 00:21:57+00:00
Paramount's financing package combines roughly $45–46 billion in equity with more than $57 billion in debt.

The deal values Warner Bros. Discovery at around $111 billion ($31 per share), and including WBD's existing debt, the total takeover comes to more than $110 billion. NBC News

It would be the largest leveraged buyout (LBO) in history, with $87 billion of total pro forma gross debt and an estimated gross leverage of approximately 7x 2026 EBITDA before synergies.

Seems like a poor decision driven by ego.
by ByThyGrace | 2026-02-27 00:21:58+00:00
> By making these fake images ubiquitous we are forcing people to quickly learn

That's quite the high opinion on the self-improvement ability of your Average Joe. This kind of behavior only comes with an awareness, previously learned, and an alertness of mind. You need the population at large to be able to do this. How if not, say, teaching this at schools and waiting for the next generation to reach adulthood, would you expect this to happen?
by underlipton | 2026-02-27 00:21:59+00:00
I took a 20-minute walk every day for a year. I don't know that it changed my life, but I think it kept me healthier than I otherwise would have been at the height of the pandemic, and it also gave me a point of pride in saying that I had the resolve and discipline to do something every day for a full year, come what may (did?).

It taught me the importance of ritual, and it also taught me how... incredibly imperceptive a lot of people are. (I was living with a family member at the time, who was constantly asking me if I was "getting out of the house" regularly. Yes. Every day. For a month, and then 3 months, and then half-a-year, and then almost a full year, and then more than a year. On that note, it's essential to not let others' expectations cloud your appreciation for what you're doing. Somehow, it had wormed its way into my subconscious rationale that part of the reason that I was taking my walks was to live up to their expectations. When it became clear that they didn't really care - at least not enough to notice - that kind of deflated things a bit.)
by jmyeet | 2026-02-27 00:22:15+00:00
Taiwan is a matter of perspective. From the Chinese perspective, there was a civil war and the KMT lost. That's also the official position of the US, the EU and most countries in the world. It's called the One China policy. And China seems happy to maintain the status quo and leave the situation unresolved. Is it really imperialism to say that ultimately there will be reunification?

Even if you accept Tibet as imperialist, which is debatable, it was in 1950. You want to compare that to US imperialism, particularly since WW2 [1]? And I say "debatable" here because Tibet had a system that is charitably called "serfdom" where 90% of people couldn't own land but they did have some rights. However, they were the property of their lords and could be gifted or traded, you know, like property. There's another word for that: slavery.

It is 100% factually accurate to say that the People's Republica of China is not imperialist.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-27 00:22:25+00:00
> A lot of software has been squandering the massive hardware gains that have been made. I hope this changes when it becomes a lot harder to throw hardware at the problem.

Considering how many people are so averse to programming that they use LLMs to generate code for them? Not very likely IMO. I would like to see it happen, but people seem allergic to actually trying to be good at the craft these days.
by jiggawatts | 2026-02-27 00:22:33+00:00
Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall’s 1947 book Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command stated that only about 10-15% of men would actually take the opportunity to fire directly at exposed enemies. The rest would typically fire in the air to merely scare off the men on the opposing force.

I personally think this is one of the most positive of human traits: we’re almost pathologically unwilling to murder others even on a battlefield with our own lives at stake!

This compulsion to avoid killing others can be trivially trained out of any AI system to make sure that they take 100% of every potential shot, massacre all available targets, and generally act like Murderbots from some Black Mirror episode.

Anyone who participates in any such research is doing work that can only be categorised as the greatest possible evil, tantamount to purposefully designing a T800 Terminator after having watched the movies.

If anyone here on HN reading this happens to be working at one of the big AI shops and you’re even tangentially involved in any such project — even just cabling the servers or whatever — I spit in your eye in disgust. You deserve far, far worse.
by cwillu | 2026-02-27 00:23:15+00:00
It wasn't that long ago that Taiwan claimed to be the legitimate government of China; given that China still maintains the reverse claim, it's not outrageous that it would consider an outside country's defense to be interference in an internal matter.

Whether or not that claim is legitimate, it is consistent with the concept of china having a non-imperialist foreign policy, and claims regarding that need to look elsewhere for supporting evidence.
by pavel_man | 2026-02-27 00:23:25+00:00
When all 21M BTC are mined (around 2140), block rewards go to zero and miners are compensated only through transaction fees.

The network security model then relies entirely on fee incentives. If transaction volume remains high enough, miners stay profitable. If not, hash power could decrease, which might affect security assumptions.

As for hardware: most modern BTC mining uses ASICs, which are highly specialized and not practical for AI workloads. They’re optimized for SHA-256 hashing and can’t be easily repurposed. GPUs, on the other hand, can be redirected to AI or other compute-heavy tasks.

The bigger open question is whether the long-term fee market will be sufficient to sustain miner incentives without block subsidies.
by adastra22 | 2026-02-27 00:23:29+00:00
Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Libya, Lebanon, Iraq War I, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq War II were all fought for or over democratic ideals & the defense of democratic institutions.

All were driven by multiple competing and sometimes conflicting goals, and many look questionable in hindsight. It is fair to critique.

But it is absolutely not the case that the last time the US defended freedom through military means was WWII.
by rgovostes | 2026-02-27 00:23:50+00:00
My recent experience with Cash App made it apparent that something is really going awry at Block: My decade-old account was suspended, despite no suspicious activity and being in my full legal name and address and connected to the same checking account I've always used. I appealed, but of course they upheld their opaque decision, which is now permanent. I'm not surprised they're struggling if this is how they treat users who have plenty of alternative options.
by anonym29 | 2026-02-27 00:25:17+00:00
If Anthropic does give the DoD what they want, does that magically stop China, Iran, Russia, etc from advancing in AI arms development?

If Anthropic doesn't give the DoD what they want, does that mean that China, Iran, Russia, etc magically leapfrog not only Anthropic, but the entire US defense industry, and take over the planet?