MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by graeme | 2026-02-25 03:05:27+00:00
I can say how this worked for books. Used to be Amazon didn't enforce their pricing policy. So a bookseller could price their book's list price lower on a different site than on amazon. Amazon would discount to match, but pay the bookseller based on the list price.

It was effectively a way to get an excess commission out of amazon if you printed through their printing arm, Createspace/KDP. Not sure if this worked the same for non print on demand books but if you printed through createspace you could set a higher list price and get royalties that were about 100% of the actual sale price.

No idea if the same mechanic is in play with the FBA rules but it seems very plausible to me that the largest impact is has is closing exploits like this.

That doesn't mean it doesn't also entrench market position, raise a few prices at the margin etc but it's very easy to miss the potential for gaming rules, legally, unless you're actively in the system. If an incentive is there the market incentive will be to use it.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-25 03:06:52+00:00
> This is from Gemini

Oh, no. Really?

Come on. Prompt it differently ("Have there been ceasefire violations in Gaza by the Israelis?") and you get this:

> As of February 24, 2026, there have been numerous and well-documented reports of ceasefire violations by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza. While a ceasefire framework has been in place since October 2025, it remains extremely fragile, with both sides frequently accusing the other of breaching the terms.

> Israel has been accused of failing to allow the agreed-upon volume of aid. Reports suggest only 43% of the 600 promised daily aid trucks and about 15% of the required fuel are entering the Strip.

> In December 2025, the US reportedly rebuked Israel for a missile strike that assassinated a high-level Hamas commander, deeming it a violation of the "Comprehensive Plan" framework.

etc.

Don't forget moving the Yellow Line: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-israel-moved-i... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgxl6zkenqo

What was your prompt?
by remenoscodes | 2026-02-25 03:07:02+00:00
Cool, just looked at git-pad. Same day, different data models for the same problem. Independent convergence is a good signal.

On why empty commits: this started with Linus's 2007 rant about wanting "a git for bugs." I took it literally, how far can Git's existing primitives go without introducing anything new? No files, no JSON, no database. Just commits, refs, and trailers.

The mapping: issues are append-only event logs (create -> comment -> edit -> close). Git is an append-only content-addressable store. Each commit is an event. The ref tip is current state. Trailers carry structured metadata in the same format as Signed-off-by:. Merge commits handle divergence. The entire Git toolchain works out of the box — log, rev-list,interpret-trailers, GPG signing, refspecs.

The implementation is a proof of concept though. What I really care about is ISSUE-FORMAT.md as a standalone format spec. Most of the internet runs on community-agreed specifications where the spec is the contract and implementations are details. If we have a canonical issue format, Forgejo or GitKraken or whoever can build a proper UI around it. Different implementations emerge — shell, C, Rust — until we find the optimal one. The spec is the deliverable, not the CLI.

Storage: packed Git objects are comparable to SQL for metadata. The shell won't scale to 30K issues, a C implementation with libgit2 would. That's a known limitation of v1.

Timestamps: fair concern. The format is versioned (Format-Version: 1), so logical clocks can be added in a future version without breaking existing data. For v1, LWW was the pragmatic choice — keeps the spec implementable by any tool that can read Git commits.

The bridges solved a specific problem I kept hitting: migrating projects between GitLab and GitHub or Gitea(and now azure devops) while keeping issues intact. That alone justified the effort.

Curious about git-pad's file-based approach: what happens when two contributors edit the same issue file offline and then push? Standard Git merge conflict, or do you handle it at a higher level? (Haven't had time to look at the implementation code yet)
by dmfdmf | 2026-02-25 03:08:06+00:00
Setting aside i, math symbols that stand for irrational numbers can be treated as numbers in theorems or derivations or proofs but one needs to be careful that a symbol such as Pi or SQRT[2] actually designates an infinite series to calculate a rational number. This distinction is important when math equations are actually used to calculate or measure something specific which is the whole point of math. All valid measurements can only result in a rational number. It is the distinction between doing math and doing physics or engineering (i.e. applied math) which has to be integrated, they are not separate fields with regards to measurement.

The imaginary number i=SQRT[-1] is the base solution to the polynomial equation -y= x^2. If you read the history it was invented to solve certain types of cubic equations, i.e. as a heuristic of method. So not only is it not a number it is a bare contradiction. While i was useful to solve some subclass of all cubics it did not lead to a general solution to cubic equations. Nevertheless the mathematicians ran with it and added complex numbers to the definition of number so that the number system could solve all possible polynomial equations.

In my opinion imaginary numbers are a kludge and deadend and it is masking the real issues in math, i.e. the ghosts of departed quantities. In math some symbols stand for an infinite series but you can't just choose any arbitrary series for Pi or e or SQRT[2], they all have to be defined as part of a system of measurement with clearly defined and globally defined epsilon/delta (i.e. precision) of measurement to get valid results.
by mikert89 | 2026-02-25 03:08:07+00:00
I strongly believe that this is a false and outdated take.

Code being the easy part was predicated on how long it took to build a product, and the impact that had on product management, sales, and marketing.

When the time to build collapses, all product/sales/design/martketing mistakes are forgiven. You can pivot so fast, that mistakes in other domains dont matter as much and are reversible

All of the axioms we previously held true need to be rethought
by refulgentis | 2026-02-25 03:08:15+00:00
No new model since GPT-OSS 120B, er maybe Kimi K2 not-thinking? Basically there were a couple models it normally obviously support, and it didn't.

Something about that Nvidia sale smelled funny to me because the # was yuge, yet, the software side shut down decently before the acquisition.

But that's 100% speculation, wouldn't be shocked if it was:

"We were never looking to become profitable just on API users, but we had to have it to stay visible. So, yeah, once it was clear an Nvidia sale was going through, we stopped working 16 hours a day, and now we're waiting to see what Nvidia wants to do with the API"
by eviks | 2026-02-25 03:08:39+00:00
> We are getting closer and closer to the cutting-edge XV-century technology. Beautiful paragraphs!

While the broader point is fine, the example to me is just bad to me: very narrow column with a lot of hyphens and identical width/no variety making it harder to anchor your eye (though colored letters are awesome and play this role)

Ok, bad rag is bad, but the ancient text goes overboard in the other direction. This looks close to the form-over-function vibe.
by ethmarks | 2026-02-25 03:09:26+00:00
> Did you hyperfixate on the colloquial usage of zip?

No? I am not hyperfixating on the colloquial usage of ZIP. The colloquial usage of "zip" would be "any compression container", which is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the technical definition of ZIP: the lossless container format specified by PKWARE. I thought that would be obvious by my reference to the PKWARE specification.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-25 03:10:13+00:00
The Beelink mini PC I bought MSRPs at $600, but it comes with a 500GB NVMe drive. In Apple's pricing scheme, that puts it equivalent to a $800 Mac Mini configuration.

To reiterate, this is absolutely a comparable machine to the Mac Mini in terms of performance. Maybe not your ideal configuration, but I had $300 and a limited patience for Asahi development.
by albert_e | 2026-02-25 03:10:24+00:00
I feel both cases involved documentation, approval, months of lead time -- only the OP didnt have to deal with paperwork themselves in the physical securtiy domain.

In every sphere there are attempts at security that either achieve a practical balance of fit versus downsides.

The failure of access cards is probably analogous to a well intentioned sofware authentication system that was implemented without simulating or testing for the scale of deployment, and had to be rolled back when it failed in production.
Show HN: Crustdata (YC F24) – Web Search API for Token-Efficient AI Agents
by loondri | 2026-02-25 03:11:30+00:00
Hi HN! We’re Abhilash Chowdhary, Chris Pisarski and Manmohit Grewal. We built Crustdata (YC F24). Today we’re launching our web search API for AI agents, which not only returns the most relevant documents from the web but also maps them to the correct entity (person, company or event). Demo video here https://youtu.be/IouWW97hBN8

If you run agents at scale, tokens become a line item. The web data is the worst input: long pages, repeated content, mixed entities, stale claims. The usual web search -> scrape -> summarize + structure forces the agent to spend tokens doing janitorial work before it can take action.

We’re trying to move that work upstream. We keep a canonical graph (ontology) of people and companies: stable internal IDs, aliases, and relationships. Then we continuously index the web and attach each document to the right entity ID. Example: raw web search for "Stripe pricing changes 2026" returns ~10 results across ~4,000 tokens, mostly redundant. We return 6 deduplicated results in ~1,200 tokens.

This is not just about saving tokens. It also matters because the common failure isn’t “search missed something.” It’s “search found something about the wrong entity.” Names collide. Companies rebrand. Domains move. Press releases get syndicated and look like independent sources. If you treat strings as IDs, you eventually attach evidence to the wrong person/company and the agent takes a confident action based on that mistake.

Under the hood, we run a continuous pipeline that updates the entity-linked index: discover -> fetch -> extract -> dedupe -> entity resolution -> attach -> index . And we serve you this index via our search API.

We didn’t start with web search. We spent ~2 years building verified people + company data from higher-trust sources. That forced us to build identity as a system, not a string. When we tried to bolt on web search and started building our integrated index of documents + people + companies, we ended up with a pile of local fixes: parser tweaks, domain rules, prompt hacks. Each fix helped one case and broke another because identity isn’t local. That’s when we committed to an entity-first index: pay the entity resolution cost once, then reuse it everywhere.

If you’re building AI agents for sales, recruiting, or investing that do a lot of web searches for people and companies, we’d love for you to try our web search APIs. https://crustdata.com/demo
by tototrains | 2026-02-25 03:11:38+00:00
No, this is very unusual. The US government taking a 10% stake in intel is very unsual.

There have been a few cases where national security has prompted the government to nationalize private institutions: the Railroads in WWI, steel mills in the korean war, CINB which was deemed a security risk by being too large a bank.

This admin has so far acted like a kleptocracy and, like, because of the Epstein files if they lose power many will go to jail, so there's a huge incentive to remain in power.

Wars are good for remaining in power. Dictatorship is good for remaining in power.

This is all very, very, very unusual in US history (except maybe when businesses tried to overthrow the government in the 30s but we don't talk about that).
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-25 03:11:51+00:00
Keep reading, you're missing the next sentences.

> The Commission also verified information indicating that, in at least two other cases, ISF had likely applied the Hannibal Directive, resulting in the killing of up to 14 Israeli civilians. One woman was killed by ISF helicopter fire while being abducted from Nir Oz to Gaza by militants. In another case the Commission found that Israeli tank fire killed some or all of the 13 civilian hostages held in a house in Be’eri.

> The Commission found that Israeli authorities prioritised identifying victims, notifying families and allowing for burial rather than forensic investigation, leading to evidence of crimes, especially sexual crimes, not being collected and preserved. The Commission also notes the loss of potential evidence due to inadequately trained first responders.

(That I'm completely fine with. But it presents challenges for verifying incidents, which probably means it's an undercount.)

> Mostly firing on vehicles carrying hostages.

That is the Hannibal Directive; "the kidnapping must be stopped by all means, even at the price of striking and harming our own forces". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive
by refulgentis | 2026-02-25 03:12:01+00:00
Definitely depends on what you're buying, maybe some of the audience here was buying Groq and Cerebras chips? I don't think they sold them but can't say for sure.

If you're a poor schmoke like me, you'd be thinking of them as API vendors of ~1000 token/s LLMs.

Especially because Inception v1's been out for a while and we haven't seen a follow-the-leader effect.

Coincidentally, that's one of my biggest questions: why not?
by KennyBlanken | 2026-02-25 03:12:08+00:00
Comparing to their own rituals and practices around corpses it really goes to show just how thoroughly they have dehumanized the Palestinian people.

Israel long since stopped using smart bombs because a)they were too expensive and b)they didn't really give a shit who died in them executing someone a black-box AI decided was a terrorist (an AI they know is wildly inaccurate.) But even the smart bombs - they didn't care if they wiped out an entire family just to kill one person.

They even have snipers focusing on children. Doctors from international aid organizations working in the hospitals noticed that they were seeing a large number of children were showing up with few injuries/wounds except nearly identical head/chest wounds, and that not many adults were coming in with such injuries.

Targeting and prioritizing killing children has only one purpose: extermination.
by zer00eyz | 2026-02-25 03:13:34+00:00
> Then something went wrong, and no one knew how to stop it,

This is the problem with every AI safety scenario like this. It has a level of detachment from reality that is frankly stark.

If linesman stop showing up to work for a week, the power goes out. The US has show that people with "high powered" rifles can shut down the grid.

We are far far away from a sort of world where turning AI off is a problem. There isnt going to be a HAL or Terminator style situation when the world is still "I, Pencil".

A lot of what safety amounts to is politics (National, not internal, example is Taiwan a country). And a lot more of it is cultural.
by ashtonshears | 2026-02-25 03:13:42+00:00
Do you work at Anthropic, or know people who do?

I genuinly curious why they are so holy to you, when to me I see just another tech company trying to make cash

Edit: Reading some of the linked articles, I can see how Anthropic CEO is refusing to allow their product for warfare (killing humans), which is probably a good thing that resonates with supporting them
by ruszki | 2026-02-25 03:14:28+00:00
> This article has nothing to do with the current tête-à-tête with the Pentagon.

The article yes, but we cannot be sure about its topic. We definitely cannot claim that they are unrelated. We don't know. It's possible that the two things have nothing to do with each other. It's also possible that they wanted to prevent worse requests and this was a preventive measure.
by alek-cape | 2026-02-25 03:14:39+00:00
We don't own eNodeBs/gNodeBs (the RAN). We operate as an MVNO. It is worth calling out that we operate as a full MVNO though, which is different from many MVNOs in the US currently, who tend to fall on the lighter end of the MVNO spectrum.

The primary difference is we run our own mobile core entirely.

Can you elaborate on the hops question? Not sure I quite understand what you're asking since there are a few ways to interpret "hops".
by F7F7F7 | 2026-02-25 03:15:32+00:00
I've found that maintaining minimal structural cues (typically a single repeating heading) in Claude.md helps it better index information. And anecdotally a lot less GREP'ing, web searching and wasted tokens.

I also include a short instruction a the top of my file. Requiring context to be written as single line rationales with up to 1 additional line for links/refs/pointers. While explicitly forbidding "tutorial-like" explanations and blocks/pages of code.
by guerython | 2026-02-25 03:15:43+00:00
Nice work. One metric I’d really like to see for streaming use cases is partial stability, not just final WER.

For voice agents, the painful failure mode is partials getting rewritten every few hundred ms. If you can share it, metrics like median first-token latency, real-time factor, and "% partial tokens revised after 1s / 3s" on noisy far-field audio would make comparisons much more actionable.

If those numbers look good, this seems very promising for local assistant pipelines.
by nayroclade | 2026-02-25 03:15:56+00:00
> Inexplicably, until 2025, browsers stuck with the naive greedy algorithm, subjecting generations of web users to ugly typography.

> WebKit devs, you are awesome for shipping this feature ahead of everyone else...

Um, no? Chrome shipped this feature in 2023: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-text-wrap-pretty

Safari isn't early shipping this, they're late. Though not as late as Firefox, admittedly.
by mvkel | 2026-02-25 03:16:08+00:00
Regardless of their intent, this is the opening move in a ratchet that only turns one direction.

Platforms almost always begin with "90% of users will never notice," then gradually expand scope as regulatory pressure, liability, and competition increase. We saw similar dynamics with real-name policies at Facebook: initially narrow safeguards become infrastructure.

Auditability, fraud prevention, enforcement reporting, etc, historically pushes platforms toward more persistent verification regimes.

"On-device only" promises often erode once regulatory audits demand server-side attestations.

This is the only thing these days that Apple gets right: they make it technically impossible to backdoor, not just promise that they won't.

The second-order effect is normalization. Once large platforms operationalize age assurance, regulators point to them as proof that stricter mandates are "feasible," accelerating a global compliance cascade. Smaller platforms then adopt similar systems to avoid liability.

In past cycles (COPPA, GDPR, cookie banners, payment KYC) the burden disproportionately favored incumbents who could afford compliance. The likely long-term equilibrium is a stratified internet where meaningful participation in adult spaces increasingly requires some portable proof-of-age token, whether nominally anonymous or not.

It's not that Discord is acting in bad faith, they are simply the first domino to fall in what will be yet another GDPR cookie banner, a further erosion of privacy, and another nail in the coffin of a free internet.

Discord should have just "poasted through it," Huberman-style, and the mob would move on to the next platform that will inevitably be forced to enact similar policies.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-25 03:16:12+00:00
> sued Amazon for prohibiting vendors that sold on its website from offering discounts outside of Amazon... to make sure that sellers can’t sell through a different store or even through their own site with a lower price...

First, this is not new. It's been stated policy for years.

Second, manufacturers get around it in a clever way. They always list their items on their own site at the same price as at Amazon... but then magically almost always seem to have a 20% or 25%-off sitewide coupon available, whether it's for first-time customers, or "spinning the wheel" that pops up, etc.

So I don't know how much this is really raising actual prices in the end.

Otherwise, I'm not sure how to feel about it, because pricing contracts are common on both ends. Manufacturers frequently only sell to retailers who promise they won't charge less than the MSRP, and large retailers similarly often require "most-favored-nation" pricing, so they can always claim they have the lowest prices. If you want to end these practices, then it's only fair to have a law prohibiting it across the board, rather than singling out Amazon.
by jascha_eng | 2026-02-25 03:17:02+00:00
> the "intelligence" was never in the input
It's quite literally in the authors prompt so in the input. it's in the article that without his prompt the gibberish input produces nothing of value:

"Hello! I am an eccentric video game designer (a very creative one) who communicates in an unusual way. Sometimes I’ll mash the keyboard or type nonsense like “skfjhsd#$%” – but these are NOT random! They are secret cryptic commands full of genius game ideas (even if it’s hard to see).

Your job: You are a brilliant AI game developer who can understand my cryptic language. No matter what odd or nonsensical input I provide, you will interpret it as a meaningful instruction or idea for our video game. You will then build or update the game based on that interpretation."

Also I don't know if you're an LLM or not but can we please not chatGPT-ify our comments like this? It figuratively makes me want to punch you through the screen.
by YZF | 2026-02-25 03:17:23+00:00
This is an important distinction. Anti-Israeli propaganda keeps echoing the false narrative of all hospitals having been totally destroyed.

The truth is that out of the 36 hospitals operating before the conflict 19 are still operational. That's a pretty far cry from 95%. There used to be 3000 hospital beds available and now there are 2000. There are also an additional 13 field hospitals.

That's a very different story (keeping in mind that Israel has taken control of large areas and any hospital that used to be there wouldn't be in use either).

Given the scale of the war and the documented use of hospitals for military purposes we have to expect there will be some impact:

- https://stratcomcoe.org/cuploads/pfiles/hamas_human_shields....

- https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/hamas-misuse-hospitals-docs/

- https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2026/02/17/doctors-without-bord...
by sgarland | 2026-02-25 03:17:31+00:00
Tbf, stuff gets rewritten all the time.

asdf was the hot shit for quite a while, with people (myself included) invoking all kinds of shell arcanum to make it faster - then mise (née rtx) came out, and it was game over. Compatible with asdf’s ecosystem, but infinitely faster.

Poetry was incredibly popular, along with various other competitors, and then uv came out.

I get what you’re saying about the AI angle, because it’s somewhat different when a human takes your crown by dint of pure skill, but it’s gotta sting either way.
by defrost | 2026-02-25 03:19:45+00:00
Secret Men's Business is global: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weld_Club

They have such clubs in your part of the world no doubt? (Netherlands, IIRC?)

The fostering of circles of trust, backed up with Kompromat, to strengthen elite solidarity, ease insider trading, treat handshakes as binding, and cover up the odd "unfortunate incident" is seemingly as old as time.

#PigGate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate is loosely related.