MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-28 21:41:03+00:00
> I think it does matter and this quote is always flaunted like it's some deep insight but it intentionally ignored nuance

There are people that wouldn't do it no matter the amount. Not for billions. Not for a trillion. And that's why no matter how rich the other party, there are people to whom they simply aren't rich enough.

"No" is the most powerful word in the dictionary. And when some people say no, they really mean no. And no amount of money can change that.

And most filthy, corrupt, bribed politicians and corrupt public servants out there know that fully well: they feel filthy and miserable because they know there are people out there with moral and ethics.

Additionally, there are people who honestly really don't give a fuck about money (it's not my case): so they'll say no not because of particularly high moral or high ethics, they'll say no just because they enjoy their simple life.

Honestly it's a sign of low moral and low ethics to believe that anyone can be bought out and that it's just about the amount.
by saghm | 2026-02-28 21:41:06+00:00
> OpenAI acceded to demands that the US Government can do whatever it wants that is legal. Anthropic wanted to impose its own morals into the use of its products.

What if Anthropic's morals are "we won't sell someone a product for something that it's not realistically capable of doing with a high degree of success? The government can't do what something if it's literally impossible (e.g. "safe" backdoors in encryption), but it's legal for them to attempt even when failure is predetermined. We don't know that's what's going on here, but you haven't provided any evidence that's sufficient to differentiate between those scenarios, so it's fairly misleading to phrase it as fact rather than conjecture.
by catlikesshrimp | 2026-02-28 21:41:17+00:00
To take a break from breaking havoc in Gaza, there was an israeli incursion into Lebanon (which included a fantastic supply chain attack) Then they tried to pick a fight in Siria for some BS reason (intervening Siria for protecting some jew friendly faction inside Siria, a la Russia protecting russiansnin Ukraine), then went to Iran, then continued milling Gaza, and now we are back at Iran, again.

No, support will never falther.
by getnormality | 2026-02-28 21:41:44+00:00
I spend an unusually small proportion of my life in meetings, probably an idiosyncratic feature of my job.

My impression is that the main reason most people have so many meetings is because meetings are equated to work. If you are in a meeting, you are at work and you need to work. This is because, in a meeting, everyone is looking at everyone else with the expectation that they are working. But if you are not in a meeting, this expectation doesn't exist, so you are basically not at work and you don't need to work.

In particular, thinking only occurs during meetings. And if it didn't happen during a meeting, it didn't happen.
by shermantanktop | 2026-02-28 21:41:57+00:00
Typical modern practice would be to have a pedal board with all interconnects and power set up and fixed. Hendrix didn’t do that, but EVH did. And now the internet is full of people posting their pedalboards (P&W people especially).

But you still have to plug in from the right with the guitar cord, and from the left for the card to the amp. So I dunno, my theory may be bogus. But this pattern got established very early on, by the late 60s st the latest.
by AdAbsurdum | 2026-02-28 21:42:00+00:00
I think the relevant quotes are these:

"Dedekind quickly replied that...he’d worked out a proof that the algebraic numbers (the numbers you get as solutions to algebra problems) could be counted.

[...]

Weierstrass had been most excited about the proof that algebraic numbers are countable. (He would later use that result to prove a theorem of his own.) So Cantor chose a misleading title [for his paper] that only mentioned algebraic numbers.

[...]

Writing his paper, Cantor put the proof about algebraic numbers first. Below it, he added his own proof that the real numbers cannot be counted — Dedekind’s simplified version of it, that is."

So the first proof -- the one the article was titled after -- was completely created by Dedekind.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-28 21:42:01+00:00
There might still be significant pushback at least for one more generation. Although we can see things move quickly now that the war on general purpose computation is moving quickly(the recent 3D printer ban proposals, introducing age verification at the OS level etc.) so many things might move slowly for a long time and then move fast all at once.

>Car companies will have accurate maps of everything, and cars will mostly become shuttles which can rely more on predetermined routines and less on world models, especially as smart cities gain a foothold too.

Car companies won't have squat. The whole point of GM buying Cruise and others trying to get into self driving was that they will be relegated to white box manufacturers if they dont try and bring this tech in house. Its funny how the MBAs at these companies tried to outsource all manufacturing to 'suppliers' such that all they really wanted to do was stick the badge on the car at the end. Now they realize this thinking is going to take themselves out of the equation as well....whoops. If your vision comes to pass why would anyone care what badge is on the front of the car?

This is probably why Waymo had to use Jaguar i-Paces: only companies desperate to offload their unsold inventory would cooperate with them.
by bityard | 2026-02-28 21:42:24+00:00
I look at it like this: Yes, AI can write code. It can write it much faster than I can. Sometimes it can also write it better than I can.

But: programming languages, libraries, and abstractions are not going away. It is still possible (and might always be possible) to get deep into the weeds of Python or Rust or whatever to understand how those work and really harness them to their full potential, or develop them further. It just won't be _compulsary_ (in most industries) if your only goal is to trade lines of code for dollars in your bank account.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-28 21:42:47+00:00
This appears to a form to collect the identities of past or present OpenAI and Google employees who share certain political views

It requires proof of employment, e.g., company email aaddress, photo of employee badge, and discloses a US-based "cloud computing" vendor where the identities will be stored in the cloud

After employment verification it claims the stored identities will be destroyed upon request. The site operator is apparently anonymous

One can imagine this list could be useful to multiple parties for multiple purposes
by scannyai | 2026-02-28 21:44:04+00:00
Your vendor sends you a perfectly clear PDF invoice. You run it through OCR. The result: invoice number is correct, date is correct, but the amount shows $1,500.00 when it should be $15,000.00. One missing zero just created a $13,500 accounting error.

Modern AI promises "99% accuracy" on document processing. That sounds impressive—until you realize that 1% error rate on a 100-field document means one field is likely wrong. If that field is the payment amount, tax ID, or contract value, 99% might as well be 0%.

Here's the reality: achieving true 99%+ accuracy on real-world documents isn't just about choosing the right OCR technology. It's about understanding what affects accuracy, optimizing your document quality, and building processes that catch the inevitable edge cases.

This guide shows you exactly how to maximize OCR accuracy on the documents you process every day—not laboratory samples, but real invoices, contracts, forms, and receipts.
by DavidPiper | 2026-02-28 21:44:11+00:00
I accidentally hit the wrong button a few weeks ago and upgraded to Tahoe. I didn't think it was that big a deal at the time, I'd just been putting it off.

But having used it for a few weeks now I can confirm it is a strict downgrade over Sequoia for me. I use none of the new features it has introduced, and the changes to existing features are just worse.

Some UI animations are slow and jittery - and this is on an M4 Pro. The Finder has gone from fine to janky once again, especially with horizontal scroll. The window corners and mouse interactions are indeed annoying (I'd assumed the many complaints were at least slight hyperbole). Left-aligned window titles are unbalanced and ugly. I've had weird (visual) app duplication issues with the Application smart-folder in the Dock. Cross-device copy-paste SEEMS to be more flaky than usual. And most petty of all I really don't like the new icons - especially the Trash icon for some reason.
by kj4ips | 2026-02-28 21:44:13+00:00
I like the idea behind ostree and bootc, but I feel that OCI (with tarlayers) is not a good fit. `repack` makes an absolute hash of things, and since the layers are logically packaged, they will have to be composed somehow, and then ostree becomes only slightly more useful than coreos's A/B usr.

OCI roughly assumes that layers will be laid out in some logical way, and that a given host will see opportunities to reuse across different instances, but with bootc, there will only ever be one instance.

OCI also assumes that individual layers are small enough that it is always worth pulling and unpacking a layer instead of some kind of authentication delta, which is great for a k8s cluster in a center, but not great for devices out on the edge, where you might want this kind of pseudo-immutable system even more.

I really want some standardized way for a manifest in OCI to say that "this content is also available in other format X here".
by YZF | 2026-02-28 21:44:14+00:00
So Avrum Burg I mentioned in another comment is historically affiliated with the "Mafdal", the religious party. That religious party, just like religious zionism in general, isn't one uniform block. It has different opinions and it evolves.

I feel like I lost track of the discussion. At some point I thought you were claiming something along the lines that says religious Jews believe they are under an order from God to expand Israel to its maximal biblical geographical area.

If your claim is that the current day Mafdal's political (not necessarily religious) position is that Israel should annex the West Bank and Gaza. Ehm, sure, maybe. I think it's a bit more nuanced even than that but I won't argue on this point.

It's possible I just lost the thread, and if I did I apologize. HN isn't very good at facilitating this sort of discussion. If I mis-stated your position above and am agreeing with the wrong thing I'm sure you'll correct me.

[EDIT: correcting myself a little bit Burg actually ended up as a member of the Labor party in politics, but his politics did originally align with the Mafdal, the party is/was supposed to represent all Zionist Religious people but has obviously diverged a bit from that)
by nkassis | 2026-02-28 21:44:18+00:00
This blog post really doesn't make it sound any better there is no clear refusal to participate in the questionable uses Anthropic was against. Merely must be legal and must be tested.

This feels like IBM in the 1930s selling tabulating machines to the Germans and downplaying their knowledge of their use. They seem to want us to naively believe they won't use it for exactly what the military has always wanted, autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Further more there are much more mundane use they might make of the technology that is perfectly legal yet morally in gray areas.
by dematz | 2026-02-28 21:45:07+00:00
1st comment: 2 day old account, "is the real story here", summary -> comment -> question, general punchiness of style without saying that much. These llms feel like someone said "be an informal hacker news commenter" so they often end with "Curious how" instead of "I'm curious how" or "Worth building" instead of "It's worth building". Not that humans don't do any of this but all of it together in their comment history, you just get a general vibe.

author reply: not as obvious, but for one thing yes literally em dash, their post has 10 em dashes in 748 words, this comment has 2 em dashes in 115 words. Not that em dash = ai, but in the context of a post about AI it seems more likely. And finally, https://github.com/mksglu/claude-context-mode/blob/main/cont... the file the author linked in their own repo does not exist!

(https://github.com/mksglu/claude-context-mode/blob/main/src/... exists but they messed up the link?)
by nickysielicki | 2026-02-28 21:45:17+00:00
Nobody is saying that Anthropic has to shut down. They’re just saying that nobody taking government money can pay Anthropic for their service as a part of that contract. Anthropic still has the right to exist on their own terms, but their business model is based on rapidly-increasing enterprise subscriptions, which included public sector spending.

If Anthropic can survive on open source contributors shelling out $200/mo and private sector companies doing the same, the government wishes them well. But surely you agree the government has a right to determine how its budget is appropriated?
by saghm | 2026-02-28 21:45:47+00:00
> This is key because it's the textbook example of a war crime. It's also something that the current administration has bragged doing dozens of times.

> More succinctly: who decides what is legal here? OpenAI, the Secretary of Defense, or a judge?

Yeah, there's a pretty strong case that anyone claiming to trust that the administration cares about operating in good faith with respect to the law is either delusional or lying.
by phtrivier | 2026-02-28 21:46:25+00:00
I think, in the middle of all the grandiose proponents of "AGI is coming any time soon", "AI is going to cure cancer", "LLMs will fix climate change", "ChatGPT will bring back your estranged lover", etc... Some critique has to be a bit harsh. "The data center has no clothes", in a way ?

I agree that the author gets a bit childish when he goes into name dropping of people who used to disagree with him and don't any more - there's probably some background drama that I'm not particularly interested in.

Still. I believe having both Gary Marcus and Dwarkesh Panel in a timeline, in chronological fashion, whiteout and algo to tell me who's right, is one of the perks of substack.
by fredoliveira | 2026-02-28 21:47:18+00:00
Not gp, but because the way hackernews would render in a web browser versus curl is dramatically different, of course. There's a clear separation of presentation and content, and curl shows you presentation.

Notes being plain text files means that what you get by showing via a CLI is essentially the same as just `cat whatever-it-is.md`. Viewing a note via the CLI interface could have its merits (it could apply its own flavor of presentation), but come on now. Your example doesn't hold.
by YZF | 2026-02-28 21:47:24+00:00
If the weaker claim is that some Israelis have religious motivations or feel like religion supports their position - sure. But big picture religion doesn't play as large as a role for Israelis as it might play for Iran or let's say Hamas or the Houthis. Even with those more religious actors I don't think religion is the only driver, e.g. with Iran this is probably partly just a way to control the population vs. a religious belief held by everyone in the regime (not sure about the ex-supreme leader)
by tombert | 2026-02-28 21:47:29+00:00
> To get through to these people you have to validate their deep fears. Not just say - shut up, you are stupid, vote for me.

Everyone says this kind of stuff, but honestly I don't think I agree. Everyone says that you have to be nice to these people to attract them, but that doesn't seem to have been the case for people like Trump or any of the other demagogues that have popped up in the last decade or so.

These people are decidedly huge assholes. Trump is the most easily offended person I have ever seen, and whenever anyone ever goes against him he will go on his stupid Twitter clone and give a diatribe about how they're not true Americans and they're radical left and they're traitors and a bunch of other bullshit.

People like John McCain and Mitt Romney tried to meet people where they are and negotiate, and both of them failed to win the presidency. Trump went on stage, rambled a bunch of incoherent nonsense about how Mexico not sending their best or trying to brag about having a giant cock and he's been elected twice now.

I'm not convinced that being polite to these conservatives is actually the right path forward. I tried being polite to my grandmother when we would discuss these things and instead of reflecting on her believes she's fully fallen down the QAnon rabbit hole and has actively said to me that my wife should be deported.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-28 21:47:34+00:00
> I don't see why I should quit.

So, can you please draw the line when you will quit?

- If OpenAI deal allows domestic mass surveillance
- If OpenAI allows the development of autonomous weapons
- OpenAI no longer asks for the same terms for other AI companies

Correct?

If so, then if I take your words at face value:

- By your reading non-domestic mass surveillance is fine

- The development of AI based weapons is fine as long as there is one human element in there, even if it could be disabled and then the weapon would work without humans involved

- The day that OpenAI asks for the same terms for other AI companies and if those terms are not granted then that's also fine, because after all, they did ask.

I have become extremely skeptical when seeing people whose livelihood depends on a particular legal entity come out with precise wording around what does and does not constitute their red line but I find it fascinating nonetheless so if you could humor me and clarify I'd be most obliged.
by cheema33 | 2026-02-28 21:47:34+00:00
> We're retiring later and later, working more per week

That may be true. But, if somebody offered me a time machine to travel back in time and live at any point in history, would I take it? Hell no.

> purchasing power is going down

That is not a new thing.

> quality of goods is going down

Phones are better. Computers are better. Cars, planes, washing machines ...

> life expectancy is decreasing

On the whole, this is not the case.

> child mortality is increasing

Globally?

> illiteracy is increasing

Globally?

You seem to have a negative view of things. And sure, many things are not great. But the examples you gave are not it.
by Rapzid | 2026-02-28 21:48:07+00:00
It's the West vs China with Russia as an also-ran with nukes now unfortunately.

Otherwise you've got some regional issues which is where Iran falls. None of the major players in the region like them, even if they would prefer not to have a conflict they'd be pretty stoked if the volatile regime was gone.

Most of those non-aligned nations are pretty much aligned with the west. Indonesia is absolutely aligned with the USA and the USA it. They are the "Indo" in Indo-Pacific Strategy!
by piker | 2026-02-28 21:48:22+00:00
No, I'm not taking the government's side. I'm telling the government's side. That's probably true that the executive branch can't do those things, but it may be able to do so in the future. Thus, Anthropic's rule would then be inconsistent with the laws applying to the government.

> The US government can update its laws and come back to Anthropic

No, this I do take issue with. It's the people who update the U.S. government's laws.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-28 21:49:09+00:00
> Movie theater attendant is a highschooler not a member of the stasi.

And a flag on the account would be like the highschooler, right? As opposed to having nothing in way too many situations.

> Age verification doesn’t even work in the meatspace.

It works a lot better than nothing, you won't have 10 years olds getting into all the R rated movies they want. It doesn't have to be perfect, and a bit of wiggle room can even be a good thing for learning how to navigate the world.
by marojejian | 2026-02-28 21:49:28+00:00
Interesting article which challenged my priors.

Of course key to note the author is asserting his own theory.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552202/psychopathy-unmasked/

I'd welcome some expert takes on this.

My own is essentially:
- I buy that the psychopath is not well supported as a construct in the sense that psychology cannot reliably identify the causes / nature of psychopathic behaviors generally.

- Likely this is a reflection of the challenges of psychology overall: it's seeking to provide simple explanations for an insanely complex and diverse system. It's like trying to categorize all software bugs into 100 causes. People don't display psychopathic behavior for only 100 "reasons" or "reasons" at all. Perhaps this is in the same sense that there are not "reasons" behind a specific answer you get from an LLM, or reasons why a specific hurricane formed. It's an irreducibly complex mess. Not to mention all the flaws in the current incentives / culture of science (replicability etc.).

- But...from the perspective of a layperson (me), which is what imho is most important, psychopaths do exist in that there are people who regularly and predictably exhibit "psychopathic" behaviors. Behaviors that are beyond the pale of our society's morality. Since such individuals behavior has a important impact on society (cough..."leaders"), I think it is a valid term and subject of research. This is true whether or not we can identify the etiology of such behavior, or if such a description is even possible.

psychopaths exist. we just can't put them all in a box.
by snailmailman | 2026-02-28 21:49:36+00:00
I like the concept of them, and I want them to work well purely so people stop using bad passwords. But nearly everywhere does it differently and weirdly and likely wrongly.

When I log into my Amazon account with a passkey, it then asks me for a 2FA code. The 2FA code is stored on the same device as a passkey, that step literally does nothing. After I do the 2FA code, it then prompts me to create a passkey. No! I have one. I signed in with one.

Some devices give me the option to use a QR code. I like that option usually, I can easily use my phone to authenticate. But sometimes i can’t get the QR code to appear. Support varies by OS, browser, and set of installed extensions. And there’s no easy way to control which of those three handles the passkey when something decides wrongly.

I had to troubleshoot something on someone else’s computer, and saw that they logged in to windows with a passkey and QR code. I’ve looked, and I can’t seem to set that up on my windows computer. There isn’t an option to and I have no idea why.
Show HN: Focusmo – a Mac focus app with a local Claude MCP server
by elesinn | 2026-02-28 21:49:48+00:00
I’m the solo developer of Focusmo, a macOS focus app.

I just shipped v7.12, which adds a local MCP server for Claude.

The goal is simple: instead of generic productivity advice, Claude can connect to real focus data and help with weekly reviews, planning, and pattern spotting.

Right now Claude can access:
- today’s stats
- weekly trends
- task list
- app usage with an hourly heatmap
- personal records
- live session state

It can also create tasks and mark tasks complete.

Everything runs locally on Mac through MCP, so the data stays on-device.

I wrote more about it here:
https://focusmo.app/blog/claude-ai-mcp-focus-tracking

If anyone from HN wants to try it, I made a code for this thread:
CLAUDE50 = $50 off for the first 10 users.