MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ZebusJesus | 2026-02-27 23:22:24+00:00
I have had proton as a paid customer for 8 years and it's been nothing but good. They keep adding features, it works, it's secure and I can have 15 emails that go to the sam inbox!

Proton VPN and drive was a nice addition, then they added a production suite and password manager honestly its 100% a great deal and they keep working hard to make more secured services.

I run a searXNG server so it searches multiple engines for me anonymously!
by nilamo | 2026-02-27 23:22:41+00:00
This sounds great... in theory. And just sort of assumes that large casualties are acceptable. Or, even worse, that a lone individual can impart change via a well aimed shot, or something.

Both of which are wild and not something the average person should want or expect to happen. Which makes it even stranger that so many people say it all the time.

Have you stopped renegade cops in your community? Or are you only suggesting that other people do, knowing that anyone who attempts it will die?

It just seems insane to seriously suggest fighting a force that has tanks, drones, etc and has full info on where you are at any moment should they decide to take you out with a sniper, and the willingness to use all of those against you while calling you a terrorist.
by kouteiheika | 2026-02-27 23:23:23+00:00
Ah, right, by being actually good, as in - being okay with mass surveillance as long as it isn't being done in the US, being okay with Claude assisting in killing people as long as it isn't fully autonomous, and being actively hostile to open-weight LLMs and open research on LLMs? This kind of "good"?

No, OP is right, their PR department is doing a great job.
by Telaneo | 2026-02-27 23:24:16+00:00
Same experience here. DDG works fine for getting to that Wikipedia article with a non-obvious title, but any search where I'm less sure of what I'm looking for tends to fall flat on it's face, with zero sites of interest shown with any given search. Local (non-American, and even more so non-English) searches fail consistently.

I'd imagine you could fix some of this problem if you could (massively) prioritise results from certain sites. If Wikipedia, Reddit and Stack Exchange, not to mention the various forums I find during my travels, were consistently pushed to the top, my experience would be a lot better, since then I could at least know with some confidence that the sites I'd expect to get something from don't have what I need.

This would probably necessitate having an account to save those settings, although they do already have a 'block site' feature, which does come in handy. It also necessitate them actually having indexed Reddit and all the various forums for me to be confident that an empty search result really is the result whatever I'm looking for not actually being out there.

I really should try Kagi, to see if its as great as sliced bread. Since if Kagi does search as well as the Google of old, and I can adjust its searches to prioritise results from known good (to me) sites, then that probably is worth paying for; it's just a shame that it's necessary to begin with, since Google already did that for free back in the day.
by Paul_Clayton | 2026-02-27 23:24:18+00:00
The Motorola 88k and 68k both supported (eventually) extended precision, and, of course, Itanium supported it for x87 compatibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_88000
(under "Registers": "32 80-bit (88110 only)")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_precision
(see section titled "IEEE 754 extended-precision formats")
by quickthrowman | 2026-02-27 23:24:49+00:00
If you really want to protect a piece of equipment, you need overload or protection relays. These come in various types for various applications, motor overloads, phase loss relays, and ground fault protection relays are a few types.

A three-phase motor circuit (VFD or starter controlled) has either thermal or solid-state overloads after the contactor to protect the motor and wiring in the event of a motor short, any upstream fuses or circuit breakers are just for overcurrent protection.
by lproven | 2026-02-27 23:24:56+00:00
I covered this on the Reg:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/debian_14_will_drop_g...

There's an active fork of Gtk2 used in Ardour.

There's also an active fork of Gtk1 used in CinePaint:

https://gitlab.com/robinrowe/gtk1

He's been maintaining this for a long time, too:

https://gtk1-win.sourceforge.net/

The developer appeared on El Reg recently:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/trapc_claude_c_memory...
by palmotea | 2026-02-27 23:25:44+00:00
> - Microstamping requirements for guns—printing a unique barcode on every bullet casing (Glock gen3 cannot be retired, thus, the auto-mode switch bug cannot be patched...)

I don't know much about guns, but I assume that would be on the hammer? Couldn't you remove that "microstamping" by lightly filing down the hammer or just using it a bunch and causing some wear?
by justsomehnguy | 2026-02-27 23:25:58+00:00
> It seems relatively simple to implement gun part recognition today, especially with the recent leap in image recognition capability

And it's sits fine with you because you are the one who wouldn't pay the price for this "simple image recognition capability". Except you would pay of course, indirectly but at least you wouldn't know for sure so your conscience would feel at ease.
by apwn | 2026-02-27 23:25:59+00:00
Hi HN,

I kept seeing the same pattern:

Smart people sending dozens of applications.
No replies.
Not because they’re unqualified — but because inboxes are saturated.

It made me think: employment works because it creates structure.

Clear role.
Clear term.
Clear deliverables.
Clear consequences.

Entrepreneurs and builders rarely give themselves that structure.

So I built hired.wtf.

Instead of applying to companies, you send your CV to yourself.
The app interviews you and generates a fixed-term employment contract between “Employer You” and “Employee You.”

It includes:
• Role title
• Term (30/60/90 days)
• Deliverables & KPIs
• Performance review schedule
• Termination clause

The idea is simple:
Turn vague goals into binding commitments.

It’s not a productivity tracker.
It’s a psychological contract engine.

I’m curious:
• Does formal structure actually change behavior?
• Would you use something like this?
• What would make it genuinely useful vs gimmicky?

Would love your feedback.

— Thomas
by mmooss | 2026-02-27 23:26:11+00:00
It's certainly harder, I agree. We have highly sophisticated, non-deterministic image recognition. We don't have to be perfect to have a significant impact, and to stop the 99.x% of amateurs.

> Paper money being almost non-fungible is a great achievement

Going off on a tangent: Many people in technology and in the public look at cash as backward, boring, even socially embarassing technology. I think few it's amazing technology, an incredible hack: tech we struggle to implement in computers is implemented highly successfully and reliably in a piece of paper.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-27 23:26:16+00:00
I'm not sure where the line between "hobby" and "professional" lies when it comes to linux distributions. Many of them are nonprofit but not really hobbyist at this point. Debian sure feels like a professional product to me (I daily drive it).

We regulate how a hobbyist constructs and uses a radio. We regulate how a hobbyist constructs a shed in his yard or makes modifications to the electrical wiring in his house.

I think mandating the implementation of strictly device local filtering based on a standardized HTTP header (or in the case of apps an attached metadata field) would be reasonably non-invasive and of benefit to society (similar to mandating USB C).
by underlipton | 2026-02-27 23:26:21+00:00
The people running these companies have a perverse incentive to keep the ball rolling as long as possible so that they can extricate as much personal wealth and influence as possible. Maybe AGI makes all the problems go away. But, failing that, they get out relatively scot-free when it all collapses. And they don't owe anything to the public. And no one is going to bring them up on fraud charges or any other kind of criminal charges. So, while the world is burning around them (including their former companies), they have the money and connections to acquire property and businesses that are actually productive. It's the Russian oligarch playbook. They're the kings of a struggling society on the brink of failure, but they head "kings" and said, "Let's go."
by rayiner | 2026-02-27 23:26:21+00:00
I agree that terms don't have fixed meaning, but the terms still have certain essential characteristics. I'd argue that what millenials want is more accurately described as a form of hyper-individualism. It seems superficially collectivist because they want more government spending, and the GOP convinced everyone that anytime the government pays for something that's communism. But the spending is actually in service of individualism. It's directed to freeing individuals from the social obligations they would have in a more collectivist society. E.g., they want social security to free them from the obligation of caring for their parents. Then they want free child care to free them from the reciprocal obligations they would incur if they relied on their parents for childcare. They want payments for kids, so they can be freed from the obligations of marriage. They want free education, but they want to choose their course of study, not receive training in whatever jobs the government determines need to be filled in the economy.

And the reason I'm quibbling about whether you label this "individualist" or "collectivist" is that it helps explain what happens as these people get older. Why did the seeming collectivism of the baby boomers in the 1960s give rise to a period of extreme libertarian individualism in the 1980s? I think that makes more sense when you realize that what happened in the 1960s was not collectivist, but instead a surge of individualism coupled with a rejection of obligations imposed by traditional society. Viewed that way, it makes total sense how the baby boomers went on to create an economy that was characterized by the rejection of social obligation.
by xyzelement | 2026-02-27 23:26:26+00:00
I am fine with this. If you are a defense contractor, you are a defense contractor, and you follow the military needs that you government believes are necessary - or you stop being a defense contractor.

I wouldn't want a bullet manufacturer to hold back on my government based on their own internal sense of ethics (whether I agreed with it or not, it's not their place)
by scott_w | 2026-02-27 23:26:30+00:00
> you claimed IR35 does not apply to self-employed workers as though that were a meaningful distinction

No I didn’t. I wouldn’t make this claim because I asked an accountant exactly this question 8 years ago, so I know this is not the case. Clearly you can’t read so it’s a waste of my Friday night trying to argue with someone who insists on being wrong and displays no reading comprehension.

> Same question, still unanswered: why is the test scoped by ownership of the supplying company rather than applied universally?

One last time: because it’s not. We have literally just discussed the plumber example where, depending on the customer, working contract, etc. you agreed with me that IR35 scope is not applied based solely on the ownership of the company. I really do not know what to say any more. You are asserting two opposing things are true at the same time.
by owenthejumper | 2026-02-27 23:27:22+00:00
I got downvoted for this in the other thread, but this is basically an attempt at bankrupting Anthropic. No US company has ever been designated a supply chain risk, and the foreign companies that are on that list are now doing 0 business in the US. Very large portion of the US economy relies on some contracts with the US government, Anthropic cannot survive this if this holds.

I don't think it will hold, in the end this is mafia behavior, but if it does, we are yet again in uncharted waters.
by davemp | 2026-02-27 23:27:34+00:00
Extremely debatable. Especially because there is no "The Turing Test" [0] only a game and a few instances were described by Turing. I recommend reading the original paper before making bold claims about it. The bar for the interrogator has certainly be raised, but considering:

- the prevalence "How many |r|'s are in the word 'strawberry'?" esque questions that cause(d) LLMs to stumble

- context window issues

It would be naive to claim that there does not exist, or even that it would be difficult to construct/train, an interrogator that could reliably distinguish between an LLM and human chat instance.

[0]: https://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_m...
by stared | 2026-02-27 23:27:41+00:00
And the White House, quoting Donald Trump:
https://xcancel.com/WhiteHouse/status/2027497719678255148

"THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military.

The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE..." - President Donald J. Trump
by kvuj | 2026-02-27 23:27:41+00:00
> ... or, more likely, they consider U.S. surveillance unintrusive and Chinese surveillance intrusive.

Of course. What's the point of surveillance if you're not going to use it to enforce dogma? I think you can reasonably evaluate a country's surveillance by looking at the pettiness of the arrests & censorship they make.

See this chinese tech reviewer[1] being bullied by the government for putting a spotlight on chinese phone makers cheating about benchmarks. I'm not sure the US is at this point yet...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1rfw6oj/hardware_...
by aldonius | 2026-02-27 23:27:43+00:00
Interesting idea and I do agree that contiguous is OK but total is not.

I think I'd suggest a more generous Senate term limit. Three terms (18 years) would allow for someone to see out a complete Presidential super-cycle, for example.

The word Senate is etymologically related to "senior", it's a place where you _want_ people to be able to develop a lot of institutional experience.
by DoesntMatter22 | 2026-02-27 23:27:54+00:00
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by nickysielicki | 2026-02-27 23:28:05+00:00
You expect hyperscalers to play chicken with the DoD?

The courts have historically been pretty consistent about giving the DoD whatever the fuck they want, going back to WW2 and even longer. I agree that the next administration might reverse it, but the thing is, the government will stay irrational longer than Anthropic will remain solvent.

The US government told every American company to stop doing business with Huawei and they all did it overnight, even when it cost them billions. TSMC stopped fabricating for them, Google pulled Android licensing… The machinery of sanctions compliance is extremely well-oiled and companies fold instantly because the outcome of noncompliance is literally getting thrown in prison.
by toss1 | 2026-02-27 23:28:22+00:00
That's no solution at all, and the tech is barely even lower than a passing option — both require detailed speed & time measurement, and having gps throttle governing 100% of the time is subject to all kinds of new issues where GPS isn't fully functioning, e.g., in dense trees, tunnels, cities....

And as to passing, the closer the two vehicles are in speed the loooonger it takes one to pass the other. Unless you get down to an absurd accuracy, one driver will notice he's got a little bit of pace on the other guy and will try to pass. And even with 0.0001% accuracy and 100% uptime (not going to happen), there will still be passing issues as some trucks may have issues where they aren't quite up to speed, but just a few km/hr under, and you're right back to the long passes.

Either outlaw passing, or allow it to happen at a reasonable pace.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-27 23:28:40+00:00
I reached to answer but idk what you mean by the second question. Long story short, Department of “War” wants Anthropic to say theres no restrictions on their use of Claude, Anthropic wants to say you can’t use Claude for domestic mass surveillance or automating killing people domestically or in foreign countries. Rest is just complication. And don’t peer too closely at the “Do”W”” wants Anthropic to say $X, the Team Red line (or, whatever’s left of them publicly after this last year) is basically “you can’t tell the gov’t what it can and can’t do, that’s it, it’s not that Do”W” will use it for that”
by maliciouspickle | 2026-02-27 23:28:59+00:00
i’m currently subscribed to openai for their $20 a month tier chatgpt subscription.

i told myself if anthropic does not back down on their current stipulations to the DoD, then i’d cancel and switch over to claude

they said there is a line they do not want to cross, and stuck to that stance, at great personal and financial risk to themselves
by palmotea | 2026-02-27 23:29:08+00:00
> I know that the next step is you explaining why these don’t count, or saying “wow only 3” or whatever, but

Oh, there's more: Medicare, Social Security, the highway system.

The whole food/medicine regulatory system is also a big one, and it's the reason a lot of US (and European) products like baby formula are imported into China, because they can be more trusted.

My bet is the GP's going to weasel out using his "that people willingly buy" language. The flawed assumption there is the government should be conceptualized as just another company selling in the market, when the government's actual role is very different.
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-27 23:29:14+00:00
Not entirely true.

The designation only applies to projects that touch the federal government, or software developed specifically for the federal government.

Contractors can still use Claude internally in their business, so long as it is not used in government work directly.

A complete ban would be adding Anthropic to the NDAA, which requires congress.

The DoD designation allows the DoD to make contractors certify that Anthropic is not used in the fulfillment of the government work.
by LoganDark | 2026-02-27 23:29:26+00:00
No... Basically all git servers have to generate the file contents, diffs etc. on-demand because they don't store static pages for every single possible combination of view parameters. Git repositories also typically don't store full copies of all versions of a file that have ever existed either; they're incremental. You could pre-render everything statically, but that could take up gigabytes or more for any repo of non-trivial size.
by DavidPiper | 2026-02-27 23:29:57+00:00
> Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic.

Kesha tried to hug Jerry Seinfeld vibes.

> Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon.

Strange way of saying "this vendor doesn't meet our software requirements".

> they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission

Err... You approached them?

> a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.

It's an orthogonal point, but "Silicon Valley ideology" has made up a significant portion of the USA's GDP for the last however many years.

> Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable.

Again... You approached them?

> I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security.

Like most companies in the world I imagine. They just haven't been approached yet.

> to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.

Internally re-framing all the recent "EU moving away from American tech!" articles as "EU builds more patriotic services!"

> This decision is final.

Nothing says "final" like a Tweet. The most uncontroversial and binding mechanism of all communication.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-27 23:30:42+00:00
The whole thing is fascinating. In my heart of heart, in principle, I want models to be essentially unrestricted, but I still find it somewhat problematic that government thinks it can say: you will make adjust your product to match our exact expectations even if you don't sign an updated contract with us. Odd stuff. I know they are trotting out War powers, but.. well.. we are not at war ( at least not yet or at least not yet officially declared.. ).
by Hamuko | 2026-02-27 23:31:23+00:00
Anthropic isn't even taking a particular hard stance. Their mass surveillance prohibition only applies to domestic spying, so they're a-OK with spying adversaries. If all of the AI companies all over the world took the same stance, it wouldn't improve the life of Americans one bit.

The only other thing that the foreign AI companies could do is say no to automated killing bots, which doesn't even seem like that good of an idea considering that your countrymen will most likely have to interact with these robots that can kill without any oversight.
by prpl | 2026-02-27 23:31:30+00:00
Probably yes. Additionally the (probably more for AWS) won't be allowed to use it internally either. This will probably apply to all the top SaaS/software companies unilaterally.

Additionally, every major university will undoubtedly have to terminate the use of Claude. First on the list will be universities that run labs under DOD contracts (e.g. MIT, Princeton, JHU), DOE contracts (Stanford, University of California, UChicago, Texas A&M, etc...), NSF facilities (UIUC, Arizona, CMU/Pitt, Purdue), NASA (Caltech).

Following that it will be just those who accept DOD/DOE/NSF grants.