MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bubblewand | 2026-02-28 00:39:53+00:00
I think odds are high a lot of these posts are by staffers. The posting volume is bananas, even granting that he spends a lot more time personally online and watching cable news et c. than any prior president, I don’t think there’s any way they’re all by him.

I do think a lot of the more hot-take type posts (often in response to stuff he’s watching on tv) are either actually him, or he’s dictating to an aide. These larger policy-type ones that he treats as quasi-executive-orders, I think are likely drafted by one or more of his cabinet-level folks, or others roughly as high up. That’s just my speculation based on reading the “tea leaves”, though.

As for official word, it waffles between “all of it’s him” and “oh not that one though, that racist video repost was a staffer who made a mistake”, so that’s little help in sussing out the truth (but I am rather certain they’re not all directly written and posted by him)
by kace91 | 2026-02-28 00:40:20+00:00
This whole saga is extremely depressing and dystopic.

Anthropic is holding firm on incredibly weak red lines. No mass surveillance for Americans, ok for everyone else, and ok to automatic war machines, just not fully unmanned until they can guarantee a certain quality.

This should be a laughably spineless position. But under this administration it is taken as an affront to the president and results in the government lashing out.
by dadbod | 2026-02-28 00:42:15+00:00
Reactive access to incrementally parsed JSON for Python. Consume fields and array items as they arrive — no need to wait for the full payload.

jsontap builds a reactive node tree on top of ijson's streaming parser. You await scalar/object values and async for over arrays while the JSON is still being fed in, one chunk at a time. This makes it ideal for LLM token streams, chunked HTTP responses, or any scenario where JSON arrives incrementally.
by throwmitid1234 | 2026-02-28 00:42:34+00:00
I wouldn't bet on a postmortem. MitID is well into maintenance mode, like NemID before it.

NETS have always been very sparse with their post mortems, they don't act like a SaaS provider. Not even as a partner did we get postmortem. They're well and truly into the jaded territory. During two jobs, both as a provider (customer of NETS), and as a consumer of a provider of MitID

Note this is as a customer. The provider and in turn their customers pay pr login and a quite hefty fee at that. NETS are just too big.

They were down every few weeks for a short while (between 2020-2023), so I guess this is probably still the norm
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-28 00:43:21+00:00
Have you ever called the DMV? In my state it's worse than Comcast. 45min wait time when the lines open in the morning, only increasing from there.

I "owe" Comcast $200. They say I didn't cancel at an old apartment. I say I did. I have the email. They insist. They've sent me a letter once a year for a decade. About 2yr in it went to collections. They're still trying.

Imagine the consequences if I did that with government.

Say nothing of the fact that if I tried to pay it, Comcast would be able to take my money no problem. The government would take a check, ACH or charge me $5 to use a buggy 3rd party CC processing service.
by altairprime | 2026-02-28 00:44:06+00:00
“can download” could refer either to transfers initiated by the user, or to transfers initiated from the device. The language “from [device] developers to users of [that device]” clarifies that this applies if users can access a third-party directory and/or repository of applications.

I strongly encourage the EFF to sue the FSF over not shipping age verification in Emacs, since in every respect Emacs fits these criteria; it is a computer environment that avid users can reside fully within to operate their system, and its publisher operates a directory+repository system at https://elpa.gnu.org. I think that both organizations would be excited to pursue that lawsuit pro bono, since it would evidence such significant flaws in the law that it might be struck by the court.

Incidentally, this likely also implicates Tesla and BMW as not requiring age verification before allowing users to download updates containing new pay-to-unlock applications from their vehicles’ in-app purchase marketplaces. I’m sure they would both be happy to help overturn this law once implicated in violating it.
by toraway | 2026-02-28 00:44:43+00:00
You can make the argument that the boat variant is ambiguous (but a stretch), it's really not relevant since the point was revealing the underlying failure mode is unchanged, just concealed now.

The original car question is not ambiguous at all. And the specific responses to the car question weren't even concerned with ambiguity at all, the logic was borderline LLM psychosis in some examples like you'd see in GPT 3.5 but papered over by the well-spoken "intelligence" of a modern SOTA model.
by hedora | 2026-02-28 00:44:47+00:00
Simple rational argument:

SCOTUS says POTUS is above the law, so POTUS has collected $4B in bribe / protection money since taking office 13 months ago. Anthropic has lots of money at the moment. Why should they be allow to keep it?

Since they didn't pay off the president (enough?), his goons are going to screw with their revenue and run a PR smear campaign.

Once you realize it only has to do with Trump's personal finances, and nothing to do with national security or the rule of law, then all the administration's actions make perfect rational sense.

Open question: How much should a congress-critter charge Trump for a favorable vote? (The check should come with a presidential pardon in the envelope, of course...)
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-28 00:45:16+00:00
"The best solution I have come up with is to use Google maps to find the address and then copy that into the other app but at that point I might as well use Google maps."

I create an SQLite database of business street addresses using online Yellow Pages, e.g., yellowpages.com

I wrote a simple utility to extract the name, address, phone and URL data from the HTML and convert to SQL. I make the .db file and test it on a laptop

Then I copy the .db file to the phone and query using sqlite3 in Termux

I can then search and copy addresses into OsmAnd or Google Maps
by maxtobiasen | 2026-02-28 00:45:43+00:00
Working on json, pdf, and latex downloads. Just wanted to get something out in to the world.
I've been using it for general scratchwork (hence the name), I don't really know what I expect others to do with it but I guess I should figure that out. I definitely think it could benefit from a first time prompt to open the shortcut menu.
Thanks for trying it out, I really appreciate the feedback!
by nelox | 2026-02-28 00:46:01+00:00
Procurement decisions are not authoritarian rule. A government agency deciding that a vendor doesn't meet its operational requirements and setting a timeline to transition off that vendor is one of the most ordinary functions of institutional management. Every organization, public or private, does this. Authoritarian rule involves the coercive suppression of rights or autonomy. Choosing not to renew a contract with a provider who has voluntarily excluded itself from your use case is the opposite of coercion; it's respecting that provider's choice and acting accordingly.

The "zero-sum" label is equally off-base. Zero-sum describes a situation where one party's gain is necessarily another's loss, and that is precisely the nature of military capability competition. If an adversary fields unrestricted AI systems and you field restricted ones, the gap is real and the consequences are asymmetric. You don't have to like that reality, but calling it a zero-sum argument as though it's a rhetorical trick misidentifies what's actually a structural condition. The term you seem to be reaching for is something closer to "fear-based reasoning" or "false dilemma," but neither of those applies cleanly here either, because the competitive dynamic being described is well-documented and not hypothetical.

If there's a genuine objection to be made, and there may well be, it has to engage with the specifics: whether the restrictions in question actually matter operationally, whether the transition plan is proportionate, whether the policy creates worse risks than it solves. That's where the real debate is.

[edit:typos]
by JoshTriplett | 2026-02-28 00:46:18+00:00
> LLM, by definition, can't be AGI.

False, and you've given no argument to the contrary. There's certainly no definition that precludes it. It isn't, currently; there's no reason it can't be, any more than there's reason that Conway's Game of Life can't be, given sufficiently interesting data to process. Any Turing-complete system could simulate AGI. It might not be the most efficient mechanism for doing so, but that's not the question at hand.
by avmich | 2026-02-28 00:46:39+00:00
When Korolyov worked on N-1 rocket in 1960-s, some plans included building a hydrogen upper stage. http://astronautix.com/n/n1blocksr.html Hydrogen is rather hard to keep cold, but that stage was designed to work for over 11 days.

Falcon-9 flies almost every other day, about 3 times per week. Methane is way more storable than hydrogen. Of course we'd like to compare numbers, but, given that Starship is way bigger than than N-1 stage - about 15 times, and there is the law of squares-cubes, which for our case says the bigger the tank the less percent of boiloff per unit of time, and it's methane, and we can afford to lose a little and top off with another tanker...

Now, how many tanker flights we'll need? That's a favorite riddle in Musk's plans :) . Korolyov, again, had some early ideas for 5 tankers - https://graphicsnickstevens.substack.com/p/sever-the-bridge-... ... For Starship - if you have 1500 tons of fuel in the Starship, and 150 tons of payload in a tanker, you need 10 flights. You can probably optimize, or be disadvantaged by some obstacles - so, 8-12 flights? That many can fly in less than a month. We can also use additional measures to reduce boiloff - better protection from the Sun, active cooling, maybe more permanent orbital refueling depot - but still, with our today's Falcon-9 flight rate we may consider one Starship per month refueled on LEO. Even if some refueling flights won't be successful, the replacements could be sent.

I personally suspect Starship will fly much more often than Falcon-9. We're so much better in rendezvous and docking these day than we were during Apollo flights, the reliability is so much higher - just take a look how many Falcon-9 flights in a row are successful - so I don't think operationally LEO refuelling will present a significant problem. And I'm sure we need maybe a couple of years to see first examples of that.

Space is hard, yes. But we're getting better, for sure.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-28 00:46:45+00:00
This JS feature doesn't upload the file to a server. This particular app says right there on the page that it does the magic in the browser.

You appear to be misunderstanding on how browsers handle file uploads. You cannot get the local file path for a file. There is no C:\ or /Volumes or whatever your OS uses. Browsers deliberately mask that from the upload.
by m4rtink | 2026-02-28 00:47:17+00:00
Well, they were just totally doing it the wrong way - with the result being ugly corporate distopia. They could haver just looked at what paople are using VR for & improved it to succeed.

VRChat is thriving and some other similar envronments being quite popular as well.

Just give people something that they actually want and make it nice and people will like it - huge surprise!
by scottfits | 2026-02-28 00:48:18+00:00
Besides just being yet another example of the Trump admin abusing power and weaponizing legitimate laws in illegitimate ways to extract concessions, there is another reason this is dumb -- which is that Anthropic just has the best models!

As someone who wants America to win, ripping out Claude and putting in xAI is a terrible idea. Definitely setting us back a few months on capabilities
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-02-28 00:48:38+00:00
> It's kind of like the small string optimization you see in C++ ...

Agreed. These types of optimizations can yield significant benefits and are often employed in language standard libraries. For example, the Scala standard library employs an analogous optimization in their Set[0] collection type.

0 - https://github.com/scala/scala3/blob/88438e2c6e6204e12666067...
by nicole_express | 2026-02-28 00:48:45+00:00
In theory, this is why there should be competition in industry, because it removes the capability of a single large actor to be able to control the government's access to things.

Oddly, though, it seems like that should solve this problem as well. I'm not sure why the Department of Defense insists on Anthropic's models in particular; one would think one of the other players, at the very least least xAI, would be willing to step in and provide the capability Anthropic doesn't want to provide.
by nilkn | 2026-02-28 00:49:12+00:00
Anthropic specifically called out systems "that take humans out of the loop entirely and automate selecting and engaging targets".

I take that to mean they don't want the military using Claude to decide who to kill. As a hyperbolic yet frankly realistic example, they don't want Claude to make a mistake and direct the military to kill innocent children accidentally identified as narco-terrorists.

At least, that's the most charitable interpretation of everything going on. I suspect they are also worried that the sitting administration wants to use AI to help them execute a full autocratic takeover of the United States, so they're attempting to kill one of the world's most innovative companies to set an example and pressure other AI labs into letting their technology be used for such purposes.
by sfRattan | 2026-02-28 00:49:44+00:00
One part of me likes this solution for being faster and elegant, and I've bookmarked it to be able to recommend to friends. But another part of me is frustrated that so many everyday computer users have little-to-no awareness of basic features like cut/copy/paste on mobile, resulting in another app install as a solution.

Not trying to imply this about you in particular, just griping that the general lack of awareness about how to take advantage of what should be fundamental/foundational OS features means that whole apps get written to, in essence, duplicate those features.
by eagerpace | 2026-02-28 00:50:41+00:00
Everyone is getting wrapped around the axel here but this is about the big picture, not the specifics. A private company should not have the ability to dictate how its technology is used by the government. If they can’t agree to that, then don’t sell your technology to the government. Personally, I don’t want to be spied on by the government with it (I don’t think their tech does that) but I also don’t want Anthropic having operational control over a mission.
by MarcoKueks | 2026-02-28 00:50:57+00:00
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I was trying to leverage Claude Code and other CLI agents to easily build and deploy agents for my customers as a contractor. Could not find anything that really matched my needs so I started building my own.

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by Brian_K_White | 2026-02-28 00:51:55+00:00
You've confused and confabulated like 11 different things there. None of what you said has anything to do with either what I said or what the law says.

The way this currently exists is basically unenfoceable because the critical terms are not even defined. It's not even ultimately intelligible, which is a prerequisite to enforcing, or even being able to tell where it does and does not apply, and whether some covered entity is or is not in compliance.
by lapcat | 2026-02-28 00:52:12+00:00
> I am sure Page pays a lot in taxes.

I'm not so sure. That's why I was asking before for evidence.

> Every minute he lives and practically every dollar he spends inside California has a tax burden associated with it.

In what sense is this different from any other California resident?

> He may not pay the same percentage of his overall wealth as others

That's a vast understatement.

> but thats just how this all works.

That's how it has worked. The wealth tax is trying to change it.

> What matters is: Does he pay what he is legally obligated to pay

How is that what matters? Yes, every person should pay what they're legally obligated to pay. I'm not sure how this is even relevant to the discussion, or how it distinguishes Larry Page from any other person.

> It’s about those next 70k jobs that he likely wont create in California, but might create in Texas or Florida.

There's no evidence that Larry Page can or will create another Google now.

> The fastest way to hobble your state is to drive out the wealth inside it.

It's one dude. Maybe a few more dudes will go too. In any case, California will be fine. The largest state in the nation does not depend on one dude.

Larry Page came to California from Michigan, not for the tax rates, but to attend Stanford. Last time I checked, Stanford still exists, and is still in California.
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-02-28 00:52:27+00:00
> Venture capital funds the content, on the hope that people watch ads in the future.

Obviously, this isn't sustainable in itself.

> Google accumulated untold riches from those primitive ads yet they and Meta have tightened the screw a little bit more in each passing year.

Google doesn't have to actually make any content, they just link to it. This is relatively cheap.

If you're actually producing content (that isn't AI slop), you don't get the benefit of that sort of scale. There's no way to automate it.
by throwmitid1234 | 2026-02-28 00:52:33+00:00
MitID and NemID before it was pretty much bought by the Banks and the government together.

It is to avoid the banks needing their own id for customers, as people would need to go into the banks using their passports etc to register.

Some banks do have their own logins and IDs for various purposes, but you often need MitID somewhere in there simply to verify the actual identity of the person with the account. All the other logins simply give you access to the ID it doesn't actually verify it. MitID does that.

For example Lunar doesn't need MitID during 3D Secure (online payments), but that is only because you used MitID at some point to store your proof on your phone, that you can unlock with a secure enough method, and then do the payment. This is considered enough, as you still use an identity that has been verified by MitID at some point.
by g947o | 2026-02-28 00:53:34+00:00
Let me find the original quote:

> suddenly everyone can build smart gizmos without having to learn c/c++ and having knowledge of a ton of libraries.

No.

If you want to build something, what matters is the idea, not whether you already have the knowledge to build it.

Before the era of LLMs, plenty of people learned programming from scratch to be able to program a board. That has never ever been a blocker.
by toraway | 2026-02-28 00:53:41+00:00
A classic hype merchant sales pitch: believe me, I was a doubter just like you, but I saw the light thanks to [insert latest model]!

(Which for anyone familiar with your long comment history as a regular HN poster, is comically absurd to imply. You've been reliably adamant that AI will demolish this or that entire industry overnight for years at this point).
by tamimio | 2026-02-28 00:54:02+00:00
I just said it a couple days ago that soon AI will generate pcb and schematics, definitely we are heading that way. In fact, even beyond that, I think it will be as follows: you prompt AI “design a DC-DC voltage step down buck converter circuit” and the AI will download EE skill, design the schematic, test it in MCP connected to circuit simulator, then build the pcb for you, you download the files and send it to the factory.

EEs better start looking at burger king jobs tbh. Funny how AI is notorious at attacking STEM jobs but I see lawyers and doctors are still a protected class due to lobbying and making laws that prevent AI to be used in these fields.
by nelox | 2026-02-28 00:54:27+00:00
You're taking Dario's post at face value, but consider the timing and context. That statement wasn't published out of principle, it was published because the directive went public and suddenly everyone learned that Anthropic has active contracts with the Department of War. For a company that has built its entire brand on safety, responsibility, and ethical AI, that revelation is a serious PR problem with its core audience.

Dario's framing: "we said no to the bad stuff, we only do the good stuff", is textbook damage control. He's not disputing that Anthropic works with the DoW. He's trying to control the narrative around how they work with the DoW before critics on both sides define it for him. The carefully drawn line between "acceptable" and "unacceptable" military use cases reads less like a principled stand and more like a retroactive justification designed to thread the needle between defense revenue and public image.

Ask yourself: if the directive had never been made public, would that blog post exist? Almost certainly not. Anthropic would still be quietly serving the DoW, and none of us would be having this conversation.

That doesn't necessarily make the DoW right or Anthropic wrong on the contract dispute itself. But treating Dario's statement as a neutral, authoritative account of what happened, rather than what it obviously is, which is a company protecting its brand in a crisis, is doing a lot of the DoW's work for them by accepting one side's PR as fact.
by rcyeh | 2026-02-28 00:54:35+00:00
Amazing! The 2009 Lincoln & Joyce paper you cited catalyzes one bond per hour on average. (Doubling time = 1 hour, but only one bond between oligonucleotides needed to double.)

OP's Gianni et al 2026 paper connects 45 nucleotides, taking 72 days (1700 hours) to yield 0.2%.

The latter effort is like drawing the whole owl.

That is incredible patience. Without access to the full article, I read only the abstract. I wonder if they used simulations to narrow the candidates?
by mingus88 | 2026-02-28 00:55:58+00:00
I don’t think you need deep analysis to be skeptical that this next big thing won’t ultimately be enshittified like every other big thing that was once free, powered by VC cash.

What makes this different for me is that I can’t run Uber on my M4 Mac Mini, but there are already plenty of impressive local LLMs that I can run, and the capabilities continue to trend in the right direction
by nickysielicki | 2026-02-28 00:56:22+00:00
The counterparty risk on those buildout contracts is not the same as their equity investments. Amazon isn’t assuming the entirety of that buildout exposure as a vote of confidence or form of investment in anthropic; they’re hedging it with insurance, credit default swaps, and MAE clauses.

Those datacenters are AWS infrastructure that Amazon owns and can repurpose. The equity stake is the only part that’s truly at risk, and $8B is a rounding error on Amazon’s balance sheet.
by zmmmmm | 2026-02-28 00:56:49+00:00
You would have to assume it will be immediately challenged and an injunction filed to suspend the order until it makes it to court.

AWS Bedrock has deployed Anthropic models under an interesting structure. It is fully hands off - the models are copied into the AWS infrastructure and don't use anything from Anthropic. I think if push came to shove, Anthropic could cut ties with Amazon and AWS could probably still keep serving the models it has with Anthropic forgoing revenue until this is resolved, while asserting they are not "conducting commercial activity" between each other.

All speculation of course.