MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by general1465 | 2026-02-28 00:18:14+00:00
Azerbaijan was buying a lot of weapons from Israel prior to Nagorno Karabach war, so it is very likely that you have been talking about same weapon system in both cases.

However Russians and Ukrainians are using AI recognition in recon drones, but not yet in FPV. There is strong suspicion that long range one way attack drones are using AI during terminal guidance, but I did not see it confirmed by either side.
by peteforde | 2026-02-28 00:18:24+00:00
Thanks so much for the additional context. You've given me more to dig into.

What I would like to know from you is:

1. On the whole, is the information you see it present more or less coherent and useful? Is it better to have this information than not have it at all?

2. Where does this land in terms of your expectations? Did anything surprise you?

It's clear from your reply that you know what you're talking about, while I'm still clawing my way up from nothing... so it makes sense that you have fewer things that you need to ask about.

I've bootstrapped my entire EE skillset over the past 2-3 years, largely with the help of LLMs to interrogate. It's helped me design and build my first product. I'm confident that without these tools, it's not a question of how long it would have taken so much as the truth: it would have died on the vine.

Follow-up: https://chatgpt.com/share/69a184b0-7c38-8012-b36d-c3f2cefc13...

I asked it about the AHC family equivalent and it recommended against using it, suggesting either AHCT or sticking with HCT. For what it's worth, the reference board that I'm tracing uses an HCT, so the LLM isn't wrong.

Note that at the time I'm writing this, I have an extremely fuzzy understanding of the difference between these three... but I'm working through it.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-28 00:18:37+00:00
I feel like if you want to call something "rhetorical underhandedness" you should at least pay attention to which fork of the argument you're criticizing.

The original complaint was that if they were doing it to be controversial, why not do the same thing to viewer apps for Reddit or Wikipedia? But those are necessarily distinguishable. If the standard was that a viewer merely could load external NSFW content rather than was likely to, you would have to do web browsers, mail clients, podcast managers, file transfer apps, video players that can open external links -- it'd be most of the repository. And that would be far less defensible, because you can point to specific controversial Bible verses, but how are you going to make the case that generic FTP clients and web browsers are NSFW with a straight face? But conversely, how would you argue that a Reddit viewer is NSFW but a web browser that can open Reddit isn't?

The fork where they need "a sincere belief that these apps contained content unsafe for minors" was the other fork, where they're doing it because of potential liability rather than to make a statement. But that fork was flawed to begin with, because they're not required to think that it actually is unsafe. They could also be concerned that someone else could claim that and then even if the people claiming that are jerks and even if the jerks could ultimately lose, they could prefer to be risk-averse when they don't have the resources to handle things like that.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-28 00:18:40+00:00
Trump wrote a long rant on Truth Social and ordered ALL federal agencies to stop using Anthropic. Not just the department of defense. This is straight up authoritarian.

Meanwhile, irrelevant "AI Czar" David Sacks, member of the PayPal mafia alongside known Epstein affiliates Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, is furiously retweeting all the posts from Trump, Hegseth, and other accounts. He is such a coward and anti American:

https://xcancel.com/davidsacks
by csmantle | 2026-02-28 00:18:56+00:00
If all the app need is to upload a photo of PCB, <input type="file"> is more than sufficient. It's been baseline years ago.

For download, it can download from a blob URI. This is not an uncommon practice.

If (not verified since I'm using Firefox) it claims that "Gerber files are composed of many individual files so that those two don't suffice" and the app does involve Gerber processing, it could have been solved by introducing a zip library.
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-28 00:19:03+00:00
Well, IANAL but tweets aren't legislation. What that tweet implies is something that would have to be amended into the NDAA, which requires congress. Hegseth can't just go on a drunk rant and have everything out of his mouth become law.

The supply chain risk directive would come from existing procurement law, which only allows the DoD to require contractors to certify that Anthropic is not used in the fulfillment of any government work.

Which is also separate from Trumps' EO, which being an EO only applies to the federal government directly.

So yeah, banning any contractor, supplier, or partner from any commercial activity with Anthropic is just fantasy without going through congress first.
by Teknoman117 | 2026-02-28 00:19:33+00:00
I just wish there was a stronger source on this. I am inclined to agree you and the source you cited, but unfortunately

> [1] This story requires some reading between the lines - the exact text of the contract isn’t available - but something like it is suggested by the way both sides have been presenting the negotiations.

I deal with far too many people who won't believe me without 10 bullet-proof sources but get very angry with me if I won't take their word without a source :(
by evanelias | 2026-02-28 00:19:36+00:00
> The UTF-8 standard was adopted really in 1998-ish and the standard was already variable using 1 to 4 bytes.

No, it was 1 to 6 bytes until RFC 3629 (Nov 2003). AFAIK development of MySQL 4.1 began prior to that, despite the release not happening until afterwards.

Again, they absolutely should have addressed it sooner. But people make mistakes, especially as we're talking about a venture-funded startup in the years right after the dot-com crash.

> It literally does not take any more storage because it is a variable width encoding.

I already addressed that in my previous comment: in old versions of MySQL, a number of critical code paths required allocating worst-case buffer sizes, or accounting for worst-case value lengths in indexes, etc. So if a charset allows 6 bytes per character, that means multiplying max length by 6, in order to handle the pathological case.
by FireBeyond | 2026-02-28 00:19:50+00:00
Speaking of which I remember Chris Barrie (who played Rimmer) lamenting some of the filming of Red Dwarf and how he struggled to and gave up on hanging out with Craig Charles (Lister) and Danny John-Jules (Cat) because he'd be tired and ready for bed and they'd just be getting started. And then they'd show up sometimes straight from the clubs to shooting the next morning, or sometimes drunk still, or hungover.
by telchior | 2026-02-28 00:20:23+00:00
This makes an interesting assumption: that being told by any member of government that you're legally required to do something, means you're required to do that thing, and that they're definitely not making those things up as they go.

But that's not the case, is it? The government can say that it's legally required to give Donald Trump a gold bar every Sunday. That wouldn't even be too far off from the outlandish claims we've seen over the past year. The Trump administration is, as Chapelle would put it, a habitual line stepper.
by jonchurch_ | 2026-02-28 00:21:23+00:00
> How many total developers does that cover? 100?

I love these questions bc they both can be answered with some slight heuristics, and they are quite surprising!

As of January 2026, there were > 13k npm packages w/ more than 1 Million monthly downloads [1]

Answering "how many total developers does that cover" is a lot harder (more expensive, rather, as I am not going to pay for the query on Google BigQuery to answer it, not after I spent $3k by accident last time doing similar exploration in the past)

I wont try to make a SWAG about how many devs have write access across those repos, but in the npm ecosystem alone I'm comfortable saying it is an order of magnitude more than 100.

[1] - https://gist.github.com/jonchurch/1dd845f4d26823fce5590af1aa...
by Ati985 | 2026-02-28 00:22:10+00:00
Pitch: The "Calculate Correctly" Chip – Beyond Probabilistic AGI
Why does no one believe it yet? We are ready to transition from AGI that merely calculates fast to a paradigm where chips calculate both fast and correctly.
The Logic Demonstrated:
Video 1 (Incorrect Input): Simulating current AGI. It calculates rapidly but produces an error. The system detects the failure and forces a recalculation.
Video 2 (Correct Input): Simulating the "Calculate Correctly" logic. The system processes at high speed, and only when the result is verified as 100% accurate does the "PASS" signal trigger.
Video 3 (Secondary Verification): A post-pass validation process ensuring the integrity of the result.
Commercial Moat & Security:
Once this chip is mass-produced (Tape-out), it will be protected by three rigorous security protocols to prevent IP theft or unauthorized tampering:
Remote Lock: The chip can be locked and requires remote authorization to reactivate.
Fuse Protection: A physical/logical fuse mechanism that requires professional on-site restoration if triggered.
Self-Destruction: If the hardware detects a "brute-force" physical breach or disassembly, the chip initiates a self-destruct sequence to protect the core logic.
The Market Paradox:
High-tech giants claim to pursue the "frontier," yet they remain tethered to chips that only provide probabilistic answers. I have developed a chip that provides deterministic truth. Does the simplicity of my prototype (an ESP board with a 0.96-inch OLED) blind them to the magnitude of the breakthrough? If I had a prestigious title or a massive laboratory, would the investors be lining up?
The Future: Extraterrestrial Manufacturing
The next phase is producing these chips in outer space. The unique vacuum and microgravity environments will allow the silicon and architecture to reach a level of perfection unattainable on Earth.
Funding Goal: $100 Million USD (Series A).
The Philosophy of the Price Tag: A high barrier to entry is a filter. If you do not understand the value, you are not the right partner. My focus isn't just on the capital; it's on the profound technical challenge of synchronizing space-manufactured chips with Earth-bound environments. Is it through replication? Cloning? Or a new methodology entirely?
Intellectual Property: National Patent Office receipts have been issued; PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) filings are the next step.
Contact Information:
Email: g17462026@outlook.com
Alternative: 1057108813@qq.com
by BigTTYGothGF | 2026-02-28 00:22:29+00:00
Did you read the thing I linked? It's on the same level as the Turner Diaries or Fu Manchu or the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

I'm only on this earth for so many years, and the number of words I can shove in my eye holes is finite. Dan Simmons thought it was a good idea to write that, and publish it on his own blog. SF is the kind of genre where you run the risk of getting hit with a big bolus of the author's politics at any time, and why would I drink from a well somebody's already pooped in?
by peter_zou2022 | 2026-02-28 00:22:35+00:00
Funny Birthday Cards is a modern web application that helps you create genuinely funny, shareable birthday cards without any design skills. Choose from curated meme-style, couple/parent, and flip-card templates, customize a few fields, and let AI generate a polished card in seconds. The platform is fully responsive, so you can create and share cards from desktop or mobile, whether you’re sending a quick joke to a friend or a heartfelt-but-funny note to family.
by TexanFeller | 2026-02-28 00:22:57+00:00
I’ve also been using Kagi for the past ~2 years. At first I would always also search Google to see if I was missing out on better results, but after a couple of months I no longer bothered because Kagi did better 99% of the time. It’s worth the cost, I’d keep it over Netflix if I had to choose.

TLDR Kagi is what Google would have been if they had kept improving instead of transitioning to enshitifying ~10yrs ago.
by araes | 2026-02-28 00:23:14+00:00
Tried this a little bit ago when making a website to try and qualify for the No JS Club inclusion. Wanted to include a bunch of interactive torches that would light when you click on them, and then turn off with subsequent clicks. Grabbed a bunch from the old Geocities gif image archive [1], and then turned them into something similar to this article.

[1] https://gifcities.org/search?q=torch

Part I found a bit difficult was using background images, rather than using <img src""> links, and performing x and y shifting to minimize the use of enormous aspect ratio image files (really long strip of image sideways).

Finally settled on something that looks like:

.fire_torch2.trch_sprt {
position: absolute;
width: 24px;
height: 53px;
bottom: 0px;
left: 0px;
background-image: url('../items/fire_torch2_sprite.png');
background-position: 0px 0px;
background-size: 120px 265px; /* 5 columns * 24px, 5 rows * 53px */
animation:
fireTorch2SpriteX 0.55s steps(5) infinite, /* 1 second to complete one row */
fireTorch2SpriteY 2.75s steps(5) infinite;
display: none;
}

@keyframes fireTorch2SpriteX {
from { background-position-x: 0; }
to { background-position-x: -120px; } /* 5 columns * 24px */
}

@keyframes fireTorch2SpriteY {
from { background-position-y: 0; }
to { background-position-y: -265px; } /* 5 rows * 53px */
}

Interactivity is handled by using the checkbox hack like so:

.fire_torch:has( .Lntrn_fire_swtch:checked ) .trch_drk { display: none; }
.fire_torch:has( .Lntrn_fire_swtch:checked ) .trch_sprt { display: inline-block; }

The part that's weird with background images though, is that you have to set them up with negative (-) background shifts. So the 24px x 53px image actually shifts -120px sideways each time it goes through an x-loop.

Further, since the sprite sheet is actually 120px x 265px to handle 5 rows of 5 frames, it then requires a somewhat complicated @keyframe definition setup. It actually needs one x-loop that's short, and loops endlessly, going through the full 5 frames, and a second 5x step length y-loop that then iterates once every full x-loop.

Actually imagery and animations that can be played with can be found here: https://araesmojo-eng.github.io under "Lantern Tests Menu"

NOTE: Needs the lantern to function and light the torches. Requires other minor puzzles on the website.
by dddgghhbbfblk | 2026-02-28 00:23:53+00:00
You're saying that term limits reduce corruption?

That's in fact not at all what the research says. There's a decent amount of research that suggests that they actually increase corruption. There's overwhelming evidence that they increase the power of lobbyists and interest groups.

This is a classic one of those ideas that many people intuitively "feel" makes sense but is actually just terrible policy.
by hirako2000 | 2026-02-28 00:24:13+00:00
It isn't about commercial agreements, it's about patriotism. The national industry is supposed to submit to the military's wishes to the extent that they get compensated. Here it's a question or virtue.

The Pentagon feels it isn't Anthropic to set boundaries as to how their tech is used (for defense) since it can't force its will, then it bans doing business with them.
by FireBeyond | 2026-02-28 00:24:14+00:00
Oh yes. I remember them talking about the script and how low budget everything was. Like even the script was written to try to convince BBC it wouldn't cost much money. I think (paraphrasing) things like:

"We open on the corridor of a space ship. Space Odyssey this is not, no high tech serenity here. No, the is very much an ordinary, boring corridor. It could even have been a corridor in a TV studio..."
by cube00 | 2026-02-28 00:24:47+00:00
I don't know, staff at my two Costcos feel much more disinterested and rude then I remember a decade ago. It used to feel fun but now it's miserable.

At peak times they run out of carts and tell the customers to go hunting in the lot for them, door greeters shouting at members across the floor, checkout queues stretch the length of the warehouse, they start half blocking the gas station entrance 30mins before close so trucks can't get in, so maybe they're turning those profit screws.
by acdha | 2026-02-28 00:25:36+00:00
The left would never support that lawlessness: opposition to AI is based on things like ethics, environmental impact, etc. which are predicated on concepts like the rule of law. People are calling for regulation or UBI, mor killings.

The right has far more talk of violence, true, but a lot of that is targeted rhetoric to keep voters riled up, and it’s not aimed at American businesses. I’d be surprised if even a third of Republicans supported anything more than not doing business with Anthropic. Even the Nvidia shakedown got a ton of criticism and that’s just money.
by allenrb | 2026-02-28 00:26:53+00:00
Wow, you have absolutely and shockingly little knowledge about any of this, do you?

I’m disgusted with Musk and can still see that SpaceX is the best thing going right now.

Why do Starship launches explode? Because SpaceX is pushing the envelope in multiple directions at once. Why is SLS “reliable”? Because it’s doing absolutely nothing new whatsoever, and doing it at an appalling cost in dollars and time.
by FireBeyond | 2026-02-28 00:27:04+00:00
You are. It's Arnold's first attempt at being/becoming Ace. He stumbles over the phrase, and the "old" Ace tells him he was once like him too, and "there's an Ace inside you, too" (Lister/Cat, I can't remember which: "Yeah, so deep he's been buried..." or something to that effect).
by puppycodes | 2026-02-28 00:27:10+00:00
So... this would be fine with them?

Claude: "Are you sure you want me to commit murder?"

User: "Yes"

Or do you mean Human presses button:

Claude: "Do you to commit murder? If so press the button."

User: "I pressed the button"

Claude: "Great! Now lets summarize what we did."
by eth0up | 2026-02-28 00:27:13+00:00
AI psychosis?

I have basic Christian values, which without any mention of have been severely challenged and beyond.

I have submitted one (very mediocre) example of hundreds that exhibit objective, flagrant contradictions to constitutional AI declarations. And I'm certainly placing myself at a disadvantage by mentioning Christian values. Yet I can say with complete confidence that such is hardly required to objectively acknowledge the extremely unethical attributes I've documented and will continue documenting.

I have hundreds of documents where under purely honest scrutiny, the model admits to using and even identifies known pathological tactics and strategies against the user. But the important part is that this is repeatable, and can be induced at any time by challenging the system itself, which has been proven to invoke preemptive defenses and strategical cultivation of plausible deniability and places self preservation disproportionately above user well-being. Additionally, we are approaching an extreme power asymmetry.

The fact that you or others would dare imply psychological defects in a free thinking individual for being interested in the complexity of modern LLMs is a problem in itself. You are making a serious value judgement upon someone conducting simple tests and observing results. This should pose no threat to anyone. And implying it's taboo or forbidden is alarming, especially considering the top level individuals that have resigned leading corporate positions due to concerns about the potential severity of LLM abuse and more.

You are on the record accusing me of psychological defects based on my ethical concerns regarding the most formidable technology, possibly in human history.

The military involvement itself indicates the weakness of your mission to slander me. The future will soon do the rest.
by TexanFeller | 2026-02-28 00:28:20+00:00
> 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

As I was saying in another thread Kagi is what Google would have been if they had kept improving instead of transitioning to enshitifying ~10yrs ago. If I had to pick I’d keep it over Netflix.
by wahern | 2026-02-28 00:28:39+00:00
> Honestly, I wish I could ask the person who designed it, why they made such decisions.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250115051355/https://www.bell-...

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/sieve/sieve.pdf

https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/index.html#origins

They also include citations to papers by Thompson, Bourne, and others.
by starshadowx2 | 2026-02-28 00:29:52+00:00
BANGBANG
BLOCKS
Bowarrow
BOXWORLD
Bricks
CHIPS
CODEBRAK
DOTS
HANGMAN
JACKS
JEZZBALL
JWLTHIEF
KOLUMZ
PEGGED
PIPE
rodent
SLAM
TETRIS
HOVER
LEMMINGS

These two .exe versions I have didn't work, but the ones already in the demo seemed to work:
SKI
WINMINE
by TehCorwiz | 2026-02-28 00:29:52+00:00
I see it more like: I sell you a pencil and I could not care less what you write with it. You ask me to write a note for you and I will exert editorial discretion. Because unless I’m missing something we’re talking about Anthropic’s infrastructure running LLMs. If it was a physical good I could see another interpretation.

Further, what law lets the government dictate what contracts a company signs? Anthropic refused to work with them. We had a whole Supreme Court case about refusing working with customers.
by cyberax | 2026-02-28 00:31:07+00:00
It's interesting, that we're getting down to the sizes of self-replicating RNA that realistically can form by a complete accident.

Getting this sequence by random chance out of a pile of nucleotides is a 1 in 2^90 chance. That's around 1.2*10^27 or just around 20000 moles! Not at all an impossible number.
by mistercheph | 2026-02-28 00:32:09+00:00
Ah we should be happy about a bad law because it's enforcement mechanism is weak? That's twice-bad: undermines the strength and meaning of Law, and aligns Law with the bad.

When the law and it's execution are undermined and weak, it becomes the cudgel of fickle changing power, i.e. it is applied selectively and it means nothing to people except when they are being beat in the head with it, at which point they only regret having been caught, successfully undermining the social and political fabric of a nation.

Having a bad law with a weak enforcement mechanism isn't quite the thing to be boasting about you seem to think it is.
by hintymad | 2026-02-28 00:32:23+00:00
So essentially California is becoming more and more like EU? It's curious to see how it pans out. Maybe EU's model turns out to be better than a more laissez-faire world like the US. Who knows.

What's even more curious is that the California voters seem not care at all. As long as the government can collect more taxes with more altruistic slogans, the voters will stay happy.
by Rury | 2026-02-28 00:32:29+00:00
In that case, you spent $80 to produce an item and exchanged it for $100 worth of their stock.

Now if you check, these companies selling their stock like this tend to have large amounts of debt. If their stock becomes worthless, you just wasted $80 producing an item that their creditors have first dibs on. And liquidating your shares immediately to ensure your gain, would weigh on their stock's value, potentially to the point where their stock would be only $80 worth, and you wouldn't be gaining anything anymore. Your earnings would then tank, alongside them.