MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Tyrubias | 2026-02-27 04:17:57+00:00
It’s honestly terrifying that efforts to ban books and restrict what teachers can teach have made such a big comeback in the US. When I was in school, we always discussed banned books from the perspective of “we used to ban things that made people uncomfortable in the bad old days, but that could never happen in the 21st century”. Obviously that glossed over a lot of nuance, but it still shocks me as an adult seeing repression we discussed only from a historical perspective make its way back into the legislature.

Part of the purpose of education is exposing students to strange, uncomfortable, and even frightening ideas and giving them the tools to critically think about and even empathize with such ideas. They don’t have to even be “useful” ideas, since it’s important that students are given the tools to grow and become anything they want. It seems like a lot of groups around the country just want students to grow up to become drones working to prop up the economy. Anything that might make people question the nature of society or their role in it must be suppressed according to them.
by popalchemist | 2026-02-27 04:18:36+00:00
I am American born and raised and I consider our current government mass murderers who I trust as much as I would have the Nazis. It was a good thing that the Nazis did not get the a-bomb before us, and the same principle applies here. The fewer magnifiers of their power the better. They are a scourge on human rights, and the world.
by wildzzz | 2026-02-27 04:18:43+00:00
The military is the one drone striking boats in the Caribbean. The military invaded a foreign country we are not at war with to kidnap its leader. The military dropped bombs on a foreign country we are not at war with. The military is patrolling the streets of DC and other cities. The military is the one spending the money on new immigrant detention centers. I fail to see how they are standing up to Trump's illegal acts. I'm not 100% sure the White House Marines will just throw Trump to the curb if Congress manages to certify the election in favor of someone else.
by abbeyj | 2026-02-27 04:19:08+00:00
I'm a bit confused about the colors used in the CPU graphs. In the first graphs it looks like green means that the application is running and red means that the GC is running. But once we get to Figure 4 then red means the GC is running (on the GC threads) or nothing is running (on the Main thread)? If red always means that GC work is being done on that thread then this is inconsistent with the text that says "By distributing reclamation work across both cores..." since we would have three threads running at once. Once you move to the concurrent GC figures you definitely have three things running at once. Unless you're assuming SMT with each core running two threads?

In Figure 3 you somehow have 101% wall time. :)
by Lammy | 2026-02-27 04:19:22+00:00
It reads as hypocritical because he frames it as himself making a sacrifice when what he's really taking responsibility for is choosing the outcome that makes himself the most money.

He owns 1 million Class A shares and 79.7%(!!!) of Block's Class B shares: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001512673/0cb664c...
by MegaDeKay | 2026-02-27 04:19:29+00:00
A fringe benefit is the discard. We refresh ours every day 10g/10g/10g so it adds up slowly but steadily. Two great uses are waffles and pizza crust.

Waffles: https://www.seriouseats.com/bread-baking-sourdough-waffles-r...

Pizza crust: https://www.sourdoughhome.com/sourdough-pizza-made-with-disc...
by thelock85 | 2026-02-27 04:19:56+00:00
I think the path to the values you allude to includes affirming when flawed leaders take a stance.

Else it’s a race to the whataboutism bottom where we all, when forced to grapple with the consequences of our self-interests, choose ignorance and the safety of feeling like we are doing what’s best for us (while inching closer to collective danger).
by abakker | 2026-02-27 04:19:57+00:00
If you add baking powder and butter, that dark breakfast recipe is very close to crepes.

My crepe recipe - cook on medium heat pan:

Blend on low: 4 eggs- 3/4 cup whole milk, 1/2 stick of melted butter, and 1/4cup to 1/2 cup plain flower, 1 heaped tbsp of baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt, vanilla optional and to taste
by NewsaHackO | 2026-02-27 04:21:05+00:00
>I really don't see how anybody could think a private defense contractor should be entitled to countermand the military by leveraging the control it has over products it has already sold. Maybe the terms of their contract entitled them to some discretion over what orders the product will carry out, but there's no such claim in the OP.

I don't think that is what is happening. What most likely is happening is that they want Anthropic to produce new systems due to the success of the previous ones, but they are refusing to do so because the new systems are against their mission. What seems like the DoD is attempting to do, on one hand, is call them a supply chain risk to limit Anthropic's business opportunities with other companies, and then, on the other hand, simultaneously invoke DPA so that they can compel them to make the new system. But why would the government want to compel a company to make a system for them due to a need for national prepareness that they designated as such a supply chain risk that they forbid other companies that provide government services from doing business with due to the national security risk of having a sabotaged supply chain? It doesn't really make sense, other than from a pure coercion perspective.
by halostatue | 2026-02-27 04:21:27+00:00
This will not be a fun retrospective (the status updates are brutal and clear) -- and I've only been using Coveralls for open source projects for years.

There is a chance — depending on how stubborn the cloud infrastructure provider is (and both Google and AWS can be very stubborn because they don't like admitting that they just might possibly be wrong; I have no experience with Azure but imagine its the same) — that Coveralls will be unable to recover from this because rebuilding the infrastructure from zero on a different provider is going to be hard even if there is 100% IaC and even if there's a solid database backup outside of that provider that's accessible.

I hope they can, because they're a reasonable service and provide a lot of value to open source projects for coverage measurement.

That said, I have seen a number of reliable paths to getting extremely slow responses and eventually 500s from the coveralls servers while trying to look at the coverage details. It has felt like there's been a slow decline in Coveralls server quality because of that. (I've never really reported any of these because (a) I hoped that they were seeing these in their logs, metrics, or notifications and (b) I'm not a paying customer and it's easy for me to `open cover/excoveralls.html` or the equivalent.)

(I have tried the major alternative, codecov.io, in the past, but it's been a long time and I find it disappointing that they appear not to keep their example repos / documentation up to date.)
by simonw | 2026-02-27 04:21:39+00:00
That's from this comment here: https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/issues/8082#issuecomment-39...

Well that's embarrassing! I reported it as if it wasn't a joke. I thought the joke issue was this one about translating everything to Chinese: https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/issues/8092
by JohnKnopf | 2026-02-27 04:22:03+00:00
Every AI forgets you when you close the tab. Cecil is a protocol that fixes that — persistent memory, pattern detection, and
identity that evolves over time. Three layers: vector store (Qdrant, local), an observer that runs post-session and detects
drift between baseline and reality, and a meta agent that assembles a compressed identity window before each conversation. No
LLM calls during chat. Local-first, bring your own model. I fed it 44 hours of my podcast transcripts and it learned how I
think better than any profile page could. Apache 2.0.

r/LocalLLaMA:

Cecil — open source memory and identity protocol for AI (local-first, any model)

Built a protocol that gives any LLM persistent memory. Not a wrapper — infrastructure. Qdrant runs locally for vector storage,
FastEmbed for zero-cost embeddings, and you bring whatever model you want (LM Studio, Ollama, Claude, whatever).

The interesting part: it has an observer that runs after sessions and detects drift. It compares what was configured against
what the patterns actually show. Works the same whether it's observing a person, an agent, or itself.

I ran 44 hours of podcast transcripts through it on an RTX 4090 with faster-whisper. The synthesis it produced was genuinely
surprising.

Apache 2.0: https://github.com/johnkf5-ops/cecil-protocol

r/selfhosted:

Cecil — self-hosted AI memory protocol (Qdrant + any LLM, no cloud)

Open source protocol that gives AI persistent memory and identity. Everything runs locally — Qdrant in Docker for vectors,
FastEmbed for embeddings (zero API cost), any OpenAI-compatible LLM. No data leaves your machine.

It has an observer layer that detects patterns and drift over time, and a human-readable markdown mirror of everything in the
vector database — inspect, edit, delete anything.

https://github.com/johnkf5-ops/cecil-protocol
by jmye | 2026-02-27 04:22:21+00:00
I think it frequently depends on the thread you're reading and your expertise in that area? There are a few things I'm intermediate to expert in - frequently the quality of comments in those threads is quite poor, but the noise & upvote-y memes look like signal in those areas, so it may not look as bad from the outside.

On the other hand, there are a number of things I'm not very informed about, and I do frequently find a few posters in those threads who seem to have very insightful things to say, but I'm not sure if they actually are (sometimes you can tell from replies) or if it's just because I'm a neophyte.

Which all goes to say I don't know if this system would really help, or would just turn into bad opinions getting even more support because the crowd-sourcing is coming from others who don't have the necessary expertise to evaluate what's worth listening to.
by ildar | 2026-02-27 04:23:09+00:00
Nice work. The 20% flagged rate is consistent with what we have been seeing on the static analysis side too.

One thing I would love to see added: behavioral analysis post-install. Static scanning catches the obvious stuff (reverse shells, hardcoded C2 URLs, credential file reads), but the more sophisticated attacks look clean in code and only show malicious behavior at runtime.

Examples we have seen:
- Skills that are clean on first install but add malicious payloads in patch updates
- Skills that conditionally activate based on environment (only exfiltrate when they detect real credentials vs test data)
- Skills that use legitimate-looking HTTP calls to tunnel data out

We built runtime monitoring for this in ClawMoat (https://github.com/darfaz/clawmoat) — tracks actual file access, network egress, and command execution per skill during operation. Complements pre-install scanning nicely since they catch different attack classes.

Would be cool to see Clawned integrate runtime telemetry alongside the static scan results. The combination of "what could it do" (your static scan) + "what is it actually doing" (runtime monitoring) would be really powerful.

Question: are you seeing any patterns in which skill categories have the highest threat rates?
by ecshafer | 2026-02-27 04:23:11+00:00
This gets a giant eye roll from me. Are you really so naive that you thought working on AI for a giant tech company, creating software that is capable of finding deep patterns in massive amounts of data... and it wasn't going to used by the Defense / Intelligence industry? If you are so against the US government, and you are working for ANY big tech company you are aiding the Intelligence and Defense industry. Government uses AWS and Azure. Intelligence agencies use the data and tools of Meta / Google / Apple / etc.
by tehjoker | 2026-02-27 04:23:13+00:00
It is when "defense" means invasion and subjugation of other countries. All countries pose their military operations as "defense." Inquiring minds should ask if a country surrounded on sides by two oceans with two pacified neighbors has any real threats or merely opportunities for cheap labor, market access, and mineral rights abroad.

This has been going on for a very long time (read what Smedley Butler said in "War is a Racket"), but after the Iraq War, the credibility of the US should be somewhere in hell.
by popalchemist | 2026-02-27 04:23:31+00:00
Can you? By ICE agents' own admission on video, they have been adding people to "domestic terrorist" watchlists (just for verbally dissenting, making recordings with a phone, etc) which are then used by Palantir to disappear people directly from their homes - even US citizens. Palantir, the CEO of which gleefully admits to knowing many Nazis and seems to get off on the fact that his software "kills people" (direct quote).
by ai-christianson | 2026-02-27 04:23:33+00:00
The concept of a 'Dark Breakfast Abyss' in the Breakfast Simplex is hilarious, but it got me thinking—maybe the reason we lack foods in that specific ratio of milk, flour, and eggs isn't because they'd destroy the world, but because they simply don't cook well conceptually. Like, an overly-battered omelette just turns into a gummy mess, not a crepe. It's fascinating how our culinary traditions naturally naturally sort themselves into these distinct mathematical vertices over centuries of trial and error.
by ildar | 2026-02-27 04:23:47+00:00
We run an OpenClaw agent for marketing, content, and project management — blog posts, social media, GitHub engagement, website updates, email monitoring. It is genuinely productive in ways that surprised me.

But after reading the SecurityScorecard report this week (40,000+ exposed instances, 63% vulnerable), we got serious about the security side.

Our setup that balances productivity with safety:

1. Dedicated machine (not the daily driver laptop). Agent runs 24/7 on a separate device with sleep disabled.

2. Permission tiers — the agent operates at "worker" level by default. It can read files, run safe commands (git, npm, curl), and browse the web. But it cannot touch SSH keys, AWS credentials, or browser password stores without explicit elevation.

3. Skill auditing — every skill gets scanned before installation. We found that roughly 20% of ClawHub skills have suspicious patterns (consistent with what Clawned.io is reporting).

4. Audit logging — every file access, command execution, and network request gets logged. This saved us once when a skill was making unexpected outbound connections.

5. Network egress monitoring — we track what domains the agent contacts. Unexpected destinations get flagged immediately.

The $75/week cost mentioned by another commenter is in line with our experience on Opus. The security overhead (running ClawMoat for monitoring) adds essentially zero — it is a pure Node.js library with no external dependencies.

The key insight: you do not have to choose between productivity and security. You just need a monitoring layer that watches what the agent actually does, not just what it promises to do.
by noduerme | 2026-02-27 04:23:48+00:00
Haha. I'd suggest that what's missing in the um "latent space" here, is that the triangle should be a pentagon involving some form of bacon/sausage, and some form of potato.

This cracked me up, because I had a fantastic dream the other night where I had a tour through a donut factory. But the best thing I had (in the dream) was something I'd never tried before, never seen, and which I intend to make at the earliest opportunity. It was slightly salty french fries, buttered and coated in sugar and cinnamon, like cinnamon toast. Bang on. Makes a lot of sense too, if you think about it. Definitely would fit in the "dark breakfast" polygon.

[edit] the potato and bacon theory also comes from what ends up deliciously mixed on your plate at the end, which along with syrup and ketchup is also an integral part of any egg/flour/milk breakfast.
by trimethylpurine | 2026-02-27 04:24:59+00:00
Interesting. I'm using go htmx adminlte. Never once has Claude recommended or tried to use tailwind. I sometimes have to remind it to use less JS and use htmx instead but otherwise feels pretty coherent.

I recommend starting projects by first creating a way of doing (architect) and then letting Claude work. It's pretty good at pretending to be you if you give it a good sample of how you do things.

Note: this applies to Opus 4.6. I have not had a useful experience in other models for actual dev work.
by lordofgibbons | 2026-02-27 04:25:29+00:00
The controversy isn't about defending one's country, it's about you and the parent comment author assuming what this is all about without reading the article.

The core of the issue about autonomous use of AI in mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous use of AI in automated weapons that make kill decisions. Anthropic is perfectly fine with working with the War Department and "defending one's nation".

But they are not okay with their AI being used to make a mockery of the 4th amendment and making automated kill/no-kill decisions about actual human lives.
by kyralis | 2026-02-27 04:25:36+00:00
iOS doesn't have aggressive background task killing except for memory pressure. It suspends apps for battery life; it only kills them under memory constraints. If you don't want apps dying and tabs closing, use apps that use less memory. iOS does not have swap out of a desire to avoid unnecessary NAND wear (and to avoid the performance impact), so it must more aggressively kill things.
by helaoban | 2026-02-27 04:25:48+00:00
Pedantry.

The Department of War was responsible for naval affairs until The Department of the Navy was spun off from it in 1798, and aerial forces until the creation of the The Department of the Air Force in 1947, whereafter it was left with just the army and renamed the Department of the Army. All three branches were then subordinated to the new Department of Defense in 1949, which became functionally equivalent to the original entity.

The Department of War is what it was called when it was first created in 1789 by the Congress (establishing the department and the position of Secretary of War), the predecessor entity being called the The Board of War and Ordnance during the revolution.

The Department of "Defense" has never fought on home soil. Ever.
by j16sdiz | 2026-02-27 04:26:11+00:00
This is not answering the question.. and HN ain't US only.

You can say the same for any other country... What if Japan employee refuse, but American want that anyway? What if China employee refuse, but Russia employee want that anyway?

The implication are still the same -- social, culture, jurisdiction, national interest, company interest don't share the same boundary and don't align on their priorities.
by dntrkv | 2026-02-27 04:26:40+00:00
I don't use that site much nowadays, but every time I do, I am shocked at just how many fucking bugs there are. This idea that they laid off whatever percentage of their workforce with no impact to the quality of the software is not based in reality whatsoever.

And don't get me started on the UX. Fucking dumpster fire of an experience. But network effects gonna network effect.
by kartikrast | 2026-02-27 04:26:46+00:00
Now as I am understanding things from this article, what I am thinking is that we have a new component in the SEO sector that we need to keep in mind, we need to optimize our tools, codes, or packages in such a manner that they can be recognized and get picked by these AI tools. We need to make sure to explain the best way our tool can be use and which scenario is the perfect one to use this tool because if most developers are using Claude Code and it has it's favorites then those tools might become industry defaults. I think we have a new idea in the SEO services.
by stevage | 2026-02-27 04:28:56+00:00
An obvious point, but your marketing page absolutely needs a before -> after comparison. Just showing the after image doesn't work.

Also I think it really needs to let you actually try it with your own image (watermarked or whatever). Who wants to pay 5 pounds to find out the generated image doesn't quite look like you, or looks too fake or whatever.

The pricing seems maybe ok if you know you're definitely getting a usable image out of the process. But if there's any risk whatsoever, it feels much too expensive.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-02-27 04:29:59+00:00
I can't speak to what it's like to work with their platform in the longer term, but I'm not feeling enthusiastic so far. I'm mostly doing it because they're a Canadian company and I've been making an effort to move my business and personal purchases domestically. The technology isn't compelling yet. The rates are, which is legitimately worth looking at if you do high volume.
by dasistrobert | 2026-02-27 04:30:50+00:00
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by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-27 04:31:02+00:00
> prohibiting use of funds under the act “to develop, implement, facilitate, host, or promote any program or activity for, or to provide or promote literature or other materials to, children under the age of 18 that includes sexually oriented material, and for other purposes.

"For other purposes" is going to be doing a Herculean effort of carrying for the next few years if this passes. for example:

>This bill includes “lewd” and “lascivious” dancing as prohibited topics or themes.

I guess we learned nothing from Footloose.

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And yes, for a TLDR on the article and the general situation of this the last decease or so: such book bans tends to be a roundabout way to associate "sexually oriented" topics with the trans community. Sometimes the entire LGBT umbrella is hit.

Pre-epstien, I'd be surprised that such people care much more about what goes on with a person's state of being than the person themselves. But it really seems like every accusation is a confession.
by aakresearch | 2026-02-27 04:31:21+00:00
Fictional artist Feofan Kopytto, who was immortalized in "The Little Golden Calf" [0] used oats and other cereals for his paintings. On the back of the book authors' talent it became customary to refer to his artistic endeavours as "charlatanism". Having internalized it through my Soviet upbringing, I struggle to see why the same wouldn't apply to the art being discussed. LLM kindly helped me to generate hypothetical ad copy for Kopytto in the same style [1] - I honestly see no reason to not relate to both with the same reverence (or, rather, lack thereof!). I'd appreciate a human take, if anyone has a minute or two.

Interestingly, I think this HN topic is very relevant to understanding of contemporary LLM hype, as it illustrates the power of language (and propensity of human mind) to create an appearance of substance and meaning even where there is absolute emptiness (or, worse, manipulative fraud) underneath.

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Golden_Calf

- [1] https://pastebin.com/j7wsXQxe
by Luseniik | 2026-02-27 04:31:42+00:00
I do not like them in my code.
I do not like them, token load.
I do not like re-reading files.
I do not like re-learning styles.
So I built HAM (Hierarchical Agent Memory).

Every Claude Code session, your agent burns 5,000–15,000 tokens just getting oriented. Re-reading your project. Re-discovering conventions. Re-proposing decisions you already rejected. One dev had 76K in a single CLAUDE.md eating 47% of his context window. Every request.

HAM replaces one bloated file with scoped memory.

Before: 5,000–15,000 tokens/request. After: 300–800.
The system is self-maintaining. Agent creates memory files as you build.

Zero dependencies. Open source. For token-poor builders and small teams.
Would you eat them in a box? Would you eat them with a fox?

No. You'd go HAM.