MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sfink | 2026-02-27 00:25:33+00:00
My guess is that they can't object to foreign intelligence, and would lose negotiating ground if they even tried.

Optimistically, they can still refuse to do work that would aid in foreign intelligence gathering, by arguing that it would also be beneficial for domestic mass surveillance.

I'll admit that the phrase "We support...foreign intelligence and counterintelligence" is awful as hell, and it's possible that my apologist claims are BS. But Anthropic has very little leverage here (despite having a signed contract and so legally fully in the right), so I could see why they're desperate to stick to only the most solid objections available.
by mattpal21 | 2026-02-27 00:25:35+00:00
Yo, I also got the email:

"""
Hi Matt,

I found your GitHub and thought you might like what we're building. We're developing an open source SDK that runs LLMs directly on-device.

We're getting about 45 tokens per second on iPhones, with support for Swift, Kotlin, React Native and Flutter. There's also a fully offline voice pipeline built in, so everything runs locally. We recently got into Y Combinator and are focused on expanding support to more edge devices and continuously improving performance.

If you're curious, here's the repo: github.com/RunanywhereAI/runanywhere-sdks

Feel free to reply to this email with any feedback or ideas you'd like to explore with on-device AI, or if you'd be interested in contributing. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Best,
Aditya
"""

Just to share the entire email, I think it's pretty well written, I went ahead and talked to the team, they were very curious and took my feedback regarding their flutter sdks very seriously, and they seem to be great people. Also, just an fyi, I tried their sdks, it's great! and I've been loving their apps as well.

I think their team is great, and I asked them for adding the rag implementation, they did it in less than week and it's pretty impressive. I think it's worth checking it out, It's easier to demean someone in public like that but might be worth checking.
by ajross | 2026-02-27 00:25:46+00:00
> Coupled with the current iOS situation it seems like things are… rotting. Everything in decline.

Just "commoditizing". Last years microwave ovens were basically the same as 2024's also, and no one cares. You still need them and people still buy them and use them as much as ever, but at a replacement rate and not because of fashion or innovation.

That is a good thing. It means the economy is doing what it's supposed to do and bringing maximal value to consumers so we can spend our resources more efficiently (on other fashion-driven junk in different market segments), making us richer.

It's only bad news if your business is selling "phones" and not innovative products more generally. Which, yeah, is pretty much AAPL's trap. But that's on them, not us. We're winning.
by idiotsecant | 2026-02-27 00:25:59+00:00
They're also speedrunning a world class power distribution system and deploying a massive amount of renewable power amoung a whole mess of other infrastructure. They've got the ability to focus an entire nation into achieving technical goals and they're rapidly improving quality of life in average while maintaining an industrial base that the US can only remember fondly. They might not meet western standards for individual freedoms and rule of law, but they're undoubtedly a rising world power.
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-27 00:26:23+00:00
That is an Apple problem and keep in mind that iPhone doesn't do multi-task, the fact that you are having problems with 12GB is not surprised to me.

I have to use a Macbook M4 at work with 24GB, I have an AMD Lenovo Ryzen7 with 32GB running Linux Mint Cinnamon.
It is infuriating how slow this Macbook is, even to shut it down is slow asf.

macOS is not different than Windows, I cannot wait for COB to get back to my Linux laptop.
by tamimio | 2026-02-27 00:26:58+00:00
What’s the purpose? More echo chambers and circle jerking parties?! Why some people are so inclined to label others? I might dislike someone’s comment on something or disagree with their opinion about it, but absolutely love their comments on another topic. And if that is an “overall” score for a person’s comments, then who are you to hijack my personality and tell me this person is good or not to engage with? Unless it’s just a joke, the concept is stupid.
by Aerroon | 2026-02-27 00:28:01+00:00
Imo there's never enough RAM. If everyone has more RAM available then software will find a use for this RAM. Sure, some of it is going to be wasteful, but we would almost certainly get new products that weren't feasible before. You can trade space for compute after all.

That being said, AI is not going to go away already. And AI is about as memory hungry as you can get.
by jmyeet | 2026-02-27 00:28:02+00:00
Your comment reads like propaganda.

You know who else considers Taiwan to be part of the People's Republic of China? The US, the EU and in fact most countries in the world. It's called the One China policy. There are I believe 12 countries that have diplomatic relations with Taiwan.

The position of the PRC is that Taiwan will ultimately be reunified. That doesn't necessarily mean by military force. It doesn't even necessarily mean soon. The PRC famously takes a very long term view.

And those islands you mention are in the South China Sea.
by dheera | 2026-02-27 00:28:36+00:00
> opted to sell priority access to their models to the Pentagon

The bottom of all of this is that companies need to profit to sustain themselves. If "y'all" (the users) don't buy enough of their products, they will seek new sources of revenue.

This applies to any company who has external investors and shareholders, regardless of their day 0 messaging. When push comes to shove and their survival is threatened, any customer is better than no customer.

It's very possible that $20 Claude subscriptions isn't delivering on multiple billions in investment.

The only companies that can truly hold to their missions are those that (a) don't need to profit to survive, e.g. lifestyle businesses of rich people (b) wholly owned by owners and employees and have no fiduciary duty.
by clcaev | 2026-02-27 00:28:47+00:00
I didn't mean to make a rosy comment, thanks for the ribbing.

Tramadol isn't all that strong, but it does take the edge off. With a 6 week taper, my challenge was more about the resurgent pain.

I would not recommend Tramadol, the gut complications are debilitating and it's unclear ignoring the chronic pain served me well.
by vibeprofessor | 2026-02-27 00:28:52+00:00
'certainly' is in the eyes of the beholder, IMO they are doing great:

- Dismantling government bureaucracy/corruption

- Cutting waste in USAID and many other agencies we're paying for in taxes

- Stopping the illegal migrant flood

- Strong economy

- Reducing crime in cities

- Dismantling racist DEI policies

- Forcing reforms in academia (cracking down on woke indoctrination, restoring merit-based standards)

- Ending insanity around ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors

- Protecting women’s sports (no men competing against women)

- Standing firmly with Israel’s right to exist and keeping Iran in check

- Taking down Maduro's dictatorship in Venezuela, secured oil access & influence

- Strengthening US position while weakening China & Russia

That's what I voted for.
by fooker | 2026-02-27 00:29:07+00:00
There is no getting around the fact that projects that used to take man-years are possible in an afternoon now.

And this is the worst this technology is ever going to be :)

Don't take my word for it, go try building something that you always wanted to build but did not have time for. If you do not have something like that at the back of your head, I doubt you have to be concerned about this topic.
by galangalalgol | 2026-02-27 00:29:10+00:00
I don't think it would matter even if the us did have to start again. The entire us alliance after ww2 benefited from the same structural causes of increased pluralism and egalitarianism. A fractured elite, complex international trade, expanding and increasingly difficult to control communication channels, and a growing bureaucracy. These all inhibit autocratic concentration of power. International trade became uncomplicated, there is one manufacturer that is not a consumer, and many consumers. This leads to an increasingly less fractured elite. The structural reasons for democracy and rules based order are all fading. The us is just a really big canary.
by throwway120385 | 2026-02-27 00:29:11+00:00
I don't think you can ever get away from accidental engineering in build systems because as soon as they find their niche something new comes along to disrupt it. Even with something homegrown out of shell scripts and directory trees the boss will eventually ask you to do something that doesn't fit well with your existing concepts.

A build system is meant to yield artifacts, run tools, parallelize things, calculate dependencies, download packages, and more. And these are all things that have some algorithmic similarity which is a kind of superficial similarity in that the failure modes and the exact systems involved are often dramatically different. I don't know that you can build something that is that all-encompassing without compromising somewhere.
by SurceBeats | 2026-02-27 00:29:33+00:00
Sure! No formal writeup but here's the gist, base model was Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct, fast, reliable, low ram specs and most of the times fine on cpu.

Dataset: ~620 Claude-crafted examples, all following the same pattern, a question you'd ask a Ouija board paired with a short, uppercase, cryptic response. Things like "Is anyone there?" "YES.", "Write me a poem" "NO.", "How did you die?" "Ouija: PAIN.". The key was being very very consistent with the output format across all examples.

Method was LoRA fine-tune using HuggingFace Transformers + PEFT. Rank 16, alpha 32, targeting all attention + MLP projections. 3 epochs, lr 2e-4, effective batch size 8. Trained on Apple Silicon (MPS). Loss went from ~3.0 to ~0.17 pretty quickly given how uniform the outputs are.

Baked a system prompt into every training example using Qwen's chat template, basically the rules the "spirit" follows (uppercase only, one-word answers, never elaborate). For deployment I merged the LoRA adapter, quantized to GGUF Q4_K_M via llama.cpp, rruns locally with llama-cpp-python. I'm planning to drop an iOS version too. Honestly the whole thing is more about the dataset design than anything fancy on the training side. 620 consistent examples was enough to completely override the models default chatty behavior.
by quickthrowman | 2026-02-27 00:29:49+00:00
I grew up listening to 90s hip hop, so I’m familiar with some of the songs DJ Screw used in his mixes. There’s something meditative and transcendent about rap slowed down to 60 bpm combined with the repeated phrases and chopping/rewinding to extend the song and emphasize certain parts. He’d play two copies of a song and one would be a beat or two ahead, which lets you cross fade back and forth to make words repeat, he’d rewind certain lines three or four times to emphasize it, he does a decent amount of turntablism/scratching too. All of the manipulation is basically an on the fly remix with a lot of room for creative freedom.

Here’s a chopped and screwed song I like by DJ Screw

https://youtu.be/zykDlxp-hQQ

Vaporwave is basically the same set of techniques applied to 80s pop and elevator music, the song below is vaporwave but it’s more or less a chopped and screwed version of Tar Baby by Sadé

https://youtu.be/ZJrmzPavcDo
by malfist | 2026-02-27 00:30:11+00:00
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YCt2txu11d4

Great video that talks about selecting the olive oil for your use case and which seals aren't just self granted. I personally have been using colavita. Its fantastic.

I hate it but it's taught me that freshness actually matters. I bought some for focaccia and it was amazing. Saved it in the pantry for special occasions. Went back six months later and it had zero flavor. Just tasted like generic oil. Flat.

It ruined me
by Fischgericht | 2026-02-27 00:30:45+00:00
Yes, but it is actually scientifically correct and proven on all sorts of layers. Biology, Maths, whatever. Not doomsdaying, just data analytics.

Societies are not operating like a sinus curve like say summer/winter cycles. They are upside-down "U"s. After the peak comes decline, but after the decline there is NOT recovery/growth again before you have a reset.

Germany was the huge winner of WW2 in the sense that after having had a high society they directly were allowed to get another such run. But as nobody wants to bomb us ) anymore, Germany is also in decline now waiting for a reset to come one day...

Sadly the USA will also need a reset before things can begin getting better again.

) I was born in Germany and lived there for 40 years.
by toss1 | 2026-02-27 00:31:49+00:00
Excellent news. I was seriously worried they would cave when I saw the earlier news they'd dropped their core safety pledge [0].

It is entirely reasonable to not provide tools to break the law by doing mass surveillance on civilian citizens and to insist the tool not be used automatically to kill a human without a human in the loop. Those are unreasonable demands by an unreasonable regime.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145963
Show HN: Ambit-OpenCode – Cloud IDE with Seamless Mobile <> Desktop Handoff
by cardellifan | 2026-02-27 00:31:49+00:00
You get an agent-driven IDE with seamless Mobile <-> Desktop handoff, project storage, etc, powered by Tailscale and Fly.io.

With a fully-featured built-in cloud shell, pre-configured for convenience.

It's very easy to set-up, open-source, and there's a one-week free trial (thanks, Fly.io!). Without the trial, it's approx $5 month.
by mmmBacon | 2026-02-27 00:31:51+00:00
Totally. I started baking pies because it was a tradition in my family and my wife can’t cook. To make sure my kids had the family food tradition I learned to bake. Once you get a system down, like anything else, it’s not that hard. Plus pie filling has time to bloom if you make it day before. Pie dough can be made ahead and freezes well. Individually these things aren’t hard or time consuming.

I started making my own simple bread and now I can’t eat store bought bread. Just takes like sawdust to me. It’s not really all that hard. Add a little rosemary and some olive oil and it’s delicious. No need to fuss over sourdough (over rated in my opinion). Over time you learn how ingredients work and what ratios work. So becomes easier and easier. I can throw together amazing corn bread and be eating it a little more than half hour later.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-27 00:32:22+00:00
> I'm convinced that these "AI Layoffs" are these companies trying to save face from the absurd overhiring that they did in 2022 and 2023 because apparently they thought that these no-interest loans/free money would just last forever.

Partially.

The first nail in the coffin was the change in assumptions around output. Before 2023, there was an assumption that more bodies means more output. After the massive X/Twitter layoffs (60-70% headcount culled) with X/Twitter still standing, this assumption was clearly proven false.

The second nail was the change in operational metrics. Before 2023, ARR growth was a good enough metric to target. After 2023, FCF positivity became the name of the game. Especially because us investors are demanding this because most funds are reaching the 10 year mark where we need to make our LPs whole, so a path to exit (be it IPO, M&A, or a continuation fund) needs to be communicated.

And finally, COVID proved to a large number of companies and industries that 100% WFH and Async for white collar roles does work. But wait, if I can hire Joe in Cary to work async, why can't I hire Jan in Karlin, Prague or Jagmeet in Koramangla, Bangalore? This means I can also enhance FCF positivity while not impacting delivery.

Add to that some very, very, very bad hires (most bootcamp grads just can't cut it) at absurdly high salaries and that's why you're seeing the culling that is occurring today.

That said, AI tools are powerful, and if you are working on rightsizing an organization, using Claude or Bedrock in workflows helps one person do multiple jobs at once. We now expect PMs to also work as junior program managers, designers, product marketers, customer success managers, and sales engineers and we now expect SWEs to also work as junior program managers, designers, docs writers, and architects. Now I can lay off 10-20% of my GTM, Designers, SWEs, Program Managers, and Docs Writers and still get good enough output.
by toss1 | 2026-02-27 00:32:56+00:00
Excellent news. I was seriously worried they would cave when I saw the earlier news they'd dropped their core safety pledge [0].

It is entirely reasonable to not provide tools to break the law by doing mass surveillance on civilian citizens and to insist the tool not be used automatically to kill a human without a human in the loop. Those are unreasonable demands by an unreasonable regime.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145963
by jlarocco | 2026-02-27 00:33:18+00:00
I agree with you. To me the maker movement has always been about people wanting to tinker and create things for themselves. If anything "vibe coding" makes the maker movement more accessible because people who couldn't (or didn't want to) code can try to have AI code the thing they're building.

And there are plenty of people in the maker movement who enjoy writing code, and will write it whether other people are vibe coding or not.
by treetalker | 2026-02-27 00:33:48+00:00
I'm an appellate attorney. I listen to the Oyez project's "podcast" of the SCOTUS oral arguments. (It's just a feed of the original audio of the OAs.) I don't stress listening to every one; I'll catch the major cases and any other that might be relevant to cases I'm working on. It keeps me apprised of the way the Court is thinking; apprised of doctrinal developments; and gives me an opportunity both to critique generally high-quality advocacy and to pick up patterns and tricks to up my own game.
by nickjj | 2026-02-27 00:33:50+00:00
> The latest phone reviews have been eyebrow raising.

It's eyebrow raising for me in other ways.

I have a Pixel 9a and it's been quite good with really solid battery life. It's barely 6 months old and I got it new straight from Google.

A few days ago I noticed the battery started to drain much faster than usual. I also noticed at the same time Google is pushing the 10a.

Nothing changed on my end. I barely use the phone in my day to day. In 10 hours today I sent 3 text messages with Whatsapp and lost 60% of my battery in that time frame. Up until a few days ago, 60% would last me 3 days.

I find it weirdly coincidental that the battery life went from amazing to worse than a 5 year old device I had prior to this just as they are releasing new phones. I've powered it down and given it a full discharge / charge too. It's still draining at an alarming rate.
by jdross | 2026-02-27 00:34:00+00:00
As you know, this is a subjective take. (I enjoy my experience there more now, for example, with less social politics in my feed.)

And their head of product claimed that X only has around 30 FT employees apparently working on it, so it's much more than 80% since then.

https://www.ndtv.com/feature/x-head-of-product-claims-compan...
by kace91 | 2026-02-27 00:34:19+00:00
Nice googling, but that’s just an example that proves my point.

They had to go through a process extensively justifying losses (mostly that certain jobs were no longer relevant as they were pre-digital workforce), negotiate with unions and offer voluntary leaving conditions.

The resulting offer was good enough that more workers applied to be fired than were necesssary. For context, the deal was basically to pay them 70% of their current salary from the dismissal moment until their retirement at 63.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-27 00:34:25+00:00
> If Anthropic does give the DoD what they want, does that magically stop China, Iran, Russia, etc from advancing in AI arms development?

No

> If Anthropic doesn't give the DoD what they want, does that mean that China, Iran, Russia, etc magically leapfrog not only Anthropic, but the entire US defense industry, and take over the planet?

The risks are high, so if you're the US, you want a portfolio of possible winners. The risks are too high to not leverage all the cutting edge AI labs.
by defrost | 2026-02-27 00:34:49+00:00
It's an interesting point of view, conversely, as an Australian of some decades, they all look fairly normal to me and a subset of a greater spectrum I'm also familiar with.

Right angle plugs may well be less common (in your experience) but they're essential for, say, getting power from the wall to a breakout strip (for TV + games consoles, NAS, media box, etc. corners) when the wall plug is behind a low cabinet / cupboard.

In any case it's a museum, a catalog, intended to show a range of things that do exist, even if a good number may not encounter them frequently.
by jmyeet | 2026-02-27 00:36:44+00:00
The distinction between foreign and domestic is a legal one.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the US Constitution protects any persons physically present in the United States and its territories as well as any US citizens abroad.

So if you are a German national on US soil, you have, say, Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure. If you are a US citizen in Germany, you also have those rights. But a German citizen in Germany does not.

What this means in practice is that US 3-letter agencices have essentially been free to mass surveil people outside the United States. Historically these agencies have gotten around that by outsourcing their spying needs to 3 leter agencies in other countries (eg the NSA at one point might outsource spying on US citizens to GCHQ).
by ascarola | 2026-02-27 00:37:32+00:00
This is a great story, and you're further along than I ever got in 1987! I had a C64 back then, too, and was fascinated by it, but never attempted anything this ambitious. Girlfriends, too, got the best of me! Fast forward nearly 40 years, and I finally built my Unix-inspired shell for it, just with a very different kind of assistant helping with the assembly. :)

The directory speed problem is real. I sidestepped it entirely by keeping the filesystem RAM-resident (max 8 entries, heap at $6000), which makes LS instant but obviously volatile. Your track 16/17 commandeering approach is incredible and fascinating. MATRIX sounds amazing, and you should dig it up and finish it now! :)
by probably_wrong | 2026-02-27 00:37:46+00:00
One alternative would be to call the government's bluff: if they truly are as indispensable as they claim then they can leverage that advantage into a deal.

But at a more general level, I'd say that unethical actions do not suddenly become ethical when one's business is at risk. If Anthropic considers that using their technology for X is unethical and then decide that their money and power is worth more than the lives of the foreigners that will be affected by doing X then good for them, but they shouldn't then make a grandstand about how hard they fought to ensure that only foreigners get their necks under the boots.
by eibrahim | 2026-02-27 00:38:42+00:00
They're right that nobody is vibe coding a full ERP system. But that's not really the threat. The threat is vibe coders building the 20% of Workday that 80% of small businesses actually use, and selling it for a fraction of the price. The market for small, focused tools that replace one expensive feature of a bloated enterprise platform is massive and growing fast.
by nayroclade | 2026-02-27 00:38:46+00:00
I expect its synergy with Tailwind. Shadcn/ui uses Tailwind for styling components, and AIs love Tailwind, so it makes sense they'd adopt a component library that uses it.

And it's definitely a real effect. The npm weekly download stats for shadcn/ui have exploded since December: https://www.npmjs.com/package/shadcn