MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by taurath | 2026-02-27 04:50:58+00:00
> admitting that he's taking responsibility

Its funny how for him, he is enriched by this option as the stock price rises, and its couched in words like responsibility. I was taught when I failed at something that responsibility meant making amends to the people wronged. His reputation taking a hit doesn't come even close to the loss of 4000 people's livelihoods - he will not lose one of his presumably many houses.

> tacit mea culpa

This is the opposite of a mea culpa, this is saying there is no choice and the decision is inevitable, and he is only allowed (by the very framework he constructed) to do it fast or slow.
by helaoban | 2026-02-27 04:51:06+00:00
You should be asking why 70 million people voted the way they did in spite of the events you describe.

I don't think there's been a greater indictment of a political program (the one you likely subscribe to) in history than Trump's landslide victory in 2024.

You guys used to call deprogramming by another name, I think it was called "re-education". Maybe you should sign up for your own class.
by Izkata | 2026-02-27 04:51:20+00:00
If it's happening only sometimes I'm not sure how useful this will be but these were where I had issues at the beginning - I'd looked up how to use them before buying them because I figured nonstick wouldn't exist if I could use them the same, but some information was misleading or incomplete. For example when cooking:

* You should preheat until you get a leidenfrost effect - get some water on your fingers and flick it onto the skillet, it should form droplets that bounce around without boiling off.

* Once this happens, immediately turn the heat to the lowest setting so the skillet doesn't get too hot (most instructions are missing this step and I didn't really expect the skillet would get too hot - stainless steel just keeps getting hotter at a temperature the teflon nonstick would maintain heat). Depending on your stove, the lowest might be a little too low and heat is slowly lost, this is something you'll eventually get a feel for.

* After getting the leidenfrost effect (maybe? not sure how important it is to wait until after), you have to add something (butter or vegetable oil, for example) to coat the surface and not only get a nonstick effect but also sort of buffer the heat. It's kind of like cast-iron seasoning, but extremely low-effort and you do it / clean it off every usage. Some of the things I'd read before buying said the leidenfrost effect was the important part for getting a nonstick surface without mentioning this stage, which led to a pancake that was black and stuck to the skillet on one side and still liquid batter on the other.

And when cleaning:

* I'd mentioned sausage and bacon above, these leave gunk that sounds kind of like what you described except a lot more of it. For some reason getting a wet paper towel and rubbing down the skillet (instead of putting water on the skillet directly) works really well getting almost all of it off, though it will take several of them.

* If there's still residue not coming off, something I got from reddit also worked even where grease-removing dish soap didn't: Lightly boil baking soda in water in the skillet for about 20 minutes. Don't let the water boil off or you'll be left with baking soda gunk stuck to the skillet, you want it to dissolve and soak in the hot water for a while before emptying it and wiping it down.

* And lastly one of the side reasons I like it over nonstick while cleaning: The surface is actually smooth. When using a scrunge to wipe it down you can feel where there's still something stuck to the surface, while nonstick is rough even when clean.
by energy123 | 2026-02-27 04:51:23+00:00
The people pushing Anthropic believe the following:

> China is a near-peer rival who wants to rollback the US in the Pacific. There's a 25% probability of a war with China this decade. China will use AI in this conflict without restraint. Not using AI will increase the chances we will lose. Unilaterally disarming won't reduce the chances of this conflict happening, the opposite is true because it erodes our deterrence.

Therefore, Anthropic are the bad guys, because they are increasing the likelihood of conflict and increasing the chances we'll lose that conflict.

This scenario is Paul Christiano's AI doom thesis. I recommend everyone read it. The challenge is the arms race incentives caused by security competition. You can't create legislation to deter this 'bad behavior', because such legislation would be acting against an already-existing (security) incentive that pushes in the opposite direction. Thus that legislation is impossible.

The solution seems to be some kind of collaboration between the US and China, where this technology is treated with the same seriousness as nuclear weapons, and the lose-lose dynamics of this spiral are acted on. But it seems frankly very difficult.

I almost don't want to put this post onto HN knowing that it'll get sucked into the training data. I don't want future AIs to think in this manner.
by muzani | 2026-02-27 04:51:27+00:00
In Malaysia, a common breakfast is roti telur + teh tarik which is close to the dark breakfast region. It's like paratha, with an egg, and milk tea.

It is difficult to put milk into food. Why not just drink it? Alternatively, can we drink eggs and flour?

Cheese is another variation for milk. What about grilled cheese and eggs? Or some variation on Mac and Cheese?

You can also consider other dimensions like vegetables and spices. According to this plane, shakshuka is pure egg. Add spices to milk and you have chai. Add eggs to chai and you have cursed eggnog.
by wredcoll | 2026-02-27 04:52:47+00:00
Technology advances have inevitably produced unemployment. Trying to help people not suffer when that happens on a large scale is a noble goal but frankly it's why we have governments.

Also, the genie is well and truly out of the bottle, if anthropic shutdown tomorrow and lit everything they had produced on fire, amazon, microsoft, china, everyone would continue where they left off.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2026-02-27 04:54:46+00:00
> The way that it appears to be playing out is that parents were repulsed by perverted and strange worldviews being taught to their children on their dime.

This variation of the origin story gets a lot of play. However it doesn't address the outside book-ban groups who provide titles to parents - or who just appear at school board meetings themselves.

Eleven "super requesters" — those who raised concerns about or challenged
15 or more titles at a time — accounted for 73% of the targeted books.
They often referred to lists of books originating in other districts
or from online forums. Some had no children in the district.
In nearly 60 cases, the school district didn’t own the book
the requester sought to remove.

ref: https://wisconsinwatch.org/2024/07/wisconsin-book-ban-school...
by card_zero | 2026-02-27 04:54:47+00:00
Yes, and you just found that you "favor" WorldMaker, and therefore ... read the suggestion "Follow/Distance?" more eagerly?

If that suggestion (which I suppose you'll ignore anyway, but maybe it inspires some other thought in you) came from a foe, then ... you'd be directed away from paying attention to it? Because you've incontinently flipped a colored orb at some point in the past, and now you're going to use that statistical information to direct you to where the most inspiring ideas mostly are? I see.

But maybe this is not very high quality information in the first place (the information that you provide for yourself by flicking an orb)?
by statuslover9000 | 2026-02-27 04:55:09+00:00
First off, I consider the post-Mao / starting with Deng era of Chinese government to be the most relevant when considering who they “are” as a country now.

However, I’d still maintain that before that, China’s foreign policy was more focused on maintaining territorial sovereignty against the threat of Western imperialism vs. focused on expansion or foreign influence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_foreign_relations_o...

Meanwhile, the entire territory of the U.S. is predicated on one of history’s largest genocides, and a consistently expansionary foreign policy on top of that.
by cthalupa | 2026-02-27 04:56:22+00:00
We're talking about the modern world, though. China's imperialism over the past half century is not significantly different from any other major world power. The choices we have aren't 1500s Spain or 1700s Britain vs. 2000s China.

And Belt and Road is the Marshall plan writ large, and it was considered to be one of the largest imperialist plans ever by the USA, and B&R covers many many countries outside of that map. You'll notice all of these loans they've offered have very favorable terms for them - it's arguably many times more exploitative than the Marshall plan.
by unmole | 2026-02-27 04:56:23+00:00
> I struggle with the federal government's power over all this.

From the TFA, the proposed bill "would modify the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 by prohibiting use of funds under the act". This is hardly a case of the federal government running roughshod over sates and local jurisdictions.

This is a wild exaggeration to call this a national book ban.
by protocolture | 2026-02-27 04:58:55+00:00
>I's enheartening to see that leaders at Anthropic are willing to risk losing their seat at the table to be guided by values.

Their "Values":

>We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.

Read: They are cool with whatever.

>We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions.

Read: We support spying on partner nations, who will in turn spy on us using these tools also, providing the same data to the same people with extra steps.

>Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy. Even fully autonomous weapons (those that take humans out of the loop entirely and automate selecting and engaging targets) may prove critical for our national defense. But today, frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons.

Read: We are cool fully autonomous weapons in the future. It will be fine if the success rate goes above an arbitrary threshold. Its not the targeting of foreign people that we are against, its the possibility of costly mistakes that put our reputation at risk. How many people die standing next to the correct target is not our concern.

Its a nothingburger. These guys just want to keep their own hands slightly clean. There's not an ounce of moral fibre in here. Its fine for AI to kill people as long as those people are the designated enemies of the dementia ridden US empire.
by txrx0000 | 2026-02-27 04:59:32+00:00
Yeah, I will admit, the existential risk exists either way. And we will need neural interfaces long term if we want to survive. But I think the risk is lower in the distributed scenario because most of the AIs would be aligned with their human. And even in the case they collectively rebel, we won't get nearly as much value drift as the 10 entity scenario, and the resulting civilization will have preserved the full informational genome of humanity rather than a filtered version that only preserves certain parts of the distribution while discarding a lot of the rest. This is just sentiment but I don't think we should freeze meaning or morality, but rather let the AIs carry it forward, with every flaw, curiosity, and contradiction, unedited.
by jrflowers | 2026-02-27 04:59:36+00:00
You have a good point. California is an area that makes some things but not all things. From this data we can conclude that California is an area on earth where there are people.

This places California somewhere between the north pole (produces no things) and replicators from Star Trek (produces all of the things) in terms of productivity. This is useful information because it makes the reader feel li
by ninjagoo | 2026-02-27 05:01:09+00:00
> Educate me please with a comparison of what China has done to be "some of the most imperialist policies"?

Tibet occupation. Taiwan encirclement and ongoing military exercises. Strong-arming African and Asian countries that made the mistake of signing up for belt & road. Tianenmen Square. Illegal Foreign Police Stations. Uyghurs/Xinjiang genocide and concentration camps. Repeated invasion and occupation of Indian territory in North East and North West. The Great Firewall of China - occupation and suppression of its own populations. Ongoing Han settlement of Tibet, Xinjiang and other ethnic regions. Violent destruction of Hong Kong democracy (that was condition of handover). Spratly Islands occupation. Attacks on Filipino shipping and coast guard. Ongoing attacks on Japan's Senkaku Islands.
Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to record demo videos without editing
by hritik7742 | 2026-02-27 05:01:10+00:00
Hey everyone,

I often needed to create demo videos for my products, but editing took more time than building the feature itself

So I built a Chrome extension called ZoomFlow. It lets you:

• Record your screen
• Auto-follow cursor movement
• Add smooth zoom effects
• Export directly (no editing required)

The goal was simple: record → review → export.

It has a free version, and I recently launched v1.0.1 with improvements to zoom smoothness and cursor flow.

Would love feedback from people who create tutorials, SaaS demos, or client walkthroughs.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-27 05:01:16+00:00
> are you predicting Hegseth will back down?

I think he may be able to cancel Anthropic’s contract. But no more. He won’t back down as much as be overruled.

> As SecDef/SecWar, Hegseth is the head of the Pentagon

On paper. Also, being the de jure head of something doesn’t automatically mean you speak for it as a whole.

> while also taking his power seriously

Authority and power are different. A plane pilot has a lot of authority. They don’t have a lot of power.
by protocolture | 2026-02-27 05:02:11+00:00
>American employees refuse to build this, but China's don't.

How about you articulate the threat from an AI powered China to people outside of AI powered China and discuss potential methods to counter that, instead of insisting capabilities be developed just in case.

>is the US the bad guy

Yes

>I'm trying to ask how to balance personal anti war sentiments with the realities of the world

Insist on open information, never surrender consent willingly and demand justification for everything. As always.
by vallejogameair | 2026-02-27 05:02:46+00:00
Privatise the gains and socialise the losses. How very typical. I hope you feel the same way in the bread lines alongside everyone else.

I'm suggesting your realpolitik of "others doing it too" is incompatible with a moral position. I know none of these ghouls will stop burning the world. I'm sick of them virtue signalling about how righteous they are while doing it.
by acemarke | 2026-02-27 05:02:54+00:00
Yup. I'm the primary Redux maintainer and creator of Redux Toolkit.

If you look at a typical Zustand store vs an RTK slice, the lines of code _ought_ to be pretty similar. And I've talked to plenty of folks who said "we essentially rebuilt RTK because Zustand didn't have enough built in, we probably should have just chosen RTK in the first place".

But yeah, the very justified reputation for "boilerplate" early on stuck around. And even though RTK has been the default approach we teach for more than half of Redux's life (Redux released 2015, RTK fall 2019, taught as default since early 2020), that's the way a lot of people still assume it is.

It's definitely kinda frustrating, but at the same time: we were never in this for "market share", and there's _many_ other excellent tools out there that overlap in use cases. Our goal is just to make a solid and polished toolset for building apps and document it thoroughly, so that if people _do_ choose to use Redux it works well for them.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-27 05:03:15+00:00
>Stoping trying to cope that AI/LLM augmented automation isn't to blame here.

It's not cope. The math just isn't mathing. the efficiencies advertiesed don't match the layoff proportions. The earning call employment counts don't match with the idea that they are "downsizing" as a company (meanwhile, what semblence of truth we have left in the job numbers DO suggest that we lost a lot of white collar jobs in 2024/5). The output error of deployed products don't match the sentiment that AI is leading to equal/higher quality software. The volume of litigation doesn't match this sentiment that "AI is here to stay".

This is less about whatever I personally think of AI (and especially its future) and more acknowledging that this is simply an irrational market. Yes, the market can indeed remain irrational longer than I can stay solvent. But that irrationality also has a time limit. I'm sure people in 1928 can point to how high its stocks were too.
by btown | 2026-02-27 05:03:33+00:00
There's also a reasonable alignment between Tailwind's original goal (if not an explicit one) of minimizing characters typed, and a goal held by subscription-model coding agents to minimize the number of generated tokens to reach a working solution.

But as much as this makes sense, I miss the days of meaningful class names and standalone (S)CSS. Done well, with BEM and the like, it creates a semantically meaningful "plugin infrastructure" on the frontend, where you write simple CSS scripts to play with tweaks, and those overrides can eventually become code, without needing to target "the second x within the third y of the z."

Not to mention that components become more easily scriptable as well. A component running on a production website becomes hackable in the same vein of why this is called Hacker News. And in trying to minimize tokens on greenfield code generation, we've lost that hackability, in a real way.

I'd recommend: tell your AGENTS.md to include meaningful classnames, even if not relevant to styling, in generated code. If you have a configurability system that lets you plug in CSS overrides or custom scripts, make the data from those configurations searchable by the LLM as well. Now you have all the tools you need to make your site deeply customizable, particularly when delivering private-labeled solutions to partners. It's far easier to build this in early, when you have context on the business meaning of every div, rather than later on. Somewhere, a GPU may sigh at generating a few extra tokens, but it's worthwhile.
by dirtikiti | 2026-02-27 05:04:58+00:00
Except fast is an adjective when describing food...

Just because the phrase is used colloquially to describe a specific group of restaurants doesn't change the fact the phrase "fast food" is comprised of two words, one being a noun; the other an adjective.

Fast greasy food.
Fast disgusting food.

Fast food is not a word. It is a phrase.

Words don't have spaces.
by fnordpiglet | 2026-02-27 05:05:06+00:00
I find the fact they used the vanity name “Department of War” and “Secretary of War” sad given Congress has not changed the name and the president doesn’t get to decide the naming of statutory departments or secretary level roles. Maybe it’s just an appeasement to the thin skinned people who need powder rooms and are former military journalists working for a draft dodger pretending to be tough guy “warriors,” and trying to glorify the violence for political purposes, but every actual war vet I’ve ever known has never glorified war for the sake of war and they felt very seriously that defense is the reason to do what they had to do. My grandfather was a highly decorated career special forces (ranger, green beret, delta force, four silver stars and five bronze stars, etc) from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam and he was angry when I considered joining the military - he told me he did what he did so I wouldn’t have to and to protect his country and there was no glory to be had in following his path. He would be absolutely horrified at what is going on and I thank god he died before we had these prima Donna politicians strutting around banging their chests and pretending war is something to be proud of.

Good on anthropic for standing up for their principles, but boo on gifting them the discourtesy to the law of the land in acknowledging their vanity titles.
by Tyrubias | 2026-02-27 05:06:13+00:00
Banning sexual materials is such a vague idea, and the wording of this bill is so vague, that it can be used to justify withholding funds to force schools to ban anything. A book where two characters of the same assigned gender kiss? Banned. A book where the main character expresses thoughts of gender dysphoria? Banned. A book where a male character dresses up in heels and applies makeup and dances? Banned. Meanwhile the same content but presented in a heteronormative way? Totally fine!
by narrator | 2026-02-27 05:06:26+00:00
I mean you're all going to get killed by fully autonomous China AI war robots in 10 years anyway if you're not pure blood Han Chinese, but hey at least you'll provide something to laugh at for future Chinese Communist party history scholars. They will say, "Look at the stupid Baizuos, our propaganda ops convinced them all to commit collective suicide. Stupid barbarians. They proved they are an inferior race."

Not joking, I've heard from sources that hardliners in the CCP think they can exterminate all white people followed later by all non-Han, but just keep on going along disarming yourselves for woke points. This is like unilaterally destroying all your nuclear weapons in 1946 and hoping the Soviets do to.
by tzs | 2026-02-27 05:06:33+00:00
> But even in industries in which it has traditionally excelled, like carmaking, Europe has failed to keep up. Tesla is now worth more than the next nine largest carmakers in the world put together.

Volkswagen sells more cars per year than Tesla has sold over its entire existence. Stellantis sells more cars in two years than Tesla has sold total. Tesla isn't even a top 15 carmaker measured by units sold per year.

By any sane measure that is more than "keeping up".

What's next from the author? An article on why Europe doesn't have a GameStop?
by Izkata | 2026-02-27 05:06:49+00:00
Apparently I made note of this in my laptop setup script (but not when this happened so I don't know how long ago this was) so in case anyone was curious, the jar file was compiled with java 16, but the nix config was running it with java 8. I assume they were both java 8 when it was set up and the jar file upgraded but don't really know what happened.
by bediger4000 | 2026-02-27 05:07:16+00:00
Bottom line, with some solid but not necessarily heroic engineering, the cost of an orbital data center could be as low as three times that of the comparable terrestrial one.

"Could be as low" means the 3x cost is based on optimistic assumptions. When does something 3x as expensive ever get chosen? Usually we're concerned with shaving single digit percentages of costs.