MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reliabilityguy | 2026-02-28 17:02:25+00:00
> It's generaly permissible under international law.

This is false, and you know it. But I will challenge you for others to see. Please point me to a statue of the international law that makes this "resistance" legal.

> Take for example the UAE, which has been hit by the Iranian response, who is essentially singlehandedly responsible for the genocide in South Sudan and it does so with the blessing of the US.

Interesting. You completely ignored that Saudis back the other side (SAF), which committed no fewer atrocities than RSF and co. Why do you single out UAE?

> The UAE arms the RSF using arms they get from the US and steal Sudanese gold, which they launder through Dubai and Switzerland.

I won't argue with that, but this is not the complete picture, and the two main warring sides in Sudan are supported by US-friendly regimes in the region.

> But let's assume, for the sake of argument, that everything Iran has done and is doing is "imperialism" (which, again, it is not), how do you even begin to argue "if not more [than the United States]"? US imperialism touches virtually every country on Earth. Iran at best has regional influence.

Two things:

1. Does the fact that IR's imperialism is regional, and anti-US, and not global makes it good?

2. It is imperialism -- IR through its militant proxies suppresses independent development of multiple states in the region. Can you explain to me how this is a good thing?
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-28 17:02:26+00:00
> take a look at how poorly the fall of the Iraqi gov't in 2003 actually worked out

This is an immensely risky operation. But part of the reason for Iraq being a shitshow was De-Ba'athification. You don't need to clean house to effect regime change. My guess would be we're hoping someone in the IRGC disappears Khamenei and a few senior commanders and then makes a call to Geneva.
by easeout | 2026-02-28 17:02:42+00:00
> …requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device…

The way I read that, you just have to ask for an indication of age. Like when I'm not logged in to Steam and I want to look at a game with blood, it asks for a birth year and I pretend to be 109. That's not exactly "age verification." Am I missing something?
by 13415 | 2026-02-28 17:03:31+00:00
Let's keep it short, I'll give you the last word if you want.

1. The US "intervention" in WW2 was fully justified because the US was attacked. It's also justified to help another country that is attacked, for example the US campaign against Iraq during the First Gulf war was justified. Both were defensive actions, not wars of aggression. Preventive wars are also wars of aggression, though, and classified as such by international law. There are fairly direct equivalents of all of this in regular penal law.

2. I never claimed I cannot be mistaken. It's best to focus on arguments, not persons.

> Great. Then no war is acceptable.

War has at least two sides (often more). A war of aggression is never acceptable. You've got that right. That's also how it's viewed in international law. Defending against a war of aggression is always acceptable. Helping someone defend against a war of aggression is also acceptable. There is a third category, a military intervention by a broad alliance legitimized by some international body. That is in the "it depends" category but plays no role here. Now countries that start wars of aggression know all that and therefore often argue they're just defending themselves. I'm stating that this is a pretense and not a correct justification in this particular case of the US attacking Iran. I'm not planning to go into the details why this is the case, it is obvious enough anyway. Just to make this clear.

I have no comments about the rest of your comment, which, frankly speaking, to me mostly sounds like self-aggrandizing remarks. I was mostly referring to how established international law looks at the matter and your personal views interest me less. Have a good day!
by tombert | 2026-02-28 17:03:42+00:00
I didn't downvote anyone here and I really only ever downvote outright spam or shitposting.

> And this thread like most of reddit just becomes a hive-mind of me-too comments.

Yeah it's a "hive mind", a bunch of very technical people who actually kind of understand computers and the implications of OpenAI's actions don't like it. It's so "hive mind" for people who actually understand why something is bad to think it's bad. You're right to call that out because people should instead just have different opinions so they can be different.
by whatsupdog | 2026-02-28 17:04:05+00:00
Cannot reply to the comment below, so I'll comment here.

I see you had shifted the goal posts from being aggressor to "disproportionate response". My original comment said India has never been the aggressor and thanks for finally agreeing to that. I will not comment on the response being disproportionate or not, because that is just an attempt to derail the original conversation.
by scott_w | 2026-02-28 17:04:40+00:00
> You wrote, in your second reply: "First off, IR35 does not apply to self-employed workers, it only applies to a worker contracting via a limited company."

Apologies, I misread and thought you said I claimed IR35 does apply, which is why I answered the opposite. In which case, let me state my position clearly:

IR35 is not applicable to a self-employed individual because they are not a limited company. There is no field on the Self Assessment Tax Return to declare yourself in-scope of IR35, which I can confirm having filled out SA forms since 2018. I have no idea why you think it can be applied. It just can't.

> The plumber's company is in scope of IR35 precisely because the plumber owns it.

That is not what "In Scope of IR35" means at all. In Scope is, as we have both said above, based on the contract and work arrangements, which would either be "In Scope" because the arrangement mirrors an employment, or "Out of Scope" because the plumber is functionally self-employed, just contracting from within a limited company.

Also, this is part of why I say you're speaking out of both sides of your mouth. You say it's nothing to do with ownership structure and everything to do with ownership structure at the same time!

> The ownership structure is what brings the regime into existence.

This is what would trigger the test but it does not mean a company or arrangement is in or out of scope. That has to be applied based on the contract and working arrangements.

> why does this regime target worker-owned companies specifically, rather than applying a universal status test to all companies supplying labour in identical conditions?

You're basically asking "why does IR35 exist?" and the answer can be found by literally Googling it: it targets contracted workers who would pay less tax than an employee in exactly the same working arrangements. That is the top and bottom of it and has always been the case.

Why doesn't it target consulting companies? Because their employees are already employed! They already pay the full Income Tax and National Insurance!

I question your reading comprehension because I already fucking answered this question above:

> In an IR35 in-scope arrangement, the one-person limited company would otherwise pay themselves up to the income tax exemption threshold. They would then take a dividend for the rest of the payment, which isn't subject to NI payments, reducing revenue intake to the government.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-28 17:04:45+00:00
> Don't forget India with Goa and pakistan, bangladesh, etc.

Literally down thread (well, up now–I commented before you got downvoted) [1].

> You are my favorite hindu

You're a recurring racist troll. News at 11.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195844
by bloppe | 2026-02-28 17:05:17+00:00
> You can still buy some Anthropic.

If they're designated a "supply chain risk", then any company that does any business with the military cannot be a customer. That includes basically all the largest companies, many of which have already adopted Claude. So the Pentagon is threatening Anthropic with terminating most of their private enterprise revenue and basically ruining their business model.

That's a little different than just denying someone government contracts.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-28 17:05:20+00:00
And that's why you ask for a high level plan for something like that before you let the agent write any code. Then you review the plan for flaws, revise it, and prompt the system to fill out more details for each step. Repeat as necessary. Yes it's slow, but it's the best way of using this "glorified autocomplete" to ease and speed up real work.
by trinsic2 | 2026-02-28 17:05:41+00:00
you mean beyond this: [0]

>In 2025, reportedly Anthropic became the first AI company cleared for use in relation to classified operations and to handle classified information. This current controversy, however, began in January 2026 when, through a partnership with defense contractor Palantir, Anthropic came to suspect their AI had been used during the January 3 attack on Venezuela. In January 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote to reiterate that surveillance against US persons and autonomous weapons systems were two “bright red lines” not to be crossed, or at least topics that needed to be handled with “extreme care and scrutiny combined with guardrails to prevent abuses.” You can also read Anthropic’s self-proclaimed core views on AI safety here, as well as their LLM, Claude’s, constitution here.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160226
by AbzuNetTeam | 2026-02-28 17:05:41+00:00
I built this over four days.

It is fully open source and production-ready code, not a whitepaper.

AbzuNet is a decentralized network designed to function with or without internet connectivity.

The core is a libp2p-based node written in Rust with BLAKE3 content addressing, Kademlia DHT routing, and a delay-tolerant networking layer for store-and-forward messaging across intermittent connections.

v2.0.3 adds two things I have not seen combined anywhere else.
First, a LoRa radio transport layer that wraps AbzuNet traffic in Meshtastic PRIVATE_APP messages, allowing nodes to communicate across the existing global Meshtastic mesh without any internet connection.

Packet fragmentation handles LoRa's 237-byte MTU. EU 868MHz duty cycle enforcement is built in.

A thirty dollar Heltec or T-Beam running Meshtastic firmware becomes a fully functional AbzuNet transport node.

Second, an Autonomous Node Reward System that pays node operators in ABZU tokens automatically every epoch (one hour) based on a five-dimensional service score: uptime, storage proof-of-possession, content serving, DHT/DTN routing activity, and LoRa mesh participation.

Storage proofs use BLAKE3 challenge-response rather than Filecoin-style sealing. The node wallet address is derived deterministically from the Ed25519 identity key so there is nothing to configure. Tokens accumulate and can be withdrawn at any time.

The token economics use a Bitcoin-style halving schedule over roughly twenty years with a burn-and-mint equilibrium for network service payments, similar to Helium but without the proof-of-coverage gaming vectors that plagued early Helium deployments.

The smart contracts are three Solidity files on Arbitrum. Fixed one billion supply, no upgrade mechanism, no mint function after genesis. Foundry deployment scripts are included.

Happy to answer questions about any of the implementation decisions.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/abzunetwork/abzu-network-framework/
AbzuNet Website: https://abzunet.synthicsoftlabs.com
Show HN: Mowgli – Figma for the agent era, with Claude Code and design export
by thegeomaster | 2026-02-28 17:06:03+00:00
Hi HN! We're excited to announce the public beta of Mowgli, a spec-backed, AI-native design canvas for scoping and ideating on products.

The productivity gains unleashed by coding agents have made everything else an unexpected bottleneck. In an effort to make the most out of this new paradigm, we ceded a lot of ground in product thinking, thoughtful UX, and design excellence. In other words, the pace of tooling for deciding what to build has not kept up.

Mowgli is inspired by, in equal parts, Figma and Claude's plan mode. It evolves a detailed specification and designs for every screen and state of the product on an infinite canvas. Owing to this UI, it can quickly mock up new features and flows, redesign existing ones, and show you variations side by side. LLMs are amazing at helping you explore vast solution spaces, but most current tooling focuses on getting narrowly perfect output based on a well-defined spec. We try to bridge that gap with Mowgli.

When you're ready to build, Mowgli offers a .zip export with a SPEC.md and unopinionated design .tsx files for your screens, in a perfect format for coding agents. Or alternatively, full, pixel-perfect export of all screens to Figma.

In this early stage, we support two entrypoints: (1) building a product from scratch through a guided experience, or (2) importing an existing product from Figma. We have a powerful, almost pixel-perfect Figma to code + spec pipeline that works on files of any size - from 0 to 300+ frames.

We're working hard on other ways to get your existing products into Mowgli (and would appreciate hearing about what you would like!)

- Timelapse of making a functional second brain app in Mowgli + Claude Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeOoy8WDmMA

- Sample project designed and specced entirely by Mowgli (demo, no login needed): https://app.mowgli.ai/projects/cmluzdfa0000v01p91l5r61e3?the...

- Sample Figma import of the whole Posthog product, ready for iteration: https://app.mowgli.ai/projects/cmkl0zqng000101lo8yn2gqvd?dem... (thanks PostHog for being radically open with public Figma files!)
by SoftTalker | 2026-02-28 17:06:06+00:00
Yes, buried in the settings of each account on each service.

Parents want the equivalent of being able to let their kid go to the mall and trust that the movie theater will not let them in to an R-rated movie. They don't want to have to call the theater, identify the child, and say "don't let them in to this list of movies".
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-28 17:06:29+00:00
> India did the atrocities against it's own people

Everyone always says this. Taiwanese are ethnically Chinese. Ukrainians aren't real. And India wasn't subjugated by the British, it was part of the British Empire and thus a domestic concern.

> LTTE were Tamils of Indian origin. My original comment said India has never been an aggressor to it's neighbors

If you redefine neighbors to being inside India, and then excuse atrocities inside India, sure. By that definition, nobody has ever been an aggresor to its neighbors.
by desireco42 | 2026-02-28 17:06:43+00:00
This is huge. I built SidianSidekicks and it is based on git because we don't want to lose your notes and thoughts, but convenience of Obsidan Sync are something that makes everything easy. I get this is in beta, and we will stick to git, but love what they are doing and looking forward to it.

Essentially Sync while you can emulate it on desktop, for mobile it is not good experience without Sync. And we want to have and record our thoughts with us all the time.
by jmyeet | 2026-02-28 17:06:46+00:00
The part I disagree with is that is new. It's not. Maybe some people are just now realizing it.

Take the stated tool for this action, the Defense Production Act ("DPA") [1]. It was passed in 1950. What does it cover? Well, lots of things. Notably in 1980 it was expanded to include "energy", I guess in response to the 1970s OPEC Oil Crisis.

The DPA has been invoked many times over 76 years.

Remember during he pandemic when gas prices skyrocketed? As an aside, that was Trump's fault. But given that "energy" is a "material good" under the DPA, the government could've invoked it to tackle high energy prices and didn't.

So, the government is willing to invoke the DPA to protect corporate and wealthy interests, which now includes military applications of AI for imperialist purposes, but never for you, the average citizen. IT's weird how that keeps consistently happening.

The US government has consistently acted to further the interests of US corporations and the ultra-wealthy. You probably just haven't been paying attention until now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950
by holmesworcester | 2026-02-28 17:06:53+00:00
> That’s not their call to make.

Whether they participate voluntarily in a commercial transaction or participate only when compelled to by law (setting aside the question of whether the government does or should have that power) is certainly their call to make.

Just as any individual can decide whether to volunteer, whether to wait until drafted, or whether to refuse to be drafted and face the consequences.

(History shows these decisions, and the rights to make them, are meaningful at scale!)

Finally, governments who expect their leading scientists to do groundbreaking work simply out of fear of imprisonment are NGMI against governments whose scientists believe in their cause.
Show HN: The Terminal for Marketing Decisions
by lasgawe | 2026-02-28 17:07:04+00:00
We're building Velovra to help product and growth teams make data-driven marketing decisions without the noise. It combines your traffic, conversion, revenue data with proprietary datasets and domain-specific foundational models to generate actionable weekly plans, what to fix, what to ignore, and what to double down on.

Think of it as a Bloomberg Terminal, but for marketing decision-making. Every insight is generated by structured decision logic and AI models fine-tuned for marketing contexts, not generic dashboards. The goal: skip the charts, get actionable guidance.

Early days, we're collecting signups for early access and feedback from folks running growth experiments.

Waitlist: https://velovra.com
by readitalready | 2026-02-28 17:07:05+00:00
You two lovebirds should get a room. I'm sure Tel Aviv has some empty hotel rooms available.

But you're going to be shocked, SHOCKED, to find out that 28% of Americans now support Hamas. Not Palestine, but Hamas itself, as the poll was worded by a conservative pollster to specifically avoid support for Palestine: https://harvardharrispoll.com

This doubled over the last 2 years, and that support for Hamas will only grow stronger as the elderly Americans that are still largely against Hamas die off and replaced by younger Americans that support Hamas.
by m132 | 2026-02-28 17:07:11+00:00
I see this "hardware isolation" benefit of virtual machines brought up a lot, but if you look a little deeper into it, putting that label exclusively on VMs is very much unfair.

Just like containers, VMs are very loosely defined and, under the hood, composed of mechanisms that can be used in isolation (paging, trapping, IOMMU vs individual cgroups and namespaces). It's those mechanisms that give you the actual security benefits.

And most of them are used outside of VMs, to isolate processes on a bare kernel. The system call/software interrupt trapping and "regular" virtual memory of gVisor (or even a bare Linux kernel) are just as much of a hardware boundary as the hyper calls and SLAT virtual memory are in the case of VMs, just without the hacks needed to make the isolated side believe it's in control of real hardware. One traps into Sentry, the other traps into QEMU, but ultimately, both are user-space processes running on the host kernel. And they themselves are isolated, using the same very primitives, by the host kernel.

As you clarified here, the real difference lies in what's on the other side of these boundaries. gVisor will probably have some more overhead, at least in the systrap mode, as every trapped call has to go through the host kernel's dispatcher before landing in Sentry. QEMU/KVM has this benefit of letting the guest's user-space call the guest kernel directly, and only the kernel typically can then call QEMU. The attack surface, too, differs a lot in both cases. gVisor is a niche Google project, KVM is a business-critical component of many public cloud providers.

It may sound like I'm nitpicking, but I believe that it's important to understand this to make an informed decision and avoid the mistake of stacking up useless layers, as it is plaguing today's software engineering.

Thanks for your reply and post by the way! I was looking for something like gVisor.
by whatsupdog | 2026-02-28 17:07:11+00:00
Rana sangha took back his territory. And the other conflicts you mention were against fellow "Indians". I put it in quotes, because as you mention there was no India back then. But there was a shared culture and off course religion. I never said Indians were never violent. My original comment was that India (as a whole) has never been the aggressor against it's neighbors. And you still haven't disproved that. I don't know what you are checkmating.
by jfengel | 2026-02-28 17:08:13+00:00
European wars now all feel like a throwback to the 19th century. Even the maximally horrific wars of the 20th century feel outdated in light of trade being so much more efficient.

Economic aggression is a whole new kind of warfare and plenty destructive, but just saying "you stand on some dirt and we want it" is a pure waste.

People keep comparing the war in Ukraine to World War II, but they seem to imagine themselves to be Napoleon. Maybe France could have gotten richer by winning, but today that kind of attack is just lose-lose.

From America, the Yugoslavian war felt like re-fighting some Medieval grudge. I'm sure it made some kind of sense to them at the time.
by seba_dos1 | 2026-02-28 17:08:30+00:00
I juggle between various codebases regularly, some written by me and some not, often come back to things after not even months but years, and in my experience there's very little difference in coming back to a codebase after 6 months or after a week.

The hard part is to gain familiarity with the project's coding style and high level structure (the "intuition" of where to expect what you're looking for) and this is something that comes back to you with relative ease if you had already put that effort in the past - like a song you used to have memorized in the past, but couldn't recall it now after all these years until you heard the first verse somewhere. And of course, memorizing songs you wrote yourself is much easier, it just kinda happens on its own.
by Groxx | 2026-02-28 17:08:36+00:00
Say you're a photo archiving app, and want to quickly show people something in their thumbnails when they fling back several years and tens of thousands of photos, into an area you haven't cached locally yet.

At 16 bytes per image, you can use this for even gigantic libraries with only a few megabytes. It becomes reasonable to just download and keep it all in memory at all times, so you can always show something vaguely representational instantly, rather than nothing but thousands of identical empty boxes. Often this is just a small nice-to-have bit of visual flair, but it can be useful too: I've been happy to have it when I was looking for moon pictures I knew I had taken, on a slow network, and they were super obvious to scroll to without having to wait for hundreds/thousands of thumbnails to download to find the right area. Instead I immediately found the dozen-ish I wanted and only had to download those to figure out the exact file I was looking for. (they're pretty easy to spot when you have a dozen that all look kind of similar in a row, compared to a whole bunch of things with wildly different colors for the rest of the week)

You can do similar things for showing placeholders on images in a website: it's so small you can just keep it right on the database row, and it won't be a performance or space concern on essentially any database, even for millions of users.