MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tovej | 2026-02-28 13:33:25+00:00
So you think it's strange that defended military positions suffered fewer casualties than a music festival? The casualty numbers don't disprove the fact that this was a military operation targeting military targets. You can look this up.

The Hannibal directive was also used, which lead to an unknown amount of casualties caused by Israeli forces. Israel has of course not investigated this.

But that's neither here nor there. The main point is that this attack had military targets, and civilian deaths were not the main purpose. That does not excuse the civilian deaths, but it does mean this is not "outside war".

You're trying to minimize the genocide and decades of violence from the colonial murder machine by inventing a new category to fit the October 7th attacks into to draw attention away from a genocide.

That's very transparent.

Du är inte så smart som.du tror, Jan. Det är ganska uppenbart att du är en högerextrem nationalist och rasist. Det går inte att gömma sig bakom tekniska argument när du klart stöder ett folkmord.
by Cyph0n | 2026-02-28 13:33:31+00:00
> that Israel's conduct warrants scrutiny.

Was this not your choice of words?

> On asymmetry: you've accidentally made the case for holding Israel to a higher standard.

Huh? Are you replying to someone else?

Israel has killed 10s of thousands of civilians, a large portion of which are children. This along with many other factors - in addition to the higher standard expected from a sovereign state fighting an occupied people - is the reason we call it a genocide.
by cies | 2026-02-28 13:33:46+00:00
US sanctions, US/Moss instigates, makes the Iranis desparate. Irani regime (that is the result of US intervention decades ago) digs in and toughens up.

People die in the streets.

Who's to blame? The Irani regime? C'mon...

It's like crashing your car into a tree and and blaming the tree.

Also: you really think the US/Moss care about dead Iranis in the streets, other than it being a useful pretext to go to war?
by irickt | 2026-02-28 13:34:40+00:00
We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for as yet we have heard only of the obligation imposed by society that it should exist: to be truthful means using the customary metaphors—in moral terms: the obligation to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie herd-like in a style obligatory for all. Now man of course forgets that this is the way things stand for him. Thus he lies in the manner indicated, unconsciously and in accordance with habits which are centuries' old; and precisely by means of this unconsciousness and forgetfulness he arrives at his sense of truth.

Nietzsche.

On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense
https://web.archive.org/web/20180625190456/http://oregonstat...
by xpe | 2026-02-28 13:34:44+00:00
Did you ask these too: what was the full context? To what degree was Anthropic aware in advance? What was their action space (their options)? What would be the consequences of their next actions?

And of course: and what sources are you using?

I get it: moral oversimplification is tempting for many people. I understand digging in takes time, but this situation warrants extra consideration.

Ethics is complicated and much harder than programming. Ethical reasoning is a muscle you have to train. Generally speaking, it isn’t the kind of skill that you build in isolation. At the very least, a lot of awareness and introspection is required.

I’d like to think that HN is a fairly intelligent community. But I don’t assume too much. Going based on what I’ve seen here generally, I see a lot of shallow thinking. So I think it’s a reasonable concern to think many of us here have a pretty large blind spot (statistically) when it comes to “softer” skills like philosophy and ethics.

This is not me “blaming” individuals; our industry has strong bias and selection criteria. This is my overall empirical take based on participating here for years.

Still, I’d like to think we are sufficiently intelligent and we have sufficient means and time to fill the gaps. But we have to prove it. I suggest we start modeling and demonstrating the kind of behavior and reasoning that we want to see in the world.

You can probably tell that I lean heavily towards consequentialist ethics, but I don’t discount other kinds of ethical thinking. I just want everyone to think hard harder. Seek more context. Ask what you would do in their shoes and why. Recognize the incentives and constraints.

Many people are tempted to judge others. That’s human. I suggest tamping that down until you’ve really marinated in the full context.

Also, each of us probably has more influence with your own actions than merely judging others.
Show HN: AdaptGauge – I found that adding few-shot examples can make LLMs worse
by shuntaro-okuma | 2026-02-28 13:34:47+00:00
I tested 8 LLMs across 4 tasks at different few-shot counts (0, 1, 2, 4, 8) and found three patterns where adding examples actively degrades performance:

1. Peak regression: Gemini 3 Flash scored 64% at 4-shot, then crashed back to 33% at 8-shot
2. Ranking reversal: The zero-shot leader dropped to third once examples were added
3. Selection method matters: Switching from hand-picked to TF-IDF examples collapsed a model from 50%+ to 35%

This aligns with recent research (Tang et al. 2025 "over-prompting", NDSS 2025 vulnerability detection drops, Chroma Research "context rot").

I built AdaptGauge to detect these patterns automatically. It tracks learning curves across shot counts and flags collapse with pattern classification (immediate, gradual, peak regression).

Open source, MIT licensed. Pre-computed demo results included so you can see the patterns without API keys.

Article with full results: https://shuntaro-okuma.medium.com/when-more-examples-make-yo...

Repo: https://github.com/ShuntaroOkuma/adapt-gauge-core
by lapcat | 2026-02-28 13:34:49+00:00
What are the consequences, if any, of OpenAI lying to you in private?

Of course you could quit... later. But presumably you would quit now if OpenAI agreed to the contractual terms that Anthropic rejected? So OpenAI benefits from keeping you around longer.

Theoretically you could sue OpenAI in the future, but what would be the monetary damages? Ironically, they are paying you now, and you would be suing them for... continuing to pay you. If anything, if they're lying, then from a moral perspective you should return your compensation to them, or at least donate it to charity.

Perhaps you could sue them for reputational loss. But again ironically, OpenAI is in effect protecting you from reputational loss by lying to you. You still believe that you're not doing anything immoral. Your only reputational loss, if OpenAI is lying, would be that you are a dupe, which would be your own fault, not theirs.

As it is now, you appear to be spreading propaganda for OpenAI, and the company doesn't even need to go on public record.

Let me put it this way: is there any reason whatsoever to give Sam Altman the benefit of the doubt? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman#Removal_and_reinsta...
by okanat | 2026-02-28 13:34:53+00:00
Flatpak is basically running an isolated separate distro. A software inside a Flatpak has to communicate with the outside world to do anything useful which is yet another API surface that needs to be maintained and it will be dropped just like gtk2 when people just don't want to maintain it.

I think the way the Linux ecosystem works is fundamentally against maintaining old binaries unless they are a text-only program.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-28 13:35:02+00:00
And I have gone to rural DMVs and they were nice and helpful and polite. Absolutely not what most people experience just due to where population is located and how the more urban DMVs tend to be.

Listen, I'm sure if all you do is straight down the middle of whatever the DMV thinks a median peasant does, then I'm sure it works fine.

But on that same note, if all you do is sign up and then just keep paying them money forever, Comcast works fine too.

Neither of these organizations works worth a shit outside the default path. But only one of them will threaten to really screw up your life over it.
by retsibsi | 2026-02-28 13:35:02+00:00
> My understanding is that the OpenAI deal disallows domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons,

In that case, what on earth just happened?

The government was so intent on amending the Anthropic deal to allow 'all lawful use', at the government's sole discretion, that it is now pretty much trying to destroy Anthropic in retaliation for refusing this. Now, almost immediately, the government has entered into a deal with OpenAI that apparently disallows the two use cases that were the main sticking points for Anthropic.

Do you not see something very, very wrong with this picture?

At the very least, OpenAI is clearly signaling to the government that it can steamroll OpenAI on these issues whenever it wants to. Or do you believe OpenAI will stand firm, even having seen what happened to Anthropic (and immediately moved in to profit from it)?

> and that OpenAI is asking for the same terms for other AI companies (so that we can continue competing on the basis of differing services and not differing scruples)

If OpenAI leadership sincerely wanted this, they just squandered the best chance they could ever have had to make it happen! Actual solidarity with Anthropic could have had a huge impact.
Ask HN: Why aren't we using "semantic tokenizers"/codebooks for text?
by gavinray | 2026-02-28 13:36:05+00:00
BPE tokenizes subwords efficiently, but it has zero awareness of semantic structure -- it's purely optimizing vocabulary/sequence length tradeoffs.

I read LanDiff [0], where they train a "semantic tokenizer" with codebooks that compresses 3D visual features into a 1D discrete token stream, Then train an LM over those semantic tokens (~x14,000 compression vs raw visual features). The results beat Sora and models x3 its size.

So why can't we do the analogous thing for text? Learn a discrete semantic codebook over spans/phrases, reason over that compressed sequence, decode back to natural language.

Is it that:

- text is already a high-density symbolic representation so gains are marginal
- "semantic fidelity" is too hard to define for a lossy text codec
- scaling raw tokens keeps working so nobody's motivated
- some combination of the above

I think that the recent "neural codec" research (Meta BLT, DeepMind 2024) is somewhat similar to this, just applied to raw codec/signal data?

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.04606
by codethief | 2026-02-28 13:36:06+00:00
Weird. I have used Perplexity various times over the years and every single time it was confidently wrong about a good 50% of what it was saying. In particular, it would cite references that said the exact opposite of what it claimed they said, or references that had nothing to do with the topic at hand and were only tangentially related, etc. My coworkers have reported the same, so it's definitely not just me.

In short, I really don't know where Perplexity's reputation of "being accurate" comes from. It's anything but.
by pjjpo | 2026-02-28 13:36:06+00:00
Salts are fixed - so if you salt with, i.e. the email address, any attacker will also do that. The key derivation strategy of password managers is already known. Especially in a browser, salting strategy cannot be hidden so it's a known factor. As sad as it is, for those without good hygiene, either they are at risk of compromise, or tie identity to a device and are at risk of losing access entirely. There is currently no magic solution.
Show HN: CarbonLint – Open-source real-time energy&carbon profiler for software
by nishalk | 2026-02-28 13:36:21+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm excited to share CarbonLint, an open-source tool I've been building to help developers measure the actual energy consumption and carbon emissions of their software in real-time.

While there are great tools for tracking CPU/RAM, there aren't many accessible ways to translate those hardware metrics into actual environmental impact natively on your local machine.

How it works: • It's built with Rust & Tauri (v2) for a tiny footprint. • It monitors CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network activity of specific processes. • It calculates energy usage based on user-configurable hardware profiles (e.g., Apple M-series, Intel, AMD). • It translates energy into CO2-equivalent emissions using real-time, region-specific power grid carbon intensity data. • Available natively across Windows (.exe/.msi), macOS (.dmg), Linux (.deb/.AppImage/.rpm), and Android (.apk).

Key features:

Global keyboard shortcuts to start/stop profiling sessions instantly.
UI runs quietly in the system tray.
Comprehensive session reports detailing exactly how much energy a specific software run consumed.
The code is fully open-source (MIT), and everything runs locally on your machine. I'd love to hear your feedback on the architecture, the energy estimation models, or any feature requests you might have.

Repo: https://github.com/nishal21/CarbonLint Website: https://nishal21.github.io/CarbonLint/

Thanks!
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2026-02-28 13:36:27+00:00
Yeah, it's a form of nuclear deterrence, one that does not need an actual nuclear weapon to sort of, kinda work.

The problem I have with this doctrine is that if it's supposed to deter an opponent who already has a nuclear deterrent, they may decide their deterrent is not so deterring anymore and actively go and use it against you.

The whole idea of nuclear deterrence relies on all parties being rational and sensible about nuclear weapons use, but I don't see a lot of rationality in the current eventuality.
Show HN: Paster – A keyboard-first clipboard manager for Vim users
by luanderock | 2026-02-28 13:37:44+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve tried just about every clipboard manager for macOS, but I've always ran into the same two issues: either they were heavy Electron apps that felt sluggish, or they required me to take my hands off
the keyboard to find what I needed.
Raycast is what I used most of the time, but it's slow in loading screenshots and is search first, meaning I needed to leave the loved home row to scroll down through items.

I built Paster because I wanted something that felt like an extension of my terminal and had instant load of the content being copied. It's written in Rust to keep the latency as low as possible and uses a local SQLite database for history.
It's completely private and does not have any telemetry, your data is your own. It does reach to it's domain to validate the license.

Some specific choices I made:
- Navigation: I mapped it to j/k and / for search. If you use Vim or a terminal, it should feel like second nature.
- Privacy: I’m not a fan of cloud-syncing my clipboard. Everything stays local on your machine.
- Quick look: I've added a nice little bonus feature to view each clipboard item in a larger quick look window. Pretty handy for screenshots and offers syntax highlighting for text.

It’s currently a paid app with a 7-day trial. I’m really curious what the community thinks about the "Vim-for-everything" approach.
For transparency sake, it's built with help from AI (Gemini) mostly for UI stuff which requires lots of boiler plate.

It's Macos only for now, I do intend to work on a Linux version but no promises.
by onetom | 2026-02-28 13:38:13+00:00
i second the eat package recommendation.

there are some quirks with it though, given it has a couple of input modes.

i think everyone should read its fantastic documentation 1st to avoid frustration, instead of just falling back to the local minima of trying to use their pimped up shell inside eat as is.

e.g. i had a 2 line starship prompt enabled in my macOS zsh and inside eat it made the screen scroll back and forth by half a page randomly as i was just typing regular characters at the prompt.

M-<left>/<right> moves the Emacs point in semi-char mode, but the underlying shell is not aware of it, so the next character input will happen at an incorrect position. M-f/b works though.

There is an auto-line-mode, which might be a good compromise, but i haven't tried it yet.
by reactordev | 2026-02-28 13:39:18+00:00
This is how Trump plans to end elections, why the government is so hell bent on owning AI. So they can use it as a propaganda tool. People will see it before Nov. We are at a crossroads. On one path, we continue to evolve AI with reckless abandon like we have, or, we put constraints and morality in place while others won’t. Which do you think? You can NEVER put the genie back in the bottle.

EU has their own groups using it for propaganda too.
Show HN: MemoryKit – Persistent memory layer for AI agents URL
by memorykit | 2026-02-28 13:39:53+00:00
Most AI agents forget everything when a session ends. MemoryKit is a lightweight Python library that gives any AI agent persistent memory across sessions.
Three core methods: remember(), recall(), compress(). Works locally for free with sentence-transformers, or with OpenAI embeddings. No external database required.
Built this over a weekend as a side project. Still early — would love feedback from people building AI agents.
by jleyank | 2026-02-28 13:40:02+00:00
Perhaps on dry roads in clear weather on well-mapped terrain. I suspect when the snow/fog/glop hits or it's off California freeways there's going to be a step-function re: performance. I've seen this with human drivers who are/aren't experienced in northern-bad-weather, so why should AI be any different as it reflects its training set.
by thrance | 2026-02-28 13:40:08+00:00
American "activists" (didn't know being anti-genocide was a fringe belief but here we are) clearly won the narrative. Most Americans now oppose what Israel is doing in Gaza and want all support to this country to stop ASAP. This support for Israel cost Harris the election, as shown in their latest post-mortem of the 2024 election, and is making Trump and his administration ever more unpopular.
by glenstein | 2026-02-28 13:40:09+00:00
>Given the bot started printing the Western consensus first, I bet $10 it was trained by distilling ChatGPT or Gemini.

To your point I've seen something similar with Deepseek, generic answers start printing and then, in plain sight, removed and replaced with a non committal message along the lines of "I don't have access to that information."
by derbOac | 2026-02-28 13:40:31+00:00
That's a good point, although I think it depends on how you define "power". I think in a lot of ethical discourse, power is defined more broadly in terms of who has more leverage in a situation. It doesn't have to correspond to a political position or position of physical authority necessarily.

In the US at least I think the power distinction is dangerously becoming lost. Traditionally, there was a trade that was made for power: you have more power, you give up privacy to maintain transparency, and you are held to a higher standard. Frequently it seems arguments are made that people in power should enjoy the same standards as others with less power, which was not part of the trade.

I agree with you that there is an importance of cultural norms at every level, but I do think power matters, as it is key to understanding conflicts of interest and permeates every level of society.
by wolvesechoes | 2026-02-28 13:40:31+00:00
It doesn't have the same kind of high quality tooling, period. People on the internet are not going around saying "look at Rust, such a young language but already has such awesome tooling like cargo, can't wait to see what we are going to have in few years from now". They just simply claim that Rust tooling is superior to anything else.

Because only thing they know are CLI-based workflows for cavemen.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2026-02-28 13:40:32+00:00
Well, it's plausibly justified because the US considers a strong regional ally like Israel a valuable asset to have in the Middle East and if Israel is a regional hegemon [1] then all the better.

There have been many arguments that the US' support of Israel goes against US interests [2], but that really makes no sense. It's not just Trump who has to be convinced to start a war for Israel, it's the entire defense establishment in the US.

And also in Israel. If fighting half a dozen wars all at once was really that bad for Israel, surely, someone would have put a stop in it.

Surely.

_____________

[1] Got that term from J. Mearsheimer, if you were wondering.

[2] Particularly the Tucker Carlson - Judge Napolitano - Col. Daniel Davies continuum of mostly conservative podcast hosts. Or those are the ones I follow closely anyway. They're all convinced it's all "because of the lobby".
by bell-cot | 2026-02-28 13:41:01+00:00
Not an anthropologist - but instead of "How farming promotes inequality", I'd frame it as "How resource-producing capital promotes inequality". It could be livestock in a migratory herding society, or boats and nets when those were critical for fishing, or whatever.

> In contemporary Western societies, unigeniture is either considered wrong or is illegal; we no longer differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate offspring...

At best, those are common ideals in Western society. Try talking to an old attorney who does family law.
Show HN: RTS with known stars and exoplanets can now be played in the browser
by apseren | 2026-02-28 13:41:34+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm a solo dev working on a space RTS game set in the Milky Way galaxy, containing currently known stars and exoplanets with their real characteristics, the remaining stars are procedurally generated.

In the online mode, all players are in the same universe, and the world is persistent. You compete with other players to take back the Solar System and end your exile. Players can always retreat to the periphery to regain strength and rebuild their fleets as needed.

It also includes an procedural spaceship generator that allows creating your own spaceship designs. Spaceships visuals don't change their stats. This way players won't have to use spaceships they don't like due to superior stats.

Spaceships keep operating even when the player is offline: production spaceships keep harvesting resources, and combat spaceships automatically engage invading spaceships. To allow players to mount proper defenses against large attacks, they can build disruptors to slow down travel from enemies to their systems for up to 24 hours.

Now it can be played in the browser:

https://stardustexile.com
by retsibsi | 2026-02-28 13:42:01+00:00
> So yes, if the supply chain risk is that anthropic might suddenly pull out of military projects and leave people depending on them high and dry, this seems like an appropriate response.

But it is so much broader than that! He's saying that if any part of a company does any business with the US military, said company cannot do any business with Anthropic. How could that possibly be necessary to avoid the risk "that anthropic might suddenly pull out of military projects"?
by dijit | 2026-02-28 13:42:45+00:00
"What was different this time was that it was Israel who was the victim."

You've just described the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust [1] as a blip
because, in your accounting, it was Israel's turn to absorb one.

The "continuum" framing doesn't hold up numerically either. In non-war years, OCHA
records roughly 100–200 Palestinian deaths annually at Israeli hands [2]. Hamas killed
1,139 people before lunchtime. That's not a blip in a continuum, it's five to ten
years of equivalent deaths in eight hours.

The youngest victim was 14 hours old [3]. The oldest was a 92-year-old Holocaust
survivor [3]. None of those facts change based on who you think had it coming.

[1] https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/museu...

[2] https://www.ochaopt.org/content/casualties-thousands-killed-...

[3] https://www.yahoo.com/news/youngest-october-7-victim-just-00...