MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by instagib | 2026-02-27 07:56:35+00:00
It could be a win-win for everyone and they inform him they will not enforce any non-competes.

“After spending (…) then a little less than two years at Intel Foundry, O'Buckley will now supervise how Qualcomm turns its designs into finished silicon.

Whether or not Intel Foundry will produce any of Qualcomm's future designs is something that remains to be seen.”
by viraptor | 2026-02-27 07:56:47+00:00
I was addressing:

> Interracial marriage isn't going away either

But more generally, all those little book bans in various forms, explicit anti-diversity and xenophobic rules, undermining the right to vote for the specific groups of citizens, etc. add up and point in a specific direction. There are quite a few popular people who would be up for a theocracy, and a lot of openly fascist people down with the brutally repressive part.

Nothing happens out of nowhere. We're at "concentration camps are accepted by many people" level at the moment. The direction of government is obvious, the speed and possible success are still up for debate.
by krisoft | 2026-02-27 07:57:13+00:00
> The hardest bar would be building a system from physical components, having it report coherent subjective experience

So like if i finetune an LLM in a loop to tell you that it is feeling a coherent subjective experience would you accept that?

Does that mean that no dog has ever been conscious, because they cannot report a coherent subjective experience? (Because they can’t report anything at all. Being non-verbal.)

> you’re implicitly holding emergence to a standard of certainty that no scientific theory meets.

Wtf? I asked what kind of proof would you accept. How is that holding anyone to any kind of standard? Let alone one which is too high.
by asmor | 2026-02-27 07:57:25+00:00
> You genuinely think you're not already being surveilled?

"You don't like capitalism, why do you pay for things then?"

> And that Anthropic is somehow responsible with just a few words in a press release?

They seem to believe that they're a pretty important piece. That aside, this is a declaration of intent, it doesn't need to have anything to do with real-world capabilities.

Just because something will happen anyway doesn't mean you shouldn't oppose it.
by hinkley | 2026-02-27 07:57:51+00:00
I first encountered this thirty four years ago and I still hate it. Almost as much as I hate when people ask me to explain it.

Look man, I didn’t invent this stupid shit, and I’m not telling you it’s brilliant, so don’t kill the messenger.

I thought I’d seen somewhere that zsh had a better way to do this but I must have imagined it. Or maybe I’m confusing it with fish.
by bertylicious | 2026-02-27 07:57:55+00:00
"They're driven by values" is meaningless praise unless you qualify what these values are. The Nazis had values too, you know. They were even willing to die for them. One of the core values of the Catholic church is probably compassion. Except for the victims of sexual abuse perpetrated by their clergy.

So what core values led "Dario, Jared, and Sam" to work with a government that just tried to rename the DoD to "department of war" and is acting aggressively imperialist in a way like the US hasn't in a long time.

And who exactly are these "autocratic adversaries" they are mentioning? Does this list include the autocrats the US government is working together with?
by jcynix | 2026-02-27 07:58:03+00:00
Yes, some patterns of speech are recognizable … The "That's LLM generated" pattern is one of those. And while I can understand the motivation behind this, I find it more irritating now than LLM texts, if these contain useful information, which make me curious.

This text made me curious, I liked the approach the author has taken. And it made me think how I would do it. My first idea would be to use ImageMagick to render text and then use ImageMagick's https://imagemagick.org/script/compare.php to somehow calculate the risk of confounding glyphs.

So: Don't be snarky? Maybe we need another rule here, to limit comments on "LLM style"
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by Flatterer3544 | 2026-02-27 07:58:23+00:00
Seeing the >20% stock increase by just mentioning the "Replacing workers for AI", makes me wonder if there isn't a huge pressure from the shareholders to get on the trend no matter what. Short-term baby, rules the world.

But will be interesting how the company is in 2 years, if quality falls and innovation stalls, or if it is as you say that they hit their ceiling and is already in "maintenance mode".
by shinycode | 2026-02-27 07:59:03+00:00
The analogy holds technically, but there’s a missing piece: the brain doesn’t just update weights, it does so guided by experience that matters to a situated, embodied agent with drives and stakes. Sleep consolidation isn’t random cleanup, it’s selective based on salience and emotion.
An LLM updating more efficiently is progress, but it’s still optimizing a loss function. Whether that ever approximates what the brain does during sleep depends entirely on whether you think the what (weight updates) is sufficient, or whether the why (relevance to a lived experience) is what makes it meaningful.
So yes, the resource argument will weaken over time. But the architectural gap may be deeper than just compute.
by jascha_eng | 2026-02-27 07:59:08+00:00
@dang this accounts comments smell like LLM slop. They are mostly on topic and its more claude than chatgpt but it's slop nontheless.

is telling

didn't win... It won ...

Look at their other comments they are also fishy

I know you guys don't want us to call it out because of negativity. But there needs to be awareness in the community, this is the top comment somehow right now. It feels like it happens every other thread. Please do something more rigorous than manually deleting accounts.
by Grom_PE | 2026-02-27 07:59:48+00:00
0 and O, and l and I that look the same in a single font is a crime of modern typography.

Also, I remember 8x16 VGA font that came with KeyRus had some slight differences between Cyrillic and Latin lookalikes,
that brought some strange sense of comfort when reading, and especially typing the letter c, because its Cyrillic lookalike is located on the same key.
by vintermann | 2026-02-27 08:00:52+00:00
But if you were watching them, was there really no freedom from consequences? At least there was the risk of you thinking less of them.

I think that really cruel people want you to know when they can act with impunity, it's part of the appeal to some. The Anthropic people don't seem like that sort, at least. But plenty of horrible people have still not been that sort.
Show HN: A CAPTCHA based on 3D spatial recognition
by Shining_S | 2026-02-27 08:02:01+00:00
I got tired of clicking traffic lights and fire hydrants, so I built a CAPTCHA that asks you to rotate a 3D object to match a target angle.

Try it here: https://spatial-captcha-frontend.vercel.app

The idea is simple — humans are naturally good at understanding 3D space, but bots aren't. A bot would need to figure out the spatial orientation of a 3D model rendered in a WebGL viewport, which is a much harder problem than solving text or image classification CAPTCHAs.

Under the hood it uses Three.js for rendering, quaternion comparison on the backend for angle matching (45° tolerance), and the whole thing drops into any site with two lines of HTML. Verification flow is the same as reCAPTCHA — pass token issued on success, server-side /siteverify endpoint.

Curious what you all think — is 3D spatial reasoning actually a durable defense, or will multimodal models eat this for breakfast in a year?
by Frieren | 2026-02-27 08:02:32+00:00
> Woof. How about we let users decide, thanks.

Are they deciding with full understanding of what does it mean to accept such terms or are they just "accepting" to stop being bothered with pop ups.

The industry loves to give people "a choice" when they know that the average user can be coerced to accept anything.

That is not a real choice, and it should be illegal. User profiling is a crime and should be treated as such.
by romaherman | 2026-02-27 08:02:58+00:00
RaceEngineer is an iOS driving coach app that provides live, F1-style voice coaching during real-world driving sessions.

The app analyzes:

driving behavior (speed patterns, braking, smoothness),
traffic conditions,
weather changes,
and delivers short, radio-style spoken advice in real time.

The goal is to make everyday driving more aware, smooth, and safe — never faster or illegal.
by jimnotgym | 2026-02-27 08:03:06+00:00
> I think it just marks you at not really the target audience for HN

This has some pretty serious connotations. I have been here for an awful long time for someone who is not a target audience, please take a moment of self reflection at that.

I don't think nitpicking is a synonym for 'caring about details'. I am acusing commenters of picking on unimportant details, and I'm acusing them of doing it because it is easier than the more substantive concerns that are further down the thread. It looks superficially clever, but is actually just pedantry.

> because you like the project ?

That kind of statement is intellectually dishonest. I wont be installing this extension, but not because of a name for the buttons that didn't form part of the UI.

> Note that IIRC the guidelines ask you to refrain from

Well, I just checked rather than relying on the my fallible memory and, and I don't believe it does. If you want to police people's comments, perhaps take a little more care.
by iriisatremotely | 2026-02-27 08:03:11+00:00
Good point. What's interesting is that startups with solid remote infrastructure now have access to talent pools that were harder to tap before. Engineers in places like LATAM or Eastern Europe who might have held tight to their FAANG remote gigs are now reconsidering options. The timezone alignment with US companies makes this particularly interesting for early-stage teams that need real-time collaboration but can't afford Bay Area salaries.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-27 08:03:53+00:00
> As if some people are born as cost centers, like it’s the genetic programming for pupillary distance.

I literally said the opposite of it. The classification is descriptive, and frequently reevaluated. It'd not a property of a person, but a function of where they currently are in the org chart.

> If you want to be a profit center, be one.

Sure.

> When the body is in danger of dying should it stop healing the fingernails or the brain?

Nothing is dying, though. The body that is the org needs both kinds of centers to function. Like any other system that resists entropy, it has parts that are sacrificed so other parts are preserved.
by hinkley | 2026-02-27 08:04:10+00:00
This time is different. That’s why we are even discussing it.

The problem is that this time is 20% different, not the 80% people are implying it is. So the same things that killed it last time will kill it again, unless that 20% has gotten us up some stairstep we got stuck on last time. But then the next thing will get us and we will go back to a new and improved version of the old thing.
by aichen_dev | 2026-02-27 08:04:24+00:00
The framing of these layoffs as "AI-driven efficiency" is worth examining through the lens of Goodhart's Law. Once "AI productivity" becomes the stated metric, it stops being a useful measure.

Block's financials tell a more nuanced story: double-digit gross profit growth, strong forward guidance. This isn't a company in distress - it's a company that overhired during ZIRP and is now using the AI narrative as cover for normalization.

The real concern is the second-order effect: when profitable companies lay off 10%+ and frame it as AI, it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy where every company feels pressure to do the same regardless of whether AI actually changed their productivity. We're watching a coordination game play out in real time.
by aichen_dev | 2026-02-27 08:04:35+00:00
The SQLite comparison someone mentioned is spot-on. SQLite has kept TH3 (their 100% branch coverage test suite) proprietary for years as a monetization strategy, and nobody bats an eye.

Whether tldraw's issue was a joke or not, it highlights a real tension: open source maintainers are watching AI companies train on their code, tests, and documentation - the very artifacts that make software reliable - and then use it to generate competing implementations. Tests are arguably more valuable than the code itself because they encode the specification and edge cases.

I suspect we'll see more projects adopt a split model: open source the runtime, keep the validation suite proprietary. It's a natural response when your test suite becomes a training signal for competitors.
by tabemonooo | 2026-02-27 08:04:43+00:00
Below, please find your bio. As you know, none of this means anything. What the hell are "Royal", "Addepar", "Butter Payments"? Do you hear yourself? Do you enjoy saying the N-word? Is that why you feel more comfortable on X than Twitter?

"Founder of WithCoverage

Previously I co-founded Opendoor, Royal, and Fresh Prints. I also helped get Addepar, Butter Payments and Villa Homes off the ground"
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-02-27 08:04:56+00:00
> I think the "somehow" is the extremely integrated app store. Previously, if there were any app stores, they didn't really matter. It didn't hurt you not to be in them because hardly any users were either. But today it's basically just a technicality to say that you don't have to be in the official app store, and not even theoretically/technically true in many cases.

I don't think this in itself is the cause. Basically every Linux distribution has an "official repository" which is really just an app store by another name, but the system is still open. Having an integrated distribution channel is really useful!
by runtheway94 | 2026-02-27 08:05:11+00:00
Even if you consider 50% of them are H1Bs, and out of them even majority don’t find jobs in 60 days (it’s actually more since they are keeping them on payroll for 5 months) that’s still a low number. Couple with the fact that not all would like to join body shops. I understand your frustration but I don’t think stopping H1B transfers is the solution.
by vkou | 2026-02-27 08:07:10+00:00
> There are bakery sections at grocery stores

There are, and most of them don't have good bread. (Baguettes are about the only good bread that you can reliably expect to find in them. Sometimes they have San Francisco-style sourdough, which in my experience, tastes like someone dumped a shot of lemon vinegar into it. Just because a bread uses sourdough starter doesn't mean it needs to taste sour. I feel much the same way about hops and beer.)

Regularly visiting the bakery is, for reasons I've mentioned, a lot of friction for one purchase.

My closest one carries... Weird specialty hipster breads (because it is more focused on tarts and pastries and sweets - bread is just an afterthought for it).

The one I'd go to, if my closest grocery weren't stocking them is way out of my way. I would not be making that trip twice a week.
by kennywinker | 2026-02-27 08:08:07+00:00
> The moral culpability for collateral damage lies with the terrorists who kidnapped and held civilian hostages, and then fought to prevent their rescue, not with the rescuers.

So, if your neighbour kidnaps a canadian citizen, and mark carney blows up your entire neighbourhood - that’s on your neighbour? Really? You believe that? Like, yeah - we would all wish our neighbour hadn’t kidnapped someone, but i’m pretty sure the moral culpability for murdering an entire neigbourhood is on the ones who sent the bombs.

But ok - the moral culpability is on the kidnappers. Let’s roll with that. So by that logic, it seems like israel is responsible for everyone who was killed on oct 7th. I mean, they were holding thousands of palestinian civilians without charges prior to the attacks. That seems like, again by your logic, that it justifies the killing of israeli civilians

So pick one: oct 7th was israel’s fault and hamas is culpable for the deaths that have followed, OR oct 7th was hamas’ fault, and israel is culpable for the deaths that have followed.

Oct 7th and the deaths that followed both being on hamas is not a logically consistant position.
by shinycode | 2026-02-27 08:08:23+00:00
Yeah you’re raising three good points and they all land.
On the finetuned LLM: you’re right, that criterion was flawed. A system trained to report experience proves nothing about whether experience is present, which is actually the core of the hard problem. No behavioral output alone can confirm inner experience. That applies to LLMs, and technically to other humans too.
On dogs, also a fair correction. We don’t actually require verbal report to attribute consciousness to animals, we use behavioral and physiological evidence. So "coherent verbal report" was too narrow.

Better criterion: a system whose overall architecture and behavior is consistent with experience, not just one that says the right words.

On the standard of proof: that was a rhetorical deflection and you’re right to call it out. You asked a genuine question and got it turned back on you. And you’re pointing at something real: in science, strong correlation is not accepted as proof when stricter evidence is achievable. The reason we settle for correlation here isn’t because it’s sufficient, it’s because subjective experience may make stronger proof structurally inaccessible. But it’s also worth noting that scientific consensus has a poor track record of admitting this honestly. Dominant paradigms tend to defend themselves long past the point where the cracks are visible, physicalism on consciousness is no exception. The confidence with which emergence is presented often reflects institutional momentum as much as evidence.
by rustyhancock | 2026-02-27 08:08:30+00:00
Surely this is a powerful signal to divest from Anthropic if you don't live in the US? There's a lot of here's what we support you do to foreigners but no way can you do it in the US?

I can never tell how much of this is puffery from Anthropic.

I do think they like to overstate their power.
by p0w3n3d | 2026-02-27 08:08:32+00:00
But marking someone as foe based on their first comment might be very misleading, not to speak of good practice of discussion despite of agreement or disagreement. I'm coming to the stage of my life that I try (sometimes hardly) to speak with people with which I disagree. It's my crusade against cancel culture. People are more than one dimensional and even if we disagree on one two dimensions we might agree on others, or just play D&D together sometime
by Throwagainaway | 2026-02-27 08:08:47+00:00
I think I am paraphrasing some hackernews discussion that I saw about it prior but The problem with gandhi was that he was so focused in idealism and that translates into somehow a utilitarian line of thinking to this thing which is of course a very despicable and vile thing for him to do.

There have been quite a lot discussions about this itself on Gandhi here on Hackernews as well.

Gandhi itself became the face of satyagrah movement considering he started it but that movement only had values because of many important people joining in.

Here is a quote from Martin Luther King Jr that I found about satyagrah from wikipedia

Like most people, I had heard of Gandhi, but I had never studied him seriously. As I read I became deeply fascinated by his campaigns of nonviolent resistance. I was particularly moved by his Salt March to the Sea and his numerous fasts. The whole concept of Satyagraha (Satya is truth which equals love, and agraha is force; Satyagraha, therefore, means truth force or love force) was profoundly significant to me. As I delved deeper into the philosophy of Gandhi, my skepticism concerning the power of love gradually diminished, and I came to see for the first time its potency in the area of social reform. ... It was in this Gandhian emphasis on love and nonviolence that I discovered the method for social reform that I had been seeking.[25]

It's better to wish for more satyagrahis to be named but I don't think that the western media might catch on to it.

Ghaffar Khan, Sarojini Naidu, Vinoba Bhave are all people who I think have a simple life history while being from different religions and castes and genders while adhering to the philosophy of satyagrah.

That being said, Satyagrah might not work in the current contexts because Britain was only able to rule India with the help of Indians which was why satyagrah movement was so successful. But if, the govt can get hands onto autonomous drones capable of killing civilians and mass surveilance then satyagrah might not work as much in the near future

(the two things Anthropic is denying to provide to the DOD, vis-a-vis the article itself)

I don't think Anthropic is a great company, it certainly has its flaws but I do think that it is very admirable of them to stand even when the govt.s is essentially saying to follow them or they will literally kill the business with the 3-4 national security laws that they are proposing to invoke on Anthropic.

I do urge to say satyagrah or mention other peaceful protests because usually whenever people talk about gandhi now, this discussion is bound to come which really alienates from the original thing at times. It was the collective efforts of the blood of so so many Indian leaders for India to gain independence.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-27 08:09:01+00:00
I deeply oppose MAGA but the idea of winning through the take over of the cultural institution - school, universities, the media - has been theorized by Gramsci followers like Marcuse and Horkheimer.

In a lot of way, what we are witnessing in a counter movement swinging opposite to the heavy push for critical theory in the public sphere. Critical theory is not neutral. It is teleological in nature.

Schools have been a battle ground for decades I fear.
by versteegen | 2026-02-27 08:09:53+00:00
> They pragmatically changed their views of safety just recently, so those values for which they would burn at the stake are very fluid.

Yes it was a pragmatic change, no it was not a change in their values. The commentary here on HN about Anthropic's RSP change was completely off the mark. They "think these changes are the right thing for reducing AI risk, both from Anthropic and from other companies if they make similar changes", as stated in this detailed discussion by Holden Karnofsky, who takes "significant responsibility for this change":

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HzKuzrKfaDJvQqmjh/responsibl...

> I strongly think today’s environment does not fit the “prisoner’s dilemma” model. In today’s environment, I think there are companies not terribly far behind the frontier that would see any unilateral pause or slowdown as an opportunity rather than a warning.

> What I didn’t expect was that RSPs (at least in Anthropic’s case) would come to be seen as hard unilateral commitments (“escape clauses” notwithstanding) that would be very difficult to iterate on.
by wolvesechoes | 2026-02-27 08:10:53+00:00
It is highly interactive and dynamic, yet performant. And it is not only about scientific computing, for almost any application can take advantage of interactive, modifiable system, where you can explore your state at any point. In others, more static langs good debuggers help with this to lesser or larger extend, but it is not the same from my experience.

So better question is: in which circumstances would you choose Julia over more mainstream-y alternative like Clojure? And here scientific and numerical angle comes to play.

At the same time I think Julia is failed attempt, with unsolvable problems, but it is a different topic.