MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by YZF | 2026-02-28 21:09:46+00:00
Huckabee speaks for himself and maybe some Christians.

I would say a lot of Jewish people and Israelis get upset at what you're saying and so maybe our reply will be a bit adversarial. Here's trying to be more factual (I used Gemini to research though I'm personally familiar with these figures as well).

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013): The highly influential former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel. While his political party (Shas) later shifted rightward, Rabbi Yosef issued a landmark religious ruling in the late 1970s stating that Israel is permitted to cede land in exchange for a genuine peace treaty, prioritizing the sanctity of life over holding territory.

Rabbi Menachem Froman (1945–2013): An Orthodox rabbi and resident of a West Bank settlement who famously engaged in direct dialogue with Palestinian leaders, including the PLO and Hamas. He supported the creation of a Palestinian state, arguing that shared religious reverence for the land should be the foundation for peace rather than an obstacle.

Rabbi Michael Melchior: An Orthodox rabbi and former Israeli cabinet minister who leads the Mosaica religious peace initiative. He actively works on "track-two" diplomacy, fostering dialogue between Israeli rabbis and Palestinian imams.

Rabbi Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903–1994): A highly influential Orthodox Jewish philosopher and scientist. Immediately following the 1967 Six-Day War, he became a vocal opponent of the military occupation of the Palestinian territories, warning that it would corrupt Israeli society and Judaism itself.

Rabbis for Human Rights: An active Israeli organization made up of over a hundred Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist rabbis. They physically protect Palestinian farmers, advocate against settler violence, and largely support a two-state solution based on the biblical mandate to protect the vulnerable.

On the question of the applicability of religion: "Does Judaism Mandate a Specific Political Solution?

No. Judaism predates the concept of the modern nation-state, so the religion does not explicitly mandate a "one-state" or "two-state" political framework. Instead, different religious camps emphasize competing core values within Jewish law (Halakha) and scripture to justify their political stances"

There's a lot more to explore and I encourage you do that on your own.
Show HN: RunbookAI – Hypothesis-driven incident investigation agent(open source)
by EmTekker | 2026-02-28 21:10:06+00:00
RunbookAI is an open-source CLI agent that investigates production incidents using hypothesis-driven reasoning. When an alert fires, it forms ranked hypotheses, runs targeted queries against your infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, CloudWatch), and systematically narrows to root cause.

Key design decisions:

- Hypothesis branching/pruning instead of broad exploration. Forms 3-5 hypotheses, tests each with causal queries, prunes dead ends, branches deeper on strong evidence (max depth: 4).
- Every mutation requires human approval. Full audit trail of what the agent thought, what it queried, and why.
- Pulls context from your runbooks, postmortems, and architecture docs (Confluence, Notion, Google Drive, or local markdown). The agent doesn't investigate in a vacuum.
- Deep Claude Code integration — auto-injects relevant operational context into coding sessions via MCP.

Try the demo without any API keys:
npx @runbook-agent/runbook demo

GitHub: https://github.com/Runbook-Agent/RunbookAI

Would love to hear any questions/feedback!
by patcon | 2026-02-28 21:10:30+00:00
"people" is doing a lot of work here. "people" is 99.9% of the world population that will be amazed and feel transformed when this hits scale. No one will care that the 0.1% are unimpressed and condescending about their increasingly-less-relevant expertise, and they won't care that you think it's made of simply carbon-based ingredients

(yes, I'm a biochemist-technologist, and I'm alluding to how the whole biosphere is made of stupid simple things, mostly the same shit in repeating patterns, but that the right combination of them, with the right transition moment and energetics, it changes the whole ecology)
by andai | 2026-02-28 21:10:50+00:00
I move the security boundary one or two layers up: the Unix user (on main machine I run them as a `agent` user, so they can't read or write my files), or even better, just give it a separate machine. (VPSes are now popular for this purpose, as are Mac Minis. My choice is $50 Thinkpad :)

That said I am a fan of Nanoclaw, and especially the philosophy of "it should be small enough to understand, modify and extend itself." I think that's a very good idea, for many reasons.

The idea of giving different agents access to different subsets of information is interesting. That's the Principle of Least Privilege. That seems like a decent idea. Each individual agent can get prompt injected, but the blast radius is limited to what that specific agent has access to.

Still, I find it amusing that people are running this with strict rulesets, in Docker, on a VM, and then they hook it up to their GMail account (and often with random discount LLMs to boot!). It's like, we need to be clear about what the actual threat model is there. It comes down to trust and privacy.

You can start by thinking, "if the LLM were perfectly reliable (not susceptible to random error or prompt injection) and perfectly private (running on my own hardware)", what would you be comfortable letting it do. And then you remove these hypothetical perfect qualities one by one to arrive at what we have now: slightly dodgy, moderately prompt-injectable cloud services. Each one changing the picture in a slightly different way.

I don't really see a solution to the Security/Privacy <-> Convenience tension, except "wait for them to get smarter" (mostly done) and "accept loss of privacy" (also mostly done, sadly!)
by mksglu | 2026-02-28 21:11:18+00:00
Right, context-mode doesn't change how MCP tool definitions get loaded into context. That's the "input side" problem that Cloudflare's Code Mode tackles by compressing tool schemas. Context-mode handles the "output side," the data that comes back from tool calls. That said, if you're writing your own MCPs, you could apply the same pattern directly. Instead of returning raw payloads, have your MCP server return a compact summary and store the full output somewhere queryable. Context-mode just generalizes that so you don't have to rebuild it per server.
by buremba | 2026-02-28 21:11:44+00:00
> but it only works if the proxy itself is hardened against prompt injection.

Yes, I'm experimenting using a small model like Haiku to double check if the request looks good. It adds quite a bit of latency but it might be the right approach.

Honestly; it's still pretty much like early days of self driving cars. You can see the car can go without you supervising it but still you need to keep an eye on where it's going.
by saghm | 2026-02-28 21:12:27+00:00
> I think it's likely people could read their original article and come to the wrong conclusion about that.

Fair enough; I think that's the part that I was missing. I might have been biased from having looked into this for Python recently and having a fairly high confidence in what those extra steps are, which could have made me overlook that others might not realize that those extra steps are even possible.
by mksglu | 2026-02-28 21:12:27+00:00
Haven't looked at rtk closely but from the description it sounds like it works at the CLI output level, trimming stdout before it reaches the model. Context-mode goes a bit further since it also indexes the full output into a searchable FTS5 database, so the model can query specific parts later instead of just losing them. It's less about trimming and more about replacing a raw dump with a summary plus on-demand retrieval.
by mksglu | 2026-02-28 21:12:54+00:00
That's true, Claude Code does truncate large outputs now. But 25k tokens is still a lot, especially when you're running multiple tools back to back. Three or four Playwright snapshots or a batch of GitHub issues and you've burned 100k tokens on raw data you only needed a few lines from. Context-mode typically brings that down to 1-2k per call while keeping the full output searchable if you need it later.
by mullingitover | 2026-02-28 21:13:01+00:00
Iran is already a parliamentary democracy, the aspect that’s criticized is the fact that candidates must be approved by their religious council. The Ayatollah didn’t/doesn’t exercise direct executive control over the country, so his removal wouldn’t create an immediate leadership vacuum.

For as much as the far right in the US likes to criticize Iran, ultimately their only real complaint about their ‘theocracy with democratic characteristics’ is that it isn’t Christian.
by fuoqi | 2026-02-28 21:13:01+00:00
>The article is adamant that "this is not printing money," and then gives very technical explanations that are honestly difficult to untangle.

Because it's BS. In the modern fiat system the most basic form of money printing is expansion of the central bank's balance sheet. It creates the "base money". Sure, technically the government issues debt to "borrow" the new money, but everyone familiar with the system understands the the debt will never be paid out in the classical sense and it will be just re-financed by future expansion of the central bank's balance sheet. So the end effect is the same: new units of the base money enter circulation contributing to inflation.

But there are other forms of "money printing" as well. Every time a bank issues a credit, in a certain sense, it also "prints money". As long as the bank system functions as usual, it's indistinguishable from the printing done by the government+central bank. This is why bank de-regulation can have the same effects as the classical money printing, but with additional risks of potential credit contraction caused by bad loans (though they are minimized by central banks more often than not...).
by fluidcruft | 2026-02-28 21:13:03+00:00
Does OpenAI enforce those red lines in all contracts?

From what I can tell the Anthropic issue was triggered by something Palantir was doing as a contractor for DoW, not anything related to direct contracts between DoW and Anthropic, and DoW was annoyed that Anthropic interfered with what Palantir was up to.

In other words will OpenAI enforce these "red lines" against use by a third-party government contractor?

If not, this seems pretty meaningless if they are essentially playing PR while hiding behind Palantir.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-28 21:13:05+00:00
> Can you create incredibly useful code without that knowledge today?

You could do that without that knowledge back in the day too, we had languages that were higher level than assembler for forever.

It's just that the range of knowledge needed to maximize machine usage is far smaller now. Before you had to know how to write a ton of optimizations, nowadays you have to know how to write your code so the compiler have easy job optimizing it.

Before you had to manage the memory accesses, nowadays making sure you're not jumping actross memory too much and being aware how cache works is enough
by andai | 2026-02-28 21:13:19+00:00
>Nobody has reviewed OpenClaw’s 400,000 lines.

Including the author, who brags he doesn't read his own code. Indeed, it would be physically impossible for him to do so!

https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there is very clearly an obsession with quantity over quality. Not a new phenomenon by any means: people were already complaining about this in the 19th century! But it has reached a new absurd height with this latest trend.
by davesque | 2026-02-28 21:13:25+00:00
I don't think it will feel even remotely tolerable in the US. I've been heavily critical of Trump on a regular basis on the public internet ever since he showed up 10 years ago. I doubt a government surveillance AI would miss this. Of course, there are probably millions of people like me, but given the behavior of the government recently, I really have to wonder what they might do to people like me once we've been put on a list.
by jswelker | 2026-02-28 21:13:35+00:00
As a fun thought experiment, when people complain about LLMs, I substitute the word "human" or "employee" into the sentence and see if it is equally true.

"You can never really trust an LLM!" -> "You can never really trust an employee!" (Every IT department ever.)

"LLMs make shit up." -> "Humans make shit up." (Wow very profound insight.)
by Animats | 2026-02-28 21:13:47+00:00
We have unaligned AIs now. They're called corporations.

“There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.” - Milton Friedman, 1970.[1] That article, in the New York Times, established "greed is good, greed works" as a legitimate business principle.

Most of the problems people are worried about with AIs are already real problems with corporations.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...
by timmg | 2026-02-28 21:14:04+00:00
I don't really have anything against OpenAI's stance here. If that's how they want it to be, they have that choice.

But Sam pretending that he wanted the same restrictions as Anthropic *and* seeing how quickly they swooped in and made a deal with the DoD really skeeves me out. (But Sam always gave me the heebie jeebies).

Anyway, I've always preferred Claude, so I'm going to happily stay a paying customer there. This may end up being a big "branding" differentiator.
by mksglu | 2026-02-28 21:14:06+00:00
Nice approach. Same core idea as context-mode but specialized for your build domain. You're using SQLite as a structured knowledge cache over YAML rule files with keyword lookup. Context-mode does something similar but domain-agnostic, using FTS5 with BM25 ranking so any tool output becomes searchable without needing predefined schemas. Cool to see the pattern emerge independently from a completely different use case.
by skydhash | 2026-02-28 21:14:20+00:00
I like tests, but I don't bother with TDD because it's so ceremonial. I design the API, or at least sketch it out (using a whiteboard or drafting some notes, and doing research). Then I iterate and refine. I only bother with tests once I can commit or when it's no longer viable to tests manually (edit-compile-run cycle). And a lot of time I follow the table pattern.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/simplicity/979888865170...
by aggeeinn | 2026-02-28 21:14:41+00:00
Hey HN, OP here.

I’ve been frustrated by how difficult it is to track actual, kinetic events during modern conflicts without getting buried in algorithmic noise, propaganda, or Telegram spam. I wanted to build a purely automated, objective pipeline to map verifiable events as they happen.

I built IranWarLive as a serverless OSINT dashboard. Here is how the stack works under the hood:

The Architecture:

The Edge: A Cloudflare Worker runs on a cron trigger every 30 minutes, acting as the scraper.

The Ingestion: It parses major RSS feeds (BBC, Al Jazeera, etc.) for breaking regional news.

The Brain: The raw text is passed to the Gemini 2.5 Flash API. I used Gemini specifically because the inference speed is incredible, the context window handles bulk article parsing easily, and it's highly reliable at returning strictly formatted JSON arrays based on system prompts.

The DB: Google Sheets API. It serves as a free, easily manageable, flat-file database that the frontend can read asynchronously.

The Frontend: Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS using Leaflet.js for the tactical map, decoupled from the backend to ensure instant page loads.

The Hardest Challenge: Handling state and LLM deduplication at the edge. Initially, the concurrent Worker requests were flooding the database with duplicate strikes every time an asset was missing or a refresh was hit. I had to build a strict API gateway lock and a read-before-write deduplication engine that compares incoming Source_URLs and normalized state names against the existing database before appending new rows.

It’s completely free and ad-free. It’s still very much a technical demonstration of what LLMs can do for open-source intelligence.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the architecture, any suggestions for improving LLM prompt reliability for fatality estimates, or feedback on the UI. Happy to answer any questions about the Cloudflare/Gemini pipeline!
by BobBagwill | 2026-02-28 21:14:52+00:00
The potentially cool thing about LLM's is bootstrapping. No matter how much COBOL you wrote, COBOL didn't get better. LLM's can be used to make LLM's (and other software stuff) better. LLM's could be used to create their successor(s).

Of course, in the end, it won't do us humans any good, because when the Singularity AKA Rapture comes, we'll all be converted to Computronium. :-)
by shykes | 2026-02-28 21:15:29+00:00
> The person you're responding to said they were unable to vote in Israeli elections.

They said Palestinians are "a large portion of the Israeli population [that] is disenfranchised". That is a wrong statement. Palestinians are not part of the Israeli population and there is no expectation (on either side) that they would participate in Israeli elections. That issue has been largely settled by the Oslo framework in 1994.

> As I understand it, the right to vote is gated behind a citizenship process that is restrictive enough to generally prevent Palestinians from obtaining it.

I'm not sure which elections you mean.

- Israeli elections are for Israeli citizens. The 20% of Israelis who are Arab (sometimes loosely referred to as "Palestinians" as a loose synonym for "Arab living in former mandatory Palestine") can participate normally

- Palestinians in the West Bank vote in Palestinian elections. ' not aware of any citizenship-related restrictions there. Possible issues might be: logistics of getting to polls because of Israeli checkpoints; or simply the absence of elections (PA hasn't held a national election since 2006, although there are municipal elections).

- Specifically in East Jerusalem, on which Israeli claims sovereignty, Palestinians are classified as permanent residents of Israel. They may apply fot Israeli citizenship but that's probably a difficult process. As permanent residents they can vote in Israeli municipal elections, and as Palestinians they can vote in Palestinian national elections. But not being Israeli citizens they cannot vote in Israeli national elections. Perhaps that is what you're referring to?
by timrogers | 2026-02-28 21:16:09+00:00
> Reviewing AI output all day without the dopamine of creation is not a sustainable job description.

I agree that reducing engineers’ careers to code review will lead to burnout (amongst other problems).

But I think the reason we’re headed in this direction is precisely because creating with AI /can/ deliver “the dopamine of creation”.

It doesn’t deliver that hit for everyone - but it does for the half of engineers who are more excited about building new things than the act of coding.

Teams build more and ship faster because it’s so much easier to do that with AI - and it’s fun - and that leads to increased review load.
by YZF | 2026-02-28 21:16:16+00:00
The Dati Leumi camp isn't as uniform as you portray it. There are many examples (e.g. Avrum Burg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Burg ) do not think Israel should be over the entire historical/biblical region ("Eretz Israel Ha-Shlema").

More examples are:

- Rabbi Yehuda Amital and the Meimad Party

- Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein

You are confusing politics and religion.
by shimman | 2026-02-28 21:16:22+00:00
Declaring war is one thing, but if you look at how leaders actually responded it's another (notice the 8 month gap from the declaration of war, into actual fighting). They were still willing to negotiate with Hitler, because most western leadership also wanted the communists to be destroyed and thought Hitler would do just that without attacking them. They were willing to push for this literally until the tanks were invading their streets.

Once Hitler invaded France the "phoney war" turned into a real war. [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoney_War
by mksglu | 2026-02-28 21:16:33+00:00
That's a fair point and honestly the ideal approach. But in practice most people don't hand-curate their MCP server list per task. They install 5-6 servers and suddenly have 80 tools loaded by default. Context-mode doesn't solve the tool definition bloat, that's the input side problem. It handles the output side, when those tools actually run and dump data back. Even with a focused set of tools, a single Playwright snapshot or git log can burn 50k tokens. That's what gets sandboxed.
by deadbabe | 2026-02-28 21:16:39+00:00
There's a feel good story where a parent can't afford a very expensive medical procedure to save a child, so someone tells them to place a massive bet in a prediction market for a certain event that may happen, and then they make it happen, therefore siphoning off money from the other gamblers for a good cause. Just a small way everyday people use the system against itself as a way to survive.
by mksglu | 2026-02-28 21:17:04+00:00
That's the theory and it does hold up in practice. When context is 70% raw logs and snapshots, the model starts losing track of the actual task. We haven't run formal benchmarks on answer quality yet, mostly focused on measuring token savings. But anecdotally the biggest win is sessions lasting longer before compaction kicks in, which means the model keeps its full conversation history and makes fewer mistakes from lost context.
by _alternator_ | 2026-02-28 21:17:09+00:00
The agreement puts no restrictions on the government beyond “all lawful purposes,” which is what Anthropic objected to.

> “ The Department of War may use the AI System for all lawful purposes… [proceeds to describe current law, with clear openings if the law changes]”

Thus, OAI is relying on the Trump administration’s interpretation of current law. Which, I will remind readers, suggests that it is legal to kill civilians on boats, kidnap foreign leaders, deploy troops in American cities, shoot American citizens protesting ICE.

Yeah I’ve cancelled my OAI sub.
by petre | 2026-02-28 21:17:15+00:00
> I'm not supportive of these strikes. Iranians created this government, and if they want to topple it they'll have to be the ones to do it, without foreign intervention.

Well, foreign intervention kind of worked in Syria, Libya and Iraq after a few backstops, didn't it? All three countries reduced to rubble and virtually eliminated as threats to the US and Israel. Iran is next on the list, now that they're close to obtaing nukes. Let's not kid ourselves, they're not doing it for the Iranians, the're doing it for themselves. Regime change on their own terms, or if that isn't possible, yet another civil war.