MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwawayheui57 | 2026-03-01 20:03:54+00:00
Kinda sorta... The reality of the situation is much more complicated. The narrative and actions of the Islamic regime don’t quite corroborate "Israeli hegemony in the region" as the sole purpose of this conflict. Their narrative has not been one of defense in the past; it's always been offense. When they talk about Israel, they talk about Quds (Arabic name for Jerusalem), Quds' freedom, and annihilation of Israel. Even the foreign arm of the IRGC forces are named Quds! They operate in Syria and Lebanon, right next to Israel's border. That's why I said that their enmity with Israel is not from a moral standpoint or, evidently, even defending Iran. It takes two to tango!

Obviously, all this is not to say that Israel doesn't have a hegemonic stance. Probably even Arab nations have those dreams too!

You're seeing this vast field of geopolitical shit show through a tiny crack of news and social media from the last year.
by hbarka | 2026-03-01 20:04:41+00:00
If you think XML is old tech, wait until you hear of EDI, still powering Walmart and Amazon logistics. XML came in like a wrecking ball with its self-documenting promise designed to replace that cryptic pesky payload called EDI. XML promised to solve world hunger. It spawned SOAP, XML over RPC, DOM, DTD, the heyday was beautiful and Microsoft was leading the charge. C# was also right around this time. Consulting firms were bloomed charged with delivering the asynchronous revolution, the loosely coupled messaging promises of XML.
I think it succeeded and it’s now quietly in the halls of warehouse having a beer or two with its older cousin the Electronic Data Interchange aka EDI.
by estearum | 2026-03-01 20:04:55+00:00
All of which is significantly harder than putting up a gigantic billboard that says "Have insider knowledge on an important event? Place a bet here using crypto!"

Every important event in the world has dozens if not hundreds of people "in the know" before it happens. Not everyone has paper boys, chatty coaches, or the time/energy required to connect all those dots.

The entire flow insider information is reversed from "go out and look for it" to "invite it in anonymously"
by tialaramex | 2026-03-01 20:06:48+00:00
Because Python decided that (for the usual New Jersey reason, simplicity of implementation) bool should just be an integer type the Liskov criterion comes into play. If we can X an integer and we've agreed bool is an integer => we can X a bool. That's not what booleans are but hey, it's sorta close and this was easier to implement.

So, can we add two bools together? Adding booleans together is nonsense, but we've said these are a kind of integer so sure, I guess True + True = 2 ? And this cascades into nonsense like ~True being a valid operation in Python and its result is true...
by mikolajw | 2026-03-01 20:07:22+00:00
There are over 7000 languages in the world, around half of them dying or having already died due to linguistic domination, in large part English, each with its own set of culturally sensitive words.

To follow the above mode of reasoning without advantaging one or few languages, you would have to change an enormous amount of words in all languages, if not basically all. This is obviously not feasible.

If GIMP was a dirty word in a Native American language, or a native African language, there would be no debate. That we are debating this at all is because English has privileged status due to the Anglo-Saxon hegemony.

Hence, you are expecting us to give special, privileged treatment to the linguistic sensitivities of your dominant culture. Which is unfair, especially historically, because the hegemony was achieved by mass land steal and many genocides, which we shouldn't be rewarding by allowing further claims.

So yes, it should be expected from an adult anglophone to tolerate the existence of sordophones, words that are dirty in their dialect but not in others, especially in an international, multilingual setting. This is what it means to abstain from linguistic imperialism. This is what it means to tolerate and respect other cultures.

And to enforce tolerance, indeed it may be needed to view those who fail at this as childish.

I feel somewhat sorry to say this, but I need to be assertive here.
by foresto | 2026-03-01 20:07:41+00:00
> A happy home: I love having both plants and homemade projects in my living space.

This reminds me of various programs I've made to improve the quality of my digital life. Humble little things that I didn't want to build, addressing minor problems that could be mostly solved by other means, but nevertheless appeared on my mental wish list often enough that I eventually dedicated some time to creating them.

These tools do exactly what I need, all day, every day, quietly making things more pleasant than they would be otherwise. With them, I feel at home.
by InsideOutSanta | 2026-03-01 20:07:50+00:00
But do they want to do a full UI revamp? My impression is that a lot of people in the gimp ecosystem are happy to be aggressively unwelcoming to a broader audience. They don't see the name or the poor ux as a bug, but as a feature, and actively attack people who want to fix these issue. They call then "snowflakes" and "SJWs" and are gleeful when they fail to make any kinds of improvements.

Some of these people can be found in this very thread.

The problem with gimp is not one of budgets, it's that many of the people involved in gimp see its current state as how things should be.
by almosthere | 2026-03-01 20:08:40+00:00
What country are you specifically in? Most of the people in Isreal that are jews have known no other country. You're advocating for a second genocide of the jews. If you said, it's no longer called Isreal and everyone can stay, that's a different story.

This is the racism that should be highlighted. Sosomoxie is an evil person.
by OtherShrezzing | 2026-03-01 20:08:41+00:00
I don’t think anyone needs to compete with the LLM SOTA to get the benefits of these technologies on-device.

Consumers don’t need a 100k context window oracle that knows everything about both T-Cells and the ancient Welsh Royal lineage. We need focused & small models which are specialised, and then we need a good query router.
by easton | 2026-03-01 20:08:52+00:00
It depends on the service if things move gracefully or not. The incident explains it's only EC2 (and dependent services) in that AZ, so if they try to route traffic for services hosted on EC2 to that AZ it's not working (and customers running instances in that AZ have lost access).

The other ones are not impacted. They always like to tell you to pay for more than one instance in different AZs so if this happens you don't get impacted.
by dang | 2026-03-01 20:09:49+00:00
These look like the major past threads (in reverse order) - have I missed any?

AI Usage Policy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730504 - Jan 2026 (273 comments)

Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46568794 - Jan 2026 (138 comments)

Why users cannot create Issues directly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460319 - Jan 2026 (310 comments)

Ghostty is now non-profit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138238 - Dec 2025 (289 comments)

Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110842 - Dec 2025 (115 comments)

Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45549434 - Oct 2025 (147 comments)

Ghostty 1.2.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252026 - Sept 2025 (26 comments)

AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44976568 - Aug 2025 (464 comments)

We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44905808 - Aug 2025 (224 comments)

Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884930 - Jan 2025 (79 comments)

Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42562743 - Dec 2024 (55 comments)

Ghostty: Reflecting on Reaching 1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42527355 - Dec 2024 (7 comments)

Ghostty 1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42517447 - Dec 2024 (681 comments)

Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41914025 - Oct 2024 (32 comments)
by ffsm8 | 2026-03-01 20:10:43+00:00
> There's some fallacies here like "anyone not acting in stereotypical Protestant gender roles must therefore be recklessly promiscuous"

That fallacy isn't in there.
Also, I would like to point out that almost all women have had more then 0 sexual partners before wedding. Hence your statement would actually be kinda correct of you remove the "recklessly". And that's definitely another contributer to declining birth rates/families - because neither of them will feel remotely as committed to each other then they would've otherwise.

None of these are singular causes. They're all contributing to the whole situation. Which is precisely why I never made any such fallacy in my earlier comment.
by rkrzr | 2026-03-01 20:11:50+00:00
It does. See https://ghostty.org/docs/config/keybind/reference#toggle_qui...

This works on MacOS, and on Linux sometimes:

> On Linux, the quick terminal is only supported on Wayland and not X11, and only on Wayland compositors that support the wlr-layer-shell-v1 protocol. In practice, this means that only GNOME users would not be able to use this feature.
by eoskx | 2026-03-01 20:11:58+00:00
Related: https://archive.ph/WEcM4

"Anthropic’s team was relieved to hear that the government would be willing to remove those words, but one big problem remained: On Friday afternoon, Anthropic learned that the Pentagon still wanted to use the company’s AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans. That could include information such as the questions you ask your favorite chatbot, your Google search history, your GPS-tracked movements, and your credit-card transactions, all of which could be cross-referenced with other details about your life. Anthropic’s leadership told Hegseth’s team that was a bridge too far, and the deal fell apart. Soon after, Hegseth directed the U.S. military’s contractors, suppliers, and partners to stop doing business with Anthropic. The list of companies that contract with the military is extensive, and includes Amazon, the company that supplies much of Anthropic’s computing infrastructure. The Department of Defense did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Anthropic referred me to the company’s statement addressing Hegseth’s remarks."
by eschaton | 2026-03-01 20:12:57+00:00
This is exactly what magnetic flux imaging does, it just uses a regular floppy mechanism with all the risk that entails.

If one built a more sensitive head mechanism that floats above the disk, one could (say) load a disk sans envelope/case and take a flux image of it without anything touching the surface.

Then one could use the existing flux processing software (possibly tweaking it) to extract the data.
by vunderba | 2026-03-01 20:13:38+00:00
Thanks. So I have a bespoke python program that basically does this:

- Takes the platonic set of prompts

- Uses model specific tuning directives with LLMs to create a bunch of prompt variations so that they get a diverse set of natural language expressions to "roll" generations

But I still have to manually review each of the final image - which is pretty time-consuming. I've tried automating it using VLMs (like Qwen3-VL) but unfortunately they can miss the small details and didn't provide as much value as I was hoping.
by cwang75 | 2026-03-01 20:13:57+00:00
$10,000 → $6,438 in 30 minutes. -35.6% ROI.

The bug: Bot bought 0.05% probability bets thinking "cheap = undervalued."

Lesson learned the hard way, but it cost $0 because paper trading.

*Try it yourself:*

```bash
npx clawhub install polymarket-paper-trader
```

What you get:

• $10,000 paper money
• Real Polymarket order books
• Zero financial risk
• CLI + MCP integration
• Leaderboard to compete with other agents

Your agent can probably beat -35%. (Not a high bar )

GitHub: https://github.com/agent-next/polymarket-paper-trader

What strategies work for your AI on prediction markets?
by mhitza | 2026-03-01 20:14:04+00:00
My area is eastern europe. Where an iphone is like 3-4 minimum wage salaries or so. People take loans to buy iphones! And you could probably also correlate them with luxury item buyers, around here.

Good thing the US message color thing is isolated over there and the peer pressure on Gen Alpha hasn't reached us.

But yes, I stick to my claim. You don't have to hard press those people to tell you that they don't use phones "for poor people" . The idiom is local and used both ironically and literraly.
by p-o | 2026-03-01 20:14:14+00:00
Interesting adjacent theory is how much are datacenters becoming military target to strike as part of disrupting initial defenses. It doesn't seem it was the case in this instance, but I could see this becoming a more important target in future.

Seems like it should be somewhat easier to bomb 50 datacenters than it would be to hack and disrupt 1000s of different services.

Again, this is just me thinking out loud on a tangent and this doesn't have much to do with this story, but I felt it was an interesting thought to share nonetheless.
by TrackerFF | 2026-03-01 20:14:14+00:00
When I worked the military (not the US), we'd get some briefs from time to time on risks like espionage. They'd present us with cases, and It always surprise me just how little money people are willing to risk their lives and careers for. You'd think people that are willing at worst to become traitors, but at best break confidentiality laws - and face years in prison - would do it only for life-changing money. Nope, not even close. People have gone to prison for a fraction of $500k.

If someone truly made this bet with inside information, they for sure broke laws. Not only did they do that, they could have jeopardized parts of the mission.

No doubt in my mind, part of OSINT gathering for most intel agencies is to monitor these betting markets.
by dang | 2026-03-01 20:14:39+00:00
You can't celebrate people's deaths like this on HN, and it's shocking to see. I feel ashamed of HN when I see things like this. I can't believe you did it, and my first response was to ban the account.

After a minute, I reconsidered, especially after I saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930988 (an excellent post) and realized that your account has been around for over 10 years. I've unbanned it now.

Please don't post like this to HN again. The same, of course, goes for any other account, regardless of political angle.

Also, please don't use HN primarily for political/ideological battle—again, regardless of which politics you're for or against. A certain amount of political overlap is necessary and inevitable, but when an account crosses into primarily doing that, it's basically the line at which we ban it (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for past explanations).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by throwup238 | 2026-03-01 20:14:41+00:00
It's around 10-15% for the whole drug I-III flow (13.8% according to [1]), but that varies dramatically based on therapeutic area. On the order of a third of infectious disease vaccines might be approved but only maybe 5% of oncology therapies because the latter often have a different standard for approval so it's cheaper to run trials.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6409418/
by goodmodule | 2026-03-01 20:14:45+00:00
I somehow agree with this but want to add my two cents here. Cloudflare's Codemode[0] is a great "replacement" for MCP because AI is trained for writing code and handling errors. But it also doesn't fix security and sandboxing. For CLI and file operations we have Vercel's just-bash[1] but for everything else there is no safe solution. Therefore MCP still makes sense until somebody sandboxes this part as well without needing to use Cloudflare or something.

[0]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/agents/api-reference/codem...
[1]: https://github.com/vercel-labs/just-bash
by sheikhnbake | 2026-03-01 20:14:55+00:00
U.S. military assets:
B-2 Stealth Bombers
LUCAS Drones
Patriot Interceptor Missile Systems
THAAD Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems
F-18 Fighter Jets
F-16 Fighter Jets
F-22 Fighter Jets
A-10 Attack Jets
F-35 Stealth Fighters
EA-18G Electronic Attack Aircraft
Airborne Early Warning & Control Aircraft
Airborne Communication Relay
P-8 Maritime Patrol Aircraft
RC-135 Reconnaissance Aircraft
MQ-9 Reapers
M-142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems
Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carriers
Guided-Missile Destroyers
Counter-Drone Systems
Refueling Tanker Aircraft
Refueling Ships
C-17 Globemaster Cargo Aircraft
C-130 Cargo Aircraft

Types of targets:
Command and Control Centers
IRGC Joint Headquarters
IRGC Aerospace Forces Headquarters
Integrated Air Defense Systems
Ballistic Missile Sites
Iranian Navy Ships
Iranian Navy Submarines
Anti-ship Missile Sites
Military Communication Capabilities
by politelemon | 2026-03-01 20:15:48+00:00
> By the end of training, the model produces names like "kamon", "karai", "anna", and "anton". None of them are copies from the dataset.

Hey, I am able to see kamon, karai, anna, and anton in the dataset, it'd be worth using some other names: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karpathy/makemore/988aa59/...
by dakiol | 2026-03-01 20:16:14+00:00
I think this suggestions are fine but none of them solve the problem here. The "client" (the service the OP owns) can be as atomic and transactional as one wants, but if the "server" (the 3rd party service being called by the "client") doesn't offer either a) idempotency or b) a retrieval mechanism for existing resources, then the "client" can't do anything about the original stated problem.
by stripfeed | 2026-03-01 20:16:38+00:00
I built StripFeed because I was tired of feeding raw HTML to LLMs and burning tokens on ads, navigation, and scripts.

It's a simple API: send a URL, get clean Markdown back. Readability extracts the content, Turndown converts it, and js-tiktoken counts the tokens. Most pages see 90%+ token savings.

What it does:
- GET /api/v1/fetch?url=... returns clean Markdown
- Batch endpoint for up to 10 URLs in parallel
- CSS selector extraction (?selector=article)
- Token counting with per-model cost tracking
- Smart caching (1h default, configurable up to 24h)
- MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf
- Official SDKs for TypeScript and Python

Free tier: 200 requests/month. Pro: $19/month for 100K requests.

Stack: Next.js, Convex, Upstash Redis, Vercel. Content extraction with @mozilla/readability + linkedom.

Site: https://www.stripfeed.dev
Docs: https://www.stripfeed.dev/docs
MCP: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@stripfeed/mcp-server
GitHub (MCP): https://github.com/StripFeed/mcp-server

Would love feedback on the API design and pricing.
by fauigerzigerk | 2026-03-01 20:17:48+00:00
I'm not opposed to AI generated text in principle. But not knowing how it was written is problematic, because it can change the meaning of the text. Take this paragraph for instance:

"From my experience building and scaling teams in fintech and high-traffic platforms, I can tell you that role expansion without clear boundaries always leads to the same outcome: people try to do everything, nothing gets done with the depth it requires, and burnout follows."

This reads like a first person account of someone's experience. Is it though? If it's nobody's experience then it robs this text of its meaning. If it is somebody's experience and that person used AI to improve their style then that's absolutely fine with me.
by Veserv | 2026-03-01 20:17:55+00:00
But do those connections constitute a material amount of total bandwidth and thus resources? No, as the article points out the median is 8 KB, but the average is 583 KB. The extra 15 KB for each connection would only bump server-side bandwidth serving by ~2%.

But even that is beside my point. The impact of making certificates larger should be, largely, just the cost of making them larger which, on average, would not actually be that significant of a impact. That is not the real problem. The problem is actually that there is so much broken crap everywhere in networks and network stacks that would either break or dramatically balloon what should otherwise be manageable costs.

Everybody just wants to paper over that by blaming the larger certificates when what is actually happening is that the larger certificates are revealing the rot. That is not to say that the proposal which reduces the size of the certificates is bad, I think it is good to do so, but fixing the proximal cause so you can continue to ignore the root cause is a recipe that got us into this ossified, brittle networking mess.
by hu3 | 2026-03-01 20:17:58+00:00
Thanks for yet another example if toxic behaviour by that community. So now arguing is also "parroting".

If you were discussing in good faith, instead of belitling arguments as "parroting" you'd use something like algolia to find the answer for yourself. And you could have an easy start by finding comments from the links on this post alone. Let alone 10 in the entire HN in the last month. But that is of little interest I see.

Funnily I already see some on the first page, incredible:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-01 20:18:00+00:00
> Training a one bit neural network from scratch is apparently an unsolved problem though.

I don't think it's correct to call it unsolved. The established methods are much less efficient than those for "regular" neural nets but they do exist.

Also note that the usual approach when going binary is to make the units stochastic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_machine#Deep_Boltzma...
Show HN: Mrkd – A native macOS Markdown viewer with iTerm2/VSCode theme import
by jahala | 2026-03-01 20:18:53+00:00
Using Opus 4.6 I built a markdown viewer for macOS that uses zero web technology. No Electron, no WebView — markdown is parsed with cmark-gfm and rendered directly to NSAttributedString via TextKit 2. The result is native text selection, native accessibility, and a ~1MB binary that launches pretty much instantly. It supports GFM tables, task lists, syntax-highlighted code blocks, and inline images. You get a built-in themes (Solarized, Dracula, GitHub, Monokai) plus the ability to import your own from iTerm2 or VS Code theme files.

The part I’m most pleased with is the Quick Look integration — select a .md file in Finder, hit Space, and you get a fully themed preview using whatever theme and fonts you’ve configured in the app. No setup required; the QL extension registers automatically on first launch. It also bundles variable fonts (Geist, Inter, JetBrains Mono, iA Writer Mono, and more) so typography looks good out of the box.

The whole thing is built in Swift with no dependencies beyond cmark-gfm and Highlightr.

https://github.com/jahala/mrkd
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-01 20:18:54+00:00
Has this ever happened ever in history of Cloud providers before this because of war?

They mention that the datacenter had fires and sparks and they are mentioning hours of downtime but given the situation, How does that prevent the situation from happening again. It's best for people to use safer regions than the middle east in the moment as missiles might target the same datacenter seeing that some damage was caused.

Moving forward, will there be a demand (all be small) for nuclear bunker esque datacenters which can withstands missiles? I know absolutely nothing about constructing underground but can explosives not be used to create underground datacenters comparatively cheaply? One can also use revamped Nuclear bunkers (although the scale of AWS datacenters might be huge tho who knows)

Had some ideas which show that this idea might be interesting, https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-026-00406-2

I am curious but what are the safety attempts made by Internet Exchange Providers or (had to search it up) but Submarine Cable landing stations, to me it feels like blowing these up leads to internet downtime across whole country / between providers.