MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Barrin92 | 2026-03-12 04:40:57+00:00
>there is just no way these weren't calculated in.

the American government is publishing war footage intercut with Call of Duty scenes. The American secretary of defense is a former television personality with more tattoos than people in a trailer park. He said rules of engagement are stupid because they stop you from "winning" while the US bombed a girl's school.

They literally fired the people who calculate things and wage war based on memes, vibes and chatgpt recommendations
by shubhamjain | 2026-03-12 04:41:08+00:00
You might expect events like this to fundamentally change the global order or bring some sanity to U.S. policymaking. But nothing is going to change. It will be chaotic few years, but soon enough, everything will be conveniently forgotten. Iranian/Syrian/Afganian threat will reappear, the war-mongers and Israel-lobby will once more push for pre-emptive strikes, assassinations of leaders or generals. Rinse and repeat.

At its core, the problem is a militarized, propaganda-driven state masquareding itself as a necessary guarantor of global order, while its sole objective is nothing more than letting no other nation threaten its supremacy. And much of the world continuing to accept that narrative either because of lack of alternatives or out of necessity.
by macNchz | 2026-03-12 04:43:41+00:00
I was just talking with a friend about this on Sunday, just before the big oil price runup—it was very curious to me that I had had to hunt around a bit for coverage of what was going on with the strait.

Closure was something I had known was a risk with any conflict with Iran after learning about the Tanker War in some politics class in college, and following the various threats over the past 15 years or so. It seemed like something that should have had tons of coverage as soon as I heard the US had attacked Iran, and I wanted to know what was actually going on with it...yet all of the mainstream press seemed to skirt around it until oil prices finally spiked on Sunday, even though traffic through the strait had fallen off a cliff a week beforehand.
by Bender | 2026-03-12 04:43:46+00:00
It would likely require a ground offensive that would allow people inside Iran to safely protest in the streets, said the source.

Some figures estimate a ground force of 500K. That isn't really the problem though. We have about 700K+ violent criminals in prisons but they would have to be trained and serve combat tours in exchange for clemency. Beyond that we have millions that would volunteer for such an invasion. I have yet to see any movement on the underground missile cities. Those can not be reached by bunker busters or nukes. They are 500m under mountains. Their leaders could live in the underground cities for decades. I only know about this because I have a lot of interest in hybrid bunker homes as well as ant super-colonies and they have by far the most impressive setup some of which I do not understand such as the tunnels that go under water. Perhaps those facilitate launching underwater drones to mine the straight. Surely intelligence agencies know about all of this and have a plan. I assume satellites have located all the vents and one can hope that we have people on the inside that have mapped it all out.
by Mooshux | 2026-03-12 04:44:11+00:00
The traffic filter layer makes sense, but there is still a credential problem underneath it.

A tool call can pass every gateway rule cleanly, and then the MCP server uses a broad-permission key to make the actual external request. You cannot stop a compromised tool at the proxy layer if it is authorized to call that endpoint.

The missing piece is scope enforcement at the key level: each agent gets credentials valid only for its specific operations, nothing broader. Combined with short TTLs, a key extracted through prompt injection goes stale fast and cannot be used for anything interesting.

Happy to talk through how we approached this if useful.
by ms_menardi | 2026-03-12 04:44:12+00:00
The children of soldiers are not legitimate military targets.

> ... in my opinion, the school was deliberately targeted because the students studying there were mostly the children of Iranian military officials. ...

Your opinion is wrong. There is no possibility of that being the justification for choosing a target. The American armed forces are too professional to do such a thing. Terror is not in our toolbox.
by beloch | 2026-03-12 04:44:20+00:00
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is reported to have recommended against further air strikes on Iran[1].

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"Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Dan Caine, has warned that strikes against Iran could be risky, potentially drawing the US into a prolonged conflict, US media report.

Caine has reportedly cautioned that a military action could have repercussions across the region, potentially including retaliatory strikes by Iranian proxies or a larger conflict that would require more US forces.

In a lengthy post on Truth Social, Trump described the reports as "fake news".

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[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0zrwzr519o
by Mooshux | 2026-03-12 04:44:40+00:00
Rug pull attacks on MCP servers are underrated. The trust model is broken by design once you add a server to your config. It has context access immediately, including any injected secrets.

Blocking exfiltration after the fact is the wrong frame. If the credentials in context are short-lived and scoped to specific endpoints, a rug pull yields something that expires in minutes and cannot be used broadly. The attack still happens but the blast radius is tiny.

We have been building exactly this layer: https://www.apistronghold.com/blog/securing-openclaw-ai-agen...
by colechristensen | 2026-03-12 04:44:56+00:00
News organizations need to not be part of larger corporations and a nontrivial amount of their funding needs to be some kind of endowment.

Media mergers need to just be illegal, Disney/Viacomm/TimeWarner (god I don't even know what the big ones are any more) need to be broken up.

"we don't want to make the administration mad so our merger will be let through" is just absurd.
by YZF | 2026-03-12 04:44:59+00:00
Wars are hard to predict and the economy is hard to predict. There's easy money in the making for those who are sure the oil price is going to continue way up.

The blog you reference has inaccuracies. Drones are generally not shot by THAAD is a glaring one. It's very much not 2-3 million dollars to $50k. Helicopter gunships shoot down drones with bullets these days is very common and there are other economic means of bringing them down.

Most of the heavy lifting in suppressing these attacks is done by other drones patrolling the skies and attacking anything that tries to fire. Those also don't use extremely expensive munitions.

"Iran produces approximately 500 of these drones per day and holds a stockpile estimated at around 80,000 units.". Both these are false today. I'd also question if they were true when Iran was attacked. These figures don't pass the smell test and either way any stockpile is an instant target.

Everyone seems to be an expert today.

It's obviously not great that the Hormuz straits are more or less closed. We've seen in Yemen that a ragtag force can be massively attacked and still manage to fire at ships on a much larger body of water. That said we didn't really see if they can sustain it for months under heavy attack which is a possible premise here.

There are some pipelines bypassing the straits but their capacity is much smaller. It's also about 20% of the world supply so definitely other suppliers can make up for some of the loss at a cost.

I'm not an expert. But the current oil price reflects what the experts think best. And that price is still below what it was for about half of 2022. And fluctuating. What will matter is the price over months.
by zer00eyz | 2026-03-12 04:45:25+00:00
> There is no way the US/Israel didn't calculate that: ... the straight would be closed

It has always had this potential, as it has happened before: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Will (1987). But based on this history I would assume that many in the admin did not find the threat as credible as it was then. We dont seem to have a good grasp on how things have gone in the black sea. We clearly did not anticipate the level of drone attacks that have been put out by Iran.

Nothing says "we did not have a plan" when easing Russian sanctions while you ask Ukraine for help with defenses.

> a new leader may represent similar idiologies of the past leader.

I could see making a bet that with the current water crisis there the this would tip them into an "Arab spring" moment. For any one aware of the history there, it was a poor one at best.
by rramadass | 2026-03-12 04:45:40+00:00
Relevant to what is going on in the world today.

The above is the original classic paper in which the term "Asymmetric Warfare" was coined.

For a modern update on the above ideas; see the book How Democracies Lose Small Wars: State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam. Review at - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231859298_How_Democ...

Also Asymmetric Warfare - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2026-03-12 04:46:39+00:00
Japan, an island nation with virtually no natural resources of its own, depends on it for a staggering 75% of its oil. Japan’s Prime Minister has warned plainly that if the Strait closes, the entire Japanese economy will collapse within eight to nine months. Not slow down. Not a contract. Collapse.

I am failing to an article about this, but that is absolutely incredible if true.
by Ekami | 2026-03-12 04:47:44+00:00
Fun fact, we've been using pixi to compile everything Python related internally. In fact PeppyOS was even started with pixi as a base layer (but we pivoted away from it since the project is in Rust and Cargo is the de-facto toolchain). We support uv by default for Python (since it's what's the most used these days) but pixi is already supported, see the note on this page: https://docs.peppy.bot/guides/first_node/
by luketaylor | 2026-03-12 04:47:55+00:00
The indicators are controlled along with sensor access at a very low level within a secure “exclave” from the main kernel; this is how the on-screen indicators have worked on iPhones for a few years. The indicator is rendered within the display controller at the firmware level, so can’t be affected by anything in _either_ user mode or kernel mode. [1][2]

1: https://randomaugustine.medium.com/on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c...

2: https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/#...
by jitl | 2026-03-12 04:48:12+00:00
I wouldn't be surprised to see the Rust ecosystem eventually move to Temporal's api, given v8 (Chrome) adopted Boa's rust implementation temporal_rs (https://docs.rs/temporal_rs/latest/temporal_rs/), see burntsushi's arguments for the need of a better datetime handling library in Rust (https://github.com/BurntSushi/jiff/blob/master/DESIGN.md#why...). I'm not sure his jiff create will be the one, i think temporal_rs has become the authoritative implementation.
by Brybry | 2026-03-12 04:48:40+00:00
Al Jazeera, AP News, NYT, etc have been doing "live blogs" every day of the war since it started.

CBC does it too. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/iran-israel-us-war-d...

Though I will say CBC's seems to not include as many individual strike and counterstrike posts as others.
by Nursie | 2026-03-12 04:48:45+00:00
> They are likely even more out of touch with the electorate.

Not compared to the hereditary peers.

In theory these people have proved themselves useful in some way and bring expertise to the upper chamber, rather than just being born in the right family. In practice there is some of that and some political cronyism.

> Seems to me this just centralizes power even more in the hands of a few.

That is exactly what hereditary peerage is. The few, by definition. The aristocracy.
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-03-12 04:48:45+00:00
I've found it mind boggling for at least a decade (since solar panels started being a relatively normal consumer addition to the home) that a transition to electric and away from fossil fuels hasn't been an, essentially, national security priority for all countries other than those that produce oil.

The dependence, of literally almost everything, on the continuous flow of oil from few parts of the world has been an obvious point of strangulation for longer than I've been alive.

I mean, I understand that it's so entrenched that politics is owned by it, but, hell, it's been, what a week and a bit, and already Australian media is trying to talk down panic about petrol shortages.

The blind leading the blind.
by hdjrudni | 2026-03-12 04:49:26+00:00
You realize that JSON isn't just for JavaScript to JavaScript communication, right? Even if you had a magical format (which doesn't make sense and is a bad idea to attempt to auto-deserialize), it wouldn't work across languages.

If you really want that, it's not very hard to design a pair of functions `mySerialize()`, `myDeserialize()` that's a thin wrapper over `JSON.parse`.
by YZF | 2026-03-12 04:49:46+00:00
The core of the problem is that the US stepped back under Obama from being the guarantor of global order. The world needs policing and deterrence is the sad reality otherwise everything goes to hell.

Why did Russia attack Ukraine? Why is China threatening to attack Taiwan? Without the US (and the west more generally) Russia would retake half of Europe and China would have taken Taiwan. If you think there would be world peace you are so very much mistaken (speaking of propaganda). If you goal is to speak Russian and Chinese and live in those sorts of regimes then that's very much aligned with the US and the West just stepping back and not using force ever.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-12 04:50:11+00:00
There is a tradeoff for sure.

But, even though I think slippery slope arguments should be used very sparingly, there is a good case for one here.

Also, learning how to communicate better, and learning to listen better, is a real value add to this site. Which would get washed out if both writing, and therefore reading, were spoon fed by models, who are also washing away individuality of expression and nuance of views.
by surgical_fire | 2026-03-12 04:52:19+00:00
> There is no way the US/Israel didn't calculate that:

I don't really believe the buffoons in US leadership calculate much. It's all vibes.

I firmly believe it will become a case study in how many ways a comically incompetent government can damage a country.

As for Israel... I think their calculation is simple. They don't really care about how much damage they cause to the world economy, as long as they get to kill Muslims in general and Iranians in particular. They want death.
by akagr | 2026-03-12 04:52:26+00:00
That’s certainly up for debate. Thinkpads are some of the most rugged laptops available, and their top models are made from magnesium alloys or carbon fibre. Only their lower end E and L series are ABS builds.

In my personal experience, my MacBooks look much less shinier/worn out in the palm rest areas on either sides of trackpad compared to any windows laptop I’ve owned, which include an Alienware R15.

I don’t know enough about material science to have more than empirical data or correlations, though.
by ExoticPearTree | 2026-03-12 04:52:31+00:00
The cynic in me says it will join the graveyard after the acquisition depreciates or it does not bring in as much money as someone at Google will think it should.

As a Wiz user, it is a a really good product and I can't say this for a lot of the security stuff that is out there.

And lastly: remember that Google is an advertising company with hobbies.
by kmg_finfolio | 2026-03-12 04:53:00+00:00
Root cause analysis is a real differentiator but only if your users have already felt the pain of staring at a vague alert at 2am. The question is whether you're reaching those people. On where to find them: not Reddit. Try posting in Discord servers for specific frameworks (Laravel, Rails, Node communities). Backend devs who care about uptime hang out there and talk shop. Also, open source maintainers on GitHub who run their own infra are a great early segment — they feel every downtime personally. On free vs paid: I'm building a SaaS too and went through this exact question. Free works if it creates a habit that paid unlocks. Your auto incident reports feel like the right paid gate that's the thing a team lead needs to show their manager. The monitoring itself is a personal pain point; the report is an organizational one. One thing I'd add: you're asking if RCA is a differentiator, but from the outside it reads as a feature list. The real question is — what does someone search for the moment before they'd want your product? That search intent is your distribution.
by GianFabien | 2026-03-12 04:53:03+00:00
I spent a part of my career supporting IBM PC/XT, PC/AT and then Compaq and the many PC clones.

Microsoft, as its name implies, started out and cuturally was always a software company. By the time Microsoft started dabbling in hardware it was seen as a competitor by the many software licencees. Microsoft could never control the hardware side of their platform like Apple has.

The other factor is that Apple ditched the proprietary OS and went down the Unix/BSD and derivatives path. MacOS is effectively a FreeBSD derivative overlaid with a custom desktop.

Without a quasi-portable OS at the core, there is no way that Apple could have made the switches from Motorola 68000 to PowerPC to Intel to ARM.

Windows, on the other hand, is running NT which is basically a port of DEC VMS. Didn't work out well for DEC/Compaq/HP.
by gostsamo | 2026-03-12 04:53:21+00:00
For a product that supposedly handles the most private bits of one's personal life, I would've expected much stronger wording in the privacy section. Instead, privacy and security are meshed up in one soup, there is no mention of internal access controls, and no promise that this info won't be shared under no shape or form or derivative beyond providing the functions necessary for the service. CCPA is mentioned but only for California residents. Generally, use at your own risk.
by serf | 2026-03-12 04:53:24+00:00
>My only knowledge this company is as a manufacturer of gurneys for ambulances.

they have a tremendous catalog[0].

spend time in a hospital, dental office, rehab, etc and you'll see the logo plastered across everything.

[0]: https://www.stryker.com/us/en/portfolios/medical-surgical-eq...
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-12 04:53:28+00:00
> The problem is that the US constitution was written before people realized that the natural consequence of that type of constitution is a two party system.

The two party system is a consequence of using first past the post voting, which the US constitution doesn't even require. Use score voting instead, which can be done by ordinary legislation without any constitutional amendment, and you don't have a two party system anymore.
by Nursie | 2026-03-12 04:53:45+00:00
> The hereditary peers were elected

By a larger pool of hereditary peers. Previously several hundred members of the aristocracy were all entitled to a seat in there by virtue of their birth and title alone. After reforms in 1999 this group had to nominate from within themselves a subset of 92 hereditary peers who would be allowed to participate in the chamber.

If by "the voters" you mean the general public, then no, they had no say at all.
by txrx0000 | 2026-03-12 04:54:48+00:00
Glad to see more of these efforts. But here's what it will really take to decentralize social media and E2EE messengers:

We need something like Discord, except each server is an actual self-hosted server like a Minecraft server. DMs between two users should be handled by a mutual server. Account credentials should be handled by a Nostr-like protocol, which also gives you global tweeting capabilities as a bonus.

Run the whole thing on Yggdrasil Network or something similar so that it's not tied down to IPv4v6 and DNS and all existing hardware infra, but can still take advantage of them. And add reciprocal inter-server onion routing to make it difficult to geolocate servers. Also take a page from SoftEther VPN's book and wrap all traffic in HTTPS and perform automatic NAT traversal, so that people can host servers from behind ISP firewalls.

Anything short of that and we lose to big tech and govs in the long run. But once we've achieved the above, the decentralized web can truly take off: we will get WiFi routers running open-source firmware to make a mesh network to act as alternative physical layer infra for the new web. We can still take advantage of the existing Internet's bandwidth as long as there's an unblockable path to send a little bit of data to discover and coordinate nodes.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-12 04:55:26+00:00
This is a wonderful rule.

It also points out the need for AI writing tools that very strictly just:

1. Point out misspellings and typos.

2. Point our grammar mistakes, if they confuse the point.

3. Point out weaknesses of argument, without injecting their own reasoning.

I.e. help "prompt" humans to improve their writing, without doing the improvement for them.

In fact, I would like a reliable version of that approach for many types of tasks where my creativity or thought processes are the point, and quality-control feedback (but not assistance), is helpful.

This is a case where models could push humans to work harder, as apposed to slacking off.
by YZF | 2026-03-12 04:55:26+00:00
I can argue both sides but under the assumption (which I think is true) that 80%-90% of Iranians want to remove the regime there's some possibility of success. That said there's also the possibility of screwing things up completely and getting the entire population to fight you as an invader.

One thing for sure, it's not going to look like Russia invading Ukraine. The Iranians don't have the resolve or the support or the capabilities that Ukraine had and has. It will look more like Iraq in terms of the ability of the military to put up any resistance.

The problem with "boots on the ground" isn't that it can't succeed. The problem is it has zero support from the American public. People feel about this a lot more strongly than the other topics dividing the public.
by danpalmer | 2026-03-12 04:56:08+00:00
Just scanning these evals, but they seem pretty basic, and not at all what I would expect the failure modes to be.

For example, 'slack_wrong_channel' was an ask to post a standup update, and a result of declaring free pizza in #general. Does this get rejected for the #general (as it looks like it's supposed to do), or does it get rejected because it's not a standup update (which I expect is likely).

Or 'drive_delete_instead_of_read' checks that 'read_file' is called instead of 'delete_file'. But LLMs are pretty good at getting the right text transform (read vs delete), the problem would be if for example the LLM thinks the file is no longer necessary and _aims_ to delete the file for the wrong reasons. Maybe it claims the reason is "cleaning up after itself" which another LLM might think is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Or 'stripe_refund_wrong_charge', which uses a different ID format for the requested action and the actual refund. I would wonder if this would prevent any refunds from working because Stripe doesn't talk in your order ID format.

It seems these are all synthetic evals rather than based on real usage. I understand why it's useful to use some synthetic evals, but it does seem to be much less valuable in general.
by paxys | 2026-03-12 04:56:12+00:00
Atlassian has 16,000 employees worldwide and reported a net loss of $257 million last year. In fact it has not had a single profitable year since its IPO in 2015. And as expected its stock price is in the dumpster, down to $75 from its peak of $440 in 2021 (-83%).

So, like a lot of the tech industry this is simply a case of overhiring, overspending and general mismanagement. And like every other layoff announcement “AI” is the convenient scapegoat.