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by andai | 2025-12-09 16:59:04+00:00
So people have different definitions of the word, but originally Vibe Coding meant "don't even look at the code".

If you're actually making sure it's legit, it's not vibe coding anymore. It's just... Backseat Coding? ;)

There's a level below that I call Power Coding (like power armor) where you're using a very fast model interactively to make many very small edits. So you're still doing the conceptual work of programming, but outsourcing the plumbing (LLM handles details of syntax and stdlib).
by rendaw | 2025-12-09 16:59:08+00:00
Subtitle

> The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

TLDR

> after her grandmother’s death...she becomes decisive, joining a theatre group.... in the transcripts... [she] never joins a theatre group or emerges from her despair.

AFAICT the quote above is the only thing directly relevant to the title.

From what I read, skimming through the article, it paints Sacks as being a delusion driven emotional romantic and was practicing some sort of cult medicine, but I can't tell how much of that is reality and how much is NYT's ridiculously flowery embellishing of everything.
by miki123211 | 2025-12-09 16:59:09+00:00
As somebody who understands how LLMs work pretty well, I can definitely feel your pain.

I started learning about neural networks when Whisper came out, at that point I literally knew nothing about how they worked. I started by reading the Whisper paper... which made about 0 sense to me. I was wondering whether all of those fancy terms are truly necessary. Now, I can't even imagine how I'd describe similar concepts without them.
by artur44 | 2025-12-09 16:59:21+00:00
The “9x faster than Unity” line also jumped out at me. Empty-scene benchmarks are basically a measurement of how thin your abstraction layer is, not how the engine behaves under actual game workloads.

What is interesting, though, is that engines like this often reveal how much overhead comes from tooling, scene graph complexity, editor integrations, GC pressure, etc. Sometimes a very lean engine feels “faster” simply because it avoids all the layers that a mature engine needs to support large teams.

I’d love to see a demo that stresses real systems — entity updates, materials, batching, physics, etc. That would say far more about the architecture than raw FPS of drawing nothing.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-12-09 16:59:22+00:00
The original definition was very different. The main thing with vibe coding is that you don't care about the code. You don't even look at the code. You prompt, test that you got what you wanted, and move on. You can absolutely use cc to vibe code. But you can also use it to ... code based on prompts. Or specs. Or docs. Or whatever else. The difference is if you want / care to look at the code or not.
by OptionOfT | 2025-12-09 16:59:23+00:00
But I'm not interested in the AI's point of view. I have done that myself.

I want to hear your thoughts, based on your unique experience, not the AI's which is an average of the experience of the data it ingested. The things that are unique will not surface because they aren't seen enough times.

Your value is not in copy-pasting. It's in your experience.
by jquery | 2025-12-09 16:59:55+00:00
I had a lot of fun using Cases Ladder to find matches.

I know the game was horribly unbalanced against humans once bloodlust showed up, but I still quit after they "patched" bloodlust years later in Battle.net. Felt sacrilege, like patching the queen in chess. Yeah, the queen is imba, but that's chess. Beating an orc player as a human was a fun flex.
by me_again | 2025-12-09 16:59:56+00:00
I think there are 2 claims which this article conflates. I'll jokingly call them "Weak Whitney" and "Strong Whitney".

"Weak Whitney" is the claim that this very terse style is comprehensible given sufficient study. I find this plausible.

"Strong Whitney" is the claim that in many circumstances this style is _better_ than a more normal style, with full variable names, whitespace, etc. I am much less persuaded by that claim. When the article says things like "Note that d probably stands for “dimension” or perhaps “depth”; I’m unsure on this point." I'm like, yes, congratulations, that is exactly the point of using more descriptive names and/or comments.
Show HN: Tool to Submit Your Startup to 100 High-DR Directories
by Sharanxxxx | 2025-12-09 17:00:20+00:00
Hi everyone, I built this because I noticed many early-stage founders struggle with visibility. Even if you have a good product, it’s difficult for Google (and users) to discover it without basic backlinks and citations.

Directory submissions still help, but doing them manually across dozens of platforms takes a lot of time, and most “directory lists” online are outdated or filled with low-quality sites. I wanted a more reliable and consistent approach.

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by eskori | 2025-12-09 17:00:23+00:00
If HN mods think the rule should be applied whatever the community thinks (for now), then yes, it needs a rule.

As I see it, down-voting is an expression of the community posture, rules are an expression of the "space" posture. It's up to the space to determine if there is something relevant enough to include it in the rules.

And again, as I see it, community should also have a way to at least suggest modifications of the rules.

I agree with you in "People who can't take a hint aren't going to read the rules". But as they say: "Ignorance of the law does not exempt one from compliance."
by petter2025us | 2025-12-09 17:00:27+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Juan, former reliability engineer at NetApp where I handled 60+ critical incidents per month for Fortune 500 clients.

I built ARF after seeing the same pattern repeatedly: production AI systems fail silently, humans wake up at 3 AM, take 30-60 minutes to recover, and companies lose \$50K-\$250K per incident.

ARF uses 3 specialized AI agents:

Detective: Anomaly detection via FAISS vector memory Diagnostician: Root cause analysis with causal reasoning Predictive: Forecasts failures before they happen

Result: 2-minute MTTR (vs 45-minute manual), 15-30% revenue recovery.

Tech stack: Python 3.12, FAISS, SentenceTransformers, Gradio Tests: 157/158 passing (99.4% coverage) Docs: 42,000 words across 8 comprehensive files

Live demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/petter2025/agentic-reliability...

The interesting technical challenge was making agents coordinate without tight coupling. Each agent is independently testable but orchestrated for holistic analysis.

Happy to answer questions about multi-agent systems, production reliability patterns, or FAISS for incident recall!

GitHub: https://github.com/petterjuan/agentic-reliability-framework

(Also available for consulting if you need this deployed in your infrastructure: https://lgcylabs.vercel.app/)
by thih9 | 2025-12-09 17:00:42+00:00
What is this referencing?

I found a song called “Bernie smells a rat”[1], is that it or is it something different?

Edit: apparently there was a line in The Incredibles, a character Bernie Kropp shouts: “Don’t ‘Bernie’ me! This little rat is guilty!”.

[1]: https://genius.com/Sarah-lynch-bernie-smells-a-rat-lyrics
by bgwalter | 2025-12-09 17:01:01+00:00
That is X propaganda. The U.S. actively prohibits additional EU states getting nuclear weapons and does not really want a super strong EU. The U.S. profits from the military strength and "protection" with an overvalued dollar and people irrationally buying U.S. bonds.

The EU spends at least three times as much on defense as Russia. But hey, perhaps it should spend EUR 1 trillion and get active in the Middle East again, after the U.S. has kicked it out in the Suez crisis.
by ewoodrich | 2025-12-09 17:01:04+00:00
Fully agreed, aligns perfectly with my experience hitting the 95% done wall on a solo contract project recently. I still do the majority of work using agentic tools but the multiplier effect feeling evaporated at a certain point as the accumulated tech debt, complexity and scope creep enabled by how “easy” features felt with Claude Code/Codex early on finally caught up to me.

I (probably) still would have used CC heavily with benefit of hindsight but with a view that every seemingly “trivial” feature CC adds in the greenfield stage to be radioactive tech debt as the pile grows over time. Until reaching the point where CC starts being unable to comprehend its own work and I have to plan out tedious large scale refactors to get the codebase into a state approaching long term maintainability.
by retrac | 2025-12-09 17:01:20+00:00
The article sort of has a point; in a healthy economy this kind of labour would be done with capital equipment. A sawmill is much more efficient than a bunch of individuals chopping wood with axes. (Safer too, probably, when talking about injuries per unit.) The inability for this work to be done efficiently with capital reflects a flaw in the economic order. (The classic: poor people don't have the stuff to do things efficiently, and so remain poor.)

But this article has a certain feeling of contempt for hicks doing something as backwards as burning wood for warmth. Maybe it sticks out to me because I'm in Canada, where a significant % of all households (of all social classes) rely on wood. Because wood happens to be the cheapest source of heat. The fact that we burn wood is not a sign of industrial decay or primitiveness. It's a sign of there being a lot of trees and logging around these parts.

But at the same time, yes, it is associated with poverty. Wood smoke is unhealthy. And wood heat one of the highest rates of injury or fire in terms of home heating. Some people resort to it out of desperation, particularly junk wood and garbage that shouldn't even be burned. But not necessarily so. Back to the point of the article: is there quantified evidence that use of wood for heat is increasing in America among the poor? Or is this based on the author's impressions?
Show HN: A Simple Weekly Launch Platform for Solo Founders
by Sharanxxxx | 2025-12-09 17:01:51+00:00
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by nosianu | 2025-12-09 17:01:52+00:00
He is not the only one, this is normal now and not a sign of super-rich depravity.

Here in my Bavarian city I can get mangos explicitly labeled "flight mangos" ("Flugmangos" - German supermarket), for example. They look so much better than the regular ones, but at almost 10 Euros per piece I have not tried one yet since I still have dried mango pieces in the fridge.

Relevant: https://www.lufthansa-cargo.com/en/-/flying-fresh-12
by forgetfulness | 2025-12-09 17:01:57+00:00
The game's campaign being what it was made it so people never warmed up to it, the big hero-focused storylines and then mishandling of said characters (Kerrigan's abortive humanization and then rushed redemption, the Protoss being framed in entirely the wrong tone, the half baked epilogue) just made it so that the campaign didn't stick as Brod War's did, even if the gameplay was superior.
by sph | 2025-12-09 17:01:59+00:00
I am as pro-drug-legalisation as they come, but the US opioid epidemic can't be blamed solely on heroin being illegal.

Heroin is illegal in Europe as much as in the US, yet we do not have a horde of zombies high on fentanyl on our city street corners. What's the difference?

I honestly do not have the answer, but there is a brilliant TV show called "The Wire" that shows how the drug problem cannot be traced to a single cause, but it is systemic and you can place the blame at any echelon of society — which means it starts at the top. It's the result of corruption, collusion, lobbying, overpolicing the addicts yet underpolicing the doctors and private insurance companies that give opioid prescriptions out like candy. It's the politicians pocketing indirectly the result of this trade. It's the narcos being propped up by the US three-letter agencies because they play a certain role in whatever is today's bad dictator to be toppled. It's the massive inequality for some minorities that have often no other choice than start dealing, or start using, to deal with the stresses of increasingly expensive food and rent.

Good luck untangling this knot. You'd unravel the entire structure of modern USA.
by newsoftheday | 2025-12-09 17:02:06+00:00
> I've had Claude Code write an entire unit/integration test suite in a few hours (300+ tests) for a fairly complex internal tool. This would take me, or many developers I know and respect, days to write by hand.

What was the value add of those tests, when I tried this, AI would often re-write the code to make match its poorly written test.
by OutOfHere | 2025-12-09 17:02:18+00:00
Overall I think we need a lot more cameras in a lot more places. Their presence should be the default, but their feeds should not be monitored if there isn't a reported crime or a suspicion of one. I am not saying that the government should have default access to these feeds either.

A camera also helps exonerate someone who is not guilty, which is not an unimportant benefit.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-09 17:02:25+00:00
Totally, and that's fair; I hope the discussion can be more about the topic and not the quality of the article itself. Lots of other links in this thread on the topic (rural wood banks) that are relevant, and I think it's an interesting story about community, rural self reliance, governance system failures, etc. "Think in systems."

It's easy to say "this article is trash and move on." Lets do the hard way and talk about the topic instead of the piece specifically. Please try to be curious.

HN Search: "by:dang intellectual curiosity" - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-09 17:02:48+00:00
> The moment you get even a single fake product or wrong delivery all the perceived savings evaporate at once.

I’ve been buying on Amazon for 20 years, and I just avoid high value items. It’s great as an AliExpress with an easy return policy. If I get a fake or whatever, I return it or I toss it.

For higher value items, I go to other retailers, such as Costco.
by ulbu | 2025-12-09 17:03:03+00:00
I wanted to use it to capture my musical ideas. They usually come unexpectedly and in bundles. There's a problem though – one of them is 0:40-1:30 min in duration; the ring wouldn't last half a year for me.

I'm sure other musicians would love it as well, but are disqualified completely from the userbase. That's a shame as I think for us it would be really, really useful.

(The first iteration of a musical idea usually emerges somewhat spontaneously from an emotional state, and repetition always loses some important part of it. This ring could be an always-on photocamera for these spontaneous, naturally arising states.)
by rendaw | 2025-12-09 17:03:18+00:00
Immediately after mentioning the Playstation port, the article explicitly states (in bold, on a line on its own)

> Grandia is Best on Saturn.

If you specifically blog about how driving down route 66 in a '57 Chevy is better than driving down it in a '57 Packard, I think you have some responsibility to try to justify your claims. Otherwise it's just trolling.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-09 17:03:52+00:00
I think one path that could be used and wholy underrated is simply sitting with a user while they use/navigate your application. The user themselves doesn't necessarily need to be skilled tester, and you will need to have more session time than a skilled tester, but it does work and can help a lot.

Also, try using your app/site without a mouse. I've found it funny how many actual, experienced, sighted testers don't actually know the keyboard navigation for things like triggering menus, select boxes, etc. Personally, I don't think I could get used to the voice navigation myself, it's not that it doesn't work, it's just kind of noisy. Although, most sites are excessively noisy visually imo.
by miki123211 | 2025-12-09 17:03:52+00:00
You can understand 95+% of current LLM / neural network tech if you know what matrices are (on the "2d array" level, not the deeper lin alg intuition level), and if you know how to multiply them (and have an intuitive understanding why a matrix is a mapping between latent spaces and how a matrix can be treated as a list of vectors). Very basic matrix / tensor calculus comes in useful, but that's not really part of lin alg.

There are places where things like eigenvectors / eigenvalues or svd come into play, but those are pretty rare and not part of modern architectures (tbh, I still don't really have a good intuition for them).
by kennyadam | 2025-12-09 17:04:27+00:00
The battery lasts for 12-15 hours and how long you manage to stretch that out to is up to you. The site says "On average, I use it 10-20 times per day to record 3-6 second thoughts. That’s up to 2 years of usage."

So, you can use it for 30 seconds a day to get 2 years of usage. They also mention using it to control your music, the lights in your home and are assuming STT accuracy of 100% using a local model. The fallback of having to manually transcribe it from the audio recording if the STT fails is going to happen often enough that it'll get annoying. You're not going to be sending any messages to people as that will take a lot longer than 30 seconds a day.

I suspect the battery will last about 3 months if you just use it how you'd think it can be used. You would need to really discipline yourself to keep to a limit of 30 seconds of use a day.

I think they will need to end up adding some charging contacts to the surface once they start sending these things out into the wild or sales will be very limited.

How do you know how much time you have left on the ring's battery? Do you have to keep checking the app? Why not just use your phone for notes then.
by rus20376 | 2025-12-09 17:04:32+00:00
> AI on the other hand has the potential to put literally millions of individuals out of work. At a minimum, it is already augmenting the value of highly-skilled intellectual

This has been true since, say, 1955.

> This is the final capitalism cheat code. A worker who does not sleep or take time off.

That’s the hope that is driving the current AI Bubble. It has neither ever been true nor will be true with the current state of the art in AI. This realization is what is deflating the bubble.
by jmathai | 2025-12-09 17:04:36+00:00
I'm not sure if you're asking as a parent or an observer of parents. But it's not such a clear option given how entrenched we've made devices into children's lives.

My son's cross country team communicates via GroupMe and it's very difficult for him to stay up-to-date with the web version from a laptop. My daughter's friend group communicates via snapchat.

This doesn't mean parents have to allow everything. My daughter doesn't have Snapchat, for example. But there are definite tradeoffs like her being left out of many conversations and slowly getting excluded from friend groups as a result.

It's too much unnecessary complexity added to parenting and the motivation being profit by mega corps is why I suggest regulation is a valid place to start looking.
by haunter | 2025-12-09 17:05:16+00:00
Yet two of the most played games out there in 2025 are RTSes, Dota and League. The genre just progressed forward.

WC3 was peak design with the mod support (maps) where Dota originates from and and it was also the bane of the company. They couldn't monetize it and IceFrog choose Valve instead of them. No wonder that later Blizz games has 0 community support.
by trollbridge | 2025-12-09 17:05:21+00:00
Speaking as someone running a small business, and working with larger (200 employee) small businesses, this really isn’t the case.

Most places have Google Workspace now. It’s pervasive. Most also have Microsoft 365 in some form or another. People generally want GMail, not Exchange.

Syncing users between Zoom and Google is completely trivial as is automating onboarding and offboarding.

Paying 3 annual accounts is not much different than 1… and is a bonus if it leaves you the option to completely migrate off of on.

(Incidentally a pattern I’m seeing is a place has Google Workspace plus Zoom, and then employees buy their own copy of Microsoft 365.)
by misja111 | 2025-12-09 17:05:34+00:00
> I've had Claude Code write an entire unit/integration test suite in a few hours (300+ tests) for a fairly complex internal tool.

And what do you have then? 300 tests that test the behavior that's exposed by the implementations of the api. Are they useful? Probably some are, probably some are not. The ones that are not will just be clutter and maintenance overhead. Plus, there will be lots of use-cases for which you need to look a little deeper than just the api implementation, which are now not covered. And those kind of tests, tests that test real business use cases, are by far the most useful ones if you want to catch regressions.

So if your goal is to display some nice test coverage metrics on SonarQube or whatever, making your CTO happy, yes AI will help you enormously. But if your goal is to speed up development of useful test cases, less so. You will still gain from AI, but nowhere near 90%.
by Spivak | 2025-12-09 17:05:45+00:00
Lordy this comment section is tiring:

* The number of wood banks are increasing in Maine because of rising cost of living meaning residents can't afford the $300/cord anymore and because of cuts to the LIHEAP program.

* Wood banks function identically to food banks except it's for heat. A rise in the number of food banks as well as a rise in demand from food banks is a natural signal of economic conditions on the ground.

* Just like food banks, these wood banks are a source of community for the participants. Volunteering at a food bank stocking pantries and putting together bags with your friends is actually kind of fun which is where the heartwarming angle comes from.

* If you believe that it shouldn't be the community's job to come together to provide their neighbors food and heat and that's what government is supposed to be for then this reasonably looks like a failing.

* This government failing combined with the economic conditions that necessitate additional assistance signaling a downward spiral is broadly the author's thesis.

* Some general additional context: heating your home with wood is actually pretty great. It's often cheaper than other sources of heat, it's a form of renewable energy (and actually qualified for the Biden tax credit because of it) and there are high efficiency stoves that get the wood burning "clean" as well as tip the economics even more in favor of wood.