MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krackers | 2026-01-25 01:39:13+00:00
A lot of stuff is simultaneously useful but not mission critical, which is where I think the sweet spot of LLMs currently lies.

In terms of the state of software quality, the bar has actually been _lowered_, in that even major user-facing bugs in operating systems are no longer a showstopper. So it's no surprise to me that people are vibe-coding things "in prod" that they actually sell to other people (some even theorize claude code itself is vibe-coded, hence its bugs. And yet that hasn't slowed down adoption because of the claude max lock in).

So maybe one alternate way to see the "productivity gains" from vibe-coding in deployed software is that it's actually a realization that quality doesn't matter. The seeds for this were already laid years back when QA vanished as a field.

LLMs occupy a new realm in the pareto frontier, the "slipshod expert". Usually humans grow from "sloppy incompetent newb" to the "prudent experienced dev". But now we have a strange situation where LLMs can write code (e.g. vectorized loops, cuda kernels) that could normally only be done by those with sufficient domain knowledge, and yet (ironically) it's not done with the attention and fastidiousness you'd expect from such an experienced dev.
by oenton | 2026-01-25 01:39:24+00:00
> Private citizens on the street confronting law enforcement

What actions are you alleging qualifies as confronting? Be specific. Unless I have a wildly different definition of confronting, everything I've read and every video I've seen from different angles shows the opposite.

(This is setting aside the fact that having a concealed carry permit and carrying a legal firearm is not a death sentence in this country.)
by jithun10 | 2026-01-25 01:39:27+00:00
I built AI-KIT because I found most chatbot integrations were either too bloated or required complex dependencies.

I wanted a simple, 'drop-in' solution that stayed close to the basics.

AI-KIT is a premade AI chatbot focused on simplicity and ease of integration.

Key Technical Details:

1/ Minimalist Tech Stack: Built entirely with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS to ensure it works anywhere without a heavy framework.

2/ Integration Ready: Includes pre-configured code for API connections (e.g., OpenAI/Anthropic).

3/ Open Source: Licensed under MIT and available for anyone to self-host or modify.

I’m looking for feedback on the UI simplicity and whether the API integration feels intuitive for other developers.

GitHub: https://github.com/JithunMethusahan/AI-Kit.git

I'll be around to answer any questions about the implementation!"
by maltalex | 2026-01-25 01:39:48+00:00
Tangentially, the fact that we're still using gigabit connections in our homes and especially offices in 2026 is weird. Gigabit Ethernet is over two decades old, but it's still the most common standard. Both 2.5 and 10 Gbps are effectively niche technologies.

I get it; it's "good enough" in most cases, like USB 2.0. But it still sucks we haven't moved past it.
by jason_oster | 2026-01-25 01:40:38+00:00
My Samsung TV from 2013 is a smart TV with AI voice control features.

My scanner from 2003 has OCR.

Gaming has a very rich history with AI innovations. 1996's Creatures is a standout example.

AI has always been everywhere around you. AI predates me and you. The reason you're hearing about it now is because of the capability increase brought about by the lower cost of greater scale. But it's still in the uncanny valley. It is still flawed. To paraphrase John McCarthy, that's what makes it AI [^1].

I know you're fatigued from hearing about AI for the last three years. But I have been hearing about it for decades with the same magnitude of excitement and dismissal from pro-AI and anti-AI critics. Alan Turing laid the foundations for the technological singularity in 1950. Discourse has accelerated since the early 80's and 90's by writers like Vernor Vinge and computer scientists like Ray Kurzveil.

I encourage you to pay attention. Not to recent hype, but to what is actually happening. Steady innovation as always. That you were blindsided by it is curious.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
by shakna | 2026-01-25 01:42:05+00:00
I was not speaking to just one case. Today's incident, is _the norm_.

These attacks are widespread, damaging, and the repercussions are felt for decades in their wake. We _are_ being carpet bombed, and the costs for the victims are ongoing and growing. The collateral damage is everywhere.

Do you really think there's no impact?

> Cyber units from at least one nation state routinely try to explore and exploit Australia’s critical infrastructure networks, almost certainly mapping systems so they can lay down malware or maintain access in the future.

> We recently discovered one of those units targeting critical networks in the United States. ASIO worked closely with our American counterpart to evict the hackers and shut down their global accesses, including nodes here in Australia.

> https://www.intelligence.gov.au/news/asio-annual-threat-asse...
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-25 01:42:49+00:00
Thank you - that’s what I was wondering. I noticed that Elon and others who were talking about how Robotaxis have improved, were saying something like ‘there is no safety driver’. They didn’t just say flat out that it is autonomous. I wonder if all that’s happened, is that they have a remote operator. I simply can’t believe the claims that FSD is anywhere near what Waymo can do.
by replwoacause | 2026-01-25 01:43:00+00:00
I've done plenty of vibe coding even though I know how to program but I mostly work with a single agent through its CLI. The progress is really good and more importantly, I can follow it. I can read the output, test it, and understand what changed and why. I don't see much upside in swarms. But I do see the downside which is losing the ability to keep the whole system in my head. The codebase starts growing in directions I didn't choose and it seems decisions will get made I didn't review. Early AI autocomplete that could finish a function already felt like a big productivity win and then AI that could write whole files was an even bigger jump. Like pretty massive. Running one agent at a time, watching what it does, and vetting the output still works well for me and still feels like a strong multiplier. But now there's so much more ceremony: AGENTS.md, SKILLS.md, delegation frameworks. I guess I'm not convinced that leads to better outcomes but I'm probably missing something. It just seems like a tradeoff that sacrifices understanding for ostensible progress.
by briHass | 2026-01-25 01:43:25+00:00
M365 (the business plans) are an insane value, with zero competition. Remote management of devices, zero-touch provisioning of new hardware, full security suite, etc.

There's nothing OSS or commercial that even comes close, especially for the price.

I'm sure the average small business doesn't even use half of the functionality, but it's all there when they want to get serious about security/administration, or it can be outsourced to turnkey MSPs.
by travisgriggs | 2026-01-25 01:43:41+00:00
About 7 years ago, we deployed a “gateway/orchestration” role device in ag tech. Power draw is a big concern for us (not a lot of free power out in the middle of fields). We used an SBC from Emtrion. I remember asking my EE counterpart at the time “why not a Pi? Surely someone makes hardened versions of those?” He was skeptical and I think the aura of “toy/hobby/maker” scared him off.

Fast forward. We’re getting ready to role out our next generation. It’s based on the Pi Compute Module 4 (the CMs are basically just the basic Pi and you put your own carrier board for peripherals under it). It is amazing. It has easily 20x the power, 20x the RAM, better temp specs and such, a great eco system, uses about 30% less power, and about 1/5 of the price. The only thing we’re not sure about yet, is the robustness of the BLE with the onboard radio chip.

It’s amazing how far these things have come. For low volume product builds, it’s hard to find a reason not to use one of the CMs.
by weitendorf | 2026-01-25 01:43:47+00:00
I generally agree although I think gRPC and using it with json is awesome, it's just that like with most of these tools, the investment in setup/tooling/integrating them into your work has to be worth what you get out of them.

I actually used to do FaaS at GCP and now through my startup am working on a few projects for cloud services, tooling around them, and composable/linkable FaaS if you're interested! A lot of this logic isn't in our public repos yet but hit me up if you want a try fully automated Golang->proto+gRPC/http+openapi+ts bindings+client generation+linker-based-builds.

A project we started for "modular monoliths" that need local state but not super high availability as databases is at https://github.com/accretional/collector, but I had to put it on pause for the past few weeks to work on other stuff and figure out a better way to scale it. Basically it's a proto ORM based on sqlite that auto configures a bunch of CRUD/search and management endpoints for each "Collection", and via a CollectionRepo additional Collections can be created at runtime. The main thing I invested time into was backups/cloning these sqlite dbs since that's what allows you to scale up and down more flexibly than a typical db and not worry as much about availability or misconfiguration.
by shakna | 2026-01-25 01:44:52+00:00
If that was the case... Why would those same people be putting forward protocols to implement? Why do they have to fight for Wayland just to say no?

Wayland is the gutter sink here. Nobody else. Everyone else has done what they can, and continue to do what they can. Wayland has said no to the very interfaces you claim need to be implemented - they already have been.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-25 01:44:54+00:00
Think of it like this. If you're multilingual but I ask you a hard question with sections in different languages, it's still going to tax you to solve the problem over having the question be asked in one language.

If you codegen client wrappers from your specs that can help, but if something doesn't work predictably the indirection makes debugging harder (both just from a "cognitive" standpoint and from inability to directly debug a unified system).

I prefer FaaS + shared libraries over microservices when I have to part things out, because it gives you the independence and isolation of microservices, but you're still sharing code across teams and working with a unified stack.
by rchaud | 2026-01-25 01:45:22+00:00
Tech's march towards vertical integration-powered cross-selling and turning everything into a digital-only product or perpetual subscription is sending a lot of people searching for alternatives. Just off the top of my head, I'm aware of growing interest in communities related to single purpose devices like:

- Retro gaming handhelds, which these days are capable of handling every console before the PS3, and their popularity is a clear rebuff to the Nintendo Switch's game pricing, not to mention the horrific microtransaction-riddled landscape of "mobile gaming".

- Standalone MP3 players, which are selling very well thanks to notification hell on our phones and dissatisfaction with music streaming giants.

- Portable DVD players, which can be bought online or thrifted cheaply, as frustration builds with constant licensing changes causing Netflix and the like to remove shows without warning. DVDs can be bought extremely cheaply, and a lot of users are not cinephiles who won't touch anything that's not at least 1080P.
by sylware | 2026-01-25 01:45:50+00:00
First, get rid of whatng web engines and google/apple apps... wait.... mmmmmh... how many devs fully subsidized to dev and maintain some "replacement"?

On this matter, the only way out, technically simple protocols but doing a good enough job allowing a small team of average devs or even an individual average dev to develop and maintain an alternative software with a reasonable amount of effort. That with some hardcore regulations to allow them to exist. Remember that nearly 100% of the only services were fine with the classic web, aka noscript/basic (x)html web (and if you add only the <video> and <audio> elements you are getting dangerously closer to those 100%)

Don't forget, you cannot compet on economic grounds and international finance, their thousands of billions of $ will wreck you. And china is on the other side of the spectrum. You will end-up crushed on both sides.

And first thing first: some high performance EU silicon (design and manufacturing)? But we all know the state-of-the-art silicon tech is an international effort.

defence grade effort at EU scale... oooof!
by insane_dreamer | 2026-01-25 01:47:05+00:00
the DOJ won't and that's why it happened again only a few days after Renee Good, and will continue to happen.

It's not just that the DOJ won't investigate. It's actively preventing the state from investigating either.

if this continues, it's going to explode, and I think that's part of the plan, to provide cover for invoking the Insurrection Act and imposing martial law
by discovrapp | 2026-01-25 01:47:16+00:00
i'm an apprentice electrician based in bc, canada. i know how to pull wire but i knew absolutely zero swift before starting this project.
i just wanted a simple way to find local events without checking a dozen different sites, so i decided to try building it with claude.
my workflow was pretty simple:
* i used 3.5 sonnet for most of the swiftui views since it's fast for visual stuff.
* i switched to opus and eventually the new 4.5 model for the heavier logic, like writing node scripts to scrape event data and fixing app store rejection issues.
the app is called Discovr.
it's free to download. i did have to put some ads in there just to help cover the server costs (gotta keep the lights on lol).
honestly it feels crazy that i can build software while working a trade job just by chatting with an ai. if you're on the fence about starting a project, just go for it.
by mindslight | 2026-01-25 01:47:19+00:00
Was the customer wearing a mask of the style the ICE chickenshits use to hide their faces from legal accountability? If so, then yes it sounds like the restaurant owner should have suspected they were a member of the hostile invading force and not served them.

If they removed their mask before getting to the restaurant, and the restaurant owner had no other reason to suspect them, then the restaurant owner is in the clear. But hopefully someone took a picture of their face so they can be on the early admission list for Nuremberg 2.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-25 01:47:42+00:00
> I want to make a persistent implant/malware that survives OS reinstalls.

You want to look into something called "Windows Platform Binary Table" [1]. Figure out a way to reflash the BIOS or the UEFI firmware for your target device ad-hoc and there you have your implant.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19800807
by mrtesthah | 2026-01-25 01:49:26+00:00
Citizens United is precisely why we have a majority of politicians following the will of the donor class rather than a majority of actual voters. It’s why we lack universal healthcare, for example, despite 62% of Americans supporting it a year ago, with a similar number supporting raising the minimum wage.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

Regarding the last national election:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/fift...

The Court’s decision and others that followed shaped the 2024 election to a greater degree than any that came before it. Most notably, Donald Trump substantially trailed Kamala Harris in traditional campaign donations, which are subject to legal limits and must be disclosed. Yet he was able to compensate for this disadvantage by outsourcing much of his campaign to super PACs and other outside groups funded by a handful of wealthy donors. While such groups had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on ads in previous cycles, this was the first time they successfully took on many of the other core functions of a general election presidential campaign, such as door-to-door canvassing and get-out-the-vote efforts. Their activities unquestionably would have been illegal before Citizens United.
by nullocator | 2026-01-25 01:49:41+00:00
The unfortunate truth I think is that no matter how many people might be with this idea of just "rising up" and taking back the country, america is is fucking massive and many cities and towns there is no noticeable ice or border patrol presence. So even if you can get people out and protesting at some common meaningless locations its going to be symbolic at best.

If you want out-of-band change in the U.S. it will at minimum take some combination of three things:

- sustained weeks or months long protests in D.C.

- extreme social pressure on congress representatives no matter where they may be.

- state governments in rebellion or threatening it against the federal government.

I don't think we're particular close on any of these.

Otherwise tough luck, wait for the probably manipulated elections.
by insane_dreamer | 2026-01-25 01:50:06+00:00
Can you imagine if other people hadn't been around filming what happened here and the murder of Renee Good? The Gov would completely cover it up, make the victims look like domestic terrorists, and we'd never be able to show the truth.

That's why Good and Pretti doing what they were doing -- observing and filming -- is so damn important, and why ICE will literally murder people, with the full backing of the Trump Administration, to stop it.
by alphazard | 2026-01-25 01:50:59+00:00
Every time I read something like this, it strikes me as an attempt to convince people that various people-management memes are still going to be relevant moving forward.
Or even that they currently work when used on humans today.
The reality is these roles don't even work in human organizations today. Classic "job_description == bottom_of_funnel_competency" fallacy.

If they make the LLMs more productive, it is probably explained by a less complicated phenomenon that has nothing to do with the names of the roles, or their descriptions.
Adversarial techniques work well for ensuring quality, parallelism is obviously useful, important decisions should be made by stronger models, and using the weakest model for the job helps keep costs down.
by xyzzy123 | 2026-01-25 01:51:41+00:00
You mean… by making a forward-looking estimates of cost, time-to-value, return? (even if it's implicit, not documented, and vibes-based).

When devs refuse to estimate, it just pushes the estimating up the org chart. Execs still have to commit resources and do sequencing — they’ll just do it with less information.
by dgreensp | 2026-01-25 01:51:41+00:00
This piece starts off making it sound like the computer is pretty much doing all the work, while the human maybe weighs in on a matter of taste once in a while, if they like, but by the end, the list of what the LLM can actually do is really short. Implementing a sorting algorithm for you, perhaps, but not necessarily one without “egregious flaws,” and really you should still use a library for that. Replacing high-quality libraries of mature software, that have tests, etc, is obviously one of the poorer uses of vibe-slop coding.

It comes down to “adding code” that attempts to, or seems to, achieve something.
by DanOpcode | 2026-01-25 01:51:57+00:00
Very cool! A couple of questions:

1. Are you using a Claude Code subscription? Or are you using the Claude API? I'm a bit scared to use the subscription in OpenCode due to Anthropic's ToS change.

2. How did you choose what models to use in the different agents? Do you believe or know they are better for certain tasks?
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-25 01:52:05+00:00
I am sorry, but I missed something.

Was this "male nurse" (I do not see how his gender matters) present on the scene in the capacity of "an ICU nurse" responding to an incident? Was he designated by his employer's ICU to go care for a woman in the scene of a riot in-progress?

If he was wearing his badge, on the clock, and acting on behalf of his employer, when he interposed his armed self in the middle of a riot-in-progress, then his employer should have his back, and he would definitely have been in the right, because it is his employer who assumed liability, by sending him to the scene of a riot, to care for a woman, in his capacity as an ICU nurse.

I would also, incidentally, be amazed at any insurance carrier, especially corporate or health care insurance, that would cover incidents or pay out for liability, during civil unrest/disobedience/violence in the streets. Because I can tell ya right now, my renters policy doesn't cover that shit. Not a dime.

So do I have all those deets correct?
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-25 01:52:35+00:00
There’s no consequences to Musk not delivering and simply making up bullshit.

I just saw a LinkedIn post from someone totally unrelated to Musk, or Tesla fawning about how amazing the Tesla Optimus robots are, how they are going to operate in space and how he would prefer one to give him surgery over a doctor.

100s of positive interactions followed

Humans seem to need some fiction to believe to get them through their day.

So as long as people don’t demand that reality is the driver of their future they will continue to live in whatever fantasy world that makes them the main character
by WalterBright | 2026-01-25 01:52:56+00:00
D accomplishes this by using Compile Time Function Execution to build D source code from strings, and then inline compiling the D code. Learning a macro language is unnecessary, as it's just more D code.

This kind of thing is very popular among D users.

https://dlang.org/spec/statement.html#mixin-statement

https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#mixin_expressions
Show HN: L3Binance – Market surveillance engine in Rust with integrated ML
by blacktis | 2026-01-25 01:54:15+00:00
L3 Engine is a market surveillance system written in Rust. It doesn't just look at the price; L3 reconstructs the individual order flow (Level 3) to reveal market intent: it detects spoofing, layering, and phantom liquidity in microseconds, before the price moves.
by smsm42 | 2026-01-25 01:55:37+00:00
If Europe were capable of doing this, Europe would not need to do this. They'd already have active and vibrant tech scene compared to US one - EU is bigger than US by population, and certainly not less smart - in fact, a lot of people live in EU and work for US tech companies. So why US has "big tech" and Europe does not? They decided their political model must work differently, even at the cost of not having big tech. So now they don't have big tech. And no amount of committee meetings is going to change that, even if all governments would want it really, really hard.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2026-01-25 01:55:41+00:00
A month or two without power does not seem like an enormous crisis?

Stuxnet destroyed centrifuges. It does not seem impossible that a sophisticated attack could shred some critical equipment.
During the Texas 2021 outage -they were incredibly close to losing the entire grid and being in a blackstart scenario. Estimates were that it could take weeks to bring back power - all this without any physical equipment destroyed or malicious code within the network.
by SauciestGNU | 2026-01-25 01:56:08+00:00
I would probably not do that, but it's not illegal to carry a gun. Who knows if he set out to protest or if he just was in the area and spontaneously decided to record when he observed federal agents? He could be one of many Americans who carry a gun regularly. Maybe he didn't intend to do any protesting or anything at all.