MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ruszki | 2026-01-26 18:05:53+00:00
Working code doesn’t mean the same for everyone. My coworker just started vibe coding. Her code works… on happy paths. It absolutely doesn’t work when any kind of error happens. It’s also absolutely impossible to refactor it in any way. She thinks her code works.

The same coworker asked to update a service to Spring Boot 4. She made a blog post about. She used LLM for it. So far every point which I read was a lie, and her workarounds make, for example tests, unnecessarily less readable.

So yeah, “it works”, until it doesn’t, and when it hits you, that you need to work more in sum at the end, because there are more obscure bugs, and fixing those are more difficult because of terrible readability.
by refurb | 2026-01-26 18:06:06+00:00
None of those things you stated are accurate.

Citizens do not need to carry papers.

Federal law enforcement (what you call “masked men”) cannot enter your property without a search warrant, nor take whoever they want without a I-200 or I-205 warrant for violating immigration law.

All migrants who are legal MUST carry proof of legal status as it’s the law - 8 U.S.C. § 1304(e). That includes tourists.

It’s not really that hard. Australia has strict enforcement of immigration laws. As does Japan. It’s never perfect but the practically zero enforcement for the past few decades in the US is a horrible situation that only encourages things like human trafficking and labor abuses.

Is that really what we want the US known for? A country where if you can smuggle yourself into at the risk of physical and sexual violence by cartels you might be able to get ahead assuming you can survive the abuse and exploitation of your labor? Immigration laws protect immigrants as much as they protect citizens.
by eigenspace | 2026-01-26 18:06:47+00:00
Sure, and right now, a product being owned by a corporation susceptible to direct influence from the US government is a massive negative when people are evaluating products.

The evalutation metric for various vital projects has massively changed over the last couple years. These European products still need to be technically good, but they no longer need to be better than American products in order to find customers.

With the current level of geopolitical tensions, this is nowhere near enough to cause a massive exodous where all systems that were previously working fine are ripped apart and replaced with new systems, *but* one can be sure that whenever people are looking at new projects, or updates to old systems, the evalutation metrics have changed quite a bit, and this is creating strong momentum for European tech.
by nozzlegear | 2026-01-26 18:07:01+00:00
You're not taking crazy pills, this is my exact experience too. I've been using my wife's eCommerce shop (a headless Medusa instance, which has pretty good docs and even their own documentation LLM) as a 100% vibe-coded project using Claude Code, and it has been one comedy of errors after another. I can't tell you how many times I've had it go through the loop of Cart + Payment Collection link is broken -> Redeploy -> Webhook is broken (can't find payment collection) -> Redeploy -> Cart + Payment Collection link is broken -> Repeat. And it never seems to remember the reasons it had done something previously – despite it being plastered 8000 times across the CLAUDE.md file – so it bumbles into the same fuckups over and over again.

A complete exercise in frustration that has turned me off of all agentic code bullshit. The only reason I still have Claude Code installed is because I like the `/multi-commit` skill I made.
Show HN: Using ASTs to visualize complex codebases
by codeviewer | 2026-01-26 18:07:05+00:00
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by noosphr | 2026-01-26 18:07:17+00:00
There are no white LEDs. Just blue LEDs with coatings that convert a fraction of blue/violet light into lower energy colours. They work the same way that fluorescent light do.

This means that LEDs produce a much higher amount of blue light that incandescents: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Spectrum-of-a-white-LED-...

Blue/violet light is known to cause cancer for a century now: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41416-020-01231-7
by galangalalgol | 2026-01-26 18:07:24+00:00
That isn't what I've seen. It seems to use every language in the way idiomatic for it, or more accurately, in the way it has een that language be ised. Rust written that way isn't present in it's training corpus so it doesn't do that. I would be more concerned about it getting creative and adding something a cool rustacean might add in the porting process that you don't actually want.
by MSFT_Edging | 2026-01-26 18:07:30+00:00
This is only a realistic expectation for the single person who needs that hammer.

Otherwise we'll all individually be burning power via GPUs to reinvent the wheel thousands of times.

Also, look at the level of effort to maintain any bespoke machine. Assembly lines with interchangeable parts were a big deal for a reason. That follows with software via standard libraries and APIs. If you reinvent your software wheel every time, we'll all have careers trying to fix the deluge of slop that has been generated.
by pigpop | 2026-01-26 18:07:36+00:00
Well it would be both sides of The Narrative aka the partisan divide aka the conditioned response that news outlets like Fox News, CNN, etc. want you to incorporate into your thinking. None of them are concerned with delivering unbiased facts, only with saying the things that 1) bring in money and 2) align with the views of their chosen centers of power be they government, industry, culture, finance, or whoever else they want to cozy up to.
by rawgabbit | 2026-01-26 18:07:38+00:00
I saw it 20+ years ago in the US airline industry. At the time, the pilots and the flight attendants were considered a unit; they were scheduled as a unit and worked the same flights and overnighted at the same hotels. Most US airlines started scheduling the pilots and the flight attendants separately. The tradeoff is yes, this usually results in more efficiency or cost-savings. But when there is a severe snowstorm as happened to Southwest a few years ago; Southwest lost track of the pilots and the flight attendants and it made a bad problem exponentially more difficult.
by nh23423fefe | 2026-01-26 18:08:00+00:00
AI was useless for me on a refactor of a repo 20k loc even after I gave examples of the migrations I wanted in commits.

It would correctly modify a single method. I would ask it to repeat for next and it would fail.

The code that our contractors are submitting is trash and very high loc. When you inspect it you can see that unit tests are testing nothing of value.

when(mock.method(foo)).thenReturn(bar)
assert(bar == bar)

stuff like that

its all fake coverage, for fake tests, for fake OKRs

what are people actually getting done? I've sat next to our top evangelist for 30 minutes pair programming and he just fought the tool saying something was wrong with the db while showing off some UI I dont care about.

like that seems to be the real issue to me. i never bother wasting time with UI and just write a tool to get something done. but people seem impressed that AI did some shitty data binding to a data model that cant do anything, but its pretty.

it feels weird being an avowed singularitarian but adamant that these tools suck now.
by captain_coffee | 2026-01-26 18:08:06+00:00
the first 10 what? Years? It's actually not like that: https://www.government.nl/topics/income-tax/shortening-30-pe...

From 1 January 2024, expats who meet the conditions receive the following tax benefits:

- 30% tax free for the first 20 months;

- 20% tax free for the next 20 months;

- 10% tax free for the last 20 months.

So that's a tapered reduction over the first 5 years and the amount of money that you gain after tax is between negligeable and insultingly small.

Basically in its current form "The Dutch 30% ruling" is not really worth it, if you want to move to The Netherlands do it for other reasons, and the advertisment of this mechanism feels borderline disingenious in its current form.
by class3shock | 2026-01-26 18:08:19+00:00
Is it time? Maybe. Will they do it? Probably not. The European countries constantly talk and never act. It took the second Russian invasion of Ukraine for them to even barely start to do anything and even now, they are still trying to get the US to continue to be the backbone of their defense strategy. Even as the US takes actions that (in their minds) are ruining that idea, instead of acting, they just complain and condemn.

Even if tomorrow they decided to actual work together and invest in their own capabilities it would be decades before they would be free of the US defense sector and they know it and it's why they are so resistant to the idea. I think you would need to see more aggression by the Russians combined with substantially more shenanigans by the US (more than just bombastic announcements for the sake of grabbing media attention) for that to change because you are talking about trillion dollar investment, every year, for decades to walk a different path.
by Braxton1980 | 2026-01-26 18:08:19+00:00
The market makes decisions on quality and pride but it can also use politics, patriotism, religion, and other factors which may not have the greatest impact compared to the first two.

It's possible that both the appeal of home* grown product (patriotism) combined with distaste of the current US government and the tech companies that support it (politics) is enough to push people to switch even if the quality is lower
by GoatInGrey | 2026-01-26 18:08:22+00:00
That's a significant rub with LLMs, particularly hosted ones: the variability. Add in quantization, speculative decoding, and dynamic adjustment of temperature, nucleus sampling, attention head count, & skipped layers at runtime, and you can get wildly different behaviors with even the same prompt and context sent to the same model endpoint a couple hours apart.

That's all before you even get to all of the other quirks with LLMs.
by irl_zebra | 2026-01-26 18:08:40+00:00
LLMs are indeed the definition of trendy (I've found using Google Trends to dive in is a good entry point to get a broad sense of whether something is "trendy")! Basically the right way to think about it is that something can be promising, and demonstrate emerging capabilities, but but those things don't make something SOTA, nor do they make it trendy. They can be related though (I expect everything SOTA was once promising and emerging, but not everything promising or emerging became SOTA). It's a subtlety that isn't super easy to grasp, but (and here is one area I think an LLM can show promise) an LLM like ChatGPT can help unpick the distinctions here. Still, it's slightly nuanced and I understand the confusion.
by Agentlien | 2026-01-26 18:08:43+00:00
There's a lot of truth to that. I actually bought Disgaea 5 confident I would love it based on a review which did a really good job describing what the game is like, even though the reviewer didn't like it at all.

I also used to love Zero Punctuation even though I didn't agree with half of what he said. But I got a bit fed up with how smug Yahtzee is. He can be really funny, but also way too sure of his own brilliance.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-26 18:08:44+00:00
There was a recent hn post about how chatgpt mentions Grokpedia so many times.

Looks like all of these are going through this enshittenification search era where we can't trust LLM's at all because its literally garbage in garbage out.

Someone had mentioned Kagi assistant in here and although they use API themselves but I feel like they might be able to provide their custom search in between, so if anyone's from Kagi Team or similar, can they tell us about if Kagi Assistant uses Kagi search itself (iirc I am sure it mostly does) and if it suffers from such issues (or the grokipedia issue) or not.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-26 18:09:22+00:00
Standing up a modern-node EUVL fab is harder than rocket science. Tesla and xAI don't have the capex to do it, and the silicon they manufacture would be competing against much more experienced fabs like Samsung and Intel.

Frankly it is hopeless, I would be dumbfounded if Elon ever walked through the doors of ASML.
by jerlam | 2026-01-26 18:09:34+00:00
They probably don't pay rent for the spot. The point of a food truck is that it's technically just a vehicle, and vehicles are allowed to move and park whenever there is parking. I'm sure there are rules about how long a vehicle can stay in one location and other restrictions, and there are fights about which food truck was "there first", but I don't think they pay rent in the traditional sense in public areas.
by torginus | 2026-01-26 18:09:42+00:00
It's weird to see this naivete about the US system, as if US social media doesn't have its ways of dealing with wrongthink, or the once again naive assumption that the average Chinese methods of dealing with unpleasant stuff is that dissimilar from how the US deals with it.

I sometimes have the image that Americans think that if the all Chinese got to read Western produced pamphlet detailing the particulars of what happened in Tiananmen square, they would march en-masse on the CCP HQ, and by the next week they'd turn into a Western style democracy.

How you deal with unpleasant info is well established - you just remove it - then if they put it back, you point out the image has violent content and that is against the ToS, then if they put it back, you ban the account for moderation strikes, then if they evade that it gets mass-reported. You can't have upsetting content...

You can also analyze the stuff, you see they want you to believe a certain thing, but did you know (something unrelated), or they question your personal integrity or the validity of your claims.

All the while no politically motivated censorship is taking place, they're just keeping clean the platform of violent content, and some users are organically disagreeing with your point of view, or find what you post upsetting, and the company is focused on the best user experience possible, so they remove the upsetting content.

And if you do find some content that you do agree with, think it's truthful, but know it gets you into trouble - will you engage with it? After all, it goes on your permanent record, and something might happen some day, because of it. You have a good, prosperous life going, is it worth risking it?
by labcomputer | 2026-01-26 18:09:47+00:00
> I wish them luck, but while saying folks will drop the dominant apps seems all the rage at the moment people have been saying this for decades with almost no real progress at scale.

This feels different.

Up to now there hasn't a really good technical reason to want to switch from, say, Zoom to Teams (or vice versa). You might switch because of network effects: all your friends / coworkers are on the other one. But, video chat is basically a commodity (all work "good enough" and the features are broadly similar) and has been for quite some time.

What's different is that now all (or nearly all) the people contributing to the network effect simultaneously have a reason to want to switch. So the network effect, which was the only thing that was really "sticky" about any of these apps, is gone.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-26 18:10:06+00:00
Not just youtube either. With meta & tiktok paying out for "engagement" that means all forms of engagement is good to the creator, not just positive engagement, so these companies are directly encouraging "rage bait" type content and pure propaganda and misinformation because it gets people interacting with the content.

There's no incentive to produce anything of value outside of "whatever will get me the most clicks/like/views/engagement"
by convolvatron | 2026-01-26 18:10:18+00:00
note that the control systems you were talking about before (i.e. PID) would probably take hold pretty directly in a tiny network, and exactly because of that limitation, be far less likely to contain 'hallucinations'. object avoidance and path planning are likely similar.

since this is a limited and continuous domain, its a far better one for neural training than natural language. I guess this notion that a language model should be used for 3d motion control is a real indicator about the level of thought going into some of these applications.
by traceroute66 | 2026-01-26 18:10:29+00:00
> Then it will be clear who's really in power.

If China closed the door overnight to the US, it would also be clear who's really in power.

The US simply does not have the capacity to replicate the manufacturing domestically.

Even if it were possible, "100% Made in the US" would end up costing at least 20–30% more.

And the US does not have a plan B. Sure there might be India .... one day....years away.
Qwen3-Max-Thinking Drops: 36T Tokens
by SilasYee | 2026-01-26 18:10:37+00:00
Alibaba has officially launched Qwen3-Max-Thinking, a trillion-parameter MoE flagship LLM pretrained on 36T tokens—double the corpus of Qwen 2.5—and it’s already matching or outperforming top-tier models like GPT-5.2-Thinking, Claude-Opus-4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro across 19 authoritative benchmarks. Its two core technical breakthroughs are what truly set it apart.

First, Adaptive Tool Calling: No manual prompts are needed—it autonomously invokes search engines, memory tools, and code interpreters based on task demands. This cuts down on hallucinations and boosts real-time problem-solving; for instance, coding tasks trigger automatic error correction loops, while research tasks combine search with context synthesis. Second, Test-Time Scaling (TTS): It outperforms standard parallel sampling by refining reasoning through iterative insights, with measurable jumps in key benchmarks—GPQA rose from 90.3 to 92.8, LiveCodeBench v6 hit 91.4 from 88.0, and IMO-AnswerBench climbed to 91.5 from 89.5.

Notably, its preview version even achieved 100% accuracy in tough math contests like AIME 25 and HMMT 25. The model runs smoothly on web/desktop demos, and its API is production-ready with adjustable thinking budgets (up to 80K tokens by default) to balance depth and speed. This isn’t just an incremental update—it’s a leap that closes the gap in reasoning and tool integration for real-world academic and engineering tasks.

Check it out: https://chat.qwen.ai/
by adamnemecek | 2026-01-26 18:11:06+00:00
The change happened on or around Jan 21. Overnight the results went from pretty good to absolute trash.

Here are two screenshots taken on Jan 20 and Jan 23
https://bsky.app/profile/adamnemecek.bsky.social/post/3mdbup...

They don't do full text search anymore esp for copyrighted books. I wonder if this is not a regression but an intent to give them a let up in the AI race.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-01-26 18:11:44+00:00
>nightmare gets worse

Gets?

It was actually just as bad when first deployed as it is now, but none of the key humans who were supposed to know about things like this in advance, knew about any of it in advance.

That's the approach that makes it the gift that keeps on giving.

Or the embarrassment that keeps on embarrassing.

Is there a person or team having high standards that is able to accurately say when the changes introduced by this particular download alone have been thoroughly reviewed to their satisfaction?

Or will there ever be anybody like that ever again?
by adev_ | 2026-01-26 18:11:52+00:00
> Meanwhile in Europe ? Take your time job hunting a new job, healthcare is still free.

Currently, healthcare coverage tend to be better in several European countries when you are jobless... because the system try to compensate the fact you do not have income anymore.

Don't get me wrong, their is many 'flaws' in several European healthcare systems and it is far from perfect. but it tends to be more "human" and less "for profit".
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-26 18:11:55+00:00
I mean perhaps, I don't know what lm28469 mentions, perhaps I can test it but I feel like those LLM generated videos would be some days/months old.

If I ask a prompt right now and the video's say 1-4 months old, then the conspiracy theory falls short.

Unless.. Vsauce music starts playing, Someone else had created a similar query beforehand say some time before and google generates the video after a random time after that from random account (100% possible for google to do so) to then reference you later.

Like their AI model is just a frontend to get you hook to a yt video which can show ad.

Hm...

Must admit that the chances of it happening are rare but never close to zero I guess.

Fun conspiracy theory xD
by swiftcoder | 2026-01-26 18:12:36+00:00
> “the sky is falling” rhetoric

It's hardly rhetoric, from the European perspective. The EU is already embroiled in a proxy war against a major power in Ukraine, and are now faced with the prospect of their strongest erstwhile ally moving to annex EU territory.

Simultaneous war on two fronts, where one opponent is deeply embedded in your supply chains, is an existential threat.
by zarzavat | 2026-01-26 18:13:04+00:00
A good time to quote our dear leader:

> No one gets in trouble for saying that 2 + 2 is 5, or that people in Pittsburgh are ten feet tall. Such obviously false statements might be treated as jokes, or at worst as evidence of insanity, but they are not likely to make anyone mad. The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.

People are upset when AIs are anthropomorphized because they feel threatened by the idea that they might actually be intelligent.

Hence the woefully insufficient descriptions of AIs such as "next token predictors" which are about as fitting as describing Terry Tao as an advanced gastrointestinal processor.
by cxr | 2026-01-26 18:13:07+00:00
> Providing a web app with edit access to a local directory is really needed for this to be usable.

"This" what? sha256sum doesn't need read-write access for even one file to be able to compute a hash, let alone a whole directory. You're ignoring most of my comment, focusing on like 20%, and in so doing, missing (and/or deliberately misframing) 100% of the point.
by GoatInGrey | 2026-01-26 18:13:34+00:00
I feel like there is a nuance here. I use GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, and unless I tell it to not do anything, or explicitly enable a plan mode, the LLM will usually jump straight to file edits. This happens even if I prompt it with something as simple as "Remind me how loop variable scoping works in this language?".
by mhitza | 2026-01-26 18:13:34+00:00
Ubuntu Touch, plasma mobile, postmarketOS, would be better to be supported, rather than straight up Debian as an app for ants.

I'm curios if anyone has support experience with nex. I emailed them about the nexdock xl availability outside the US (more than 6 months ago) and still haven't heard back, and went with a uperfect (replica? same "builder"? Who knows)