MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kelseydh | 2026-01-28 03:33:28+00:00
Claude Code does empower developers to do deep higher level work. It's easier to generate advanced changes now.

E.g. database optimisations a Senior Engineer might do, such as designing a database partition or creating a complex composite index. The problem? When Claude recommends more advanced solutions without a deep understanding it is easy to miss where the foot guns lie or if Claude got it outright wrong.

It's like being handed a chainsaw when you had an axe. Without good judgement, it's easy to cut down the wrong trees.
by rvz | 2026-01-28 03:33:32+00:00
No. Maybe it is a problem for the author and many others who fit this profile:

> I love to solve problems using Web Technologies. JavaScript/TypeScript (along with the foundation, that is, HTML and CSS)

"coding" is "dead" for Web Technologies and frontend roles (for those looking for inflated starting salaries at $200K+) because AI can do at least 98% of the work and can at best one shot this sort of work.
Amazon Discontinuing One Palm?
by sshillo | 2026-01-28 03:33:38+00:00
Just got this email

Hello,

We're reaching out because you have an active Amazon One account. Amazon One palm authentication services will be discontinued at retail businesses on June 3, 2026. You can continue using Amazon One at participating locations until that date.
Amazon will automatically delete Amazon One user data, including palm data. No action is needed from you.
Thank you for using Amazon One. For more information, see the updated Amazon One help page.
by pizlonator | 2026-01-28 03:34:47+00:00
I pasted a subset of the Fil-C source code into your tool and it says 6 person years. I just pasted the compiler pass and the obvious parts of the runtime.

Note that I started the project in Nov 2023 and can only work on it maybe 1-2 hours a day because it's just a side project.

So I think your tool either estimates based on very bad programmers, or it's just wrong. Or maybe 10x programmers are real and I am him
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-28 03:34:53+00:00
- Don't join giant group chats unless you're Whiskey Pete inviting journalists into a "clean" opsec group.

- Know others very personally or not at all.

- Don't take a phone to any event without it being in a proven good RF blocking bag.. I wished they made a bag that allowed taking pictures and video with audio.

- New people can potentially be liabilities such as crazy, stupid, undercover cops or adversaries, and/or destructive without a care.

- Avoid people who think violence is "the way" because there's rarely a positive or politically-acceptable offramp for it.

- Destruction of property can be effective non-violent resistance in limited circumstances, e.g., The Boston Tea Party, but that's becoming a criminal in the eyes of the current regime and 95% of rebellions fail.
by codyb | 2026-01-28 03:35:26+00:00
I think there's a place for both.

We have services deployed globally serving millions of customers where rigor is really important.

And we have internal users who're building browser extensions with AI that provide valuable information about the interface they're looking at including links to the internal record management, and key metadata that's affecting content placement.

These tools could be handed out on Zip drives in the street and it would just show our users some of the metadata already being served up to them, but it's amazing to strip out 75% of the process of certain things and just have our user (in this case though, it's one user who is driving all of this, so it does take some technical inclination) build out these tools that save our editors so much time when doing this before would have been months and months and months of discovery and coordination and designs that probably wouldn't actually be as useful in the end after the wants of the user are diluted through 18 layers of process.
by rellfy | 2026-01-28 03:35:43+00:00
The only solution I can think of at the moment is a human in the loop, authorising every sensitive action. Of course it has the classic tradeoff between convenience and security, but it would work. For it to work properly, the human needs to take a minute or so reviewing the content associated with request before authorising the action.

For most actions that don't have much content, this could work well as a simple phone popup where you authorise or deny.

The annoying parts would be if you want the agent to reply to an email that has a full PDF or a lot of text, you'd have to review to make sure the content does not include prompt injections. I think this can be further mitigated and improved with static analysis tools specifically for this purpose.

But I think it helps to think of it not as a way to prevent LLMs to be prompt injected. I see social engineering as the equivalent of prompt injection but for humans. So if you have a personal assistant, you'd also them to be careful with that and to authorise certain sensitive actions every time they happen. And you would definitely want this for things like making payments, changing subscriptions, etc.
by barrell | 2026-01-28 03:36:21+00:00
Agreed. I don’t care for engineering or coding, and would gladly give it up the moment I can. I’m also running a one man business where every hour counts (and where I’m responsible for maintaining every feature).

The fact of the matter is LLMs produce lower quality at higher volumes in more time than it would take to write it myself, and I’m a very mediocre engineer.

I find this seperation of “coding” vs “building” so offensive. It’s basically just saying some people are only concerned with “inputs”, while others with “outputs”. This kind of rhetoric is so toxic.

It’s like saying LLM art is separating people into people who like to scribble, and people who like to make art.
by erichocean | 2026-01-28 03:36:54+00:00
Terrible analogy.

MLS is an IETF standard. The server is easy to write, and easy to make scalable (no complicated merge algorithm required, unlike Matrix). Finally, individual chatrooms scale to an order of magnitude larger size vs. Matrix.

MLS is superior in every way to Matrix as it exists today if you need to implement encrypted chat rooms for your app.

Source: Guy who has implemented both, including extending Matrix to scale the server to Twitter scale (by, in essence, making it working like MLS, only worse due to the merge algorithm).
Show HN: My AI tracks Polymarket whales with guardrails so it won't bankrupt me
by JackDavis720 | 2026-01-28 03:37:10+00:00
Built two things:

Predictor Agent - Scrapes top Polymarket traders, finds their consensus bets, scores entry quality. Currently tracking 51 real signals.

AgentWallet - The "financial leash" I built so the agent can't go rogue. Spend limits, approval thresholds, time windows, full audit trail.

Live demos:

Predictor signals: https://predictor-dashboard.vercel.app

AgentWallet: https://agentwallet-dashboard.vercel.app

The idea: AI agents will need to spend money. Someone needs to build the guardrails. That's AgentWallet.

GitHub: https://github.com/JackD720/agentwallet
by kbolino | 2026-01-28 03:37:12+00:00
The name "null" is confusing; you have to pick something. However, I think what is desired here is the "theirs" strategy, i.e. to replace the current branch's tree entirely with the incoming branch's tree. The end result would be similar to a hard reset onto the incoming branch, except that it would also create a merge commit. Unfortunately, the "theirs" strategy does not exist, even though the "ours" strategy does exist, apparently to avoid confusion with the "theirs" option [1], but it is possible to emulate it with a sequence of commands [2].

[1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/merge-strategies#Documentation/merg...

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4969679/814422
by CMay | 2026-01-28 03:37:33+00:00
I don't know what you're referring to, but toss me some links and I'll look into it.

At the same time, you can't trust local Minneapolis justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFPi3EigjFA

They demonstrated a level of incompetence that's almost unprecedented in the entire US, so it seems likely DHS will be able to do a better job if that's who's doing the investigation.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-28 03:37:36+00:00
> Authorities have to conduct investigations.

There's more than one way to do that, some a lot better than the current practice which, as of now, involves shooting suspects in the head.

> Since investigators can't consult a magic ball

That's what the shooting perpetrators claim too - "we weren't sure if this woman was going to try to wipe us all out, we've got no magic ball, thus, head meet bullet seemed like a reasonable thing to do... repeatedly".

> One can attempt the ideal

There's no evidence that anything close to that has been attempted since at least 2001.

> It's a balance.

It's not. Nobody's punished, no consequences for errors, not even a hint of admission - replaced by blame the victim in the worst crimes imaginary - before looking at the evidence and without even consulting a dictionary to see what the words mean.
by refurb | 2026-01-28 03:38:02+00:00
That seems like a weak argument.

I mean, carrying a weapon is a 2nd amendment right, but if I bring it to a protest and then start intimidating people with it, the police going after me is not "Government intimidation of the practice of constitutional rights".

Protesting is a constitution right, but if you break the law while protesting, you're fair game for prosecution.
by smhinsey | 2026-01-28 03:38:13+00:00
This gets at the heart of the quality of results issues a lot of people are talking about elsewhere here. Right now, if you treat them as a system where you can tell it what you want and it will do it for you, you're building a sandcastle. Instead of that, also describe the correct data structures and appropriate algorithms to use against them, as well as the particulars of how you want the problem solved, it's a different situation altogether. Like most systems, the quality of output is in some way determined by the quality of input.

There is a strange insistence on not helping the LLM arrive at the best outcome in the subtext to this question a lot of times. I feel like we are living through the John Henry legend in real time
by awesome_dude | 2026-01-28 03:38:48+00:00
They don't appear to go into detail about anything except how great it is that they found the bugs, what those bugs were, and how rare it is for other people to find bugs.

I think that it would be helpful from a research point of view to know what sort of noise their AI tool is generating, but, because they appear to be trying to sell the service, they don't want you to know how many dev months you will lose chasing issues that amount to nothing.
by jaybrendansmith | 2026-01-28 03:39:36+00:00
And you have it completely upside down. The federal government serves the people, the people do not serve the feds. If, while attempting to enforce federal law through ICE, the feds break the Bill of Rights, they are doing more harm than good. We can live with a few illegals. We cannot leave the house if we expect to be murdered in cold blood on the street by the federal government. The instigating event of the American Revolution was the Boston Massacre, where protesters were shot and killed by British soldiers. Sound familiar?
by awesome_dude | 2026-01-28 03:41:08+00:00
> It doesn't look like they had 1 AI run for 20 minutes and then 30 humans sift through for weeks.

It does, though, look like they were running their AI over the codebase for an extended period of time (not per run, but multiple runs over the period of a year)

> Does it matter?

Hell yes, false reports are the bane of the bug bounty industry.
by scorpioxy | 2026-01-28 03:41:40+00:00
As someone who's been commissioned many times before to work on or salvage "rescue projects" with huge amounts of tech debt, I welcome that day. Still not there yet though I am starting to feel the vibes shifting.

This isn't anything new of course. Previously it was with projects built by looking for the cheapest bidder and letting them loose on an ill-defined problem. And you can just imagine what kind of code that produced. Except the scale is much larger.

My favorite example of this was a project that simply stopped working due to the amount of bugs generated from layers upon layers of bad code that was never addressed. That took around 2 years of work to undo. Roughly 6 months to un-break all the functionality and 6 more months to clean up the core and then start building on top.
by cookiengineer | 2026-01-28 03:42:10+00:00
I wanted to mention WolfSSL.

I like to recommend that project because it has a very transparent vulnerabilities approach, and is in my opinion written a lot more sane than OpenSSL which is somewhat not using standard C features because it always implements everything from scratch like a kernel does.

But yeah, anyways, WolfSSL comes from the embedded area in case that's your thing.

[1] https://www.wolfssl.com/

[2] https://github.com/wolfssl/wolfssl
by kaitai | 2026-01-28 03:42:14+00:00
Indeed, as sibling commenter notes, it's not to prevent ICE from doing their jobs. Observers do not take physical actions to block ICE/CBP. Observers are there to

1) get the name & some other info from the person being abducted so that their family can be contacted

2) record the encounter so that ICE/CBP has some check on their behavior, or legal action can be taken in the future to prosecute them for violence and destruction of property

3) recover the belongings of the person abducted and ensure family/friends can get these things, as often wallet, cell phone, shoes, coat, and vehicle (even still running) are left behind

4) get a tow truck for any vehicle left behind, preferably from one of the tow services that is towing for free or low cost

4) connect family/friends with legal resources, if needed, or simply let them know that their lawyer needs to get to the Whipple Building ASAP

None of those things are illegal. In some of the small rural towns in Minnesota, there aren't observers there, and the phones/vehicles/wallets of people kidnapped from Walmart are just... left in the parking lot, in the snow. It adds insult to injury to have your phone & wallet gone, your car window smashed in, and a big fee from the municipal towing lot if you're a US citizen who is then released from detainment 12 hours later. And if you're not a US citizen but you have legal status, you want your family to get an attorney working ASAP to ensure you're not flown to Texas -- because if you're flown to Texas, even in error, you need to get back on your own (again without your wallet/phone/etc if those things didn't happen to stick with you).

Not to mention they keep releasing people with no phone & no jacket, even no shoes, into the zero or negative degree weather we've been having.
by avcloudy | 2026-01-28 03:42:25+00:00
This is just lunatic speech. The one place he didn't have a gun was in his hands. You're out here acting like if he'd had a gun strapped to his ankle it would have been proof beyond any doubt he was intending to shoot and kill ICE officers.

He was pepper sprayed and on the ground surrounded by 6 agents when he was killed. At the time when an agent said that he had a gun (this was after his gun was removed), he was physically pinned with his arms restrained. He wasn't 'reaching for an object'. He was carrying his phone in his hand before he was restrained and shot a dozen times.
by perilunar | 2026-01-28 03:42:51+00:00
There's no reason Georgism requires a global mandate. Any level of government that levies taxes can replace their current taxes with land/resource/pollution taxes.

In most countries the national government levies the most tax (usually as income and company taxes), and pays out the most in benefits, so they are the level that needs to change most. There are no global taxes that need to be replaced, just local, state, and national.
by mattmaroon | 2026-01-28 03:43:15+00:00
I never saw them again (and I host large food truck festivals here) so I just assumed they threw in the towel. I did not know they are still operating but apparently so.

I have to imagine they’ll spend more time and money fighting this suit than they did starting the food truck. I see no reason you wouldn’t just rebrand. The name is mid at best anyway.

But also, I’m kinda rooting for them. From a distance though.
by spacechild1 | 2026-01-28 03:43:51+00:00
I have seen the videos. He was already on the ground, fixated by several ICE agents, when he was shot 10(!) times. That was after he had been peppersprayed and beaten to the head. At no point did he actually draw or reach for his gun. There was absolutely no reason to shoot him.

> With any luck investigation will reveal more details.

Kristi Noem said: "This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and kill law enforcement." She even went so far as calling this an act of "domestic terrorism". At this point, do you seriously believe there will be a neutral investigation?
by avcloudy | 2026-01-28 03:44:55+00:00
> Don't let your compassion be weaponized.

It's telling on yourself that you think compassion for other people, the core idea that other peoples needs might be more important that your own, is objectively a weapon. You're not wrong that there's a lot of disinformation about, but from a purely historical view, the one position that has never been right is fence-sitting.
by triceratops | 2026-01-28 03:45:23+00:00
I didn't downvote you. However, there are ethical and moral quandaries to doing that. What if you accidentally wipe out existing, undetected life on that planet?

You aren't going to see anything "take hold" on a human timescale. Evolution takes place over geological time. By the time there's something to observe, there might be no one to observe it. Or all knowledge of the experiment might be lost.
by servercobra | 2026-01-28 03:45:34+00:00
Damn. I just got an email that they'll be discontinuing the palm payment June 3. I've barely used Fresh and Go, but I use this at self checkout at Whole Foods all the time. Beats finding the code to scan and using Apple Pay.

> We're reaching out because you have an active Amazon One account. Amazon One palm authentication services will be discontinued at retail businesses on June 3, 2026. You can continue using Amazon One at participating locations until that date.

> Amazon will automatically delete Amazon One user data, including palm data. No action is needed from you.
by jen20 | 2026-01-28 03:45:37+00:00
They could work longer.

In the UK, for example, the retirement age was set to 60 for women and 65 for men, when life expectancy was substantially lower than today. On the current trajectory, a large number of "boomers" at death will have only "paid into" the system for half their lives, while extracting most of the economic reward of the last 70 years.
by teaearlgraycold | 2026-01-28 03:47:09+00:00
As a user of LLMs since GPT-3 there was noticeable stagnation in LLM utility after the release of GPT-4. But it seems the RLHF, tool calling, and UI have all come together in the last 12 months. I used to wonder what fools could be finding them so useful to claim a 10x multiplier - even as a user myself. These days I’m feeling more and more efficiency gains with Claude Code.
by wcedmisten | 2026-01-28 03:47:47+00:00
Having spent 3 years of my career working with Clojure, I think it actually gives you even more rope to shoot yourself with than Python/JS.

E.g. macros exist in Clojure but not Python/JS, and I've definitely been plenty stumped by seeing them in the codebase. They tend to be used in very "clever" patterns.

On the other hand, I'm a bit surprised Claude can tackle a complex Clojure codebase. It's been a while since I attempted using an LLM for Clojure, but at the time it failed completely (I think because there is relatively little training data compared to other mainstream languages). I'll have to check that out myself
by RickS | 2026-01-28 03:47:48+00:00
We're all used to legislators with foundational misunderstandings of both firearms and technology, but this one is particularly unhinged.

It uses a highly invasive, trivially circumvented rule to target two cohorts, while ultimately impacting neither:

1. High volume, low complexity: These are your glock switches (overwhelming majority of the illegal firearm parts trade), 80% lower kits, etc. You catch these at customs in the case of most temu switches, and at distribution time by creeping public IG accts for the ones that are actually printed. Blockers here aren't technical. Customs needs to deeply inspect small things, LEOs need resourcing to pursue the long tail of digital market vendors, prosecutors need to find the political will to hand a looottttt of 15 year olds to the ATF. This bill doesn't do those things.

2. Low volume, high complexity: this is your FGC9s, all-but-barrel printed guns, etc. This crowd is tiny, niche, slow, and basically unstoppable for as long as copper wire and magnets continue to exist. Overindexing on manufacturing here is silly, as there are vastly more regular illegal guns trading hands, and anything that works on those will work here too.