MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leggerss | 2026-01-27 17:45:22+00:00
It feels worth separating two things here that have unfortunately become commingled: crypto pump and dumps and AI-enabled spikes.

Haven't we learned by now that all crypto coins are pump-and-dump schemes? Unless you're HODLing BTC or whatever... (yes, I'm a huge crypto skeptic)

As for the actual software, why isn't it worth exploring how to better incorporate this current wave of AI into our lives? I've idly wondered what an "AI coding factory" would look like, and Gas Town is an interesting instantiation of the idea. I've also wondered how to best incorporate memory and personal knowledge into an agent that I can self-host. Clawdbot (now Molt?) is an interesting take. People exploring these ideas shouldn't be shot down.

What I fail to understand is why anybody would buy a coin attached to these projects: what are the buyers expecting to happen to the coin? Is this yet another instance of the greater fool theory[1] that we saw with NFTs?

I also fail to understand why the creators are getting involved. I guess the author is trying to answer that question. I'd like to think of a more charitable interpretation than reputation laundering, but I'm not sure what it is... I'm open to suggestions :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
by zahlman | 2026-01-27 17:45:24+00:00
1. They do that too; see e.g. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5411184-ice-crac... .

2. Are they really "the supply"? There are so many illegal immigrants in the US now (so many that they have to prioritize the ones who have committed violent crimes, hence the "worst of the worst" propaganda) that it seems entirely reasonable to imagine they could start their own illicit businesses and employ each other.

3. Even habitually hiring illegal aliens doesn't appear to be a felony (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324a section (f)), so immigration officers such as ICE agents require a warrant to make an arrest for that specific case (unless they witness the crime per https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1357 section (5)(a), and I'm not even sure what that means for the case of unlawfully employing someone).

4. Yes, of course realpolitik also plays a role. Clearly these businesses aren't part of some conspiracy to overrun the country with illegal immigrants, so it wouldn't make sense to get the owners on Trump's bad side. These businesses would hire citizens if they were willing to work for the same pay and under the same conditions, and generally it's been the Republicans opposing things like minimum wage increases.
by jiayaoqijia | 2026-01-27 17:45:40+00:00
VibeCodingBench: We benchmarked 15 AI coding models on what developers actually do

Current benchmarks have an ecological validity crisis. Models score 70%+ on SWE-bench but struggle in production. Why? They optimize for bug fixes in
Python repos—not the auth flows, API integrations, and CRUD dashboards that occupy 80% of real dev work.

So we built VibeCodingBench: 180 tasks across SaaS features, glue code, AI integration, frontend, API integrations, and code evolution.
Multi-dimensional scoring: Functional (40%) + Visual (20%) + Quality (20%) - Cost/Speed penalties. Security gate: Any OWASP Top 10 vuln = automatic 0.

Top 5 Results (Jan 2026):

Claude Opus 4.5 — 89.2% | $12.31 | 44s
Claude Haiku 4.5 — 89.0% | $3.03 | 22s
Grok 4 Fast — 88.8% | $0.21 | 70s
4⃣ OpenAI GPT-5.2 — 88.8% | $5.01 | 28s
5⃣ Qwen3 Max — 88.6% | $5.42 | 45s

The real story? Cost varies 60x between similar performers. Grok 4 Fast matches GPT-5.2 at 1/25th the cost. Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers near-Opus quality
for $3 total.

Live dashboard: https://vibecoding.llmbench.xyz/
GitHub repo: https://github.com/alt-research/vibe-coding-benchmark-public
Thesis: https://github.com/alt-research/vibe-coding-benchmark-public/blob/main/docs/THESIS.md

The ultimate test isn't fixing a bug in scikit-learn. It's shipping a feature your users need—safely, efficiently—before the sprint ends.

Open source. Contributions welcome.
by fooker | 2026-01-27 17:45:52+00:00
Right now it relies on silicon valley's ability to churn out unicorns again and again.

That part seems to be taking an ugly turn nowadays by a bunch of military AI/drone swarm/etc focused startups. I'm guessing that eventually after the Apple/Google model of making money is dead, you'll have to work for Skynet if you want to make money.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-27 17:46:59+00:00
The best places I've worked were places where QA reported up an entirely different leadership chain than engineering, and where they got their own VP with equal power as the engineering VP, and their own seat at the same decision-making table.

When QA is subordinate to engineering, they become a mere rubber stamp.

A good question to ask when joining a software company is "Does QA have the power to block releases over the objection of engineering?" I have found companies who can answer YES to this put out much better products.
by thih9 | 2026-01-27 17:47:00+00:00
I agree with a lot of what you’re saying. At the same time piracy in this case feels short sighted to me.

If the community supported the dev, then both might get what they want, i.e. a maintained app and some income. With negative reviews a cheaper competitor might appear due to demand. But with piracy the app is even more likely to get abandoned and no alternative will show up either.

Then again if the ecosystem is indeed that bad, perhaps this is the way to torch it even more. Still, google plans to block sideloading and then I guess we’re at their mercy.
by craftkiller | 2026-01-27 17:47:03+00:00
While that is true for the quality-based things like deli/baker, there is one advantage to massive grocery stores that the stores inside the city can't compete with: selection. Every time I leave the city, I make a point to go to a suburban grocery store and walk down their massive spacious aisles to find new/different products that simply aren't stocked inside the city because shelf space is so limited. Entire aisles dedicated to chips!
by epistasis | 2026-01-27 17:48:08+00:00
In extreme cases: "I’m not licking the boot. It’s my boot. I voted for it. I’m the one stomping…" [0]

People imagine that they are part of the in-group, and not the out-group that gets the boot for exercising basic rights that the in-group gets. And perhaps they are, if they have enough money and power. But ultimately most of these people know that they are not in power but that as long as they see the boot stomping on others, and they can imagine a boundary that keeps them in the in-group (skin color, political ideology, gender, etc.), they approve as long as that group boundary is clear.

Now, when that boundary begins to blur, and people understand that the person getting the boot could be themselves, then attitudes start to change.

[0] https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaeakle.com/post/3mdfsnpy57k26
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-01-27 17:48:09+00:00
> I am an open minded, well traveled man. I disagree with the powerful.

This kind of narrative is actually one of the more popular forms of propaganda.

"We are the side of the revolutionaries. The status quo is wrong but only about the things we want to change and not the things we want to stay the same. Powerful people are our opponents."

All politics is about opposing powerful people, because if they weren't powerful then it would be easy to defeat them. But there are different groups of powerful people, with different interests, and then it rather matters which ones you align yourself with on a given issue. And if it's always the same ones then you're doing partisanship rather than reasoning.
by behnamoh | 2026-01-27 17:48:38+00:00
"AI-generated company" as in the AI writes the A-Z of the code required to have a working platform like Twitter. Currently it can build some of the frontend or some of the backend, but not all. It's conceivable that in the future AI can handle the entire chain.

Also you're forgetting the decreasing cost of AI, as well as the fact that you can buy a $10k Mac Studio NOW and have it run 24/7 with some of the best models out there. Only costs would be the initial fixed cost and electric (250W at peak GPU usage).
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-27 17:49:41+00:00
1. Israel-Palestine:

- History of Settler Colonialism in Palestine - https://www.globalresearch.ca/history-settler-colonialism-pa...

- Israeli Settler Colonialism Is The Obstacle To Peace - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israeli-settler-colonialism-i...

- From Balfour to the Nakba: The settler-colonial experience of Palestine - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/balfour-nakba-settler-...

2. Iran-US/UK:

- How The CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy In 4 Days - https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthr...

- They don’t care if you die: How Iran’s protests became a bargaining chip for oil and power - https://www.rt.com/news/631163-irans-protests-oil-and-power/
Ask HN: How do you manage memory and context across Claude Code sessions?
by nadis | 2026-01-27 17:50:09+00:00
I keep running into issues with memory management. Keeping CLAUDE.md and rules up to date is a pain, it's hard to debug when Claude makes a weird call, and stuff gets stale fast. It also can be hard to track what's even being loaded or what changed recently.

Anyone else dealing with this? What tools or workflows are you using beyond the built-in commands?

I found this in official docs but felt it was somewhat lacking: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory
by stuffn | 2026-01-27 17:50:16+00:00
Not sure the point of this post.

The first amendment allows for freedom of speech but not the obstruction of justice, traffic, or the movement of people. Minn. Stat. § 609.74 specifically outlines how this is a crime.

I see no problem deploying an LRAD to insure public safety from people who clearly do not care about the law. Your right to protest ends where my ability to move freely begins. It is certainly more humane than tear gas or bean bags.

In my state there are plenty of protests which do not impede traffic or free movement and shockingly there are no riot police, tear gas, or LRADs. It should not shock you when LRADs are deployed when "protests" begin to look like highly organized light insurgencies pushing the boundary of the kinetic threshold to it's breaking point.

EDIT: Guess the purple hairs aren't happy I cited statute that quite literally proves their martyr complex pointless.
by autoexec | 2026-01-27 17:50:31+00:00
> Obviously what you want is for neither of them to be censored, but not wanting a foreign power to be the ones who decide what people see is fully legitimate.

It's less legitimate when you don't want a foreign power to be the ones who decide what people see on their own platforms. The US for example shouldn't dictate what US users see when they visit www.bbc.co.uk

The just US got mad because a Chinese owned/operated social media platform got massively popular and they just wanted the ability to control and censor it.
by YZF | 2026-01-27 17:50:35+00:00
It's simple. One is a defensive war and the other is slaughtering of people by an oppressive regime.

The progressives are ok with the second. They do not support values like freedom or human rights. In their world as long as you are "oppressed" then you can murder and worse because you've been wronged historically. Because they've decided the Jews in their historical lands are the oppressors and the Arabs are oppressed then it's ok for Arabs to murder Jews, murder their own, and oppress their own people just like it's ok for the Iranian regime to murder Iranians.

The truth hurts.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-01-27 17:50:39+00:00
If it was really about illegal immigrants, ICE wouldn't be raiding immigration hearings, nor would they be kidnapping legal immigrants.

If it was about stopping violent criminals, they wouldn't raid restaurant kitchens and crop fields, where workers are trying to make an honest living for their family.

It's nationalism and racism, full stop.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-27 17:51:06+00:00
https://supplychaindigital.com/logistics/why-ups-slashing-am...

> It is reported that Amazon had offered to increase its shipping volumes with UPS to meet growing delivery demands.

> However, UPS declined, opting instead to adjust its operations for higher profitability. “Due to their operational needs, UPS requested a reduction in volume and we certainly respect their decision,” said Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel.

It's plain ol' reach for more profits.
by animal_spirits | 2026-01-27 17:51:19+00:00
I do love this song and I find it resonates to read the lyrics as though revolutions are censored by media (which is true). Though I found an interview with Gil Scott-Heron about the meaning of the lyrics and I find it more interesting; The revolution will not be televised because the revolution starts in your mind, at the dinner table, or reading books in the library. It won't be captured on TV because the revolution occurs when you question your own beliefs and understand something bigger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZvWt29OG0s
by andyfilms1 | 2026-01-27 17:51:33+00:00
I've never understood this train of thought. When working in teams and for clients, people always have questions about what we have created. "Why did you choose to implement it like this?" "How does this work?" "Is X possible to do within our timeframe/budget?"

If you become just a manager, you don't have answers to these questions. You can just ask the AI agent for the answer, but at that point, what value are you actually providing to the whole process?

And what happens when, inevitably, the agent responds to your question with "You're absolutely right, I didn't consider that possibility! Let's redo the entire project to account for this?" How do you communicate that to your peers or clients?
by FiniteField | 2026-01-27 17:51:54+00:00
The rub here is "skilled workers". Just after Brexit, the Boris Johnson Tory government adjusted immigration rules for "skilled" workers, and caused a civilisation-altering number of people (now known as the "Boriswave") to immigrate to the country, mostly from India, Africa, and other less developed areas. It's now known that almost every pay level and skill (or lack thereof) of job was eligible under the new rules, with some countries of origin, like Zimbabwe, having up to 10 dependents per worker on average IIRC. The same story has played out in the US with the "skilled" H1B visa scheme. People have lost all trust in governments to architect immigration laws in the interest of the natives, rather than giving big business carte blanche to import their own replacement workforce who will do any available job for the national minimum wage.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-01-27 17:51:56+00:00
<< But I also think its probably wrong to be amused by it, even if it is commonplace in human affairs.

This may be the source of disconnect. While it might seem like I am amused by suffering, this is explicitly not the case. I shudder at the thought that people would take my argument as meaning that.

All I am saying is: things exist after their original purpose has been served ( or not served ). But those things continue to exist, because we, as a species, can't seem to help ourselves.

That weird drive within us is what I would call bemusing ( and not amusing ).
by palata | 2026-01-27 17:51:57+00:00
As you say, it's pretty hard to say that the average quality of software engineering makes it deserve the word "engineering" at all. Most software is bad accross the board, and developers on average get pretty good salaries for... whatever they bring to the world.

Still I don't think that some random employee deserves to be harassed and publicly shamed for a bad blog post.
by belval | 2026-01-27 17:52:18+00:00
> all within walking distance of your apartment, you don’t need to deal with the hassles of finding stuff within a massive supermarket.

Is that really a thing though? I feel like arguing for quality is a strong argument, but between walking between small shops at the end of my work day and just doing one supermarket feels more efficient.

Finding stuff within a supermarket is also not hard once you've been once or twice.
by gambiting | 2026-01-27 17:52:19+00:00
You know what, I was thinking about it for the last few hours since I replied to you.

And I think - if I lived in 1930s Germany, I would also want to believe that my country isn't turning into a place where the rule of law isn't respected and where citizens are executed on the street without due process. After all, people are posting criticism of the government in the papers still, so it can't be that bad. That family next door that disappeared - they probably did something wrong. And the dude that got shot by the Gestapo on the street - he probably did something wrong too. Or maybe the officer made a mistake - it's just an accident after all. Nothing to worry about.

I think it's in our nature to gaslight ourselves, because otherwise we have to confront the horror of the world and also who we have become. You have become a person who goes on the internet and tells people that the shooting of Alex Pretti was an unfortunate accident. I hope that there is a day - maybe in 10 maybe in 20 maybe in 30 years - where you look back at yourself and think "damn why didn't I see what was going on".

>> everyone disagreeing with you is a russian troll.

You have your coping mechanism which is clearly just lying to yourself and others on the internet - every single comment asking you for evidence, proof, or in return - giving you those when you asked - you have ignored, because clearly you aren't actually interested in what is happening, you just want to stick to your point of view, something which you accuse others of doing.

For me, the only method of not going insane reading internet forums nowadays is assuming that either people like you are bots, or are doing this on purpose to elicit a reaction(kids call it ragebaiting nowadays?). If you really hold these views....then what I said above applies.
by infecto | 2026-01-27 17:52:25+00:00
Please stop backpedaling and attacking me. You don’t know me and you have not acknowledged the lies you have already used for absolutely no reason. I apologize my words upset you that was not my intent but I am concerned you continue going down this route.

You’re reading into my words far deeper than you should. I have used the App for a long time off and on but enough to know something changed whether intentional or not over the last week.

I already stated in the very beginning that I have no comment or opinion on the censorship. That’s not my corner of the world but was sharing an anecdote that something most definitely changed in my feed around the same time. Could be related or not but it coincides with the timeline. Even with the timeline similarity it may simply be a bug in the recommendation engine. I was only sharing an anecdote and no it was not exploration injection. The anecdote was just that my experience and saying it follows the same timeline is not suggesting a conspiracy is happening but that yes something happened/broke in the feed and it aligns with my timeline.

Please stop attacking me. I have apologized for my words already they carried no ill intent but still amazed how you continue to invalidate my experience while also attacking me. Maybe you should take some of your advice.
by elektronika | 2026-01-27 17:53:08+00:00
> Content about Tiananmen Square and Tibet gets filtered out. Content about the United States government rolling through protesters in armored vehicles, killing people in Venezuela with bombs, and threatening Greenland, straight to top of feed.

There's also the degree of relevance. Tiananmen was over a quarter of a century ago. The USA is killing protestors, bombing Venezuela, threatening Greenland now.
by alexhans | 2026-01-27 17:53:13+00:00
I haven't had the analysis paralysis problem because I've always been quite decent at restructuring environments to avoid bureocracy (which can one of the most dangerous things for a project) but one thing I've observed is that If operations are not ZeroOps then whoever is stuck maintaining systems will suffer by not being able to deliver the "value adding cool features that drive careers".

Since shipping prototypes doesn't actually create value unless they're in some form of production environment to effect change, then either they work and are ZeroOps or they break and someone needs to operate on them and is accountable for them.

This means that at some point, your thesis of

"The dark side of this same coin is when teams try to rely on the AI to write the real code, too, and then blame the AI when something goes wrong" won't really work that way but whoever is accountable will get the blame and the operations.

The same principles for building software that we've always have apply more than ever to AI related things.

Easy to change, reusable, compostable, testable.

Prototypes need to be thrown away. Otherwise they're trace bullets and you don't want to have tech debt in your tracer bullets unless your approach is to throw it to someone else ans make it their problem.

-----

Creating a startup or any code from scratch in a way that you don't actually have to maintain and find out the consequences of your lack of sustainable approaches (tech debt/bad design/excessive cost) is easy. You hide the hardest part. It's easy to do things that in surface look good if you can't see how they will break.

The blog post is interesting but, unless I've missed something, it does gloss over the accountability aspect. If you can delegate accountability you don't worry about evals-first design, you can push harder on dates because you're not working backwards from the actual building and design and its blockers.

Evals (think promtpfoo) for evals-first design will be key for any builder who is accountable for the decisions of their agents (automation).

I need to turn it into a small blog post but the points of the talk https://alexhans.github.io/talks/airflow-summit/toward-a-sha...

- We can’t compare what we can’t measure

- Can I trust this to run on its own?

Are crucial to have a live system that makes critical decisions. If you don't, have this, you're just using the --yolo flag.
by throwaway431234 | 2026-01-27 17:53:33+00:00
SoundCloud is the worst company, so hostile to former paying users! I am a hobbyist songwriter and have posted my rough mixes (Apple's Music Memo app which adds drum and bass automagically with two clicks & then mix it in Garage Band) on my SoundCloud for more then ten years. I signed up for their Artist Pro account and was a member for of such consistently for a few years at $17 a month. Once you cancel they then hold all your music hostage by hiding it and later threat to delete it. Horrid!
by ghc | 2026-01-27 17:53:41+00:00
> the stores you need are within a 5 min walk, or more likely, right by the subway exit when you’re returning from work, you buy stuff as you need it, rather than stocking up for days.

Yeah, so for me that changed after having kids. Once I had to spend 30 minutes a day running around to various stores because we were always running out of everything it wasn't fun anymore.

Furthermore, specialist stores charge higher prices for the same goods because they don't have the pricing power of a large supermarket. It makes a material difference once you have a family.

Urban supermarkets are great because they give you the option of getting everything in one place when you're pressed for time, and they're usually not as large as suburban ones. Mine has a direct entrance from the subway station, so I don't even have to go aboveground.