MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by irl_zebra | 2026-01-26 16:44:25+00:00
SOTA typically refers to achieving the best performance, not using the trendiest thing regardless of performance. There is some subtlety here. At some point an LLM might give the best performance in this task, but that day is not today, so an LLM is not SOTA, just trendy. It's kinda like rewriting something in Rust and calling it SOTA because that's the trend right now. Hope that makes sense.
by Joker_vD | 2026-01-26 16:44:32+00:00
No you can't. If a user can read something, it can execute it. The only thing where it matters is setuid applications where the setuid bit allows the user to run an application as someone else. But it's already a separate permission bit, and frankly, the whole setuid idea turned out to be quite a high-maintenance design in the end, with lots of additional features heaped on top of it to help mitigate the worst vulnerabilities.
by dzogchen | 2026-01-26 16:45:01+00:00
We don't have a marketing department, so we're happy to take suggestions on our messaging!

What makes it modern are the ideas behind it: the column-oriented layout, support for lightweight encodings such as FSST and FastPFOR and support for pre-tessellation. Also, enabling doing more computations on the GPU instead of the CPU, which are made possible thanks to modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and Metal. I agree that it is better to be specific about these things (if that is your gripe with it), but there's only so many characters that fit into a title. ;)
by bjourne | 2026-01-26 16:45:14+00:00
Basic problem with Google's AI is that it never says "you can't" or "I don't know". So many times it comes up with plausible-sounding incorrect BS to "how to" questions. E.g., "in a facebook group how do you whitelist posts from certain users?" The answer is "you can't", but AI won't tell you.
by zahlman | 2026-01-26 16:45:21+00:00
> Good to hear you're onboard with prosecuting Federal agents pretending to have local traffic enforcement powers and murdering citizens during illegal traffic stops.

Approaching a vehicle that is already stopped, perpendicular to traffic, initially to tell the driver to move and then to make an arrest for obstruction of justice, is not a "traffic stop", and the agents in question therefore did not in any way "pretend to have local traffic enforcement powers". ICE are legally entitled to require protesters to get out of their way. That's a consequence of them being federal LEO, and of federal law prohibiting everyone from obstructing LEO (which includes things like physically shielding others from arrest, impeding their movement towards whatever place they need to get to to do their job, etc.). Protesting and asserting 1A rights is not a defense to the charge of obstruction of justice.
Show HN: Chord: Clawdbot alternative with a security layer
by arctanx | 2026-01-26 16:45:24+00:00
Hey HN, I built this because I liked the idea of agents controlling a computer (like Clawdbot), but I was uncomfortable giving them unrestricted shell access.

So I build Chord, it uses the same underlying agent framework as Clawdbot, so it can do most of the same jobs. The key difference is that I added a security layer. Commands are analyzed by an AI before execution. This does use extra tokens, but you can run the analysis with cheap models (e.g. Gemini Flash) to keep costs low.

The security layer can block risky commands and provides a security audit log of everything the agent tries to do.

Right now, Chord only supports Telegram as the control interface. I’ve built all the core parts, and I’ll add smaller features next.

I’d really appreciate any feedback.
by bawolff | 2026-01-26 16:45:43+00:00
> The variation in interpretation is the same, but that's not really an interaction. In a video game you're not just the audience you're a participant. There are other forms of art like that, and they too are difficult to review.

I think you participate in all art. There are novels where you have to bring a lot of yourself to the table to form meaning. There are video games where you may superficially control the character on the screen, but your participation doesn't significantly alter the meaning. E.g. i think super mario brothers is less participatory than most novels because despite controlling mario there is really very little of yourself you are bringing to the game.

Its all on a spectrum and i dont think video games are necessarily any more participatory than any other medium. Some are more and some are less. Interaction and participation aren't the same thing.
by spicyusername | 2026-01-26 16:46:17+00:00
AI will replace humans in performing every cognitive task

This is probably true, but on a time horizon that is almost certainly much much longer than we think. Centuries. Perhaps millennia, even.

It's fun to go back to the newspapers of the 1920, 30s, and 40s, and see how absolutely CERTAIN they were this was going to happen to them. I'm sure there are examples from the 19th and 18th centuries as well.

Advancement happens in fits, and then tends to hibernate until another big breakthrough.

And even when it does happen, humans love to do things, just for the sake of them. So I highly doubt art, music, literature, or any other thing humans love to intrinsically do are going away, even if they can be done by AI. If anything, they'll be done MORE as AI enables wider participation by lowering the cost and skill barriers.
Ask HN: Open Source PM Work
by conner_h5 | 2026-01-26 16:46:24+00:00
Hello Everyone.
I'm a new CAPM holder & I'm looking for anyone with open source projects that I can manage. I'm open to it being unpaid volunteer work as this would be my first project management experience in this field. If anyone has or hears about any opportunities please let me know. Thanks!
by xcodevn | 2026-01-26 16:46:35+00:00
I'm not familiar with these open-source models. My bias is that they're heavily benchmaxxing and not really helpful in practice. Can someone with a lot of experience using these, as well as Claude Opus 4.5 or Codex 5.2 models, confirm whether they're actually on the same level? Or are they not that useful in practice?
by FloorEgg | 2026-01-26 16:46:47+00:00
AI does have an incredibly powerful influence on learning. It can absolutely be used as a detriment, but it can also be just as powerful of a learning tool. It all comes down to keeping the student in the zone of proximal development.

If AI is used by the student to get the task done as fast as possible the student will miss out on all the learning (too easy).

If no AI is used at all, students can get stuck for long periods of time on either due to mismatches between instructional design and the specific learning context (missing prereq) or by mistakes in instructional design.

AI has the potential to keep all learners within an ideal difficulty for optimal rate of learning so that students learn faster. We just shouldn't be using AI tools for productivity in the learning context, and we need more AI tools designed for optimizing learning ramps.
by tomtomtom777 | 2026-01-26 16:46:58+00:00
I agree, and like to add,

> It is hands down good for code which is laborious or tedious to write, but once done, obviously correct or incorrect (with low effort inspection).

The problem here is, that it fills in gaps that shouldn't be there in the first place. Good code isn't laborious. Good code is small. We learn to avoid unnecessary abstractions. We learn to minimize "plumbing" such that the resulting code contains little more than clear and readable instructions of what you intend for the computer to do.

The perfect code is just as clear as the design document in describing the intentions, only using a computer language.

If someone is gaining super speeds by providing AI clear design documents compared to coding themselves, maybe they aren't coding the way they should.
by lepouet | 2026-01-26 16:47:01+00:00
I would agree with you un general, but Blade Runner 2049 is not a good example, il remember clearly the coat of Ryan gosling, the dresses, etc. This film is great for that, the lights, the sets design.

https://www.chapter1-take1.com/2017/10/blade-runner-2049-cos...
by pixl97 | 2026-01-26 16:47:04+00:00
>are visual only or psychological and not tactile at all

I think for a visual only test you'd need something to the effect of a neuralink that gave control over the robot arm.

Otherwise we're dealing with a set of signal mixing where your brain is attempting to take the strongest/what it deems the most important signals and give an effect based on that. The eyes give us far more data than we can actually process so the has to filter down this data to a usable stream. This can also happen with tactile response, but the number of situations this occurs in is rather rare.

I guess what I'm trying to say, at the end of the day all observed effects (except maybe reflexes) are psychological as the brain is trying to create an accurate virtualization of the input data it's receiving and that more data doesn't necessarily mean better outcomes.
by fragmede | 2026-01-26 16:47:14+00:00
The other direction is just get a wallet that supports a real airtag. Because my wallet is so important to me, the name brand airtag, with UWB-enhanced findability, is worth swapping out my wallet rather than getting a sub-par credit-card find my compatible device. nb, I came to this conclusion after getting an aftermarket credit card device and found it lacking.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZ8C5N7H
by saghm | 2026-01-26 16:47:37+00:00
I think the point is that they don't care about Windows in particular as much as the my care about having something that works out of the box for them, and for years that was Windows. Not many people really want Windows to iterate with new features, and in practice it seems that they aren't really able to push those features without breaking the stability, which is the one feature people do actually want, and that leads to backlash like this. The best Windows is the one that gets out of the way and lets users not care about it.
by kaydub | 2026-01-26 16:47:54+00:00
1 agent writes the tests, threads the needle.

Another agent reviews the tests, finds duplicate code, finds poor testing patterns, looks for tests that are only following the "happy path", ensures logic is actually tested and that you're not wasting time testing things like getters and setters. That agent writes up a report.

Give that report back to the agent that wrote the test or spin up a new agent and feed the report to it.

Don't do all of this blindly, actually read the report to make sure the llm is on the right path. Repeat that one or two times.
by mghackerlady | 2026-01-26 16:48:20+00:00
It's not people moving to ebooks, the amount of people I know personally who are proud of never having read a book for pleasure or not having done so in a very long time is absurd. Today's high schoolers struggle to read at a 6th grade level, and don't see that as an issue since literacy is seen in a similar way to vinyl records (something archaic and pointless that a rare few still enjoy but has largely been replaced by modern technology)
Ask HN: How do you prevent children from accessing your products?
by eastoeast | 2026-01-26 16:48:20+00:00
After launching my first few apps, I'm running into an unexpected problem: younger children are the ones most likely to click my ads, using their parents' phones/tablets. This gets around the age restriction, and in fact, has a compounding effect: they are too young to have their OWN devices (so they just install and never use again), burn ad money, and most importantly, skew the target demographic towards users like them- so ad placements end up targeting more of them, because they're most likely to click!

This causes all my campaigns to immediately fail, no matter how much I play with the age restriction (again, parent's device). I've changed settings to stop showing in games and on tablets, which has helped a bit, but not fully.

Obviously, there is no chance I'm adding real age verification to the app itself.
by kaydub | 2026-01-26 16:49:24+00:00
The article and video just feels like another dev poo-pooing LLMs.

"vibe coding" didn't really become real until 2025, so how were they vibe coding for 2 years? 2 years ago I couldn't count on an llm to output JSON consistently.

Overall the article/video are SUPER ambiguous and frankly worthless.
by brightball | 2026-01-26 16:49:24+00:00
I would interpret his take a little bit differently.

You write sorting algorithms in college to understand how they work. Understand why they are faster because it teaches you a mental model for data traversal strategies. In the real world, you will use pre-written versions of those algorithms in any language but you understand them enough to know what to select in a given situation based on the type of data. This especially comes into play when creating indexes for databases.

What I take the OPs statement to mean are around "meta" items revolved more around learning abstractions. You write certain patterns by hand enough times, you will see the overlap and opportunity to refactor or create an abstraction that can be used more effectively in your codebase.

If you vibe code all of that stuff, you don't feel the repetition as much. You don't work through the abstractions and object relationships yourself to see the opportunity to understand why and how it could be improved.
by meowface | 2026-01-26 16:49:27+00:00
It's a scam or a pennystock grift or whatever term you want to use.

https://x.com/Fizzy__01/status/1956006313848397861

100% of these things are somewhere on the scam and fraud spectrum. An unscrupulous person creates a token or a platform for creating tokens with the goal of raising the worthless token's price so they can parasitically make millions from something that holds zero value.

The "fund creators" thing is a common ploy. If they actually wanted to do that, they'd make it so you can only donate with dollars or stablecoins.

Look at the dozens of replies to all of Yegge's posts, now: https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2014530592134910215
Show HN: a habit tracker that only lets you track one habit
by davvie | 2026-01-26 16:49:33+00:00
I kept failing at habit apps. I'd add 6 habits, miss a day, feel guilty, stop opening the app entirely.

So I built the opposite: an app that only lets you track one habit at a time.

The idea is that one habit done beats ten habits planned. Pick one thing, show up daily, and only move on when it's automatic.

It's free with ads. Would love your feedback on whether this constraint feels liberating or limiting.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1549454193

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.davvie.hab...
by daxuak | 2026-01-26 16:49:56+00:00
> A country can't decide who comes into their country?

Reading someone else's mind but I think the author could've phrased it better: The ongoing deportation is concerning not because of the legitimacy or not of nation states. It's the abrupt voiding of existing policies (people being deported under conditions that should not have applied to them) & its normalization, and the possible damages to be inflicted upon American citizens in the process, e.g. if you require all aliens to carry their papers all the time and can be searched for any reason, in practice how could this be made distinguishable from racial profiling and prevented from individual abuses?

Anti-American is such a curious word. In authoritarian regimes political dissidents are never prosecuted as such, they are labeled as anti-$homeland. I've never thought the Americans have a taste for using it.

> The second amendment, and guns, means that is easier to defend myself and my family.

I thought the second amendment was meant to let citizens retain means to rebel a tyrannical government when the time comes, not to defend themselves from average armed robbery,

> Or that a smaller, weaker person can defend themselves and their property against a larger stronger person. They are the great equalizer.

What do you think modern policing and the whole institution around it is for?
by f30e3dfed1c9 | 2026-01-26 16:49:59+00:00
"Compartmentalized knowledge doesn't scale."

I don't understand what "doesn't scale" is supposed to mean here. They've been making and selling this stuff for decades. In the US at least, it's ubiquitous. Pretty much everybody knows what it is and a huge number of people have a can around the house. They apparently sell in 176 countries around the world.

What kind of "scale" do they need that they don't already have? There's no world in which they can sell 10 or 100 times more of this stuff than they already do. It's useful stuff but has limited applications and a can of it lasts a long time.

Seems like they've managed "scale" just fine.
by alexjplant | 2026-01-26 16:50:13+00:00
Depends on the jurisdiction.

One time I was driving down a country road with a police car a few hundred feet behind me. An oncoming pickup truck veered several feet over the center line and almost hit me. I flagged the police down to tell them and they were nonplussed even though they literally saw it happen. Drunk driving, a greater threat than property theft, was of little consequence to them.

On the other side of the country my motorcycle got stolen and the police found it the next day. I picked it up from the tow yard shortly thereafter.

YMMV.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-26 16:50:53+00:00
What you're describing is an artifact of the current political structure of the Phoenix area. When the shit hits the fan (which it might, and it might not) that political structure is going to be amended.

I don't think that moving water from CA is a part of the future for Arizona. If it was, then sure, taxes will play a role in that.

Even the solution I prefer - massively reducing agricultural water usage - will require money, but money is not going to create water near Phoenix IMO.
by 9dev | 2026-01-26 16:51:07+00:00
> Open source projects around a need will continue. Things like youtube downloader fills a need.

Good! We like things filling a need.

> But many projects were showing off what you as a developer can write to impress a community. Those are dead.

Good! The world doesn't need more vanity.

> Projects that showcased new coding styles or ways to do things are dead.

That I doubt. People who want to share ideas for the sake of discussing ideas on an intellectual level will absolutely continue to do so. An LLM doesn't help in any way in this domain.

> Faang open source employment was never a thing. Faang filtered by leetcode, referrals, clout and h1 visas.

Replace FAANG with SMB companies, then. The point is that people were only doing open source as a means to bolster their CV. There is nothing lost to the open source community as a whole if these people leave. Yes, the amount of contributions and projects will shrink. I'm arguing that that's okay: The vital pieces that need to be maintained will be maintained by companies that are forced to pay for that maintenance, and people who enjoy making and participating in open source software development will continue to do so.
by aspbee555 | 2026-01-26 16:51:34+00:00
I managed to get this combo going not too long ago with my musl rust app but I found that even after it all was compiled and loading the lib it did not function properly because the library I loaded still depended on libc functions. even with everything compiled into a huge monolithic musl binary it couldn't find something graphics related

I eventually decided to keep the tiny musl app and make a companion app in a secondary process as needed (since the entire point of me compiling musl was cross platform linux compatibility/stability)
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-01-26 16:51:46+00:00
>intel's 18A nodes are significantly ahead of what TSMC is offering

A nice comparison table linked below. The best comparison imho is transistor density which is 313MTr/mm2 for TSMC's latest in-production process vs 238 for intel (higher is better).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_nm_process

Also make sure to read the drama around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Lake_(microprocessor). Intel literally gave up making their own CPU on their own 20A process and instead utilised TSMCs fab.
by bloomca | 2026-01-26 16:52:01+00:00
> I don't know what jobs have been impacted yet, but there will likely be pressure for all content creators and knowledge workers to use the tools to get more work done.

You claimed that it already happened to illustrators and artists, and while I am sure they use it one way or another, I don't think it transformed the industry. Now, I am not saying that it won't amount to anything in software, I just don't think it is ready as of right now outside of greenfield projects, mostly because the scope is limited.

I am pretty positive that at some point we'll have a tool which will automate the generation -> code review -> fixing (multiple loops) -> releasing without people. Currently people are the bottleneck and imo a better way is to exclude people completely outside of initial problem statement and accepting the result. Otherwise it is just too janky, that 10x comes with a huge asterisk that can unironically slow you down after all said and done.
by gdotdesign | 2026-01-26 16:52:02+00:00
> The pessimistic one is that most of what needed building gets built, and the remaining work fits in fewer hands.

I don't think that's true, mainly because if it were true it would have happened a long time ago. We will never settle on one version of a thing (let it be messaging, recipes, notes, image galleries, etc...). New variants emerge over time, the only thing AI does is accelerate this.
by ray_v | 2026-01-26 16:52:07+00:00
Lots of interesting ways to spin this. I was in a computer science course in the late 90s and we were not allowed to use the C++ standard library because it made you a "lazy programmer" according to the instructor. I'm not sure if I agree with that, but the way that I look at it is that computer science all about abstraction, and it seems to me that AI, generative pair programming, vibe coding or what ever you want to call it is just another level of abstraction. I think what is probably more important is to learn what are and are not good programming and project structures and use AI to abstract the boilerplate,. scaffolding, etc so that you can avoid foot guns early on in your development cycle.
by Archer6621 | 2026-01-26 16:52:10+00:00
That makes sense. Some skills just have more utility than others. There are skills that are universally relevant (e.g. general problem solving), and then there are skills that are only relevant in a specific time period or a specific context.

With how rapidly the world has been changing lately, it has become difficult to estimate which of those more specific skills will remain relevant for how long.
by drowntoge | 2026-01-26 16:52:26+00:00
I always scaffold for AI. I write the stub classes and interfaces and mock the relations between them by hand, and then ask the agent to fill in the logic. I know that in many cases, AI might come up with a demonstrably “better” architecture than me, but the best architecture is the one that I’m comfortable with, so it’s worse even if it’s better. I need to be able to find the piece of code I’m looking for intuitively and with relative ease. The agent can go as crazy as it likes inside a single, isolated function, but I’m always paranoid about “going too far” and losing control of any flows that span multiple points in the codebase. I often discard code that is perfectly working just because it feels unwieldy and redo it.

I’m not sure if this counts as “vibe coding” per se, but I like that this mentality keeps my workday somewhat similar to how it was for decades. Finding/creating holes that the agent can fill with minimal adult supervision is a completely new routine throughout my day, but I think obsessing over maintainability will pay off, like it always has.