MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by darth_avocado | 2026-01-22 18:25:05+00:00
> Is this cultural?

Its incentives. If you’re an Indian student in India, unless you go to a prestigious university, your prospects of landing a job, let alone a good one are very small. Even tech companies that claim to be meritocratic elsewhere, rarely screen resumes beyond the top universities in India. The only other real prospect is to get your resume to stand out. Open source contributions, research papers etc are some ways to do that. And the talented ones make contributions, while the rest just try to fake it in the hopes to make it (it obviously doesn’t work).

There are similar incentives if you want your college application to stand out if you’re trying to go abroad for higher education. And if you’re already outside India, those incentives extend to job applications outside India. If you’re an international student looking for a job, even if you have work experience at known multinational companies, if it’s in India, the experience doesn’t count.

It’s all about incentives and responding to them.
by sothatsit | 2026-01-22 18:25:17+00:00
My argument is that understanding is always important, even if you delegate. But perhaps you mean sometimes a lower degree of understanding may be okay, which may be true, but I’d be cautious on that front. AI coding is a very leaky abstraction.

We already see the damage of a lack of understanding when we have to work with old codebases. These behemoths can become very difficult to work in over time as the people who wrote it leave, and new people don’t have the same understanding to make good effective changes. This slows down progress tremendously.

Fundamentally, code changes you make without understanding them immediately become legacy code. You really don’t want too much of that to pile up.
by fsckboy | 2026-01-22 18:25:17+00:00
you keep trying to change the subject. Here's how the to understand the difference in our positions:

if security researchers find vulns in network software, should they be fixed, or should a hypothetical researcher PaulDavidThe2ndSmartestPersonInThisThread quash the discussion by saying "there is no evidence that these vulns are being exploited"?

fsckboy thinks they should be fixed

https://thegeorgiasun.com/government/your-vote/inside-the-fu...

https://thegeorgiasun.com/government/your-vote/inside-the-fu...

understand that politicians who would benefit from fraud would also control the investigation, making your "see no evil" monkey brain's position as questionable as the election system security is
by al_borland | 2026-01-22 18:25:20+00:00
The alternative I've seen to this is to ask the user which way they want it during the setup process. Light vs Dark mode is an example of this. The net result of this user choice is a longer, more complex, and burdensome onboarding process that is rife with decision fatigue. Once the user has chosen, if they don't like their choice, they may not know how to change it, since that initial action was outside of any standard interface.

The other issue with settings for everything is that the settings become bloated. In OS X, and to some extent iOS, I knew where all the settings were for the most part. Browsing them all to see what was available was a consumable thing, and I could largely remember where to go without much trouble. As macOS and iOS have added more settings to try and please everyone, and now redesigned the Settings apps... I've given up. I have no idea where most things are, what is in there, and have to search for everything and hope I use the right words.

There is an old video of Steve Jobs[0] talking about how every product is a series of decisions and trade offs. People pay companies to make all these decisions, and ideally, there is a company that makes decisions to similar enough sensibilities as yourself so that you can buy a product and use it without much fuss. It seems more and more that these decisions are all being pushed to the consumer, which in some ways makes a worse product. If I wanted infinite chose at the expense of complexity, I'd be running Gentoo or Arch. People choose macOS because it's supposed to be easy.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmRNIGqzuRI
by pton_xd | 2026-01-22 18:25:20+00:00
> Studies like this remind me of early concerns about calculators making students "worse at math." The reality is that tools change what skills matter, not whether people think.

Over-reliance on calculators does make you worse at math. I (shamefully) skated through Calculus 3 by just typing everything into my TI-89. Now as an adult I have no recollection of anything I did in that class. I don't even remember how to use the TI-89, so it was basically a complete waste of my time. But I still remember the more basic calculus concepts from all the equations I solved by hand in Calc 1 and 2.

I'm not saying "calculators bad" but misusing them in the learning process is a risk.
by mindslight | 2026-01-22 18:25:31+00:00
For sure, but this is tied into the elder care crisis. My aunt is the sole occupant of a gigantic "2 family" [0]. Not even in the suburbs, but in what you'd describe as a small non-rich city downtown. She toys with the idea of assisted living, but the deal basically seems to be trading her house to buy in, and then a huge monthly ongoing fee. And we all know once you're in such a place, the rosy marketing about the care you're going to get never really pans out. Whereas she gets the full attention of the hired helper that comes by twice a week.

At this point I think she's well past assisted living, and relies on being in a familiar environment. So those concerns plus the non-winning finances, my advice is to stay there as long as she can.

[0] It's actually 3 units, one in a state of paused remodel. I haven't been able to tell if it started its life as 2 units each with an upstairs and downstairs and a shared stairway, or as 4 separate units even.
by a-dub | 2026-01-22 18:26:03+00:00
in the old days one would add and check for a loop detection token when loops like this could be driven by external systems... i wonder if today it would be as simple as adding "ensure you don't get stuck in any loops" to a prompt.

fwiw. doesn't look like gemini at all, the responses are perfectly canned... maybe just good old fashioned ci rules.
by dtran | 2026-01-22 18:26:14+00:00
To the best of my knowledge, Waymo still has humans in the loop as Fleet Response agents that the vehicles can call for remote assistance when they aren't sure what to do. Caveat that the number needed likely isn't on the same order of magnitude as human drivers, but the job is likely higher paying. I could see a scenario where these should be locals for both latency (ChatGPT says SF to Miami RTT latency might be 80-100 ms and I don't believe the humans really teleoperate the vehicles, so that may not be meaningful, but that might be a bigger deal for international expansion) and knowledge of tricky intersections or road quirks in the city. They could also potentially help with labeling quirky city-specific scenarios and other various evals.
by marcprux | 2026-01-22 18:26:33+00:00
It really isn't. Did you see their latest time estimate (https://youtu.be/W4olXg91iX8?t=538)? Late 2026 just to get the widget sets broken out into separate packages? And only then can they start considering modernizing them and trying to mimic the latest UI?

Flutter can't even get animations to look and feel right for iOS 18 and below (read through this thread and every other HN/Reddit thread that mentions Flutter vs. native components). Do you really think they'll ever get Liquid Glass looking and feeling convincing, let alone performing acceptably?

Read over the 100+ comments in the GH issue I posted. You see actual Flutter contributors — not people who merely vibe-coded a Potemkin L.G. demo and declared victory — saying that it is effectively impossible.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-22 18:26:35+00:00
>We are no longer critical thinking

Please provide evidence that masses of people ever were critically thinking across general fields they were not involved in.

Everyone seems to take for face value there was a golden age of critical thinking done by the masses is at some time in the indeterminate past, but regardless of when you ask this question, the answer is always "in the past".

I surmise your thesis is incorrect and supplant this one instead.

The average person can only apply critical thinking on a very limited amount of information, and typically on topics they deal with that have a quick feedback loop of consequences.

Deep critical thinkers across vast topics are rare, and have always been rare. There are likely far more of them than ever now, but this falls into the next point

Information and complexity are exploding, the amount of data required to navigate the world we now live in is far larger than just a few generations ago. Couple this with the amount of information being presented to individuals and you run into actual physics constraints on the amount of information the human brain can distil into a useful model.

By (monetary) necessity people have become deep specialists in limited topics, analogies and paradigms don't necessarily work across different topics. For example, understanding code very well has very little bearing on if I grok the reality of practiced political sociology, and my idea of what is critical thinking around it is very likely to have a very large prediction mismatch to what actually happens.
by stewartjarod | 2026-01-22 18:26:36+00:00
Thanks! Great questions.

Pulumi updates: Yes, exactly. Pulumi manages infrastructure state and handles diff-based updates. When we ship new features or improvements, users run wraps email upgrade, and Pulumi figures out the minimal changes needed. We also have a versioned metadata system that auto-migrates configs - so if we change how we store deployment info, it upgrades transparently on next run.

Cost tracking: Yes! Every resource we create is tagged with ManagedBy: "wraps-cli" plus service-specific tags (Service: "email", Provider: "vercel", etc.). You can filter by these in AWS Cost Explorer to see exactly what Wraps infrastructure costs.

In practice, the costs are minimal - most users see $0.05-5/mo for the infrastructure itself (DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS). The main cost is just SES usage at $0.10 per 1,000 emails.
by Balinares | 2026-01-22 18:26:40+00:00
Amazingly, just yesterday, I had Opus 4.5 crap itself extensively on a fairly simple problem -- it was trying to override a column with an aggregation function while also using it in a group-by without referring to the original column by its full qualified name prefixed with the table -- and in typical Claude fashion it assembled an entire abstraction layer to try and hide the problem under, before finally giving up, deleting the column, and smugly informing me I didn't need it anyway.

That evening, for kicks, I brought the problem to GLM 4.7 Flash (Flash!) and it one-shot the right solution.

It's not apples to apples, because when it comes down to it LLMs are statistical token extruders, and it's a lot easier to extrude the likely tokens from an isolated query than from a whole workspace that's already been messed up somewhat by said LLM. That, and data is not the plural of anecdote. But still, I'm easily amused, and this amused me. (I haven't otherwise pushed GLM 4.7 much and I don't have a strong opinion about about it.)

But seriously, given the consistent pattern of knitting ever larger carpets to sweep errors under that Claude seems to exhibit over and over instead of identifying and addressing root causes, I'm curious what the codebases of people who use it a lot look like.
by gogopromptless | 2026-01-22 18:26:42+00:00
Thats what we call a Staff level engineer. Proven ability to learn, implement and validate is basically the "it factor" businesses are looking for.

If you are thinking about this from an academic angle then sure its sounds weird to say "Two Staff jobs in a row from the University of LinkedIn" as a degree. But I submit this as basically the certificate you desire.
by michaelcampbell | 2026-01-22 18:26:42+00:00
> > Indian students

> Is this cultural?

Could be, but there are a number of very popular Youtube and other video based classes/bootcamps (taught and targeted from/to Indian students) that teach how to work with git and github that show how to create PR's and comments in repos, and then a lot of students do that, on public (and popular) repos.

There are a couple very famous examples of this.
by maorbril | 2026-01-22 18:26:45+00:00
I run Claude Code in two terminals - one in /backend, one in /frontend. They had no idea what the other was doing.

When my backend agent finished an API endpoint, I'd have to manually tell the frontend agent. Copy-paste the schema. Explain the types. Re-establish context. Every. Single. Time.

So I built Clauder. Run `clauder wrap` instead of `claude` and your instances discover each other automatically.

The killer feature: real-time messaging between agents. Backend finishes an endpoint, sends "GET /users ready, returns paginated JSON" - frontend agent gets notified instantly and starts building the React Query hook. No copy-paste. They just coordinate.

How it works:
- MCP server that runs locally
- Agents auto-register when they start
- Messages delivered in real-time via polling
- Also has persistent memory (facts survive across sessions)

Quick start:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MaorBril/clauder/main/install.sh | sh
clauder setup
clauder wrap # instead of 'claude'

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI.

All local, SQLite storage, MIT licensed.

What multi-agent workflows would you use this for?
by noname120 | 2026-01-22 18:26:46+00:00
Thanks a lot. Interestingly Brotli’s author mentioned here that zstd is 2× faster at decompressing, which roughly matches your numbers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035817

I’m also really surprised that gzip performs better here. Is there some kind of hardware acceleration or the like?
by bird0861 | 2026-01-22 18:26:48+00:00
With respect to the first issue you raise, I would perhaps start including prompts in comments. This is a little sneaky sure. And maybe explicitly putting them in a markdown would be better. But there's the risk that markdown won't be loaded. Perhaps it might be possible to inject the file into context via a comment, I've never tried that though and I doubt every assistant will act in a consistent way. The comment method is probably the best bet IMO.

Forgive me because this is a bit of a tangential rant on the second issue, but Gemini Pro 3 was absolutely heinous about this so I cancelled my sub. I'm completely puzzled what it's supposed to be good for.

To your third issue, you should maybe consider building a dataset from those interactions... you might be able to train a LoRA on them and use it as a first pass before you lift a finger to scroll through a PR.

I think a really big issue is that there is a lack of consistency in the use of AI for SWE. There are a lot of models and poorly designed agents/assistants with really unforgivable performance and people just blindly using them without caring about the outputs amounts to something that is kind of Denial-of-Service-y and I keep seeing this issue be raised over and over again.

At the risk of sounding elitist, the world might be a better place for project maintainers when the free money stops rolling into the frontier labs to offer anyone and everyone free use of the models...never give a baby powertools and so on.
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by pablituuu | 2026-01-22 18:27:19+00:00
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- *AI-Powered*: Uses Gemini Pro for intelligent chat and content manipulation.
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I'm particularly looking for feedback on performance and the AI interaction flow. Happy to answer any technical questions about the implementation!
by dc396 | 2026-01-22 18:27:46+00:00
> Is the presence of a human driver keeping you from using Uber/Lyft/taxis more than you currently are?

Yep. A couple of bad experiences with Uber/Lyft drivers put me off using them. Waymo is honestly more comfortable/less stressful for me. Similarly, I just read an article discussing parents making use of Waymo to schlep their kids to sportball practice/friend's house/wherever kids hang out these days, even though it is against Waymo's terms of service. The article indicated those parents didn't trust their kids to be in a car along with a strange human, but were ok with an automated system (and violating the ToS of that system).

> please explain how exactly our city landscapes, namely parking lots, will be revolutionized in any way, shape, or form other than zombie lots occupied Waymos

Today parking tends to be located near the shop/restaurant/office people want to go to. If people no longer need to park to go to where they want to go, parking (for charging) can relocate and be concentrated, thereby freeing up the parking spaces for other uses.
by munificent | 2026-01-22 18:27:52+00:00
I was trying to be healthier, so I started biking to work. I was worried about safety, so I only felt comfortable doing this because my commute was 90% on bike paths.

Then I slipped on a puddle and landed really wrong on my left ankle. :(

I don't know if I stuck my foot out and foot planted or the bike landed on it or what, but the end result was a tri-malleolar fracture with dislocation. Basically I tried to twist my foot off and broken the tips off my tibia and fibula in the process. I had a bunch of other complications after that: severe fracture blisters, nerve block rebound pain, infection, problems with wound healing, and then finally the cartilage crapped out and I got post-traumatic osteoarthritis.

> I always had broken bones in my head as this thing that heal after a couple months and you're back to 100% :/ (also broke my ankle)

Me too! This was my first broken bone. I thought I'd just go to the hospital, they'd patch me up, and I'd go on with my life. But then every appointment with the surgeon, the prognosis got worse and worse.

With the replacement, if everything goes well, then I should at least be able to walk, and hike, and dance without pain. But nothing high impact or putting a lot of torque on the ankle. No running, no intense sports. The door to that part of my life has closed.
by Moldoteck | 2026-01-22 18:28:10+00:00
Refurb costs are for the entire fleet which is 50+GW and are in fact dirt cheap. Refurbs are in 1-3bn/unit range. CF of say solar in this region is roughly 10-12%. To have same average output as a single 1GW npp you would need about 10GW solar and much more if you want to achieve firm generation. French refurbs will happen anyway. In fact, carenage is already undergoing.
by SamPatt | 2026-01-22 18:28:20+00:00
Yes, and it's wonderful to see. As the article itself explains, this isn't due to government led redistribution of wealth anymore:

> The 20th century infrastructure model was:

> Centralized generation

> Government-led

> Megaproject financing

> 30-year timelines

>Monopolistic utilities

> The 21st century infrastructure model is:

> Distributed/modular

> Private sector-led

> PAYG financing

> Deploy in days/weeks

> Competitive markets
by 4gotunameagain | 2026-01-22 18:28:56+00:00
If you look at old interviews of Putin and Lavrov, it is clear that they had been warning about NATO expansion and Ukraine for a long time.

On 12 June 2020, Ukraine joined NATO's enhanced opportunity partner interoperability program.

On 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine.

I think Putin is a dictator, but comparing Trump to Putin is simply clueless.
by bevr1337 | 2026-01-22 18:29:01+00:00
> The British version can be much bleaker.

I think this one is a miss. TOS is inspired by _british_ naval history. Loss, fear, and failure are central to the show. In this era of TV, leading characters still had large flaws. Kirk is frozen by choice, Spock believes himself superior, Bones is a bigoted luddite. We as viewers get to see the pain this causes and their efforts to improve. It's wholly different than modern US television including all other ST media. Meanwhile, 70s Dr. Who is packed with automatic weapons fire and explosions and the formula has always been the Doctor knows best. (I am a huge fan of all the mentioned shows.)

For a good, modern example we can look at Ghosts (suddenly renamed "Ghosts UK" on my streaming services) and Ghosts US. The adaptation is agonizing. They stripped the important aspects of the story but kept a boy scout, toy soldier, and an interracial marriage. I found that telling.
by neutronicus | 2026-01-22 18:29:04+00:00
On that topic, I think the perspective you're replying to is cope. It would have been better for everyone (else) involved if he took the money from his smarmy friend, took the abuse from his dick boss at his second job, took the abuse from his asshole rich student, took the subtle jabs from his family. Generally, if he swallowed his pride.

Of course, the whole reason the show had a plot is that he was too proud, too toxically masculine, to go that route. And I think the show's implicit thesis is that self-immolating as Walter did was preferable to enduring the indignity of his life. Certainly, it was more fun for the audience.

This is contrary to you and GP, making the (what I observe to be) common assertion that the show is a parable about the danger of toxic masculinity, and anyone who doesn't believe this is too stupid, sexist, or both to "get it" (parenthetically, where you differ I agree with you - people who think Walter is cool and Skylar annoying are legion). The reason I'm calling this "cope" is that reading the show as a morality play condemning toxic masculinity allows one to enjoy it without guilt. This is moral art! If only all that human filth on the internet were smart enough to realize it!

I just don't buy it, though. I think the show is about how being a monster is cooler than being responsible, in large part because all the people who depend on you to be responsible are so damn annoying.
by tadfisher | 2026-01-22 18:29:16+00:00
There is not a hard technical reason, just different goals. WINE is a compatibility layer to run Windows apps, and thus most improvements end up fixing an issue with a particular Windows application. It turns out that most Windows applications are somewhat well-behaved and restrict themselves to calling public win32 APIs and public DLL functions, so implementing 100% coverage of internal APIs wouldn't accomplish much beyond exposing the project to accusations of copyright infringement.

IIRC, there is also US court precedent (maybe Sony v. Connectix?) that protects the practice of reverse-engineering external hardware/software systems that programs use in order to facilitate compatibility. WINE risks losing this protection if they stray outside of APIs known to be used (or are otherwise required) by applications.
by torginus | 2026-01-22 18:29:32+00:00
And the weird thing is, these are the people who actually make thing.

I think the success (not necessarily financialy, but in the public eye) of the American tech elite can be partly attributed how much more relatable these peole were than the previous ones.

For someone who was used to seeing these corporate types with their perfectly tailored suits who spoke in press releases, I think it was a refreshing change to see Mark Zuckerberg give interviews in his college hoodie in his typically awkward fashion.

I think this created a perception in the eyes of the public that these guys are different, and tech has coasted on this goodwill for quite a while.