MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
I built an email tool that lands emails in user's inboxes – not spam
by mddanishyusuf | 2026-01-07 06:42:03+00:00
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by avereveard | 2026-01-07 06:43:10+00:00
But... you can ask! Ask claude to use encapsulation, or to write the equivalent of interfaces in the language you using, and to map out dependencies and duplicate features, or to maintain a dictionary of component responsibilities.

AI coding is a multiplier of writing speed but doesn't excuse planning out and mapping out features.

You can have reasonably engineered code if you get models to stick to well designed modules but you need to tell them.
by lukan | 2026-01-07 06:44:11+00:00
"There's no way the entire company is going to gather all of the engineers and everyone around, have them code up a secret system "

No, that is why I wrote

"Who would really know, if the pipelines are set up in a way, that only very few people are aware of this?" (Typo fixed)

There is no need for everyone to know. I don't know their processes, but I can think of ways to only include very few people who need to know.

The rest is just working on everything else. Some work with data, where they don't need to know where it came from, some with UI, some with scaling up, some .. they all don't need to know, that the source of DB XYZ comes from a dark source.
by yieldcrv | 2026-01-07 06:44:17+00:00
no OP, but I can answer one way:

the US has very many visa programs, including half a dozen to a dozen work visa programs

this one particular visa program is politically radioactive, as if it is the only work visa program, and it doesn't accomplish its stated goals in hardly any way

until that can be settled I think and the program ironed out, it should be hampered to closed off, a moratorium

I would like to see the H1B program used to its original (and still codified) standards - highly in demand professionals that couldn't be sourced in the US so easily and are exceptional. The minimum wage for what such a professional would be paid was set in the 1980s, to $60,000 for someone with a master's degree, when it was exception. This minimum would be around $156,000/yr today. Okay, let's do that, that makes sense

if its politically radioactive to even just suggest that, all the more reason for a moratorium on that program, to me
by svara | 2026-01-07 06:45:12+00:00
> If all an engineer did all day was build apps from scratch, with no expectation that others may come along and extend, build on top of, or depend on, then sure, Opus 4.5 could replace them.

Why do they need to be replaced? Programmers are in the perfect place to use AI coding tools productively. It makes them more valuable.
by paines | 2026-01-07 06:45:24+00:00
Tuxedo is a german company relabling Clevo Laptops so far, which work out-of-the-box pretty good (I might say perfect in some cases) on Linux. They have done ZILCH, NADA, absolute nothing for Linux, besides promoting it as a brand. So now they took a snapdragon laptop, installed linux and are disappointed by the performance....Great test, tremendous work! Asahi Linux showed if you put in the work you can have awesome performance.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-01-07 06:46:30+00:00
I took a career break and was weirded out by the question of "how do I introduce myself?". So used to saying "Hi, I'm Marcus, I'm IT Director of <business>" that suddenly having nothing to say there was strange. When people asked "what do you do?" I had no good answer, and that felt like I had no good identity.

I guess for Sergey Brin it's a little different, he will always be "Founder of Google" even if he leaves Google.

But that "work as identity" may still be a problem. For a lot of us, what we do is who we are, and so not having any work to do is like not having an identity.
by names_are_hard | 2026-01-07 06:46:34+00:00
> When the printing press came out, I bet there were scribes who thought, "holy shit, there goes my job!" But I bet there were other scribes who thought, "holy shit, I don't have to do this by hand any more?!"

I don't understand this argument. Surely the skill set involved in being a scribe isn't the same as being a printer, and possibly the the personality that makes a good scribe doesn't translate to being a good printer.

So I imagine many of the scribes lost their income, and other people made money on printing. Good for the folks who make it in the new profession, sucks for those who got shafted. How many scribes transitioned successfully to printers?

Genuinely asking, I don't know.
by dataflow | 2026-01-07 06:47:08+00:00
What I'm saying is I think there's a decent chance the US won't actually engage in combat over Greenland. What I think the US is betting on is that there simply won't be any military resistance at all. (They basically said exactly this.)

Therefore, if Europe sent enough forces and indicated they would actually fight instead of capitulating, that would probably be their best bet at preventing Greenland from being annexed. Realistically, this needs to be more than whatever tiny(?) amount of forces Denmark already has there. They'd probably need assistance from other countries. You essentially need to be reading headlines about warships from some European countries heading to Greenland for this to have an effect, IMO.
by ngcc_hk | 2026-01-07 06:47:15+00:00
Not hobby. Taking photo is always key to life for many.

Before phone for major event like graduation, wedding and baby birth people do buy one camera with one lens for the occasion and keep it as a family heirloom like. And even students gala and performances. Whilst a lot of point and shot, slr and later dslr are common. The key it is not a hobby to them but a life even to record.

Unlike people like us canon and nikon found it hard to sell the second lens or even second body.
by chihuahua | 2026-01-07 06:48:16+00:00
About a year ago I had an unpleasant and demoralizing experience at work, and thought "fuck it, I don't need to put up with this shit any more" and decided I'd had enough of work for now. In the spring and summer and early fall, it's easy to find enough things to do outside. Right now in the rainy, windy winter it's a bit more difficult. Today I went to the gym at 7am, then did a 2 hour indoor cycling workout at home, then went for a short plunge in the lake (41 F). Then an hour in the hot tub.

It's pretty cool doing whatever I want for now, but I don't think I can do this for another 40 years. I feel like there's something missing - the sense of accomplishment whenever I finish a task. Also, sitting around doing nothing feels so much better when it's either before work or after work.

So maybe at the end of summer 2026 I'll wait for recruiter emails and start responding to some of them. I'm done with applying to 100 jobs to get one response. Maybe I'll try a startup job to experience working in a place that doesn't have a 50-page document describing level expectations.
by ergocoder | 2026-01-07 06:48:20+00:00
Retirement isn't quite applicable to billionaires.

They never have to work. They do it because they want to.

Retirement implies there was work you didn't want to do. You did it because you had (or wanted) to make some money. Now you have enough money. You've retired.

Hell, it isn't even applicable to many wealthy software engineers who got rich from tech startups. Many are coding as much as when they were working.
by llmslave2 | 2026-01-07 06:48:40+00:00
Maybe they are struggling to convince others because they are unable to produce evidence that is able to convince people?

My experience scrolling X and HN is a bunch of people going "omg opus omg Claude Code I'm 10x more productive" and that's it. Just hand wavy anecdotes based on their own perceived productivity. I'm open to being convinced but just saying stuff is not convincing. It's the opposite, it feels like people have been put under a spell.

I'm following The Primeagen, he's doing a series where he is trying these tools on stream and following peoples advice on how to use them the best. He's actually quite a good programmer so I'm eager to see how it goes. So far he isn't impressed and thus neither am I. If he cracks it and unlocks significant productivity then I will be convinced.
by overfeed | 2026-01-07 06:49:07+00:00
Even if it's unglamarous, there's loads of economic value in tele-operated humanoid bots. They can improve productivity via one pilot driving N robots and issuing high-level commands. They can also allow factories to import labor from 3rd world countries without bothering with the visa stuff. Providing complete manufacturing synergy using world-class, follow-the-sun shifts, minimizing disruptions and ensuring you meet your re-onshored manufacturing goals.
by mattnewton | 2026-01-07 06:49:14+00:00
Not only are we throwing the baby out with the bathwater, I feel like the current rhetoric in the US doesn’t even acknowledge the existence of the metaphorical baby anymore.

The strongest advantage of the US has always been the ability to absorb global talent. I don’t think that is a popular view anymore, and we are instead stuck talking only about stopping abuse that is ultimately still bringing skilled workers to the US.
by stoneforger | 2026-01-07 06:49:26+00:00
The captive audience is not you, it's people salivating at the train of thought where they can 100x productivity of whatever and push those features that will get paying customers so they can get bought from private equity and ride out on the sunset. This whole thing is existential dread on a global scale, driven by sociopaths and everyone is just unable to not bend over.
by verall | 2026-01-07 06:49:51+00:00
But time I spend asking is time I could have been writing exactly what I wanted in the first place, if I already did the planning to understand what I wanted. Once I know what I want, it doesn't take that long, usually.

Which is why it's so great for prototyping, because it can create something during the planning, when you haven't planned out quite what you want yet.
by CraigJPerry | 2026-01-07 06:50:42+00:00
Canada is not an exception and operates via the same mechanism https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/Resear...

Fractional reserve is a model only for textbooks, it is not an accurate model of how the banking system works in most western economies with a central bank and sovereign currency today.

>> The more useful limitation in economic terms and in legal terms is on the amount of capital banks need to hold

Well this is usually the biggest of several limitations which impact whether a loan would be profitable to make for a bank or not so i don't entirely disagree but this is a legislative control, there's no "economic terms" here because in general no school of economics understands this or has anything to say about this control which you correctly point out exists and is central to loan decision making. People can argue about the degree of centrality because it's not the only factor so let me put it this way: it's central in a way which any notion of "fractional reserve" is simply not.
by ggomma | 2026-01-07 06:50:44+00:00
You just described my experience perfectly. the skim mode that kicks in automatically, eyes moving but brain disconnected, forcing yourself to restart only to drift again. It's exhausting.

The AI observation is interesting and I think you're onto something. We're training ourselves to scan for "the answer" buried in walls of text. It's efficient for extraction, terrible for actual reading. Different cognitive modes, and one is cannibalizing the other.

With ADHD-PI in the mix, I'd be really curious to hear if Parsely helps. The one-paragraph-at-a-time approach seems to work well for some ADHD folks, it removes the overwhelming "wall of text" feeling and gives your brain a smaller, more manageable target.

But brains are different, so no promises. Let me know how it goes either way. If it doesn't work for you, I'd genuinely want to understand why. I think it might help me and all the other people who suffers same thing make it better.
by weird-eye-issue | 2026-01-07 06:51:39+00:00
I wonder what sort of problems you must have to get this upset about the creator of a particular software telling people how they personally use that software

Personally I keep open several tabs of CC but it's not often that more than one or two of them would be running at the same time. It's just to keep particular context around for different parts of the same application since it's quite big (I don't use CC for creating new projects). For example if I had it work on a feature and then I realized there was a bug or an adjustment in the same files that needed to be made then I can just go back to that tab hours or maybe even days later without digging through history
by numpad0 | 2026-01-07 06:53:26+00:00
I've asked Gemini about it the other day(I'm dumb and shameless). Apparently it means that the model branches into bunch of 3B sections in the middle and joins at both ends, totaling in parameters at 30B. This means computational footprint reduces to (bottom "router" parts + 3B + top parts) of effectively-5B or whatever specific to that model implied by "3B", rather than the full 30B.

MoE models still operate on token-by-token basis, i.e. "pot/at/o" -> "12345/7654/8472". "Experts" are selected on per-token basis, not per-interation, so "expert" naming might be a bit of a misnomer, or marketing.
by ggomma | 2026-01-07 06:53:28+00:00
This is solid advice, honestly.

The pencil-in-hand approach forces active engagement. Your brain can't drift when it's hunting for things worth noting. And the "would I take notes on this?" test is a genuinely good filter. I used to do this in college. Somewhere along the way I stopped, probably when "reading" became "checking 47 tabs while pretending to work."

The printing step is where I fall off, though. There's enough friction there that I'd just... not read the thing.

Parsely is partly about reducing friction to zero—same tab, one keypress, you're in.

For me, the best system is the one I'll actually use. But you're pointing at something real. "tools that force active engagement beat passive consumption every time".

I'm tring to do this by making you deliberately advance through text. Printing and annotating does it even more forcefully. Different tools for different people, maybe different moments.
by Blikkentrekker | 2026-01-07 06:53:28+00:00
Advertisement also more or less puts a wrench in the theory of capitalistic competition in that companies would be incentivized to create the best product for the lowest price supposedly. They're now just incentivized to create the best ad campaign which costs money and does not improve the product in any way.

Also, the existence of crippleware, where companies actually invest resources into removing features from a product is interesting. It would be interesting if we were to live in a world were both advertisement and crippleware are forbidden. It's already forbidden in many jurisdictions for various public function professions such as medical services or legal services so it's not as though it couldn't be implemented.
by xigoi | 2026-01-07 06:54:22+00:00
> How do you solve discoverability, especially of a new type of product or category? I invented this new gadget call "luminexel". People don't know what it is yet, because it's new. How do people find it in a catalog?

You make a post on Hacker News titled “Show HN: I made this cool thing called Luminexel, check it out!” Some people will think it’s really cool and tell their friends about it. Eventually it will end up on some “curated list of awesome things” website.
by dmitrygr | 2026-01-07 06:54:25+00:00
> When people asked "what do you do?"

I found that outside of CA, this is asked a lot less often. In CA people ask that so they can mentally rank you as worth their time or not. Elsewhere, people ask you how your weekend went, or how your family is. One of the awesome parts of moving to Austin was not hearing that as the first question as much.
by weird-eye-issue | 2026-01-07 06:54:28+00:00
For lots of software unless you really know what you are doing it's best to just leave the default settings alone and not dig too deep into what's not immediately intended to do. For my application lots of bug reports come from people using our advanced settings without reading any of the instructions at all and screwing it up

So in the case of him being the creator obviously he built it for his needs
by prmoustache | 2026-01-07 06:56:28+00:00
Frankly the font used is very legible, the contrast is good and the glitters so few and far between they don't hamper visibility. Additionally all this can be changed in a pinch by the reader from the web browser.

I read this comment and many more from people that pretend to be unable to read this otherwise very legible page as a way to express their fragility.

A sort of cringe "I'have nothing against LGBTQ+ but I am not gay" moment. Similar to those "I am not racists but traditions!" ones.
by csomar | 2026-01-07 06:56:39+00:00
I am guessing if you have been doing this daily for a couple decades then the neurodivergence is not going through this. I assume any normal person will find it hard to not do any kind of work and if you spent 20 years of your life doing tech, how useful are in the "real" world. Unless you have been doing handy work on the sides, spoiler alert: not much.
by CraigJPerry | 2026-01-07 06:56:45+00:00
>> I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem

In most of these kinds of posts, that's still you. I don't believe i've come across a pro-faster-keyboard post yet that claims AGI. Despite the name, LLMs have no agency, it's still all on you.

Once you've defined the next most important problem, you have a smaller problem - translate those requirements into code which accurately meets them. That's the bit where these models can successfully take over. I think of them as a faster keyboard and i've not seen a reason to change my mind yet despite using them heavily.
by neilv | 2026-01-07 06:56:55+00:00
I'd be happy to do 60-hour weeks of good work, in a good environment.

I wouldn't want 60-hour weeks of dealing with a lot of promotion-seekers, though.

I wonder how different Google would be if they'd just paid people enough money they didn't have to think about money, but it was the same amount of money to everyone. You do the work, not for promotions, but because you like doing the work. You can train up for and transfer to different kinds of roles, but they pay the same.
by varun_chopra | 2026-01-07 06:57:53+00:00
It would be very interesting to see the outputs of his operations. How productive is one of his agents? How long does it take to complete a task, and how often does it require steering?

I'm a bit of a skeptic. Claude Code is good, but I've had varied results during my usage. Even just 5 minutes ago, I asked CC to view the most recent commit diff using git show. Even when I provided the command, it was doing dumb shit like git show --stat and then running wc for some reason...

I've been working on something called postkit[1], which has required me to build incrementally on a codebase that started from nothing and has now grown quite a lot. As it's grown, Claude Code's performance has definitely dipped.

[1] https://github.com/varunchopra/postkit
by bwb | 2026-01-07 07:00:42+00:00
I've got two going :)

https://shepherd.com/

Building a really unique book recommendation platform to help readers find books they might not otherwise know about. We just started working on a full book app that will be a private book diary, along with recommendations and insights based on your Book DNA. Think Goodreads, but rebuilt for readers who want a private space to track what they read, keep notes, and get truly personalized book recommendations (like Pandora or Spotify for books).

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

This is a fun one I do with a good friend. Basically, to see if a website is down, or if it is just you, along with reported reasons from the community. We are working to add user accounts so you can create your own custom lists of websites/services to track.
by breput | 2026-01-07 07:01:15+00:00
> I assume "what sort of problems you must have" was directed at me.

I don't really have any sort of personal problem with Boris' post, if what your inflammatory statement was implying.

I also think it was a fairly good description of his workflow, technically speaking, but also glosses over the actual monetary costs of what he is doing, and also as noted above, doesn't really describe the actual outcomes other than a lot of PRs.
by tpmoney | 2026-01-07 07:01:57+00:00
> Weren't those better before ads got involved?

The directories? Ads were part of those pretty early given that they were modeled on real world directories like the Yellow Pages in the first place. Here's a webarchive of yahoo from 1996[1]. Note the big broken banner at the top with the link text "Click here for the Net Radio Promotion". AOL was pretty much always full of ads, and don't forget the old AOL "keyword" searches which were ads by another name.

> Aren't those literally word of mouth?

Sure, and they were pretty lousy at helping you find information, which is why people stopped using them in preference to search engines, even though search engines had ads. Heck one of the selling points of Google originally was that their ads would actually be relevant to you and the things you were searching for.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/19961022175643/http://www10.yaho...
by almosthere | 2026-01-07 07:01:58+00:00
A lot of people are distracted with problems like how do I get this race condition fixed with a carefully written unit test.

You have to remember there are people that have a budget of unlimited money with the problem of "how do we capture greenland". Even crazier things like "how do we lower the birth rate of X" are other problems people have unlimited money to throw at.

Remember this for your entire life as you see history unfold.
by energy123 | 2026-01-07 07:03:04+00:00
It's the best model pound for pound, but I find GPT 5.2 Thinking/Pro to be more useful for serious work when run with xhigh effort. I can get it to think for 20 minutes, but Gemini 3.0 Pro is like 2.5 minutes max. Obviously I lack full visibility because tok/s and token efficiency likely differs between them, but I take it as a proxy of how much compute they're giving us per inference, and it matches my subjective judgement of output quality. Maybe Google nerfs the reasoning effort in the Gemini subscription to save money and that's why I am experiencing this.
by csomar | 2026-01-07 07:03:07+00:00
It's all smokes really. Claude Code is an unreliable piece of software and yet one of the better ones in LLM-Coding. (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues). That and I highly suspect it's mostly engineers who are working on it instead of LLMs. Google itself with all its resources and engineers can't come up with a half-decent CLI for coding.

Reminder: The guy works for Claude. Claude is over-hyping LLMs. That's like a Jeweler dealer assistant telling you how Gold chains helped his romantic life.