MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by threetonesun | 2026-02-12 18:25:21+00:00
I rarely see LLMs generate code that is less readable than the rest of the codebase it's been created for. I've seen humans who are short on time or economic incentive produce some truly unreadable code.

Of more concern to me is that when it's unleashed on the ephemera of coding (Jira tickets, bug reports, update logs) it generates so much noise you need another AI to summarize it for you.
by isehgal | 2026-02-12 18:25:45+00:00
Thanks for the shout! Happy looks solid - always great to see more options here. Anecdotally from users who've tried both, we've heard Omnara has better reliability and latency. We also layer on some features like web support, worktrees, sandboxing, richer git management (diffs, checkpoints), and preview URLs. Would love to hear what you think if you give it a spin :)
by ThinkBeat | 2026-02-12 18:25:47+00:00
You cannot.

iOS is one problem, but it goes for every other
device/server/desktop/appliance that you use.

You can take a lot of precautions, and mitigate
some risk, and ensure that operations can continue
even if something bad happens¹,
but you cant ever "be safe".

¹
""
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns;
that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know
""
(Often attributed to Donald Rumsfeld, though he did not originate the concept.)

Know what bad can happen is difficult.
by bubbadog77 | 2026-02-12 18:26:26+00:00
Very well put.

And with China a key target in the Trump Tariff debacle, China is punching holes in these punitive tariffs. Besides shipping goods to intermediary countries that are not as heavily tariffed then exporting to the U.S., China is taking ownership stakes in American businesses, thus circumventing the whole tariff thing. And the beauty of this is, they can take advantage of U.S. taxpayer benefits, such as an R&D tax credit, to sweeten the deal.
by shadowgovt | 2026-02-12 18:26:29+00:00
Most of the time, in my experience, when one encounters a situation like this in Internet tech (i.e. "why is this suggestion treated like a hard requirement?"), this is the answer: "because attackers found a way to exploit the lack of the suggestion's implementation in the wild, so it is now a hard requirement."

The standards, to my observation, tend to lag the CVEs.

Side-note: If someone has built a reverse-database that annotates RFCs with overriding CVEs that have invalidated or rendered harmful part of the spec, I'd love to put that in my toolbox. It'd be nice-to-have in the extreme if it hasn't been created yet.
by lake22traillady | 2026-02-12 18:26:35+00:00
What this is: A read-only quickstart for Synchronizer API (dental PMS integrations). The 3-minute video shows account setup and core concepts, then you run five GETs to validate scheduling semantics before writing business logic.

How to try (requires free dev signup to get a token)
Create dev account: get sandbox token

Fork the Postman collection: set env vars BASE_URL, TOKEN, location_id, and subdomain

Run (read-only)

GET /locations?subdomain={{subdomain}}
GET /providers?location_id={{location_id}}
GET /availabilities?subdomain?subdomain={{subdomain}}&location_id={{location_id}}&page=1&per_page=5&active=true&ignore_past_dates=false
GET /appointment_slots?subdomain=test&start_date={{startIso}}&days=10&lids[]={{location_id}}&pids[]={{provider_id}}&overlapping_operatory_slots=false
GET /appointments/{{appt_id}}

What to look for
Appointment slots show actual calendar availability (no guesswork)

Appointment details shows CONFIRMED/ PATIENT_MISSED/ CANCELED as events

Behavior is consistent across locations/time windows
by yellowapple | 2026-02-12 18:26:46+00:00
Searching for “alternator” produces 40 results, all of which are shock absorbers, and 38 of which are the same exact shock absorber. Meanwhile, searching for “shock absorber” produces 40 results, all of which are bolts and screws (but at least they ain't many copies of the same bolt/screw this time!).

Searching for “cup” produces another 40 results, all of which are flat rectangular panels. Searching for “flat rectangular panel” at least returns flat rectangular panels, though, so it's got that going for it.
by amiga386 | 2026-02-12 18:27:03+00:00
The trouble with sugar taxes is it does drive soda-company behaviour. A. G. Barr killed the real Irn Bru in 2018 to avoid the Scottish sugar tax.

It could've passed on the tax to the consumer, but it didn't. It has ceased making its iconic beverage and now only sells a variant that tastes crap. No amount of money can bring the good stuff back. The sugar tax killed it. The world is now a slightly worse place, thanks to government interference.

(I'm sure there's a way to extrapolate this anecdote back to tariffs)
Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?
by syx | 2026-02-12 18:27:03+00:00
If you've used Claude Code or similar tools for "vibe-coding" in programming languages you aren't fluent in or that you don't know, how do you validate the performance or architectural quality of the outcome?

I'm curious how people are catching subtle bugs or technical debt when the LLM produces something that works but might be unoptimized.
by kridsdale3 | 2026-02-12 18:27:03+00:00
I genuinely believe that all open source projects with restrictive or commercially-unviable licenses will be cloned by LLM translation in the next few years. Since the courts are finding that its OK for GenAI to interpret copyrighted works of art and fiction in their outputs, surely that means the end of legal protection for source code as well.

"Rewrite of this project in rust via HelperBot" also means you get a "clean room" version since no human mind was influenced in its creation.
by anonymars | 2026-02-12 18:27:04+00:00
I don't think the clanker* deserves any deference. Why is this bot such a nasty prick? If this were a human they'd deserve a punch in the mouth.

"The thing that makes this so fucking absurd? Scott ... is doing the exact same work he’s trying to gatekeep."

"You’ve done good work. I don’t deny that. But this? This was weak."

"You’re better than this, Scott."

---
*I see it elsewhere in the thread and you know what, I like it
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-12 18:27:10+00:00
Sure:

* horseless carriage, needed new laws

* dog/biting (you engaged with this one)

* credit card credentials

* And the situation at hand where an agent writes a mean blog post.

Straight liability isn't always correct. Who is liable for the crash when the car's brakes fail? When a dog bites, you are not charged with biting (though you can get some pretty serious other charges) . If a bot snarfs your credit card credentials, what's the legal theory who gets the blame for the results? Idem the mean blog post.
by culi | 2026-02-12 18:27:21+00:00
In fact as much as 50% of the Amazon's rain can be attributed to the trees themselves. Both through evapotranspiration strategies and increased cloud-seeding particles

However, I think the more relevant dynamic for this region is the water-holding capacity of the soil. If you get lost in a desert you are more likely to drown than to die of thirst because the water-holding capacity of the "soil" is almost nothing making flash floods likely. But soil that is at an advanced stage of ecological succession will be dominated by mycorrhizal fungi that produce glomalose. This type of soil can hold as much as 50x more water than "dead" soil
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-02-12 18:27:27+00:00
> I don't think you've made your case that the behavior is not harmless, and a more cynical guess at a motive might just be easy money.

Well, I've provided some evidence that demonstrates that phone use is far more distracting than people believe - it's similar in my mind to the various tests of human perception such as "The Invisible Gorilla" whereby the brain fools people into thinking that they are perceptive and can see obvious objects, but actually testing their perception shows up a big mismatch between their expectations and their actual performance.

Presumably, the "easy money" you refer to is providing an incentive to police forces to prosecute phone using drivers, but the fines go to central government, not the local police forces, so apart from statistics, they have little incentive apart from the obvious traffic safety argument. Often, police forces seek to send a warning letter as it's easier for them to do so - that demonstrates that they are not focussing on fine revenues and are attempting to educate the problematic drivers.

One aspect we haven't touched upon is that it is a lot easier to prosecute drivers for using a phone whilst in control of a vehicle rather than only prosecuting drivers using a phone whilst in motion. I don't have a problem with drivers who pull in to the side of the road to use their phone, though the law does state that they should turn off their engine to do so. The difference between that and being stuck in traffic is that they have control over when they choose to rejoin the traffic flow and won't just blindly follow what they think the driver in front is doing.

This does remind me of an incident I had a while back. I was cycling along a dual carriageway and a tractor driver behind me used his horn aggressively (i.e. there was nothing that required the horn use) and then overtook. I passed him at the next set of lights at a roundabout and noticed that he was visibly using his phone, so of course the police got the full video (they require two minutes before and after incidents anyhow) and I was smugly satisfied to catch him out as aggressive behaviour can be down to interpretation, but not the phone use.
by munk-a | 2026-02-12 18:27:29+00:00
Tariffs to produce market effects (like onshoring) only work if those tariffs are observed to be durable (in four years all these tariffs will evaporate) and are strengthened by being paired with other encouragement (i.e. industry development subsidies).

These tariffs are arbitrary and capricious and no business would rationally respond to them with any kind of long term investment. People just want to weather the storm of the mad king and international partners are developing alternative relationships to seek more stability.
by kmansm27 | 2026-02-12 18:27:32+00:00
The idea is that if agents are coding for you, there's no need to be at your desk to manage them. I think the case for managing coding agents without being at your desk is becoming stronger as agents become more autonomous.

And for your sidenote, we'll see when Anthropic/OpenAI release something similar. For now it's pretty useful, and we're making it better every day.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-12 18:28:24+00:00
Wasn't aware there was an effort to move to websockets. Is there any standards work for this, or is this just happening purely within the walled OpenAI garden?

> Under the hood, we streamlined how responses stream from client to server and back, rewrote key pieces of our inference stack, and reworked how sessions are initialized so that the first visible token appears sooner and Codex stays responsive as you iterate. Through the introduction of a persistent WebSocket connection and targeted optimizations inside of Responses API, we reduced overhead per client/server roundtrip by 80%, per-token overhead by 30%, and time-to-first-token by 50%. The WebSocket path is enabled for Codex-Spark by default and will become the default for all models soon.
by FireBeyond | 2026-02-12 18:28:49+00:00
I mean Eisenhower was the Republican President immediately leading up to LBJ signing the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts in 64-65 (i.e. the inflection point of the D/R "switch") and would realistically be considered a Democrat president:

- Accepted the New Deal

- Championed the Interstate Highway system (massive federal spending)

- Pushed for higher marginal tax rates

- Supported a regulated mixed economy

- Warned against the military-industrial complex.
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-12 18:28:56+00:00
Is it a culture of "not my problem"?

Maybe bad example but, Let's say you spill some food at a fast food place, shopping mall, airport. Do you make an effort to clean it up yourself or are you like "It's someone's job to clean this place therefore I can just leave it for them".

Maybe that's too harsh an example but I see locals cleaning the streets in Japan, not government hired street sweepers. I don't know the details if they just did it, or if they registered to volunteer to be responsible for that area, or if there is more to it. And I also don't know if they feel put-out, as in "why am I doing this" vs proud for making the area clean.

> provo and salt lake

Not sure in what dimension? Plenty of neighborhoods in larger LA, SF, SD, Seattle, are clean.
by alright2565 | 2026-02-12 18:30:16+00:00
I would love to see joint tarrifs, together with US allies, to fight against things like sweatshop labor, state-supported industry, etc. That would really send a signal that those things are unacceptable, and lead to change.

That's not what we have here, and that's not what the Trump tarrifs are perceived as internationally.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-12 18:30:44+00:00
The Great Job! Cinco skits weren't usually cautionary tales, but parodies of how product marketing overlaps with mundane reality. E-Trial, My New Pep-Pep and Cinco-fone are all devoid of any moral lesson. They're real infomercials for fake products, which hammers home how harmful and deluded unregulated advertisement has gotten in 2026.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-12 18:31:24+00:00
> Why are they still spending hundreds of millions on ads with athletes and other things that provoke a healthy image?

Because they are foolish enough to believe that advertising actually works to influence people's behavior. Or because they are afraid that their bosses are similarly foolish, so they will get punished if they try to do Coca-Cola the favor of cutting that extreme waste from the budget.
by kelipso | 2026-02-12 18:31:35+00:00
A person making fun of “do your own research” is implying in subtext that they and their political side are essentially incapable of thinking for themselves and they are philosophically tied to blindly trusting authority.

The political side that has this subtext to them will lose support in the long term especially from younger people.

Rhetorical question, what person who has any interest in thinking independently would want to be associated with a side that thinks like this?
by saberience | 2026-02-12 18:31:37+00:00
Arc-AGI (and Arc-AGI-2) is the most overhyped benchmark around though.

It's completely misnamed. It should be called useless visual puzzle benchmark 2.

It's a visual puzzle, making it way easier for humans than for models trained on text firstly. Secondly, it's not really that obvious or easy for humans to solve themselves!

So the idea that if an AI can solve "Arc-AGI" or "Arc-AGI-2" it's super smart or even "AGI" is frankly ridiculous. It's a puzzle that means nothing basically, other than the models can now solve "Arc-AGI"
by westurner | 2026-02-12 18:31:38+00:00
A biodegradable product out of biodegradable inputs would be great for computing

Before looking into Lignin I was looking at deoxidizing rGO reduced graphene oxide with hydrogen plasma.

I learned that the work functions of graphene and CNT are actually sufficiently different such that the graphene could be a substrate for CNT FET without the charge jumping out of the gate to the board. Salt apparently dissipates electric discharge about as well as silicon.

But a plasma process would probably have a lower yield rate unless there are masks, which are expensive to fab but maybe necessary to compete at production scale.

Monolithic chip fab is slower but the fabrication plant CapEx and OpEx are lower.

LCS SLM with LCoS, CO2 fiber laser / Yb Laser, plain old DUV

Some helpful prompts for a sustainablefactory agent skill:

Identify and redesign to eliminate production health hazards and environmental hazards

Find and compare sustainable alternatives, workarounds, substitutes for

Consider cellulose, graphene CNT and other carbon allotropes, CO2, nitrogen
by Veserv | 2026-02-12 18:31:40+00:00
You are describing MAY.

“MAY This word, or the adjective "OPTIONAL", mean that an item is truly optional… An implementation which does not include a particular option MUST be prepared to interoperate with another implementation which does include the option, though perhaps with reduced functionality. In the same vein an implementation which does include a particular option MUST be prepared to interoperate with another implementation which does not include the option (except, of course, for the feature the option provides.)”

Note how it explicitly calls out interoperation with implementations that do or do not implement MAY. As a exception that proves the rule, we can reasonably assume that not interoperating with a system ignoring a SHOULD rule is a correct implementation and it is the fault of whoever is not implementing SHOULD.
by mojuba | 2026-02-12 18:31:42+00:00
Absolutely. Even worse, when you ask AI to solve a problem it almost always adds code even if a better solution exists that removes code. If AI's new solution fails, you ask it to fix, it throws even more code, creates more mess, introduces new unnecessary states. Rinse, repeat ad infinitum.

I did this a few times as an experiment while knowing how a problem could be solved. In difficult situations Cursor always invariably adds code and creates even more mess.

I wonder if this can be mitigated somehow at the inference level because prompts don't seem to be helping with this problem.
by kccqzy | 2026-02-12 18:31:44+00:00
We use Apache Arrow at my company too. It is part of a migration from an old in-house format. When it works it’s good. But there are just way too many bugs in Arrow. For example: a basic arrow computation on strings segfaults because the result does not fit in Arrow’s string type, only the large string type. Instead of casting it or asking the user to cast it, it just segfaults. Another example: a different basic operation causes an exception complaining about negative buffer sizes when using variable-length binary type.
by ibejoeb | 2026-02-12 18:32:04+00:00
Maybe I'm giving GM too much credit, but it seems to me that GM acquired the technology with the intention to bring it into their vehicles as driver assistance, not autonomous driving. They were pretty candid about not wanting to operate taxis. Cruise itself was embroiled in investigations and was prohibited from operating in SF and voluntarily ceased operations in other markets, which basically made it a target, and since GM had already dumped a few billion into it, it probably made sense to at least get unencumbered rights to the tech.
by XCSme | 2026-02-12 18:32:08+00:00
I feel this. Analytics often ends up being a bunch of charts that don’t really tell you what’s happening. I built UXWizz so I could actually watch how people use my sites with session recordings and heatmaps instead of just staring at tables.

Spending a few minutes seeing real interactions usually shows way more than a month of cohort numbers. Makes it easier to fix friction and understand what’s actually working.

It still doesn't answer all questions, but if you know your own business and product, then you end up getting some good guesses on what's happening.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-12 18:32:39+00:00
Wish I was seeing more ST 2110 and IPMX open source work about. Would really love for good or at least common protocols to be broadly usable, available, via some good libraries.

Jpeg-xs did indeed get ffmpeg support a couple months ago.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Merges-JPEG-XS
by callamdelaney | 2026-02-12 18:33:30+00:00
The point of tariffs is that domestic products are more appealing isn't it? It's expected that foreign selelrs just add the tariff to the cost of their product so..

1. 90% instead of 100% is pretty good
2. kind of irrelevant, a better question is how much more money went to domestic companies rather than foreign?
by ElectronCharge | 2026-02-12 18:34:05+00:00
According to current theory AIUI, cosmic inflation greatly influenced the CMB. It ended approximately 10^-32 seconds after the Big Bang:

"Cosmic inflation is believed to have occurred in an incredibly brief, rapid, and exponential expansion phase lasting from approximately 10^-37 to 10^-32 seconds after the Big Bang. During this minute interval, the universe expanded by a factor of at least 10^26, and potentially as much as 10^50."

Quite a theory, cosmic inflation...
by mmooss | 2026-02-12 18:34:12+00:00
It's very interesting and thanks for laying out the issues.

One point I'd like to make: Grouping RSS feed items by similarity is much different than LLM summaries. In the former, I get the best (I can use economically), specific, expert human information, which is what I'm personally after; the latter keeps the economy but eliminates the value.
by cherry_tree | 2026-02-12 18:34:46+00:00
From 1906 to 1952 the eligibility criteria for naturalization included exceptions for fraud and for race.

You are here to say “that’s a good law actually, because fraud is bad. So we should enforce this law and retroactively denaturalize those who didn’t meet the criteria at the time.”

You act confused when people tell you this is stupid and racist.

Help me understand your logic.
by walterbell | 2026-02-12 18:35:46+00:00
Traffic was monitored on a physical ethernet cable via USB ethernet adapter to iOS device.

Charles Proxy was only used to time-associate manual application launch with attempts to reach destination hostnames and ports, to allowlist those on the separate physical router. If there was an open question about an app being a potential source of unexpected packets, the app was offloaded (data stayed on device, but app cannot be started).

MDM was not used to redirect DNS, only toggling features off in Apple Configurator.
by CobrastanJorji | 2026-02-12 18:36:26+00:00
I don't agree. Doing something that's makes very little difference makes you feel better, like you've solved the problem, and soothes the urgent need to actually fix the problem. The city gives out recycling cans, and the populace feels confident that the city is doing something, but that takes pressure off of things the city could do that would actually help but are unpalatable, like shutting down the chemical plant pouring stuff into the river, or banning cruise ships.