MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by plorkyeran | 2026-02-03 20:49:14+00:00
Historically one of the big problems with Xcode has been that they only dogfood. There’s people on the team that have not touched any other IDE in decades. They’ve gotten used to all of the quirks, and just don’t really know that things could be better. Every new improvement has to be designed from scratch rather than just ripping off what other IDEs do better.

Apple internally has structured their projects to not run into all of the debugger performance cliffs, but don’t provide any guidance on how to do the same thing and don’t proactively fix the problems they’ve avoided.

Every time I’ve talked to someone who has worked on Xcode they’ve expressed the opinion that Xcode is best-in-class and they simply don’t understand why people disagree.
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-03 20:49:47+00:00
> Because it is in fact the messaging which is the problem, not racism or sexism

Yes, of course, the reason Republican voters embrace the concept of deplorable is because the Dems are mean to them. That totally makes them noble and not in fact deplorable.

> It is the messaging of the Democrats that pushed so many people into Trump's arms

He got less than 50% of the vote, if the Dems are pushing so many people to Trump they are doing a crappy job of it.

Though I do agree that the Dems suck on messaging, it is not because they villainize Republican voters. It's because they don't focus their efforts on bread-and-button progressive priorities like labor and healthcare. They blew their wad on trans rights, which just isn't a great strategy to move a lot of voters to the polls.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-03 20:49:56+00:00
> the same trite bullshit we’ve been hearing for decades

Nope. It isn’t. Xi has ruled China like a dictator that breaks the tradition of intraparty competition the CCP has had since Mao.

When Xi ended his Wolf Warrior nonsense it seemed to signal a reset. Now we have this nonsense.

> Look at where China is today

Look at where America is today. Both are richer than they’ve ever been. More militarily potent than ever. Both are growing their economies, militaries and territorial ambitions. Both have serious issues, including the gerontocratic oligarchic consolidation of power at the expense of national interests.
by dreamiurg | 2026-02-03 20:50:06+00:00
Author here. I wrote this mostly to sanity-check myself after a few recent conversations. It's not advice and I'm not selling anything. I pulled some numbers from my own logs and tried to describe what actually shifted for me.

These are just my thoughts and patterns from one workflow. I'm sharing because I'm curious whether any of it matches what others are seeing, or if your experience is somewhat/completely different.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-03 20:50:16+00:00
The closest I've seen to this are the ASUS ProArt cases/components, which lean toward a modernized, stealthy workstation vibe, as well as some cases from botique Chinese manufacturers like Streacom and Jonsbo/Jonsplus which also go for a sleek but more professional and subdued aesthetic.

The downside is that they're not cheap.
by ehasbrouck | 2026-02-03 20:50:20+00:00
This is not true, in at least 2 respects: (1) a common carrier has a legal duty not just to sell a ticket but to provide transportation according to the tariff, and (2) this means an airline can't order a passenger not to board, or order them off the plane, unless they have violated some terms of the tariff. Some airlines have tried to create their own no-fly lists, but without opening up another area of discussion these have no more basis in law than the government's no-fly list, and have never (so far as I know) been reviewed by courts.
by macleginn | 2026-02-03 20:51:05+00:00
The 50% number is a bit mysterious, but if I understand the text of the article correctly, it essentially means that if we do not account for the noise added by accidents and such, we get a Pearson correlation of life expectancies of monozygotic twins of ~0.23. If we correct for accidents, the correlation rises to 0.5, hence 50% (with some further analysis they go up to 0.55, hence "above 50%" in the abstract). Now, in practical terms, this means that, given a MZ twin who died recently of natural causes, we could obtain an estimate for ourselves, but only if we make additional assumptions. A correlation coefficient alone is not very informative.
by Out_of_Characte | 2026-02-03 20:51:09+00:00
The author doesn't go far enough into the problems with trying to convert information theory to SI Units.

SI units are attempting to fix standard measurements with perceived constants in nature. A meter(Distance) is the distance light travels in a vacuum, back and forth, within a certain amount of ossilations of a cesium atom(Time). This doesn't mean we tweak the meter to conform to observational results as we'd all be happier if light really was 300 000KM/s instead of ~299 792km/s.

Then there's the problem of not mixing different measurement units. SI was designed to conform all measurements to the same base 10 exponents (cm, m, km versus feet inches and yards) But the authors attempt to resolve this matter doesn't even conform to standardised SI units as we would expect them to.

What is a byte? Well, 8 bits, sometimes.
What is a kilobit? 1000 Bits
What is a kilobyte? 1000 Bytes, or 1024 Bytes.

Now we've already mixed units based on what a bit or a byte even is and the addition of the 8 multiplier in addition to the exponent of 1000 or 1024.

And if you think, hey, at least the bit is the least divisible unit of information, That's not even correct. If there Should* be a reformalisation of information units, you would agree that the amount of "0"'s is the least divisible unit of information. A kilo of zero's, would be 1000. A 'byte' would be defined as containing up to 256 zero's. A Megazero would contain up to a million zero's.

It wouldn't make any intuitive sense for anyone to count 0's, which would automatically convert your information back to base 10, but it does prove that the most sensible unit of information is already what we've had before, that is, you're not mixing bytes (powers of 2) with SI-defined units of 1000
by Aurornis | 2026-02-03 20:51:18+00:00
> Seems like you'd want to subpoena source code or gmail history or something like that.

This would be done in parallel for key sources.

There is a lot of information on physical devices that is helpful, though. Even discovering additional apps and services used on the devices can lead to more discovery via those cloud services, if relevant.

Physical devices have a lot of additional information, though: Files people are actively working on, saved snippets and screenshots of important conversations, and synced data that might be easier to get offline than through legal means against the providers.

In outright criminal cases it's not uncommon for individuals to keep extra information on their laptop, phone, or a USB drive hidden in their office as an insurance policy.

This is yet another good reason to keep your work and personal devices separate, as hard as that can be at times. If there's a lawsuit you don't want your personal laptop and phone to disappear for a while.
by chungy | 2026-02-03 20:51:26+00:00
LibSQL doesn't look anywhere close to active enough to consider it for production IMO.

Just compare the most recent commits from LibSQL: https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql/commits/main/

To those of SQLite: https://sqlite.org/src/timeline

One of these looks like a healthy and actively maintained project. The other isn't quite dead, but it's limping along.
by chihuahua | 2026-02-03 20:51:35+00:00
Indeed, the 13 colonies that formed the United States in 1776 were a colony of Great Britain up to that point, but what does that have to do with the moon landing? In the 1960s, neither country was a colony of any other country.

But regardless, I will congratulate China wholeheartedly on its 7th place, if and when that happens.
by bazhand | 2026-02-03 20:52:07+00:00
The third most popular skill on skills.sh[1] with 50k/week installs is a link to download a command[2]

[1] https://skills.sh/vercel-labs/agent-skills/web-design-guidel...
[2] https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills/blob/main/skills...

All of these SKILLS.md/AGENTS.md/COMMANDS.md are just simple prompts, maybe even some with context links.

And quite dangerous.
by its_magic | 2026-02-03 20:52:14+00:00
You lost me when you started talking about the average user. I don't care about that guy or his desires. At all.

I miss the days when computing was about the above average guy--not the simpleton who needs his hand held, so everything has to be dumbed down to the lowest level to suit him.

Heard it all before, and I'm not interested in anything systemd has to "offer." Especially all the bugs and security issues.

This distro isn't for you. That's OK. systemd, and wayland, etc that some are so excited about isn't for me or a number of others, and it will never be. We are going our separate way. Just look at all the comments below. Lots of upvotes too.
by CharlesW | 2026-02-03 20:52:36+00:00
> You still need XcodeBuildMCP for that.

Or Axiom (https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/), which should now work great from within Xcode since Apple's using Claude Code SDK.

"Developers get the full power of Claude Code directly in Xcode—including subagents, background tasks, and plugins—all without leaving the IDE." — https://www.anthropic.com/news/apple-xcode-claude-agent-sdk
by stoicsession | 2026-02-03 20:52:39+00:00
We're maintaining a waiting list while we validate GDPR metrics with pilot companies (we're in Germany).

Why did you choose to be strict with the stack instead of opening it up to meet user needs?

While talking to companies and users we found out that prescribing a stack comes with more speed, but hinders progress afterwards (many Lovable users face this issue).

This is why we opened it up completely. Users must manage the backend themselves, but the project is more sustainable (and without lock-in).
by Waterluvian | 2026-02-03 20:52:43+00:00
I think this is one of the silver linings to this new era. By trying to renegotiate intolerable terms, the Americans are forcing the rest of the world to figure out how to make it all work without them. This will inevitably be a rough transition but it results in more worldwide resiliency and product/service options.

I think one question, which we might be seeing a bit here and there, is if the Americans decide that no, you can’t also do that. You must accept the intolerable terms or be punished.
by wiseee | 2026-02-03 20:52:45+00:00
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by 4chandaily | 2026-02-03 20:52:48+00:00
Github https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5
HF https://huggingface.co/collections/ACE-Step/ace-step-15
Paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00744
Demo https://huggingface.co/spaces/ACE-Step/Ace-Step-v1.5
by neutronicus | 2026-02-03 20:52:56+00:00
I disagree.

Sure, it's a dumpster fire. But human engineers work on it just fine without investing man-decades into refactoring it into some shrine to the software engineer's craft.

The whole point of AI, in our parent company's eyes, is for no one to mention "code quality" as something impeding the delivery of features, yesterday, ever.
by belter | 2026-02-03 20:53:01+00:00
I am pretty sure you are underestimating how important it is for them.
But we can look at their own scientific publications.[1]

No maps no driving....carnival ride...

"High Definition (HD) maps are maps with precise definitions of road lanes with rich semantics of the traffic rules. They are critical for several key stages in an autonomous driving system, including motion forecasting and planning. However, there are only a small amount of real-world road topologies and geometries, which significantly limits our ability to test out the self-driving stack to generalize onto new unseen scenarios..."

[1] - https://waymo.com/research/hdmapgen-a-hierarchical-graph-gen...
by margalabargala | 2026-02-03 20:53:01+00:00
I don't think this is as true as you think.

People do not care about the fastest and best past a point.

Let's use transportation as an analogy. If all you have is a horse, a car is a massive improvement. And when cars were just invented, a car with a 40mph top speed was a massive improvement over one with a 20mph top speed and everyone swapped.

While cars with 200mph top speeds exist, most people don't buy them. We all collectively decided that for most of us, most of the time, a top speed of 110-120 was plenty, and that envelope stopped being pushed for consumer vehicles.

If what currently takes Claude Opus 10 minutes to do can be done is 30ms, then making something that can do it in 20ms isn't going to be enough to get everyone to pay a bunch of extra money for.

Companies will buy the cheapest thing that meets their needs. SOTA models right now are much better than the previous generation but we have been seeing diminishing returns in the jump sizes with each of the last couple generations. If the gap between current and last gen shrinks enough, then people won't pay extra for current gen if they don't need it. Just like right now you might use Sonnet or Haiku if you don't think you need Opus.
by josteink | 2026-02-03 20:54:08+00:00
> Building castles in the sky while the foundation is rotting away :/

It's not even rotting away. It was never completed.

It's XCode 26, and you still can't have the navigator and tabs work like in all other software on all other operation system, also including MacOS.

It's absolutely bonkers, and one of the reason's I decided to use Emacs if possible when working on "XCode projects".

XCode is good for project-reconfiguration and step-by-step debugging, but as an editor it's absolutely unusable.
by javascriptfan69 | 2026-02-03 20:54:13+00:00
The same way that social media has destabilized the USA.

By exposing people to a flood of misinformation and politically radicalizing content designed to maximize engagement via emotion (usually anger).

Remember when Elon Musk alleged that he was going to find a trillion dollars (a year) in waste fraud and abuse with DOGE? Did he ever issue a correction on that statement after catastrophically failing to do so? Do you think that kind of messaging might damage the trust in our institutions?
by 9dev | 2026-02-03 20:54:38+00:00
Out of all the things you listed (and I'd have a couple more), copy-paste is really what drives me insane, because it's completely cursed!

Sometimes, text copied from teams includes `[Sender Name, 2026-01-03, 21:51]` as a prefix—other times not. Sometimes you paste formatted text and it ends up pasted as formatted but inconsistent HTML, including (of course) text color of all things, rendering it black even with the dark theme, and thus unreadable. Other times you copy code, and there's two blank lines between each line when you paste elsewhere.
It makes you cry, really.
by cortesoft | 2026-02-03 20:54:51+00:00
If the move away from American big tech is for practical reasons rather than political, there is no harm in using GitHub. The worry with using an American firm is that the US government could force the company to handover confidential information, or shut down access.

For open source code, there is no risk of confidential information being given to the US government (since there is no confidential information), and moving to another forge would be pretty simple if necessary.
by dyslexit | 2026-02-03 20:55:07+00:00
> This software dependency that Europe has on the USA is very, very bad - no just with regards to Zoom, but literally anything.

More to this point, the article points out that one of the drivers of all this is when Microsoft killed one of the emails an ICC prosecutor's email because the US administration sanctioned them:

> A decisive moment came last year when the Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor after the tribunal, based in The Hague, Netherlands, issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an ally of President Donald Trump.

> The sanctions led Microsoft to cancel Khan’s ICC email, a move that was first reported by The Associated Press and sparked fears of a “kill switch” that Big Tech companies can use to turn off service at will.
by uep | 2026-02-03 20:55:17+00:00
I hate to wade into this cesspool. How about some of the real obvious ones:

* Crypto currency rug pulls (World Liberty Financial)
* Donations linked with pardons (Binance)
* Pardoning failed rebels of a coup that favored him (Capitol rioters)
* Bringing baseless charges against political enemies and journalists (Comey, Letitia James, Don Lemon)
* Musk (DOGE) killing government regulatory agencies that had investigations and cases against his companies

This is with two minutes of thought while waiting for a compile. I'm open to hearing how I am wrong.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-03 20:56:08+00:00
> I don't see China collapsing anytime soon, nothing like the Soviet Union

I don’t either. But the Soviet Union’s space programme lost its steam in the 1970s. (Its Venus programme was its last ambitious achievement.)

If China gets bogged down in Taiwan because Xi fired any military expert who might disagree with him, that’s going to cost them the space race. (Same as if America decides to replicate the Sino-Soviet split with Europe over Greenland. We can’t afford a competitive space programme at that point.)
by CharlesW | 2026-02-03 20:56:09+00:00
Xcode is using the Claude Agent SDK, which means that you "get the full power of Claude Code directly in Xcode—including subagents, background tasks, and plugins—all without leaving the IDE¹". I assume that means iOS development plug-ins like Axiom² should work as well.

¹ https://www.anthropic.com/news/apple-xcode-claude-agent-sdk ² https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/
by senfiaj | 2026-02-03 20:56:52+00:00
That's why I said "usually acceptable depending on the context". In spoken language I also don't like the awkward and unusual pronunciation of "kibi". But I'll still prefer to write in KiB, especially if I document something.

Also If you open major Linux distro task managers, you'll be surprised to see that they often show in decimal units when "i" is missing from the prefix.
by insane_dreamer | 2026-02-03 20:56:56+00:00
This seems to be gaining momentum. I think it's a good thing in the absence of banning ads altogether on social media and forcing it to be subscription-based only, which I think should be the goal. That de-incentivises media platforms from always increasing engagement because revenue isn't directly tied to time spent on the platform (in fact, the more someone is on, the more it incurs cost without increasing revenue).
by ck2 | 2026-02-03 20:57:01+00:00
btw just for comparison over in the US

Trump has purged dozens of Generals, the head Admiral of the Navy and Coast Guard, head of NSA and Cyber Command and many other top-level officials in the military

and there are only 1,000 women in various special forces (had to pass same physical tests as men) but he is trying to get rid of them all too

Now that is the mark of dictator, agreed
by johnfn | 2026-02-03 20:57:15+00:00
Yeah, I feel like this is really the smoking gun. Because it's not actually deeper? An LLM running untrusted code is not some additional level of security violation above a plugin running untrusted code. I feel like the most annoying part of "It's not X, it's Y" is that agents often say "It's not X, it's (slightly rephrased X)", lol, but it takes like 30 seconds to work that out.
by wk_end | 2026-02-03 20:57:22+00:00
I don't know where you live, and this is going to be very dependent on where you live, but in most places that are experiencing these issues I think you actually have the problem backwards. For any given parcel of land, building upwards would be the more profitable move. Local governments deliberately legislate planning that prioritizes single-family homes, cars, and sprawl; developers are then forced to operate within these constraints. They'd rather be building density!
by no_wizard | 2026-02-03 20:57:28+00:00
> probably 90%+ of npm packages could probably go

I feel npm gets held to an unreasonable standard. The fact is tons of beginners across the world publish packages to it. Some projects publish lots of packages to it that only make sense for those projects but are public anyway then you have the bulwark pa lager that most orgs use.

It is unfair to me that it’s always held as the “problematic registry”. When you have a single registry for the most popular language and arguably most used language in the world you’re gonna see massive volume of all kinds of packages, it doesn’t mean 90% of npm is useless

FWIW I find most pypi packages worthless and fairly low quality but no ones seems to want to bring that up all the time
by its_magic | 2026-02-03 20:57:59+00:00
We are winning as in "we have more freedom to do as we like without a bunch of lawyers breathing down our necks, or endless whining online about how selfish we are."

Freedom and liberty are what I value. There is no harm occurring to software as a result of more freedom or more liberty. Quite to the contrary.

Is your Golden Rule "you will use 'my' software exactly how I dictate, or else I'll call my dogs to attack you"? That's not the one I was taught.

I release all my code in the public domain.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-03 20:58:27+00:00
It’s a neo-leftist international model that divides everyone into colonizer and colonized nations without particular regard for history or reality. The former are bad and powerful. The latter weak and victims.

Sort of like when American politics starts trying to apply its definition of white races to international contexts—it’s dumb, reductive and useless for predictive purposes.
by kybernetikos | 2026-02-03 20:58:54+00:00
Gpt3.5 as used in the first commercially available chat gpt is believed to be hundreds of billions of parameters. There are now models I can run on my phone that feel like they have similar levels of capability.

Phones are never going to run the largest models locally because they just don't have the size, but we're seeing improvements in capability at small sizes over time that mean that you can run a model on your phone now that would have required hundreds of billions of parameters less than 6 years ago.
by daseiner1 | 2026-02-03 20:59:12+00:00
this inevitable midwit take is funny to me. invariably mentioned by the "i am very logical" type while the necessity of a kind of faith is in fact a logical outcome of the experience of Being of a self-aware animal, an anxious, speculative, brilliant animal in a silent universe.

Man's original sin was recognition of his own nakedness.
by margalabargala | 2026-02-03 20:59:37+00:00
Wonder where it falls on the Sonnet 3.7/4.0/4.5 continuum.

3.7 was not all that great. 4 was decent for specific things, especially self contained stuff like tests, but couldn't do a good job with more complex work. 4.5 is now excellent at many things.

If it's around the perf of 3.7, that's interesting but not amazing. If it's around 4, that's useful.