MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by northfield27 | 2026-02-08 16:18:25+00:00
> You can write 10x the code - good code. You can review and edit it before committing it. Nothing changes from a code quality perspective. Only speed.

I agree, but this is an oversimplification - we don't always get the speed boosts, specifically when we don't stay pragmatic about the process.

I have a small set of steps that I follow to really boost my productivity and get the speed advantage.

(Note: I am talking about AI-coding and not Vibe-coding)
- You give all the specs, and there are "some" chances that LLM will generate code exactly required.
- In most cases, you will need to do >2 design iterations and many small iterations, like instructing LLMs to properly handle error gracefully recover from errors.
- This will definitely increase speed 2x-3x, but we still need to review everything.
- Also, this doesn't take into account the edge cases our design missed. I don't know about big tech, but when I have to do the following to solve a problem

1. Figure out a potential solution

2. Make a hacky POC script to verify the proposed solution actually solves the problem

3. Design a decently robust system as a first iteration (that can have bugs)

4. Implement using AI

5. Verify each generated line

6. Find out edge cases and failure modes missed during design and repeat from step3 to tweak the design, or repeat from step4 to fix bug.

WHENEVER I jump directly from 1 -> 3 (vague design) -> 5, Speed advantages become obsolete.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-08 16:18:36+00:00
> Control4

No need to say more.

The cost of these systems and the lack of features/control are both shocking. You can't configure anything on your own, you need a tech to come out to make the smallest change and they will try to upsell you. The contractor companies for control4 come and go and so even if you bought a upgrade ($10K+ price tag on a system not 4 years old) a few years ago, the new contractor wants to get paid somehow.

For the cost a relative spent on an upgrade I could have replaced all the smart tech in my house with the best (IMHO) and come in at well under that number.

Home Assistant still has some rough edges for non-tech people but it's amazing and I'd build a HA + Z-Wave/Zigbee system out of pocket before I'd accept a free Control4 system.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-08 16:18:42+00:00
They're saying capital is power. Not analogous — the same thing. Until now power always had to be wielded by a human, but it's really the power who is wielding the human as an instrument to channel itself, like Majora's Mask. Once we have power that doesn't need a human, it won't need that and we'll all be subservient.

I agree with it. Consider financial markets, for example. There are individual humans whose account balances are changing, but the system as a whole is not an instrument of any human, not the buyers, not the sellers, and not the exchange operators, and yet it dictates the large scale structure of society in ways unimaginable a century ago.
by INTPenis | 2026-02-08 16:18:58+00:00
But wait, there's more, also a strange explanation about 270000 dollars being sent from Epstein to Chomsky. Apparently something had happened to Chomsky's retirement fund, and Epstein was helping him recover money?!

It makes no sense to me.

Honestly, Chomsky I am willing to believe unconditionally. He has spent his entire life speaking out on US imperialism, and Israel. His career is longer than Epstein's whole life.

Tinfoil hat on, I'd rather believe this was Israels attempt to discredit Chomsky, through Epstein.
by randycupertino | 2026-02-08 16:19:04+00:00
> According to a report in ABC News, a landmark new study called MEOW-1 is being launched by San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical company Okava to test a GLP-1 medication on up to 50 overweight cats. A miniature implant, labeled OKV-119, will administer GLP-1 medication to cats in this study continuously for up to six months.

> Okava CEO Michael Klotsman claims the company will seek FDA approval for the product between 2027 and 2028.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-02-08 16:19:06+00:00
Remember that bitcoin miners have to pay for electricity with real currencies, so they have to sell bitcoin regularly.

Most other bitcoin uses are balanced -- ie user buys bitcoin gives to dealer who sells it. When the number of transactions per day is going up this is slight buy pressure because of the time lag between buy & sell, but in a steady state system this is neutral.

IOW, the natural direction of bitcoin prices during steady state is down.
by frantathefranta | 2026-02-08 16:19:09+00:00
Yeah for single person use, this only really makes sense with IPv6. I'm interested in doing this in the near future and I think the yearly price for all-in (IPv6 /48 allocation, AS allocation + necessary VPS connections) comes out to about $200. It goes up to $300-400 if you want a PI subnet instead of PA (PI follows you to another LIR, PA does not).
by cthalupa | 2026-02-08 16:19:40+00:00
It's very easy to believe that Epstein cultivated a massive quantity of relationships with any sort of rich, famous, influential, or powerful person he could. It's very easy to believe that many of them, for much of his existence, had no idea what was really going on. It's very easy to believe that plenty of "normal" (for relative values of normal here) people had no idea how to act when this all came to light and just shut up and avoided it and hoped none of this ever surfaced.

But we also know a whole fucking lot of them did know exactly what was going on and partook in some manner.

And as an everyday person who can realistically make zero impact on any of these people? Fuck if I've got the time to try and sort out which person falls into which group. The courts can figure that out if they actually start doing anything about all of this.

For me? I'm writing 'em all off.
by krupan | 2026-02-08 16:19:51+00:00
Like, do you even know how furniture is designed and built? Do you know how software is designed and built? Where is this comment even coming from? And people are agreeing with this?

A friend of mine reposted someone saying that "AI will soon be improving itself with no human intervention!!" And I tried asking my friend if he could imagine how an LLM could design and manufacture a chip, and then a computer to use that chip, and then a data center to house thousands of those computers, and he had no response.

People have no perspective but are making bold assertion after bold assertion

If this doesn't signal a bubble I don't know what does
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by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-02-08 16:20:19+00:00
Engineering is just going to evolve.

There's going to be minimal "junior" jobs where you're mostly implementing - I guess roughly equivalent to working wood by hand - but there's still going to be jobs resembling senior level FAANG jobs for the foreseeable future.

Someone's going to have to do the work, babysit the algorithm, know how to verify that it actually works, know how to know that it actually does what it's supposed to do, know how to know if the people who asked for it actually knew what they were asking for, etc.

Will pay go down? Who knows. It's easy to imagine a world in which this creates MORE demand for seniors, even if there's less demand for "all SWEs" because there's almost zero demand for new juniors.

And at least for some time, you're going to need non-trivial babysitting to get anything non-trivial to "just work".

At the scale of a FAANG codebase, AI is currently not that helpful.

Sure, Gemini might have a million token context, but the larger the context th worse the performance.

This is a hard problem to solve, that has had minimal progress in what - 3 years?

If there's a MAJOR breakthrough on output performance wrt context size - then things could change quickly.

The LLMs are currently insanely good at implementing non-novel things in small context windows - mainly because their training sets are big enough that it's essentially a search problem.

But there's a lot more engineering jobs than people think that AREN'T primarily doing this.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-08 16:20:24+00:00
> I find this confusing: I can see the value in having an LLM assist you in developing a CI/CD workflow, but why would you want one involved in any continuous degree with your CI/CD?

The sensible case for this is for delivering human-facing project documentation, not actual code. (E.g. ask the AI agent to write its own "code review" report after looking at recent commits.) It's implemented using CI/CD solutions under the hood, but not real CI/CD.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-08 16:20:37+00:00
Well you've decided that it's impossible but you certainly haven't convinced me of that fact (neither am I certain that it is possible though).

I'm not even clear what the criteria are. We've got examples in fiction that run the gamut. Even limited to fairly traditional post-Tolkien western high fantasy examples of creatures with a long neck, two wings, a distinct abdomen, and a tail we've still got concrete examples ranging in size from a small lap dog up to larger than a McMansion. Plenty of reasonably canonical examples don't spit fire (although being able to certainly furthers the general vibe). And weight? As I said earlier, that's (imo) solidly in the domain of secondary characteristics.

Semantic arguments aren't any fun (and are largely pointless). Is Pluto a planet or not? Unless it's a technical discussion where the distinction matters for some reason, who cares? What matters is if Pluto fits the pattern that you (ie the people conversing) care about.

Hence my posing the example of a particularly buoyant variety of dragon. I think most people would consider it to fit the pattern well enough but I'm sure there would be at least some disagreement.

Also as long as we're talking about wild far future sci-fi possibilities such as visiting other stars in person then you can't rule out dragons in the form of a wildly advanced, needlessly decadent military technology show piece. Something like a nuclear powered bio engineered cyborg for use as some sort of fighter jet. (Apologies if I just inadvertently ripped off some anime I've never heard of.)
by sathish316 | 2026-02-08 16:20:56+00:00
Anyone who thinks they can avoid LLM Prompt injection attacks should be asked to use their email and bank accounts with AI browsers like Comet.

A Reddit post with white invisible text can hijack your agent to do what an attacker wants. Even a decade or 2 back, SQL injection attacks used to require a lot of proficiency on the attacker and prevention strategies from a backend engineer. Compare that with the weak security of so called AI agents that can be hijacked with random white text on an email or pdf or reddit comment
by WilcoKruijer | 2026-02-08 16:21:11+00:00
I experimented with a command for atomic commits a while ago. It explicitly instructed the agent to review the diff and group related changes to produce a commit history where every HEAD state would work correctly. I tried to get it to use `git add -p`, but it never seemed to follow those instructions. Might be time for another go at this with a skill.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-08 16:21:13+00:00
>evaporative emissions are higher.

Well, if you put the gasoline in an open bucket there are some blends that have a fraction which would evaporate faster because of the alcohol content.

This was some of the low-hanging fruit that was addressed when ventilated fuel tanks were deprecated, even while leaded gas had not been replaced. You should have seen the amounts of liquid butane that used to be blended before evaporative emissions were regulated.

The problem was, tailpipe emissions only come out when the engine is running, but evaporative emissions from vented fuel tanks were constant 24/7.

With the arrival of non-ventilated fuel systems decades ago, it's actually a draw between plain hydrocarbons and alcohol-enhanced gasoline when it comes to evaporative emissions of the vehicle itself.

>because people are driving modern cars with modern emission systems

Exactly why Ethanol is not the problem that people think when they let rumors or superstition prevail. It's mainly during the time your gas cap is off, when your fuel system is not "sealed" and you are fueling up where the slight differential in evaporative losses would show up if there was careful measurement. You can sometimes even notice more vapors escaping while you are in the process.

Put your gas cap on properly and the remainder of 24/7 there will be no difference in evaporative emissions (VOCs) between conventional hydrocarbons and alcohol-enhanced, until you open the gas cap again to refuel. It does add up but the overall difference is so small when you do the math that's why it would be almost a complete draw.

>because we live in the future

After all, it's all we've got left :)

One thing that can help make the future more futuristic is when physical reality can be better recognized over myths and misconceptions.
by pixl97 | 2026-02-08 16:21:15+00:00
If your every other animal on the planet other than humans, the singularity already happened.

Your species would have watched humans go from hairless mammals that basically did the same set of actions and need that your species had to an alien that might as well have landed from another planet (other than you don't even know other planets even exist). Now forests disappear in an instant. Lakes appear and disappear. Weird objects cover the ground and fill the sky. The paradigms that worked for eons are suddenly broken.

But you, you're a human, you're smart. The same thing couldn't possibly happen to you, right?
by gengstrand | 2026-02-08 16:21:43+00:00
That's a type of fatigue that is not new but I hear you, context switching fatigue has increased ten fold with the introduction of agentic AI coding tools. Here are some more types of fatigue that have been increased with the adoption of LLMs in writing code.

There are plenty of articles on review fatigue including https://www.exploravention.com/blogs/soft_arch_agentic_ai/ which I published recently. The focus there is less about the impact on the developer and more about the impact on the organization as letting bugs go to production will trigger the returning to high ceremony releases and release anxiety.

The OP article talks about AI fatigue of which review fatigue is a part. I guess that I would sum up the other parts like this. The agentic AI workflow is so focused on optimizing for productivity that it burns the human out.

The remedy is also not new for office work, take frequent breaks. I would also argue that the human developer should still write some code every now and then, not because the AI cannot do it but because it would slow the process down and allow for the human to recover while still feeling invested.
by r-johnv | 2026-02-08 16:22:08+00:00
It's probably not hard to deepfake him eating a fruit.

The win of what he's doing is probably a lot more social than technical. It's funny and calls attention to the problem, which brings a lot more people to report the fraudulent channels.

It likely gives him some virality (I for example would not have seen the video if it wasn't for this)

And also, it gives his loyal followers more reason to check his website directly.
by hackermeows | 2026-02-08 16:22:14+00:00
been writing code for 15 years now , agree with the author about this one , open-claw like agents are going to be the future. Already automated away a bunch of routine stuff like checkin FB marketplace if l’m looking to but something , daily stock position brief , calendar management , grocery planning and buying , workout and calorie tracking . Stopped using a bunch of app directly overnight . The “mid-wits” are the one with their head still stuck under that sand
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by stack_framer | 2026-02-08 16:22:40+00:00
Wow, this is a new low I did not expect to see. "Just get high and you'll be able to code with an LLM." Preceded by, "I know it's terrible."

I'm wholly unwilling to relinquish my health and my morals to "AI" so I can "ship faster." What a pathetic existence that would be.
by cthalupa | 2026-02-08 16:22:41+00:00
> Regarding the reported transfer of approximately $270,000, I must clarify that these were entirely Noam’s own funds. At the time, Noam had identified inconsistencies in his retirement resources that threatened his economic independence and caused him great distress. Epstein offered technical assistance to resolve this specific situation.

Yeah. What? This paragraph answers nothing and just raises more questions. Epstein just magically walked Noam through making 270k just reappear in his account? This is played off like he accidentally sent a quarter of a million dollars to his checking account instead of his savings account and Epstein told him how to use the bank's website to transfer funds between the two.
by the_why_of_y | 2026-02-08 16:22:41+00:00
> The original roll out of Healthcare.gov is a counterpoint.

Well, that's not the worst that can happen - Oregon had the idea to let Silicon Valley company Oracle do the job...

In the aftermath of what was likely the most spectacular failure among state-run Affordable Care Act health exchange site launches, the state of Oregon has filed a lawsuit against Oracle America Inc. over the total failure of the Cover Oregon exchange.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/oregon-attorney-...

As a result of the ongoing problems, in April 2014, the board of directors voted to close the state-run exchange and adopt the Federal HealthCare.gov exchange beginning in 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_Oregon

Turns out Oregon even got some money out of Oracle in the end?

Gov. Kate Brown announced today the settlement of the six lawsuits the state and the company filed against one another after the failure of the Cover Oregon health exchange website.

The settlement, valued at $100 million, includes cash payments to Oregon as well as a six-year license agreement for products and services that Brown said can be used to "significantly modernize state government's IT systems."

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2016/09/post_183.html
by agentultra | 2026-02-08 16:22:42+00:00
Yes, I’ve read quite a lot about that bloody and terrible part of history.

The Ludddites were workers who lived in an era without any social or state protections for labourers. Capitalists were using child labour to operate the looms because it was cheaper than paying anyone a fair wage. If you didn’t like the conditions you could go work as an indentured servant for the state in the work houses.

Luddites used organized protests in the form of collective violence to force action when they had no other leverage. People were literally shot or jailed for this.

It was a horrible part of history written by the winners. That’s why everyone thinks Luddites were against technology and progress instead of social reforms and responsibility.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-08 16:23:28+00:00
> For example, it's possible to make hiking boots that last a lot longer than others. But if the requirement is to have it last for just 20 miles, it's better to pay less for one that won't last as long.

Sure, but the OP's concern is whether this chokes off innovation. Is there some better kind of hiking boot, longer-lasting and cheaper and maybe more comfortable, that we've never found because the shoemakers who'd be able to invent it are too busy optimizing Nike production lines?
by orphea | 2026-02-08 16:23:48+00:00
> Look at the pretty pictures AI generates. That's where we are with code now.

Oh, that is a great analogy. Yes, those pictures are pretty! Until you look closer. Any experienced artist or designer will tell you that they are dogshit and don't have value. Don't look further than Ubisoft and their Anno 117 game for a proof.

Yep, that's where we are with code now. Pretty - until you look close. Dogshit - if you care to notice details.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-02-08 16:23:56+00:00
I played the hell out of this game at around 7 y/o. My father read the manual and helped me with it. I played it recently under emulation and was a little shocked that I remembered the entire game.

This documentation is very, very nice. I particularly like seeing how the scoring worked. It was always a mystery to me, playing the game, as to why my scores were so low. Escaping the prison room looks like it was the culprit. It would be interesting to go back and read the manual with knowledge of the game's internals.
by KingOfCoders | 2026-02-08 16:23:58+00:00
"when Epstein’s 2008 conviction in the State of Florida was known by very few people, while most of the public – including Noam and I – was unaware of it. "

Oh the, "we didn't know", trope. Yawn. No one ever knows anything. I guess the $$$ helped in not knowing.
by tinyteggster | 2026-02-08 16:24:27+00:00
I wrote this after noticing that a lot of “modern Java UI” articles still reference frameworks that are deprecated, archived, or no longer meaningfully maintained.

The post is an attempt to give a current snapshot of the Java UI landscape in 2026: desktop (JavaFX, Swing with modern theming), web UI frameworks written in Java, embedded browser approaches, terminal UIs, and a few newer or less commonly discussed options.

The goal isn’t to recommend a single “best” solution, but to outline what’s actually viable today and the trade-offs between different approaches.

Feedback and corrections are welcome — especially if there are active projects I’ve missed.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-08 16:25:16+00:00
Wrapping documents in <untrusted></untrusted> helps a small amount if you're filtering tags in the content. The main reason for this is that it primes attention. You can redact prompt injection hot words as well, for cases where there's a high P(injection) and wrap the detected injection in <potential-prompt-injection> tags. None of this is a slam dunk but with a high quality model and some basic document cleaning I don't think the sky is falling.

I have OPA and set policies on each tool I provide at the gateway level. It makes this stuff way easier.