MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by straydusk | 2026-02-04 23:55:52+00:00
It's nano banana - I actually noticed the same thing. I didn't prompt it as such.

Here's the prompt I used, actually:

Create a vibrant, visually dynamic horizontal infographic showing the spectrum of AI developer tools, titled "The Shift Left"

Layout: 5 distinct zones flowing RIGHT TO LEFT as a journey/progression. Use creative visual metaphors — perhaps a road, river, pipeline, or abstract flowing shapes connecting the stages. Each zone should feel like its own world but connected to the others.

Zones (LEFT to RIGHT):

1. "Specs" (leftmost) - Kiro logo, VibeScaffold logo, GitHub Spec Kit logo

Label: "Requirements → Design → Tasks"

2. "Multi-Agent Orchestration" - Claude Code logo, Codex CLI logo, Codex App logo, Conductor logo

Label: "Parallel agents, fire & forget"

3. "Agentic IDE" - Cursor logo, Windsurf logo

Label: "Autonomous multi-file edits"

4. "Code + AI" - GitHub Copilot logo

Label: "Inline suggestions"

5. "Code" (rightmost) - VS Code logo

Label: "Read & write files"

Visual style: Fun, energetic, modern. Think illustrated tech landscape or isometric world. NOT a boring corporate chart. Use warm off-white background (#faf8f5) with amber/orange (#b45309) as the primary accent color throughout. Add visual flair — icons, small illustrations, depth, texture, but don't make it visually overloaded.

Aspect ratio: 16:9 landscape
by siliconc0w | 2026-02-04 23:56:16+00:00
I think opensource is a good analogue here. For many SaaS products, you don't even need to vibecode anything - there is already a reasonable OSS alternative. Yet people still pay for the SaaS. They want support, maintainability, security, edemifcation, a throat to choke, regulation and domain expertise, etc.

I do think like this HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847690) is a good example of where a custom more domain specific solution makes a lot more sense that dropping in an off-the-shelf ERP. Still though, I think the bakery would prefer to buy the bakery-ERP than build it but vibecoding does reduce the barrier to entry so we might see more competition and share taking from incumbents by domain-specialized new entrants.
by nl | 2026-02-04 23:56:24+00:00
> you shouldn’t expect it to be fair about any socialist or communist countries, usually classified as brutal dictatorships,

The World Fact Book doesn't have this kind of commentary. For example read the entry on North Korea. I've excerpted the most critical parts here, and I think they are a long way from your characterization:

> After the end of Soviet aid in 1991, North Korea faced serious economic setbacks that exacerbated decades of economic mismanagement and resource misallocation.

> New economic development plans in the 2010s failed to meet government-mandated goals for key industrial sectors, food production, or overall economic performance. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, North Korea instituted a nationwide lockdown that severely restricted its economy and international engagement.

> As of 2024, despite slowly renewing cross-border trade with China, North Korea remained one of the world's most isolated countries and one of Asia's poorest

https://web.archive.org/web/20260103000011/https://www.cia.g...
by mschild | 2026-02-04 23:57:04+00:00
Fair, however at some point of a companies size/spending the complexity of integrating with a SaaS becomes as large as the one to run your own open source tool.

Beyond that, and Im aware this is very much application/company dependent, theres plenty of SaaS companies that offer horrendous or no support no matter what you pay. We used to use splunk for monitoring and logging. Paid a ton of money because we were handling financial data and needed tracibility and reliability. We constantly had to put out fires that were caused by their unreliable platform. It was not a good experience.

Ultimately, we jumped ship to Prometheus. We pay a fraction of the price and spent less time on it.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-04 23:57:08+00:00
OK sure.

Example from a recent protest:
https://kagi.com/search?q=Pro-Khamenei+banners++London+Jan+3...

Taken from my above links:
sporkxrocket 26 days ago | parent | context | on: Iran Protest Map

I understand the Middle East and know that Iran is our ally in the fight against Zionism. I also understand that these "protests" are inorganic and have failed in their attempt to inflict damage on Iran."
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-04 23:57:08+00:00
I remember sky-is-falling-flavor-of-the-week newsletters from the 1970s; they probably go back further than that, but I don't remember firsthand. The difference is that YouTube lets millions of people find this without either having to subscribe to the newsletter, or the newsletter having to figure out who they are and send them a free copy.

In other words, what's different is that the gain is higher. The system was not always doomed, because the gain wasn't this high. Now that it is this high, the system may now be doomed.
by mym1990 | 2026-02-04 23:57:10+00:00
I think that just because anyone can do it, doesn't mean they will. Lots of people have really great ideas but very few actually commit to execution. Ultimately ROI will go down, deincentivizing the commercialization of that thing someone wanted to bang out in a weekend.

In the very long term, software will become a commodity, as you mentioned. Process and workflow may move into JIT delivery for the need at hand, in theory the data layer will be comprehensive and clean and the days of clicking around a bunch of stuff to fulfill process needs will move into a lower latency activity like...talking to your agent.

I saw a quote today by Brian Eno(1995) that said: "So the question becomes not whether you can do it or not, because any drudge can do it if they're prepared to sit in front of the computer for a few days; the question then is: of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?" and it resonated with me a lot.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-04 23:57:45+00:00
I was there too. What you call being "widely reviled" is just another way of saying "in common usage". Maybe you "reviled" it, but it was just convention. So it's not false, and it wasn't well delineated. Just like it continues not to be.

Why don't you take a look at Wikipedia which clearly describes the many, many, many places in which powers-of-10 is used, and then also has a section on powers-of-2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Units_based_on_powers_of_...

Remember, it wasn't just hard drives either. It's been data transfer speeds, network speeds, bus speeds, tape capacities, etc. There's an awful lot of stuff in computing that doesn't inherently depend on powers of 2 for its scaling.

And so as long as we have both units and will always have both units, it makes sense to give them different names. And, obviously, the one that matches the SI system should have the same name as it. Can you seriously disagree?
by ytoawwhra92 | 2026-02-04 23:57:58+00:00
For a great many software projects no formal spec exists. The code is the spec, and it gets modified constantly based on user feedback and other requirements that often appear out of nowhere. For many projects, maybe ~80% of the thinking about how the software should work happens after some version of the software exists and is being used to do meaningful work.

Put another way, if you don't know what correct is before you start working then no tradeoff exists.
by measurablefunc | 2026-02-04 23:58:26+00:00
Yes, yes, we are all going to be living in an automated & luxurious communist utopia. Here are some material facts to ground the exuberance: 1) Lifecycel of typical GPU in a data center 1-3 years, 2) Buildout is already limited by production capacity & will hit production walls by 2027-2028 when turnover matches & exceeds production capacity, 3) TSMCs projected capacity is ~130k wafers/month & it is not keeping up w/ demand which is more than doubling, 4) Power consumption for these "geniuses" in data centers requires lots of power & the capacity was saturated in 2025, 5) So along w/ production capacity limitations power production is now another gating factor.

Anyway, like data centers in space there are lots of material limitations that all of these exuberant "ZOMG rocks can think now" essays all sweep under the rug to drive a very biased narrative about what is actually happening & the fact that all those binary bits are produced by real materials.
by mikeocool | 2026-02-04 23:58:38+00:00
I have heard this as well from execs at public companies. I think a HUGE part of this appetite is that today no one has yet been subjected to doing business on a bunch of apps cobbled together by vibe coders.

They are just hearing the promise that AI will allow them to build custom software that perfectly melds to their needs in no time at all, and think it sounds great.

I suspect the early adopters who go this route are going to be in for a rude awakening that AI hasn’t actually made custom software development THAT much easier.
by Aloisius | 2026-02-04 23:58:47+00:00
I am hitting ⌃1 or ⌃2 to switch between desktops, not ctrl-arrow.

When reduce motion is turned on in the control panel though, the ctrl-arrow and ctrl-# animations take the same time on my machine (216.6 ms)

I'm doing the same thing you are, holding control and measuring from when I tap the next key.

No ProMotion and only using the internal display. I was running other Macs before this, so there is a chance some configuration crossed over.
by sgustard | 2026-02-04 23:58:49+00:00
The old argument for being locked in to legacy software costing 6-8 figures a year was that you had no choice. Now you have a choice! Clearly that is better, and everyone should evaluate that choice on its merits, and the stock market sees that people are voting with their dollars. If your whole sales pitch is "good luck when it breaks!" you might want to reevaluate your business model.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-04 23:59:06+00:00
I glad this got re-upped, I was sad there wasn't much (any?) discussion when this was posted a few days ago.

I find the ways people extend or build on top of Sqlite to be fascinating. I use it in a few apps but not on the server (yet). Multi-writer for something like would be amazing (incredibly difficult to do well, obviously). I work on a home-rolled distributed database (multi-writer) but it has numerous downsides/issues so I love seeing how other people approach and solve these things.
by jacekm | 2026-02-04 23:59:23+00:00
In Poland all transactions related to housing or land must be notarized with both buyer and seller present, the notary is supposed to check their IDs. Sadly it happened a couple of times that scammers presented a fake or stolen ID to a notary who did not recognize the forgery. Nowadays you can mark your personal number (equivalent of SSN) in the central, governmental database as restricted. This prevents notarized transactions, bank loans or issuing SIM card duplicates in your name. When you need a loan or buy a property you just log in to the system (or open the governmental app) and uncheck the checkbox.
by pdfernhout | 2026-02-04 23:59:30+00:00
"What if the future didn’t end in collapse… but in transformation?
2100 — Beyond the Horizon is a utopian short [ten minute] film presented as a speculative visual timeline, exploring a possible evolution of human civilization from 2026 to 2100.
Through advances in science, medicine, energy, space infrastructure, and global cooperation, this film imagines a world where humanity gradually moves beyond scarcity, disease, and planetary limits — toward stability, exploration, and coexistence.
This is not a prediction.
It is a thought experiment.
All scenes were generated using AI and assembled into a cinematic narrative.
Any resemblance to real events is coincidental."
by well_ackshually | 2026-02-04 23:59:33+00:00
Also take something into account: absolutely _none_ of the vibe coding influencer bros make anything more complicated than a single-feature, already implemented 50 times webapp. They've never built anything complicated either, or maintained something for more than a few years with all the warts that it entails. Literally, from his bio on his website:

> For 12 years, I led data and analytics at Indeed - creating company-wide success metrics used in board meetings, scaling SMB products 6x, managing organizations of 70+ people.

He's a manager that made graphs on Power BI.

They're not here because they want to build things, they're here to shit a product out and make money. By the time Claude has stopped being able to pipe together ffmpeg commands or glue together 3 JS libraries, they've gone on to another project and whoever bought it is a sucker.

It's not that much different from the companies of the 2000s promising a 5th generation language with a UI builder that would fix everything.

And then, as a very last warning: the author of this piece sells AI consulting services. It's in his interest to make you believe everything he has to say about AI, because by God is there going to be suckers buying his time at indecently high prices to get shit advice. This sucker is most likely your boss, by the way.
Show HN: Fundamental financial data directly in Google Sheets
by myztika | 2026-02-04 23:59:47+00:00
Hi HN — I built Finqual, a Google Sheets add-on that exposes fundamental financial data (income statements, etc.) directly as spreadsheet functions.

I built this after running into repeated issues with: GOOGLEFINANCE being limited for fundamentals,
IMPORTXML breaking or getting blocked, Apps Script–based solutions being slow or hard to share

The goal was a very simple primitive: one function → clean, multi-year financial statements that spill into cells.

Live example spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1boLHpzdE2q-CanyNyFus...

Google Workspace Marketplace listing:
https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/finqual/2180313...

Notes:

This isn’t meant to replace full financial terminals — it’s aimed at people who already live in Sheets.

There’s a free tier.

I’m adding endpoints incrementally (cash flow, balance sheet, TTM) based on usage and feedback.

Happy to answer questions, discuss tradeoffs, or hear what data people most want available inside spreadsheets.
by nyjah | 2026-02-04 23:59:58+00:00
Michigan border towns are insane for that reason. On the other side of the state lies New Buffalo. 33 dispos on a small stretch of road in a small lake town. All to bring in.. wait for it… $1.4mil in tax revenue ie basically a rounding error for even a small municipality…

https://www.wndu.com/2026/01/28/new-buffalo-residents-voice-...
by simonw | 2026-02-05 00:00:29+00:00
I managed to pull a zip file archive of the 2020 edition from the Internet Archive - I've uploaded the contents of that zip file to this GitHub repo: https://github.com/simonw/cia-world-factbook-2020

And turned on GitHub Pages so you can browse it here: https://simonw.github.io/cia-world-factbook-2020/
by deckar01 | 2026-02-05 00:00:47+00:00
MS actually changed their office.com landing page to a funnel that tricks you to into installing a copilot app. It used to be the dashboard for MS web apps. There are no links to the web apps, but they are all still there, you just have to know the subdomains. The app doesn’t have any of the functionality that page used to offer…
by nddave | 2026-02-05 00:01:10+00:00
Hi HN — I'm the founder of Zams.

I was frustrated by how often I jumped into investor, sales or customer calls knowing I should have prepped… but realistically didn’t have 30–60 minutes to do it properly.

So we built AI Meeting Prep.

It automatically gathers context from internal tools (CRM, email, calendar) and external sources (LinkedIn, news, the web), and sends you an actionable brief in Slack right before each meeting.

The brief usually includes:
- who's in the room and reporting structure
- key points from past conversations
- suggested talking points
- landmines to avoid
- battle cards

The goal is simple: you show up sounding like you did an hour of research, every time.

There’s no setup, no MCPs and no prompting. You connect your tools once and it just works.

We're opening this up for free to get feedback from early users.
If you're interested, drop your email in this form and I'll send you an invite.

Happy to answer questions or hear what you think.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-05 00:01:10+00:00
> They included explicit proposals about genetically altering whole populations, described mass executions of the elderly as rational, and framed fascism as ‘the most efficient and rationally stringent’ system of governance.

And he dares to play victim now: what an evil son of a bitch.

At least Petter "pussy are low carb" Attia (he literally wrote that to Epstein) just publicly said he felt ashamed.

Now I take being friend with Epstein and fucking either prostitutes or underaged sexually trafficked girls (or both) is so representative of totally evil human beings that it doesn't change much whether you apologize or not for it.
by tullymartin | 2026-02-05 00:01:44+00:00
I built TullyType — a typing practice app with custom documents and P2P
multiplayer races.
It’s focused on speed/accuracy tracking, a clean UI, and quick setup for racing
friends.

Highlights:
- Practice with sample docs or your own text/code files
- Multiplayer races (P2P)
- Pro tier for hosting custom doc lobbies

I’d love feedback on the UX and anything confusing in the onboarding.

If you want it more personal/technical or more concise, tell me and I’ll tailor
it.
by maleldil | 2026-02-05 00:01:56+00:00
For the unaware:

> Curtis Guy Yarvin (born 1973), also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-right political blogger and software developer. He is known, along with accelerationist philosopher Nick Land, for founding the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx).

The author (jart, Justine Tunney) has openly supported these ideas: https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis
by quickthrowman | 2026-02-05 00:01:58+00:00
It’s against federal law to threaten a public official. It’s a felony, actually. 18 USC 115.

I’m not sure what this other guy wrote, but the guy you mentioned broke the law. If this 67 year old guy threatened federal agents in a similar way, he’s guilty of a crime as well.

I have no opinion on whether this Craig was armed when the FBI tried to arrest him.
by abalone | 2026-02-05 00:02:03+00:00
You’re not summarizing the article fairly. She is saying the soiling mechanisms are environmentally dependent, not that there is no soiling in the desert. Again, it cites an efficiency hit of 50% in the ME. The article later notes that they’ve experimented with autonomous robots for daily panel cleaning, but it’s not a generally solved problem and it’s not true that “the wind takes care of it.”

And you still haven’t provided a source for your claim.
by pickleRick243 | 2026-02-05 00:02:07+00:00
so AI can actually replace software engineers? It's relatively unusual to see someone who "believes in AI", but is "anti-AI", at least among the HN crowd.

Also, I find this view very selfish. Yes, let's gatekeep a ground-breaking technology because it will hurt my specific profession. That's literally what technological progress is- it always (at least temporarily) disadvantages a particular sector of workers that specialized in that skill for the benefit of society. It's just funny because usually it's the blue collar workers who have to worry about this and the white collar workers who sanctimoniously tell them to suck it up or learn to code.

Also, I can't help but chuckle slightly at the irony here. The entire purpose of software engineering and computers is automation, and the lost jobs in other sectors due to SWEs is massive. To spend one's entire life in pursuit of this and be morally opposed to the "ultimate" automation (automating this process of automation itself) is a bit rich.
by swilk001 | 2026-02-05 00:02:52+00:00
Senior Product Manager / Technical PM

Location: Oregon
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Ruby, Elixir/Phoenix, JavaScript/Ember, PostgreSQL, Salesforce, Azure, AWS, LLMs, 12 years management
Résumé/CV: https://stephanieawilkinson.com/resume/
Email: wilkinson.stephanie.a@gmail.com

SWE -> Product Manager -> Dir Eng -> Head of Product & Engineering. Currently leading two teams, shipping BI platforms for schools.

I build engineering orgs and the products they ship. I have 12 years experience leading teams, turning complex data into tools people love. Currently leading two teams serving 1,700+ organizations and 250,000 users. We have Roda, Ruby, Ember.js, Elixir/Phoenix, and .NET in production.

Two weeks ago, shipped a feature complete Phoenix LiveView replacement for a legacy .NET/Angular.js SSO app, such that no client apps had to change a line of code.

I have rebuilt almost all legacy .NET systems at my org to be Elixir Phoenix apps. I have been building with Elixir since 2018, I was an early adopter and have loved rolling it out to schools around the world.

Looking to bring my product and eng leadership experience to a new opportunity.
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-05 00:03:25+00:00
Every country puts out an official gazette with abundant regulatory and statistical information. Of course you'd be foolish to rely on all these at face value, but it's an excellent starting point for assessing the economic activity of any given country. You can then synthesize it with things like market data and publicly available shipping information. Plus the CIA has (at least I hope it still has) a large staff of people whose only job is to study print, broadcast, and electronic media about other countries and compile that into regular reports of What Goes On There.

Obviously there's all sorts of covert information gathering that also goes on, but presumably the product of that is classified by default. Fortunately our executive branch is headed by intellectual types who enjoy reading and synthesizing a wealth of complex detail /s
by falloutx | 2026-02-05 00:03:35+00:00
> you just put your employees directly on Nano Banana or one of the simple Nano Banana wrappers.

So you end up spending the money elsewhere? with exploratory design you can easily spend 10k a month on these models as a company of 1000, thus completely losing any monetary savings. Anyway you look at it, Saas worked because costs were spread out and low enough to not optimize it too much.
by hagbard_c | 2026-02-05 00:03:49+00:00
How otherwise would you refer to 'The West' which used to be called 'the free world' other than by stating this? Why, then, do you claim I 'speak of the free world'?

History does not change by choosing to ignore it. We in 'The West' used to think of ourselves as 'the free world' and to a large extent there was truth to this claim when comparing 'us' with people behind the Iron Curtain and communist China. Once the wall was broken, the borders opened and the Soviet Union dissolved this ceased to be true. By and large we're still better off than e.g. people in Russia but in many ways it seems like the bad ideas from places like the Soviet Union and China are being implemented at large scale in many countries on the west side of the former Iron Curtain.

So yes, I will keep on referring to these countries in this way, 'used to be called the free world' because this is how those countries did refer to themselves. History matters, it is there to be learned from.
by mycall | 2026-02-05 00:04:36+00:00
> we have to understand the relationships in the real world, the processes involved, and the workflows needed, and representing it in a robust way to create a stable system. AI can’t do that.

That is because AI is living in our world, instead of the opposite where we live in AI's world.

Case in point: maybe the AI hallucinated a class method that never existed in our world yet, but perhaps in the AI led processes and workflows it would be written to better fit into the smooth gradient decent those same top parameters' scores.