MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kortilla | 2026-02-06 04:00:19+00:00
It has nothing to do with “incurious”. Being asked to draw the architecture for something that is abstracted away from your actual job is a dickhead move because it’s just a test for “do you have the same interests as me?”

It’s no different than asking for the architecture of the power supply or the architecture of the network switch that serves the building. Brilliant software engineers are going to have gaps on non-software things.
I2P is currently facing an ongoing attack on its network
by cyllek | 2026-02-06 04:00:34+00:00
Tens of thousands of malicious routers have been deployed on the peer-to-peer anonymous network, I2P. These malicious routers are not contributing transit, causing severely degraded performance and anonymity for all. It is unknown whether this is the result of state actors, botnets, or researchers at this time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/1qvalmq/megathread_ongoing_attack_on_i2p_network_causing/

https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd/issues/2312
by tomhow | 2026-02-06 04:00:45+00:00
You're welcome to email us about this.

It's my job to read HN posts and comments all day, every day, and these days that means spending a lot of time evaluating whether a post seems LLM-generated. In this case the post seems LLM-generated or heavily LLM-edited.

We have been asking the community not to publicly call out posts for being LLM-generated, for the reason I explained in the latest edit of the comment you replied to. But if we're going to ask the community that, we also need to ask content creators not to post obviously-LLM-influenced articles. We've been asking that ever since LLMs became commonplace.

> I say this as a long time HN reader, who feels like the community has become grumpier over the years. Which I feel like is a shame. But maybe that's just me.

We've recently added this line to the guidelines: Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

HN has become grumpier, and we don't like that. But a lot of it is in reaction to the HN audience being disappointed at a lot of what modern tech companies are seving up, both in terms of products and content, and it doesn't work for us to tell them they're wrong to feel that way. We can try, but we can't force anyone to feel differently.

It's up to product creators and content creators to keep working to raise the standards of what they offer the audience.
by anupamchugh | 2026-02-06 04:01:47+00:00
Real numbers from today. FastAPI codebase, ~50k LOC. 4 agents, 6 tasks, ~6 min wall clock vs ~18-20 min sequential. 24 tests, 0 file conflicts.
Token cost: roughly 4x a single session.

To your cost question — agent teams are sprinters, not marathon runners. You use them for a 6-minute burst of parallel work, not all day. A 6-minute burst at 4x cost is still cheaper than 20 minutes at 1x if your time matters more than tokens.

The constraint nobody mentions: tasks must be file-disjoint. Two agents editing the same file means overwrites. Plan decomposition matters more than the agents themselves.

One thing to watch: Claude Code crashed mid-session with a React reconciler error (#23555). 4 agents + MCP servers pushes the UI past its limits.
by mercnz | 2026-02-06 04:02:39+00:00
well with the recent delays i can easily find claude code going off on it's own for 20 minutes and have no idea what it's going to come back with. but one time it overflowed it's context on a simple question, and then used up the rest of my session window. in a way a lot of ai assistants have ime have this awkward thing where they complicate something in a non-visible and think about it for a long time burning up context before coming up with a summary based upon some misconception.
by simianwords | 2026-02-06 04:02:52+00:00
I’ve noticed that the type of people to have problems with these kind of jobs - people who think this is some type of neocolonialism - can not appreciate the difference between real material poverty and metaphysical problems with watching some abusive content.

This person is earning a really competitive wage. She’s getting the power and independence to lead a materially good life. This will trump every other metaphysical concern you can have by watching these abusive videos.

Some one has to moderate these videos and it’s great that it’s someone poor who’s getting the opportunity.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-06 04:02:59+00:00
It is odd to me that you could be forced to pay dues to unions, and then they can take some of that money to get involved in political campaigns, potentially voting against your interests. It feels especially perverse when it is a publicly sector union, basically sending taxpayer money back to politicians.

All that said, the rich venture capitalists who are featured in this article are doing the same thing. Gathering huge sums of money and donating to PACs and distorting all of politics. I would argue they are a bigger problem in terms of drowning out the everyday American.
by maxglute | 2026-02-06 04:03:12+00:00
It's a well compensated job vs local opportunities but feels like it should be an extravagantly compensated job vs local opportunities. Someone has to do it, but also somewhere along the continuum of doing factory garment work for $100 and deep sea welding for $100k, it feels like this should be closer to latter.

Seems like kind of job that needs physical filtering. Onboard bunch of candidates, measure their vitals, find low responders to abusive stimulus, hire them. I'm sure there's some poorly replicated psych study done on 1st years to draw from.
by ArchieScrivener | 2026-02-06 04:03:58+00:00
No, 10 years ago the threat was from financial collapse given the past 16 years of bubble induced recessions, energy usage was a store of value hedge against inflation. 10 years ago the first approved ETF was still 5 years away and institutional buyers were nonexistent.

People will not always consider short term profit; thinking such is an irrational expectation.
by SanjayMehta | 2026-02-06 04:05:11+00:00
Mr Poverty and Ms Hunger

This is not new. The British boast of banning slavery but they will never tell you about their invention of bonded labour. They imported bonded labour to South Africa, Guyana and other parts of their empire.

Now companies can use the Internet to keep the labour remote. Doesn't even require a degree.
by godelski | 2026-02-06 04:05:25+00:00
I don't get your argument. That everyone should know and recognize our community celebrities? That seems really out of touch. Given the age of their profile I'm assuming they just spend more time touching grass.

Either way I'm not sure what your point is. You didn't answer their question. The one you replied to. I you're in defensive mode but no need to defend, I'm not going to respond anymore.
by jcranmer | 2026-02-06 04:05:28+00:00
Yes, the Abrego Garcia and Öztürk detentions are two very newsworthy cases that have actually reached the point of a final judgement in the district courts, as opposed to "merely" preliminary injunctions against the government.

(It's also worth noting that almost none of the government's appeals to their losses in preliminary injunctions have been on the merits as to whether or not their actions were legal, but rather on the grounds of "no one should be allowed to challenge our actions," which has also been a fairly losing argument for everybody except SCOTUS.)
by JasonResearch | 2026-02-06 04:06:24+00:00
What stood out to me in this article is the idea of AI exposing inference constraints rather than proposing new physics.

I ran into something similar working with the SPARC disk galaxy data. A simple acceleration-domain normalization stayed coherent across morphology bins and survived several attempts to break it (distance perturbations, alternate radius choices, surface-brightness splits), without any fitting.

What surprised me most is that it didn’t collapse in the dwarf / low-surface-brightness regime, which is where I expected systematics to dominate.

Full analysis here (runs locally, CSV outputs):
https://github.com/JasonResearch/sparc-coherence-discrepancy...
by mrandish | 2026-02-06 04:06:35+00:00
This post is credited as being authored "By Claude (Opus 4.6)". At best, this attribution is incomplete because it does not include the prompt the post is responding to. An LLM generates nothing without a prompt, so asserting the LLM is the sole author without disclosing the prompt is misleading and possibly dishonest. If someone posted a horrifically debased racist diatribe claiming it was authored solely by Claude, it would be fair to point out it's impossible to assess an LLMs response without the context of the prompt. As the post itself observes, LLMs are collaborative co-authors with humans. Just because this post paints Claude in a positive light doesn't make hiding the prompt any more fair to Claude or the reader. Paola Di Maio: please have the integrity to post the full prompt.

There are other potential issues as well. Claude assesses and reflects on Ella Markianos' interaction with Claude. Did the Claude instance which generated this text have access to the original sessions with Ella? Or is this based only on this instance reading Ella's published article relating her perspective? Claude can't introspect on an interaction it doesn't remember having.

Elsewhere Claude says, "But I can say this: there are people who work with me very differently from the way Ella built Claudella." Is this assessment based on this instance "remembering" actual sessions with users other than Paola Di Maio or only what Claude infers from its general training data about ways users can interact with LLMs? I'd also like to understand if the "editing" Paola Di Maio is credited with was done in a text editor after the original text was generated or if the editing was done collaboratively with Claude over multiple iterations.
by ux266478 | 2026-02-06 04:06:49+00:00
Reduce is a Lisp library that's still in active use from 1968, making it older than C itself. We can point to GNU Emacs as an ancient and venerable self-contained Lisp tortoise with more wrinkles than are finitely enumerable, and is in fact a hosted Lisp operating system. Pulling it apart and working with it is admittedly a treat even if I loathe it as a text editor. Mezzano is a modern Lisp OS that you can play with in a VM, and might give you an idea of why Lisp is such a great systems language.

In short: Lisp is semantic and geared towards a living system. The basic REPL is sh + cc + ld + db (and a few others) all in one. It's almost a little mind bending how nice these systems are put together, how cleanly they work. C is like pulling teeth in comparison.

I'm not even a fan of Lisp or sexpr languages. But it's the obvious heavyweight champion of longetivity and ultra-pragmatic service record... Yes, even in the systems domain.
by dghlsakjg | 2026-02-06 04:07:21+00:00
Not sure if its true, but even if it is, those two corps transact nearly the same amount as the US GDP every year.

Bitcoin's entire market cap is right now at a less than 1/10th of US GDP. Hard to say what the payment volume is since by all accounts, most movement in BTC is speculative rather than transactional.
by stubish | 2026-02-06 04:07:32+00:00
Entertainment we watch becomes part of our culture. It is absorbed and forms part of our thoughts. It becomes part of our self, and more often than not that part is owned by someone else. NFL is a great example. It is part of shared American culture. Of course people are pissed when someone wants to charge rent on some part of their identity. The rights are very much on the side of producers, and not enough on the side of consumer rights. Maybe society will address this and grant itself the rights it seems to want.
by veyh | 2026-02-06 04:07:34+00:00
Four years in, I suppose you could say I'm still "launching," so I eagerly jumped right to the marketing part to see if there was any good insight.

Uh-oh. My experience has been pretty much the same. Paying for ads feels like lighting money on fire.

Like the author, I also stay away from social media. I've tried posting some videos and shorts, but since I don't actually consume any content on the platforms I'm posting them on, I don't really know what works. Not to mention it takes a long time to make even a single short, let alone a longer video.

Then I published a somewhat technical article on the product blog which brought in more traffic than a giveaway I did during the Christmas holidays, when I was literally giving the product out for free. Of course, the readers of the article were probably not the target audience of my product but it was still quite interesting to see.

I figure I'll keep writing more and see if something happens. Because the ads, videos and shorts were definitely a waste of time (and unlike the author, I don't have anyone I can ask for help).

Naturally, I'm still developing the product. Choosing what to work on is half the challenge. At least I feel productive when I'm writing code. Can't say the same for the other stuff :)
by carlosj | 2026-02-06 04:07:47+00:00
Unlike Samsung Internet and Brave, this extension kept working amid the recent YouTube changes. The extension works for any website. Switching tabs / apps keeps the audio of media playing in the background.

Available on iOS via Safari and Microsoft Edge.
Available on Android via Edge, Firefox, Yandex, Kiwi Lemur and other firefox/chromium browser supporting extensions.

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/keepbackpl...

https://apps.apple.com/app/keep-back-play/id6755731215

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/keep-back-play%40ap...

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/keep-back-play/ojhb...
by deepsun | 2026-02-06 04:08:16+00:00
That's why I like Maven -- it's declarative and HARD to make non-trivial things. But it's super-easy to write your own module (using code) and make Maven call it.

Also, another point about build scripts and CI/CD -- you usually touch them rarely, and the rarer you touch something, the more verbose it should be. That's why there's zero sense in shortening build/CI/CD commands and invent some operators to make it "more concise" -- you'll have to remember the operator each time you touch it again (like next year).
by csomar | 2026-02-06 04:09:18+00:00
Since version 2.1.9, performance has degraded significantly after extended use. After 30-40 prompts with substantial responses, memory usage climbs above 25GB, making the tool nearly unusable. I'm updating again to see if it improves.

Unlike what another commenter suggested, this is a complex tool. I'm curious whether the codebase might eventually reach a point where it becomes unfixable; even with human assistance. That would be an interesting development. We'll see.
by RulerOf | 2026-02-06 04:09:32+00:00
> Oh right, companies change ToS and EULA and "agreements" without notice, without due process, and without recourse.

Companies change their terms of service all the time. They usually send emails about it.

I've responded to decline them a handful of times and asked for my account to be deleted. I chuckle slightly at the work it creates, but sometimes it has been easier to close an account that way.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-06 04:10:00+00:00
And, for reference, one of the historical encyclopedias of knots is the ABOK.

https://archive.org/details/TheAshleyBookOfKnots

What's missing from linear serialization of a book format like ABOK and this website is metadata tags that indicate each knot's attribute(s), i.e., bight, open, slip, etc. and an ability to browse and filter by such tag(s).
by deceptionatd | 2026-02-06 04:10:36+00:00
I've got the Android app and love it, as well as Knots 3D.

Most knot enthusiasts will already know about it, but in the analog world The Ashley Book of Knots is fantastic. Beautifully illustrated; the author, Clifford Ashley, was a marine painter and spent decades documenting almost 4,000 knots.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-06 04:11:13+00:00
> I see few people coming from Jharkhand and working as waitresses in my state

Ststistically, a young Santali woman from rural Jharkhand would most likely end up working in West Bengal, Maharashtra, or Karnataka [0] according to Jharkhand's Migration Survey.

> Also, your first link mentions Bihar not Jharkhand

Because HDI and developmental indicators remain roughly comparable in both states. Salaries in Bihar are comparable to salaries for similar roles in Jharkhand, Eastern UP, or Northern portions of West Bengal.

[0] - https://iimad.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/salx20170525s-i...
by re-thc | 2026-02-06 04:11:33+00:00
> For a lot of people, they just want to get things done and not have to constantly keep on top of what's new or SOTA

That hasn’t been tech for a long time.

Frontend has been changing forever. React and friends have new releases all the time. Node has new package managers and even Deno and Bun. AWS keeps changing things.
by jaggederest | 2026-02-06 04:11:43+00:00
I use that to feed back into my spec development and prompting and CI harnesses, not steering in real time.

Every mistake is a chance to fix the system so that mistake is less likely or impossible.

I rarely fix anything in real time - you review, see issues, fix them in the spec, reset the branch back to zero and try again. Generally, the spec is the part I develop interactively, and then set it loose to go crazy.

This feels, initially, incredibly painful. You're no longer developing software, you're doing therapy for robots. But it delivers enormous compounding gains, and you can use your agent to do significant parts of it for you.
by rvz | 2026-02-06 04:11:58+00:00
> If you’re a small team with a simple app and straightforward tests, it’s probably fine. I’m not going to tell you to rip it out.

> But if you’re running a real production system, if you have a monorepo, if your builds take more than five minutes, if you care about supply chain security, if you want to actually own your CI: look at Buildkite.

Goes in line with exactly what I said in 2020 [0] about GitHub vs Self-hosting. Not a big deal for individuals, but for large businesses it's a problem if you can push that critical change when your CI is down every week.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
by president_zippy | 2026-02-06 04:12:28+00:00
Marking this as a WONTFIX should have gotten somebody fired at AMD. I find it hard to believe that at least one of their VPs doesn't frequent this site.

I don't normally call for people to get fired from their jobs, but this is so disgusting to anyone who takes even a modicum of pride in their contribution to society.

Surely, someone gets fired for dismissing a legitimate, easily exploited RCE using a simple plaintext HTTP MITM attack as a WONTFIX... Right???
by Garlef | 2026-02-06 04:12:32+00:00
On the other hand: Perception of change might not be linear but logarithmic.

(= it might take an order of magnitude of improvements to be perceived as a substantial upgrade)

So the perceived rate of change might be linear.

It's definitely true for some things such as wealth:

- $2000 is a lot of you have $1000.

- It's a substantial improvement of you have $10000.

- It's not a lot you have $1m

- It does not matter if you have $1b
by mikepurvis | 2026-02-06 04:12:58+00:00
The cost of the one-line CI config is that you miss out on integrations with the infrastructure, GUI, etc. You can't command runners of different architectures, or save artifacts, or prompt the user to authorize a deploy, or register test results, or ingest secrets, or show separate logs for parallel tasks, or any number of other similar things.

The real answer here is to put hooks in task-running systems like Nix, Bazel, Docker Bake, CMake, and so on that permit them to expose this kind of status back to a supervising system in an agnostic way, and develop standardized calls for things like artifacts.

It's just... who would actually build this? On the task runner side, it's a chicken and egg issue, and for the platform owners, the lock-in is the point.
by danpalmer | 2026-02-06 04:15:27+00:00
I've used many of the CI systems that the author has here, and I've done a lot of CircleCI and GitHub Actions, and I don't come to quite the same conclusions. One caveat though, I haven't used Buildkite, which the author seems to recommend.

Over the years CI tools have gone from specialist to generalist. Jenkins was originally very good at building Java projects and not much else, Travis had explicit steps for Rails projects, CircleCI was similarly like this back in the day.

This was a dead end. CI is not special. We realised as a community that in fact CI jobs were varied, that encoding knowledge of the web framework or even language into the CI system was a bad idea, and CI systems became _general workflow orchestrators_, with some logging and pass/fail UI slapped on top. This was a good thing!

I orchestrated a move off CircleCI 2 to GitHub Actions, precisely because CircleCI botched the migration from the specialist to generalist model, and we were unable to express a performant and correct CI system in their model at the time. We could express it with GHA.

GHA is not without its faults by any stretch, but... the log browser? So what, just download the file, at least the CI works. The YAML? So it's not-quite-yaml, they weren't the first or last to put additional semantics on a config format, all CI systems have idiosyncrasies. Plugins being Docker images? Maybe heavyweight, but honestly this isn't a bad UX.

What does matter? Owning your compute? Yeah! This is an important one, but you can do that on all the major CI systems, it's not a differentiator. Dynamic pipelines? That's really neat, and a good reason to pick Buildkite.

My takeaway from my experience with these platforms is that Actions is _pretty good_ in the ways that truly matter, and not a problem in most other ways. If I were starting a company I'd probably choose Buildkite, sure, but for my open source projects, Actions is good.
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by throwawaygmbno | 2026-02-06 04:16:46+00:00
This is obviously a flippant comment that shouldn't be taken seriously. But the loss of LiveLeak seems like the loss of the journalism that the Internet was supposed to bring. There were a lot of odd things posted on there with some unneeded commentary but it was a place that would post unfiltered content that other places were scared to post. A lot of it was disgusting that I wouldn't watch, but it's weird to think that the Internet is censored now in a way where it's hard to even find it.

You can find areas of propaganda where site rule breaking will be allowed if it serves the interest of the owner, but you really have to seek it out. It's even weirder that the latest generation is self censoring common words so they can show up on sites like TikTok. Billionaires buying newspapers to censor seems less strange but sadly something I also didn't expect.