MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jstummbillig | 2026-02-14 12:45:11+00:00
> But I no longer believe that Claude will be able to write complex software on its own.

"on its own" is doing a lot of work here. Dario went into the differences in this very podcast: "Most code is written by agents" is not the same as "most code is written without or independent of human input".

I suspect that is how different outcomes can be explained (even without having to assume that Anthropic/OpenAI engineers are outright lying.)
by Sammi | 2026-02-14 12:45:23+00:00
I keep seeing that small teams or individuals are getting most of the productivity gains from new ai.

Small teams or individuals that learn to use ai well can outpace larger teams, even if the larger teams also use ai, because communication / coordination overhead grows faster than team size. Tasks that before needed large teams to get done, can now be done by smaller teams.

Large Knowledge work teams have lost their competitive advantage.

I see this as a business opportunity for small actors. Every large knowledge work team that doesn't quickly adapt and downsize itself, is now something you can disrupt as a small team or individual.
by metalman | 2026-02-14 12:45:24+00:00
I decided to live in crunch mode 100% of the time, which I only realised when considering your questions.
The things I want to achive are far enough out that my only realistic and pragmatic aproach is to stay crunchy, not to say that I dont experience a good meal that I can feel revitalising me, even water at just the right temp after a long stretch forgeting to hydrate, is ambrosia. Which I mean litteraly, as human phisiology is hard wired to hit the big dopamine button, with nothing more than water.
I have no idea if the motivations and rewards that "successfull" people get are as good, but I strongly suspect that whatever is possible to experience is hard wired, and getting to "11" cant be faked.
So, go low, to get high.
just not too low, eat, hydrate, scream at a raging lightning storm from a high place, pollish your shoes, blow everything off to attend to that,"#$%&-)($" inconsiquential irritant that will actualy only take 27min after you check the clock, but will feel like a ton falling away, some loose, frayed, ultra minor thing, that catches your eye, every single time, for which you then go, yup, np, will get to it for the millionth time.
dopamine can be got in massive quanties from the most improbable and trivial things, get you some
by jespino | 2026-02-14 12:46:58+00:00
Yes, it is not specially different from other linkers. It has some tasks building the final binary including special sections in the binary, and is more aware about the specifics of the go language. But there is nothing that is extremely different from other linkers. The whole point of the series is to explain a real compiler, but in general, most of the parts of the go compiler are very widely used in other languages, like ssa, ast, escape analysis, inlining...
by DonHopkins | 2026-02-14 12:47:50+00:00
The point is they keep making excuses for not reading the primary source, and are using performative skepticism as a substitute for basic due diligence.

You don’t need a metaphysics seminar to evaluate this. The person being quoted showed up and said the quotes attributed to him are fake and not in the linked source:

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645

>Scott Shambaugh here. None of the quotes you attribute to me in the second half of the article are accurate, and do not exist at the source you link. It appears that they themselves are AI hallucinations. The irony here is fantastic.

So stop retreating into “maybe it was something else” while refusing to read what you’re commenting on. Whether the fabrication came from an LLM or a human is not your get-out-of-reading-free card — the failure is that fabricated quotes were published and attributed to a real person.

Please don’t comment again until you’ve read the original post and checked the archived Ars piece against the source it claims to quote. If you’re not willing to do that bare minimum, then you’re not being skeptical — you’re just being lazy on purpose.
by JPKab | 2026-02-14 12:49:30+00:00
I just wish people would remember how awful and unprofessional and lazy most "journalists" are in 2026.

It's a slop job now.

Ars Technica, a supposedly reputable institution, has no editorial review. No checks. Just a lazy slop cannon journalist prompting an LLM to research and write articles for her.

Ask yourself if you think it's much different at other publications.
by vee-kay | 2026-02-14 12:49:47+00:00
MEGAHIT

YIPPEEYAHOO

I still remember them. Those was the commandline-parameter cheat codes to launch the Prince of Persia or Prince of Persia 2 game so the gamer could use special hotkeys to cheat during gameplay.

The linked article in the OP post is a wonderful tribute to the fluid animations in this game, bravo!

Oh, decades later, we finally learn the game was made by just one guy (and he made Karateka!), and he motion-captured his younger brother's jumps and hijinks into the sprite-based animation of the Prince of Persia game! Awesome!

That's some cool footage (gifs), thanks for sharing.

I never got tired of running and sliding in these PoP games, it felt so fluid and realistic, but I hated thst gross sound when the Prince falls into a pit and impaled into those metal spokes, or when I mistimed the jump through those scary metal-saw doorways and the poor Prince is chopped into bits by gates of death, LOL.

I have played the Prince of Persia 3D games (on PC), they were tough, tedious but fun. Their "Sands of Time" mechanic was innovative indeed. And I've played the PoP 2.5D games on mobile as well, good stuff.

Ah, fun times, thanks for the nostalgia and peek at some forgotten history of gaming!
by danaris | 2026-02-14 12:51:28+00:00
This kind of statement feels very akin to the variety of Twitter post that's along the lines of "but who among us would be safe from prosecution if our DMs/private phonecalls/conversations with our secretaries were sent to the police, amirite guys?"

Anyone who believes that the only thing keeping themselves from murdering people indiscriminately is the law is a dangerous person. Anyone who believes that the only thing keeping everyone else from murdering people indiscriminately—but they themselves are, of course, the exception—is dangerous in a very different way.

The vast majority of people only ever feel like they want to seriously harm someone when they themselves have been seriously harmed, particularly when the system then protects the people who harmed them. We have developed a sense of morality that is often similar to, but distinct from, the law, that tells us that such things are wrong. And the vast majority of people want to both be, and be seen as, good people.
by jovanaccount | 2026-02-14 12:51:47+00:00
Why it works: It validates their pain ("herding cats") and offers a specific, technical fix (concurrency control) rather than a vague "AI solution."

The "managing the herd" overhead is real. I found that 80% of my debugging time wasn't fixing bad code, but fixing race conditions where agents were overwriting each other's context or hallucinating because they didn't have the latest state.

I ended up building a "traffic light" protocol (essentially a semaphore for swarms) just to force serialization on critical tasks. It kills the speed slightly but stops the "death spiral" where one agent's error cascades through the herd.

If you're building your own orchestrator or using something like OpenClaw, I open-sourced the concurrency logic here: https://github.com/jovanSAPFIONEER/Network-AI
by ndriscoll | 2026-02-14 12:53:48+00:00
Most of the people I know with money are difficult to convince to spend it. e.g. rich people don't buy designer bags; poor people do. My wife makes all of our food; we do delivery or go out to eat maybe once every year or two. We have no recurring subscriptions (other than utilities). Our phone bill is $20 for both of us. etc.

We also live in an area where outdoor ads are banned (which tends to be the case in wealthy areas IME), and I block ads on our computers, so we rarely encounter them. Consumerism is gauche.
by testdelacc1 | 2026-02-14 12:54:07+00:00
I wouldn’t worry about that. There’s plenty of software yet to be written, in many languages. If anything, Rust’s success has shown that it’s definitely possible for a new language to succeed if it offers something new.

The other tailwind for Zig is that it’s easier than ever to translate an existing codebase with tests into a new language with AI.
by cdani | 2026-02-14 12:55:30+00:00
This article explores the shift from traditional coding to Spec-Driven Development (SDD), where specifications—not code—become the primary source of truth. As AI agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot automate implementation, the developer’s role evolves into a "System Designer" focused on architecture and context engineering. The author argues against "vibe coding," advocating for a disciplined approach using frameworks like Spec Kit or OpenSpec. By investing time in structured technical requirements, designers can leverage LLMs to transform weeks of manual debugging into days of precise, AI-generated software delivery, redefining the future of the profession.
by spicyusername | 2026-02-14 12:56:21+00:00
dropping a slice of bread won't cut it

But it will cut it, just over a longer period of time than cutting two slices, or cutting two and making lifestyle changes that result your metabolism burning more fat, or cutting three slices and... etc.

Your body mass doesn't materialize out of nothing. Food in, body mass out. Simple as. Everything else is optimization that's not really required to lose weight, if you're patient and consistent.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-14 12:57:32+00:00
This was posted recently https://www.earthasweknowit.com/pages/inca_construction (HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342950 | 172 points | 55 days ago | 46 comments) The most important bit is in the middle https://www.earthasweknowit.com/photo/peru_cusco_masonry_con... The stones were concave, so the match perfectly only outside and have some kind of mortar inside the wall.
by hu3 | 2026-02-14 12:57:35+00:00
They aknowlege that at the beggining of the post?

> They are now available to tinker with, by constructing one’s application using std.Io.Evented. They should be considered experimental because there is important followup work to be done before they can be used reliably and robustly:

And then they proceed to list 6 important pending work to be done.
by Aerroon | 2026-02-14 12:58:12+00:00
The important point is why AI generated works aren't given copyright protection - it's because the human isn't considered to be the author.

This is what the copyright office said about the comic with AI generated images:

>Rather than a tool that Ms. Kashtanova controlled and guided to reach her desired image, Midjourney generates images in an unpredictable way. Accordingly, Midjourney users are not the “authors” for copyright purposes of the images the technology generates.

If the human involved isn't considered the author of the work, then shouldn't that also have an impact on liability?
by strangescript | 2026-02-14 13:00:51+00:00
If your co-workers are getting promotions and raises and you are not, its a you problem. If someone else is getting credit for your work, its a you problem. Given your claims of impeccable work, we are only left to assume its a personality issue.

Its not to say its fair or right, but life is a popularity contest, whether we like it or not. More likeable people get more things, sometimes undeservingly so.
by a2128 | 2026-02-14 13:01:24+00:00
1. Citation needed. Why would Google be secretly ingesting all of your Discord messages and be using it for... YouTube recommendations? Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is a more likely explanation

2. Already collecting a lot of data is not a reason to collect even more sensitive data. Plenty of people use Discord differently than you do. Anonymously participating in projects that use Discord and never saying anything personal over it, for example. This would possibly remove the ability to do so, for example if Discord's secretive AI decided that an LGBTQ+ project's Discord should be age restricted, and you would be forced to submit enough information to be fully identified and deanonymized, and now some foreign government could build a database that includes your full identity and your affiliation to such project
by JKCalhoun | 2026-02-14 13:01:27+00:00
I think it's the bad actors and at scale that makes the Ars Technica gripe in the noise. Say what you want, but I don't think Ars writers are on the level of the actors behind phishing scams. And it is one outfit.

Oh well, I suppose cosplaying Cassandra is pointless anyway. We'll all find out in a year or so whether this was the beginning of the end or not.
by mapt | 2026-02-14 13:02:10+00:00
The heuristic isn't going away because we have limited time. Let's say you can clock AI in the first paragraph.

There are lots of places like Linkedin where people write slop articles saying basically nothing insightful, and AI allows them to write at Isaac Asimov or Brandon Sanderson type speeds. AI slop has no cost, so it will always outweigh insightful AI-assisted writing without careful curation. You will have read thousands of articles that begin in AI-evident formats that don't end in anything good.

That will always poison the well of somebody at the end of that first paragraph. They will consider the source, think "What are the odds this is more slop", and often click out.

People who I know don't speak English natively get a pass from me because no amount of effort in the short term is going to substitute for fluency, but everybody else... less so.
by myth_drannon | 2026-02-14 13:03:47+00:00
It's equivalent in the results not the technical specs. In Israel they spent weeks sifting through the charred remains of the house to find at least a tooth of a child. People were gone on both sides. It's just for Palestinians most likely they are not going to get answers because it's impossible to sift trough millions of tons of earth and garbage. Germans have 2 million soldiers still MIA after 70 years of recovery efforts!
by elihu | 2026-02-14 13:03:52+00:00
If the fundamental is 100hz, then the 1st harmonic is the fundamental (100hz), the 2nd harmonic is 200hz, the 3rd harmonic is 300hz, and so on.

Sometimes the harmonics aren't exact. On a piano, if the fundamental is 100hz then the 2nd harmonic might be, say, 200.1hz or something. Some inharmonic instruments like gongs aren't anywhere close to the "ideal" harmonic series.
by pron | 2026-02-14 13:04:12+00:00
> the worry is by the time it reaches v1 Rust will have consumed the space that C/C++ used to

Given that Rust is quite an old language now and its adoption is still so low, I don't think that should be much of a worry, although that doesn't mean Zig will be the option of choice, and not stabilising is certainly not a good sign. At Rust's adoption rate, a language that hasn't been invented yet and that would show a more normal rate of adoption for a popular language could easily overtake it.

> There is also the issue of will people actually code by then.

Now that could be a bigger issue. :)
by weinzierl | 2026-02-14 13:04:33+00:00
Exactly! The C64 could control where the beam started painting. To move the screen a pixel you just wrote the the x and y offsets to two 8-bit I/O registers. Only after scrolling 7 or 8 pixels you had to copy memory around. I was relatively easy to get this right smoothly and since everything was in sync with the beam it was easy to make tear free.

Shaking effects that did not require memory copy were even easier.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-14 13:05:50+00:00
The more compelling scenario is one where the unsafe subset of Rust itself becomes roughly as easy to use as Zig is today, though still with potential challenges wrt. properly interacting with safe code.

That requires literally rethinking every language and standard library facility and asking "is this putting up artificial roadblocks or even invoking straight UB when one tries to use it idiomatically in unsafe contexts?", then coming up with more flexible, more "C like" facilities in that case. It's hard work but quite doable.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-02-14 13:06:08+00:00
I love the irony of your post.

But I'm going to guess HN tried the no-rules approach and found issues with it. Whether I like them or not, there are rules and I often see others reminding us of them.

(Ha ha, and in point of fact, I have never read them except when one is trotted out. Nor have I ever pulled one on someone—I'm the type to ignore and move on.)
by ntoskrnl_exe | 2026-02-14 13:06:22+00:00
Wouldn't it also be a performance nightmare?

The energy bill for scanning through the terabytes of metadata would be comparable to that of several months of AI training, not to mention the time it would take. Then deleting a few million random 360p videos and putting MrBeast in their place would result in insane fragmentation of the new files.

It might really just be cheaper to keep buying new HDDs.
by ndriscoll | 2026-02-14 13:07:10+00:00
> Is it legal to advertise for "motherboard" for any good or service other than a tech news blog website?

Roughly speaking (modulo dilution which doesn't seem like it'd apply here), that's my understanding of trademark law. So your questions are all basically trivially answered, and those things are fine. A human should be able to review such cases.
by flohofwoe | 2026-02-14 13:07:43+00:00
IME Zig's breaking changes are quite manageable for a lot of application types since most of the breakage these days happens in the stdlib and not in the language. And if you just want do read and write files, the highlevel file-io interfaces are nearly identical, they just moved to a different namespace and now require a std.Io pointer to be passed in.

And tbh, I take a 'living' language any day over a language that's ossified because of strict backward compatibility requirements. When updating a 3rd-party dependency to a new major version it's also expected that the code needs to be fixed (except in Zig those breaking changes are in the minor versions, but for 0.x that's also expected).

I actually hope that even after 1.x, Zig will have a strategy to keep the stdlib lean by aggressively removing deprecated interfaces (maybe via separate stdlib interface versions, e.g. `const std = @import("std/v1");`, those versions could be slim compatibility wrappers around a single core stdlib implementation.
by slibhb | 2026-02-14 13:09:32+00:00
You're assuming there aren't "new things" latent inside currently existing information. That's definitely false, particulary for math/physics.

But it's worth thinking more about this. What gives humans the ability to discover "new things"? I would say it's due to our interaction with the universe via our senses, and not due to some special powers intrinsic to our brains that LLMs lack. And the thing is, we can feed novel measurements to LLMs (or, eventually, hook them up to camera feeds to "give them senses")
by gostsamo | 2026-02-14 13:11:03+00:00
From the beginning, B5 is like the UN with all the pettiness included. As a political storytelling, it was magnificent. The characters were also very high level.

DS9 has some wonderful episodes and fantastic characters, but the overall plot was weak. The world building was plot driven while in B5 it is vice versa and it made all the difference for me.
by FrankWilhoit | 2026-02-14 13:11:11+00:00
This is very bad. She talks about "...needing to accept potentially imperfect compute....", which of course underpins the entire "AI" phenomenon. We are going to have to make very hard and sharp distinctions between areas where correctness does and does not matter. In order for anything to be correct, cross-contamination will have to be absolutely prevented.
by wild_egg | 2026-02-14 13:11:29+00:00
You need to be telling it to create reproduction test cases first and iterate until it's truly solved. There's no need for you to manually be testing that sort of thing.

The key to success with agents is tight, correct feedback loops so they can validate their own work. Go has great tooling for debugging race conditions. Tell it to leverage those properly and it shouldn't have any problems solving it unless you steer it off course.
by Springtime | 2026-02-14 13:11:55+00:00
The wrinkle in this case is the author blocked AI bots from their site (doesn't seem to be a mere robots.txt exclusion from what I can tell), so if any such bot were trying to do this it may have not been able to read the page to verify, so instead made up the quotes.

This is what the author actually speculated may have occurred with Ars. Clearly something was lacking in the editorial process though that such things weren't human verified either way.
by Quarrel | 2026-02-14 13:11:57+00:00
I get what you're saying about a proxy like this, latency & performance would suffer, however minor, and in production DB land this really matters.

I've just not sure it is much of a slight on such proxies.

You don't need to run this always inline in production to get amazingly useful results. Yes, there are lots of production insight solutions out there, but lots of modern stacks can be complex enough that just getting a quick handle on how the page you're debugging talks to your DBs can be incredibly useful, which is where I love the idea of a solution like this.

Sure, it is mytop / pgtop, but trying to offering it at a different layer & with a modern interface. Seems useful to me.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-14 13:12:32+00:00
> My comments (and prior accounts) have been flagged and removed because AI advocates want to silence all dissent.

Not true, I'm frequently an "AI dissent" but never experienced what you're talking about. Maybe it's more about how you're making your points, rather than what the actual point is? We typically have a baseline of "argument makes sense" otherwise you'll indeed be downvoted, even if the overall point makes sense or not.
by zeroCalories | 2026-02-14 13:13:35+00:00
I agree that it's a range, and that's precisely why it's hard to get right. If I go for a day trip on the weekend with my wife I might burn 1000 extra calories walking. If I have a mystery coffee at my friend's house I have no idea how much I just consumed. The margins are too close that it becomes difficult to make consistent progress.
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by komali2 | 2026-02-14 13:14:31+00:00
This is assuming doing A has any meaningful impact on B.

Anyway in this situation it's less that YouTube is providing us a service and more, it's captured a treasure trove of our cultural output and sold it back to us. Siphoning back as much value as we can is ethical. If YouTube goes away, we'll replace it - PeerTube or other federated options are viable. The loss of the corpus of videos would be sad but not catastrophic - some of it is backed up. I have ~5Tb of YouTube backed up, most of it smaller channels.

I agree generally with you that the word "value" is overencompassing to the point of absurdity though. Instrumental value is equated with moral worth, personal attachment, and distribution of scarcity. Too many concepts for one word.