MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andrewstuart | 2026-02-08 04:24:16+00:00
Let’s say you want to indicate some relationship between part of your code and a specific requirement number. And you want to be able to do that in any computer language. At the moment the only way you can do anything like that at all is to put your reference in a comment And LLMs are extremely well known for deleting comments. So we need some sort of standard for meta-data or comments that LLMs are guaranteed not to delete and that is consistent across all programming languages. How can we do? This is a new standard needed? Can we piggyback onto some existing mechanism?
by dataviz1000 | 2026-02-08 04:25:55+00:00
One month ago the Chinese navy surrounded the island. [0] That is a siege. Nothing comes in and nothing goes out. The eastern side of the island's infrastructure is complete shit because corrupt local governments. They can't defend it. The Chinese can land and take the mountains and have the high ground easily. The west side can be completely obliterated with rockets from the mainland.

The citizens wouldn't challenged the mainland in 2024, they won't challenge the mainland today, and they won't challenge the mainland in the future.

Likely the reason the mainland hasn't taken the island yet IS because they can take it in 3 days if they wanted.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Mission_2025
by WoodenChair | 2026-02-08 04:26:24+00:00
PureScript is a programming language. English is not. A better analogy would be what would you say about someone who uses a No Code solution that behind the scenes writes Java. I would say that's a much better analogy. NoCode -> Java is similar to LLM -> Java.

I'm not debating whether LLMs are amazing tools or whether they change programming. Clearly both are true. I'm debating whether people are using accurate analogies.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-08 04:26:40+00:00
I recently asked Claude to make some kind of simple data structure and it responded with something like "You already have an abstraction very similar to this in SourceCodeAbc.cpp line 123. It would be trivial to refactor this class to be more generic. Should I?" I was pretty blown away. It was like a first glimpse of an LLM play-acting as someone more senior and thoughtful than the usual "cocaine-fueled intern."
by brendoelfrendo | 2026-02-08 04:27:39+00:00
I always appreciated the Mobile Suit Gundam approach (U.C. timeline, to be specific): humans in space largely live in O'Neill Cylinder-style space colonies arranged in constellations at Earth-Moon Lagrange points, allowing them to a) be built from materials gathered from space and b) once built, manufacture things from those materials without having to land them on Earth first. There are large settlements on the Moon, and while they are important manufacturing and research centers, they're not the primary population centers in space. Mars is, to the best of my knowledge, uninhabited. As far as the outer solar system goes, only Jupiter has a permanent human presence as the primary source of humanity's helium-3 (Gundam predates the proposal of mining the Moon for helium-3 instead).

I like this approach. It's plausible based on the assumptions made by the story, lets people in space have the benefits of mostly-normal gravity and radiation exposure (as compared to, say Mars), and keeping things local to the Earth means you don't need to be too concerned with the distances involved. Where they really lose the plot, though, is with population; Gundam claims that, in less than 100 years, billions of people--in fact, the large majority of humanity--have moved to space. I can't even begin to fathom what kind of effort would be needed to build that many space colonies, and then shuttle the people up there to populate them.
by elamje | 2026-02-08 04:27:47+00:00
> Not only does this obviously not result in lower US prices

Maybe in Pfizer’s portfolio this is true. However, I just watched the Amazon Pharmacy pricing for GLP-1s drop substantially immediately following this. I think you may be being too black and white on claiming this categorically does not work.

Businesses will adapt pricing models, obviously this hurts Pfizer in some way, but Lilly and Novo found the new system was worth negotiating into. Like most things - when people say “always” or “never” - it’s reducing the spectrum of possibilities
by zarzavat | 2026-02-08 04:28:50+00:00
In the UK the driving test requires a portion of driving using a satnav, the idea being that drivers are going to use satnavs so it's important to test that they know how how to use them safely.

The same goes for using Claude in a programming interview. If the environment of interview is not representative of how people actually work then the interview needs to be changed.
by g8oz | 2026-02-08 04:30:29+00:00
There's a coordinated push to paint Epstein as a pro Russian actor. Meanwhile we're supposed to ignore the fact that he was in constant contact with high level Israeli officials, to the point of having an ex prime minister spend extensive time at his home.

Let's also ignore the Israeli government owning units in the New York apartment building that he was also deeply involved in. He took part in the building's management and used it to house many of his associates, employees, and victims.

His life was much more intertwined with Israeli officialdom than with any connection to the Russians.

He had very close ties to wealthy Zionists like Robert Maxwell and Leslie Wexner of the Victoria's secret Fortune. Together with his lawyer Alan Dershowitz he sought to smear and blackball John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt over their book "The Israeli Lobby and US foreign policy".

So what makes more sense here? Was he a Russian asset or an Israeli one?
by innocentoldguy | 2026-02-08 04:32:02+00:00
I'm currently using Niri+Noctalia just to try them out, but I typically use Gnome and like it quite a bit for its simple, clean interface.

I use macOS and Linux, and the way GNOME works makes switching between them easier for me than when I run KDE, for instance (I'm sure others have a different experience, and that's what is so great about Linux).
by pandaman | 2026-02-08 04:34:50+00:00
Camping in front of business is not against the code, people used to do that for big movie openings or for other commercial events some time ago. With the residential property there are actual overnight occupancy limits which are easy to show being violated. And the occupancy is just one of the codes which would be easy to prove violated by a camp on a residential property, there are tons of other codes. Where I live, you cannot replace an exterior door without a permit, while the commercial zoning is much more permissive.
by trhway | 2026-02-08 04:36:21+00:00
>Do we really need insurance to cover $100/mo meds?

For people making how much? Low income people are jumping through the hoops to get SNAP. $100 for them is a lot, and which they might just not have. And for insurance it would be cheaper long-run than dealing with diabetes, etc.

Anyway, why a such "submarine" attack on the $100 GLP-1 sources and why now? Well, one way of thinking would be that Trump RX just went online and there, thanks to the well known Trump's care about people's needs, the GLP-1 is $350, so one has to remove the $100 competitors.
by languid-photic | 2026-02-08 04:36:49+00:00
This is a good point!

We still code via interactive sessions with single agents when the stakes are lower (simple things, one off scripts, etc). But for more important stuff, we generally want the highest quality solution possible.

We also use this framework for brainstorming and planning. E.g. sometimes we ask them to write design docs, then compare and contrast. Or intentionally under-specify a task, see what the agents do, and use that to refine the spec before launching the real run.
by alexjurkiewicz | 2026-02-08 04:36:57+00:00
The Web of Trust failed for PGP 30 years ago. Why will it work here?

For a single organisation, a list of vouched users sounds great. GitHub permissions already support this.

My concern is with the "web" part. Once you have orgs trusting the vouch lists of other orgs, you end up with the classic problems of decentralised trust:

1. The level of trust is only as high as the lax-est person in your network
2. Nobody is particularly interested in vetting new users
3. Updating trust rarely happens

There _is_ a problem with AI Slop overrunning public repositories. But WoT has failed once, we don't need to try it again.
Show HN: Agent-fetch – Sandboxed HTTP client with SSRF protection for AI agents
by paraaz | 2026-02-08 04:38:40+00:00
Built this because giving AI agents raw HTTP access is scary. agent-fetch is a drop-in HTTP client that blocks SSRF, DNS rebinding, private IP access, and redirect tricks — all at the request level.

It uses its own DNS resolver (Hickory DNS), validates all resolved IPs against a blocklist (loopback, RFC 1918, link-local, cloud metadata, etc.), and pins the TCP connection to the validated IP so there's no TOCTOU gap to exploit.

Also supports domain allowlists/blocklists, rate limiting, body size limits, and timeouts.

Available as a Rust crate and npm package (native Node.js bindings via NAPI).

Built for tool-based agent architectures (MCP, LangChain, etc.) where you control what the agent can call. Not a replacement for container isolation but if your agent only talks to the outside world through HTTP, this locks it down.

GitHub: https://github.com/Parassharmaa/agent-fetch
by fud101 | 2026-02-08 04:39:17+00:00
That's fine but we're an industry defined by fashions. OOP was the thing for decades then it wasn't, whether or not you bought into it, you had to play along. If the trend now is around how well you can juggle agents to produce a result, it doesn't matter if it's suboptimal or not, it only matters how well you can do it, even if you are not on board with the emerging pattern.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-08 04:40:01+00:00
25% of global annual auto sales are EVs as of 2025. 50% in China, the largest auto market in the world. This will only accelerate. Norway is already effectively at 100%, the rest will follow in time.

US legacy auto is just squeezing profits from what’s left until they turn out the lights. EVs didn’t fail, the US automotive industry did.

https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales

https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in...

https://electrek.co/2025/12/17/25-percent-of-new-cars-sold-g...

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-ev-leapfrog-how...

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/automakers-ev-china-ford-gm....

https://electrek.co/2026/02/03/even-after-cutting-ev-incenti...

On the American Spectator:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Spectator
by vel0city | 2026-02-08 04:40:38+00:00
> I've also lived in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh (especially the actual city proper) is well above average in walkabiliy compared to the rest of the country. Also a good bit of New England, especially the older towns.

> Sure, it's easy to find places where you can't pragmatically walk to a supermarket, but it's just as easy to find places where you can, if it is something you find valuable.

I mean yeah, that goes along with what I'm saying. If you just ignore 85+% of the housing stock in a lot of metros it's all walkable! Just limit yourself to just the most walkable places in the country and you'll only find it walkable.

You even acknowledged a lot of the areas I shared earlier would be a 10-15 minute drive to get to a grocery store. How fast do you walk? 40+mph?

It shouldn't be so hard to find affordable homes without massive tradeoffs that are walkable/bikeable. And by find I don't mean see it on Google Maps, I mean actually afford it and have it be available when you're ready to move and not have other massive tradeoffs.
by renewiltord | 2026-02-08 04:40:57+00:00
Well, 67% of Americans are overweight and the mandatory drug costs $1k. So premiums must be $670 per person or higher to cover nothing but this drug. The drug manufacturers will know that the insurers must provide it so they’ll use the highest price they used at scale: $1k.

That means that every healthy person is also paying $670 per month just so that the 2/3 of the country can get this drug. But current medical loss ratios are at least 85% and if we did nothing but pay $670 we’d be at 100% loss ratio and the drug paid for.

Boy the economics for the average person look pretty bad, considering they can just get it off the internet for a fraction. I have 240 mg of retatrutide in my fridge for about a dollar a mg in comparison.
by phendrenad2 | 2026-02-08 04:43:22+00:00
Good "code" may be going away, but good architecture isn't. There's still tremendous value in learning good software engineering practices. Extreme Programming, Agile, Design Patterns, Antipatterns, TDD, SOLID, DRY, and all of the classics by Martin, Fowler, Beck, Freeman/Pryce, Brooks, Evans, McConnell, Thomas/Hunt. People who let an agent determine their architecture are in for a world of hurt.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-08 04:45:44+00:00
I was receiving compounded Semaglutide (Wegovy generic) from Victory Pharmacy, a brick & mortar compounding pharmacy, in Austin for $150/mo, then $200/mo, and finally I stopped when it reached $250/mo. I have SSDI and Medicare but it wasn't covered and it's still not covered for pharmacologically-induced obesity or weight gain. If I developed diabetes, then it would be covered as Ozempic (lower dose). I'm having to go without because of bureaucratic gatekeeping and discrimination and because of opportunists cash grabs by pharmaceutical companies' price gouging.
by hliyan | 2026-02-08 04:46:01+00:00
I felt this was telling:

> The typical golf course covers about a square kilometer. We have 40,000 of them around the world being meticulously maintained. If the same could be said for solar farms we would be almost 10% of the way there.

To me, it's one of many ways in which markets fail to allocate resources to the most pressing problems.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-08 04:47:39+00:00
Well I think that’s kind of the point or value in these tools. Let the AI do the tedious stuff saving your energy for the hard stuff. At least that’s how I use them, just save me from all the typing and tedium. I’d rather describe something like auth0 integration to an LLM than do it all myself. Same goes for like the typical list of records, clock one, view the details and then a list of related records and all the operations that go with that. Like it’s so boring let the LLM do that stuff for you.
by anon-3988 | 2026-02-08 04:47:56+00:00
My observation is that "good code for human" != "good code for LLM"

For example, I think LLM benefit from having very verbose code that repeats and repeats the same important code/comments/strings/exceptions all over the place. We are going to produce more code than ever before.

From what I have seen so far, productivity will go up but there will more and more rot underneath the systems that we build. The fact that LLMs are tireless is both a blessing and a curse. It will never stop writing code until you tell it to.

We will arrive in a future where we NEED LLMs to understand our own code. At that point, do you hire another highly skilled and expensive individual to manage the complexity of your codebase or spend 100$ more ask an LLM to fix it (and promise we will do the refactor in the future!)

In a sense, we have had this before. We no longer write assembly. We don't program against the hardware anymore, even if you are writing C, you are writing against the abstract C machine. We are no longer writing against any machine, it is more of a concept now. This is just another step of abstraction. "Can you please change this list to be sorted alphanumerically" will no longer involve a calculated change in UI code. It is more like telling the computer what to do.

The way I am using LLM now is to get the rough general direction. "Can you please write me an NFS driver for this new filesystem with stub functions", then it spits out ~500 lines of code that I can now study. After I am done learning, I will usually rewrite everything myself. But this is probably not productive for future LLM uses. It might be better to keep the code as is if I want to keep using LLMs to iterate.

Frankly, I don't know how I feel about this. It is probably just a part of getting older and seeing the world move past you? For god's sake I am not even 30 yet.
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-08 04:48:30+00:00
The performance gains from bit-level control over memory come from managing the layout to ensure cache locality and do things like SIMD - and nowadays even GPU kernel offload. Enormous performance gains.

I agree that it really isn't about garbage collection pauses, but I haven't heard people focusing on "eliminating gc pause" when they talk about low level languages, but they spend a lot of time talking about SIMD, GPU kernels, and cache misses. If Go could add these features, it would be a performance monster.
by refurb | 2026-02-08 04:48:58+00:00
China tries to steal IP, but otherwise has a functioning IP system including for drugs Chinese companies make.

And China’s growth is about 5% in 2025, which isn’t close in the least to the fastest (Vietnam at 17%).

And China has medications because of other countries with IP (mostly Europe and US). So if the US gets rid of IP, the. A very large part of new drugs won’t happen.
by tverbeure | 2026-02-08 04:49:18+00:00
AV1 has the CfL (chroma from luma) prediction tool. h.266 has CCLM (cross component linear model) and AV2 has improved CfL.

When you see the AV2 version, it’s very similar to h.266, which is much advanced than AV1 CfL: they are using filters that cover up to 6 luma pixels to determine the chroma baseline.

The algorithm described in this blog post is pretty close to what AV1 CfL does.
by anonzzzies | 2026-02-08 04:51:32+00:00
I see that sentiment here all the time and I don't understand what you must be doing; our projects are far from non trivial and we get a lot of benefit from it in the SWE teams. Our software infra was alway (almost 30 years) made to work well with outsourcing teams, so maybe that is it, but I cannot understand how you can have quite that bad results.
by sathish316 | 2026-02-08 04:52:02+00:00
This is built using OpenClaw’s custom skills that are created on the fly and Fish audio. Long form X article - https://x.com/sathish316/status/2020106838419861680?s=46

It feels surreal and futuristic to get all news, movie/TV show reviews, updates in this way from OpenClaw Assistant. It’s only meant as a demonstration of what is possible with OpenClaw and Fish Audio today
by supriyo-biswas | 2026-02-08 04:52:40+00:00
I suspect this is about work related MFA apps; for example, one of the reasons I switched to an iPhone many years ago is the MFA app used at work would not run if the latest Android version with security bugfixes were installed, and the manufacturer had stopped providing updates for quite some time. At that point I was looking at a costly upgrade to one of the Android flagships, or an iPhone, of which I chose the latter.
by yoyonamite | 2026-02-08 04:55:11+00:00
I don't use VSCode, but I've heard that the default model isn't that great. I'd make sure you're using something like Opus 4.5/4.6. I'm not familiar enough with VSCode to know if it's somehow worse than Claude Code, even with the same models, but can test Claude Code to rule that out. It could also be you've stumbled upon a problem that the AI isn't that good at. For example, I was diagnosing a C++ build issue, and I could tell the AI was off track.

Most of the people that get wowed use an AI on a somewhat difficult task that they're unfamiliar with. For me, that was basically a duplicate of Apple's Live Captions that could also translate. Other examples I've seen are repairing a video file, or building a viewer for a proprietary medical imaging format. For my captions example, I don't think I would have put in the time to work on it without AI, and I was able to get a working prototype within minutes and then it took maybe a couple more hours to get it running smoother.
by its_magic | 2026-02-08 04:57:25+00:00
> I don't read these sorts of article as technical position papers.

I do.

> People say, out loud, "I use C and not C++" to say something about themselves.

Just like you are telling us something about yourself right now.

> ISTM that certain circles there's this perception that C is somehow more hardcore.

Wrong. That's not why we use it.

> Nobody's impressed by using it over a modern language.

The word "modern" is not a magic talisman that makes anything it's attached to automatically worthy.

Fun fact: technically anything since the 1500s is "modern."

C++ is fucking garbage. Always has been. Keeps getting worse and worse every year.

Enjoy your PAGES full of error messages and your miserably slow compile times. Slowest language by far, other than the abomination that is Rust.
by sarchertech | 2026-02-08 04:58:02+00:00
It’s not just about non-determinism, but about how chaotic LLMs are. A one word difference in a spec can and frequently does produce unrecognizably different output.

If you are using an LLM as a high level language, that means that every time you make a slight change to anything and “recompile” all
of the thousands upon thousands of unspecified implementation details
are free to change.
by playercc7 | 2026-02-08 05:00:23+00:00
I’m open-sourcing teleop_xr, a lightweight WebXR frontend for robot teleoperation.

The problem we are solving is the "heavy client" requirement for teleop. Most existing solutions are coupled with tethered setups, Unity/Unreal builds, or specific hardware drivers on the operator side.

Teleop_xr is designed to be a decoupled "zero-install" interface. It runs strictly in the headset's browser (Quest 3, Vision Pro) and resolves operator intent into a target robot state before sending it to your control stack.

Architecture (nextjs+webxr frontend on headset <-> Python server on host PC):

Input: WebXR captures 6DOF head/controller states + joystick inputs

Transport: WebRTC for bidirectional streaming (poses out, video in) with sub-100ms latency.

Solver: Uses Pyroki (differentiable Whole-Body IK) to map XR poses to joint states in real-time, handling self-collision and joint limits.

Output: Returns a clean state object for ROS2 or Python integration.

You can map any bimanual robot (humanoids, mobile manipulators) to the interface without custom app builds, we implemented examples for franka (single arm), openarm (bimanual), and unitree h1 (humanoid).

Repo: https://github.com/qrafty-ai/teleop_xr

If you are looking for a clean VR teleoperation solution this might be the one you need :) Any suggestions welcome!
by anonymars | 2026-02-08 05:02:00+00:00
There are definitely issues in human software engineering which reach some combination of the following end states:

1. The team is unable to figure it out

2. The team is able to figure it out but a responsible third-party dependency is unable to fix it

3. The team throws in the towel and works around the issue

At the end of the day it always comes down to money: how much more money do we throw at trying to diagnose or fix this versus working around or living with it? And is that determination not exactly the role of a product manager?

I don't see why this would ipso facto be different with AI

For clarity I come at this with a superposition of skepticism at AI's ultimate capabilities along with recognition of the sometimes frightening depth encountered in those capabilities and speed with which they are advancing

I suppose the net result would be a skepticism of any confident predictions of where this all ends up
by RobRivera | 2026-02-08 05:02:33+00:00
It takes 20mins to fet from base houseing to the gate, lord k ows what traffic is like by the causeways, its an hour of driving before you're anywhere worth being and then its a coin flip if its exciting, so its either the ft. Walton beach strip clubs or onbase recreation.

No wonder eglin is addicted hahaha.

But in all seriousness, there are teams of people on the data crunch side of things that seems like a pedestrian insight