MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mym1990 | 2026-02-07 16:44:35+00:00
Some people like to lay the brick, some people like to draw the blueprints. I don’t think there is anything wrong with not subscribing to this onslaught on AI tooling, doing the hard work is rewarding. Whether AI will become a standard in how code is written in the future is still to be determined and I think there is a real chance that is where it goes, it shouldn’t hinder your love for doing what you do.
by boelboel | 2026-02-07 16:44:48+00:00
There's not many taxis in most places, I come from a town of 400 people it'd be a very uneconomical solution.

I'm not saying it's great for them to drive, I just doubt there's a way to fix it in these sort of places. My grandma cycles to the small store for most of her groceries everyday, it's only the big store she drives to bi-weekly. Honestly the cycling is probably more dangerous, and there's some elderly in my town who're pushing 100 cycling daily.
by azibi | 2026-02-07 16:45:10+00:00
I see Libraries and frameworks as a way to capture knowledge and best practices so it can be shared with other people. So looking wat a LLM/AI does, it looks to me that this would be a perfect fit. Without the dependeny hell, unresolved github issues, need to fork and leaving maintainers. It could be opensource on steroïdes, with far shorter feedbackloops (just working in your IDE).

The main burden I see is validation of the output and getting reproducable results. As with many AI solutions.
by leecommamichael | 2026-02-07 16:46:01+00:00
> can generate just the bit of code that you actually need

Design is the key. Codebases (libraries and frameworks not exempt,) have a designed uniformity to them. How does a beginner learn to do this sort of design? Can it be acquired completely by the programmer who uses LLMs to generate their code? Can it be beneficial to recognize opinionated design in the output of an LLM? How do you come to recognize opinion?

In my personal history, I've worked alongside many programmers who only ever used frameworks. They did not have coding design sensibilities deeper than a social populist definition of "best practice." They looked to someone else to define what they can or cannot do. What is right to do.
by gorounditup | 2026-02-07 16:46:32+00:00
When I started biking in the early 80s, Fred DeLong’s guide to cycling was THE book. But it didn’t have videos (obviously). My interpretations weren’t standard because I never had another human to compare with. Sheldon’s guides were the logical torch passing from Fred and it was neat to see how the things I had been doing for 30+ years we’re supposed to look.
by nephihaha | 2026-02-07 16:46:39+00:00
Starmer was talking about getting over 55s to get a new licence every five years a few months ago. He hasn't managed to push that through. Of course, you would have to pay more money to them every time you get one. British TV licences are overpriced as are British passports, but you have to have one or the other as ID. I have one just now, but no car. The public transport is awful.

Most of the price of petrol in the UK is government duty and VAT, then there is the extortionate road tax etc. The British exchequer rakes it in off motorists but fails to help provide safe and reliable alternatives.
by mmooss | 2026-02-07 16:46:40+00:00
The description of the Docs project, at least on the OP page, is interesting:

"A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React."

An office suite's 'docs' component is usually a word processor and people sometimes try to (mis)use it for the functions you actually list - i.e., you can try to use Word as a wiki, linking pages somehow, but it's not nearly as efficient as a purpose-built wiki.

Based on the quote description, it looks like your project inverted the thinking: Is word processing not a/the primary function? Are the other functions truly prioritized - e.g., is the wiki somewhat as efficient as MediaWiki?
by programjames | 2026-02-07 16:46:48+00:00
> You: It's that the real solution lies in fixing the vulnerabilities in the consumers.

> Me: Just because mistakes can be avoided and some people are better at avoiding them than others does not change the fundamental issue: drugs, tobacco, gambling, and TikTok are trying to increase the rate at which mistakes are made. Wouldn't you rather live in a society where they aren't out to get you?
by polyrand | 2026-02-07 16:47:08+00:00
I do this, and it's a huge quality of life improvement. No so much because of shadowing existing binaries, but for better command auto-complete. For example: I have a bunch of tmux utilities and all start with `,t` which is not a polluted command-name prefix compared to just `t`.

But I'm now facing the problem that LLM agents don't like this, and when I instruct them to run certain tools, they remove the leading comma. It's normally fixed with one extra sentence in the prompt, but still inconvenient.
by kakacik | 2026-02-07 16:47:15+00:00
In Switzerland we do it all. After 75 there is requirement for periodic health check by doctor which consists of various mental checks and eyesight. I would put it at 70, everybody degrades with age at different pace, some lose it even before 50 (ie sclerosis or parkinson) but cca 70 is an age I can see clear mental decline in every person I ever interacted closely.

Wife is a GP and she regularly faces this at her work. I begged her numerous times to take away those licenses without mercy if the person is unfit, no amount of pleading, begging, crying of threats should change that. And they do it all, oh so much - to the point she is giving up this revenue stream, too much emotional burden (from somebody who sometimes has to tell patients they have ie cancer).

Why so harsh - we live in more rural place with tons of old folks. They are properly dangerous behind the wheel - they can't handle any sudden situation, heavy traffic is a challenge at best, they need to drive at absolute minimum speed at bright daylight to handle situations.

Its tough, they live their whole lives in the middle of nowhere, too stubborn to sell and move someplace more reasonable and without a car they can't easily take care of themselves in their remote places (but its 2026 we have ubers, taxis and home deliveries, and once further down the road good social housings for elderly). Often, they know old but still working doctors who turn the blind eye because they are old buddies and then its sometimes sad news.

When they handle 1.5 tonne of steel that accelerates fast and easily kills others, very easily it stops being primarily about them but about rest of society. When you see them barely managing driving around local primary school, its either them or us/our kids. There are stories like that from time to time, everywhere.
Show HN: 289x speedup over MLP using Spectral Graphs
by andrespi | 2026-02-07 16:47:30+00:00
We just released a paper proposing a 'Topological Restructuring of AI'. Instead of training deep networks with Backpropagation (which is slow and energy-hungry), we project data onto a fixed Ramanujan Graph (optimal spectral expander) and solve the readout in closed-form.
Benchmarks:
Desktop (i5-4570, 4th gen): 287x speedup vs standard MLP training.
Mobile (Android ARM64): <0.6ms latency per inference (1600+ fps).
Accuracy: ~95.2% on MNIST (comparable to trained MLPs).
The code is C++ (for edge) and Python (for research). We believe this is a path towards deterministic, Green AI that runs on commodity hardware.

Happy to answer questions about Spectral Graph Theory.
by vessenes | 2026-02-07 16:47:35+00:00
Makes sense.

I personally feel like it's best to a) hold on to that ethics/values based perspective, b) simultaneously hold on to the idea that at some fundamental level, companies and buyers are not a-priori stupid, and may see some value (even if that value is dealing with a monopoly they hate) and therefore the money generated, while not proof of real value add, is at least a sort of strong nod and eyebrow wiggle toward "you should probably assume by default this adds value for the people buying it as your first prior".

Anyway, I guess my point is, many people felt Sharepoint improved their lives measurably, and paid billions for that over the years. I try to stay open to the idea that's useful information, rather than be like "blecccch".
by teraflop | 2026-02-07 16:47:39+00:00
Well, I think the paper answers that too. These problems are intended as a tool for honest researchers to use for exploring the capabilities of current AI models, in a reasonably fair way. They're specifically not intended as a rigorous benchmark to be treated adversarially.

Of course a math expert could solve the problems themselves and lie by saying that an AI model did it. In the same way, somebody with enough money could secretly film a movie and then claim that it was made by AI. That's outside the scope of what this paper is trying to address.

The point is not to score models based on how many of the problems they can solve. The point is to look at the models' responses and see how good they are at tackling the problem. And that's why the authors say that ideally, people solving these problems with AI would post complete chat transcripts (or the equivalent) so that readers can assess how much of the intellectual contribution actually came from AI.
by renewiltord | 2026-02-07 16:47:46+00:00
Presumably a script that aliases a common thing or something and then it uses the same. E.g. someone adds ./sed that has some default params and calls sed. You’re intended to call it with ~/not-in-path/defaulted/sed and it is supposed to then call sed but instead calls itself if it’s earlier in the path hierarchy.

Might even be as simple as “detect if I’m running gnu sed or bsd sed and use the appropriate one”. Obviously you can not have this problem by being smart about other things but defense in depth right?
by prmoustache | 2026-02-07 16:47:59+00:00
As long as you don't mirror daily and use rate limit there is no reason you would be a dick doing it.

FWIW I have a local copy of sheldown brown's website I mirrored a few years back when they announced the shop would close as I expected they would eventually shutdown the website too. I don't know if his wife is still alive, she had her own space nor if someone has taken over the maintenance.
by jbloggs777 | 2026-02-07 16:48:24+00:00
Indeed. This is very much the way I use it at work. Present an idea of a design, iterate on it, then make a task/todo list and work through the changes piecemeal, reviewing and committing as I go. I find pair design/discussion practical here too. I expect to see smaller teams working like this in the future.

For small personal projects, it's more vibey.. eg. Home automation native UIs & services for Mac & Windows, which I wouldn't otherwise start.. more itches that can be scratched in my limited time.
by GoatInGrey | 2026-02-07 16:48:55+00:00
To be blunt, I think it's a form of mania that drives someone to reject human-written code in favor of LLM-generated code. Every time I read writing from this perspective that exceeds a paragraph, I quickly realize the article itself was written by an LLM. When they automate this much writing, it makes me wonder how much of their own reading they automate away too.

The below captures this perfectly. The author is trying to explain that vibe-coding their own frameworks lets them actually "understand" the code, while not noticing that the LLM-generated text they used to make this point is talking about cutting and sewing bricks.

> But I can do all of this with the experience on my back of having laid the bricks, spread the mortar, cut and sewn for twenty years. If I don’t like something, I can go in, understand it and fix it as I please, instructing once and for all my setup to do what I want next time.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-07 16:49:53+00:00
A welfare state that was genuinely restricted to serving basic needs of the population would look vastly different from present-day France and other comparable countries. Take a look at Singapore; last I checked, it was not known as a place where people might be at risk of starving. The underlying problem is that people expect the welfare state to solve issues of social marginalization, which are actually the result of fraying social capital as opposed to a mere lack of resources. Welfare states make these issues actively worse, not better.

For instance, when every employer (including those that may be only marginally successful) is expected as a matter of law to extend onerous labor protections against firing and laying off to each and every worker, this results in marginal workers (who may have been socially marginalized originally for reasons of ethnic heritage and the like) being completely excluded from the market, which makes their plight even worse. (Except for forms of "gig work" or informal employment, of course - which in practice function to sidestep these onerous regulations to some extent) A very relevant issue in present-day France.
by cyanydeez | 2026-02-07 16:50:23+00:00
Thw entire AI stack is built on a lot of "assumes" about intelligent selection.

Reminds of evolutionary debate. Whats important is just because something can learn to adapt doesnt mean theyll find an optimized adaption, nor will they continually refine it.

As far as i can tell AI will only solve problems well where the problem space is properly defined. Most people wont know how to do that.
by sevensor | 2026-02-07 16:50:39+00:00
What you’ve described is very much not writing code though. It’s the tedious and unpleasant outcome of having a flaky or under resourced CI setup or pulling in a misbehaving dependency. Neither of those is typing code per se. I don’t think it’s fair to conflate that kind of problem with the creative work involved in implementation itself.

“Writing code is boring and tedious” says more about the speaker than it does about programming.
by jon_north | 2026-02-07 16:50:55+00:00
100%. To me the real question is whether all the bother getting the agents to not waste time nets out to real gains, or perceived gains (while possibly even losing efficiency).

It's not at all clear to me which is true given the level of hype and antipathy out there. I'm just going to watch and wait, and experiment cautiously, till it's more clearcut.
by globular-toast | 2026-02-07 16:50:59+00:00
> Older people in the UK already have free bus passes and various other substantial concessions regarding public transport.

My parents live somewhere that has two buses a week. They could get to the nearest city, then come back two hours later. If they miss the return bus they'd have to wait until next week.

A lot of these things sound great until you actually look at the reality.
by samsullivan | 2026-02-07 16:51:18+00:00
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by kakacik | 2026-02-07 16:51:43+00:00
Nope, even best countries in the world with great public transport like Switzerland have tons of remote places basically unreachable by public transport, or bus that goes 2x a day on some days of the week.

Guess what, mostly old folks live there and all this applies there. Its just not financially feasible to cover everybody. Proper full self driving should fix this, nothing less I am afraid.
by renewiltord | 2026-02-07 16:51:47+00:00
This is utterly unhinged. I freaking love it. It reminds me of the old joke about prisoners and numbers for jokes (Stanislaw Lem has a similar concept in a book):

A prisoner, new to a particular cell block, was surprised to discover that his fellow inmates passed much of their day by calling out numbers, after which they would laugh heartily for a few moments. Every few minutes an inmate would call out a number and everyone would laugh, and then, after a few moments of silence, someone else would call out a number, and once again laughter. The inmate asked one of the other inmates whom he'd come to know to explain this strange behavior to him.

"It's simple", came the reply. "We know all of our jokes by heart, and there's really no reason to tell them at lenght. Instead, we simply call them out by number."

Though this was strange to him, the new inmate thought he'd join in on the fun. After a few weeks listening to the jokes, he took some initiative and called out "number 27!". But nobody laughed. This seemed very strange to him, since he'd heard others call out that same number, with everyone laughing afterwards. After waiting and waiting, with still no laughter, he finally asked: "why is it that when others call out that joke you laugh, and when I called it, nobody laughed?".

The reply promptly came: "You told it wrong".
by geophile | 2026-02-07 16:52:46+00:00
The article gets at this briefly and moves on: "I can do all of this with the experience on my back of having laid the bricks, spread the mortar, cut and sewn for twenty years. If I don’t like something, I can go in, understand it and fix it as I please, instructing once and for all my setup to do what I want next time."

I think this dynamic applies to any use of AI, or indeed, any form of outsourcing. You can outsource a task effectively if you understand the complete task and its implementation very deeply. But if you don't, then you don't know if what you are getting back is correct, maintainable, scalable.
by vunderba | 2026-02-07 16:52:52+00:00
Shameless plug - but I just built a word game based on an old children's game my family used to play on long car rides.

The game generates three words at random: light, blade, kill

The player has to type in a word that matches all three: switch

- light switch, switch-blade, and kill switch

https://common-thread.specr.net

As far as other word games, Cross With Friends is really good.

https://www.crosswithfriends.com
by Schmerika | 2026-02-07 16:53:23+00:00
> robbed the original community from its purpose.

> only vaguely HN related

This story is entirely under HN's remit. HN’s purpose is explicit. It is not “keep things comfortable.”
It is “curious, informed discussion of what matters in and around tech.”

When a top tech firm is materially enabling coercion or violence, and even dodging the press over it, that is a tech story first and foremost. And it matters.

Besides which: Your argument is very old, and has been rejected many, many, many times.

> there are so many communities that have fallen, and I don't want to lose another

What killed r/technology wasn't 'politics'. It was mass censorship, shit mods, brigading, clickbait farming, and allowing the toxic elements to spread bs unchecked. You know, like when you let any users flag stories and then unaccountable mods with no logs very selectively unflag the ones they like.

Censoring 'political' topics just makes the smartest and coolest people leave. And our tech companies have been complicit collaborators in far too many serious crimes lately to trust things to work themselves out without even looking at them.

Tech companies have been deeply entangled with states and coercive institutions for decades, now up to the point of genocide, concentration camps, and masked thugs with "total federal immunity". Pretending that’s off-limits isn't community preservation. It's wilful ignorance and must be firmly rejected.
by kyboren | 2026-02-07 16:53:27+00:00
Blockade != Embargo.

Canadians have famously enjoyed tourism in Cuba for decades. I've purchased Cuban cigars in Europe. European and Canadian divers have gushed to me about their amazing dive sites.

I'm not going to say US trade policy hasn't hurt Cuba. But it's not like they're totally economically cut off from the world. They ought to be doing much better than they are.

Cuba's problems emanate from Havana, not Washington D.C.
by YousefED | 2026-02-07 16:54:12+00:00
Think of Docs more of a modern, kind of Notion-style collaboration tool. It's not meant to be a Word replacement for full-scale document authoring (I believe La Suite will work with LibreOffice for that, but might be wrong here). The product vision is that Docs should focus on "Content over Form"; i.e.: make it easy to create well-structured documents (content), as opposed to Word which makes it easy to change every little visual detail of your document (form).

In addition, there are some advanced integrations with other products in La Suite. For example, video calls made in Visio can be automatically AI-transcribed and presented in a Docs document, etc.
by CPLX | 2026-02-07 16:54:23+00:00
> basically unreachable by public transport, or bus that goes 2x a day on some days of the week.

This sentence is hilarious from an American perspective. There are central business districts of major US cities that are less connected to public transit than the most remote rock at the end of a steep canyon in Switzerland.

A bus that ran 1x a day on any day of any week would be a drastic improvement for nearly all of the US.
by amluto | 2026-02-07 16:54:48+00:00
> Drivers in the UK must be able to read a number plate from 20 metres away, according to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).

I would like to see better tests. I have a pet theory that visual perception deficiencies along the lines of simultanagnosia are considerably more common among older people than is generally recognized, and people with these conditions may be able to easily read letters and numbers at a distance but be unable to drive safely due to inability to reliably detect obstacles.

Visual screening is fairly easy and every bit as quick, but it needs different tests. Something along the lines of an Ishihara plate but with colors that are perceptible even to color blind people might work. Or a visually busy image with instructions to identify one or two particular objects in the scene.
by nickthesick | 2026-02-07 16:55:01+00:00
I think that the point of the project is more:

“Content over form” so you don’t really need all the formatting options of something like Word when you are just trying to write meeting notes.

They are definitely trending more towards a wiki, but it is still early days for this whole experiment. Though, many of the municipalities in the French gov are using it for their day to day work so it is clearly useful in some capacity. I don’t have numbers, but it’s definitely respectable
by calpaterson | 2026-02-07 16:55:12+00:00
You're taking a out statistical averages but I'm talking about a significant minority of over-70s who are wildly dangerous. Most of them only stop driving when they cause an accident. Sometimes its a serious one.

There are already some measures for young people, like the 6 point thing. Maybe there could be more. Doesn't change the facts about dangerous OAP drivers