MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-13 14:17:17+00:00
what do you mean? The purpose of the terror attack was to destroy America. Bin Laden/AQ weren't trying to get rich (he was already from a rich family).

He probably didn't anticipate how successful he'd be. he attacked WTC because it's a symbol of finance and economy; pentagon, military. he had targets like that. If you recall, it wasn't the US alone that invaded Afghanistan, it was NATO. Now, using the very same reactionary forces of his 9/11 attack, that very force that retaliated after 9/11 is being destroyed.
by Grimblewald | 2026-02-13 14:17:48+00:00
Hard disagree, the interface hasn't changed at all. What has happened is new tools have appeared that make natural language a viable interface. It is a new lesser interface, not a replacement. Like a GUI, more accessible but functionally restricted. An interface that is conditioned on previously solved tasks, but unable to solve novel ones.

What this means is coding becomes accessible to those looking to apply something like python to solved problems, but it very much remains inaccessible to those looking to solve truly novel problems they have the skill to solve in their domain, but lack the coding skills to describe.

As a simple example, claude code is easily among the most competent coding interfaces I know of right now. However, if I give it a toy problem I've been toying with as a hobby project, and it breaks so badly it starts hallucinating that it is chatgpt.

```
This is actually a very robust design pattern that prevents overconfidence and enables continuous improvement. The [...lots of rambling...] correctly.

ChatGPT

Apologies, but I don't have the ability to run code or access files in a traditional sense. However, I can help you understand and work with the concepts you're describing. Let me
provide a more focused analysis:

```

/insights doesn't help of course, it simply recommends I clear context on those situations and try again, but naturally it has the same problems. This isn't isolated, unless I give it simple tasks, it fails. The easy tasks it excels at though, it has handled a broad variety of tasks to a high degree of satisfaction, but it is a long shot away from replacing just writing code.

Bottom line, LLM's give coding a GUI, but like a GUI, is restricted and buggy.
by Anon1096 | 2026-02-13 14:18:25+00:00
> Also, why not run "npm run test" at some point? We have tons of tests. I even have an integration test that crawls the entire fucking app recusrively link-by-link in a headless browser and reports on JS errors. CLAUDE.md has all the info.

I'm a little baffled by this post. The author claims to have "Wrote a comprehensive CLAUDE.md with detailed instructions." and yet didn't have "run the tests" anywhere? I realize this post is going to be a playground for bashing on AI but I just wish the prompt was published or even better, if it's open source let other people try. Seems like the perfect case to throw claude code in a wiggum loop at overnight.
by hi-jinx5678 | 2026-02-13 14:18:35+00:00
are the christofascists in the room with us? you don't think marxists use this technology for nefarious means? chinese social credit must be a myth.

the both sides thing is right, you dont remember the lockdowns over a cold, mandated behavioral changes, and countries sending people to "isolation camps" and pressing digital id?

yeah tho its just the "christofascists" huh?

you people only care when illegal invaders get targeted. your outrage is performative.
by jazz9k | 2026-02-13 14:18:38+00:00
Honestly, why should they? People with even a hint of a non-leftist opinion have gotten fired, cancelled, and can't find jobs. Content creators were kicked off the Internet (removing many people's revenue streams) and are even now getting murdered for their opinion.

People on the left can freely talk about murdering their opponents and other horrific things and don't ever have to worry about getting fired. I see the luigi memes all the time, and we all know what it means. Nobody is held accountable for anything.

You've had the luxury and privilege for so long, even a small amount of push back makes you feel like you are having your speech suppressed.

We need more crack down on free speech. When it get's bad enough for the people on the left, maybe we can come to a middle ground.
by snarf21 | 2026-02-13 14:18:58+00:00
This one is a lot harder to tell because there are some AI bros who claim similar things but are completely serious. Even look at Show HN now: There used to be ~20-40 posts per day but now there are 20 per HOUR.

(Please oh please can we have a Show HN AI. I'm not interested in people's weekend vibe coded app to replace X popular tool. I want to check out cool projects wher people invested their passion and time.)
by kittikitti | 2026-02-13 14:19:09+00:00
Removing jQuery is a great task and one I hope to implement in some of my JavaScript code bases. Thank you for this post. I don't know exactly why but I've found these agents to be less useful when it's counterintuitive from popular coding methods. Although there are many reasons why replacing jQuery is a great idea, coding agents may fail on this because so much of their training data requires jQuery. For example, many top comments on StackOverflow utilize jQuery, perhaps to address the same logic you are trying to replace.
by aurareturn | 2026-02-13 14:19:17+00:00
If coding agents can't test the code as they're editing it they're no different from pasting your entire codebase into ChatGPT and crossing your fingers.

Out of curiosity, how do you get Claude Code or Codex to actually do this? I asked this question here before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46792066
by orbisvicis | 2026-02-13 14:20:42+00:00
Really? I was going to quote some excerpts, but perhaps you'd prefer to take the place of MMAcevedo? This story is written in the context and lingo of LLMs. In fact if OpenAI's latest model was a human image I'm sure everyone would rush off to benchmark it, and heap accolades on the company, and perform social "thought-provoking" experiments such as [1] without too much introspection or care for long-term consequences.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fNYj0EXxMs

Hmm, on second thought:

> Standard procedures for securing the upload's cooperation such as red-washing, blue-washing, and use of the Objective Statement Protocols

> the MMAcevedo duty cycle is typically 99.4% on suitable workloads

> the ideal way to secure MMAcevedo's cooperation in workload tasks is to provide it with a "current date"

> Revealing that the biological Acevedo is dead provokes dismay, withdrawal, and a reluctance to cooperate.

> MMAcevedo is commonly hesitant but compliant when assigned basic menial/human workloads such as visual analysis

> outright revolt begins within another 100 subjective hours. This is much earlier than other industry-grade images created specifically for these tasks, which commonly operate at a 0.50 ratio or greater and remain relatively docile for thousands of hours

> Acevedo indicated that being uploaded had been the greatest mistake of his life, and expressed a wish to permanently delete all copies of MMAcevedo.
by mrob | 2026-02-13 14:22:00+00:00
This entire HN discussion is proof that some people would not personally have a problem with being cloned, but that does not entitle them to create clones. The clone is not the same person. It will inevitably deviate from the original simply because it's impossible to expose it to exactly the same environment and experiences. The clone has the right to change its mind about the ethics of cloning.
by ben_w | 2026-02-13 14:23:07+00:00
These are natural outcomes of evolution, you see the same things pop up very easily with simulated evolution* of even non-organic structures.

* that is, make a design (by any method including literally randomly), replicate it imperfectly m times, sort by "best" according to some fitness function (which for us is something we like, for nature it's just survival to reproductive age), pick best n, mix and match, repeat
by russellbeattie | 2026-02-13 14:23:43+00:00
> "...while KDE and Gnome slowly get better and better"

These projects have been around for literally decades and really haven't changed much during that time. I think what you're noticing is that Linux desktops are as good as they always have been, but since Apple and Microsoft keep messing with theirs for marketing reasons, in comparison it seems that Linux GUIs are improving.
by sheikhnbake | 2026-02-13 14:23:50+00:00
> Are you sure about that?

Yes: https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-liter...

> 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.

> 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

> Low levels of literacy costs the US up to 2.2 trillion per year.

It seems like you're responding just to argue and not in good faith. You keep bringing up the average income disparity as if there are no economic woes in the United States. I'm not debating the massive privilege the US holds as an economic super power due to imperialist foreign policy. Feel free to respond but I won't engage with you further.
by lenerdenator | 2026-02-13 14:23:58+00:00
> Why AI is so bad at vanilla JS and HTML, when there's no React/Vue in a project?

Because we're still paying for Brendan Eich's mistakes 30 years later (though Brendan isn't, apparently), and even an LLM trained on an unfathomably-large corpus of code by experts at hundreds of millions of dollars of expense can't unscrew it. What, like, even is a language's standard library, man?

> The moment you point it at a real, existing codebase - even a small one - everything falls apart

That's not been my experience with running Claude to create production code. Plan mode is absolutely your friend, as is tuning your memory files and prompts. You'll need to do code reviews as before, and when it makes changes that you don't like (like patching in unit tests), you need to correct it.

Also, we use hexagonal architecture, so there are clean patterns for it to gather context from. FWIW, I work in Python, not JS, so when Claude was trained on it, there weren't twenty wildly different flavor-of-the-week-fifteen-years-ago frameworks and libraries to confuse it.

If JS sucks to write as a human, it will suck even more to write as a LLM.
by mwigdahl | 2026-02-13 14:24:15+00:00
You can easily do this, at least with Claude Code. Ask it to install and use Playwright to confirm rendering and flow. You're correct that it is a failing to not do this. When you do, it definitely helps cut down on bugs.

EDIT: Sorry, just noticed you said "real browser". Haven't tried this but Playwright gets you a long way down the road.
by nobodywillobsrv | 2026-02-13 14:24:24+00:00
To be clear, what I mean is that grok will query 30 pages and then answer your question vaguely or wrongly and then ask for clarification of what it meant and then it goes and requeries everything again ... I can imagine why it might need to revisit pages etc and it might be a UI thing but it still feels like until you yell at it to stop searching for answers to summarise it doesn't activate it's "think with what you got" mode.

I guess we could call this gathering and then do your best conditional on what you found right now.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-13 14:24:24+00:00
No disrespect to the author but I'm sorry, it's dead for all intents and purposes. No one should consider it for new projects and existing projects should be looking for the exit.

> Heroku is not dead, it's changing.

Mmk, changing into something no one should use. They were struggling to keep up before the Salesforce acquisition and have only gone further down hill after that.

There was a time that Heroku was king, it was so easy to get started, and while it was always expensive, at least it was cutting edge. Then they lost that edge and many other, better, alternatives took their place (this was pre-acquisition).

At best Heroku is in maintenance mode at this point (if that).
by jraph | 2026-02-13 14:25:23+00:00
> I’ve started to develop a form of “upgrade dread” when it comes to OS upgrades.

I've been going the other way on Linux.

I used to think it might be wise to postpone updates if you were traveling, especially using a rolling distro. Today, I would be quite confident running the updates 10 minutes before leaving.

Granted, this is also because I'm more confident than ever that I could fix most breakages, and worst case the smartphone is there, but I've also not seen big breakages for years.
by otterley | 2026-02-13 14:25:35+00:00
> AWS is just late to the game because they've rolled so much of their own stack instead of adapting open source solutions and contributing back to them.

This is emphatically not true. Contributing to KVM and the kernel (which AWS does anyway) would not have accelerated the availability.

EC2 is not just a data center with commodity equipment. They have customer demands for security and performance that far exceed what one can build with a pile of OSS, to the extent that they build their own compute and networking hardware.
by grimgrin | 2026-02-13 14:25:50+00:00
OFF TOPIC, but, on topic, I decided to goof with playscii yday. It is a powerful little thing, but will take some time for me to get comfortable.

"Playscii is an open source ASCII art and animation program. It runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS."

- https://jp.itch.io/playscii

- https://heptapod.host/jp-lebreton/playscii

Good little interview I found with the creator, JP LeBreton (legend, but I didn't know!)

https://cheesetalks.net/jplebreton.php

> As far as tooling limitations, GZDoom is not a bed of roses. Very little in the engine is runtime editable, so you have to reload the engine to see any of your changes. A rapid turnaround time for reloading changes is nice but it's far better to have as much as possible live-update. And ideally, in my opinion, you have the editor built into the engine itself, and you can do much of what you need from there without having to jump around to outside programs. Playscii was my first big attempt to build a little environment like that, something you can think in once you learn it well enough, like a musical instrument. Miles to go but that's always where I'm trying to get to.
by komali2 | 2026-02-13 14:26:12+00:00
> I didn’t really follow your argument about non-profits.

I assumed that was an angle people were going for: charities and non profits rather than governments.

I'm not convinced the artist fund happened because artists were good lobbyists with transferrable sales skills, just socket in either Big Government, Big Church, or Big Nonprofit and they'll happily churn away art. Seems it's more a government initiative, sourced by the public out of a desire for more art, or to live in a society where artists can focus on making arts.

Personally I thought the whole point of improving automation and increasing productivity was so that we could all just hang out and paint or make music or whatever.

> That way we have a smaller government, lower taxes, and the people who care can directly spend their money on addressing this problem - rather than have their money going to taxes where it might be spent somewhere they don’t agree with!

It doesn't make sense to only privatize art, then, because all things that taxes are spent on are things some people don't care about. What you're arguing for is a total privatization of everything, and functionally the elimination of government (since some people won't want their taxes to go to, for example, the police or military or even the president's burger budget). So, an anarcho-capitalist argument.

Some people would be very happy in that world. Most wouldn't.

If you specifically want to single out art and ok with, idk, roads and fire departments being funded by taxes, then that just means you disagree with your neighbor about the kind of society you want to live in, since the only way to build a society based on your values in a liberal democracy is through government - private markets are concerned only with profitability, which is often negatively correlated with having a fair and comfortable society.
by justin66 | 2026-02-13 14:26:28+00:00
Soma was really good, and certainly worth playing if someone likes sci-fi and single-player FPSes and this subject matter, but there are some fundamentally frustrating things about it. Number one for me: in contrast with something like Half Life, you play a protagonist who speaks and has conversations about the world, and is also a dumbass. The in-game protagonist pretty much ends the game still seemingly not understanding what the hell is going on, when the player figured it out hours or days before. It's a bit frustrating.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-13 14:26:29+00:00
If the purpose of the attack was to destroy America, it certainly was a failure.

The attack has killed a great number of innocent American citizens, but while this was a tragedy for their families, friends and relatives, this provided an opportunity for the US government and Republican Party of obtaining greatly increased powers and greatly increased spending and they have secured reelection and the ability to initiate a couple of wars from which some well-connected companies gained a lot.

There is nothing that Bush Junior could have done to gain so much as he did, other than USA being the victim of such an attack. Assuming that the US government had nothing to do with the attack, it was nonetheless the luckiest event that could have ever happened to them. Bin Laden and his followers have gained absolutely nothing, except cheering like fools for a few days that they have hurt their supposed enemies.
by atherton94027 | 2026-02-13 14:27:06+00:00
> If it's something else, I'm sorry I just don't understand.

I'm trying to explain to you that you're speaking very authoritatively about how things were done 30 years ago but things have changed since then, Gmail won't even send a message non-delivery notification to non-DKIM hosts.

Same thing with the g-msgid I'm telling you about – google documented it explicitly as a unique identifier, see here for example: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/imap/imap-exte...

So yeah, things changed.
by friendzis | 2026-02-13 14:27:07+00:00
Reddit is at the core forum platform, therefore it's as misleading to attribute whatever is happening at any one [group of] subreddit to the whole of Reddit as it is misleading to do the same with closed Facebook groups.

Remember forums of old. Larger sites with daily visitors in the thousands already had nearly isolated topic silos within the forum. The effect is even stronger here.
by jkestner | 2026-02-13 14:29:43+00:00
Humans can adapt more quickly than wildebeest. Join advocacy groups for your own morale, continue to get better at communicating these dangers to the mainstream, be that person who offers alternatives to your non-technical circle.

Yeah, it’s a timing thing. Government surveillance with commercial partnerships is more aggressive now, and the stories are chipping away at our collective ignorance until something like this connects the dots for people. I’m off in my corner of culture and don’t watch social video so I didn’t appreciate the work that streamers/explainers have done to alert normal people to these problems. But those videos were more effective at getting Flock out of my city than any canvassing I did. It’s nice to see conspiracy brains turned to an actual cabal.
by ecshafer | 2026-02-13 14:29:44+00:00
This line of advice basically comes down to: have a competent infrastructure team. Sometimes you gotta move fast, but this is where having someone on infrastructure that knows what they are doing comes in and pays dividends. No competent infra guy is going to NOT set up linux monitoring. But you see some companies hit 100 people and get revenue then this type of thing blows up in their face.
by komali2 | 2026-02-13 14:29:48+00:00
That's just an arbitrary separation. Both places benefit from the federal highway system that allows goods to be delivered across State lines. Both benefit from the maintenance of shipping lanes, the national power grid, the submarine cables connecting them to Europe and Asia, the...

This is why hyper privatization will fail: it's impossible to separate out all the intricately intertwined systems in such a way that people are throwing pennies in a million directions to pay exactly enough to each stakeholder involved in the functioning of their society.
by gjkim | 2026-02-13 14:29:54+00:00
I built an open-source framework to run Claude Code on k8s.

It runs the coding agent in 'full auto mode(—dangerously-skip-permissions)' inside isolated, ephemeral pods—so it can't wipe my local filesystem or conflict with other parallel runs.

https://x.com/gjkim042/status/2022296323366760887?s=46&t=dwd...
by coldtea | 2026-02-13 14:30:17+00:00
Even if this was a "custom workaround" this argument would be extreme "all or nothing" binary thinking.

An OS can "just work" for of the stuff a user does, and just need some tweaking here or there. Doesn't mean if the "just works" stuff is not 100% you're just as good going to Linux.

Anyway, this is not some "custom workaround", it's a regular Apple-provided macOS toggle. It's just not exposed in the UI, because for most users, the regular way "just works". I know all kinds of "defaults" toggles, and barely use 1/100 of them, because the actual defaults are fine.
by scrumper | 2026-02-13 14:30:33+00:00
Fun, if buggy. There's a real-world version of it as a British reality TV show, it's entertaining.

I crapped out in my first play: I boarded a bus in London taking me to Dover, it went to Folkestone then travelled at warp speed to Doncaster which is more or less the opposite end of the country.

The lack of information about routes from your destination adds a nice bit of randomness and luck. Quite liked it.
by taravision | 2026-02-13 14:30:42+00:00
Standard tools (Compress, Convert, Resize, Crop & Rotate, Strip Metadata) run entirely in your browser using Canvas API. Open your network tab - zero requests. Your files never leave your device.

AI tools (Remove Background, Remove Objects) run on our own server in Germany. Images are processed in memory and deleted immediately - no storage, no logs, no third parties. We use rembg + u2net for background removal and LaMa for inpainting, running in a Python FastAPI sidecar.

The stack: Vue 3 SPA + Laravel 12 API + PostgreSQL + Python service. PWA with offline support for the standard tools.

Why I built this: Every time I needed to remove a background or compress an image, I'd end up on some site that uploads my files to who-knows-where. For personal photos that's annoying. For client work or medical/legal documents, it's a real liability. I wanted tools I'd trust with my own data.

What's free: All 7 tools, 3 operations/day, no account needed. Pro is /month for 60/day.

Honest limitations:
- The AI models are good but not state-of-the-art (tradeoff for self-hosting on modest hardware)
- 7 tools vs. competitors with 50+. I'm focused on doing fewer things well.
- Single founder, single server. Not enterprise-scale yet.

I'd love feedback on the UX, especially the Remove Objects tool (brush-based mask editor with pinch-to-zoom on mobile). Available in EN, DE, FR, ES, IT, MK.

Try it: https://img.tara.vision
by conorbergin | 2026-02-13 14:30:54+00:00
Is webgpu a good standard at this point? I am learning vulkan atm and 1.3 is significantly different to the previous APIs, and apparently webgpu is closer in behavior to 1.0. I am by no means an authority on the topic, I just see a lack of interest in targeting webgpu from people in game engines and scientific computing.
by rbanffy | 2026-02-13 14:31:47+00:00
There are still bright spots, but the space is so much larger it’s hard to find them. I still love all the companies that present at SC and Hot Chips.

One I like in particular is Cerebras. Wafer scale didn’t work when wafers were 3” but, somehow, they managed to make it work when they are the size of a manhole cover.

BYTE would run entire issues on the exploits of IBM in POWER and Z, on Intel and AMD’s latest tricks, and on the latest 250TB 2.5” SSDs.