MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drzaiusx11 | 2026-02-06 15:26:49+00:00
I've spent 2+ decades producing software across a number of domains and orgs and can fully agree that _disciplined use_ of LLM systems can significantly boost productivity, but the rules and guidance around their use within our industry writ large are still in flux and causing as many problems as they're solving today.

As the most senior IC within my org, since the advent of (enforced) LLM adoption my code contribution/output has stalled as my focus has shifted to the reactionary work of sifting through the AI generated chaff following post mortems of projects that should have never have shipped in the first place. On a good day I end up rejecting several PRs that most certainly would have taken down our critical systems in production due to poor vetting and architectural flaws, and on the worst I'm in full on fire fighting mode to "fix" the same issues already taking down production (already too late.)

These are not inherent technical problems in LLMs, these are organizational/processes problems induced by AI pushers promising 10x output without the necessary 10x requirements gathering and validation efforts that come with that. "Everyone with GenAI access is now a 10x SDE" is the expectation, when the reality is much more nuanced.

The result I see today is massive incoming changesets that no one can properly vet given the new shortened delivery timelines and reduced human resourcing given to projects. We get test suite coverage inflation where "all tests pass" but undermine core businesses requirements and no one is being given the time or resources to properly confirm the business requirements are actually being met. Shit hits the fan, repeat ad nauseum. The focus within our industry needs to shift to education on the proper application and use of these tools, or we'll inevitably crash into the next AI winter; an increasingly likely future that would have been totally avoidable if everyone drinking the Koolaid stopped to observe what is actually happening.

As you implied, code is cheap and most code is "throwaway" given even modest time horizons, but all new code comes with hidden costs not readily apparent to all the stakeholders attempting to create a new normal with GenAI. As you correctly point out, the biggest problems within our industry aren't strictly technical ones, they're interpersonal, communication and domain expertise problems, and AI use is simply exacerbating those issues. Maybe all the orgs "doing it wrong" (of which there are MANY) simply fail and the ones with actual engineering discipline "make it," but it'll be a reckoning we should not wish for.

I have heard from a number of different industry players and they see the same patterns. Just look at the average linked in post about AI adoption to confirm. Maybe you observe different patterns and the issues aren't as systemic as I fear. I honestly hope so.

Your implication that seniors like myself are "insecure about our jobs" is somewhat ironically correct, but not for the reasons you think.
by dmonterocrespo | 2026-02-06 15:27:04+00:00
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by diegof79 | 2026-02-06 15:27:22+00:00
I agree that Arcade is poor.

However, I’ve been subscribed to it since its inception because it is the best way to have games that my kid can play without shady ads or engagement practices.

I know that is not going to last, as my kid is now a pre-teen and likes other types of games (like Hollow Knight) that are not available on Apple Arcade.

But the current state of the gaming industry is terrible, especially on mobile. Indy companies producing games like Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, and Stray are good, and there is the extremely rare case of Larian. But other than that, the market is full of dark-UX patterns to promote app purchases. Mobile apps are a minefield of gacha games that should be forbidden for kids.
by greenbit | 2026-02-06 15:27:30+00:00
>> If you ignore a dependency and try to fix it later, it will be more expensive. More time, more effort, more thinking. And it will require the same level of coordination that you tried to avoid initially.

Would add that, if you only address fixing these dependencies one by one, as they manifest, i.e. continue in the evolutionary way, you risk resolving those parts of your Big System into some local minima; over time, you go from lots of little presumed-independent bubbles, to an intermediate stage with fewer but larger medium sized bubbles. When those get into conflict, the pain will be correspondingly greater.
by Zaskoda | 2026-02-06 15:27:35+00:00
I hated this movie the first time I watched it. And the second. The third time I let go of the need for things to be realistic and took it all in as an artistic representation and snap... I loved it. One could argue that I loved it all along given that I watched it so many times... but there was a distinct moment where I let go and that's when I was able to see just how wonderful this movie really is.
by hollowturtle | 2026-02-06 15:27:56+00:00
They're giant pattern regurgitators, impressive for sure, but they only can be as good as their training data, reason why they seems to be more effective for TypeScript, Python etc. Nothing less nothing more. No AGI, no Job X is done. Hallucinations are a feature, otherwise they would just spit out training data. The thing is the whole discussion around these tools is so miserable that I'm pondering the idea of canceling from every corner of the internet, the fatigue is real and pushing back the hype feels so exausting, worse than crypto, nft and web3. I'm a user of these tools me pushing back the hype is because its ripple effects arrive inside my day job and I'm exausted of people handing to you generated shit just to try making a point and saying "see? like that"
by jfengel | 2026-02-06 15:28:19+00:00
I'm curious how his supporters feel about him putting his name directly on things. To me, it feels like the kind of thing Americans detest in foreign dictators. It's not something American Presidents generally do.

(The name "Obamacare" was applied by Republicans, because "Affordable Care Act" doesn't elicit knee-jerk negative feelings.)

If supporters have changed their minds about that, cool; they're entitled to. But I'd be interested in whether they have any opinions positive, negative, or otherwise.
by DaedalusII | 2026-02-06 15:28:20+00:00
we are only examining the valuation metrics here, not comparing the companies themselves as investments.

you could decide that if you are a very large company, building software internally to replace a SaaS product is a path forward. Or replacing a premium software like DocuSign with a cheap one like Zoho sign. or just building your own proprietary electronic signature app

It is however impractical for big company to start manufacturing cars or designing competitive GPUs

so the earnings of tesla and nvidia is theoretically more 'stable' than a software application company like salesforce, adobe, etc.

this analysis ignores both the size of the company, and what it does, or whether or not any one of them is a good investment
by dblohm7 | 2026-02-06 15:28:20+00:00
Similarly, I've seen this in enterprise IAM software, but again as data, not as code.

Imagine a very large company that has a heterogeneous setup: say it has plain LDAP for *nix machines and AD for Windows. The IAM stuff has connectors for both, and encoding the org chart into that product enables it to synchronize that structure into both systems.
by antves | 2026-02-06 15:28:52+00:00
Totally agree! The web for agents is evolving very fast and it's still unclear what it will look like

Our take is that, while that happens, agents today need to be able to access all the web resources that we can access as humans

Also, browsers are a really special piece of software because they provide access to almost every other kind of software. This makes them arguably the single most important tool for AI agents, and that’s why we believe that a browser might be all agents need to suddenly become ten times more useful than they already are
Show HN: Find the missing word (sign, bus, watch)
by vunderba | 2026-02-06 15:28:53+00:00
Built a game that shows you three words and you have to type the word that pairs with each one of them:

- stop sign

- bus stop

- stopwatch

It's a game I used to play with my siblings on long car drives, astonishingly I could not find an online equivalent so I put one together.
by flkiwi | 2026-02-06 15:28:55+00:00
My "favorite", and likely related, part of Apple News is that if I have blocked a source because it is unreliable, heavily biased, etc., and a story from that source appears in the main timeline, Apple News shows a greyed out version of the story--headline and image visible--with "You have blocked this publication" (or similar). You can still clearly see the story, so it's not blocked at all.

I assume this comes down to some sort of distribution agreement, but, as bad as the ads are, this single behavior is the reason I stopped using Apple News and continue searching for a successor.
by thejohnconway | 2026-02-06 15:28:57+00:00
> At what point did the old Apple cross the threshold to "modern" Apple?

This hardly an original sentiment, but when Steve Jobs died. Jobs was not perfect, but he believed they were there to make great products, had good taste with obsessive attention to detail, and was pretty much omnipotent in the company. I'm sure there are people with many of these traits in Apple, but not all of them together.

Their first new hardware release was the Apple Watch, which is a confused product, with too many functions on launch, and a poorly thought out two button + scroll wheel + touch screen interface (I still don't really know which button does which). And don't get me started on that ridiculous solid gold version.

You can still see the old Apple in there (look at their hardware!), but it's fragmented and not all pulling in the same direction.
by polyglotfacto | 2026-02-06 15:28:59+00:00
So as a software engineer with experience with coding agents, when I look at https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

I'm like: oh that's it, a bunch of skills files?

So the value of a skill file is that it tells the model how to format its response for use within the software environment surrounding the model.

With programming, it's mostly about how to tell it to use some API.

But all the model can do is reply some text, and the actual work needs to be done by the software(the agent harness) which needs to parse the model response and translate it into actual work.

My point is there is no magic: the model just reads the skill file and then uses that as a template for a textual response, which is then parsed and processed by traditional software.

So in terms of legal skills, a stand-alone skill like the contract review skill at https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/ma... is basically useless.

Yes, the model will read it and it will influence its response, but without some extensive software harness around the model to give it data for context and and so on: totaly useless.

Why? Because garbage in is garbage out.

So telling the model to review a contract and pay attention to "Whether indemnification is mutual or unilateral" will result is some response from the model, but without additional data it will be at the same level as what you can get from a google search.

The effect on established companies is exactly zero.

Now, having an in-house skills and proprietary software around the model to integrate it into your system, that would be valuable indeed, but not something an AI lab can replicate without building the whole company from scratch.
by falloutx | 2026-02-06 15:29:35+00:00
By that exact logic Tiktok should be the most valuable company on the world, yet its not even in top 10. Attention doesn't automatically generate profit especially since most of these companies are yet to monetize attention. They are still burning billions and the public opinion on this outside of tech bubble is very negative. It wouldn't surprise me if the money on the internet falls to pre-2020 levels in next few years. Subscription pricing model is also becoming increasingly cumbersome for companies and individuals which is another worrying trend.
by paffdragon | 2026-02-06 15:29:37+00:00
I belive even for gluetun I had to add the WG kernel module. I think I used this to compile it for myself https://github.com/runfalk/synology-wireguard

I know there are userspace implementations, but can't remember the specifics rn and don't have my notes with me.

> kernel modules for iptables-nft

I think you meant nftables. The iptables-nft package is meant to provide iptables interface for nftables for code that still expects that, afaik. I didn't run into that issue yet (knock-knock). According to docs nftables is available since kernel 3.13, so in theory it might be possible to build the modules for Synology.

However, I don't think I will be buying another Synology in the future, mainly because of other issues like they restricting what RAM I can use or what I want to use the M2 slots for, or their recent experiment with trying to push their own drives only, etc. I might give TrueNAS a try if I am not bored enough to just build one on top of a general purpose OS...
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-06 15:29:43+00:00
>But I actually believe they'll be. In the worst way possible: honest players will be punished disproportionally.

As with everything else BigCo with their legal team will explain to the enforcers why their "right up to the line if not over it" solution is compliant and mediumco and smallco will be the ones getting fined or being forced to waste money staying far from the line or paying a 3rd party to do what bigco's legal team does at cost.
by softwaredoug | 2026-02-06 15:29:53+00:00
Yes, I would argue good (stable, fast, easy to use) software was somewhat of a moat and much harder before coding agents.

Stripe, Square, Shopify, Google, all thrived in some part because their services take a hard problem and make it easier to use. Now more people can take a hard problem and make it easier to use.

All you have to do is look around (esp 5+ years ago) and see the many many BAD, unstable, hard to use, slow, etc versions of these companies
by wasmainiac | 2026-02-06 15:30:08+00:00
did you see what happened when we tried to decriminalise hard drugs in Vancouver? Feel good for yourself that you have the discipline to have self control, other do not and need help.

You are free to not use TikTok yourself, no one is stopping you.

Also drug decriminalisation is very nuanced, I’m not 100% against it, I’m just pointing out just that open drug use spiked after.
by jon_north | 2026-02-06 15:30:21+00:00
If you make 10k/mo -- which is not that much!, $500 is 5% of revenue. All else held equal, if that helps you go 20% faster, it's an absolute no brainer.

The question is.. does it actually help you do that, or do you go 0% faster? Or 5% slower?

Inquiring minds want to know.
by kmt-lnh | 2026-02-06 15:30:31+00:00
> The clothes you wear are knots. Every surgery you have ends in knots.

The space robot you send to another planet utilizes knots:
https://www.planetary.org/articles/20120905-knots-on-mars

"It might surprise most people to learn that multitudes of knots tied in cords and thin ribbons have probably traveled on every interplanetary mission ever flown. If human civilization ends tomorrow, interplanetary landers, orbiters, and deep space probes will preserve evidence of both the oldest and newest of human technologies for thousands, if not millions of years.

Knots are still used in this high-tech arena because cable lacing has long been the preferred cable management technique in aerospace applications. That it remains so to this day is a testament to the effectiveness of properly chosen knots tied by skilled craftspeople. It also no doubt has a bit to do with the conservative nature of aerospace design and engineering practices. Proven technologies are rarely cast aside unless they no longer fulfill requirements or there is something substantially better available."
by westurner | 2026-02-06 15:30:35+00:00
Notes for solvers in this space;

Fedora recently moved to managing packages in Forgejo, a fork of Gitea and Gogs, a clone of the old GitHub UI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670055

Forgejo has an artifact registry for DEBs, RPMs, APKs,; and a Container Registry for OCI Containers.

Any type of artifact can be stored in an OCI container image registry. Any type of artifact can be signed/attested to with a short-lived signing key from sigstore.dev's or a self-hosted Rekor instance

Native container tools like bootc store host system images as a OCI container images.

From
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44991636 :

> bootc-image-builder, ublue-os/image-template, ublue-os/akmods, ublue-os/toolboxes w/ quadlets and systemd

There are streaming container standards to boot containers that haven't finished downloading yet, and container shapshot artifacts too; Seekable OCI, eStargz, Nydus:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45270468

...

Forgejo can mirror git repos regularly or manually.

"Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose access to the original" re: `git clone --mirror` https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34603593

Python Packaging User Guide > Package index mirrors and caches > Existing projects:
https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/index-mirrors-...

> [ Cache, Mirror, Proxy ]

> [ mod_cache_disk (Apache), nginx_pypi_cache, pulp-python, ]

Pulp (RedHat,) mirrors and proxies a number of different types of packages. https://github.com/pulp

pulp_container, pulp_ostree, pulp_ansible, pulp_rpm, pulp_deb, pulp_npm, pulp_maven, pulp_r

pulp-operator for HA SPOF with k8s:
https://github.com/pulp/pulp-operator

From
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44320936 re: cosign, Sigstore, TUF, SLSA; you have to pass this to get docker to check container image signatures

DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST=1

..

- integrate with Forgejo

- mirror git repos

- consider pulp's modular approach and deployment operator

- consider OCI for future packaging formats

- What SLSA recommends; check TUF, Sigstores, Trusted Publisher (OIDC) and GPG .asc signatures

And then also content-addressable networking might avoid some of the overhead and wasteful redundancy to checking the hash of each file in each signed package manifest.
by urimaxi | 2026-02-06 15:30:46+00:00
- AI-generated commit messages: Analyzes your diff and writes conventional commit messages
- Multiple AI providers: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, or local Ollama
- GPG signing: Sign commits with your GPG key, or commit unsigned
- Auto push with smart retry: Automatically pulls and retries if remote has new commits
- PR link generation: Get a quick link to create a PR on GitHub/GitLab
by javier123454321 | 2026-02-06 15:30:58+00:00
I see the argument for saying in the future we will be at this place, but this is stated as though it's something that has already happened. It is stated as a simple fact that the time to produce a feature has gone down by orders of magnitude. I have not found this to be true, even if I do give honest tries to the process of coding with AI tools. I'm not a skeptic of AI coding tools, I'm actually one of the persons at my workplace that has best adopted it into their workflows. But this is not realistic.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-02-06 15:31:15+00:00
I was disagreeing with just your last statement, but then I did a little research: about 80% of revenue is from chatbots and 20% from APIs. So +1 on your comment.

Bear with me here, I actually do have a point to make: I took my stepdaughter out for breakfast this morning. She is a financial wizard specializing in running large cities, and to explain to her the current craziness of overspending on AI infrastructure, I described "exponential spending increases for linear economic value increases." I may be wrong about this, but I am all for targeting the sweet spot of more efficient smaller AI models that are fit to purpose for specific use cases.
by testbyhuman | 2026-02-06 15:31:22+00:00
The landing page is clean. "$29 one-time vs subscription" against Warp is a strong differentiator, and explaining the App Store limitation upfront builds trust.

Since you asked about workflow: I run multiple Claude Code sessions and the biggest friction isn't organizing terminals, it's remembering what each one was doing when I come back hours later. Subwindow naming helps, but a "last command" preview in the quick switcher would save me from opening each one just to remember where I left off.

One thing worth thinking about: since this is a direct .dmg download (no App Store safety net), your landing page has to do all the convincing. I'd be curious how a first-time visitor reacts before clicking Download. I run testbyhuman.com where a real person screen-records their visit with voice narration. Happy to do a free test on getbeam.dev if you want to see that first impression.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-06 15:31:30+00:00
We have plenty of examples of regulated technology.

And usually the general public does not have a direct stake in the outcome (ok, maybe broadcast spectrum regulation should be mentioned there), but this time they do and given what's at stake it may well be worth trying to define what a good set of possible outcomes would be and how to get there.

As I mentioned above and which TFA is all about, the press for instance could be held to a standard that they have shown they can easily meet in the past.
by dahart | 2026-02-06 15:31:33+00:00
At least some people say yes, but it could be useful or interesting to talk about why you ask and what difference you see between knits and knots. Perhaps it depends on how one defines “knot”, but it seems like most definitions I can find work for a knit sweater.

These first two links talks about a knit being a series of knots - slip knots specifically. The other two suggest a knit is a very long knot.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190519004510/https://www.nytim...

https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~rlg131/topology_and_knitting...

https://mathemalchemy.org/2021/03/04/knots-trivial-and-other...

https://iwoolknit.com.au/blogs/news/the-science-of-knitting-...
by landl0rd | 2026-02-06 15:31:33+00:00
I find it pretty hypocritical that the same people who push for e.g. legal marijuana would go for banning social media apps. Don't get me wrong, I use neither and think both are mentally, physically, and morally corrosive. I would not care to have either present in the community where I live, nor for my future children to use them.

That does not mean it is the province of the state to ban them.
by Brajeshwar | 2026-02-06 15:31:39+00:00
There are three things that I usually do when I’m anxious, waiting for something, and not at my desk: (i) Read a Book, (ii) Play Chess, or (iii) Re-watch the Knots 3D on the Phone.

https://apps.apple.com/in/app/knots-3d/id453571750