MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teddyh | 2026-02-20 13:50:04+00:00
Whenever the discussion comes up about man pages and how documentation should be organized, I like to quote this section from the GNU coding standards about how Info documentation is structured:

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Programmers tend to carry over the structure of the program as the structure for its documentation. But this structure is not necessarily good for explaining how to use the program; it may be irrelevant and confusing for a user.

Instead, the right way to structure documentation is according to the concepts and questions that a user will have in mind when reading it. This principle applies at every level, from the lowest (ordering sentences in a paragraph) to the highest (ordering of chapter topics within the manual). Sometimes this structure of ideas matches the structure of the implementation of the software being documented--but often they are different. An important part of learning to write good documentation is to learn to notice when you have unthinkingly structured the documentation like the implementation, stop yourself, and look for better alternatives.

[…]

In general, a GNU manual should serve both as tutorial and reference. It should be set up for convenient access to each topic through Info, and for reading straight through (appendixes aside). A GNU manual should give a good introduction to a beginner reading through from the start, and should also provide all the details that hackers want. […]

That is not as hard as it first sounds. Arrange each chapter as a logical breakdown of its topic, but order the sections, and write their text, so that reading the chapter straight through makes sense. Do likewise when structuring the book into chapters, and when structuring a section into paragraphs. The watchword is, at each point, address the most fundamental and important issue raised by the preceding text.

<https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#GNU-Manual...>
by protimewaster | 2026-02-20 13:50:11+00:00
> That's why you still have 20 year old Mac Minis still running as home servers etc.

I often see statements like this made as if it's an exceptional characteristic of Macs. I've found that almost all computer hardware I buy has made it 20 years, though. Sure, a hard drive or something dies every once in a while, but most stuff gets retired because I just don't care to use it anymore, not because it doesn't work.
by setgree | 2026-02-20 13:50:17+00:00
Per "Choose Boring Technology" [0]:

> Let’s say every company gets about three innovation tokens. You can spend these however you want, but the supply is fixed for a long while... If you choose to write your website in NodeJS, you just spent one of your innovation tokens. If you choose to use MongoDB, you just spent one of your innovation tokens. If you choose to use service discovery tech that’s existed for a year or less, you just spent one of your innovation tokens. If you choose to write your own database, oh god, you’re in trouble.

From my POV, the author spent their innovation tokens on a political commitment. I would not recommend this path to someone starting a company. It's hard enough already.

Also, many American companies that might have been useful to the author were founded by Europeans, e.g. GitLab. There's plenty of European talent for making widely adopted infrastructure. If those companies aren't in Europe, it's worth asking why [1].

[0] https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

[1] https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-europe-doesnt-have-a-te...
by abustamam | 2026-02-20 13:50:25+00:00
In a simple text based game I'm vibe coding for fun, I created skills that help the specs evolve.

I started with chatgpt, I told it to make me a road map of game features.

Then I use that road map to guide my LLM (I use codex 5.3), with the specification — when working on tasks, if you learn anything that may be out of scope, add it to the road map.

There's a bit more to it than that, but so far I've got a playable game, and at some point the requirement of adding an admin dashboard for experiments got added to the road map, and that got implemented pretty well too.

At first I did review a lot of its code, but now I just let it rip and I've been happy with it thus far.

At work I use AI heavily but obviously since I'm responsible for whatever code I push I do actually review and test and understand, but mostly I just need to tweak some small things before it's good enough to ship.
by NiloCK | 2026-02-20 13:50:29+00:00
There's cost, and cost effectiveness. I'd say so far that received negative value for the prompts that I've sent to Gemini 3.

Skill issue, maybe, but I can't get gemini to do any nontrivial tasks reliably, and it's difficult to have it do trivial tasks without getting distracted and making unrelated changes that eat my time and mental energy to think about.

The breakthrough advance of Opus 4.5 over 4.1 wasn't so much an intelligence jump, but a jump in discerning scope and intent behind user queries.
by kuratkull | 2026-02-20 13:50:45+00:00
Yeah I actually have. I really liked the concept, but I designed a cylinder with many holes (think a robust sieve) and it just crashed when the number of holes grew too great. Even the OpenCL/MP version. I felt it being unstable in other ways too so I did not make it my go to tool. Sadly it also seems it's not being developed much.

EDIT: Missing fillets and chamfers we're also a big problem for me - probably I'm just a newbie maker and want unreasonable things, but still.
by gowld | 2026-02-20 13:50:47+00:00
> The problem is that category 2 is that they can fairly easily get jobs in industry that pay way more than writing for a website

This is true, but those jobs are much worse than writing jobs. So it comes down to how much you value money and what it buys. Most people earning "way more" are spending "way more" to try to pay back the soul debt the job takes away. When you dig deep, it's not "way more" utility.
by mrcwinn | 2026-02-20 13:50:55+00:00
That’s not a well informed argument. Even if Apple could finance the $1T+ it would cost to buy Anthropic - they’re not making that money back by making the iPhone a little better. The only way to monetize is by selling, as Anthropic does, enterprise services to businesses. And that’s not Apple’s “DNA,” to use their language.
by basisword | 2026-02-20 13:52:22+00:00
Every time this comes up the comments are the same. Just don't eat crap, just go to the gym, just make sure you get good sleep. It shows a total lack of understanding of depression. Of course these things work - and if people weren't depressed they might be able to try and do them. But when you have severe depression you literally have zero motivation. None. You suddenly can't sleep. You can barely get yourself out of bed. That's why things like pills are useful because they can help you get to the point where you can take the steps necessary to get your life into a state where it's less conducive to depression.

>> ultimately it becomes your responsibility to try fix them if you want your situation to improve, since nobody else will.

No. This is why doctors and psychologists etc exist. Not everything is fixable by you. Sometimes you need help from other people and blaming the depressed person for being depressed is fucking idiotic.
by weatherlite | 2026-02-20 13:52:27+00:00
> At no point did we actually... go to a gym

You really don't have to go to a gym if you don't like it , or do something "hard" that many people dislike like running.
You can simply walk briskly for 150 minutes a week (which is the recommended dose, and which 80% of Americans and other Westerners don't meet). That is time outside (vitamin D) + moving your entire body - less chronic pain, better joints, better bones etc. I think even this alone without resistance training (which is important) could be enough to help most people with morbidities and depression. Our machine is simply not meant to remain stationary all day and be bombarded with social media and TV, there's no wonder neurosis is off the charts.
by eks391 | 2026-02-20 13:53:20+00:00
Almost. Both China and USA have threatened military action in Taiwan and Greenland respectively, but legally the USA and Greenland are not one; Greenland is a territory of Denmark despite having an independent government. Taiwan and Mainland China also have independent governments, but legally both consider themselves China, so it would be like North and South Korea if they had never agreed that they are separate countries now. Recently Taiwan has begun changing their identity as an independent country, and began the legal updates, however this is not internationally recognized because mainland china has resisted it, and frankly few countries want to go against china and risk sanctions or other political action from china. Even the USA doesn't recognize taiwan as separate, officially, although actions speak louder than words, and it is clear that most respect Taiwan's desire for independence and treat them as sovereign.
by f311a | 2026-02-20 13:53:38+00:00
It's good enough if you don't go wild and allow LLMs to produce 5k+ lines in one session.

In a lot of industries, you can't afford this anyway, since all code has to be carefully reviewed. A lot of models are great when you do isolated changes with 100-1000 lines.

Sometimes it's okay to ship a lot of code from LLMs, especially for the frontend. But, there are a lot of companies and tasks where backend bugs cost a lot, either in big customers or direct money. No model will allow you to go wild in this case.
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by randusername | 2026-02-20 13:55:36+00:00
> How to solve most cases of depression

Tread carefully friend, I agree this is a good list to _prevent_ the most common forms of depression, but some will think you are framing major clinical depression as a personal failing.

Some people slide into a hole of their own making. Others get thrown into the abyss by external factors. Grief, trauma, abuse, crises of repressed identity, poverty and poor prospects. Life can be brutal.

I highly, highly recommend The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (Solomon) for anyone that is interested in a comprehensive view of depression.
by s_dev | 2026-02-20 13:55:39+00:00
US admin is threatening the EU on multiple fronts if you haven't reading the news. Invasions of sovereign territory, dismantling the EU etc.. This is unprecedented and without merit and a lot of EU citizens and governments have reached their patience threshold and are choosing to buy elsewhere.

The US has simply casually mentioned they could turn off all access to US digital services and products that we currently pay good money for. The concern is that they might!
Show HN: Claude Code plugin – Telegram notifications when it needs your input
by Mikheyrojo | 2026-02-20 13:55:40+00:00
I built a small Claude Code plugin that sends Telegram messages when Claude finishes a task or needs permission to proceed.

It's a shell hook that calls the Telegram Bot API — no daemon, no dependencies, ~50 lines of shell. Useful when you run multiple Claude sessions across different terminals/IDEs.

Setup: create a Telegram bot, install the plugin, add credentials. Takes ~2 minutes.

Free and open source.

https://github.com/mikhailrojo/claude-telegram-notifications
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-20 13:55:40+00:00
>You really don't have to go to a gym if you don't like it ... You can simply walk briskly for 150 minutes a week

I don't like flossing and brushing my teeth either, but yet I still do it regularly. In fact, I never met anyone who brushes they teeth out of enjoyment, but out of habit.

Similarly, the habit of exercise(and other health related activities) needs to be cultivated, you don't have to like it, you just do it because it's what's best for you.

If you take no accountability over your own actions and agency and expect life is about doing only the things you enjoy, then no amount of SSRIs or therapy sessions will fix this.
by abustamam | 2026-02-20 13:55:54+00:00
I actually learn quite a bit from my AI vibe coding and debugging. The other day I had a configuration issue in my codebase that only happened in prod. I didn't understand it (my coworker coded it and he was busy with something else at the time). I asked AI to help and it told me why it was broken and how to fix it, and also fixed it for me.

Since the issue was due to the intersection of k8s and effect, I don't think reading a bunch of docs would have really helped.

Of course I'm sure there's plenty of people who don't care about understanding the bugs and just want to fix things fast. But understanding these bugs helps me prompt/skill the LLM to prevent them in the future.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-02-20 13:56:27+00:00
One thing to keep in mind about China, and their clampdown on crypto: The Chinese currency is not freely exchangeable and there are strict capital controls on sending money abroad. Each person is only allowed to convert/transfer $50,000 per year, for instance.

With the increased wealth and foreign interactions (study, travel, investment) of the Chinese people there is a huge demand for bypassing these limitations even for legitimate purposes and legal money.
by rbanffy | 2026-02-20 13:56:38+00:00
This makes me think about how large would an FPGA-based system to be able to do this? Obviously there is no single-chip FPGA that can do this kind of job, but I wonder how many we would need.

Also, what if Cerebras decided to make a wafer-sized FPGA array and turned large language models into lots and lots of logical gates?
Show HN: Open-source MCP servers making every country's law searchable by AI
by Aesir89 | 2026-02-20 13:57:13+00:00
When you ask an AI a legal question, it doesn't look anything up. It generates an answer from patterns in training data. It sounds confident, uses the right terminology, and is often mostly right, which makes it dangerous, because you can't tell which parts are wrong. It's like asking a lawyer to cite from memory. They may get close, but it's not accurate enough.

We built open-source MCP servers that fix this. Instead of answering from memory, the AI queries our server, retrieves the exact statutory text from official government databases, and cites the specific article. Real text, real source, verifiable.

20 servers live, all Apache 2.0:

National law for 15 countries (NL, DE, SE, SI, DK, FI, NO, IS, UK, IE, BE, LU, FR, AT, US)
49 EU regulations (GDPR, NIS2, DORA, AI Act, CRA, MiCA)
US federal and state regulations (HIPAA, CCPA, SOX, GLBA)
1,451 security controls mapped across 28 frameworks

All sourced from official government databases — wetten.overheid.nl, gesetze-im-internet.de, legislation.gov.uk, Riksdagen, and more.

The goal is to cover every jurisdiction in the world. Law is public information, but it's still surprisingly hard to access programmatically. We want to change that.

We built a lot of these for our security intelligence platform, but figured the open data parts really should be for everyone. One of our biggest goals is to make security that's only accessible to big corporations accessible to everyone, especially public services and government.

GitHub: https://github.com/ansvar-systems

All endpoints: https://ansvar.eu/mcp
by grugdev42 | 2026-02-20 13:57:13+00:00
It's a handy skill to have if you interact with Linux machines.

You'll need to edit files sometimes, and Vim (or Vi) is usually present. I don't think I've seen an install without it.

The basics (opening files, writing, and closing) can be learnt in an hour. It's enough to make simple changes to .conf files.
by instig007 | 2026-02-20 13:57:24+00:00
> I know of one person who got fired from a project due to no small fact that building the system he was presented with took > 24 hours when a full build was triggered, and this happened every week.

Incremental Nix builds can take less than 1 munute to build everything, including the final deployable docker image with a single binary on very large Haskell codebases. That fact the the person was fired for everybody around him systematically failing to admit and resolve a missing piece of supportive infrastructure for the engineering effort of one person tells a lot about the overall level of competence in that team.

> but ultimately it is a failing of the "everything and the kitchen sink" philosophy at play in dependency usage.

Not really, as the kitchen sink only has to build once per its version change, for all future linkage with your software for the entire engineering team doing the builds in parallel.
by weatherlite | 2026-02-20 13:57:37+00:00
I see your point but I think there's nuance here

First of all exercise should be seen as one of the first lines of defense against not only depression but chronic health problems (which also lead to depression). So you shouldn't wait until you are depressed to start exercising - ideally it is something you do all the time.
Secondly - someone who's depressed is not keen on most things - including talking to a therapist , yet we still encourage them to do it. If you have the will power to pay hundreds of dollars a session to talk to a complete stranger, in theory you may have the willpower to walk birskly for 150 minutes a week. As a society we should simply encourage everyone no matter what age or state of mind to do that.
by DrScientist | 2026-02-20 13:58:17+00:00
Ideally, good ideas battle tested in various frameworks, would make it into the browser over time.

For example with signals https://github.com/tc39/proposal-signals

I agree that the original 4 parts of the web component spec ( custom elements, shadow dom, templates, modules ) had varying levels of battle testing and perhaps the most valuable ideas ( custom elements and ES modules ), were those which did have the biggest precedence.

> Frameworks collaborate, research and discover solutions together to push the technology forward. Is not uncommon to see SolidJS (paving the way with signals) having healthy discussions with Svelte, React, Preact developers.

This feels a bit deflective from the very real issue of in page framework interoperability - which is different from dev's taking to each other and sharing ideas.
by sublinear | 2026-02-20 13:58:23+00:00
This might sound strange, but a trick that got me off my ass was doing housework. It started to spill over into the rest of my life...

If I'm sweating already and warmed up, I might as well take a walk to cool down. If I'm already walking and a good song comes on, I might as well jog. If I'm feeling sore already, I might as well lift some weights to gain some strength. To boost this all, I might as well eat more protein. If moving around is kinda making me feel nauseous sometimes probably a vitamin thing, so gotta eat more veggies. Hey veggies are slowly replacing bread and other empty carbs! Then my nerd brain kicked in and developed an obsession with cooking.

On the other end of this, I was doing more housework because I was inviting people over more often and otherwise working from home. The mess became harder to avoid. I think we all did a little of that because of the cultural shift in the first half of this decade. That also meant entertaining more which meant trying to put out better food.

All the incentives aligned to break me out of a cycle of bad habits for long enough that I genuinely can't go back. My life is objectively way better and I know exactly how it got that way, so there's nothing intimidating about it anymore. The level of effort also went down as all the new habits were streamlined into a coherent lifestyle.

At the risk of sounding condescending, I think most of this is really just a matter of growing up anyway (I entered my 30s during this time period). I just wanted to share how it happened to me.
by yanhangyhy | 2026-02-20 13:59:12+00:00
I've witnessed quite a few attempts in this regard, and they're truly admirable. Although Gitea's trademark and domain are controlled by China.

From a geopolitical perspective, such attempts don't hold much significance. The EU's future doesn't lie here either. It lies more in media control, profiting from balancing between the US, China, and Russia, and even continuing to extract raw materials from former colonies through low prices or unfair contracts. This may not be glorious, but it's what's been happening all along. A vast consumer market, the influence of values, comprehensive soft power, cultural control and integration of large numbers of immigrants, and so on. "Made in EU" will never succeed.
by nageshbansal | 2026-02-20 13:59:41+00:00
Hey folks, we at SigNoz have been working on something to make SigNoz deployment actually painless. Foundry handles all the deployment complexity – configurations, tooling, everything needed to run SigNoz – so you can spend less time getting it up and running and more time actually using it. With just a single YAML config file and one command, you can have a fully operational SigNoz instance using Docker, Systemd, etc., across platforms or any cloud vendor. The concept: Like a metalworking foundry transforms raw materials into finished products, Foundry takes your config ("Castings"), forges it through deployment templates (the "Moldings"), and pours out a ready-to-run SigNoz instance.
by landl0rd | 2026-02-20 13:59:52+00:00
- yes, pretty close to opus performance

- yes

- yes (not quite as good as CC/Codex but you can swap the API instead of using gemini-cli)

- same stuff as them

- better than others, google got long (1mm) context right before anyone else and doesn't charge two kidneys, an arm, and a leg like anthropic
by rvz | 2026-02-20 14:00:09+00:00
Fast, but stupid.

Me: "How many r's in strawberry?"

Jimmy: There are 2 r's in "strawberry".

Generated in 0.001s • 17,825 tok/s

The question is not about how fast it is. The real question(s) are:

1. How is this worth it over diffusion LLMs (No mention of diffusion LLMs at all in this thread)

(This also assumes that diffusion LLMs will get faster)

2. Will Talaas also work with reasoning models, especially those that are beyond 100B parameters and with the output being correct?

3. How long will it take to create newer models to be turned into silicon? (This industry moves faster than Talaas.)

4. How does this work when one needs to fine-tune the model, but still benefit from the speed advantages?