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by rietta | 2026-02-07 01:04:04+00:00
Spot on. The Criterion of Embarrassment is a powerful tool here; the fact that women were the primary witnesses to the resurrection is a classic example, given that a woman's testimony held little to no legal weight in 1st-century Roman or Jewish contexts. If you were inventing a myth to gain social traction, you simply wouldn't write it that way.

Your point about verisimilitude extends to Onomastics as well. Research shows that the New Testament Gospels accurately reflect the specific frequency of Jewish names in 1st-century Palestine. In contrast, Gnostic texts often use names that don't fit the era or geography, frequently showing 3rd-century Egyptian linguistic influences instead. It suggests the canonical authors had "boots on the ground" knowledge that the later Gnostic writers lacked.
Show HN: Vibe-coded game prototypes. Tell me which to work on
by chux52 | 2026-02-07 01:04:04+00:00
Building for fun and have 5 game prototypes.

All 5 are unfinished, rough, and 100% vibe-coded. Looking for feedback on if any are worth building further.

If you are tired of submissions like this, just tell me to keep working on digtocore, which is too complicated and buggy.

Dig to the Core: https://www.digtocore.com/ Multiplayer mining game

SimOps: https://simops-game.vercel.app/ Operations/simulation game

Office Worker Idle: https://office-worker.vercel.app/ Idle game with a corporate theme

Digital Empire: https://digital-empire-seven.vercel.app/ Incremental clicker where you build computers and automate

Simple RPG: https://html5-rpg.vercel.app/ Browser-based RPG
by deepfriedchokes | 2026-02-07 01:04:16+00:00
A lot of this AI stuff seems to be about creating a feeling of inevitability along with FOMO among investors who don’t know any better, while hoping the tech catches up to the expectations before everyone realizes it’s not quite there yet. Reminds me a lot of the Dot-Com bubble where everyone could see the potential but the ideas were too early for both the culture and the tech. Unfortunately dark gpus have a much shorter shelf life than dark fiber.
by habinero | 2026-02-07 01:05:19+00:00
> I'm not saying we don't have bugs or bad things don't happen but I don't see why you think that externally purchased software is automatically better

If you staff an entire team to build apps, update, maintain and deploy changes to them, and run a call rotation, and that's all you do, there's no problem. You just have an internal development team. That's completely fine.

What's not fine is the people going "how hard could it be to replace Y" and slapping something together. Those sort of skunkworks projects have a couple common common failure modes:

1. the project fails after a lot of wasted effort
2. the project succeeds...but is never productionized. The person who wrote it is now stuck writing it forever. Which they might like, but it's miserable if they quit or retired or get hit by a bus aka the bus factor.

If the bus factor is one, that is pretty much always pain.

The point of SaaS and service-contract type enterprise software is not that they are perfect and great and not buggy. Enterprise software sucks a lot. SaaS is usually "you get what you get".

The point is you can't halfass it. Either you go whole ass and staff out a big enough development team (with all the expense and difficulties implied) or you go none ass and buy.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-07 01:06:04+00:00
It's important to realize that Christianity has its own mystically inclined, ascetic and/or meditative practices. There may even be a shared lineage going back to the very time of Jesus, seeing as the Essenes drew significant inspiration from the Greek Cynics, and the Cynics in turn (like other Hellenistic philosophies) from early Eastern sources that are reflected today in Hinduism and Buddhism. Some Stoic ascetic practices were definitely taken up in early Christianity and are now valued in a Christian context as "spiritual exercises".
by oofbey | 2026-02-07 01:06:59+00:00
Yours is a valid approach. But you always gotta wonder if there’s some way around it. Starting with runtime that has ways of accessing every aspect of your system - there are a lot of ways an attacker might try to defeat the blocks you put in place. The point of starting with something super minimal is that the attack surface is tiny. Really hard to see how anything could break out.
by stackedinserter | 2026-02-07 01:07:11+00:00
Unpopular opinion: there's nothing wrong with NIMBY. It's totally ok to not volunteer to have a dumpster at your house. Society may want it, but they lose nothing, gain everything, and you're left with a house with dumpster nearby.

If society wants to put dumpster so badly, compensate to those who (practically) lose their house. Let everyone pay, that's fair. Picking "haha this will be the loser this time" is not.

It's easy to be YIMBY when you don't own anything.
by sevensor | 2026-02-07 01:07:19+00:00
Ooof, good luck. Civ3 copy protection was intense. I had to get out my old Win2k disk and stand up a VM. Attempts to rip an iso will be complicated by the fact that they deliberately wrote bad data to the disk. All of this is surmountable, but unless you enjoy a very particular kind of fun, you may prefer to spend $2 on GoG.
by clarity_hacker | 2026-02-07 01:09:16+00:00
The forcing function doesn't disappear - it shifts. When you read and critique AI-generated code carefully, you get a similar cognitive workout: Why did it structure this that way? What edge case did it miss? How does this fit the broader architecture?

The danger is treating the output as a black box. If you skip the review step and just accept whatever it produces, yes, you'll lose proficiency and accumulate debt. But if you stay engaged with the code, reading it as critically as you would a junior dev's PR, you maintain your understanding while moving faster.

The technical debt concern is valid but it's a process problem, not an inherent flaw. We solved "juniors write bad code" with code review, linting, and CI. We can solve "LLMs write inconsistent code" with the same tools - hannofcart's 10-layer static analysis stack is a good example. The LLM lies about passing checks? Pre-commit hook catches it.
by jablongo | 2026-02-07 01:09:33+00:00
I've got to come to the OPs defense as well. This was a remarkable demonstration of Claude performing a task thats probably very out of distribution. This would not be interesting if it were a music generation model or program, it's interesting because this is not what Claude code was explicitly trained for. The fact that it generated waveforms from scratch and built up from there is really amazing. Your cynicism was applied before even reading the article.
by rayiner | 2026-02-07 01:11:08+00:00
> However, look at Ireland vs the UK. Basically the same genetics, an extremely similar culture (particularly given the amount of cross migration back and forth), and yet very divergent amounts of social trust

Ireland is culturally distinct from the U.K. For example, the U.K. is historically predominantly Protestant, while Ireland is historically strongly Catholic. That manifests in many ways. For example, the Anglosphere tends to have the latest gestational limits on abortion among European and European-derived countries. By contrast, abortion was illegal altogether in Ireland until recently (2018).

There is also the fact that the Irish were brutally colonized by England and Irish society developed a strong cohesiveness from that external pressure. The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed 3 million people out of a population of about 60 million. The Irish Famine, by contrast, killed 1 million people out of a population of only about 8 million. Indeed, the Irish population peaked in 1841, a few years before the start of the Great Famine and never returned to that peak.

> I think that the particular outcomes of one country, predominantly founded by Europeans, tells us very little about how culture works.

Europeans are culturally quite different from each other! For example, the Swedish practice of not feeding guests (https://www.the-independent.com/voices/swedengate-sweden-din...) would be mortifying to Americans in the southern U.S.
by bossyTeacher | 2026-02-07 01:11:14+00:00
One of the most curious things about Christianity, is how most of the sauce in the plate doesn't even come from the figure their very religion is meant to be based on. The idea that followers of a religion about a figure, are spending most of their time talking, reading and doing stuff unrelated to the figure they meant to follow is such a human thing to do.

After 2k years of divergence, what is there in common with that figure. Can't read or speak his language, experience his culture or the geopolitics of his world. Everything is seen through 2k years of subjective lenses that people with various goals give to you.

At what point, do you call it a day or focus on the Gospels exclusively? Because that's arguably as close as you can get to him. Everything else seems secondary accounts of secondary accounts and people claiming to have authority to speak on behalf of someone who can't refuse that anymore.
by kube-system | 2026-02-07 01:11:19+00:00
I'm not at all suggesting the primary factor for the change was made for aerodynamic benefits. I am saying that the entire concept is a nod to aerodynamics. That's where the idea conceptually originates from, and it helps more than zero.

Similar to how Mazda has bragged about shaving grams off of a rear view mirror in a Miata. Are Miata's light because their rear view mirror lost a few grams of weight? No. Are Miatas light because Mazda applied that design philosophy to the whole vehicle? Yes.
by bpt3 | 2026-02-07 01:12:31+00:00
> This is amusing, because the usual NIMBY argument I hear is about "gentrification", i.e. it makes the neighborhood better and that's bad.

Change is bad as far as existing residents are concerned, which is why external YIMBYs are particularly annoying. I live in a pretty nice area so gentrification isn't really possible, and the people who want to live there but can't afford to are the ones agitating for change.

> More accurately: they would like to live in a particular location, the owner of that location would like to sell or rent it to them, but a third party wants to forcibly prevent that transaction.

No, the accurate description in CA (and YIMBYs are trying to replicate this elsewhere) is that a group of people collectively decided how land can be used in their area, and people who disagree are going over their head to change the rules.
by asenchi | 2026-02-07 01:12:51+00:00
It remains the greatest engineering team I've ever seen or had the pleasure to be a part of. I was only there from early 2011 to mid 2012 but what I took with me changed me as an engineer. The shear brilliance of the ideas and approaches...I was blessed to witness it. I don't think I can overstate it, though many will think this is all hyperbole. I didn't always agree with the decisions made and I was definitely there when the product stagnation started, but we worked hard to reduce tech debt, build better infrastructure, and improve... but man, the battles we fought. Many fond memories, including the single greatest engineering mistake I've ever seen made, one that I still think about until this day (but will never post in a public forum :)).

It was a pleasure working with you bgentry!
by saalweachter | 2026-02-07 01:13:12+00:00
It's not the only answer, but I would direct you to the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy.

Around a hundred, hundred and fifty years ago when our understanding of the universe had finally reached the point where it became obvious that (a) all of our creation stories were just stories and (b) we actually kind of knew the actual story now, everyone had a big crisis over how to deal with that.

The two options on the table where fundamentalism -- doubling down on Biblical literalism and faith -- and modernism, taking the Bible as more a spiritual message, adapting our understanding of it for the modern world.

Some churches went one way, others the other, but over the following century the fundamentalist churches have proven to be better at attracting, retaining and motivating their members.

There are still modernist churches, but the loudest Christians in America are almost all of the fundamentalist bent.
by jablongo | 2026-02-07 01:13:38+00:00
I have a deep background in music and I think that while the creation was super basic, the way the output was so unconstrained (written by a model fine-tuned for coding), is really interesting. Listen to that last one and tell me it couldn't belong on some tv show. I've had always issues with any ai generated music because of the constraints and the way the output is so derivative. This was different to me.
by paulryanrogers | 2026-02-07 01:14:18+00:00
> What’s your alternative?

Let women work the jobs, and laws mandating upfront transparency and mental health support. It shouldn't increase costs significantly and the benefits in human dignity will be more than worth it.

And don't stop working to make governments more honest, so other jobs can be established. Improve education so silly superstitions don't keep women locked out of large swathes of society and work.
by tmtvl | 2026-02-07 01:17:20+00:00
Because FP is useless so there aren't any practical examples. ...but all kidding aside, I kinda feel like an astronomer talking to an astrologer when it comes to this stuff. Like I'm scanning the night sky with my telescope while he's talking about Mars being 'in the house of Jupiter' or whatever. It's the old Abelson quote about computer science all over again.
Ask HN: Non-profit, volunteers run org needs CRM. Is Odoo Community a good sol.?
by netfortius | 2026-02-07 01:17:41+00:00
Title basically tries to capture the gist of the question. I have been asked (volunteer) to assist in the project of migration from a proprietary, more costly CRM solution, to an Odoo Community "product", to be architected, configured, deployed in a cloud service and operated by a specialized partner. My specialization is in infrastructure (architecture, ops and security), so I could certainly validate mapping the apps functionality into the right components, but I have zero knowledge on how good the CRM part is, and - crucially - how to keep its possible need for customization in time and operations cost low, if internal org volunteers have no technical skills. I am concerned about the integrator attempt to get the foot in the door with an acceptable one time cost, then slowly ramp up the price, if this solution requires a lot of babysitting.

Does anyone have any experience with this Odoo Community CRM product and model, to share some gotchas, in the light of the above described attempt to use? Users max 300. The hope is to also have the CRM integrate with needed office products (doc, spreadsheet, email, etc.)
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-07 01:18:08+00:00
This is why things like retention policies exist, though? Retroactively being able to query ALPR data is massively impactful to the ability to prosecute criminal wrongdoing, especially when a crime can be tied to a vehicle (such as theft of a vehicle). That utility significantly degrades with time, however!

Banning ALPRs outright is a strictly inferior solution, when compared to putting strict limits on their data retention.

This also inherently limits their potential for misuse, which seems to be your primary concern here?
by satisfice | 2026-02-07 01:18:37+00:00
I listen as part of my life and work, too. I've been training people since 1995. I am also a psychology and social science enthusiast.

The listening class I took in 1988 was one of the most helpful classes I have ever taken. I appreciate and use active listening. But listening is a complex process that goes far beyond mere absorption of information.

Instead of demonizing the ego, which is a tired and reductionist trope, let's appreciate the roles that self-image, self-care, and self-sharing play in that process.
by sershe | 2026-02-07 01:18:43+00:00
For perspective I didn't even learn to drive till 30 so I know the pros and cons of walkability.

And since learning I shifted firmly into car dependent camp and regret that we bought a house with 60 walkscore and not say 20.

First of all convenience is overblown for everything except drinking and children (paradoxically - people go to the burbs for kids but it must be pretty bad for those who can't drive). Shopping for groceries on foot every other day is a waste of time. Local stores for hardware, clothes etc. are typically more expensive with worse quality and selection. Anything remotely specialized like a climbing gym or a bar that is a good place for dancing is unlikely to be walking distance unless you optimize for it, so you need a car or transit - slow and inconvenient. Restaurants in the US are expensive.. sure if I had a Tokyo style joint nearby maybe, otherwise going out is not a daily thing and if prefer variety, so the walking options quickly lose appeal. The only thing it's unquestionably better for is going to a local bar to drink a beer or eight. I lived blocks from Granville st in Vancouver when I was 25, that was great. Maybe a local park would be nice too, but suburbs do have those. Driving everywhere, as I found out, is just better for everything else.

The second, in the US it filters out the wrong kind of people to a large degree. Given non-existent law enforcement for property crime and disorder in many cities, this is why I suspect people protect their low density. Places where people have to drive, and places without services, will have many fewer people of the kind that cause crime and disorder. The economic lower middle gets caught in the crossfire - I have lived next to affordable housing and I believe 95% of the people there are probably great, but they didn't enforce the law on the other 5%, so if they tried to build anything affordable next to me i would fight it tooth and nail.
by gonational | 2026-02-07 01:18:50+00:00
It's honestly just an example of ego and coping. These people are trading temporary gains in pseudo-productivity for training their replacements and atrophying their skills.

The truth of the matter is that the people who will choose to partake already weren't thinking; otherwise they wouldn't have chosen. This is the same with every bubble or major revolutionary thing that ends up having negative effects in the long run. GLP-1 is another great example of one that is still on the upward arc.

Sheep will always be sheep, and, in my opinion, this is the reason for the changes in hiring and the large scale encouragement of folks that obviously are not smart enough for this career to suddenly join in over the past 10 years.
by ubertaco | 2026-02-07 01:18:51+00:00
I worked at Pardot around the time Salesforce started using this same language in internal announcements about Pardot.

Our Pardot leadership translated for us and provided the necessary context: Pardot is being killed. The plan was to start building the product that would replace it, stop selling new contracts, rename Pardot in the meantime so the change wouldn't be as noticeable, and in a timeline of "by 10 years from now" Pardot wouldn't exist anymore.

This is Salesforce for "last call for the lifeboats, we're gonna capsize the boat."
by DouweM | 2026-02-07 01:19:44+00:00
(Pydantic AI lead here) We’re implementing Code Mode in https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/pull/4153 with support for Monty and abstractions to use other runtimes / sandboxes.

The idea is that in “traditional” LLM tool calling, the entire (MCP) tool result is sent back to the LLM, even if it just needs a few fields, or is going to pass the return value into another tool without needing to see the intermediate value. Every step that depends on results from an earlier step also requires a new LLM turn, limiting parallelism and adding a lot of overhead.

With code mode, the LLM can chain tool calls, pull out specific fields, and run entire algorithms using tools with only the necessary parts of the result (or errors) going back to the LLM.

These posts by Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/ and Anthropic: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-us... explain the concept and its advantages in more detail.
by spacebanana7 | 2026-02-07 01:20:19+00:00
There has never been a manuscript of a Gospel with anyone other than the traditional author attributed. And they’ve always been cited by the traditional names - even in Islamic, Jewish or heretical writings.

The arguments made in favour of Paul’s authenticity largely come from internal textual cues - but is that really more persuasive?

I don’t mean to suggest too strongly one side of the Gospel authorship debate over the other, only that these issues mix objective facts with subjective interpretation in a way that makes it very difficult to outsource to scholarly consensus.
by npunt | 2026-02-07 01:21:33+00:00
Agree, wish there were quality of life improvements to Civ1 that kept the simplicity and aesthetics fully intact, while modernizing some of the tedious mid/late game stuff like managing each city in a large empire based on some straightforward goals like 'more science' or 'fastest path to rocketry' or whatnot.

Freeciv unfortunately has none of the charm of Civ1.
by antonvs | 2026-02-07 01:21:33+00:00
The claim seems extremely unlikely to me. LLM comprehension is very sophisticated by any metric, the idea that something as trivial as concatenative syntactic structure would make a significant difference is implausible.

LLMs handle deeply nested syntax just fine - parentheses and indentation are not the hard part. Linearization is not a meaningful advantage.

In fact, it’s much more likely to be a disadvantage, much as it is for humans. Stack effects are implicit, so correct composition requires global reasoning. A single missing dup breaks everything downstream. LLMs, and humans, are much more effective when constraints are named and localized, not implicit and global.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-07 01:22:09+00:00
"Catholic" is just a Greek word that means "general, universal", derived from "kata holou" ("in accordance with the whole"). It's the opposite of a splintering off, though there is a viable argument that they splintered off of Orthodox Christianity (due originally to the filioque controversy, and arguably with broader differences relating e.g. to the worship of graven images, and the like).
by eucyclos | 2026-02-07 01:22:57+00:00
Well, I usually reconstruct what TFA is about in Hacker News from what readers are saying about it and I can report that it works almost as well for a lot less effort!

I jest, but on a serious note, a leading theological text would probably have the same ambiguity as to its meaning even if everyone had access to the original text. Knowing what everyone thinks something means isn't better than knowing what it means... but scientifically, they're indistinguishable!
by sarchertech | 2026-02-07 01:24:45+00:00
As an informal measure of the complexity of the code sure 100k lines are inherently more complex than 10k because there’s just more there to look at. And if you are assuming that 2 projects were made by competent teams, saying that one application is 10k LOC and one is 1 million might be useful as a heuristic for number of man hours spent.

But I can write a 100k LOC compiler where 90k lines are for making error messages look pixel perfect on 10 different operating systems. Or where 90k lines are useless layers upon layers of indirection. That doesn’t mean that someone is willing to pay more for it.

AI frequently does exactly that kind of thing.

So saying my AI made a 100k LOC program that does X, and then comparing the cost to a 100k LOC program written by a human is a nonsense comparison. The only thing that matters is to compare it to how much a company would pay a human to produce a program capable of the same output.

In this case the program is commercially useless. Literally of zero monetary value, so no company would pay any money for it. Therefore there’s nothing to compare it to.

That’s not to say it’s not an interesting and useful experiment. Or that things can’t be different in the future.