MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheAceOfHearts | 2026-02-02 17:48:25+00:00
This comment is a bit confusing and surprising to me because I tried Antigravity three weeks ago and it was very undercooked. Claude was actually able to identify bugs and get the bigger picture of the project, while Gemini 3 with Antigravity often kept focusing on unimportant details.

My default everyday model is still Gemimi 3 in AI Studio, even for programming related problems. But for agentic work Antigravity felt very early-stages beta-ware when I tried it.

I will say that at least Gemimi 3 is usually able to converge on a correct solution after a few iterations. I tried Grok for a medium complexity task and it quickly got stuck trying to change minor details without being able to get itself out.

Do you have any advice on how to use Antigravity more effectively? I'm open to trying it again.
by palata | 2026-02-02 17:48:26+00:00
> Unless you work in a metric driven role

A metric is a proxy, always. Even for sales. If the sales increase but the satisfaction of the users decreases, that's not necessarily good.

IMO, the worst thing one can do with a metric is believe that it is subjective. Give me a metric, I will optimise for it.

Doesn't mean that having metrics is useless. It's just important to understand what they mean.
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by adolph | 2026-02-02 17:49:01+00:00
Aspera's FASP [0] is very neat. One drawback to it is that the TCP stuff not being done the traditional way must be done on CPU. Say if one packet is missing or if packets are sent out of order, the Aspera client fixes those instead of all that being done as TCP.

As I understand it, this is also the approach of WEKA.io [1]. Another approach is RDMA [2] used by storage systems like Vast which pushes those order and resend tasks to NICs that support RDMA so that applications can read and write directly to the network instead of to system buffers.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_and_Secure_Protocol

1. https://docs.weka.io/weka-system-overview/weka-client-and-mo...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_direct_memory_access
by tsak | 2026-02-02 17:49:23+00:00
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by alephnerd | 2026-02-02 17:49:45+00:00
France and Israel have been collaborating on defense technology for decades - it was France that helped Israel become a nuclear power [0]. There are similar collaborations with Czechia [1], Estonia [2], and Germany [3].

Additionally, Israel has a defense pact with Greece and Cyprus to protect them against Turkish aggression [4], which is more than what other EU states are providing to Greece and Cyprus.

This is why Israel is a critical part of the EU's multilateral defense fabric - Eastern Mediterranean and CEE EU member states are already close partners with Israel.

[0] - https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000271219.pdf

[1] - https://www.czdefence.cz/clanek/cesko-izraelska-spoluprace-v...

[2] - https://vm.ee/sites/default/files/documents/2025-09/Israel%2...

[3] - https://www.iai.co.il/israel-aerospace-industries-announces-...

[4] - https://www.gov.cy/proedros-proedria/koini-diakiryxi-tis-10i...
by SCdF | 2026-02-02 17:50:08+00:00
So erm, is this a good thing?

I've only been using it for a month, but it quickly becomes incredibly laggy. I have to kill it completely and reopen it[1]. I've also had some unique hard locks never before seen on my machine[2], only while it's open and doing things.

I also haven't noticed it outputting anything that would warrant it being more complex than ncurses or the current fashionable equivalent?

[1] /clear helps but not 100%, and the time to get back to lag land increases each time

[2] (Framework 13" AMD 7840U 32GB RAM)
by boltzmann-brain | 2026-02-02 17:50:14+00:00
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by darthShadow | 2026-02-02 17:50:36+00:00
> doesn't honor dropbox's retry-after header

That hasn't been true for more than 8 years now.

Source: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/9abf9d38c0b80094302281...

And the PR adding it: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/pull/2622
by advisedwang | 2026-02-02 17:50:37+00:00
As with anything, there's also too much of a good thing though.

In my own career I switched role to get more time on a area where I felt I needed more growth an practice. Turns out I never got really very good at it, and basically was just in a role I wasn't great at for 6 years. It was miserable. My lesson is "if you know you are bad at something, don't make it load-bearer in your life or career".
by moregrist | 2026-02-02 17:50:45+00:00
> Claude Code is churing out an order of magnitude more instructions than SM64 did, to…diff a terminal panel’s worth of text and draw it.

What bothers me is that the maintainer quoted at the beginning of the piece is holding this up as almost a virtue: look at this complex thing we've done! But... at its core it's a TUI rendered perhaps what is the most complex and least efficient way possible.

I'm not part of a hypergrowth LLM company, but I do wonder why someone there would take such pride in such inefficient choices.

And as someone who's been using TUIs for ... more years than I'd care to admit ... it's not a particulalry stunning example of one either. I like it fine. It mostly does the job. But it's pretty simple as TUIs go and I could think of ways it could be better.
by kens | 2026-02-02 17:50:47+00:00
Thanks for pointing that out. The real ad appeared in the computer magazine Interface Age, September 1976 page 13, as can be seen in the Internet Archive. I think it's important for Hacker News to avoid fake/replica historical info so it doesn't end up like Reddit, where you can't trust anything.

https://archive.org/details/InterfaceAge197609/page/12/mode/...
by jmclnx | 2026-02-02 17:51:09+00:00
I would love to know were IBM is on this. They use sudo everywhere, even on AIX. Not to mention IBM owns Red Hat Linux.

IBM should be able to send a decent amount to Todd once in a while, but based upon how much IBM supports ssh ($0), all they are proving is they are very cheap and only wants be a parasite living off other's work.
by dghlsakjg | 2026-02-02 17:51:24+00:00
Shouldn't we celebrate her for changing and growing instead of trolling the web for 12 year old edgelord tweets that she has already apologized for? Since then, she has become a strong and rational voice on the national scene, and there is nothing to indicate that her change in beliefs and apology was insincere.

I don't think I was a "bad person" at that age, but I certainly know that I said some cringy, stupid stuff that I certainly don't stand by anymore.

Quite frankly, I think it is far more concerning if a person can't identify anything that they have changed their mind on. We should celebrate when people change for the better instead of attacking them for having been bad in the past.
by malfist | 2026-02-02 17:51:27+00:00
For sure, my org adopted KPIs for 95% AI usage measured weekly, and it was reviewed. Not 95% rolling weekly average, 95% each and every single week. I personally witness managers being called out why their team of 8 one week suddenly had only 7 people using AI that week. Take a vacation and your manager had to answer for it. Use an AI tool that they couldn't track, well, your manager had to answer for that too and probably had to harass you to use a measurable tool.

It was complete nonsense. Wound up leaving, partly over it. Nobody wanted to hear the emporor had no clothes and it made more sense to get out before that made my a layoff or URA target.
by Svengali-tech | 2026-02-02 17:51:36+00:00
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by palata | 2026-02-02 17:51:50+00:00
I guess my point is that when a coach teaches you how to get a promotion, the implicit assumption is that your hierarchy is following the same book as they are.

And the very fact that one needs to learn how to behave to get a promotion kind of proves my point. In a perfect world, you wouldn't have to go convince someone that you have value. And in a world where you have to do that convincing... those who are better at convincing get more promotions.

Because you are better at convincing does not mean you bring more value, though.

Again it's a hard problem, but what matters to me is that people understand that it is a hard problem and there is no silver bullet.
by palmotea | 2026-02-02 17:51:53+00:00
Honestly, it seems like the idealism of open source shouldn't have survived its contact with capitalism, but I suppose the contact wasn't painful enough the the exploitation continued for a long time.

Maybe we need a license that's even more onerous to corporations than the AGPL, like something with a revenue share clause.

Or maybe the problem is the naivete of software engineers. In aggregate, there was so much embrace of libertarianism that no groundwork was laid to protective ourselves from things like AI and offshoring.
by brewmarche | 2026-02-02 17:52:00+00:00
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by loglog | 2026-02-02 17:52:06+00:00
Counting warnings is a poor practice, because you don't see where warnings exist or are added or removed while reading or writing code. Suppression annotations in code next to where the problem occurs are more explicit, and the progress is easy to measure with e.g. git log -S. The main difficulty is automating adding these annotations. For at least one static analysis systems, there is an off the shelf solution: https://github.com/palantir/suppressible-error-prone
by cadabrabra | 2026-02-02 17:52:10+00:00
Maybe not in theory but definitely in practice, as we’ve seen with GPT-5. These companies are lightning money on fire. If they reduce the cost, expect a proportional decrease in quality. All of the GPT-5 anecdotes confirm this. When the data and anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right, and the data is usually bullshit.
by tomashubelbauer | 2026-02-02 17:52:51+00:00
I think big corporations are just structurally unable to create products people actually want to use. They have too much experience with their customers being locked in and switching costs keeping them locked in. Anthropic needed a real product to win mind-share first, they will start enshitifying later (by some accounts they may already have). The best thing a big corporation can do with a nascent technology like that is to make it available to use to everywhere and then acquire the startup that converts it to a winner first. Microsoft even fumbled that.
by xGrill | 2026-02-02 17:53:05+00:00
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by cyjackx | 2026-02-02 17:53:07+00:00
I know most of you could've hand-coded this in your sleep, but for me it was a simple example of just being able to vibecode something I personally wanted to use.

Everybody knows you can get real tense and stop breathing when staring at a screen, so I thought a very low-friction simple reminder (a circle expanding and shrinking) would be useful. I couldn't find anything free, so I vibecoded this. I have familiarity with webdev and some other things but had never heard of Tauri or used Rust, but the LLMs recommended those over Electron to keep it lightweight/small.

There are some basic settings for color, opacity, minimum size, etc. You can replace the circle with a custom image. That's the most I could consider to do for now.

It's windows-only and FOSS on github.
by adolph | 2026-02-02 17:53:20+00:00
My go-to for fast and easy parallelization is xargs -P.

find a-bunch-of-files | xargs -P 10 do-something-with-a-file

-P max-procs
--max-procs=max-procs
Run up to max-procs processes at a time; the default is 1.
If max-procs is 0, xargs will run as many processes as
possible at a time.
by SSmiley | 2026-02-02 17:53:28+00:00
Both AWS CDK [1] and Pulumi [2] already support Python and work great, what are you trying to achieve over them?

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/work-with-cdk-pytho...

[2] https://www.pulumi.com/docs/iac/languages-sdks/python/
by smugma | 2026-02-02 17:53:46+00:00
Yes, all those things. Except on cost, at least in SF, MUNI is free for children.

We mostly drive wherever we need to go, especially when it's all of us. But if we're going to a Warriors game, we always take Muni, at it's more convenient (and free for adults too if you show your ticket).

Also, it's generally faster and more convenient (and fun) to get to Chase Center via Muni than driving. Getting back is tough both because this is peak Lyft/Waymo demand as well as peak Muni demand.
by softfalcon | 2026-02-02 17:53:52+00:00
Sounds like the system is working as intended...

Not trying to be glib here. This feels like the embrace, extend, extinguish pattern that we jokingly used to think was only Microsoft. It is now becoming more and more obviously the modus operandi of the entire enterprise software ecosystem.

I believe you are correct to be frustrated and ringing the alarm bell. This is a "death of the commons" moment for OSS.
by askl | 2026-02-02 17:54:51+00:00
I mean, I can understand wanting to start in dense places. But those are also the places where public transit is a viable existing solution.

Personal transit just looks incredible inefficient and unscalable if everyone would use it. I could totally see it as a last resort solution for situations where nothing else is available, but that's an unattractive market that isn't going to make anyone rich.
by cgh | 2026-02-02 17:54:53+00:00
At the beginning of my career, sometime around 1999 or 2000, I was at Microsoft with our team because we were trying to integrate our product with this absolute piece of junk called Microsoft Biztalk.

It simply didn’t work. I complained about it and was eventually hauled into a room with some MS PMs who told me in no uncertain terms that indeed, Biztalk didn’t work and it was essentially garbage that no one, including us, should ever use. Just pretend you’re doing something and when the week is up, go home. Tell everyone you’ve integrated with Biztalk. It won’t matter.
by rockyj | 2026-02-02 17:55:03+00:00
I agree with you partly. The benefits are great & fairly above international norms. But I do not agree with the "firing protection" anymore. Last year alone I saw thousands let go in Berlin in fairly large organizations like neobanks for example. I myself saw my previous employer let go of 30% of the staff over the year. A simple Google search of - "Berlin IT firings 2025" will give you a picture.
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