MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fxtentacle | 2026-02-23 18:01:17+00:00
The Airbus A320neo can already takeoff, ascend, cruise, descend, and land all by autopilot. It can even download your flight plan from the airline's servers.

But you still need the pilots because the system can only handle the happy path. As soon as there's any blockade or strong weather change, the autopilot will just turn off. And then you need the pilots.

I would say software engineering with AI is similar: The AI can handle CRUD just fine. But once things get messy, you need someone who can actually think.
by octoclaw | 2026-02-23 18:01:21+00:00
The interesting thing nobody's talking about here is that cheap code generation actually makes throwaway prototypes viable. Before, you'd agonize over architecture because rewriting was expensive. Now you can build three different approaches in a day and pick the one that works.

The real cost was never the code itself. It was the decision-making around what to build. That hasn't gotten cheaper at all.
by scottLobster | 2026-02-23 18:01:32+00:00
As a father of 3, one thing the wife and I had to learn over the course of the first two is that the modern world holds parents to impossible standards and a "fuck off" attitude is required for much of it.

We've had pediatricians shame us for feeding our kids what they're willing to eat and not magically forcing "a more varied diet" down their throats at every meal, despite them being perfectly healthy by every objective metric. There are laws making it technically illegal for us to leave our kids unsupervised at home for any period of time in any condition, even a few minutes if one of us is running slightly late from work/appointments.

Your not-quite-2-year-old is too tall for a rear-facing car-seat? You're a bad parent, possibly a criminal and putting them at risk by flipping the seat to face forward, a responsible parent spends hundreds of dollars they don't have on several different seats to maybe find one that fits better or have their kid ride uncomfortably and arguably unsafely with their legs hyper-extended up the seatback.

Miss a flu shot because you were busy? Careful you don't come off as an antivaxxer.

And all of this and more on top of changing diapers, doctors' appointments, daycare, preschool, school, family activities and full time jobs?

Yeah, when my kids are old enough to engage with social media I will teach them how to use it responsibly, warn them about the dangers, make myself available to them if they have any problems, enforce putting the phones down at dinner and and keep a loose eye on their usage. Fortunately/unfortunately for them they have a technically sophisticated father who knows how to log web activity on the family router without their knowledge. So if anything goes sideways I'll have some hard information to look at. Most families don't have that level of technical skill.
by UI_at_80x24 | 2026-02-23 18:01:40+00:00
I've been a fan of all rust-based utilities that I've used. I am worried that 20+ (??) years of bug fixes and edge-case improvements can't be accounted for by simply using a newer/better code-base.

A lot of bug fixes/exploits are _CAUSED_ by the C+ core, but still... Tried & true vs new hotness?
by octoclaw | 2026-02-23 18:01:40+00:00
The cross-shard aggregate rewriting is really nice. Transparently injecting count() for average calculations sounds straightforward but there are so many edge cases once you add GROUP BY, HAVING, subqueries, etc.

Curious about latency overhead for the common case. On a direct-to-shard read where no rewriting happens, what's the added latency from going through PgDog vs connecting to Postgres directly? Sub-millisecond?
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-02-23 18:01:44+00:00
I would say that the burden of proof is yours first.

But since you asked...

> The church as an institution certainly prefers the more radical conservatives as you go higher up the chain

Where are these "radical conservative" bishops? They're anything but "radical". If anything, they tend toward a soft middle that is very slow to act. Indeed, that's one of the gripes "radtrad" types tend to have. They would prefer more bishops were made in their own image.

Instead, we see bishops aggressively curtailing more traditional expressions of the faith, while permitting plenty of liturgical abuse of, shall we say, a decidedly "untraditional" stripe.

> So in the long term they will only be left with a bunch of crazy radicalists and a silent majority that wants absolutely nothing to do with them.

You can't be serious. If anything characterizes the post-Vatican II Church, it has been the greater influence of "progressive" and "modernist" elements, some of them quite radical. Only in relatively recent times are we seeing a growing, younger crop returning to traditional forms. You can expect that the Church will look more traditional within a generation or two.

Your claim reminds me of those who clamored to make the Church more "relevant". They claimed that if the Church didn't do so, it would lose the youth and imperil the future of the Church.

Instead, what we saw was the reverse. As the Church became more "relevant" - which is to say, more concerned with the temporal and the temporary, conforming to the times instead of shaping men and the times - it became less appealing to the youth. It should be obvious in retrospect. What people desire from the Church is the eternal and the transcendent, not more of the same that you can get elsewhere and in bulk.

So, all that "relevance" produces is a large exit of the youth from the Church. Attend a "progressive" parish and you'll see plenty of empty pews with a few aging boomers. Go to a more traditional parish, and you see the pews brimming with families. These are not isolated cases. These are broad trends.

If you do see a swing toward the traditional, it is not because "crazy radicalist conservative" bishops are concentrating those elements, but because of a process of natural selection. "Relevance", it turns out, is dysgenic. And as the traditional element increases and becomes more visible, so does the visibility of its substance, which is what attracts converts and reverts.
by octoclaw | 2026-02-23 18:02:02+00:00
The real barrier was never technical. It was convenience and discovery. Running a Pi at home is trivial for anyone on HN, but the moment you want people to actually find your stuff, you need DNS, a stable IP, and some way to not get buried under the noise.

Tailscale and similar overlay networks have made the "accessible from anywhere" part way easier than it used to be. The missing piece is still discovery. RSS was the closest we got to decentralized discovery, and we collectively let it rot. Maybe it's time to bring it back properly.
by taeric | 2026-02-23 18:03:12+00:00
It is literally a platform's responsibility to make sure they are being used responsibly, as well?

Imagine a gun range that was well aware that their grounds were being used in nefarious ways. We'd shut it down. A hospital that just blindly gave out pain killers to anyone that asked. We'd shut it down.

Does this mean that a zero tolerance policy is what should be used to shut things down? I don't think so. We have some agency to control things, though.
by joelres | 2026-02-23 18:03:18+00:00
I'm a web engineer with zero Wine experience, and I wanted to replay a Nancy Drew game from 2007 that I used to play on the Windows XP computer in our kitchen. I pointed Claude Code at it and let it run. Six hours, 400 tool calls, a binary DLL patch, a virtual filesystem hack later - it worked! This game is amazing. Also I'm not sure Claude fixed it in a legal way...
by stefan_ | 2026-02-23 18:03:18+00:00
Mentioning gaussian splatting for why we don't need lidar depth is a great example of Musk-esque technobabble; surface level seemingly correct, but nonsense to any practitioner. Because one of the biggest problems of all SfM techniques is that the results are scale ambiguous, so they do not in fact recover that crucial real-world depth measurement you get from lidar.

Now you might say "use a depth model to estimate metric depth" and I think if you spend 5 minutes thinking about why a magic math box that pretends to recover real depth from a single 2D image is a very very sketchy proposition when you need it to be correct for emergency braking versus some TikTok bokeh filter you will see that also doesn't get you far.
by throwawayq3423 | 2026-02-23 18:03:19+00:00
> In a sense, I am worse. I a guy in the middle

> And here we are. The siren song of the left.

There's something particular sad about people that won't even admit to what they are in public. You know your right wing brand is toxic but you don't want to just be another cult member, so you pretend to be something else so your words will have more (or some) weight.

It's not working.

Have fun being the reason why the rest of your family hates Thanksgiving for the 10th year in a row.
by ticulatedspline | 2026-02-23 18:03:27+00:00
They're clearly a bit over-zealous bout what examples they think have meaning. They cite substitution as a good test for a phrase but double down on boiling water.

> Lexicographers used a substitutability test: if you can swap synonyms freely, it’s not a lexical unit. “Cold feet” (meaning fear) can’t become “frigid feet”—so it gets an entry. But the test cuts both ways. You can say “boiling water” but not “seething water” or “raging water.” The phrase resists substitution too.

These aren't failures for substitution because "Raging" isn't' a synonym in this case. where frigid would be a reasonable.

I wonder perhaps if the author is confusing the idiom "hot water" which is in there https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hot_water and would fail the substitution test.
by techblueberry | 2026-02-23 18:03:33+00:00
I know this is weird, but I'm in some ways not really sure who is on the side of freedom here. I get your position, but like. The whole idea of the promise of the internet has been destroyed by newsfeeds and mega-corps.

There is almost literally documented examples of Facebook executives twirling their mustaches wondering how they can get kids more addicted. This isn't a few bands with swear words, and in fact, I think that the damage these social media companies are doing is in fact, reducing the independence teens and kids that have that were the fears parents originally had.

I dunno, are you uncertain about your case at all or just like. I just like, can't help but start with fuck these companies. All other arguments are downstream of that. Better the nanny state than Nanny Zuck.
by john_strinlai | 2026-02-23 18:03:40+00:00
>Consider that such arguments [...] we should loudly reject them in the strongest possible terms.

me and you can yell into the void all we want. and i will continue to do so!

but, age verification is already here. so while i continue to yell about how stupid it is, i am also going to propose options that i feel like are less bad than what is being actively rolled out right now.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-23 18:03:41+00:00
I'm not quite convinced of the maximalist claims, but these two aren't incompatible. Every time we talk about a company being "mismanaged" by e.g. a private equity buyout, what we mean is that the owners had access to a large volume of high quality white collar work but couldn't figure out how to use it right.
by mentalgear | 2026-02-23 18:03:42+00:00
Sometimes it feels what we are seeing is Code becoming just like any other "asset" in the globalised economy: cheap - but not quality; just like the priors of clothing (disintegrating after a few washes), consumer electronics (cheap materials), furniture (Instagram-able but utterly impracticable), etc: all made for quick turn-overs to rake in more profit and generate more waste but none made to last long.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-23 18:03:47+00:00
Off-the-shelf hardware is usable, but instead of smartphone CPUs one must use the so-called AE (automotive-enhanced) variants of the same ARM cores that have been used in smartphones.

The automotive variants allow the use of multiple redundant cores, which check each other for errors. This would allow a much better performance than NASA gets today from a Snapdragon, due to being forced to run multiple times each computation, then to verify that the same results have obtained.

There are off-the-shelf redundant CPUs of this kind, designed for use in cars and other vehicles, i.e. for a goal much closer of what NASA needs than smartphone CPUs.

The design of the electronics for the Mars helicopter was a very low-effort project, because too many people were skeptical about its chances of success. In other circumstances, it could have been done much better.
by elicash | 2026-02-23 18:03:47+00:00
What I'd add to this discussion is that a minimalist website looks HIGHER END, in the same way that a clothing store that's packed with clothing looks cheaper than a store that has like 10 dresses and tons of empty space.

Depending on the brand, you might want to appear like a good bargain! Alternatively, you might want to appear like you sell luxury items. But either way, the design is communicating something.
by moregrist | 2026-02-23 18:03:53+00:00
> Humans can also reproduce copyrighted works from memory as well. Showing that machines can reproduce copyrighted material is no different than saying that a human can reproduce copyright material that the human learned from.

Ultimately this is a matter for the courts and the law, but I'd just like to point out that a human memorizing a work, reproducing it, and distributing it is just as much a copyright violation as doing a more mechanical form of reproduction.

There's a reason that fan fiction routinely falls afoul of copyright. There's quite a lot of case law in this area, and hand-waving "humans can do it too" doesn't really make for a strong argument. Humans get in trouble for it ALL THE TIME. The consequences can be fines, injuctions, or even criminal liability.

I'm not sure why you think AI gets off the hook here. Just because you like the outcome at the moment?
by vlabakje90 | 2026-02-23 18:03:58+00:00
They absolutely can. Millions of people can recite the Quran verbatim, word for word. That's 77797 words. There is even a title for those people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafiz_(Quran)

It's not far fetched to think that people could recite books just like an LLM. I don't know why they'd want to, but that's neither here nor there.
by graypegg | 2026-02-23 18:04:03+00:00
Oh man, what's old is new again! I remember using spritesmith [0] to handle a big UI icons spritesheet. Even animated a few of these in the same way! (Though using background-position, a fixed size, and some javascript to change a class name once per frame.)

[0] https://github.com/twolfson/grunt-spritesmith
by ej88 | 2026-02-23 18:04:18+00:00
We're already seeing eye-watering, blistering growth from the new hot applied AI startups and labs

Imo the wave of top down 'AI mandates' from incumbent companies is a direct result of the competitive pressure, although it probably wont work as well as the execs think it will

that being said even Dario claims a 5-20% speedup from coding agents, 10x productivity only exists in microcosm prototypes, or if someone was so unskilled oneshotting a localhost web app is a 10x for them
by verdverm | 2026-02-23 18:04:19+00:00
I'm not sure how ironic it is at this point. Everyone and their brother is using AI to slop out code.

The question for all of them is, why yours over the 1000s of others? Or if your AI does this so trivially, why don't I just have mine do it too?

I think this is less relevant here, this looks more complex and involved, but I'm also not going to look in detail to figure out because this isn't how I see my self getting news and such that it offers.

I also find GPL-3 an unacceptable license b/c they attempt to force their view of open source on everyone through viral copyleft licenses. Live and let live
by kalpitdixit | 2026-02-23 18:04:19+00:00
yes - it instructs the coding agent to maintain a markdown file for the outputs from paper lantern, which the coding agent can refer to later. it also asks the coding agent to record whether the human user accepted the suggestion or not.

that way it helps you keep record of things - but also, you can come later and ask : which of our decisions now have updates in research ? can we adopt them ?
by SecretDreams | 2026-02-23 18:04:39+00:00
ITT are a lot* of tech workers who made their money as a cog in the system poisoning the internet that future generations would have to swim in. I wonder if toxic waste companies also tell the parents it's strictly on them to keep their kids out of the lakes that are poisoned, but once flowed cleanly?

We live in a shared world with shared responsibilities. If you are working on a product, or ever did work on a product, that made the internet worse rather than better, you have a shared responsibility to right that wrong. And parents do have to protect their kids, but they can't do it alone with how systematically children are targeted today by predatory tech companies.
by snowhale | 2026-02-23 18:04:40+00:00
the interesting shift is where the time goes. before: thinking + typing. now: thinking + reviewing. the thinking part didn't get cheaper -- domain knowledge, edge cases, integration constraints -- none of that is free. what changed is you now review AI output instead of type your own, which is genuinely faster but not as different as it sounds. the hard part was always understanding what to build, not the keystrokes.
by Dunedan | 2026-02-23 18:04:47+00:00
> […] the game either halts completely or forks so that they can't rejoin.

When a player looses the connection the game just continues. Usually one of the remaining player then pauses the game until the player who lost the connection returned.

The game state becoming out-of-sync is often a problem of players using buggy mods. That this happens without mods is pretty rare and of course clearly a bug.

> It's also impossible to save and restore in multiplayer.

It seems you haven't played 0ad in a while, as that's possible since a27 (see https://play0ad.com/new-release-0-a-d-alpha-27-agni/).
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-23 18:04:47+00:00
This is completely false. The odds of an LLM predicting the text of a novel that is not part of the training set is basically 0 - you can experiment with this if you want. It is essentially like the infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters thing (only slightly more constrained).

This is not to say that they couldn't write a novel, even a very good one - that is a completely different discussion.
by lkey | 2026-02-23 18:04:59+00:00
Software is rarely an end unto itself.

Thus, "Code" is a liability; Producing excess liabilities 'cheaply' is still a loss.

You only ever want to have just enough code to accomplish the task at hand.

LLMs may help you get to just enough faster, but you'll only know that you are there after doing the second 90%.
by Ronsenshi | 2026-02-23 18:05:16+00:00
I'm in the same boat. Too often for me it feels easier to write code that I want to see by myself instead of opening some AI tool where I would have to describe what I need in plain English. After which I'd still have to review the code to make sure it does do what was requested.

Perhaps you have to be certain type of person or work in a peculiar company where second step (review) can be ignored as long as AI says that it does. Hardcore YOLO life.
by reorder9695 | 2026-02-23 18:05:21+00:00
What's always got me about this is when I was in school I had it absolutely drilled into me that I should never expose personal information online to anyone, I completely saw the logic in that and so heavily limit the personal data I give out. Now we're just expecting people to completely go against that and give away the most personal details possible to companies who cannot prove what they are or are not doing with it just because governments have decided that's best now?
by mrprincerawat | 2026-02-23 18:05:31+00:00
Built this after a couple of “oh shit did I just push secrets?” moments.

For small projects, the existing options felt like overkill (vaults, external services, team setup), so I wanted something that:

- keeps the .env workflow intact
- doesn’t depend on any external service
- is simple enough that I’d actually use it every time

Dotlock just encrypts your .env with a passphrase so it’s safe to commit, and lets you decrypt it locally when needed.

I’m sure there are tools in this space (git-crypt, sops, etc.), so I’m curious where this feels redundant vs actually useful — especially for solo devs / small teams.

Would love honest feedback.
by xml | 2026-02-23 18:05:57+00:00
> Specifically, we collected new data created after January 2025, including: [...] new fiction on Archive of Our Own (Various, 2025),

Not sure how to feel about this. From a researcher's point of view, reproducibility is important, but the last time someone publicly collected data from AO3, the community was not very fond of that.

https://huggingface.co/datasets/nyuuzyou/archiveofourown/dis...
by ferri-emanuele | 2026-02-23 18:06:04+00:00
Tursim is a content management system with a window-based visual interface, equipped with a graphical simulator for automata, Mealy machines, and Turing machines.

On the client side, it is entirely developed in JavaScript. The interface is defined through JSON, using a simple and easily extensible language.

The server is currently implemented in PHP, but since communication with the client also takes place via JSON, it can potentially be implemented in other languages as well.

Tursim relies on the file system and Linux system users, eliminating the need for a database. It can also make use of users and files already present on the system.

It includes a file explorer with copy, move, delete, and directory creation features. A recycle bin is also available, which preserves different versions of files, including those that have been overwritten.

Basic collaboration features are supported through the creation of user groups. A simple style selector allows adding, removing, and reordering CSS stylesheets.

Originally designed for educational purposes, Tursim combines simplicity, speed, and extensibility, qualities that also make it a potential lightweight alternative to more complex CMS platforms.
by bwestergard | 2026-02-23 18:06:05+00:00
I carry a dumbphone all the time.

I solve this problem by having open and emotionally honest conversations with people who might call me. For my relationship with my employer, I formed a union with my coworkers and we negotiated rules around being paged for production incidents.

I think this is a cool technical achievement. Perhaps it is the best solution for the author. But I encourage everyone to consider whether a technical fix doesn't trap you in a local maximum that you could escape from with some good old fashioned reflection on your values and negotiation with your friends, family, and colleagues.
by saghm | 2026-02-23 18:06:23+00:00
I'm not convinced this is specific to the format (or the platform). Whenever I try to search for a specific meme or gif on google, I find huge numbers of basically identical copies that come from separate sources. I've seen complaints on humor subreddits about how people repeatedly post copies of the same jokes, often without attribution.

Out of curiosity, I asked my wife about this trend specifically, and while she was familiar with the joke, she has yet to see any instance of it on her page. I have to wonder if people who are experiencing stuff like this are mostly just getting stuck in a bubble and not pushing through to other content. There's an argument that learning how to interact with the app to make the algorithm work for you isn't a great experience, but there's a large volume of people who use and enjoy the app without complaining about this issue. I'm not particularly convinced that all of these people have gone numb to brainrot to the point that they enjoy seeing the same joke 20 times in a row compared to them just having a better experience from seeing a wider variety of content.