MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by basket_horse | 2026-02-11 19:22:59+00:00
No, because as discussed AI also changes the nature of your job in a way that might be negative to a worker, even if it’s more productive. Ie, it may be more fun to ride a horse to your friends house, but it’s not faster than a car. Or as the previous example, it may be more enjoyable to make a shoe by hand, but it’s less productive than using an assembly line
by dent9 | 2026-02-11 19:24:36+00:00
True story; I wanted to make a tiny update to our CI / CD to upload copies of some artifacts to S3. It took 1min for the LLM to remind me of the correct syntax in aws cli to do the upload and the syntax to plug it into our GitHub Actions. It then took me the next 3 hours to figure out which IAMs needed to be updated in order to allow the upload before it was revealed that Actually uploading to the S3 requires the company IT to adjust bucket policies and this requires filing a ticket with IT and waiting 1-5 business days for a response then potentially having a call with them to discuss the change and justify why we need it. So now it's four days later and I still can't push to S3.

AI reduced this from a 5-day process to a 4.9-day process
by FEELmyAGI | 2026-02-11 19:24:40+00:00
> A MUD game could never be confused with managing the server where it runs

What do you think of [], highlights:
It is extremely tightly integrated with the system. Connections are handled by telnetd, and the interface is basically considered a shell by the system. MUD characters are treated as actual users by the system, with a UNIX username consisting of "m-" followed by the first 5 characters of their selected character name. The database is stored as directories and files, with occasional symlinks.

Any programming or scripting language which is capable of manipulating Mooix's data files can be used to write custom commands, in a similar idea to, say, CGI. Libraries have been created to aid in this for several languages, including Perl, C, Ruby, and bash.

When a character is enabled as a programmer, they basically get the amount of power normally associated with a shell account. They can create and execute files, evaluate perl scripts, and can access a simplified version of a standard UNIX shell, among other benefits. Facilities are provided to edit Mooix scripts or programs (using your favorite editor) from within the MUD, then set them up to be executed when a user types a certain command.

[]https://everything2.com/title/Mooix
by emilianosolazzi | 2026-02-11 19:25:04+00:00
Hardware Wallet Compatibility:
What was added:

Method Purpose
to_psbt_v0() BIP-174 binary PSBT serializer — loadable by Bitcoin Core, Sparrow, Ledger, Trezor, HWI
from_psbt_v0() BIP-174 binary PSBT parser — reads back signed PSBTs from hardware wallets
to_psbt_b64() / from_psbt_b64() Base64 wrappers for HWI/CLI tools
merge_hw_signatures() Merges HW Schnorr sigs with existing PQ sigs into a single PSBT
HW Wallet Workflow:

psbt.to_psbt_b64(include_pq=False) → export unsigned PSBT (PQ fields stripped, HW-compatible)
Send to Ledger/Trezor via HWI → HW signs Taproot key-path (Schnorr)
HybridPSBTContainer.from_psbt_b64(signed) → parse HW response
psbt.merge_hw_signatures(hw_psbt) → combine HW Schnorr + wallet PQ sigs
Both signatures present → ready to finalize & broadcast
Test Results: 155/155 passed (17.72s) — 19 new tests across 2 new classes (BIP-174 Binary PSBT: 15, HWI Signing Workflow: 4). Both MD files updated.
by jpereira | 2026-02-11 19:25:08+00:00
I guess I got my language wrong here. Maybe what I'm talking about is about portability more than global vs local. Identities should exist at a layer higher than any given social context, and should be "materialized" into that context with local information. It's not about using the same identity everywhere, it's about being able to take the identity where you want to. Similarly it's not about the same information being available everywhere, but information being relative to durable identities, not ephemeral ones.
by mmooss | 2026-02-11 19:25:08+00:00
The biggest problem with newsreaders, IME, has been managing large numbers of feeds. Most user time is spent handling redundant stories - e.g., if you have feeds from many major news sources, for each major event you get one or more stories on each feed, saying mostly the same things.

I haven't seen a newsreader solve that problem. Has anyone tried an LLM?

The best solution I know is grouping redundant stories together, possibly hierarchically: e.g., Sports > Olympics > Figure skating > Jones performance. (Fewer feeds require fewer levels, possibly just one.)

That ~ deduplicates the stories and, by displaying them together, you can compare and choose the coverage you like and delete the rest. Otherwise, IME most user time is spent sorting through redundant stories one at a time.

But as I said, I haven't seen a newsreader do that well. It seems like a good fit for LLMs. Or maybe there's another solution besides grouping?
by kakacik | 2026-02-11 19:25:13+00:00
Or... yet another full-on spying device. Like all phones, like all modern TVs, smart speakers/home systems, cars, anything electronic capable of recording its environment is doing it, for the sole purpose of uploading it to be stored and analyzed.

There are some limits of course but they are mostly technological, but this ain't some notification trickle but full pictures when you expect zero, zilch, nothing.

I'd never install such device at home, added value is dubious at best for my family life and this is exactly the type of shit I would expect to be happening in it, regardless of brand or country of origin. If it connects it sends. Its sad state of things in 2026 but thats reality right now.
by reliabilityguy | 2026-02-11 19:25:25+00:00
> Immigration status doesn’t really change that dynamic.

Yes and no. It raises the question of how this specific crime could have been prevented. And it is very hard to argue against that with proper border enforcement, there is a good chance that some crime would have never happened.

The issue of social justice driven prosecution, while not related to the act of entering without inspection, just amplifies all these cases, and mixes the problem of lack of immigration enforcement with poorly thought out policies about prosecution and punishment.
by devmor | 2026-02-11 19:25:40+00:00
> Some of my Tesla owning friends keep spending time in the shop getting something about the suspension fixed 2-3 times already.

They're pretty lucky from what I hear! A friend of mine just sold his Model S because he'd been waiting over 7 months for the shop to source a replacement part. Apparently he'd even resorted to begging Musk to look into it over X because Tesla wont even give him an ETA.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-11 19:25:43+00:00
> The answer seems pretty obvious. Git just needs 2 separate mechanisms for these 2 different ideas. The obvious approach would be to leave commits as being atomic units of code change, and invent a new concept in git which represents a feature / feature branch. It would essentially just be a metadata object naming a set of commits, and it would have links to an issue tracker, CI results and code reviews.

git already has a tool for this called a "merge commit". A merge commit is mostly just a metadata object pointing to multiple previous commits. Sure, this forms a DAG rather than a line, but when all you want to see is a line just walk the graph in a specific pattern. In git that graph walking pattern is usually called `--first-parent`.

Mostly we just need UIs that stop trying to draw a "subway diagram" at all times and just does a `--first-parent` overview. It's strange to me how much work is being put into squashes and rebases and more just to avoid complicated "subway diagrams" when that often would be just fine with merge commits and adding `--first-parent` to your git log defaults and/or pick a UI tool that does that for you.
by Balgair | 2026-02-11 19:25:55+00:00
I agree that their large scale rollout will be very beneficial on the whole. The US is absurdly overweight and obese.

But these are powerful medications that affect very highly conserved areas of tetrapod biology. We discovered GLPs in the mouths of gila monsters, after all. So you then can infer that that the mechanism is at least 300 million years old (our last common ancestor with lizards).

Actually, I tried looking this up, and glucagon is likely 5-600 million years old, back to all chordates, the Cambrian explosion essentially, though likely even before that. So, incredibly conserved. Like, if you are a multicellular animal, odds are you have some glucagon-like thing for digestion regulation.[0]

We're strongly messing with a system that is just tremendously old. Biology and evolution are ruthless about this stuff, it edits it out as fast as it possibly can. That it's been so closely held is a very big sign for us that we need to tread extremely carefully.

Like, clearly, other countries do not have these issues with weight. Yes, they are developing them, I know. But even the US didn't have these issues near as bad just two generations ago, a blink in biological terms. You and I both know that the solution is not a pill, but the root cause of the obesity epidemic itself. These injections and pill are just band-aids for a much deeper and more pernicious problem.

But then again, you and I both know that we're not going to get at the root cause anytime soon either.

[0] This is biology so you'll find exceptions everywhere though
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-11 19:26:06+00:00
Let me fix that for you:

> Compacting fails when the thread is very large

Flips coin, it is Heads

> We fixed it.

> No you did not

Flips coin, it is Tails

> Yes now it auto compacts all messages.

Flips coin, it is Heads

> Ok but we don't want compaction when the thread isn't large, plus, it still fails when the compacted thread is too large

Flips coin, it is Grapefruit

> ...

Congratulations on a vibe solution, if you are unhappy with the frequency of isomorphic plagiarism... the vendor still has your money and new data =3
by benatkin | 2026-02-11 19:26:26+00:00
Each article like this one is an opportunity to assess whether it's mainly written by an AI or not. After reading part of this one I mostly think not (except for the obvious AI generated image), but it would be amusing if it were. "I’ve been asked a few times about my approach to open-source in the past few weeks, so decided to write this article to structure my thoughts." Is this being told from the perspective of Claude or OpenAI? I assume across the millions of users this has been asked a few times in the past few weeks. If it's from the human perspective, perhaps while he was drafting it, the AI assistant asked him about his approach a few times so that it, and in this case each conversation counts as a separate character asking him for his thoughts about it. Either way it's easier to inflate the number of people asking the author's opinion. However, for this, I dug into the author's bio, and with almost 10k followers on X, it seems likely he did get asked this a bunch of times.
by debugnik | 2026-02-11 19:26:36+00:00
Toyota complained about poor performance on all of Unity, UE and Godot, but also about long startup times with Godot.

I don't know how bloated Godot is, but AFAIK libgodot development started as part of Migeran's automotive AR HUD prototype so I'm surprised to hear it has poor startup time for a car.
by austinjp | 2026-02-11 19:26:37+00:00
> Stoker, a theatre manager with no medical background, somehow described the basic mechanism of heterochronic parabiosis

Just to pick a nit...

Stoker's story was inspired by "The Vampyre" by physician John Polidori, who doubtless knew whatever his contemporary medics knew about blood.

Polidori, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley told scary stories to each other by Lake Geneva in 1816, the "year without a summer". It couldn't get more gothic.

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-poet-the-physician-...
by ndneighbor | 2026-02-11 19:26:37+00:00
(Angelo from Railway here)

Heard. Being transparent, usually the delay on ack is us trying to determine and correlate the issue. We have a post mortem going out but we note that first report was in our system 10 minutes before it was acked, to which the platform team was trying to see which layer the impact was at.

That said, this is maybe concern #1 of the support team. Where we want the delta between report and customer outage detected to be as small as possible. The way it usually works is that we have the platform alarms and pages go first, and then the platform engineer usually will page a support eng. to run communications.

Usually the priority is to have the platform engineer focus on triaging the issue and then offload the workload to our support team so that we can accurately state what is going on. We have a new comms clustering system that rolling out so that if we get 5 reports with the similar content, it pages up to the support team as well. (We will roll this out after we communicated with affected customers first.)
Show HN: NetBox SSL – SSL/TLS certificate management plugin for NetBox
by ctrl-alt-auto | 2026-02-11 19:27:03+00:00
I built a NetBox plugin to manage SSL/TLS certificates directly inside NetBox.
If you use NetBox as your network source of truth, you've probably noticed there's no native way to track certificates. Most teams end up with spreadsheets, wiki pages, or just hope someone remembers when things expire. I wanted certificates to live alongside the rest of my infrastructure data, so I built this.
What it does:

Track SSL/TLS certificates within NetBox
Monitor expiration dates
Link certificates to your existing NetBox objects
Keep your cert inventory in the same place as the rest of your IPAM/DCIM data

What it doesn't do (yet):

Auto-discovery of certificates
ACME/Let's Encrypt integration

Those are on the roadmap, and I'd love input on what to prioritize.
Stack: Python, Django, NetBox plugin framework.

I'm actively looking for feedback from other NetBox users. What's missing? What's broken? What would make this actually useful in your environment?
by bobchadwick | 2026-02-11 19:27:12+00:00
OK, I went looking for sources and found this[1]:

In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency assumes the typical car is driven 15,000 miles (24,000 km) per year. According to the New York Times, in the 1960s and 1970s, the typical car reached its end of life around 100,000 miles (160,000 km). Due in part to manufacturing improvements, such as tighter tolerances and better anti-corrosion coatings, in 2012 the typical car was estimated to last for 200,000 miles (320,000 km) with the average car in 2024 lasting 160,545 miles according to the website Junk Car Reaper.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_longevity#Statistics
by refulgentis | 2026-02-11 19:27:13+00:00
I'm genuinely curious about your position, it's interesting.

But I can't figure it out what it'd look like in practice, might be hangover, might be I need more caffeine, whatever it is, it's on me. Don't read following as "you're saying X and thats silly!"

(A) Are consumption rates in general unsustainable?

(B) If (A) is no, are consumption rates of specific items unsustainable? For example, is the legislation you're thinking of like the deprecation of plastic bags for paper? Or something that covers a much wider amount of consumption?

(C) If (A) is "yes" or (B) is "more global", at huge scales like an economy, legislating quotas or rationing or anything at all, in practice pushes activity onto black markets.

If the concern is changing individual behavior, and individual behavior isn't changing on it's own sufficiently, what sort of legislation would change it?
by jconley88 | 2026-02-11 19:27:16+00:00
I love pinball, I do, but my favorite part about this isn't that it exists. It's why, or the lack of one, in a sense.

I had the opportunity to tiredly stumble upon Mark's display on my way out of a pinball expo. The quality and care that went into the displays move them beyond a learning tool and curiosity piece into a creative artistic expression. There's obviously a human who cares deeply about the exhibit. In this case, he was sitting in the back of the room near a mountain of travel crates, offering occasional encouragement and insight.

The message that I got was, "This is important to me, and I want to share it with you". It was not built out of a CEO's metrics and mandates asking me, "How many dollars are you?". It helped that there was literally a human behind the display, but maybe that same sense comes across via the website as well.

Regardless, it was refreshing. I stayed and browsed the whole display. Thank you, again, Mark!
by marginalia_nu | 2026-02-11 19:27:34+00:00
It think anyone with any experience of it will agree that Swedish bureaucracy and policy making is, generously put, as misguided as it is bumbling, but whatever the cause of the declining birth rates is, any explanatory model also needs to account for why it is also happening in South Korea and Japan, along with the nordics and a bunch of other places.

I doubt young adults in in Seoul are skipping kids because of Swedish preschool policies.
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-02-11 19:27:46+00:00
Why are we overthinking this? It was disconnected by the kidnapper, not erased by him. All the FBI has to do is reconnect it (or even just find the MAC address) and wait for Google to provide them the footage via a request.

https://policies.google.com/terms/information-requests?hl=en...
by danudey | 2026-02-11 19:27:55+00:00
Given how many cars have Carplay or Android Auto, but also have their own e.g. Toyota app that you need to/ought to install, it feels as though this isn't that far off from how things basically are.

Personally, I'd be happy with some kind of situation where:

1. You have a small in-dash touchscreen, as most small sedans have these days, as the basic level of "backup camera and radio view"
2. Everything the car does has a physical button so you don't NEED to use the touchscreen
3. The car has a USB-C port that can power a tablet and which provides a standardized interface that e.g. iOS and Android can interface with, so that users don't have to worry about their new OS doesn't support the not-updated app, or the app doesn't support their not-updated device
4. Sell an optional tablet mount that attaches to the dash the way a built-in one would be
5. Sell an optional 'tablet' that does nothing but interface with the USB-C port and provide what it needs, in case someone wants a larger screen without having to buy an iPad Pro

Then again I don't drive, so I'd be happy with none of this also.
by munificent | 2026-02-11 19:28:07+00:00
> As it currently exists, AI adoption is a bottom-up decision at the individual level, not a total corporate reorganization.

I'm sorry, but did you forget what page this comment thread is attached to? It's literally about corporate communication from CEOs reorganizing their companies around AI and mandating that employees use it.

> That's certainly a part of it, but I also think workers enjoy and strive to be productive.

Agreed! Feeling productive and getting stuff done is also one of the joys of work and part of the compensation package. You're right that to the degree that AI lets you get more done, it can make the job more rewarding.

For some people, that's a clear net win. They feel good about being more productive, and they maybe never particularly enjoyed the programming part anyway and are happy to delegate that to AI.

For other people, it's not a net win. The job is being replaced with a different job that they enjoy less. Maybe they're getting more done, but they've having so little fun doing it that it's a worse job.
by CharlesW | 2026-02-11 19:28:30+00:00
My answer is that I tested both, and Claude Code (~8 months ago) was so obviously better than Cursor that I continue to happily pay Anthropic $200/month. Based on anecdotes I happen to catch, I don't believe Cursor's caught up.

The value isn't just the models. Claude Code is notably better than (for example) OpenCode, even when using the same models. The plug-in system is also excellent, allowing me to build things like https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/ that everyone can benefit from.
by idopmstuff | 2026-02-11 19:28:50+00:00
I've been on the other side of this as a PM, and it's tough because you can't always say what you want to, which is roughly: This product is used by a lot of users with a range of use cases. I understand this change has made it worse for you, and I'm genuinely sorry about that, but I'm making decisions with much more information than you have and many more stakeholders than just you.

> What majority? The change just shipped and the only response it got is people complaining.

I'll refer you to the old image of the airplane with red dots on it. The people who don't have a problem with it are not complaining.

> People explained, repeatedly, that they wanted one specific thing: file paths and search patterns inline. Not a firehose of debug output.

Same as above. The reality is there are lots of people whose ideal case would be lots of different things, and you're seeking out the people who feel the same as you. I'm not saying you're wrong and these people don't exist, but you have to recognize that just because hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of people want something from a product that is used by millions does not make it the right decision to give that thing to all of the users.

> Across multiple GitHub issues opened for this, all comments are pretty much saying the same thing: give us back the file paths, or at minimum, give us a toggle.

This is a thing that people love to suggest - I want a feature but you're telling me other people don't? Fine, just add a toggle! Problem solved!

This is not a good solution! Every single toggle you add creates more product complexity. More configurations you have to QA when you deploy a new feature. Larger codebase. There are cases for a toggle, but there is also a cost for adding one. It's very frequently the right call by the PM to decline the toggle, even if it seems like such an obvious solution to the user.

> The developer’s response to that?

> I want to hear folks’ feedback on what’s missing from verbose mode to make it the right approach for your use case.

> Read that again. Thirty people say “revert the change or give us a toggle.” The answer is “let me make verbose mode work for you instead.”

Come on - you have to realize that thirty people do not in any way comprise a meaningful sample of Claude Code users. The fact that thirty people want something is not a compelling case.

I'm a little miffed by this post because I've dealt with folks like this, who expect me as a PM to have empathy for what they want yet can't even begin to considering having empathy for me or the other users of the product.

> Fucking verbose mode.

Don't do this. Don't use profanity and talk to the person on the other side of this like they're an idiot because they're not doing what you want. It's childish.

You pay $20/month or maybe $100/month or maybe even $200/month. None of those amounts entitles you to demand features. You've made your suggestion and the people at Anthropic have clearly listened but made a different decision. You don't like it? You don't have to use the product.