MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cui | 2026-02-07 23:34:48+00:00
Author here. django-rclone is a Django backup package that delegates everything non-Django to rclone.

The existing solution (django-dbbackup) reimplements a lot: Django Storages for upload, GPG in Python for encryption, gzip for compression, regex for backup listing. django-rclone replaces all of that with rclone subprocesses — rclone rcat for uploads, rclone cat for downloads, rclone sync for media, rclone lsjson for listing. Encryption and compression are handled by configuring rclone crypt and compress remotes.

Database dumps stream directly into rclone via Unix pipes — no temp files written to disk. DB passwords are passed via environment variables instead of CLI arguments (which are visible in ps).

The result is significantly less code. Django-rclone only owns what Django must own: database connectors, management commands, and signals. Everything else — storage abstraction, encryption, compression, incremental sync — is rclone's problem.
Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite, MongoDB, and 70+ storage backends via rclone.
by oxag3n | 2026-02-07 23:34:53+00:00
> wait six months

from other sources: 6-12 months, by end of 2025, ChatGPT 7.

It's a concern trolling and astroturfing at it best.

One camp of fellow coders who are saying how their productivity grew 100x but we are all doomed, another camp of AI enthusiasts who got ability to deliver products and truly believe in their newly acquired superiority.

It's all either true or false, but if in six months it becomes true, we'll know it, each one of us.

However, if it's all BS and in six months there will be Windows 95 written by LLM but real code still requires organic intelligence, there won't be any accountability, and that's sad.
by krackers | 2026-02-07 23:35:17+00:00
Right I used CPAP as an example because it bypasses all arguments about "novel technology", "drug development" cost, or "need for safety". Even an ASV algorithm could probably be implemented as a ~graduate project since it seems to be a rather basic control algorithm (today with ML you could probably do even fancier things). It's basically a piece of pure technology that could be commoditized, manufactured and sold to people for < $300 in the way smartphones are. If something as "basic" as this can't be accomplished due to the regulatory environment then it's sort of pointless talking about anything more complex like pharma drugs.
by Closi | 2026-02-07 23:35:19+00:00
> The rest of the world is free riding.

The rest of the world isn't free riding - the USA has just setup a market where there is very little bargaining power for consumers because of how the US medical market and insurance works.

Novo and Eli are still making plenty of money in Europe where these drugs cost a fraction of the price, and where there aren't other significant suppliers for GLP-1's like is being implied.
by nly | 2026-02-07 23:35:23+00:00
I have a source file of a few hundred lines implementing an algorithm that no LLM I've tried (and I've tried them all) is able to replicate, or even suggest, when prompted with the problem. Even with many follow up prompts and hints.

The implementations that come out are buggy or just plain broken

The problem is a relatively simple one, and the algorithm uses a few clever tricks. The implementation is subtle...but nonetheless it exists in both open and closed source projects.

LLMs can replace a lot of CRUD apps and skeleton code, tooling, scripting, infra setup etc, but when it comes to the hard stuff they still suck.

Give me a whiteboard and a fellow engineer anyday
by heliumtera | 2026-02-07 23:36:04+00:00
Calm down buddy, maybe you're confusing code producers with something else. It's 2026 we don't bother with maintenance no more, we /new to keep context clean and start over.
Just don't forget to comment - never delete - old code. Always keep dead code around to please shareholders, line numbers up always.
We produce code, that is the main thing, never forget.

One could argue we could achieve the same goals by appending \n to a file in a loop, but this is inefficient nowadays with generous token offerings (but could change in the future than I highly suggest just outputting \n to a file an call it productivity increase)

I didn't understand your point about product owners. Who the fuck would ever need one when code produces itself?
by ffsm8 | 2026-02-07 23:36:05+00:00
https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs/blob/main/src/backend...

I see, in your broad and experienced mind, document editors don't have users, permissions, and the whole document management itself, comments on lines/threads, reactions on comments

Seriously, theyre all as cookie cutter perfect usecase for Django as you can get, but I guess you haven't actually thought about the domain and just wanted to take a dumb on devs smarter then you.
by shakna | 2026-02-07 23:36:09+00:00
> particularly as Guile e.g. greatly lags Racket performance

Huh. This has not been my experience, rather the other way around.

I do see a whole heap of benchmarks that contradict it, so I probably should put in some effort to find out why, or if I'm just plain wrong... But at a guess? Guile doesn't have Racket's startup time penalty, and most of what I do is IO bound - and Guile's IO story is better than Racket's.
by stoneforger | 2026-02-07 23:36:13+00:00
It's been here since it's inception. The more the market grew and the more computing became widespread, the greater the number of ravenous sociopaths with other people's money got involved. This is just another version of Rome burning. This is the terminal acceleration phase. The lunatics are running everything to the ground and the few sane people left are labeled the same way they always had been. The useful idiots are just thinking they're so much smarter. Noone asked if it is wise or not, they are thinking they can outrun the treadmill. Just add water and LLM, it's so much fun for the whole family.
by latexr | 2026-02-07 23:37:14+00:00
> I work in an objectively high stakes environment (Big 3 cloud database provider) and we are finally (post Opus 4.5) seeing the models and tools become good enough to drive the vast majority of our coding work

Please name it. If it’s that good, you shouldn’t be ashamed of doing so and we can all judge by ourselves how the quality of the service evolves.
by dhosek | 2026-02-07 23:37:58+00:00
Yeah, apparently the whole controlling the train by the voltage¹ and polarity of the electricity in the rails has been replaced with little digital chips in the locomotives that let you control each locomotive independently and not have to have them in separate zones on the layout. I have a bunch of stuff in the basement from when I was thinking of getting back into the hobby around 2001 and then, well, 2001 happened and put that all on hold. Maybe sometime in the future or maybe I’ll just sell it all off.

⸻

1. Or is it current? I have no idea,
by bluesnowmonkey | 2026-02-07 23:38:09+00:00
> The Digital Twin Universe is our answer: behavioral clones of the third-party services our software depends on. We built twins of Okta, Jira, Slack, Google Docs, Google Drive, and Google Sheets, replicating their APIs, edge cases, and observable behaviors.

Came to the same conclusion. I have an integration heavy codebase and it could hardly test anything if tests weren't allowed to call external services. So there are fake implementations of every API it touches: Anthropic, Gemini, Sprites, Brave, Slack, AgentMail, Notion, on and on and on. 22 fakes and climbing. Why not? They're essentially free to generate, it's just tokens.

I didn't go as far as recreating the UI of these services, though, as the article seems to be implying based on those screenshots. Just the APIs.
by roywiggins | 2026-02-07 23:38:18+00:00
It's basically a regulatory arbitrage, see here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/FamilyMedicine/comments/1nz5xkd/how...

> they get away with it because:

> In-house prescription

> legally registered 503A compounding pharmacy that is not selling bulk (individual prescription quantities)

> They can argue clinically distrinct compounding

> FDA does limited enforcement unless its unsafe or mass bulk production

Point 4 seems not to be holding anymore.
by renewiltord | 2026-02-07 23:38:29+00:00
That's a non-compliant plan, I'm pretty sure. You can't just expense an all-alcohol trip to a bar because you're stressed. You're not personally in violation but the organization is violating the IRS rules for letting you do it. They'll get away with it usually, and if a tax auditor sees it there'll be modest fines unless it was systematic approach to dodge taxes.

As for "why" it's a personal benefit, that's just how we've decided as a society. We want people to pay tax on personal income irrespective of how it's spent and we want to allow businesses to pay tax on net income because to create economic value you sometimes have to spend a lot on inputs.

So we have rules for what income is taxed on gross and what income is taxed on net. For the most part, personal income is taxed on gross and business income is taxed on net. And then, to compensate for the gross taxation, a standard income deduction is offered.

Because of this difference between the way personal and business income are taxed, the classification of things into one and the other matters. A logical way for a company to restructure things given just the naïve implementation is to transfer all payment to payment in kind: the company buys your groceries, pays your rent, and so on. You love this, your taxes are lower and you still get the same benefit of the money. The IRS, therefore, qualifies what is personal and what is business. Your company cannot buy you your groceries and pretend they aren't paying you.

However, it is true that the company sometimes sends you on assignment where your costs would be higher than if you were to stay at home. In these cases, it is reasonable for them to pay for your expenses. Well, ideally, your company then always sends you on a one-day trip every month but sends you back with a Costco-haul. This would let them pay you more (you both win, the tax man[0] loses) so long as they appropriately redirect pay into in-kind. So the IRS says "you can either be careful or you can have a fixed amount for travel that works for these categories"[1].

So, "why" is it a personal benefit? It's because we have taxation, and because business and personal income are differently taxed, and because business spending has to therefore be defined. That's the broad strokes of it though there's nuance, and a lot of "well, actually" to get it out but that's the picture for the most part.

In the end, the lines have to be drawn somewhere. If you eat the office catering that's not a taxable benefit. But if you were to drive home to pick up and eat the Doordashed sandwich from the same place there and return to work, you would have eaten identical food and perhaps done identical work, but the treatment is different. Such is life at scale.

0: That's us, this society. We collectively are the tax man.

1: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-25-54.pdf
by alephnerd | 2026-02-07 23:38:34+00:00
And India wins again!

There's a reason the major Indian generics manufacturers like Cipla have partnered with Ely Lilly [0] and Novo Nordisk [1] for exclusivity deals for GLP branding and IP even though it isn't required outside the US.

Keep screeching about H1Bs and offshoring while sweetheart deals are signed with the Trump admin [2] by lobbyng with the right leverage points [3][4][5][6] and threatening the right GOP ruled states with tariffs [7][8].

Thanks to Trump, India has finally began reversing the brain drain, and with it bringing Big Tech [9], Big Pharma (already mentioned), Big Oil [10], and Wall Street [11] back.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

[2] - https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/02/unit...

[3] - https://www.trump.com/residential-real-estate-portfolio/trum...

[4] - https://www.trump.com/residential-real-estate-portfolio/trum...

[5] - https://www.trump.com/residential-real-estate-portfolio/trum...

[6] - https://www.trump.com/residential-real-estate-portfolio/trum...

[7] - https://www.daines.senate.gov/2026/01/20/daines-travels-to-i...

[8] - https://governor.iowa.gov/press-release/2025-09-16/gov-reyno...

[9] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-11/india-dra...

[10] - https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/big-oil-is-offshorin...

[11] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-11/trump-s-h...
by Groxx | 2026-02-07 23:39:07+00:00
Since it looks like this got flagged (probably because out of context at a glance it looks like insane babble that somewhat frequently occurs here), some context: this is appears to be text recovered from the pdf, in the links up-thread. Though there's more text than that link shows, and I'm not entirely sure why it's posted in this specific thread, though it's relevant-ish at least.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-07 23:39:24+00:00
> the supergeniuses at Brookhaven National Labs decided it would be a good thing

Doing this next to an aquifer was reckless. But doing it at all is just science.

> I grew up on Long Island and I expect that it will eventually kill me

Wouldn't we expect to have solid data on this by now? Also, "Caesium-137 has a half-life of about 30.04 years" [1]. Only 22% of the original sample is still Cs-137. (The rest is mostly naturally-occuring barium.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137
by hackyhacky | 2026-02-07 23:40:30+00:00
> The irony is that I haven't seen AI have nearly as large of an impact anywhere else.

We are in this pickle because programmers are good at making tools that help programmers. Programming is the tip of the spear, as far as AI's impact goes, but there's more to come.

Why pay an expensive architect to design your new office building, when AI will do it for peanuts? Why pay an expensive lawyer to review your contract? Why pay a doctor, etc.

Short term, doing for lawyers, architects, civil engineers, doctors, etc what Claude Code has done for programmers is a winning business strategy. Long term, gaining expertise in any field of intellectual labor is setting yourself up to be replaced.
by autoexec | 2026-02-07 23:40:49+00:00
That's still very much true, but at least in the case of Linux the cost is getting lower and lower all the time. The time investment for many has reached about the same as the cost needed for Windows and as a result we see more and more people using linux. At this point it's a perfectly viable gaming platform!

Maybe one day LLMs will eventually make good code at a low cost, and that will allow non-programmers to write programs with few problems but the cost will never be zero, and I think we're a long long way from making human programs obsolete.

All of the intelligence that LLMs mimic came directly from the work of human minds which got fed into them, but what LLMs output is a lossy conversion filled with error and hallucination.

My guess is that the LLMs producing code will improve for a
short time, but as they start to slurp up more and more of their own slop they'll start performing worse.
by ozozozd | 2026-02-07 23:40:54+00:00
I can relate coz once upon a time I enjoyed reading poetic code - which I later found to be impossible to modify or extend.

> Eventually your boss will start asking why you’re getting paid twice your zoomer colleagues’ salary to produce a tenth of the code.

And then I couldn’t relate because no one ever paid me for lines of code. And the hardest programming I ever did was when it took me 2 days to write 2 lines of C code, which did solve a big problem.

I abhorred the LOC success metric because we had to clean up after those who dumped their code diarrhea to fool those who thought every line of code is added value. Not to mention valuing LOC strictly makes you a junior programmer.

E.g. you have to know more to do the following in 2 lines (yes, you can):

‘’’
t = a;
a = b;
b = a;
‘’’

According to LOC missionaries these 3 lines are more expensive to write and shows that you’re a better programmer than the XOR swap. But it’s actually more expensive to run it than the XOR swap, and it’s more expensive to hire the person who can write the XOR swap. (Not endorsing clever/cryptic code, just making a point about LOC)

So, if the LOC missionaries are out of a job because of LLMs, I will probably celebrate.
by lvspiff | 2026-02-07 23:40:55+00:00
Was my glucose under control without glp-1's? Yeah I could manage an a1c of 5.4-5.6 with metformin but I was still hovering near 300 lbs.

With glp-1's I'm down over 50 lbs, my a1c is a much more manageable around 4.0-4.5 and it makes it much easier to exercise and portion control is a huge benefit. Not to mention a buncha other things like triglicerides and blood pressure have come down due to exercise and eating better. it sucks i have to take it forever, but at the same time i feel a ton better physically, and if i loose 50 more lbs, and labs continue to show improvement, i can reduce the cocktail of other meds I'm on my doc says.

Cigna denied me at first until my doc appealed twice. Cigna wouldnt cover because i wasnt a full diabetic so wasnt on insulin. I would've had to pay close to $1k a month to take it otherwise. Thank goodness for a tenacious doctor!
by pvtmert | 2026-02-07 23:41:10+00:00
> The cost of turning written business logic into code has dropped to zero

It hasn't. Large enterprises currently footing the bill, essentially subsidizing AI for now.

I constantly see comparisons between the 200$ Claude-Code Max subscription vs 6-figure (100k$) salary of an engineer.

The comparison here is, first of all, not apples-to-apples. Let's correct CC subscription to the yearly amount first; 12x200=2400$. Still more than 10x difference compared to the human engineer.

Although when you have the human engineer, you also pay for the experience, responsibility, and you somewhat transfer liability (especially when regulations come into play)

Moreover, creation by a human engineer, unless stolen IP or was plagiarized, owned by you as the employer/company. Meanwhile, whatever AI generated is guaranteed to be somewhat plagiarized in the first place. The ownership of the IP is questionable.

This is like when a layman complains when the electrician comes to their house, identifies the breaker problem, replaces the breaker which costs 5$ and charges 100$ for 10-minute job. Which is complete underestimation of skill, experience, and safety. A wrong one may cause constant circuit-breaks, causing malfunction in multitude of electronic devices in the household. Or worse, may cause a fire. When you think you paid 100$ for 10-minutes, in fact it was years of education, exams, certification, and experience you had paid for your future safety.

The same principle applies to the AI. It seems like it had accumulated more and more experience, but failing at the first prompt-injection. It seems like getting better at benchmarks because they are now part of their dataset. All these are hidden-costs 99% does not talk about. All these hidden costs are liabilities.

You may save an engineer's yearly salary today, at the cost of losing ten times more to the civil-lawsuits tomorrow. (Of course, depending on a field/business)

If your business was not that critical to get a civil-lawsuit in the first place, then you probably didn't needed to hire an engineer yourself. You could hire an agency/contractor to do that in much cheaper way, while still sharing liability...
by ausbah | 2026-02-07 23:41:22+00:00
blogs like this seem like they’re in the right direction with LLMs being “here to stay” and a near indispensable part of people’s daily toolkit, but the near certainty that programming as a job or skillset is dead in the water seems just wrong?

like ok the cost for anyone to generate almost
always working code has dropped to zero but how does a lay person verify the code satisfies business logic? asking the same set to generate tests to that just seems to move the goalposts

or like what happens when the next few years of junior engineers (or whatever replaces programming as a field)who’ve been spoon fed coding through LLMs need to actually decipher LLM output and pinpoint something the machine can’t get right after hours of prompting? a whole generation blindly following a tool they cant reliably control?

but maybe I am just coping because it feels like the ladder on the rest of my already short career , but some humility m
by YZF | 2026-02-07 23:41:38+00:00
They optimized for different things. The instant responsiveness of the 3270 vs. the VT at Xbps for local editing was nice. You could do async updates and even async input (via polling) as well though there was this annoying thing where the input could clash with the output and you'd get this weird icon that you had to clear (my brain is iffy on the details) e.g. when you hit a PF key while the display is updating. I think there was some workaround. I wrote some games that ran on the 3279 in an async mode (using some utilities a friend of mine built for that).
by indubioprorubik | 2026-02-07 23:42:25+00:00
We wont go to space in the forseabe future. The brink archievment we might pull off is longterm civilizational stability, in ressource scarce, chaotic environments. Basically a oldfolkshome where we grow wise and vulcan enough to goto the stars. If we fallback into regressive behaviour call it facism, islamism, polpotism, whateverism and nuke ourselves - or decay into rotting landempires ala 1984, then we will never goto space today- and slowly downgrade back into very smart animals, with suprsingly sturdy DNA.

The Trap St.Fermi predicted is a two pronged one, made of technological progress and the inability to recognize ones true nature while not under ressource duress - until you walked over the cliff of no return.
All those utopias, all those we shall overcome by education promises, hid the permadamage we have from ourselves. ICE, ISIS, decomplexification by redistribution fantasies, war-chieftains and permanently sending the young and hopeless into fights, that is what we really are.

Not some excemption, but the braindamaged norm under enough stress to trigger the "shizzoid" mode. Its sad, its real - and well how about we for once say thank you. Thank you Peter for dealing with reality, while the rest of us got high.

Thank you for the panopticon, forcing us to stay civil. All of us.

Thank you for doing a material stress test on humanity, while the climate change was not yet in full force upon us.

Thank you for moving down all the capability lanes in parallel, instead of doing the retarded one king, one plan, one tribe, mono-lane approach towards doom.

Thank you to the grown ups, shame on the retarded toddlers, the retarded nationalists and utopian idealists, shitting the diapers! Bravo!

Now for the final push- why not say it! We are going to have cooperate families - aka cloning by cooperations for loyal employees. All the other roads have proven dysfunctional under stress and the dysfunction is very plain to see. And the final building block, the ones willing too switch sides for this freedom are also in plain sights. Its going to be a weird mixture of cooperate lgbtq+ and conservatives- in an forced alliance with the retarded withering away in traditional hive societies unable to adapt.