MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dangus | 2026-02-18 05:41:38+00:00
And really the problem isn’t that it can’t make working code, the problem is that it’ll never get the kind of context that is in your brain.

I started working today on a project I hadn’t touched in a while but I now needed to as it was involved in an incident where I needed to address some shortcomings. I knew the fix I needed to do but I went about my usual AI assisted workflow because of course I’m lazy the last thing I want to do is interrupt my normal work to fix this stupid problem.

The AI doesn’t know anything about the full scope of all the things in my head about my company’s environment and the information I need to convey to it. I can give it a lot of instructions but it’s impossible to write out everything in my head across multiple systems.

The AI did write working code, but despite writing the code way faster than me, it made small but critical mistakes that I wouldn’t have made on my first draft.

For example, it just added in a command flag that I knew that it didn’t need, and it actually probably should have known it, too. Basically it changed a line of code that it didn’t need to touch.

It also didn’t realize that the curled URL was going to redirect so we needed an -L flag. Maybe it should have but my brain knew it already.

It also misinterpreted some changes in direction that a human never would have. It confused my local repository for the remote one because I originally thought I was going to set a mirror, but I changed plans and used a manual package upload to curl from. So it out the remote URL in some places where the local one should have been.

Finally, it seems to have just created some strange text gore while editing the readme where it deleted existing content for seemingly no reason other than some kind of readline snafu.

So yes it produced very fast great code that would have taken me way longer to do, but I had to go back and consume a very similar amount of time to fix so many things that I might as well have just done it manually.

But hey I’m glad my company is paying $XX/month for my lazy workday machine.
by dakolli | 2026-02-18 05:42:33+00:00
It might be more of an issue with the story telling than the actors performance themselves. For instance the changes in Joe and Gordon's characters was confusing. Gordon goes from being shy nerd to reckless coke addict, like huh.. Joe kinda becomes a new age softy. The hacker house vibes were off, a bunch of 20-30 year old playing tag and having nerf gun wars.. okay, I guess. Its just very hard to suspend belief and get into the story. As someone else mentioned, it gives off Hackers vibes. It feels like the writers weren't really familiar early tech and were just going off what they thought it would be like.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-18 05:43:23+00:00
I think one longtime HN user (Karrot_Kream I think) pinpointed the change in HN discourse to sometime in mid 2022 to early 2023 when the rate of new users spiked to 40k per month and remained at that elevated rate.

From personal experience, I've also noticed that some of the most toxic discourse and responses I've received on this platform are overwhelmingly from post-2022 users.
by IAmGraydon | 2026-02-18 05:44:35+00:00
I have never once seen this actually work in a way that produces a product I would use. People keep claiming these one-shot (or nearly one-shot) successes, but in the mean time I ask it to modify a simple CSS rule and it rewrites the enter file, breaks the site, and then can't seem to figure out what it did wrong.

It's kind of telling that the number of apps on Apple's app store has been decreasing in recent years. Same thing on the Android store too. Where are the successful insta-apps? I really don't believe it's happening.

https://www.appbrain.com/stats/number-of-android-apps

I've recently tried using all of the popular LLMs to generate DSP code in C++ and it's utterly terrible at it, to the point that it almost never even makes it through compilation and linking.

Can you show me the library of apps you've launched in the last few years? Surely you've made at least a few million in revenue with the ease with which you are able to launch products.
by stkdump | 2026-02-18 05:44:45+00:00
Interestingly banning a far right party in Germany failed at the constitutional court a few years back with one of the arguments being too many party members were actually paid informants of the authorities and thus it wasn't reliably possible to distinguish what the party did on its own vs what the authorities caused. I think many people concluded that the party finances were mostly kept stable by these informants, so the easiest way to get rid of them would be to drastically reduce that.
by walterbell | 2026-02-18 05:44:56+00:00
> There's something intangible and hard to describe about the series. The writers have a way of making it transcend it's core drama and feel very different from just about any other show I can recall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series...

[actors gathered] at Pace's house on weekends to prepare dinner, drink wine, and discuss the scripts and their characters.. "it was really nice, because you got to hear other people's point of views about your character." For the third season, Pace, Davis, and McNairy lived together in a rented house in Atlanta, with Toby Huss joining them for the fourth season..

Rogers called Lisco the duo's mentor, saying: "He.. showed us the ropes.. it was a master class in how to run a room, both in terms of getting a great story out of people, and.. being a really good and decent and fair person in what can sometimes be a brutal industry.." Between the second and third seasons, all of the series's writers departed to work on their own projects, requiring Cantwell and Rogers to build a new writing staff.
by mikepurvis | 2026-02-18 05:45:23+00:00
"... what he's pretending to do on screen"

I remember seeing this discussed around the show The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, which is about a midcentury NYC divorcee getting into the world of stand up comedy. Overall it works and is a funny and enjoyable show, but there's definitely some of the standup routines depicted on-screen that are not actually as funny as the baked-in audience laughs might indicate. Because yeah... you can't really fake delivering good standup, even with a whole writer's room preparing the jokes and all the editing magic in the world, you still have to actually stand there and tell them in a funny way. That part can't be faked.
by bubblewand | 2026-02-18 05:45:26+00:00
The parts that are only done to maintain status quo with a competitor aren’t productive, and that’s quite a bit of it. Two (or more) sides spend money, nothing changes. No good is produced. The whole exercise is basically an accident.

Like when a competing country builds their tenth battleship, so you commission another one to match them. The world would have been better if neither had been build. Money changed hands (one supposes) but the aim of the whole exercise had no effect. It was similar to paying people to dig holes a fill them back in again, to the tune of serious money. This was so utterly stupid and wasteful that there was a whole treaty about it, to try to prevent so many bullshit jobs from being created again.

Or when Pepsi increases their ad spending in Brazil, so Coca Cola counters, and much of the money ends up accomplishing little except keeping things just how they were. That component or quality of the ad industry, the book claims, is bullshit, on account of not doing any good.

The book treats of several ways in which a job might be bullshit, and just kinda mentions this one as an aside: the zero-sum activity. It mostly covers other sorts, but this is the closest I can recall it coming to declaring sales “bullshit” (the book rarely, bordering on never, paints even most of an entire industry or field as bullshit, and advertising isn’t sales, but it’s as close as it got, as I recall)
by overgard | 2026-02-18 05:45:45+00:00
> The thing with a lot of white collar work is that the thinking/talking is often the majority of the work… unlike coding, where thinking is (or, used to be, pre-agent) a smaller percentage of the time consumed.

WHOAH WHOAH WHOAH WHOAH STOP. No coder I've ever met has thought that thinking was anything other than the BIGGEST allocation of time when coding. Nobody is putting their typing words-per-minute on their resume because typing has never been the problem.

I'm absolutely baffled that you think the job that requires some of the most thinking, by far, is somehow less cognitively intense than sending emails and making slide decks.

I honestly think a project managers job is actually a lot easier to automate, if you're going to go there (not that I'm hoping for anyone's job to be automated away). It's a lot easier for an engineer to learn the industry and business than it is for a project manager to learn how to keep their vibe code from spilling private keys all over the internet.
by sp1nningaway | 2026-02-18 05:47:04+00:00
New people hired for this project would not be coders. They would be an expert in the service we offer, and would be doing work an LLM is not capable of.

I don't know if LLMs would be capable of also doing that job in the future, but my org (a mission-driven non profit) can get very real value from LLMs right now, and it's not a zero-sum value that takes someone's job away.
by dakolli | 2026-02-18 05:47:29+00:00
There are ton's of underprivileged college grads or soon to be grads that could really use the experience, and pro bono work for a non profit would look really good on their CVs. Have you considered contacting a local university's CS department? This seems more valuable to society from a non profit's perspective, imo, than giving that money/work to an AI company. Its not like the students don't have access to these tools, and will be able to leverage them more effectively while getting the same outcome for you.
by Semaphor | 2026-02-18 05:48:09+00:00
It looks like quad9 blocks the domain.

dig @9.9.9.9 hackmyclaw.com

;; ANSWER SECTION:

;hackmyclaw.com. IN A

But using their unsecured endpoint .10:

dig @9.9.9.10 hackmyclaw.com

;; ANSWER SECTION:

hackmyclaw.com. 300 IN A 172.67.210.216

hackmyclaw.com. 300 IN A 104.21.23.121
by what | 2026-02-18 05:48:14+00:00
>make revenue from that $20 than the electricity and server costs needed to serve that customer

Seems like a pretty dumb take. It’s like saying it only takes $X in electricity and raw materials to produce a widget that I sell for $Y. Since $Y is bigger than $X, I’m making money! Just ignore that I have to pay people to work the lines. Ignore that I had to pay huge amounts to build the factory. Ignore every other cost.

They can’t just fire everyone and stop training new models.
by borh375 | 2026-02-18 05:48:55+00:00
Back when I was looking for a new PKM system, I remember a "competitor" (now irrelevant) of obsidian making fun via Quote tweet of the Files over app manifesto, saying something like "nobody cares about the way the notes are stored". Ironically, that mean-spirited tweet made me discover Obsidian, and I've adopted it since then as I strongly agree with the philosophy of sovereignty over the content by them being plain files.

I do care about how files are stored, felt trapped with OneNote proprietary format, and seeing what happens to Evernote, now care even more.

More recently, Andrej Karparthy succinctly captured what's great about Obsidian: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1761467904737067456

And with the new LLM powered, I find having tight control over files to be extremely powerful

Thank you kepano!
by belZaah | 2026-02-18 05:49:32+00:00
There’s an old saying: if civil engineers built houses the way software people build software, the first woodpecker to appear would destroy the civilization. With Tesla, we build cars. That, as told in court documents, absolutely should continue accelerating while in cruise control despite the driver pressing the brakes. There’s a century of institutional knowledge on system safety built into most cars. And (looking at you, Pinto), the carmakers are not even especially good at it. As a former software engineer, I’d rather rely on some actual engineers rather than a bunch of tech bros led by a deranged sociopath.
by rerdavies | 2026-02-18 05:49:54+00:00
As someone who lived through that era, I couldn't watch it. A deep sense of uncanny valley. The 97% that they got completely right was ruined by the 3% that that they got wildly wrong. Often senslessly so. Stuff that a technical consultant would have caught in an instant.

I did rather enjoy the way that they captured the manic energy of the generation of dirtbag sales and marketing people that drove the PC industry in that era.

What it missed, I though, is that it failed to capture the breathless sense of wonder at finding yourself at the center of an event around which the entire universe was going to pivot -- something that was obviously going to change everything. That's what you lived if you worked on the technical side of the PC industry.

Tracy Kidder's book, The Soul of a New Machine, however....
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-18 05:50:10+00:00
> The law is not meant to cover every possible permutation of circumstances and motivations.

This isn't a permutations issue. We know the specific shape of the problem: 18 year olds from poor and lower middle class families don't typically have existing assets with which to secure a loan, so if they can't secure it with their future earnings, they can't get one, and then they can't afford to go to college.

> If student loans are dischargeable in bankruptcy, lenders will price it in or refuse to lend without a gurantor.

That's the problem. The inability to discharge them allows the borrower to get a much lower interest rate than they otherwise could for unsecured debt issued to someone with minimal credit history, or find someone willing to loan them the money to begin with.

It was set up this way so that people could go to college.
by sometimes_all | 2026-02-18 05:50:35+00:00
The problem comes when rote learning actually is the be-all-end-all. Too many Asian students experience rote learning without any focus on actual learning. Our job used to be regurgitating paragraphs from textbooks, exactly as they were, into our exam papers. In classrooms, we were told that war happened in year X, but there was no discussion and analysis as to actual reasons, the milieu at the time, and the understanding and takeaway from that piece of history.

Facts and memorization are important, but they need to be in service to actual learning and understanding.
by CephalopodMD | 2026-02-18 05:51:27+00:00
I remember a scene in this show which felt like many real meetings I've had in my life. The big hot shot CEO guy pulls everyone into a meeting to share his big idea. The idea? Let's sell a computer that's "twice the speed, half the price!"

...The engineer then rolls his eyes like "yeah no duh". If we could just magically do stuff like that, we would have done it already. Classic management thinking they have an original idea with no understanding of the engineering beneath it all. I thought they would just tell him off and that would be it. I really felt seen in that moment.

The frustrating thing is, they then take pointy haired boss's idea seriously. The rest of the season is spent actually pursuing that dumb, dumb idea... This felt disrespectful, and I stopped watching.
by com2kid | 2026-02-18 05:51:49+00:00
> People have been painting with red and yellow ochre and soot for at least 50K years for sure,

Compare those to the pigments used (mixed up!) by professional painters, and then to what printers could make.

If you wanted to paint fine art in the 1400s you were possibly making your own canvases, your own paint brushes, and your own paints.

And on top of that you had to be a skilled painter!

> The walls on the streets of Pompeii are full of advertising -- they had an election going on and people just scribbled slogans and such on walls. You don't need flyers lol.

The American revolution included a lot of propaganda courtesy of printing presses and some very rich financers who had a vested interest in a revolution occuring.

Pamphlets everywhere. It is one thing to scribble on a wall, it is another to produce messages at a mass scale.

That sense of scale has been multiplied yet again by AI.
by Brajeshwar | 2026-02-18 05:52:04+00:00
Either someone or I, of course, turn on a Note Taker that can transcribe the meeting notes. That file can go into Obsidian.

Unfortunately, most people don’t refer back to it and would wait for someone to do it as part of the spec or project tasks assigned by the Project Manager.

However, I love taking notes in meetings using graphs, arrows, boxes with text, etc. Sometimes, I use an iPad with the Pencil, but I prefer a pen on Paper. This one is usually the one that gets shared, and people seem to like it for understanding the context or for referring back to what they heard during meetings in a simpler, yet faster/easier way.

My methods are inspired by Dan Roam’s Books. I browse/re-read the books pretty often. https://www.danroam.comhe
by realusername | 2026-02-18 05:52:40+00:00
> Using a fundamentally unworkable approach that's increasingly becoming less useful is not how GrapheneOS approaches privacy.

I feel like we agree on the premises but not the conclusion then.

If there's no way to make a Revanced on steroids system work on Android, it means that Android's security model is fundamentally broken for me and beyond repair.

Fundamentally, Android is built with untrusted as its core value. Google doesn't trust Qualcomm, which doesn't trust the manufacturer, which doesn't trust app makers, which doesn't trust the user. It's a chain of untrusted parties all the way to the user. With one exception, in your average phone, the user has to trust all the the above. So the user is the one trusting everybody blindly and nobody else has to do it.

The only way to make this untrusted chain model work is to go one step further, make the user not trust all of the above with a heavily modified system, including dynamic patching and that's almost impossible.

The reason why it works differently on a Linux distribution is it's built on the opposite values. The maintainers trust contributors which trust app makers ... all the way to the user. If one of them breaks that trust, they are out for good, they know they have one chance.

You can't easily fix a broken social contract like in Android with just tech.
by alex43578 | 2026-02-18 05:53:24+00:00
1) Companies are dumb enough to shoot themselves in the foot over a single quarter's financials - they certainly aren't thinking about where their middle management is going to come from in 5 or 10 years.

2) There's plenty of work ripe for automation that's currently being done by recent US grads. I don't doubt offshored roles will also be affected, but there's nothing special about the average entry-level candidate from a state school that'll make them immune to the same trends.
by figassis | 2026-02-18 05:54:00+00:00
They are forcing bc the goal is to reduce the cost center that SWE is, and are aware engineers will fight it because we don’t think it’s there yet, but they don’t want to wait for it to get there, they want to feed us into it so we can all train it to get there.

Your chosen tools didn’t have business impact, you did. LLMs have (or are thought to have) direct business impact. So you’re no longer in charge of deciding whether you use it.
by pmontra | 2026-02-18 05:54:01+00:00
I saw one last week. I can't comment about the stylus (but I'm swiping with my thumb to write this message). I held it in my hands and it's a brick but most phones of the last years are bricks so I expect that they will deliver another nearly 7" 200 grams brick. We used to call them phablets. This is one of the models that defined the category in the early 2010s https://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_n7000-4135.php

It's almost lightweight nowadays and it's definitely small. I remember that we thought that it was insanely huge when pressed to a ear to talk.
by remslave | 2026-02-18 05:54:05+00:00
Matrix/element is the best bet atm. Had a solid 40m users compared to Discord's 140m at some point, which is good proof they can scale up compared to other. Hardest part is convincing your groups to switch from Discord. But you can bridge the two in Matrix and talk between them which might help ease the transition.

Teamspeak has been drama-free at least and spared from bigtech bullshit, but simple things like changing your username havent been working for like 6 years now, it is in rough but ok shape if you want a drop-in replacement. You can freely make group chats and categorize them by right clicking them to create Discord-style chatrooms or voice chat rooms. Otherwise you must pay to set up a Teamspeak community for your friends.
by chrismoos | 2026-02-18 05:54:18+00:00
Yeah maybe at some point -- I'd need to learn about all the formal stuff though first, it's new to me. For now it's cocotb test benches and also I run it through the Klaus test (https://github.com/Klaus2m5/6502_65C02_functional_tests) which is pretty comprehensive. There are definitely edge cases though that I found when actually running it on physical hardware that my tests didn't find (i.e ran into some IRQ servicing issues), so not easy to be 100%.
by cmdr2 | 2026-02-18 05:55:19+00:00
For what it's worth - for people who're in this space - this project is awesome, and I hope you keep going with it! The compiler space for GPUs really needs truly open-source efforts like this.

Code/doc generators are just another tool. A carpenter uses power tools to cut or drill things quickly, instead of screwing everything manually. That doesn't mean they're doing a sloppy job, because they're still going to obsessively pore over every detail of the finished product. A sloppy carpenter will be sloppy even without power tools.

So yeah, I don't think it's worth spending extra effort to please random HN commenters, because the people who face the problem that you're trying to solve will find it valuable regardless. An errant bold or pipe symbol doesn't matter to people who actually need what you're building.
Show HN: Claude Code as a Doctor for Claude Code
by ramsbaby-dev | 2026-02-18 05:56:30+00:00
I built a 4-tier self-healing runtime for AI agents running 24/7.

When the gateway goes down, it escalates: watchdog → HTTP health check → Claude Code "doctor" (reads logs, diagnoses, autonomously fixes) → Discord alert.

The interesting part: Claude Code is both the patient and the doctor.
Open source, bash-only, macOS/Linux.
by casey2 | 2026-02-18 05:56:48+00:00
Of course AI is bullshit. If you couldn't just use it yourself and figure that out then ask yourself why people like Bezos or Altman are perfectly happy "investing" other people's money but not their own. If they actually believed their own bullshit they would personally be investing all of their money AND taking on personal debt.
Instead Bezos, a guy worth ~200B, sells 5B worth of stock to invest in "AI-adjacent" (power generation) industry, while making amazon invest 200B in data centers. Talk about conflict of interest! WTF!
by AhmedAllam0 | 2026-02-18 05:57:32+00:00
Great point,this is exactly the kind of signal
I hadn't thought to surface explicitly

Right now GhostTrace logs reasoning per rejection,
but not token cost or latency per branch

Adding a cost timeline (tokens + ms per phantom)
is going on the roadmap.

It would make the
.ghost.json file genuinely useful for optimization,
not just debugging.
by alex43578 | 2026-02-18 05:57:38+00:00
If they're cheap and churnable, they're also the easiest place to see substitution.

Pre-AI, Company A hired 3 copywriters a year for their marketing team. Post-AI, they hire 1 who manages some prompting and makes some spot-tweaks, saving $80K a year and improving the turnaround time on deliverables.

My original comment isn't saying the company is going to fire the 3 copywriters on staff, but any company looking at hiring entry-level roles for tasks that AI is already very good at would be silly to not adjust their plans accordingly.