MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2026-02-10 21:28:00+00:00
> Furthermore, once a structure is in place, there doesn't seem to be a trigger point that causes the LLM to step back and think about reorganising the code, or how the code it wants to write could be better integrated into what's already there.

Older models did do this, and it sucked. You'd ask for a change to your codebase and they would refactor a chunk of it and make a bunch of other unrelated "improvements" at the same time.

This was frustrating and made for code that was harder to review.

The latest generation of models appear to have been trained not to do that. You ask for a feature, they'll build that feature with the least changes possible to the code.

I much prefer this. If I want the code refactored I'll say to the model "look for opportunities to refactor this" and then it will start suggesting larger changes.
by flohofwoe | 2026-02-10 21:29:10+00:00
280 games over 10 years really isn't impressive (2.5x less than even D3D8 which was an unpopular 'inbetween' D3D version and only relevant for about 2 years). D3D12 (890 games) isn't great either when compared to D3D11 (4.6k) or D3D9 (3.3k), it really demonstrates what a massive failure the modern 3D APIs are for real-world usage :/

I don't think those lists are complete, but they seem to show the right relative amount of 3D API usage across PC games.
by GMoromisato | 2026-02-10 21:29:32+00:00
It's a good question. I think short-term (5 years) the easy jobs will go away. No one is going to write a restaurant web site by hand. Maybe the design will still be human-made, but all the code will be templated AI. Imagine every WordPress template customized by AI. That's a whole bunch of jobs that won't exist.

Right now I'm creating clinical trial visualizations for biotech firms. There's some degree of complexity because I have to understand the data schema, the specifics of the clinical trial, and the goals of the scientists. But I firmly believe that AI will be able to handle most of that within 5 years (it may be slower in biotech because of the regulatory requirements).

But I also firmly believe that there is more demand for (good) software today than there are programmers to satisfy it. If programmers become 10x more efficient with AI, that might mean that there will be 10x more programs that need writing.
by lovich | 2026-02-10 21:29:42+00:00
Yea, closing beaches and parks is on par with the Nazis did to the Jews.

The Covid measures were also totally targeted at certain groups of people with immutable characteristics and not at people who actively wanted to spread disease.

How are people like you still making arguments like this in 2026? Were you also one of the people claiming we’d all be dead in a year from the vaccines?
by throw0101a | 2026-02-10 21:29:42+00:00
> The correct translation is that everyone in WebPKI only wants the responsibility of running the Web PKI and not the Everything PKI.

The title of the current (2.2.2) CAB standard is "Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly‐Trusted TLS Server Certificates":

* https://cabforum.org/working-groups/server/baseline-requirem...

§1.3, "PKI Participants", states:

> The CA/Browser Forum is a voluntary organization of Certification Authorities and suppliers of Internet browser and other relying‐party software applications.

IMHO "other relying-party software applications" can include XMPP servers (also perhaps SMTP, IMAP, FTPS, NNTP, etc).

If Google/Chrome doesn't want to allow it, good for them. But why do they get to dictate what others do?
by nicebyte | 2026-02-10 21:29:45+00:00
> Not sure if this is an "oh, no" event.

it's not.

descriptor sets are realistically never getting deprecated. old code doesn't have to be rewritten if it works. there's no point.

if you're doing bindless (which you most certainly arent if you're still stuck with descriptor sets) this offers a better way of handling that.

if you care to upgrade your descriptor set based path to use heaps, this extension offers a very nice pathway to doing so _without having to even recompile shaders_.

for new/future code, this is a solid improvement.

if you're happy where you are with your renderer, there isn't a need to do anything.
by jPendleton | 2026-02-10 21:29:47+00:00
I know, right? If the IME were installed on the boot ROM and easily deactivated, then we could assume it was just a feature for IT admins to run remote updates on fleets of computers. The fact that they chained it to the processors inside the SOC is a dead giveaway for mandatory backdoor. Where are the lawsuits?

I mean, how do people think Palantir is able to sell access to everyone's "phone calls, emails, money, or any other material flows?” See Munn, Luke. "Seeing With Software: Palantir and the regulation of life.” Studies in Control Societies, 2017
(https://www.academia.edu/download/67734248/Seeing_With_Softw...) (describing Palantir's Gotham Platform which is used by governments around the world).

It's as if no one has ever heard of the Fourth Amendment, e.g. Carpenter v. US, 585 U.S. 296, 138 S. Ct. 2206, 201 L. Ed. 2d 507 (2018).
by StillBored | 2026-02-10 21:30:11+00:00
In Austin too, and probably just caused a driver to think the same thing. They were in the left lane on a frontage road which was suddenly turning left even though there was an entire lane opposite the intersection blocked off by those plastic things that seem popular to randomly place in the road these days. I saw them hesitate and figured they wanted to merge right, so i decelerated a bit to add another car length or or so, at maybe 10-15mph. They had plenty of space, flipped on their blinker, and instead of just merging started slowing down, to which I decided I wasn't going to brake more to allow them to block myself and everyone else from rolling through the intersection. They basically stopped in their lane, and beeped as I rolled by, to which someone behind them beeped at them for blocking the lane.

In Austin if you want to merge, decide if you can, blink and then merge.

Don't expect people to stomp on their brakes and stop to let you in, especially if your already traveling slower than the lane you are trying to get into and decide to further slow yourself.

And if you can't merge, deal with it, exit, or miss your exit and go around. Next time you will be more prepared or you will learn how to properly merge.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-02-10 21:30:12+00:00
What is this business about her role in GIFs? She helped invent Macromedia Shockwave.... Not remembering any kind of connection between those things... I mean, animated GIFs were already a thing that popularized on their own.... nothing to do with Shockwave really. Just both contributing at the same time to popularizing or encouraging the use of animation on the web, yeah?
by srean | 2026-02-10 21:31:50+00:00
Yes it's simple and I agree with almost everything except that arctan bit (it loses information, but that's aside story).

But all that you said is not about the point that I was trying to convey.

What I showed was you if you define addition of tuples a certain, fairly natural way. And then define multiplication on the same tuples in such a way that multiplication and addition follow the distributive law (so that you can do polynomials with them). Then your hands are forced to define multiplication in very specific way, just to ensure distributivity. [To be honest their is another sneaky way to do it if the rules are changed a bit, by using reflection matrices]

Rotation so far is nowhere in the picture in our desiderata, we just want the distributive law to apply to the multiplication of tuples. That's it.

But once I do that, lo and behold this multiplication has exactly the same structure as multiplication by rotation matrices (emergence? or equivalently, recognition of the consequences of our desire)

In other words, these tuples have secretly been the (scaled) cos theta, sin theta tuples all along, although when I had invited them to my party I had not put a restriction on them that they have to be related to theta via these trig functions.

Or in other words, the only tuples that have distributive addition and multiplication are the (scaled) cos theta sin theta tuples, but when we were constructing them there was no notion of theta just the desire to satisfy few algebraic relations (distributivity of add and multiply).
by alistairSH | 2026-02-10 21:31:56+00:00
Banking in the US feels like it's stuck in the 90s. Heck, half the time, it's not even chip+PIN, it's chip+signature (which is a relativelyrecent change from carbon copy or swipe and signature).

I've never had a web shop use an API to deduct from my bank account - the closest thing is PayPal, which as far as I can tell is basically ACH under the covers, just though an intermediary. Pretty sure more Americans use their CC or debit card for online shopping.
by roenxi | 2026-02-10 21:32:04+00:00
> Sure is convenient that we keep having more and more crisis and boogiemen that governments can leverage...

The problem with this phrasing is it makes it sound hyperbolic, but it is important to remember the world is large and there are always, in a literal and normal sense, multiple major crises going on at any moment.

People who don't pay much attention to politics sometimes get confused about why crises elevated by the corporate media get ignored. A big answer is becuase they are elevated for political reasons, usually the crisis is fairly routine in absolute terms.
by em-bee | 2026-02-10 21:32:04+00:00
my repeated fantasies are a blind person with a reinforced version of their stick, using that stick to great effect to damage cars that are parked on the sidewalk. like, when they bump into a car they take the stick an beat the car for all that its worth creating as much damage as possible.

the other fantasy is carrying a bazooka and shooting anyone speeding. optionally the weapon is futuristic and able to just vaporize the car while leaving passengers unharmed. they just suddenly find themselves sitting on the street looking dumbfounded.
by ibejoeb | 2026-02-10 21:32:16+00:00
Git is totally fine keeping a few extra text files. These are ephemeral anyway. The working sessions just get squashed down and eliminated by the time I've got something worth saving anyway. At that point, I might keep a overview file around describing what the change does and how it was implemented.

(I will give the agent boom a bit of credit: I write a lot more documentation now, because it's essentially instruction and initial instruction to anything else that works on it. That's a total inversion, and I think it's good.)

The bigger problem is, like others have said, there's no one true flow. I use different agents for different things. I might summarize a lot of reasoning with a cheap model to create a design document, or use a higher reasoning model to sanity check a plan, whatever. It's a lot like programming in English. I don't want my tool to be prescriptive and imposing its technical restrictions on me.

All of that aside: it's impossible that this tool raised $60 million. The problem with this post is that it's supposed to be a hype post about changing the game "entirely" but it doesn't give us a glimpse into whatever we're supposed to by hyped about.
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-02-10 21:32:31+00:00
Because ISIS was a rebranded Al Quaeda which emerged from the Mujahideen terrorist group which was funded by the US through Operation Cyclone headed by the Polish Jesuit Zbigniew Brzezinski. They've always had funding from the Jesuits / US war industry. It's no surprise they have access to these vehicles if one understands that all modern wars are orchestrated.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-10 21:32:56+00:00
>Oh good grief, parents with SUVs aren't that complex, and they are often purchased to carry around their kids' friends as well (negating your first point).

If the goal was to carry more people, a minivan would have been bought, as they are more spacious and comfortable.

An SUV's goal is to use up more space and have the passengers sit higher up, to project more "power" or "status".
by ActorNightly | 2026-02-10 21:33:12+00:00
>he origin goes back to Cardano solving cubic equations.

Whether or not mathematicians realized this at the time, there is no functional difference in assuming some imaginary number that when multiplied with another imaginary number gives a negative number, and essentially moving in more than 1 dimension on the number line.

Because it was the same way with negative numbers. By creating the "space" of negative numbers allows you do operations like 3-5+6 which has an answer in positive numbers, but if you are restricted to positive only, you can't compute that.

In the same way like I mentioned, Quaternions allow movement through 4 dimentions to arrive at a solution that is not possible to achieve with operations in 3 when you have gimbal lock.

So my argument is that complex numbers are fundamental to this, and any field or topological construction on that is secondary.
by pss314 | 2026-02-10 21:33:13+00:00
Markdown reader using find, fzf and lnav

find . \( -path '*/vendor/*' -or -path '*/.git/*' -or -path '*/node_modules/*' \) -prune -or -type f -name "*.md" -print | fzf | xargs lnav

In the above command, the find command excludes directories such as "vendor" (golang), ".git" (git) and "node_modules" (nodejs). The lnav itself provides the markdown support https://lnav.org/2022/08/06/markdown-support.html
by hysan | 2026-02-10 21:33:23+00:00
Linking related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46818467

AFAIK, removing Antheas from Bazzite opened the door to discussions for forming the OGC. Prior to that, Antheas had created such difficult situations that many of the member groups in the OGC did not collaborate with Bazzite because of his presence. Whether or not the OGC actually works (ex: getting patches upstreamed faster), only time will tell.
by jmye | 2026-02-10 21:33:24+00:00
yawn

What is a "credentialed doctor"? What are your qualifications for having an opinion in the first place? Why do you think a minority org full of quacks with little relevant background has any standing at all? Aside, of course, from the fact that it confirmed your priors (that became your priors after, presumably, some intense research on Facebook and OAN). Perhaps we should let Dr. Oz chime in, too, on things he's not qualified in.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-10 21:33:24+00:00
Much of consumer preference doesn't originate from the consumers' own minds, though. It's shaped largely by marketing, and in the US car companies have been pushing bigger, boxier, more plush, and more expensive with its ad spend and incentives for decades now. It's way easier to find a dealership offering 0%-2% financing on some aircraft carrier of a vehicle than it is on a small car.
by combyn8tor | 2026-02-10 21:34:04+00:00
> I don’t see how the average engineer has the energy or motivation to even understand these tools, never mind meaningfully compare them

This is why I use the copilot extension in VS code. They seem to just copy whatever useful thing climbs to the surface of the AI tool slop pile. Last week I loaded up and Opus 4.6 was there ready to use. Yesterday I found it has a new Claude tool built in which I used to do some refactoring... it worked fine. It's like having an AI tool curator.
by jbeam | 2026-02-10 21:34:07+00:00
Go to /r/PublicFreakout or /r/EyesOnIce and take a scroll.

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/TdTwBp13za

Edit 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/cLGFI5GXlv
by aspenmartin | 2026-02-10 21:34:22+00:00
You’re talking about a 1970s satellite? I guess you win the argument?

Blog: I use AI to make and blog developers are using agentic tools

X-ray machine: again a little late here, plus if you want to start dragging in places that likely have a huge amount of beaurocracy I don’t know that that’s very fair

Firmware in your toaster: cmon these are old basic things, if it’s new firmware maybe? But probably not? These are not strong examples

NYSE to action on stock trades; no they don’t use AI to action on stock trades (that would be dumb and slow and horribly inefficient and non-deterministic), but may very well now be using AI to work on the codebase that does

Let’s try to find maybe more impactful examples than small embodied components in toasters and telescopes, 1970s era telescopes that are already past our solar system.

The denial runs deep
by Etheryte | 2026-02-10 21:34:30+00:00
Being passionate and interested in a problem doesn't mean there is a market for said problem. This doesn't mean that it's not valid to feel that way, but a viable business might be hard if not impossible to build in that niche. Maybe I'm passionate about and interested in ornamental gourd futures [0], doesn't mean it's a way to build a business.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/kzoh1c/i_am...
by Kon5ole | 2026-02-10 21:34:41+00:00
>As a kid I could fiddle with config.sys (or rather autoexec.bat) while nowadays wrestling a file path out of my phone is a battle and the system files of my phone are kept from me.

I think the magic happens at different levels of abstraction as time goes by, and it's easy to get stuck.

Us kids could fiddle with autoexec and config to get DOOM going, today's kids can fiddle with a yaml and have a MMORPG that handles 10 000 users from all over the world going.

It's not the same but I can easily imagine it feeling at least equally magical for a kid today.
by achenet | 2026-02-10 21:34:53+00:00
err... how Bitcoin works, or how the speculative bubble around cryptocurrencies circa 2019-2021 worked?

Bitcoin is actually kind of useful for some niche use cases - namely illegal transactions, like buying drugs online (Silk Road, for example), and occasionally for international money transfers - my French father once paid an Argentinian architect in Bitcoin, because it was the easiest way to transfer the money due to details about money transfer between those countries which I am completely unaware of.

The Bitcoin bubble, like all bubbles since the Dutch tulip bubble in the 1600s, did follow a somewhat similar "well everyone things this thing is much more valuable than it is worth, if I buy some now the price will keep going on and I can dump it on some sucker" path, however.
by itissid | 2026-02-10 21:35:02+00:00
Venturing a guess. Its the hype of the non-technical automation crowd. APIs are hard for these people to grok and work with. The others are the engineering/dev/product crowd, the best among them have a high BS detector threshold. The former are a lot more numerically and its why the hype is so high.

Whereas the former see things talking to each other across boundaries with a minimal set up, the latter might look at it and see/say: "hard leaky abstractions"/"Poor security model"/"High $/task", you can't you build/sell it.

Where the latter crowd might exclaim: "Look my slack bot can confirm with my doctor when calendar appointment is near. SaaS tools are dead!". The engineering/dev/product are more sceptical and they are right to be so.
by kube-system | 2026-02-10 21:35:46+00:00
The current Hilux is extremely close in size to the US Tacoma... It has also grown over the years. Although if you look at the footprint size (e.g. what CAFE measures), the Tacoma has the wheels a little more advantageously placed.

I am sure they could consolidate the models to work in both the US and abroad, but my guess is they do enough US volume that it is not yet advantageous to do so. There's already a number of major parts that have been shared recently between the Tacoma and Hilux... e.g. the 2TR-FE engine and AC60 transmission. But usually Toyota chooses to spec the Tacoma as a more up-market vehicle, which makes sense given the US market.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-10 21:36:06+00:00
>there are always, in a literal and normal sense, multiple major crises going on at any moment

True, but my point I wanted to draw attention to, is HOW these crisis are handled now, not that there's many of them.

Every crisis now seems to be exclusively used as a vehicle to justify taking away just a little bit more of your freedom and anonymity, or implement more fiscal policies that will leave you footing the bill but just so happens it will be enriching the wealthy as a side effect.

Because such policies shoved out the door in times of crisis, don't pass through the lengthy public debates and scrutiny regular policies have to go through, so it's the perfect opportunity to sneak and fast-track some nefarious stuff in.

I'm not that old yet, but I don't feel like this backdoor was misused to this extent in the past, like pre-2008 I mean (except 9/11 of course). It definitely feels like politicians have gooten of taste and are abusing this exploit now more with every little opportunity.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-10 21:36:21+00:00
Like many here I also run a few things at home and I've got a variety of machine: a good old Pi as an unbound DNS server that is on 24/7, A N100 modern NUC, running headless, to stream movies/music (wife or kid or I turn it on when needed), a good old rock stable solid HP Z440 workstation which I use as a server (ECC RAM and 14 cores, yummy) for Proxmox/VMs/Docker/ZFS, etc.

The workstation which I use as a server is only powered up when I need it.

> I used Syncthing for file synchronization and PiHole as my local network DNS server to block unwanted incoming traffic.

Nitpicking but a local DNS resolver doesn't block unwanted incoming traffic: it prevents unwanted domain names from resolving. Arguably if it blocks traffic then it's ongoing traffic that it blocks.

Maybe he meant that the machine running PiHole also runs a firewall? I use unbound, not PiHole, so I'm not that familiar with PiHole (maybe PiHole also acts as a firewall?).
by jmye | 2026-02-10 21:36:26+00:00
Most of this is either a function of you not knowing what you're talking about, or hyperbolizing things. I live in the far suburbs of a mid-major city and am within 2 miles of 3 grocery stores, multiple shops and parks. That you can Google Map some specific hellscape in Dallas or Houston hardly makes either of those situations the norm, and even where they are, suggesting a normal, daily errand takes 2 hours is absolute nonsense.

At some point, it's time to leave the memes on Reddit and just not having Big Opinions about things you know you don't know anything about.
Show HN: Give your OpenClaw agent a serverless back end
by knutmartin | 2026-02-10 21:36:30+00:00
OpenClaw runs locally. That's great for privacy and control. It's less great when you need:

- REST APIs and webhooks that stay up even when your computer sleeps
- Persistent storage beyond local files
- Background jobs that run on a schedule
- CRUD endpoints your other apps can talk to

You could give your agent access to AWS. Let it wire up Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and SQS. Watch it burn through your free tier and leak credentials.

Or you could give it a backend designed for agents.

Blog post: https://codehooks.io/blog/openclaw-backend
Skill file: https://github.com/RestDB/codehooks-openclaw-skill
Codehooks: https://codehooks.io

Would love feedback from anyone running OpenClaw or other personal agents.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-10 21:36:41+00:00
> Also if you look at the leveling guidelines of any major tech company, their leveling guidelines above mid level are based on scope, impact and dealing with ambiguity - not “I codez real gud”

Your entire comment is this specific strawman - no one, and I mean no one, is making this claim! You are the only one who is (ironically, considering the job you do) too tone-deaf and too self-unaware to avoid making this argument.

I'm merely pointing out that your value-prop is based on a solid technical foundation, which I feel you agree on:

> If not the technical person, then who? It’s a lot easier for a technical person to learn how to talk the language of the business than a business person to have a deep understanding of technology.

The argument is not "Oh boo hoo, I wish I could spend 8 hours a day coding for money like I used to", so stop pretending like it is.