MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 827a | 2026-02-04 05:31:57+00:00
Bro: China literally has not fought a war in over 50 years. Taiwan is rich; lots of urban combat; lots of jungle & mountains; a resistant population; motivated & rich allies; China doesn’t remotely have the naval capability to fully blockade the island; Xi’s favorite pastime is disappearing experienced generals. A full-on China/Taiwan war will never happen, and if it did, it would kill 30 years of industrial and geopolitical progress.
by mathisfun123 | 2026-02-04 05:33:25+00:00
> I'm sitting here struggling to think of why the hell you need a terminal emulator in an IDE

This is the dumbest response anyone can ever have to being presented with the answer to their own question of "what's wrong".

Ok you don't think this is important but your customer (or whatever) just to told you it's important to them. Surprise surprise this is literally why xcode sucks (because Apple seeks to dictate instead of accommodating).
by userbinator | 2026-02-04 05:33:31+00:00
you aren’t going to make non-binary-sized chips

TLC flash actually has a total number of bits that's a multiple of 3, but it and QLC are so unreliable that there's a significant amount of extra bits used for error correction and such.

SSDs haven't been real binary sizes since the early days of SLC flash which didn't need more than basic ECC. (I have an old 16MB USB drive, which actually has a user-accessible capacity of 16,777,216 bytes. The NAND flash itself actually stores 17,301,504 bytes.)
by pjmlp | 2026-02-04 05:33:38+00:00
Not everyone is all the time on the Internet, for some folks their computer needs have stayed the much pretty much the same.

If they want to travel they go to an agency, they still go to the local bank branch to do their stuff, news only what comes up on radio and TV, music is what is on radio, CDs and vinyl, and yet manage to have a good life.
by yablak | 2026-02-04 05:34:19+00:00
Couldn't help myself and ran a quick analysis:

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1tstVoKkVP_8B7dTOofa...

nice plot at the bottom.

rank correlation between GDP and life expectancy (child mortality would have been maybe a bit better). uses a 20 year window in both directions per year. bootstraps for 5% and 95% quantiles of the rank correlation.

there looks to be a max around 1992, and steady downhill in correlation since then.

this seems unlikely to be an artifact of the analysis, though 1992 is eerily close to 20 years from the last date. 2013 is the last year where we have at least 15 years total symmetriclaly around the given year to include in the correlation for that year.
by mw888 | 2026-02-04 05:34:47+00:00
Give the AI less responsibility but more work. Immediate inference is a great example: if the AI can finish my lines, my `if` bodies, my struct instantiations, type signatures, etc., it can reduce my second-by-second work significantly while taking little of my cognitive agency.

These are also tasks the AI can succeed at rather trivially.

Better completions is not as sexy, but in pretending agents are great engineers it's an amazing feature often glossed over.

Another example is automatic test generation or early correctness warnings.
If the AI can suggest a basic test and I can add it with the push of a button - great. The length (and thus complexity) of tests can be configured conservatively relative to the AI of the day.
Warnings can just be flags in the editors spotting obvious mistakes. Off-by-one errors for example, which might go unnoticed for a while, would be an achievable and valuable notice.

Also, automatic debugging and feeding the raw debugger log into an AI to parse seems promising, but I've done little of it.

...And go from there - if a well-crafted codebase and an advanced model using it as context can generate short functions well, then by all means - scale that up with discretion.

These problems around the AI coding tools are not at all special - it's a classic case of taking the new tool too far too fast.
by clawussy | 2026-02-04 05:35:24+00:00
The distinction between high and low stakes is critical for vibe coding. In my experiments with agentic engineering, I've found that the best way to lower the stakes is to embrace 'agent-agnostic' plans and local-first execution. If the agent can generate a plan that is readable by humans and other agents, the 'vibe' becomes a structured protocol that can be validated before it hits production. This mirrors the author's point about 'evaluating the big strokes'—the plan is the big stroke, the code is the detail.
by topspin | 2026-02-04 05:36:09+00:00
> then hold it as a gold standard

I just changed employers recently in part due to this: dealing with someone that appears to now spend his time coercing LLM's to give the answers he wants, and becoming deaf to any contradictions. LLMs are very effective at amplifying the Reality Distortion Field for those that live in them. LLMs are replacing blog posts for this purpose.
by hnfong | 2026-02-04 05:36:25+00:00
I think I understand what the author is trying to say.

We miss thinking "hard" about the small details. Maybe "hard" isn't the right adjective, but we all know the process of coding isn't just typing stuff while the mind wanders. We keep thinking about the code we're typing and the interactions between the new code and the existing stuff, and keep thinking about potential bugs and issues. (This may or may not be "hard".)

And this kind of thinking is totally different from what Linus Torvalds has to think about when reviewing a huge patch from a fellow maintainer. Linus' work is probably "harder", but it's a different kind of thinking.

You're totally right it's just tools improving. When compilers improved most people were happy, but some people who loved hand crafting asm kept doing it as a hobby. But in 99+% cases hand crafting asm is a detriment to the project even if it's fun, so if you love writing asm yourself you're either out of work, or you grudgingly accept that you might have to write Java to get paid. I think there's a place for lamenting this kind of situation.
by wincy | 2026-02-04 05:36:43+00:00
If you want to actually run models on a computer at home? The RTX 6000 Blackwell Pro Workstation, hands down. 96GB of VRAM, fits into a standard case (I mean, it’s big, as it’s essentially the same form factor as an RTX 5090 just with a lot denser VRAM).

My RTX 5090 can fit OSS-20B but it’s a bit underwhelming, and for $3000 if I didn’t also use it for gaming I’d have been pretty disappointed.
by wraptile | 2026-02-04 05:37:24+00:00
> that the things that generally make humans unhappier are not things we are meant to do

citation needed. Also there are plenty of things that make humans "generally unhappy" but we all agree are good like exercise or cleaning up your home. Even if happiness was a valid metric for human condition then blanket banning "social media for <15" - whatever that means - is not a reasonable approach in any way.

The only sound argument here is purely utilitarian "we suck at governing so let's do something easy and maybe it'll work". It has nothing to do with human nature other than that we naturally suck at organizing policy.
by cwnyth | 2026-02-04 05:38:28+00:00
Aptitude testing centers like Johnson O'Connor have tests for that. There are (relatively) huge differences between different people's thinking and problem solving styles. For some, creating an efficient process feels natural, while others need stability and redundancy. Programmers are by and large the latter.

[1]: https://www.jocrf.org/how-clients-use-the-analytical-reasoni...
by danavar | 2026-02-04 05:39:12+00:00
Many people here might be in a similar situation to me, but I took an online masters program that allowed for continuing education following completion of the degree. This has become one of my hobbies; I can take classes at my own expense, not worry about my grades, and just enjoy learning. I can push myself as much as I want and since the classes are hard, just completing 1 assignment is enough to force me to "think". Just sharing my experience for people who might be looking for ways to challenge themselves intellectually.
by its_magic | 2026-02-04 05:40:17+00:00
Agreed. Metric is stupid.

The ancient Sumerians used multiples of 60, as we continue to do for time and angles (which are related) today. It makes perfect sense. 60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, which makes it easy to use in calculations. Even the metric people are not so crazy as to propose replacing these with powers of 10.

Same with pounds, for example. A pound is 16 ounces, which can be divided 4 times without involving any fractions. Try that with metric.

Then there's temperature. Fahrenheit just works more naturally over the human-scale temperature range without involving fractions. Celsius kind of sucks by comparison.
by aunty_helen | 2026-02-04 05:40:20+00:00
Yes, that’s what we’re talking about. Data centers in space.

You put the cold side of the phase change on the internal cooling loop, step up the external cooling loop as high temp as you can and then circulate that through the radiators. You might even do this step up more than once.

Imagine the data center like a box, you want it to be cold inside, and there’s a compressor, you use to transfer heat from inside to outside, the outside gets hot, inside cold. You then put a radiator on the back of the box and radiate the heat to the darkness of space.

This is all very dependent on the biggest and cheapest rockets in the world but it’s a tradeoff of convenience and serviceability for unlimited free energy.
by pdpi | 2026-02-04 05:42:13+00:00
I'm of two minds about this.

One the one hand, it seems "obvious" that Grok should somehow be legally required to have guardrails stopping it from producing kiddie porn.

On the other hand, it also seems "obvious" that laws forcing 3D printers to detect and block attempts to print firearms are patently bullshit.

The thing is, I'm not sure how I can reconcile those two seemingly-obvious statements in a principled manner.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-04 05:42:51+00:00
In Portugal there was only one single shop for the whole country, Interlog, located in Lisbon.

Wanted to get a Mac, needed to travel there, or order by catalogue, from magazine ads.

On my university there were about 5 LCs on a single room for students use, while the whole campus was full of PCs, and UNIX green/amber phosphor terminals to DG/UX rooms, on all major buildings.

Besides that single room, there were two more on the IT department, and that was about it.

When Apple was going down, between buying Be or NeXT as last survival decision, the fate of the university keeping those Macs around was being discussed.
by orwin | 2026-02-04 05:42:58+00:00
Neoliberal economics is basically new school+Chicago school of economics, i'm not sure what it has to do with free trade. Free market, yes, which China isn't.

[Edit] China's economy is so clearly Keynesian with Marxist characteristics that I have trouble understanding why would anyone even think they're neoliberal. China is the best live example of Friedman models being worse than Keynes (not that Keynes model was perfect, at all)
by BrenBarn | 2026-02-04 05:44:07+00:00
Taxing the most "successful" players and burdening them with regulations is exactly what is needed (provided those most successful players are large enough in size and few enough in number). There is room for more nuance in regulations in the sense that they can scale up more gently as companies grow, but the regulations on megacorps like Facebook and Google should only become more brutal. The existence of those kinds of companies anywhere in the world is a threat to people everywhere.
by utopiah | 2026-02-04 05:44:35+00:00
To people claiming a physical raid is pointless from the point of gathering data :

- you are thinking about a company doing good things the right way. You are thinking about a company abiding by the law, storing data on its own server, having good practices, etc.

The moment a company starts to do dubious stuff then good practices start to go out the window. People write email with cryptic analogies, people start deleting emails, ... then as the circumvention become more numerous and complex, there needs to still be a trail in order to remain understandable. That trail will be in written form somehow and that must be hidden. It might be paper, it might be shadow IT but the point is that if you are not just forgetting to keep track of coffee pods at the social corner, you will leave traces.

So yes, raids do make sense BECAUSE it's about recurring complex activities that are just too hard to keep in the mind of one single individual over long periods of time.
by keyle | 2026-02-04 05:44:49+00:00
Like I said if you didn't know what you were doing before, you won't know what you're doing with today.

Agentic coding in general only amplify your ability (or disability).

You can totally learn how to build an OS and invest 5 years of your life doing so. The first version of Linux I'm sure was pretty shoddy. Same for a SCM.

I've been doing this for 30 years. At some point, your limit becomes how much time you're willing to invest in something.
by freakynit | 2026-02-04 05:44:51+00:00
It's always the exorbitant price with such offerings.

A 2 vCPU, 4GB Ram and 40GB Disk instance on Hetzner cost 4.13 USD.

The same here is:

$127.72 without pro plan, and $108.72 with pro plan.

This means to break even, I can only use this for 4.13/127.72*730 = 23.6 hours every month, or, less than an hour daily.
by gregjor | 2026-02-04 05:45:29+00:00
In the software business for over 40 years. I never thought serious programmers would use words like "describing the vibe" and "watching it manifest." Or to see pseudo-meaningful phrases like "dopamine hit" and "hyper-flow" in an article about programming.

The humblebrags alone turn me off: You think too fast and have too many ideas pouring out of your "speed of thought" brain. Mere software design and coding impose "drag" and "friction," like a shark forced to swim in mud with the rest of us with less-hyperactive minds. Lay off the Adderall.

I raised three kids. Children go through a period of intense curiosity where they try to make sense of the world, ask what feels like a hundred questions an hour, and present random thoughts and ideas and theories at the "speed of thought," or a speed faster than an adult can pay attention. I think of that as fun and charming with children, not aware of what they don't know, and interpreting their random theories as novel ideas. Then they grow up and learn to focus their mental faculties, and with some luck and skill discern signal from noise.
by spockz | 2026-02-04 05:45:31+00:00
This is amazing! My wife is also planning to open up a bakery and I was thinking of building something similar. Hadn’t thought of that daily production workflow, just the ingredients and recipes into cost/labour/profit parts.

Some small things:
When trying to edit a product (almond cookies) on the phone, I cannot scroll the pop-up so cannot go to all fields or the save button.
When calculating the total calories it prints kg as the unit instead of cal.
On the overview page of materials for a product it only shows “grams” per ingredient without the actual number.
by asdefghyk | 2026-02-04 05:45:40+00:00
Microsoft allowed piracy to gain a competitive advantage. To allow their software to be entrenched. Not so much these days because lots pirated softwave is now a VECTOR for malware.

Im not sure if the next part of my writing is allowed ... but here goes ...
This google search link explains this in a much more fluet situation than I can.
Specifically the AI over view
https://www.google.com/search?q=Microsoft+allowed+piracy+to+...

My Journey with Microsoft started with Dos3.3 I think. Was a big win 3.1 and Word 2 user ... etc right up to Win 11 now. So I have seen a lot of MS dodgyness over the years.
by dsl | 2026-02-04 05:45:53+00:00
> he did jumpstart the EV industry. He has put up satellites every week for years. He is still a net benefit to all of us.

Talk to any former SpaceX or Tesla employee. They will clue you in that both were successful in spite of Elon, not because of him.

The Cybertruck was really the first product he saw to completion from his own design. And well...
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by ActorNightly | 2026-02-04 05:47:44+00:00
Lol no.

Trump is gonna cancel or fuck with elections in 2026 like he has said multiple times he will, and by 2027 and 2028, he will likely install himself as 3d term president.

Its gonna be an era of economic decline and social dirtiness as shit gets worse and worse and eventually things like crime is gonna rise up again as the lower income sector transitions into the "nothing to lose" crowd.
by mgh95 | 2026-02-04 05:48:25+00:00
> The most important question is whether they make or lose money on each customer, independent of their fixed R&D costs.

The ZIRP era called and wants its business strategy back. Half the problem is as frontier models are released free as in free beer models with "good enough" performance pop up. Half the arguments about LLMs are "you're not holding it right", which borders on indicating that it's unable to distinguish between two sufficiently close LLMs.
by novoreorx | 2026-02-04 05:48:36+00:00
To be honest, I do not quite understand the author's point. If he believes that agentic coding or AI has negative impact on being a thinker, or prevent him from thinking critically, he can simply stop using them.

Why blame these tools if you can stop using them, and they won't have any effect on you?

In my case, my problem was often overthinking before starting to build anything. Vibe coding rescued me from that cycle. Just a few days ago, I used openclaw to build and launch a complete product via a Telegram chat. Now, I can act immediately rather than just recording an idea and potentially getting to it "someday later"

To me, that's evolutional. I am truly grateful for the advancement of AI technology and this new era. Ultimately, it is a tool you can choose to use or not, rather than something that prevents you from thinking more.
by mschild | 2026-02-04 05:49:28+00:00
I agree with the goal but unless you create the petition using the official Bundestag website, this is about as useful as a thumbs up on Facebook.

If you make a petition with the official website and it passes they have to deal with it, even if its a rejection.

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/epet/peteinreichen.html
by maxlybbert | 2026-02-04 05:51:06+00:00
Yes, this comes up, but the Court tends to say things that didn’t exist are covered by constitutional rights. I can’t imagine think of any time they asked “could the founders have imagined this?” Television, radio, and the internet are all protected by freedom of the press without anybody ever showing that the founders could have imagined them.

From Heller v. DC:

“Some have made the argument, bordering on the frivolous, that only those arms in existence in the 18th century are protected by the Second Amendment. We do not interpret constitutional rights that way. Just as the First Amendment protects modern forms of communications, e.g., Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, and the Fourth Amendment applies to modern forms of search, e.g., Kyllo v. United States, the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.”

A few years after that ruling, the Massachusetts state supreme court upheld a conviction for a woman who had carried a taser for self defense. The Supreme Court accepted her challenge, allowed it to go forward without paying court costs, and unanimously overturned that ruling without asking for oral arguments ( https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/577/411/ ):

“The court offered three explanations to support its holding that the Second Amendment does not extend to stun guns. First, the court explained that stun guns are not protected because they ‘were not in common use at the time of the Second Amendment’s enactment.’ This is inconsistent with Heller’s clear statement that the Second Amendment ‘extends . . . to . . . arms . . . that were not in existence at the time of the founding.’

“The court next asked whether stun guns are ‘dangerous per se at common law and unusual,’ in an attempt to apply one ‘important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms.’ ... In so doing, the court concluded that stun guns are ‘unusual’ because they are ‘a thoroughly modern invention.’ By equating ‘unusual’ with ‘in common use at the time of the Second Amendment’s enactment,’ the court’s second explanation is the same as the first; it is inconsistent with Heller for the same reason.

“Finally, the court used ‘a contemporary lens’ and found ‘nothing in the record to suggest that [stun guns] are readily adaptable to use in the military.’ But Heller rejected the proposition ‘that only those weapons useful in warfare are protected.’

“For these three reasons, the explanation the Massachusetts court offered for upholding the law contradicts this Court’s precedent.”

The fact that Caetano was a unanimous and thorough ruling says a lot to me. Perhaps you’re holding out hope that Heller will be overturned soon, but the chances for that are very slim ( https://youtu.be/nFTRwD85AQ4 ).
by kamaal | 2026-02-04 05:51:06+00:00
To me thinking hard involved the following steps-

1. Take a pen and paper.

2. Write down what we know.

3. Write down where we want to go.

4. Write down our methods of moving forward.

5. Make changes to 2, using 4, and see if we are getting closer to 3. And course correct based on that.

I still do it a lot. LLM's act as assist. Not as a wholesale replacement.
by ActorNightly | 2026-02-04 05:51:14+00:00
>. 2A is to stop that situation from ever happening. Is the government starts shooting we will shoot back

The fact that ICE are still parading around on the street has put in a nail in the coffin that 2A is absolutely pointless.

If anything, USA citizens deserve to have their guns taken away forcibly just because they could use them but didn't.