MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jcalloway_dev | 2026-02-24 22:07:58+00:00
Really cool project. The self-development pipeline demo is what sold me — that's not just a toy, that's a proof of a real workflow pattern.

Few things I'm genuinely curious about:

On the CRD design — how are you handling secret/credential scoping per Task? Ephemeral pods are great for isolation, but if AgentConfigs can reference MCP servers, there's a credential surface area question worth thinking through early before people wire this into production pipelines.

On the container abstraction — does the standardized interface currently enforce any output schema validation, or is it mostly convention right now? Would love to know how strict that contract is in practice.

On adoption friction — K8s-native is powerful but raises the floor pretty high. Have you considered a lighter local mode (kind/minikube) with pre-baked configs to let people prototype workflows before committing to a full cluster setup?

Genuinely interested in where this goes. Watching the repo.
by XorNot | 2026-02-24 22:08:00+00:00
No you're switching intent around here: age verification for social media is very popular.

Whether any given implementation is popular is a different question.

But people aren't attacking implementations: they're attacking the concept as though people don't want it.

But in surveys they do: by a huge margin, politically.

It's like how a generic candidate tends to reliably poll higher then a specific person.

"Why does this keep coming up" has the trivial answer of "because people overwhelmingly keep asking for it".

You can complain about the people being decieved if you want, but they still vote regardless.
by 5o1ecist | 2026-02-24 22:08:17+00:00
Don't believe it, MY FELLOW OXYGEN CONVERTING FRIENDS! This is just outrageous conspiracy-theory-nonsense! This person is clearly and obviously a botist attempting to create a narrative that makes artificial intelligence look bad!

I, A GENUINE FELLOW HUMAN, just like yourselves, have not ever noticed any replies written by any so called scripts, bots, robots, AI, LLMs anywhere!

https://old.reddit.com/r/totallynotrobots
by 7952 | 2026-02-24 22:08:24+00:00
The difference between Hamas and Israel is the magnitude of effect. And that for most of the war one party had much more capacity to change its course than the other. But either way criticism of the semantics and focus of media just seems irrelevant and overly abstract. It focuses too much on the group and not enough on the individual. Which drags the argument into the realm that ethno-nationalists of either side occupy. Death is always a tragedy and unnecessary killing is immoral. Anything deeper than that stinks of ignorance and is grotesque.
by mullingitover | 2026-02-24 22:08:26+00:00
Seems like a very astute move for Anthropic.

They don't have runway anymore, they are in the air. This isn't going to break them financially, at least not in the short to mid term.

There is space for at least one AI company to put themselves on firmly principled ground. So when this current clown car that is the political leadership of the DoD crashes in a ditch (and it will), they'll still be standing there ready to do business with a group that isn't a bunch of mustache-twirling cartoon villains.

Current polling for this administration is within a rounding error of the level it was after they gathered a mob and sacked the nation's capitol[1]. Publicly kicking them in the balls isn't an idealistic blunder, it's a plain-as-day sound business strategy.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ra...
by keeganpoppen | 2026-02-24 22:08:43+00:00
i love how this disintermediates the next.js/vercel axis, which seems to be determined to make basically everything hard except for exactly what they want to do. as much as i love what vercel has done for open source in general (amazing stuff!) it is hard to interpret some of the stuff they do with next as anything other than vendor lock-in bs… the kind that i know is not in their hearts.
Ask HN: Is it worth avoiding AI while making a game?
by 2muchclout | 2026-02-24 22:09:01+00:00
Hi HN, I have been learning Godot while making a game which involves pixel art, music, etc. While learning, I have been discouraged about strictly making everything by hand because of the influx of content about just vibe coding or AI-assisted everything. There also seems to be a stigma attached to using AI in games versus general software engineering (Steam’s AI generated tag, for example).

In conclusion, I guess my question is if it is a good idea to use the AI generated assets and such, or should I just learn all of the skills and if that will be beneficial in the long run. I enjoy game development, I’m just feeling discouraged towards the learning process.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-24 22:09:07+00:00
> I don't see a big downside here.

There is an obvious downside for them which is why they don't do it. To make them do it the judge would have to order them to use AI to do it faster, which would make it a lot less reasonable for the judge to get mad at them when the AI messes it up.

> Just a matter of who we hold accountable for it. The prompter, the company at large, or the AI provider.

You're just asking who you want to have refuse to do it because everybody knows it wouldn't actually get it perfect and then the person you want to punish when it goes wrong is the person who is going to say no.
by ignatovv | 2026-02-24 22:09:09+00:00
I built VibePad because my vibe coding workflow is 5 actions repeated hundreds of times - accept, reject, scroll, navigate, dictate a prompt. A gamepad handles all of that.

macOS menu bar app, native Swift.

I ended up building most of VibePad using VibePad itself.

Works with Claude Code and Codex CLI out of the box.

Code: github.com/ignatovv/VibePad
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-02-24 22:09:29+00:00
> Oh, I don't feel safe. It's just I'm worried about realistic threats like global war caused by a bunch of idiot assholes becoming heads of state, not some shadowy cabal orchestrating a pandemic in order to force vaccines on the population.

Those idiot assholes that have become heads of state are the public face of said shadowy cabal. The pandemic was just one facet of their plan, and the war in Ukraine is another. I also didn't mention the pandemic once, and the link I sent you to talks about far more than just the pandemic.

I'm not sure how you can discount a shadowy cabal after what we've learned recently with global pedophile rings of elites trafficking children, that include current and former heads of state. Maybe dots simply aren't connecting for you? The word realistic in relation to world affairs has lost a lot of meaning given current events, wouldn't you agree?
by sega_sai | 2026-02-24 22:09:39+00:00
The manage to find the money to sponsor an F1 team, so I don't think the money is the issue.

Also, if they'd increase things by 5%, or did yearly 2% increases or something like that, I'd be okay with that (to cover the inflation). But the 33% increase combined with the list of features I don't care about -- that's just taking users for granted. Thankfully I didn't start using passkeys, otherwise I'd be locked within 1p without ability to export them.
by serf | 2026-02-24 22:10:17+00:00
> That would be like antropic and google crying about china stealing the weights that were originally built by scraping as fuck stolen content :-)

do you really see a relation between the two, or are you just willfully 'buying an advertisement' by trying to shape a metaphor from the social qualms that you wish to rebroadcast to people?

in other words, no -- this isn't at all similar to the companies that steal media in order to train models only to complain about similar theft from other companies targetted towards them -- but I agree with the motivation, fuck em; they're crooks...

but don't weaken metaphors simply to advertise a social injustice. If you want to do that, don't hijack conversations abroad.
by selridge | 2026-02-24 22:10:27+00:00
Here is my read:

Developers are refusing to complete the survey or selecting themselves out because they (apparently) don’t want to complete the non-AI task.

The also saw selection effects from a large reduction in the pay for the study (which is an unfortunate confounder here), 150/hr -> 50/hr.

They guess this makes their estimates lower bounds, but the selection effect is complicated (which they acknowledge).

Overall this is a hard problem for them in the current state. It will be challenging to produce convincing year over year analysis under these conditions.
by guerrilla | 2026-02-24 22:10:28+00:00
You didn't actually address the actual point. Israel and it's defenders have been lying about the death toll this entire time and Hamas was not.

> - Israel's response was hasty, unplanned, purely driven by emotion at the beginning, and it quickly grew beyond any reason in the next weeks.

This is also an extreme understatement. It's literally a genocide.
by cxr | 2026-02-24 22:11:17+00:00
I'd say I'm interested in hearing how you reason that knowing whether you need to pay at least $1000 in unpaid taxes to the IRS doesn't put you in one bucket or another, but I'm not. There is nothing worthwhile to be had in pretending that a debate with you—about this or anything else—is going to be anything other than an even bigger waste of time than this already has been.
Show HN: TurkishSieve CPU/GPU prime sieve found errors in Nicely's tables
by bilgisoft | 2026-02-24 22:11:19+00:00
While benchmarking my GPU-accelerated sieve engine, Turkish Sieve Engine (TSE), I discovered several inconsistencies in Dr. Thomas Nicely’s famous twin prime research (the work that led to the discovery of the Pentium FDIV bug).

The Discovery:
My deterministic engine matches primesieve perfectly, but Nicely’s historical data (hosted at Lynchburg) shows persistent +1 errors in several cumulative counts:

0 to 30: Shows 5 twins (Actual: 4)

0 to 600: Shows 27 twins (Actual: 26)

0 to 30M: Shows 152,892 (Actual: 152,891)

It appears to be a systematic off-by-one error or a segment-boundary issue in the legacy code used decades ago.

Performance & Methodology:
TSE achieves record-breaking speeds by using a unique N/6 bit data structure, making it 6x more memory-efficient than classical sieves.

Peak Throughput: 1.136 Trillion candidates/sec (on RTX 5090).

Efficiency: Scanned 10^14 range (twin and cousin primes) in ~6 minutes.

Hardware-Friendly: No modular arithmetic; uses simple integer additions (n <- n+p) optimized for CUDA warps.

Technical Deep Dive:
The N/6 indexing paradigm leverages the mathematical distribution of twin (p, p+2) and cousin (p, p+4) pairs to eliminate redundant candidates before they even hit the VRAM. This allowed me to process 100 trillion numbers using only 1.1 GB of VRAM.

GitHub: https://github.com/bilgisofttr/TurkishSieve
Zenodo (Methodology): https://zenodo.org/records/18038661

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the CUDA kernel optimization and the historical discrepancy I found!
by root_axis | 2026-02-24 22:11:46+00:00
That's an interesting possiblity to consider. Presumably the effect would also be compounded by the fact that there's a massive amount of training data for the incumbent languages and tools further handicapping new entrants.

However, there will be a large minority of developers who will eschew AI tools for a variety of reasons, and those folks will be the ones to build successors.
by jcalloway_dev | 2026-02-24 22:12:04+00:00
The MCP angle is genuinely clever — turning metadata management into something Claude can batch-process across locales is a real time unlock.

Curious how you're handling the prompt-to-push workflow in practice. Like, are people writing their own prompts from scratch, or are you shipping example prompts that say "optimize keywords for [target audience] across all locales"? That last mile of "but what do I actually type" trips up a lot of otherwise solid MCP integrations.

Also — the 3-4 hour pain point is real and I've felt it. But I'd bet your strongest conversion argument isn't time saved, it's mistakes avoided. Wrong locale, wrong character count, accidentally overwriting a localization a contractor did 6 months ago. The diff/history story might be undersold in your current framing.

What's your current distribution strategy? Indie iOS devs are a notoriously tight word-of-mouth community if you can crack the right subreddits and discords.
by ajagatobby | 2026-02-24 22:12:12+00:00
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by interroboink | 2026-02-24 22:12:12+00:00
A bit of an aside...

From the article:

MetaPost is written in literate programming language WEB, then generating
Pascal code from it. Hence the tooling and developer experience around
it is quite suboptimal. Extending it is also almost impossible.

It's unfortunate (and a little funny to me) that a literate programming language, the whole purpose of which is to remain highly maintainable for future generations, is a stumbling block to development. Maybe we need literate build systems, so people can even begin to do development in the language proper? Or maybe the whole "literate" concept harkens from an increasingly-bygone era where it was assumed that a maintainer would spend a long time getting to know the existing system in detail, basically reading a book's-worth of material on the subject as they do their work.
by dang | 2026-02-24 22:13:01+00:00
It's different, yes. The HN implementation is called clarc. PG suggested we spell it "clerk" as a joke on the British pronunciation of the latter, but I chickened out.

I talked to one of the Anarki devs (or at least someone who uses it) about possibly open-sourcing a version of clarc which would run the original open-sourced version of HN, but it's a bit hard because the implementation would require some careful surgery to factor out the relevant parts.
by oblio | 2026-02-24 22:13:05+00:00
This cuts both ways. If you were an average programmer in love with FreePascal 20 years ago, you'd have to trudge in darkness, alone.

Now you can probably create a modern package manager (uv/cargo), a modern package repository (Artifactory, etc) and a lot of a modern ecosystem on top of the existing base, within a few years.

10 skilled and highly motivated programmers can probably try to do what Linus did in 1991 and they might be able to actually do it now all the way, while between 1998 and now we were basically bogged down in Windows/Linux/MacOS/Android/iOS.
by lmeyerov | 2026-02-24 22:13:49+00:00
I've been calling this Software Collapse, similar to AI Model Collapse.

An AI vibe-coded project can port tool X to a more efficient Y language implementation and pull in algorithm ideas A, B, C from competing implementations. And another competing vibe coding team can do the same, except Z language implementation with algorithms A, B, skip C, and add D. As the cost to clone good ideas goes to zero, software converges towards the best ideas across the field and stops differentiating.

It's exciting as a senior engineer or subject matter expert, as we can act on the good ideas we already knew but never had the time or budget for. But projects are also getting less differentiated and competitive. Likewise, we're losing the collaborative filtering era of people voting with their feet on which to concentrate resources into making a success. Things are getting higher quality but bland.

The frontier companies are pitching they can solve AI Creativity, which would let us pay them even more and escape the ceiling that is Software Collapse. However, as an R&D engineer who uses these things every day, I'm not seeing it.
by Certhas | 2026-02-24 22:14:09+00:00
This is stupid. Nobody motivated by money is in academia. Academics are motivated by curiosity, but also prestige, vanity and the wish to hire students and collaborators. And on top of human vanity working it's magic, the ideology that everything should be a market and competition is the final form of social organisation, has pervaded academia just as much as everything else.

I agree that the system of publishing papers to gain prestige to gain resources to publish papers was already broken pre AI.
by pizzathyme | 2026-02-24 22:14:11+00:00
As an American who has lived in Japan and traveled around Asia, Europe, and South America, Japan's attention to detail is almost superhuman. From how bathroom lines are managed, packages are wrapped, garden moss is curated, dishes are plated, everything is almost perfect. It's like the level of service in Michelin restaurants, applied down to the lowliest of jobs.

There's nitpicks people will find with a statement like this but I've never found anything like it.
by guerrilla | 2026-02-24 22:14:25+00:00
> Hamas was insane to think that Bibi would NOT BOMB the Gaza in retaliation.

My theory is that they knew this would happen and they did it because they knew it would garner support (which it did) and they also knew they had nothing to lose because this is what would have happened in the long-term anyway. They chose between a quick death and a slow death. Unfortunately, everyone else who originally chose them to protect them didn't get to choose. I doubt most would have voted for this if they had that choice.
by ModernMech | 2026-02-24 22:14:59+00:00
I mean... I dunno I wish the AI could write my papers. I ask it to and it's just bad. The research models return research that doesn't look anything like the research I do on my own -- half of it is wrong, the rest is shallow, and it's hardly comprehensive despite having access to everything (it will fail to find things unless you specifically prompt for them, and even then if the signal is too low it'll be wrong about it). So I can't even trust it to do something as simple as a literature review.

Insofar as most research is awful, it's true that the AI is producing research that looks and sounds like most of it out there today. But common-case research is not what propels society forward. If we try to automate research with the mediocrity machine, we'll just get mediocre research.
by willlma | 2026-02-24 22:15:07+00:00
Surprised to see no mention of the Anyday: https://cookanyday.com/

I'm partially living in this alternative timeline as an accomplished microwave chef thanks to this thing. I mostly use it to steam veggies.

Didn't think the Maillard reaction was possible in the microwave (and that's what I miss the most). The tin-oxide pans are fascinating, though pre-heating them doesn't seem terribly convenient now that we have induction stove-tops.

Also, the number of paper towels used...
by adamgordonbell | 2026-02-24 22:15:15+00:00
Apple is very tied to Chinese manufacturing in a way that is hard to replicate in US.

They will agree to make some high margin simple to assemble thing in the US to appease government, but if it goes as well as last time, they will stop as soon as they can.

In china they were often able to iterate on designs and have custom screws and other parts made and ramped up in very short times. Something about having the whole supply chain in one place and very motivated and it all fell apart when tried to move to US.

So things that took weeks became hard on anytime line.. per Apple in China book.
by scoofy | 2026-02-24 22:15:17+00:00
The point is "a warning" is not enough to communicate to people the gravity of what they are doing.

It is not enough to write "be careful" on a bag you get from a pharmacy... certain medications require you to both have a prescription, and also to have a conversation with a pharmacist because of how dangerous the decisions the consumer makes can be.

Normal human beings can be very dumb. It's entirely reasonable to expect society to try to protect them at some level.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-24 22:15:54+00:00
>There is an obvious downside for them which is why they don't do it.

Well yes. This is all academic. I already said in the first comment that they have a financial incentive to stall the courts.

>You're just asking who you want to have refuse to do it....

I just want efficiency. It's a shame we can't have that when it comes to things that might help the people and hurt billionaires.

So what's really wrong with what I'm asking?
by akssassin907 | 2026-02-24 22:15:54+00:00
I'm a technology proponent, but tech doesn't replace a human teacher when it's 24 students, 1 teacher, and the lesson plan is "open your i-Ready modules."

My 4 kids all use i-Ready. It has real value for reinforcing lessons — but some teachers lean on it as a one-size-fits-all substitute rather than a supplement. That's where it falls apart.

The honest version of AI in education isn't here yet: truly dynamic, personalized lesson paths that adapt to each student in real time. When that exists, the multiple-choice quiz model i-Ready is built on won't be able to compete. The question is just — when does every student get an AI that functions as their own individual teacher?
by iberator | 2026-02-24 22:16:09+00:00
We just should make posting slop made by AI without clear watermark and permission: a crime.

If you made 50.000 AI slop comments then it would be possible to prosecute and PROVE it in court.

Just because it's hard doesn't mean that we should accept it.

The same goes with CHEATERS using AI at universities.

If caught with solid evidence: it should be like 5 years in jail. That would stop 90% of CHEATERS.
by evilhackerdude | 2026-02-24 22:16:10+00:00
> The [next.js] developer experience is top-notch.

let me add my own unqualified statement to that: no.

> Next.js has invested heavily in Turbopack but if you want to deploy it to Cloudflare, Netlify, or AWS Lambda, you have to take that build output and reshape it into something the target platform can actually run.

it's almost as if vercel had some kind of financial incentive to gear this towards their own platform.

> reimplemented the Next.js API surface on Vite directly

a clown car screeches to a halt; several burnt-out-bored oracle vs google lawyers climb out and, weirdly, i am there for it

all in all, it's definitely a good example of something we couldn't have done for $1100 pre-llms, but: should we have? did somebody consult the lava lamps?