MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xtracto | 2026-02-07 19:07:55+00:00
I agree but want to interject that "code organization " won't matter for long.

Programming Languages were made for people. I'm old enough to have programmed in z80 and 8086 assembler. I've been through plenty of prog.langs. through my career.

But once building systems become prompting an agent to build a flow that reads these two types of excels, cleans them,filters them, merges them and outputs the result for the web (oh and make it interactive and highly available ) .

Code won't matter. You'll have other agents that check that the system is built right, you'll have agents that test the functionality and agents that ask and propose functionality and ideas.

Most likely the Programming language will become similar to the old Telegraph texts (telegrams) which were heavily optimized for word/token count. They will be optimized to be LLM grokable instead of human grokable.

Its going to be amazing.
by HardCodedBias | 2026-02-07 19:08:26+00:00
"The real question is whether the boom is, economically, a mistake."

The answer to this is two part:

1. Have we seen an increase in capability over the last couple of years? The answer here is clearly yes.

2. Do we think that this increase will continue? This is unknown. It seems so, but we don't know and these firms are clearly betting that it will.

1a. Do we think that with existing capability that there is tremendous latent demand? If so the buildout is still rational if progress stops.
by Centigonal | 2026-02-07 19:08:54+00:00
This is a wild take. Good frameworks come with clever, well-thought-out abstractions and defensive patterns for dealing with common problems experienced when working in the space the framework covers. frameworks are also often well-documented and well-supported by the community, creating common ways of doing things with well understood strengths and weaknesses.

In some cases, it's going to make sense to drop your dependency and have AI write that functionality inline, but the idea that the AI coding best practice is to drop all frameworks and build your own vibe-coded supplychain de novo for every product is ludicrous. At that point, we should just take out the middle man and just have the LLMs write machine code to fulfill our natural language product specs.
by pcloadlett3r | 2026-02-07 19:11:17+00:00
You are projecting and over-reacting. My response is measured against the insane hype this is getting beyond what was demonstrared. I never said ot wasn't impressive.

I'm not hung up on anything. Clearly the project isn't stable because it can't be modified without regression. It can be an MVP but if it needs someone to rewrite it or spend many man-months just to grok the code to add to it then its conceivable it isnt an economic win in the long run. Also, they haven't compared this to what a smaller set of agents could accomplish with the same task and thus I am still not fully sold on the economic viability of horizontally scaling agents at this time (well at least not on the task that was tested).
Show HN: Writtte – Draft and publish articles without reformatting, anywhere
by lasgawe | 2026-02-07 19:11:17+00:00
Hi HN,

This is the first public launch of Writtte, an open-source, drafting-first editor built for writing and publishing articles.

We built this after noticing that most writers use 4-5 different tools just to draft and publish a single article. The biggest pain was not writing itself, but reformatting content every time it moved to Medium, Substack, WordPress, or a Markdown-based blog.

Writtte focuses on one thing: article drafting without format breakage.

What it does:

1. A psychology-designed editor UI that separates drafting from editing

2. AI-assisted + algorithm based grammar, clarity, tone, and refactoring (triggered manually)

3. One click copyto Medium, Substack, WordPress (Gutenberg), and Markdown

4. When you paste content into those platforms, formatting stays the same

5. Public draft sharing so others can review before publishing

This is completely open source: https://github.com/writtte/writtte

Public roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/writtte/projects/1

What we are working on next:

1. LaTeX support

2. Mermaid diagrams

We are building this in the open and would really appreciate feedback, especially from people who write articles or long-form content regularly.

Thanks for reading.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-02-07 19:11:45+00:00
> It’s also the law of this place

Guideline. Guidelines are not laws. Want to know what else is an HN guideline? "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate" right along with "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit".

And even if it were true that it's a law, it would still be entirely irrelevant to the discussion of whether it's dumb or not.

> and that is not a matter of opinion

"unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon" is a matter of opinion. Evidence of, interesting, new, all matters of opinion.
by paulryanrogers | 2026-02-07 19:12:03+00:00
US has token eye exams at the BMV. I've never seen or heard anyone fail.

During such a test that I could barely read anything, and afterwards realized I could not read most roadsigns--having relied too much on map apps. A visit to the eye doctor confirmed I shouldn't be driving, so I ordered glasses that same day.

Reporting unsafe drivers in my state is not anonymous. And at one point I had to tell a family member that if I found out they were still driving that I'd report them. (They had 3 accidents in 2 years, claiming it's all the computers in the cars.)
by kolanos | 2026-02-07 19:12:38+00:00
For a little context. Salesforce changed their enterprise structure, effectively doubling their prices and my guess is many of their larger customers fled the platform. The enterprise pricing organized dynos into blocks and without notice they doubled the minimum block unit you could have. As a result, you ended up paying for dynos you weren't even using because they were now rounding up, sometimes by thousands of dollars worth of dyno blocks. So if you thought Heroku was expensive before, now it just didn't make any financial sense at all. For the other PaaS out there: don't do this.
by ycombiredd | 2026-02-07 19:13:52+00:00
It might be worth mentioning the concept of "stub resolver" and clarifying a bit that a nameserver is a resolver. That might be being pedantic, but thought it might be worth clarifying that the difference conceptually may just be what the particular dns server answering the query is authoritative for, if anything.

One other thing that might be worth a mention is the concept of the OS' resolver and "suffix search order", with an example of connecting (https, ping, ssh, whatever protocol) to a host using just the hostname, and the aforementioned mechanism that (probably) allows this to connect to the FQDN you want. (Also, now that I type that, do you mention "FQDN" at all? If not, maybe should.)

On that note one final thought that occurs to me is the error/confound that may occur if a hostname is entered and is not resolved, but does resolve with one of the domain suffixes attached on a retry (particularly can be confusing with a typo coupled with a wildcard A record in a domain, for example.) I recognize that the lines that look like DNS records are not explicitly stated to be in a format for any particular dns server software, and even if they were, they're snippets without larger context so we don't know what the $ORIGIN for the zone might be, an adjacent concept you might want to explore, even if just for your own edification is that of the effect of a terminating "." at the end of a hostname, either at resolution or configuration time.

Just offering feedback that might help you add to the article.
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2026-02-07 19:14:46+00:00
> The difference is that we've more or less hit a stable Pareto front in education and healthcare.

Not even close. So many parts of the world need to be pumped with target fund infusions ASAP. Only forcing higher levels of education and healthcare at the places where it lags is a viable step towards securing peaceful and prosperous nearest future.
by utopiah | 2026-02-07 19:15:01+00:00
Good thing that I don't need a :

- bigger TV, my "old" not even 4K video projector is enough

- faster phone with more memory or better camera, my current one as "just" 5G, is enough

- faster laptop/desktop, I can work on the laptop, game on desktop

- higher resolution VR headsets (but I'll still get a Steam Frame because it's more free)

- denser smart watch, I'm not even using the ones I have

... so, the situation is bad, yes, and yet I don't really care. The hardware I have is good enough and in fact regardless of AI I've been arguing we've reached "peak" IT few years ago already. Of course I wouldn't mind "better" everything (higher resolution, faster refresh rate, faster CPU/GPU, more memory, more risk, etc). What I'm arguing for though is that most "normal" users (please, don't tell me you're a video editor for National Geographic who MUST edit 360 videos in 8K! That's great for you, honestly, love that, but that's NOT a "normal" user!) who bough high end hardware during the last few year matches most of their capabilities.

All that being said, yes, pop that damn bubble, still invest in AI R&D and datacenters, still invest in AI public research for energy, medicine, etc BUT not the LLM/GenAI tulip commercial craze.
by thibaut_barrere | 2026-02-07 19:15:21+00:00
From the FAQ:

> With Docs our job is not to replace Microsoft Office

https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/docs/ed2e1dbf-07a2-43bb-ae1e-...

Also: like when switching from AWS to EU provider, the goal is not feature parity. Not only it is costly to implement, but also a reason why so many features are in AWS or Office is to ensure vendor lock-in due to feature comparisons.

Learning to do more with less is a feature, not a bug.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-07 19:16:04+00:00
"There are a lot of other better, smaller companies you could be working for, but you choose the evil ones because it pays better."

Then they complain on intranet and internet forums. Are readers supposed to feel sympathetic

Dennis Ritchie once said something like he had the option to take a job calculating missile trajectories, and this probably would have paid better, but he deliberately chose not to do that

After he passed, Thompson signed up for the Google retirement plan

Stories have been published about people who joined Facebook thinking they could affect change from within. They all ended up quitting when they realised their assumption was wrong

C'est la vie
by majormajor | 2026-02-07 19:16:09+00:00
> The naysayers said we’d never even get to this point. It’s far more plausible to me that AI will advance enough to de-slopify our code than it is to me that there will be some karmic reckoning in which the graybeards emerge on top again.

"The naysayers"/"the graybeards" have never been on top.

If they had been, many of the things the author here talks about getting rid of never would've been popular in the first place. Giant frameworks? Javascript all the things? Leftpad? Rails? VBA? PHP? Eventually consistent datastores?

History is full of people who successfully made money despite the downsides of all those things because the downsides usually weren't the most important thing in the moment of building.

It's also full of people who made money cleaning it all up when the people who originally built it didn't have time to deal with it anymore. "De-slopify" is going to be a judgment question that someone will need to oversee, there's no one-size-fits-all software pattern, and the person who created the pile of code is unlikely to be in a position to have time to drive that process.

Step 1: make money with shortcuts

Step 2: pay people to clean up and smooth out most of those shortcuts

I've bounced between both roles already a lot due to business cycles of startup life. When you're trying to out-scale your competitor you want to find every edge you can, and "how does this shit actually work" is going to be one of those edges for making the best decisions about how to improve cost/reliability/perf/usability/whatever. "It doesn't matter what the code looks like" is still hard to take seriously compared to the last few iterations of people pitching tools claiming the same. The turnaround loop of modifying code is faster now; the risk of a tar-pit of trying to tune on-the-fly a pile of ill-fitting spaghetti is not. It's gonna be good enough for a lot of people, Sturgeon's law - e.g. most people aren't great at knowing what usefully-testable code looks like. So let's push past today's status quo of software.

If I was working on a boring product at a big tech co I'd be very worried, since many of those companies have been hiring at high salaries for non-global-impact product experiments that don't need extreme scale or shipping velocity. But if you want to push the envelope, the opportunity to write code faster should be making you think about what you can do with it that other people aren't yet. Things beyond "here's a greenfield MVP of X" or "here's a port of Y."
by mindslight | 2026-02-07 19:17:12+00:00
I agree that there certainly seems to be a problem here. I just don't think the article does any work at substantiating it, nor laying out any avenues of reform. I stated it better in a response to a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922246

Furthermore in the current political environment, such analysis-free rants aren't just chum that makes like-minded rambling uncles need more blood pressure meds, but rather can end up being fuel for someone-must-do-something-type destructionist rallying cries that only serve to facilitate more grift by the performative strongman administration - compounding the very problem!

Constructively, the difficulty is that reforming institutions and restoring societal trust is very hard. Here we've got at least four things that need to be done simultaneously -

1. restoring trust in the system such that people, both internal and external to the institution, aren't inclined to panic over "xx% of students claiming disability"

2. restoring belief that the system will significantly punish you if you lie/exaggerate about having a disability

3. reforming the general system for people without disabilities, eg testing methodologies and cramped housing accommodations

4. generally reforming what counts as a disability that makes sense to even try and mitigate

Fail at doing any one of these and we've still got similar pressure to cheat, so the problem will only ever retreat a bit rather than having formed self-reinforcing cultural values.

(I'm addressing the problem referenced by the article, not the adjacent problem you've described)
Show HN: Agents – Sync MCP Configs Across Claude, Cursor, Codex Automatically
by amtiyo | 2026-02-07 19:17:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a CLI that unifies configuration for AI coding assistants.

Problem: Modern AI-powered development uses multiple tools (Cursor, Claude Desktop, GitHub Copilot, various CLI tools). Each has its own config file for MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. Adding a server means manually updating 4-6 different configs.

Solution: agents gives you one source of truth. Define MCP servers once, sync everywhere.

Example:
.agents/
├── agents.json → Your config (committed)
├── local.json → Secrets (gitignored)
$ agents sync → Updates all tool configs

Key decisions:
- Convention over configuration (sensible defaults)
- Security-first (secrets separated, auto-gitignored)
- Interactive setup wizard for easy onboarding
- 70+ tests (Vitest)

Supports: Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot, Antigravity

GitHub: https://github.com/amtiYo/agents
npm: @agents-dev/cli

v0.7.7 released today. MIT licensed.

Looking for feedback on:
1. Is this solving a real problem?
2. What other tools should it support?
3. Thoughts on the architecture?

Happy to answer questions about the implementation or design decisions.
by pcloadlett3r | 2026-02-07 19:17:21+00:00
Of course it's impressive. I am just pointing out that these experiments with the million line browser and now this c compiler seem to greatly extrapolate conclusions. The researchers claim they prove you can scale agents horizontally for econkmic benefit. But the products both of these built are of questionable technical quality and it isnt clear to me they are a stable enough foundation to build on top of. But everyone in the hype crowd just assumes this is true. At least this researcher has sort of promised to pursue this project whereas Wilson already pretty much gave up on his browser. I hadn't seen a commit in that repo for weeks. Given that, I am not going to immediately assume these agents truly achieved anything of economic value relative to what a smaller set of agents could have achieved.
by dham | 2026-02-07 19:17:34+00:00
Good ole Autopilot vs FSD post. You would think people on Hacker News would be better informed. Autopilot is just lane keep and adaptive cruise control. Basically what every other car has at this point.

"MacOS Tahoe has these cool features". "Yea but what about this wikipedia article on System 1. Look it has these issues."

That's how you come across
by dlubarov | 2026-02-07 19:17:36+00:00
You didn't answer my questions either. Again how is a business relationship with a wealthy Jewish family evidence of being a Mossad spy?

But okay, I'll respond to yours -

> he [probably] worked for both the US and Israel. Why else would Kash Patel and others have so blatantly lied all this time?

No idea. That might be evidence of some relationship with the US, not of being a Mossad spy.

> We know for a near-certain fact that there were compromising tapes on hundreds or thousands of powerful people. Where did they all go?

No idea, but even if we assume there was a blackmail scheme (which isn't the only explanation of inappropriate recordings), there's still zero evidence of Mossad involvement.
Ask HN: How much of your token use is fixing the bugs Claude Code causes?
by laurex | 2026-02-07 19:18:08+00:00
My experience using Claude Code is that I will detail work I want it to do, then it does it, then I spend quite a bit of time with it trying to figure out why it didn't work. Putting in debugging sometimes feels like half of the code it is writing. At the same time, I'm using more tokens by default with this "better" version of Claude. Of course I don't think this is 'on purpose' but it feels like there should be some discount on tokens being used to fix the bugs being caused by the bugs being introduced. Curious what others' experience are and if you've developed any strategies to address this.
by arrowsmith | 2026-02-07 19:18:14+00:00
Speak for yourself. I don't miss writing code at all. Agentic engineering is much more fun.

And this surprises me, because I used to love writing code. Back in my early days I can remember thinking "I can't believe I get paid for this". But now that I'm here I have no desire to go back.

I, for one, welcome our new LLM overlords!
by lunar_mycroft | 2026-02-07 19:18:20+00:00
I've looked at their code for a few minutes in a few files, and while I don't know what they're trying to do well enough to say for sure anything is definitely a bug, I've already spotted several things that seem likely to be, and several others that I'd class as anti-patterns in rust. Don't get me wrong, as an experiment this is really cool, but I do not think they've succeeded in getting the "dark factory" concept to work where every other prominent attempt has fallen short.
by danhau | 2026-02-07 19:18:33+00:00
One I can remember from the top of my head is "How to ACTUALLY Use Breath Support". Seemed like a good, in-depth explanation of a fundamental topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC1iJfWA1aQ

The channel I've watched the most videos on is Chris Liepe's. The video "STOP Singing Vowels this way! (its making you tense)" was in my singing playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWimkesJDIc

I would still describe myself as a beginner, so please keep in mind that I can't possibly vouch for the quality or accuracy of any of these videos.
by cess11 | 2026-02-07 19:18:45+00:00
If someone wants to try it out, both Glamorous Toolkit and plain Pharo have tooling that allows integration of both local and remote LLM services.

Some links to start off with:

https://gtoolkit.com/

https://github.com/feenkcom/gt4llm

https://pharo.org/

https://omarabedelkader.github.io/ChatPharo/

Edit: I suppose the next step would be to teach an LLM about "moldable exceptions", https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.00465 (PDF), have it create its own debuggers.
by Kon5ole | 2026-02-07 19:19:04+00:00
A silly movie but I love it so much. Such nostalgia too.

In the spirit of hackers I have to share this - I just asked Claude 4.6 to make a file system browser that works kinda like this, and it took 5 minutes to make something that actually works. Directories as skyscrapers with files as text on the side, moving around by wasd.

It uses three.js and a browser so it's just a toy of course but still, I can navigate my filesystem like they do in Hackers (1995) and it was a 5 minute interaction with a computer, using natural language. Another few hours and I'm sure I can copy garbage files too.

I've never felt more obsolete but still had to laugh. What a time to be alive!
by NewsaHackO | 2026-02-07 19:19:34+00:00
>make a computer that's safe for grandma to use

People also forget that it makes it safe for people who aren't grandmas. The reason why you think it's just grandmas is because, for you to get a virus or your computer hacked now, it requires so many user gaffes for something like that to happen. In addition, it almost always involves typing in or telling someone your password when you shouldn’t. In the early 2000s, I still remember there was some ad affiliate for the cyanide and happiness webcomic website that, if you let it's ad load, instantly infected your computer with adware just from visiting the site. That’s unheard of now because of increasingly protective/restrictive policies set by technology companies. It’s one of those situations where if a system is working correctly, you won’t even know it’s working at all.
by mlinhares | 2026-02-07 19:19:40+00:00
1. it isn't that bad

2. the tools still need a lot of direction, i still fight claude with opus to do basic things and the best experiences are when i provide very specific prompts

3. being idealistic on a capitalist system where you have to pay your bills every month is something i could do when my parents paid my bills

These apocalyptic posts about how everything is shit really don't match my reality at all. I use these tools every day to be more productive and improve my code but they are nowhere close to doing my actual job, that is figuring out WHAT to do. How to do it is mostly irrelevant, as once i get to that point i already know what needs to be done and it doesn't matter if it is me or Opus producing the code.
by catlover76 | 2026-02-07 19:20:24+00:00
dude needs to chill

also:

> We’ll miss the sleepless wrangling of some odd bug that eventually relents to the debugger at 2 AM.

no we won't lol wtf

but also: we will probably still have to do that anyways, but the LLM will help us and hopefully make it take less time
by eesmith | 2026-02-07 19:20:50+00:00
The 20th century was a period of wild change. Someone born before the first powered airplane flight in their lifetime could have flown on a jet plane to Europe and watched the first moon landing live on TV.

Vaccines put an end to endemic diseases which killed so many children every year. The birth control pill catalyzed the sexual revolution. We had a treatment for diabetes, which was once a death sentence.

The 1950s and onward saw huge changes in how businesses are organized due to computerization. In the US, cheap automobiles, cheap gas, the federal highway system, and subsidies transformed how most people live, including white flight into suburbia.

Plastic was a wonder material. Materials like nylon and polyester transformed the clothing industry.