MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blindriver | 2026-02-11 16:35:49+00:00
If you're finding their a bad tool for most jobs you're using them for, you're probably being closed minded and using it wrong. The trick with AI these days is to ask it to do something that you think is impossible and it will usually do a pretty decent job at it, or at least close enough for you to pick up or to guide it further.

I was a huge AI skeptic but since Jan 2025, I have been watching AI take my job away from me, so I adapted and am using AI now to accelerate my productivity. I'm in my 50s and have been programming for 30 years so I've seen both sides and there is nothing that is going to stop it.
by zotimer | 2026-02-11 16:36:26+00:00
When you iterate with an AI coding assistant, it fills in details you didn't ask for. Sometimes they're good, a loading animation, a keyboard shortcut. You start relying on them. But since they only exist in code and not in any spec, the next cross-cutting change can silently remove them.

I kept running into this: features appearing, becoming part of my workflow, then vanishing after an unrelated update. Automated tests don't catch it because they test what you planned, not what the AI added.

The fix is an old software engineering idea, add a design layer between specs and code. Specs say what you want. Design captures how the AI interprets it, including any extra "filling" the AI designs. Code follows design. Once something is in design, it stays anchored across changes.

The design artifacts are lightweight (CRC cards, sequence diagrams, UI layouts) and serve double duty as a "whiteboard" for iterating with the AI before touching code. Changes propagate through design first, so you review a small design diff instead of a code diff.

I built a tool around this called mini-spec (https://github.com/zot/mini-spec), but the underlying idea — that a design layer anchors AI-generated code — works regardless of tooling.
by dangus | 2026-02-11 16:36:32+00:00
Well, that’s stupid. It’s not admirable to die young.

My grandma lived 96 years of a happy, healthy, enriching life. She got her college degree at age 60. She had a beaming smile when she played with her great grandchildren. She enjoyed the company of her husband well into her 90s. She lived independently until the last month of her life.

And there we go with the bible, you gotta read the correct telephone game translation of it and interpret the right way for it to make any bit of sense.

Nobody can just accept that it was written in a human developmental era that most of us wouldn’t relate with in any way.

For example, it was considered a blessing to die young and “go to heaven” in an era before surgical anesthesia. Better than living a long life with ailments that a modern doctor can treat in an afternoon.

We didn’t even get basic antibiotics until less than 200 years ago.
by delaminator | 2026-02-11 16:36:49+00:00
I've got it to be able to place items, and it could even place in inserters next to factories - I was trying to get it to use constraints solver in prolog.

https://github.com/lawless-m/FacRepl

It did make a REPL, in order for it to place objects within the game using a DSL.

I kind of gave up on the Constraints Based bit, and never returned.
by redhed | 2026-02-11 16:36:58+00:00
I understand the majority of the story, and through some personal experience really feel for women who have a controlling and abusive man. I find the story a bit strange though. It begins describing how boys inherit the idea of some beautiful woman that they are owed instead of it being something that requires constant work and effort. I agree/understand this part. But then it describes him trying to limit public access, how he has no document showing ownership, etc and this is where I get lost. To me that is what marriage is, giving up freedom for a partnership. To turn my husband self into a park, I feel like it is completely understandable my wife wants some space that is "public" and other that is "private". The key is healthy boundaries, ones set by compromise and understanding through honest communication. That's what separates healthy and abusive relationships, not the boundaries in the first place.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the story and if I am let me know, I just feel like it describes the ideal situation as one's partner entirety is open to the "public", and where setting boundaries itself is abusive, which I feel like is not really how most people feel nor what they want in a relationship.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-11 16:37:12+00:00
people twisting and manipulating llms to do all sorts of unintended things reminds me of the late 90s early 2000s when everyone was twisting and manipulating html, webservers, and browsers to do all sorts of unintended things. It kind of has that feel to me, where it's something new and no one knows where it's going but i seeing a lot of "hey check this out, i put this together last night and it's kind of cool" again.
by doubled112 | 2026-02-11 16:37:14+00:00
Parts of Ottawa, Canada were without power for 10+ days after a windstorm in 2022. Not rural, but the suburbs.

> Ottawa Hydro restored power to just over half its customers after one week

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2022_Canadian_derecho

Fortunately, you can't freeze to death in May, and the roads are clear so you just go to where the power is.
by spacecadet | 2026-02-11 16:37:16+00:00
Omg you instigator, you are this person! Let me just spell it out and end this. Im an idiot man, I dont try to project intelligence, I just listen and act... and sometimes comment on the negative behavior of others, which comes from lived experience. Appreciate you being an example of antagonistically wasting someone's time because of what? An assumption of what I meant? wow.
by toraway | 2026-02-11 16:37:20+00:00
Using fiction as an interpretive vehicle to explore, challenge and contrast our assumptions and perceptions about our own world isn't even in the same universe as "outsourcing their reasoning to a work of fiction".

"Haha you're basically a human LLM!" is such a weak, boringly robotic rebuttal in nearly any context given how it can be generically applied to literally anything.
by Schmerika | 2026-02-11 16:37:28+00:00
> what is your actual, concrete solution for how to obtain and distribute events and occurrences?

There are lots of valid ways to research things for oneself.

None of them involve making fun of people for doing it.

> Journalism may be as imperfect as the humans who do it, but it's at least a concrete, operating means of informing the general public,

Sure. Reading journalism can be part of doing one's own research.

> a lot of people were already primed to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare everything a conspiracy.

Who primed them?

Here's a 'fun' and illustrative story that recently unfolded: Did you know that the 4chan forum where the Pizzagate conspiracy - which used the same code words as Epstein's circle - opened the exact same day that Epstein met with its founder?

That meant that when whistleblowers talked about real things that happened, or real emails leaked, some people were 'primed' to dismiss them because obviously Pizzagate was a hoax.

Some journalists did report well on that scenario; people like Whitney Webb or Sarah Kendzior. They didn't get invited to mainstream media to talk about it though.

... There are a lot of people who believe one of the dumbest conspiracies possible - that scientists are in cahoots over a global warming hoax. Why do they believe that? Could it be that the fossil fuel companies who knew climate change was real in the 70s helped to foster that? Could it be that the media who profits massively from running fossil fuel ads have been complicit?

It's not okay to have like 6 billionaires running all your media. It's not okay to have <80 familes owning half the worlds wealth. You end up with all these terrible cognitive side effects in your population from the propaganda they use. Blaming all that on people doing their own research is essentially blaming the victim, at the worst possible time.
by 650 | 2026-02-11 16:37:34+00:00
This is a bad puff piece article. Jeffrey C Mays the author is not technologically adept. She was a software engineer for a year. She was director of program management at Macromedia, which anyone who works in tech knows is more like a secretary type of role asking for project updates and timelines.

I take issue with the title: `Groundbreaking Computer Scientist` in the NYT article, I challenge anyone to show me proof that she has done anything noteworthy technically. She jumped from management job to management job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Gelobter - Her wikipedia states she took 24 years (enrolled in 1987, graduated 2011) to graduate with her computer science degree, claiming "financial hardship", but she had already been a PM at many companies by then. I challenge anyone to show me technical depth or proficiency by her.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect
Show HN: An unbiased directory of AI tools
by ahmedsafwat | 2026-02-11 16:38:18+00:00
Hi, Ahmed here
I was collecting nice useful AI tools for quite some time now. Mostly to take some inspiration and learn from them.

So I thought building a directory website out of this collection was pretty good idea.

After 2 days of building, Seekra was born. It's an unbiased list of AI tools that only uses in site views, clicks and fav count to rank tools.

Enjoy and thank you for your support!
Show HN: A calculator that verifies or determines your retirement number
by marcus-verus | 2026-02-11 16:38:31+00:00
Most retirement calculators either oversimplify things or ask you to link your accounts so they can make money off your data. I wanted something that actually helped me see if I was on track without handing over a bank login, so I built RetireNumber.
It's a privacy-first retirement planner. You type in your own numbers. No account linking, no selling your data, no VC. Just me and a subscription. The engine does real math: Monte Carlo with 1,000 runs, historical backtesting to 1928 using Shiller's Yale data, tax-aware withdrawal strategies, and scenario comparison so you can try different life paths. Whether you're still figuring out your number or you already have a target in mind, you can use it to get there or to check that your plan actually holds up.

You can try it without signing up: https://retirenumber.com/try. There's a demo mode and a short guided tour. Changelog and the full story are on the site if you want to dig in.

This isn't financial advice. It's a tool for checking your number and whether your plan holds up. There is still a lot to but I'd love to hear whether the results feel clear and useful.

-Mark
by hypfer | 2026-02-11 16:38:33+00:00
Exactly this.

The whole wording also doesn't make sense.

OpenClaw was released in November of 2025, yet the article sounds like NanoClaw _disrupts_ some old staple of the industry.

You can't use that wording 4 months into the whole "industry".
Even less so, when your competitor was "launched" 2 weeks ago.
Even less so when it's written by claude

This nothingburger is so much nothing, it might as well be an antiburger.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-11 16:38:36+00:00
Well it seems uneven. The materials in electronics are so varied that there seem to be different levels of recycling, hopefully with materials pricing going up the worst forms of recycling can go away.

China sells a machine for anything you can imagine: Here is a wire grinding machine to recover the copper from wires: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p_hmDdGIk7g

PCBs first seem to be cut up before put into similar machines machine above: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WO-VvucMq4E

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q_O1EpEcKaM

Dont know what happens to the ground epoxy resin, maybe mixed with other materials?
by nobody9999 | 2026-02-11 16:38:45+00:00
Sorry for the late reply.

You're correct, as far as it goes.

However, we weren't talking about using cryptocurrency in general, but in a very specific way: Making micropayments to devs as a mechanism to limit AI slop PRs to open source projects.

Doing that effectively would require broad implementation of some sort of payment scheme.

Given the current (as I documented) hoops one needs to jump through to obtain cryptocurrency if one doesn't have any, especially just for a random user to get crypto to send $1 to a github repo with their PR makes exactly zero sense.

Yes. Buying drugs and other stuff outside of the mainstream economy is definitely worth the effort. To send $1/PR for escrow to limit spam? Not so much.
by andrewla | 2026-02-11 16:39:03+00:00
I can't find an original source on the first one. To my eye it is ambiguous in the sense that he does appear to be taunting the officers or otherwise engaging with them. I may be mistaken here but without larger context it's hard to say. Taunting or insulting law enforcement is not a crime and does not warrant the notice of officers, much less confrontation or pursuit or detention. But what we are talking about here is whether people are in danger simply walking down the street.

There is a line where this becomes truly frightening behavior; where you have to keep your head down and avoid eye contact because they might fly off the handle for no reason, like crazy homeless people on the subway but with badges. So far I haven't seen anything approaching this.

The second one is [1] Jacelynn Guzman, age 23, who was mistakenly identified as part of a targeted immigration enforcement action. She fled the scene after agents approached her and identified themselves. A suspect who flees is likely to be chased -- this does not seem strange or off-putting to me at all. I think notable, for what its worth, is that they did not ask her father for ID or question his citizenship in any way; they were there for a targeted operation and he was not the target, so they left him alone while they attempted to verify the identity of the suspect that they were targeting.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-masked-bord...
by timbre1234 | 2026-02-11 16:39:04+00:00
The restriction goes to 18k because that's the top of VFR space. Anyone operating above 18k has to be on an IFR clearance and under positive ATC control. That makes it easy for the feds to make a call and say "Hey, center, get everyone out of this airspace" wheras in the VFR altitudes it's very difficult for them to legally clear the space since a VFR plane could be flying around not talking to anyone.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-11 16:39:12+00:00
> does this paragraph mean something in the real world?

It's actually both surprisingly meaningful and quite precise in its meaning which also makes it completely unintelligible if you don't know the words it uses.

Ordered field: satisfying the properties of an algebraic field - so a set, an addition and a multiplication with the proper properties for these operations - with a total order, a binary relation with the proper properties.

Usual topology: we will use the most common metric (a function with a set of properties) on R so the absolute value of the difference

Finite-dimentional: can be generated using only a finite number of elements

Commutative: the operation will give the same result for (a x b) and (b x a)

Unital: as an element which acts like 1 and return the same element when applied so (1 x a) = a

R-algebra: a formally defined algebraic object involving a set and three operations following multiple rules

Algebraically closed: a property on the polynomial of this algebra to be respected. They must always have a root. Untrue in R because of negative. That's basically introducing i as a structural necessity.

Admits a notion of differentiation with reasonable spectral behaviour: This is the most fuzzy part. Differentiation means we can build a notion of derivatives for functions on it which is essential for calculus to work. The part about spectral behavior is probably to disqualify weird algebra isomorphic to C but where differentiation behaves differently. It seems redondant to me if you already have a finite-dimentional algebra.

It's not really complicated. It's more about being familiar with what the expression means. It's basically a fancy way to say that if you ask for something looking like R with a calculus acting like the one of functions on R but in higher dimensions, you get C.
by GauntletWizard | 2026-02-11 16:39:24+00:00
That's their post breakup HQ - they moved in there in 1929. The Boss Tweed days were in 190 Nassau Street and 141 East 14th Street (demolished)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall#Headquarters

190 Nassau Street - https://maps.app.goo.gl/3zjkd2mC6PwAYVB26?g_st=ac
by kergonath | 2026-02-11 16:39:33+00:00
> So to prevent individual EU nations ever becoming authoritarian, like Hungary, we have to cede sovereignty and authority to the EU & EC unelected bureaucrats like Ursula VDL who take over as the main executive leaders, ensuring we'll no longer have the danger of national-level authoritarianism.

Not really, and the example of Hungary shows that it would not be that effective for that purpose.

The EU is a union of nations, not really of people. It was built so that nations play nice with each other. Each member state still does more or less what it wants within its borders, as long as it does not jeopardise the union.

In that way it’s not perfectly democratic, because there are layers of indirection between the citizens and the institutions.

Commissioners are nominated by member states and approved by parliament. So they are generally aligned with the politics dominant at the national level and palatable to MEPs. Von der Leyen is there because she had support from the German government and was from the dominant block in parliament. It’s not direct democracy, but it is not a faceless blob either.
by ZoneZealot | 2026-02-11 16:39:42+00:00
That's a big yikes just after promoting themselves in the Jmail thread yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966562

Of course every service will have outages, it's just funny to see it so soon after saying:

> We're nuts for studying failure at the company [...]

(albeit a different 'failure' context)
by anvuong | 2026-02-11 16:39:55+00:00
At every companies I've worked at the CFO always has a large presence at every townhall, after all they are the one who is responsible for sending your paychecks on time. As for CTO, yeah it's a mixed bag in my experience, I mostly see them as just another layer between the CEO/COO and the principle engineers. Maybe that's exactly what they want though.
by huydotnet | 2026-02-11 16:40:06+00:00
Joke about train line aside, I think Railway fits right in the spot that Heroku left.

They have a nice UI, support deploy any kind of backend-involved apps as long as it can be built into a docker container. While many PaaS out there seems to prioritize frontend only apps.

And they have a free plan, so people can just quickly deploy some POC before decide if it's good to move on.

Anyone know if there is any other PaaS that come with a low cost starter plan like this (a side from paying for a VPS)?
by paodealho | 2026-02-11 16:40:27+00:00
Goes to show how infested with disconnected management this industry is.

All the tools that improved productivity for software devs (Docker, K8S/ECS/autoscaling, Telemetry providers) took very long for management to realize they bring value, and in some places with a lot of resistance. Some places where I worked, asking for an IntelliJ license would make your manager look at you like you were asking "hey can I bang your wife?".
by locknitpicker | 2026-02-11 16:40:58+00:00
> Where's the proof beyond reasonable doubt resulting from a trial, that those European citizens have done the things you say?

Are you nuts? Not only does the guy run a company dedicated exclusively to push Kremlin propaganda, he literally presents propaganda program's in Kremlin's RT.

Are you living under a rock?

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2023/12/15/the-web-...

At this point it's evident you are either playing the role of wilful ignorant, or heavily invested in being contrarian.
by FotizoPhronesis | 2026-02-11 16:41:10+00:00
The decision by the founder of the David Christian Centre (DCC), Pastor Kingsley Okonkwo to make a public show of the Roman numeral tattoo etched on his arm instantly sentenced him to “you go explain tire” – as they say in Nigerian street parlance. The pastor has since been occupied with justifying his act and art that he would exasperatedly declare some few days ago that he does not owe anybody an explanation for the tatt.

Debates over the body art’s propriety and the identity crisis it provokes have continued to dominate Nigerian social media that someone in the street may be forced to ask: “Who send am?” This question in pidgin English is literal, not the colloquial context of “Who cares?” Given the sharp division, inflamed passions and hoopla generated by the 50-year-old’s unveiling of the ink-mark inspired by John 3:16, it has become expedient to ask if the man of God got express divine instruction or approval to do so.

There is no assuming that every action or inaction of God’s people is Spirit-led. Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue State from 2015 to 2023, used his life lesson to teach this less than a week ago. Even while serving as Governor, he presented as a devout Christian that many mistook him for a pastor. He would reveal in October 2019 while declaring open a two-day retreat for Benue State Government appointees that, “I became born again in 1979 and since then I have professed Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour.”

Yet, for all his intimacy with God, Ortom failed to seek His face when faced with major political decisions. He recently admitted losing the 2023 Benue North-West senatorial election because he did not consult God and seek divine approval. The former Benue helmsman further stated, “The mistake I did in 2023 was to impose a gubernatorial candidate on all of you who are in PDP. I did not ask God…” As such, we can’t assume or infer that Pastor Kingsley started out by asking God if it was okay for him to have a tattoo. If he did so or was led by the Spirit of God to get one, he should unambiguously make this known so that his detractors can rest.

Should the disclosure still fail to appease prevailing sentiments and criticisms, the skeptics would then have given away themselves as bent on altogether disparaging the entire undeniable proofs of Pastor Kingsley’s ministry. The cynics would also be seen as undermining the Spirit behind the immense contributions of Pastor Kingsley and his phenomenal wife, Pastor Mildred to the Body of Christ - particularly the resuscitation of broken homes through counseling and mentorship. They would also be rubbishing his many years of labour in the Lord’s Vineyard via didactic teaching and books on singleness, marriage, purpose, and emotional intelligence. For Pete’s sake, these impacts can’t be pooh-poohed by some parochial perception of tattoos!
by gwbas1c | 2026-02-11 16:41:14+00:00
> If you’re short on kindling, sufficient cardboard CAN be used to light a big log on fire.

Fatwood (on Amazon) is amazing for this kind of stuff. It's much easier to start up a wood stove with a few sticks of it than "sufficient cardboard".

(Que the holier-than-thou folks who admonish anyone who has a wood stove.)
by coldpie | 2026-02-11 16:41:17+00:00
I try them a few times a month, always to underwhelming results. They're always wrong. Maybe I'll find an interesting thing to do with them some day, I dunno. It's just not a fun or interesting tool for me to learn to use so I'm not motivated. I like deterministic & understandable systems that always function correctly; "smart" has always been a negative term in marketing to me. I'm more motivated to learn to drive a city bus or walk a postal route or something, so that's the direction I'm headed in.