MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rlupi | 2026-02-06 10:47:19+00:00
I have an M3 Ultra 96 GB, it works reasonably well with something like qwen/qwen3-vl-30b (fast) or openai/gpt-oss-120b (slow-ish) or openai/gpt-oss-20b (fast, largest context). I keep the latter loaded, and have a cronjob that generates a new MOTD for my shell every 15 minutes with information gathered from various sources.
by RhysU | 2026-02-06 10:48:32+00:00
> ...if you want one-click "this snapshot failed; update it" self-modifying tests.

I am envisioning the PR arguments now when the first instinct of the junior developer is to clobber the prior gold standard outputs. Especially lovely when testing floating point functionality using tests with tolerances.

Some things should be hatefully slow so one's brain has sufficient chance to subconsciously mull over "what if I am wrong?"
by cheschire | 2026-02-06 10:48:55+00:00
lol this article is like the waterfall manifesto.

Nah I’m good. I’ve watched system architecture framework views be developed. Years of prep and planning. System is released and half the employees that had requirements no longer work there and the business already pivoted to a new industry focus.

There’s a reason we went this way in software development a quarter century ago.

Software is not a skyscraper.
by fatherwavelet | 2026-02-06 10:50:29+00:00
People still pay thousands of dollars for wedding photographers even though everyone at the wedding also has a camera and many are taking their own pictures.

I am not a software engineer and it seems to me if someone has experience as a software engineer before LLMs, they have skills no one will really be able to acquire again in the same way.

I would expect current software engineers to eat the entire non-customer facing back office in the next ten years.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-06 10:51:26+00:00
Tesla has largely accomplished its original mission of “accelerating the world to sustainable energy”.

Tesla forced the entire industry to accelerate to EV. Toyota could have been that pioneer and mover.

Earlier this year Tesla adjusted their mission to push for “a world of amazing abundance” based on renewable energy, autonomous driving, robotics, and AI.

https://www.tesla.com/about
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-02-06 10:51:34+00:00
Sometimes it was, sometimes it wasn't. One can point to dozens of historical examples of well-run and stable monarchies, just as one can point to "monarchies" where the power rested with power-hungry and corrupt eunuchs, bishops, or chancellors -- or where the entire process of succession was as red in tooth and claw as anything in nature.

The trouble with representative democracy is that it always selects for the most power-hungry of its denizens.

And now we're in the midst of a situation that Polybius would immediately recognize: The crossroads where one path leads to rule by entrenched and corrupt oligarchs, at least as bad as any of the court eunuchs of old, and where the other path leads to ochlocracy. I'd take my chances with the latter, especially in this era where direct democracy is possible, but I'm afraid that's not likely how things are going to turn out.
Ask HN: What you want in a travel planner app?
by shubhwicked | 2026-02-06 10:51:35+00:00
Core Features
Smart Trip Planning - Create and manage trips with automatic itinerary generation
AI-Powered Enrichment - Enhance your trips with suggestions from multiple LLM providers
Budget Tracking - Track spending across trips with visual budget overview
Location-Based Suggestions - Get destination recommendations based on your location and budget
Multi-Currency Support - 20+ currencies with auto-detection
Packing List Generator - Automatic packing suggestions based on trip details
Year Planner - Visual calendar view of all your trips
Need feedback for AI tool that lets non-technical users query Postgres
by dimitsapis | 2026-02-06 10:51:57+00:00
Hello,

I’m part of a small team building TalkBI, an AI-powered BI tool that's currently in public Beta.

TalkBI connects to PostgreSQL and lets users query data using natural language instead of writing SQL. It can also visualizate data to make the results easier to understand (for reporting).

We’re building this primarily for smaller teams and startups (marketers, product managers, sales, or ops folks) who need access to data but don't know SQL.

We’re planning to go live in March and I’d really appreciate honest feedback from the community here — especially around usefulness, limitations, and whether this actually solves a real problem versus existing BI tools.

Demo dataset for testing is here if you’d like to try it: https://talk.bi/

Happy to answer questions and open to critical feedback.
by antonyh | 2026-02-06 10:52:20+00:00
Trust it to proxy artifacts from the web? Yes I think so.

Trust it not to leak credentials? No, that's something that is never taken for granted.

Trust it to hold a full history of uploaded binaries? That depends on the value of the releases. For incubator work, or web projects, or even Appstore apps where it's released to those stores to manage, maybe there should be enough trust. I just wouldn't use it for code where I want access to many stable versions, and I wouldn't put it publicly on the web either - not that I would do so with Sonatype Nexus without vendor support and many safeguards. I think it'll earn trust over time, once folk are convinced to use it for real workloads.

There's a lot of forms of trust.
by M95D | 2026-02-06 10:53:10+00:00
> No, the VFAT driver doesn't do anything even slightly resembling that.

Which driver? DOS? FreeDOS? Linux? Did you study any of them?

> While rename can be atomic in some cases, it cannot be in the case of cross directory renames or when the new filename doesn't fit in the existing directory sector.

That's a "move". Yes, you would need to write 2 sectors in that case.

For short filenames, the new filename can't not fit the directory sector, because short file names are fixed 8.3 characters, pre-allocated. A long file name can occupy up to 10 consecutive directory entries out of the 16 fixed entries each directory sector has. So, an in-place rename of a LFN can write 2 sectors maximum.

Considering that all current drives use 4KB sectors at least (a lot larger if you consider the erase block of a SSD), the rename opearation is still atomic. Only one physical sector is written.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-06 10:53:11+00:00
In 10-20 years all this AI disclaimer stuff is going to be like 'don't use wikipedia, it could lie!'

Status Quo Bias is a real thing, and we are seeing those people in meltdown with the world changing around them. They think avoiding AI, putting disclaimers on it, etc... will matter. But they aren't being rational, they are being emotional.

The economic value is too high to stop and the cat is out of the bag with 400B models on local computers.
by hollowturtle | 2026-02-06 10:54:07+00:00
I don't understand how Agents make you feel productive. Single/Multiple agents reading specs, specs often produced with agents itself and iterated over time with human in the loop, a lot of reviewing of giant gibberish specs. Never had a clear spec in my life. Then all the dancing for this apperantly new paradigm, of not reviewing code but verifying behaviour, and so many other things. All of this to me is a total UNproductive mess. I use Cursor autocomplete from day one till to this day, I was super productive before LLMs, I'm more productive now, I'm capable, I have experience, product is hard to maintain but customers are happy, management is happy. So I can't really relate anymore to many of the programmers out there, that's sad, I can count on my hands devs that I can talk to that have hard skills and know-how to share instead of astroturfing about AI Agents
by balamatom | 2026-02-06 10:54:21+00:00
If AI can copy originality, we should be questioning our concept of originality. Not that it isn't a very suspect concept already. It's something to praise children for (autonomously combining the concepts they're provided in novel ways) - but I've had the unwisdom of lurking long enough on the pre-LLM noosphere to get a glimpse of what gets done to the real originals since time self-fulfillingly immemorial.

'sides, I'm also neurocute af and feel acutely endangered by stuff that's effectively channeled: expressions which represent coherent agentic thought, yet are not bound to the volition of any individual embodied organism by regular personal accountability. If psychology is any indication, as non-augmented humans we're already not consciously aware of half our driving forces, and that's been trouble enough throughout history. How do you find it at all safe for the environment to broadcast Big Nobody's thoughts towards sentient beings?
by devnonymous | 2026-02-06 10:54:33+00:00
I'm almost certain what the OP meant was if the commands were run synchronously (ie: from 2 different shells or as `mv a b &; mv c d`) yes there is a possibility that a and d exist.

The reason it won't happen in the example you posted is the shell ensures the atomicity (by not forking the second mv until the wait() on the first returns)
by ta8903 | 2026-02-06 10:55:02+00:00
I know this is trivial to do programmatically, but I was looking for a way this will be handled by the filesystem. For instance, if I have some processes generating log files, and I have a script that converts them to html, I wanted the script to be called every time a log file is updated, without having a daemon running in the background to monitor the directory, just some filesystem mount. This would have made some deployments easier.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-06 10:55:06+00:00
Wouldn't limiting power also mean limiting their effectiveness? A government (at any layer) needs to have a certain amount of power, else they're just civilians.

As for budget, a country needs money to do stuff; if they don't have money they can't do stuff. Stuff can range from having the world's biggest army (several times over) to providing free education to everyone (the great social equalizer IMO, as in social mobility).

As for your justice argument, it depends - if power corrupts, wouldn't giving more power to justice corrupt them as well? You see what's happening in the US with various law enforcement branches getting A Lot Of Money - militarization of local police force for example, meaning they have the means to apply more violence.

TL;DR, governments and justice systems need a clear description of what they can and cannot do, and checks, balances and consequences when they don't.

> Corruption within private companies is irrelevant, as the main ones to suffer from it are usually shareholders.

This ignores the vast majority of anyone involved in a private company - the customers. Or even the not-customers that are still affected by what a private company does (think e.g. pollution), but that's where as you say the law should come in.
by mFixman | 2026-02-06 10:55:41+00:00
Good place to ask: I'm not comfortable with NPM-style `uses: randomAuthor/some-normal-action@1` for actions that should be included by default, like bumping version tags or uploading a file to the releases.

What's the accepted way to copy these into your own repo so you can make sure attackers won't update the script to leak my private repo and steal my `GITHUB_TOKEN`?
by bonesss | 2026-02-06 10:57:04+00:00
Recent experiments with LLM recipes (ChatGPT): missed salt in a recipe to make rice, then flubbed whether that type of rice was recommended to be washed in the recipe it was supposedly summarizing (and lied about it, too)…

Probabilistic generation will be weighted towards the means in the training data. Do I want my code looking like most code most of the time in a world full of Node.js and PHP? Am I better served by rapid delivery from a non-learning algorithm that requires eternal vigilance and critical re-evaluation or with slower delivery with a single review filtered through an meatspace actor who will build out trustable modules in a linear fashion with known failure modes already addressed by process (ie TDD, specs, integration & acceptance tests)?

I’m using LLMs a lot, but can’t shake the feeling that the TCO and total time shakes out worse than it feels as you go.
by psychoslave | 2026-02-06 10:57:09+00:00
Well, if these humans can cheat by taking whatever needed degree of liberty in copycat attitude to fit in the budget, I guess that a simple `git clone https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git SomeLocalDir` is as close to $0 as one can hope to either reach. And it would end up being far more functional and reliable. But I get that big-corp overlords and their wanna-match-KPI minions will prefer an "clean-roomed" code base.
by roflcopter69 | 2026-02-06 10:57:26+00:00
Not so fast! Check this out https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/issues/460

In my experience, you can only use Gemini structured outputs for the most trivial of schemas. No integer literals, no discriminated unions and many more paper cuts. So at least for me, it was completely unusable for what I do at work.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-06 10:57:35+00:00
> A good intentioned participant will not have too much time to become corrupted.

The operation of the revolving door would seem to imply otherwise. You set up a situation where politicians are not just expected but required to leave office and then need a job in the private sector. Are they then inclined to do things while in office that make it more or less likely that they get a lucrative gig as soon as their term is up?

> A malicious ruler with infinite time to complete their destructive plan.

The assumption is that the ruler is the elected official. What do you do if the ruler is the corporation and the elected official is just the fungible subordinate?
by hampus | 2026-02-06 10:58:08+00:00
Zendesk conversations tend to follow a standard template that's easy to recognise. They also often mention Zendesk in the footer.

Either way, someone shared a much more minimal version [1] on my gist, which should be safe to use as long as you're not signing up for a Zendesk site. Most of the recent spam emails have been about Zendesk sign-ups specifically.

It is worth noting, though, that vendors might reply to these tickets. If they do, you could still end up getting spam with this approach, which is why I went for the nuclear option above. If you want to play it safe, I'd recommend the commenter's approach.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/hampuskraft/780c8fbcc4042689153533ef...
by pydry | 2026-02-06 10:58:27+00:00
>There are two main schools of thought in software development about how to build really big, complicated stuff.

>The most prevalent one, these days, is that you gradually evolve the complexity over time. You start small and keep adding to it.

>The other school is that you lay out a huge specification that would fully work through all of the complexity in advance, then build it.

>The core difference between the different schools really centers around how to deal with dependencies.

It really isnt. The core difference is that the second school wildly overestimates their ability to predict the future.
Show HN: An app to use Instagram without Reels on iOS
by antoferra | 2026-02-06 10:58:28+00:00
For many years I have been slightly addicted to social media, and internet in general. Still, I never wanted to delete the apps as I use it to keep in touch with my friends.

For this reason, I created TimeCap. It's an app that removes the addictive sections of any social media (it supports Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, & Reddit) while keeping the non-algorithmic parts. It is fully customizable, and it genuinely brought my screen time to less than 1 hour.

It is free to use for one social media, and is $29.99/yr for support of unlimited platforms simultaneously. And if you need the premium version and cannot afford it, just send me a message and I'll sort you out.

Would love your feedback :)
by rendx | 2026-02-06 10:58:42+00:00
The petition doesn't state what it actually wants. It should refer to specific, actionable items.

How would you go about this? Say you add "open source development" to the short list of public benefit goals in the law. What would it even mean? If I publish my own stuff as AGPL and dual license commercially, is that a contribution to an open source project? Legally, if I simply sell my software, and provide the source code only to those that buy it, it is still possible to license it under an open source license.

etc. etc.

Plenty of questions, zero answers in the petition. It's like petititoning for "rainbow cotton candy". Sounds nice, who would object that! But: Who? What? Where? How?
by netdevphoenix | 2026-02-06 10:59:10+00:00
> are there modes of thinking that fundamentally require something other than what current LLM architectures do?

Possibly. There are likely also modes of thinking that fundamentally require something other than what current humans do.

Better questions are: are there any kinds of human thinking that cannot be expressed in a "predict the next token" language? Is there any kind of human thinking that maps into token prediction pattern such that training a model for it would not be feasible regardless of training data and compute resources?

At the end of the day, the real world value is utility, some of their cognitive handicaps are likely addressable. Think of it like the evolution of flight by natural selection, flight is usefulness to make it worth it adapt the whole body to make flight not just possible but useful and efficient. Sleep falls in this category too imo.

We will likely see similar with AI. To compensate for some of their handicaps, we might adapt our processes or systems so the original problem can be solved automatically by the models.
by LeanderK | 2026-02-06 10:59:13+00:00
I am not sure why...you want the LLM to solve problems not come up with answers itself. It's allowed to use tools, precisely because it tends to make stuff up. In general, only if you're benchmarking LLMs you care about whether the LLM itself provided the answer or it used a tool. If you ask it to convert the notation of sheet music it might use a tool, and it's probably the right decision.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-06 10:59:29+00:00
I don't think that's true. The 'this battle is already over' attitude is the most defeatist strategy possible. It's effectively complying in advance, rolling over before you've attempted to create the best possible outcome.

With that attitude we would not have voting, human rights (for what they're worth these days), a prohibition on slavery and tons of other things we take for granted every day.

I'm sure AI has its place but to see it assume the guise of human output without any kind of differentiating factor has so many downsides that it is worth trying to curb the excesses. And news articles in particular should be free from hallucinations because they in turn will cause others to pass those on. Obviously with the quality of some publications you could argue that that is an improvement but it wasn't always so and a free and capable press is a precious thing.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-06 10:59:58+00:00
> Deal. I'll pay you IF you can achieve the same level of performance. Heck, I'll double it.

> You must provide the entire git history with small commits.

> I won't be holding my breath.

Sure; I do this often (I operate as a company because I am a contractor) - money to be held in escrow, all the usual contracts, etc.

It's a big risk for you, though - the level of performance isn't stated in the linked article so a parser in Python is probably sufficient.

TCC, which has in the past compiled bootable Linux images, was only around 15k LoC in C!

For reference, for a engraved-in-stone spec, producing a command-line program (i.e. no tech stack other than a programming language with the standard library), a coder could reasonably produce +5000LoC per week.

Adding the necessary extensions to support booting isn't much either, because the 16-bit stuff can be done just the same as CC did it - shell out to GCC (thereby not needing many of the extensions).

Are you *really* sure that a simple C compiler will cost more than 4 weeks f/time to do? It takes 4 weeks or so in C, are you really sure it will take longer if I switch to (for example) Python?
by mFixman | 2026-02-06 11:01:23+00:00
Why do we need a log viewer at all?

My browser can handle tens of thousands of lines of logs, and has Ctrl-F that's useful for 99% of the searches I need. A better runner could just dump the logs and let the user take care of them.

Why most web development devolved into a React-like "you can't search for what you can't see" is a mystery.
by icedchai | 2026-02-06 11:01:48+00:00
I’m not. I’ve been working with C on and off for 30 years. Linux requires GNU extensions beyond standard C. Once you get the basics done, there’s still a lot more work to do. Compiling a trivial program might work. But you’ll hit an edge case or 50 in the millions of lines in Linux.

I also should’ve qualified my message with “in 2 weeks”, or even “in 2 months.” Given more time it’s obviously possible for more people.
by throwaway290 | 2026-02-06 11:01:53+00:00
I can see your argument but I'm non american and think you underestimate the impact of USA on global stage.

It was(?) de facto the most powerful democracy with most innovation and broad influence over the world, USAID and so on. Every dictator and tsar had to count with values like freedom of information and tolerance and following laws and trading instead of fighting.

Now it's still maybe powerful but those values and influence coming from it are changing very quickly and that is super recent
by wiseowise | 2026-02-06 11:03:06+00:00
> But they aren't being rational, they are being emotional.

When your mind is so fried on slop that you start to write like one.

> The economic value is too high to stop and the cat is out of the bag with 400B models on local computers.

Look at all this value created like *checks notes* scam ads, apps that undress women and teenage girls, tech bros jerking each other off on twitter, flooding open source with tsunami of low quality slop, inflating chip prices, thousands are cut off in cost savings and dozens more.

Cat is out of the bag for sure.
Show HN: PromptHub – 2000 Free AI Prompts for ChatGPT and Midjourney
by meimeixoxi | 2026-02-06 11:03:10+00:00
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by andsoitis | 2026-02-06 11:03:58+00:00
Tesla defined the modern EV market through Silicon Valley innovation, while Chinese companies like BYD focused on vertical integration and affordability, eventually overtaking Tesla in sales in 2025 (both started operations around 2003).

Tesla’s entry into the Chinese market via the Shanghai Gigafactory (2019) acted as a "catfish," forcing local Chinese "new forces" like NIO, XPeng, and Li Auto to lower prices and accelerate technological innovation.
by xnorswap | 2026-02-06 11:04:17+00:00
That could do more harm than good.

Like how California's bylaw about cancer warnings are useless because it makes it look like everything is known to the state of California to cause cancer, which in turn makes people just ignore and tune-out the warnings because they're not actually delivering signal-to-noise. This in turn harms people when they think, "How bad can tobacco be? Even my Aloe Vera plant has a warning label".

Keep it to generated news articles, and people might pay more attention to them.

Don't let the AI lobby insist on anything that's touched an LLM getting labelled, because if it gets slapped on anything that's even passed through a spell-checker or saved in Notepad ( somehow this is contaminated, lol ), then it'll become a useless warning.