MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Raywob | 2026-02-19 15:09:39+00:00
For the mechanical stages (scanning, scoring, dedup) — indistinguishable from proprietary models. These are structured tasks: "score this post 1-10 against these criteria" or "extract these fields from this text." An 8B model handles that fine at 30 tok/s on consumer GPU.

For synthesis and judgment — no, it's not close. That's exactly why I route those stages to Claude. When you need the model to generate novel connections or strategic recommendations, the quality gap between 8B and frontier is real.

The key insight is that most pipeline stages don't need synthesis. They need pattern matching. And that's where the 95% cost savings live.
by jobigoud | 2026-02-19 15:09:40+00:00
It is counter intuitive but information can still travel between places that are so distant that expansion between them is faster than the speed of light. It's just extremely slow (so I still vote for going to the party at the highest density place).

We do see light from galaxies that are receding away from us faster than c. At first the photons going in our direction are moving away from us but as the universe expands over time at some point they find themselves in a region of space that is no longer receding faster than c, and they start approaching.
by lights0123 | 2026-02-19 15:09:42+00:00
Python removes features all the time in 3.x releases. For example, I was not a fan of the distutils removal in 3.12 which broke many legacy but otherwise functional packages. Deprecated functions and classes are also removed from packages regularly.

They do publish removal plans years in advance, e.g. see Python 3.17's plans: https://docs.python.org/3/deprecations/pending-removal-in-3....
by ses1984 | 2026-02-19 15:10:26+00:00
There is a wide gulf between “when you exercise your body saves calories elsewhere in the day…when you eat less your metabolism slows down” and “some people can’t lose weight on 50% calorie restriction.”

The former is very well supported in the literature. The latter is only supported in low quality studies like where people self report their diet.

The CICO hypothesis accounts for metabolism. Your weight is a function of CICO and time. You can track calories in, weight, and time. From there you derive calories out.

The problem isn’t that CICO is wrong, the problem is that it turns out actual caloric restriction over time is really really hard.

The current best advice for weight loss is to avoid highly palatable and/or calorie dense foods, prefer foods that are highly satiating and low in calories, and strength training helps. Do whatever cardio you need for heart health; more cardio is at best unnecessary and at worst demotivating because extra effort will not net extra results. Slow and steady is easier to stick to.

One problem is that even though small deficits lead to more long term success, small deficits are very hard to track, and very hard to stick to.

When the size of your calorie deficit is two tablespoons of ranch dressing and a cookie per day, it’s easy to blow past it without even realizing.

CICO isn’t a diet strategy. By itself it won’t help you lose weight any more than kinematic equations help you to throw a ball.

But it’s not wrong.
by AStrangeMorrow | 2026-02-19 15:10:51+00:00
Yeah it is easy to imagine the past as a set of very disconnected cultures when they were not. I remember hearing about people like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_da_Pian_del_Carpine

He was a medieval Italian diplomat. And seems like when he was at the court of the Khan, we was trying to make a push of Catholicism and was getting into debates with other theologians, including one from a Islamic country and one from the Byzantine empire.

A bit later in the medieval times, you have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Rubruck who was an envoy from the court of France (Louis XIV) to the Khan. Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_de_Longjumeau (from France too)

Marco Polo is the most well know but far from the first one
by rglullis | 2026-02-19 15:10:58+00:00
> in many cases what you are specifically paying for is the combination of the software and the service that are designed to work together

And in many cases like Claude Code and the Anthropic models, they can and do work perfectly independently.

> True but the opposite is also true, just because you don't like the terms it does not make it illegal.

This is not me "not liking it". Like I said somewhere else in this thread: these types of tie-in are illegal in Brazil. This practice is clearly not done to favor the consumer. You can bet that if the US was anything closer to a functional democracy and the laws were not written by lobbyists, this would be illegal in the US as well.
by anthk | 2026-02-19 15:11:19+00:00
Good TUI's arent bad for POS terminals and the like, where speed it's king, kinda like airports where the latency it's a matter of life of death. For everything else, just look at IBM: you have the old TUI with 3270 terminals and web 'bindings' to these to accomplish the same exact task but with a GUI interface.

But OFC some airport assistant has an AS400 console on it and that's it sending commands at blitzing speeds. These interfaces have sense there; but not for a modern desktop OS shell as the main debugging environment.
by estimator7292 | 2026-02-19 15:11:31+00:00
The more I interact with consteval and the whole template metaprogramming and codegen paradigm, the more I think it's completely inappropriate to shovel into stdlib. I don't think this should even be part of the language itself, but something more like a linter on top of the C++ language.

For most of us it seems you can get good at C++ or metaprogramming. But unless you want to make it your entire career you can't really do both with the same degree of effectiveness.

I really like C++, and I will probably continue using it forever. But really only the very small subset of the language that applies to my chosen field. I'm a "C with classes" kind of guy and templates and constexpr are pretty rare. Hell, half the time I don't even have stdlib on embedded platforms. It's kind of nice, actually.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-19 15:11:40+00:00
> What if instead of feeding the actual and expected screenshots into the model we fed in a visual diff between the images along with a scalar quantity that indicates magnitude of difference?

It does this by itself when needed, using imagemagick (in my case), also seen it create bounding boxes and measuring colors with impromptu opencv python scripts, so doesn't seem like it's needed to explicitly prompt for this, seems to do it when needed.

> Manually converting a high quality design into css is ~trivial with modern web.

Well, OP asked for "UI development" and not how the UI is first thought of, so figured I focus on the development part. How the UI is first created before the development is a different thing altogether, and current LLMs are absolutely awful at it, they seem to not even understand basics like visual hierarchy as far as I can tell.
by nz | 2026-02-19 15:11:47+00:00
Originally posted this comment here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073581), but relevant to this subthread too.

The lesson that I am taking away from AI companies (and their billionaire investors and founders), is that property theft is perfectly fine. Which is a _goofy_ position to have, if you are a billionaire, or even a millionaire. Like, if property theft is perfectly acceptable, and if they own most of the property (intellectual or otherwise), then there can only be _upside_ for less fortunate people like us.

The implicit motto of this class of hyper-wealthy people is: "it's not yours if you cannot keep it". Well, game on.

(There are 56.5e6 millionaires, and 3e3 billionaires -- making them 0.7% of the global population. They are outnumbered 141.6 to 1. And they seem to reside and physically congregate in a handful of places around the world. They probably wouldn't even notice that their property is being stolen, and even if they did, a simple cycle of theft and recovery would probably drive them into debt).
by 13pixels | 2026-02-19 15:12:24+00:00
The JS rendering point is critical. Even though bots like GPTBot technically have headless capabilities, they often fall back to text-only extraction for non-priority pages to save compute. We see a lot of "invisible" content in e-com especially because of this.

One other signal to check: internal linking structure. AI crawlers seem to respect semantic clusters more than traditional pagerank flow. If your "about" page isn't semantically linked to your "product" page in a way the LLM understands as a relationship, it often hallucinates the connection.
by while1 | 2026-02-19 15:12:44+00:00
We're building AI testing tools at QA.tech and this matches my experience. Great post. The hard part was never generating code. It's figuring out if what came out is actually correct. Our team runs multiple AI agents in parallel writing code and honestly we spend way more time on verification than generation at this point. The ratio keeps getting worse as the models get better at producing plausible-looking stuff.

The codebase growth numbers feel right to me. Even conservative 2x productivity gains break most review processes. We ended up having to build our own internal review bot that checks the AI output because human review just doesn't keep up. But it has to be narrow and specific, not another general model doing vibes-based review.
by Embedl-Wilhelm | 2026-02-19 15:13:02+00:00
NVIDIA released Cosmos-Reason2 last month, targeting physical AI workloads (video reasoning, robotics planning, event detection), with official support for DGX Spark, H100, GB200 and Jetson AGX Thor.

We quantized the 2B model to W4A16 and optimized it further to run across the full Jetson lineup, including the most constrained Orin Nano 8GB Super (8 GB).

Model, setup instructions, and benchmarks:
https://huggingface.co/embedl/Cosmos-Reason2-2B-W4A16

Interested in feedback from others deploying VLMs on Jetson, especially around serving stacks (vLLM vs TensorRT-LLM vs other approaches) and practical bottlenecks!
by Tsiklon | 2026-02-19 15:13:25+00:00
To my recollection on the machines that shipped with Lion (circa 2011) you’ll want to set up a protective MBR with the appropriate drive dimensions on the GPT, to get it to install windows like with boot camp.

To my recollection on machines with discrete GPUs this is what triggers the appropriate hardware configuration (BIOS boot, disabling the internal GPU and switching the MUX to only route via the AMD card)

But I do recall getting the internal GPU working with this trick https://github.com/0xbb/apple_set_os.efi
by Fiveplus | 2026-02-19 15:13:26+00:00
The return of com.getpebble.android.provider.basalt is a very nice development. It revives the legacy plugin ecosystem overnight without requiring original developers (many of whom may be long gone) to push updates. Moving the app store native and switching iOS weather to WebSockets are also solid wins for latency, but I'm most curious about the package ID reclamation.

Has anyone else successfully recovered a dormant package name from Google Play recently? I was under the impression that once an original developer account goes inactive, those namespaces were effectively burned forever? Is that an incorrect assumption on my part?
by zephen | 2026-02-19 15:13:53+00:00
> I don't see how it makes sense as a response to my comment

Your comment started out with "just."

As if there are never any compelling reasons to want to make existing C code better.

But instead of taking that as an opportunity to reflect on when various tools might be appropriate,

> as I'm advocating to use the more advanced feature-rich tool over the compiler-specific-hacks one.

You've simply doubled down.
by ethin | 2026-02-19 15:13:59+00:00
Oh here we go again, someone demanding networking (of all things) in the standard library. Are you next going to demand a GUI toolkit too? Maybe an entire game engine and Vulkan/WebGPU implementation too while we're at it? Just because other languages do it does not mean it is a wise idea for C++ to follow suit. I mean, do I really need to point you to std::regex as an example of what happens when we try to add extraneous, hard to define problems to the STL? Do you really want to add something way more complicated than a regular expression engine to C++ (networking), with all that entails? Because I certainly don't.
by mistrial9 | 2026-02-19 15:14:35+00:00
(using an English translation of the French presented in this article. The article is worthwhile and detailed -- thank you for posting)

It appears that the author is trying to "solve" the origins of this mythos, using the commonly named Minoan culture as the core of the Bull in the story.

Yet the elements of a labyrinth, annual sacrifice, animal strength as a relative of the King, and the motifs used in the treatment and remedy.. These are not political topics.

Adding the spicy animal-human mating aspects only deepen the side of the story that exists within dream realms of human nature.

If the socio-political drives the author to make such a pleasing and informative product such as this article, then yes, I accept it. It is rare to find such aesthetics and thorough writing in public formats. However, I insist that the political change of society in that region is not enough to explain this strange and persistent storyline.
by ericmay | 2026-02-19 15:14:48+00:00
This is one of those things that sounds really nice and makes you feel morally good/superior, but it misses the point and the analogy fails. Speaking up, isn't offensive. Walking down a street, isn't propaganda. Wearing a dress, is your right as a person and it doesn't offend anyone. This isn't what's being discussed.

But, let's say you are right and we should maintain anonymity on social media platforms.

I don't think that kid who was wearing a t-shirt or sign or whatever supporting ICE should have been punched or face any consequences whatsoever. He should be free to exercise is right to free speech and/or protest, face no repercussions in public or private life, and when he goes home he should be allowed to hop on TikTok or Facebook or whatever, and post the most vile, hate-filled stuff he can think of, anonymously.

That's the world we live in today, and the status quo you are advocating that we maintain. Don't you think that warrants further discussion? I do.
by aryonoco | 2026-02-19 15:15:39+00:00
There are people who believe that KDE 3 was the perfect desktop. They forked it when KDE 4 was released (initial KDE 4 releases were really rough), called it the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE). I actually really like modern Gnome but every once in a while I try out TDE and it does give me a nice cozy feeling, like looking at old album photos.

I have a friend who refuses to use anything other than CDE and still manages to compile and run it on modern Linux distros.
by ericbarrett | 2026-02-19 15:15:39+00:00
> rather than just tearing others’ work down as I’m currently doing.

Your criticism looks authentic, based on real study and expertise. I think it is a valuable gift. It is only when such a thing become compulsive that it can fairly be called "tearing down."

Looking at your issues, you are calling out real flaws and even provide repro tests. If I were a maintainer who cared, and not just running a slop-for-stars scheme, I'd be very grateful for the reports.
Warning to Humanity: Why We Must Not Trust the AI "Fluency Trap"
by jariamaria | 2026-02-19 15:16:19+00:00
I’m a professional data verifier, and I’m seeing something deeply broken. AI "hallucination" isn't a bug we can patch. It's a permanent feature of the "black box" architecture that even its creators don't fully grasp.

We’ve been blinded by the fluency of these models, but it’s a trap. We are firing human experts and replacing them with a tool that lies with total confidence. In my field, if you trust AI without 100% human verification, you aren't just being "efficient"—you are inviting a systemic disaster.

We need to stop the hype and preserve pure, un-AI-tainted search. If we let the "Black Box" take over our critical infrastructure (legal, medical, government), the financial and social costs will be astronomical. This isn't innovation. It’s a defect.
by Dansvidania | 2026-02-19 15:16:21+00:00
I adopted a “props down events up” interface for all my components (using svelte right now but it should work regardless. I am importing it the approach from a datastar experiment).

I describe -often in md- the visual intent, the affordances I want to provide the users, the props+events I want it to take/emit and the general look (although the general style/look/vibe I have in md files in the project docs)

Then I take a black box approach as much as possible. Often I rewrite whole components whether with another pass of ai or manually. In the meantime I have workable placeholder faster than I can manage anything frontend.

I mostly handle the data transitions in the page components which have a fat model. Kinda ELM like except only complete save-worthy changes get handled by the page.
by librasteve | 2026-02-19 15:16:22+00:00
Well sure - being in a rut is good. But the language is the medium in which you cast your idiom, right?

Here's a Python rut:

n = 20 # how many numbers to generate
a, b = 0, 1
for _ in range(n):
print(a, end=" ")
a, b = b, a + b
print()

Here's that rut in Raku:

(0,1,*+*...*)[^20]

I am claiming that this is a nicer rut.
by dgdosen | 2026-02-19 15:16:35+00:00
Is it me, or will this just speed up the timeline where a 'good enough' open model (Qwen? Deepseek? - I'm sure the Chinese will see a value in undermining OpenAI/Anthropic/Google) combined with good enough/cheap hardware (10x inference improvement in a M7 Macbook Air?) makes running something like opencode code locally a no brainer?
by cloud8421 | 2026-02-19 15:16:35+00:00
> I don't see the point of Elixir now. LLMs work better with mainstream languages which make up a bigger portion of their training set.

I can't say if it works better with other languages, but I can definitely say both Opus and Codex work really well with Elixir. I work on a fairly large application and they consistently produce well structured working code, and are able to review existing code to find issues that are very easy to miss.

The LLM needs guidance around general patterns, e.g. "Let's use a state machine to implement this functionality" but it writes code that uses language idioms, leverages immutability and concurrency, and generally speaking it's much better than any first pass that I would manually do.

I have my ethical concerns, but it would be foolish of me to state that it works poorly - if anything it makes me question my own abilities and focus in comparison (which is a whole different topic).
by ch4s3 | 2026-02-19 15:16:41+00:00
This is not really accurate. There was a vary long running debate about phonics which is 1 piece of a larger system (alphabetic coding, phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, and comprehension) vs Whole language which became popular int he UK and US in the 1980s and 1990s. Whole language is junk pedagogy and doesn't work but was the preferred method taught to teachers for nearly 30 years in the US.

The NYT Daily podcast did an ok episode on this[1].

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aerQQFrBbPQ
by turnsout | 2026-02-19 15:16:57+00:00
I've been pleasantly surprised by the Claude integration with Xcode. Overall, it's a huge downgrade from Claude Code's UX (no way to manually enter plan mode, odd limitations, poor Xcode-specific tool use adherence, frustrating permission model), but in one key way it is absolutely clutch for SwiftUI development: it can render and view SwiftUI previews. Because SwiftUI is component based, it can home in on rendering errors, view them in isolation, and fix them, creating new test cases (#Preview) as needed.

This closes the feedback loop on the visual side. There's still a lot of work to be done on the behavioral side (e.g. it can't easily diagnose gesture conflicts on its own).
by Blackthorn | 2026-02-19 15:17:49+00:00
You can just set -std=c++03 and program like the language never evolved if that's your personal preference.

Other than that, there's always an interesting psychology at play in software engineering but it really seems to come out when people talk about C++ for some reason. Complexity is just needless bloat when it's a feature you aren't using, and it's an essential part of the language when it's a feature you are.
by bonjourjoel | 2026-02-19 15:18:07+00:00
I built AICode, a VSCode extension and methodology for writing AI-generated code that remains maintainable in large projects.

It started as a manual workflow on ChatGPT.com: assembling prompts in a notepad, iterating on specifications, self-checks before and after coding. Once the system became reliable, I packaged it into a VSCode extension.

The goal is not speed, but producing structured, high-quality, long-term maintainable software using AI. I use it in my own projects, including apps of 500K LOC.

Looking for feedback from devs who care about AI-assisted development and code quality.
by squeefers | 2026-02-19 15:18:12+00:00
> Yellow journalism was when we had not yet adapted to print.

people still believe whatever shit is in the daily mail even today. there are just far less yellow journals now... its in the collective memory that papers print shit for profit. maybe. i cant fully explain why it stopped

> The satanism scare was when we had not yet adapted to international news.

it was the late 80s wasnt it?

> a better reference for those eras would be the Hillsborough disaster where coverage by the Sun got it boycott

national newspaper. could still happen now.

> The difference I point to the effort required to pull it off, and adaption to it, not of existence.

yes. the printing press had similar effects. IE lies could now travel much faster than before, much easier. im sure people made similar grumblings about gutenburg as you have done about AI. are you slagging the printing press the same way though?
by jasode | 2026-02-19 15:18:21+00:00
Examples of C++11, C++17, C++20, C++23 that removed features. Some deep links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B11#Features_removed_or_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B17#Removed_features

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B20#Removed_and_deprecat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B23#Removed_features_and...
by reenorap | 2026-02-19 15:18:25+00:00
How can spending be essential if it skyrocketed only in the last few years? The only way to do this was by ripping off the bandage, otherwise as you can see, the number of lawsuits and political actions gumming up the system would prevent any real change to our deficit.

I'm happy that USAID was cut because it was instrumental in taking away sovereignty from other countries. Even Mexico's elections were very recently manipulated by USAID as mentioned by the previous president of Mexico.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/3/mexicos-lopez-obrado...

People need to remember that USAID has nothing to do with aid. It has everything to do with manipulating foreign governments. If you think that USAID was primarily foreign aid, then you have fallen for the propaganda that the agency took advantage of when they came up with the name.

If you believe in the idea that other countries should dictate their own destiny and not be the puppet of the US, then you would be 100% against USAID.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-19 15:18:33+00:00
It is hardly any different from,

C Source code => Tradicional UNIX C compiler => ASM => object file

Now everyone is doing

AI tooling => C Source code => Tradicional UNIX C compiler => ASM => object file

For all pratical purposes, just like using a language like Nim, the workflow exposed to user can hide the middle steps.

Then there is the other take, if you start using agents that can be configured to do tool calling, it is hardly any different from low code applications, doing REST/GraphQL/gRPC calls orchestrated via flow charts, which is exactly what iPaSS tooling are offering nowadays, like Workato, Boomi,...