MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-04 21:50:45+00:00
They’re recruiting aggressively right now, and ICE received over 200K applications per some statement they put out. So they’ll probably be at 40K+ agents by mid-year. Note that while there are thousands of election places, there are only a small number of states that are deciders for the elections, since others are solidly blue or red. And in those states, there are only a handful of blue cities for Trump/GOP to disrupt. And even within those cities, it’s easy to figure out which areas are likely voting one way or the other. ICE already has far more agents than every local police force in every one of those locations. They would overwhelm everyone if they do this.
by ethmarks | 2026-02-04 21:51:56+00:00
They've already done the inverse and trimmed non-coding abilities from their language model: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/. There's already precedent for creating domain-specific models.

I think it's nice to have specialized models for specific tasks that don't try to be generalists. Voxtral Transcript 2 is already extremely impressive, so imagine how much better it could be if it specialized in specific languages rather than cramming 14 languages into one model.

That said, generalist models definitely have their uses. I do want multilingual transcribing models to exist, I just also think that monolingual models could potentially achieve even better results for that specific language.
by voy707 | 2026-02-04 21:52:12+00:00
While it's correct there are many more forces besides social media contributing to the current mental health crisis, social media is certainly a major one. Although politicians trying to blame it for everything don't help at all.

It's well established that excessive (aka average Gen Z and Alpha) social media use is linked to increased levels of anxiety. It's well understood that it affects the self-esteem of teens and it's clear that more and more kids than ever have no real interests besides TikTok.

Maybe 'social media bad' is just the new 'video games bad' or 'watching TV bad', but the sheer scale and intrusiveness is different. I couldn't carry my gaming PC with me as a Team Fortress 2 addicted kid, my Gameboy was too basic to keep me compulsively glued to its screen for 8 hours, it couldn't constantly send me notifications no matter where I was, it didn't have some hyperoptimized billion dollar algorithm meticulously designed to exploit human psychology.

There were friction and physical boundaries, now there aren't. That's a problem, made even worse combined with broader social forces.

Just ask most primary school teachers how their students are doing.
by jongjong | 2026-02-04 21:54:16+00:00
This is just like communism in the sense that it says one thing, does another.

Having worked as a software engineer in the industry for almost 15 years, my experience is that the leading (elite) proponents of this philosophy don't really care about tech or innovation; they only care to the extent that they control the innovation.

Any innovation created outside of their sphere of control will be ignored and suppressed. It's extremely ironic because this is how they view China's tech sector. I remember reading an article about DeepSeek and the American author made a comment about how it was developed independently of government by a relatively small company and how unusual this is for China... But the US works the same way! Except instead of the CCP, the power is Big VC.
by hilbert42 | 2026-02-04 21:54:30+00:00
I am just so glad my time at university was in the late 1960s. Not only was it an exciting time to be alive but the thought of universities and professors under this kind of surveillance and being frightened to speak out couldn't have been further from our thoughts.

Universities have always had their critics and back then was no exception. Complaints centered widely from about the ratbag student element causing troubles, to critism of subsidiaries/what universities cost the state, and about the spoilt and privileged class, and that universities were a hotbed of political activism—which at the time they were—but nothing approached this level of intense scrutiny.

We students and those teaching us could say what we wanted without retribution. I remember being cheered by the student body after giving an anti-Vietnam war speech in the student union building and I suffered no repercussions, and that's how it was for everyone, staff and students alike.

It was a wonderful time to be a university student, and 1968 was very special.
by alistairSH | 2026-02-04 21:54:33+00:00
Maybe if you slice up disorders into arbitrarily small groups, you can get "anxiety" to the 2nd leading cause of death?

But, generally, I've seen mortality causes listed as something like (1) cardiovascular disease (2) cancers.

Googling directly for "where does anxiety rank as a cause of death" the answer is something like "it's rarely the proximate cause of daeth, but is associated with higher all-cause mortality"
by medius | 2026-02-04 21:54:35+00:00
A link shortener is such an easy thing to code, it's essentially one database table with a redirect. To add to that, there are many open source libraries to implement link shortening, including analytics and stuff. Even then Bitly and Rebrandly have customers (from their website) like Toyota, Cisco, Oracle, Monday.com, New York Times, etc.

Are these companies unable to build a link shortener? It's also so easy to migrate off shortener service. If they can and still choose to use these shortening services, there must be other reason. And that reason is that they simply don't want to. This has nothing to do with AI.

I run a software company and one of the reasons customers say they want to migrate from their homegrown spreadsheet is because the guy who built it left. A freaking spreadsheet!

Such blog posts and probably many comments here are the perfect answer to "Tell me you don't run a real business without telling me you don't run a real business"
by TuringNYC | 2026-02-04 21:54:52+00:00
>> This is a terrible example. Show me someone ripping out their SAP ERP or SalesForce CRM system where they're paying $100k+ for a vibe coded alternative and I'll believe this overall sentiment.

I cannot imagine an SMB or fortune 500 ripping out Salesforce or SAP. However, I can see a point-tool going away (e.g., those $50/mo contracts which do something tiny like connect one tool to another.)
by nomel | 2026-02-04 21:55:09+00:00
This isn't fair, because it's misunderstanding the problem. It's not that they're lying, it's that, in their culture, the meaning of yes means something different, meaning "I hear you" rather than "I understand you". If they're not strong with english they might not have a grasp of this, so you have to think of it as an empty "uh huh" type filler word, not a word with actual meaning.

The real problem I have is the "saving face" concept prevents them admitting they don't understand something. This is where the "high context" part comes in. You can't listen to what they say directly, you have to go off how they say it, and other context clues. This is what I have the biggest problem with. The only way to know if they actually understand something is test their understanding, like have them repeat/explain it back to you. From a low context/western perspective, this results in low verbal trust (because it technically is). I've wasted so many hours on taking something said at face value, that I just default to verifying everything that's said, and trying to be patient when I find out the truth. But, I am getting much better at reading the cues, so can usually spot the (from my western perspective) bullshit when it starts.

There are old stereotypes around this clash of meaning/culture.
by kittikitti | 2026-02-04 21:55:40+00:00
I disliked how SaaS CEO's were decrying the death of engineers. Their coordinated layoffs over the past years or so was excruciating to watch and experience. Their language was aggressive and inflammatory.

Although the article may also be hyperbolic, I'm not going to comment on reasons why it might be. Instead, I will agree, and think SaaS companies stock performance this year will be proof. Sure, it might not be the collapse that AI doomers are hoping for, but all the FUD they spread over the past few months to years will signal that they're not insulated from it. They made their cake, now they have to eat it too.
by epistasis | 2026-02-04 21:56:12+00:00
This sort of nearly open corruption at NYT is worthy of a Trump operation, to be honest.

When Kanye West bought a full-page ad apologizing for his anti-semitisim upon release of a new album, he apparently also bought a full-on legitimate looking "news" article to go with it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/arts/music/ye-kanye-west-...

This is the same newspaper that has reporters bragging on Twitter that they shouldn't have to report on major economic news, like the broad effects of the Inflation Reduction Act, because they don't need to report on anything that would benefit Biden. Apparently Biden didn't pay off the right people at the NYTimes.
by dmix | 2026-02-04 21:56:19+00:00
After subscribing for a decade I canceled NYT last yr because I felt it was leaning more into social media bait (which I dont blame them for business reasons). That plus they kept blocking Firefox with an unpassable captcha even though I was logged in.

I now read WSJ largely for the same reasons "more focused, a little drier, easier to follow". I also find WSJ is much better at writing good headlines that draw you in, on a broad range of topics not just breaking Trump news 24/7 which is mostly what NTYimes notifies you with. WSJ also has an excellent Youtube channel, probably the best of the big 3. The only problem with WSJ is it costs twice as much.
by ericd | 2026-02-04 21:56:51+00:00
I think the disconnect is that with starship they’re targeting >200 tons/200,000 kg and $2m-$10m/launch, so the very optimistic case is more like $10/kg. Also, the production of a panel in sun sync orbit is many times one on the ground, doesn’t suffer seasonality/weather, and doesn’t require battery storage for smoothing/time shifting, so you’d need to deploy many times the number of panels on earth. Our home array in North America over the course of the year generates something like 1/7th of its theoretical capacity, overproduces in the summer, and underproduces in the winter.
by sbarre | 2026-02-04 21:57:10+00:00
1. Enthusiastic employee (vibe-)codes a replacement for a turnkey SaaS product that the company uses.

2. Company uses it, maybe even starts to rely on it for important business operations, and for a time the employee supports that app.

3. Bugs creep in, feature request pile up.

4. Employee either leaves the company or moves on to another project.

5. Pain
by latexr | 2026-02-04 21:57:24+00:00
I think you are confused. I don’t care about the announcement, I’m specifically addressing a point from my parent comment, which I quoted. Again, this time with emphasis:

> YC, like most incubators, has always encouraged (…)

“Encouraging” means advising, advocating for, not “allowing as an option”. I don’t know if YC really does that, but that’s the conversation. It’s about the claim made in a comment, not the submission.
by sloaken | 2026-02-04 21:58:00+00:00
I cannot speak to crypto, but as far as the others go:

Gold is at 4988 today, MAX was 5626... beginning of November it was 4000, so in 3 months up 25%, what do I care about the max it was for 5 seconds.

Silver is at 88 today, MAX was 122... beginning of November it was 48, so in 3 months up 80%, what do I care about the max it was for 5 seconds.

DOJ is at 49500 today, MAX was 5328... beginning of November it was 47500, so in 3 months up 4%, OMG now I am mad! That is only 16% average a year.... With inflation at 3%, a real rate of return is only 13%. I can laugh all the way to the bank on that one.

This is why dollar cost averaging is a critical method.

I was discussing market crashes with a friend. He pointed out that it took like 25 years to recover from the great depression. Which he was correct, if you put ALL of your money in the just a minute before the crash. If you had been doing $100 a month for 2 or 3 years, your recovery was MUCH faster.
by saaaaaam | 2026-02-04 21:58:08+00:00
Right, yes. I now realise I should probably have continued reading after “1. Go to linkedin.com and log in”.
But when I saw that I noped away.

Which shows the power of words. If it said “1. You will need a copy of your LinkedIn contacts to run this locally - here’s how…” I would have had a very different opinion.

You can vibe code almost anything, but you’re unlikely be able to vibe code your way out of scaring people.
by Groxx | 2026-02-04 21:58:14+00:00
>I think the industry is moving left. Toward specs. The code is becoming an implementation detail. What matters is the system that produces it - the requirements, the constraints, the architecture. Get those right, and the code follows.

So basically a return to waterfall design.

Rather than YOLO planning (agile), we go back to YOLO implementation (farming it out to dozens of replaceable peons, but this time they're even worse).
by Eikon | 2026-02-04 21:58:23+00:00
You might be interested in ZeroFS [0], it works great with Postgres [1].

To achieve what you describe, you should be just able to setup a Postgres replica that’s setup on top of ZeroFS.

[0] https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS

[1] https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS?tab=readme-ov-file#postgresq...
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-04 21:58:31+00:00
I know I'm not the brightest bulb by any measure, but do some people really take less than at least a few minutes to come up with one-liners for problems as novel as graphical transformations to PDFs? Maybe if the presumed techie hacker / federal worker took it as an amusing challenge I could see this being done, but genuinely out of pure laziness? That's incredible if true.
by kace91 | 2026-02-04 21:59:04+00:00
>The people really leading AI coding right now (and I’d put myself near the front, though not all the way there) don’t read code. They manage the things that produce code.

I can’t imagine any other example where people voluntarily move for a black box approach.

Imagine taking a picture on autoshot mode and refusing to look at it. If the client doesn’t like it because it’s too bright, tweak the settings and shoot again, but never look at the output.

What is the logic here? Because if you can read code, I can’t imagine poking the result with black box testing being faster.

Are these people just handing off the review process to others? Are they unable to read code and hiding it? Why would you handicap yourself this way?
by LightBug1 | 2026-02-04 21:59:09+00:00
Couldn't give a shit, mate. None of us do.

And I'd have a fine, FINE time in court arguing the similarities with Hitler's finest and your ICE agents.

And don't get me wrong. Just because I call the USA a sh1hole on the ILS glidepath to a fascist state, doesn't mean I don't see the wrong in our countries.

The difference is, I don't turn the other cheek about my own country. I don't look in the mirror and lie to myself like some of you do. Pathetic.

And, AGAIN, even now, even with your evidence (which I didn't click on and couldn't give a shit about considering your comment adjacent to it) ... I'd STILL live here over that sh1thole with your pretend stormtroopers with their trigger happy fingers... hilarious how quiet your 2A fanatics and loud auditors are now.

Hell, half of them probably took that $50k signing on bonus while smoking a big fat one (the burning embers of your constitution).
by brikym | 2026-02-04 21:59:10+00:00
Maybe you are right and the companies do want to pay and not worry about these problems. But now they have a lot more SaaS options to chose from. The incumbent companies like Salesforce and Atlassian have less of a moat. Maybe they'll keep the power users but if a customer is only using 80% of the feature set there is new competition.
Competition might come in the form of a startup but it can also come from existing SaaS companies expanding into adjacent domains. Canva now does docs. Hubspot has a kanban boards. Notion does email. etc
by pixelready | 2026-02-04 21:59:42+00:00
The current crop of LLM-backed chatbots do have a bit of that “old, good internet” flavor. A mostly unspoiled frontier where things are changing rapidly, potential seems unbounded, the people molding the actual tech and discussing it are enthusiasts with a sort of sorcerer’s apprentice vibe. Not sure how long it can persist, since I’ve seen this story before and we all understand the incentive structures at play.
Does anyone know how if there are precedents for PBCs or B-Corp type businesses to be held accountable for betraying their stated values? Or is it just window dressing with no legal clout? Can they change to a standard corporation on a whim and ditch the non-shareholder maximization goals?
by paxys | 2026-02-04 21:59:44+00:00
> Reduce your expectations about speed and performance!

Wildly understating this part.

Even the best local models (ones you run on beefy 128GB+ RAM machines) get nowhere close to the sheer intelligence of Claude/Gemini/Codex. At worst these local models will move you backwards and just increase the amount of work Claude has to do when your limits reset.
by sixdimensional | 2026-02-04 22:00:18+00:00
Half serious - but is that really so different than many apps written by humans?

I've worked on "legacy systems" written 30 to 45 years ago (or more) and still running today (things like green-screen apps written in Pick/Basic, Cobol, etc.). Some of them were written once and subsystems replaced, but some of it is original code.

In systems written in the last.. say, 10 to 20 years, I've seen them undergo drastic rates of change, sometimes full rewrites every few years. This seemed to go hand-in-hand with the rise of agile development (not condemning nor approving of it) - where rapid rates of change were expected.. and often the tech the system was written in was changing rapidly also.

In hardware engineering, I personally also saw a huge move to more frequent design and implementation refreshes to prevent obsolescence issues (some might say this is "planned obsolescence" but it also is done for valid reasons as well).

I think not reading the code anymore TODAY may be a bit premature, but I don't think it's impossible to consider that someday in the nearer than further future, we might be at a point where generative systems have more predictability and maybe even get certified for safety/etc. of the generated code.. leading to truly not reading the code.

I'm not sure it's a good future, or that it's tomorrow, but it might not be beyond the next 20 year timeframe either, it might be sooner.
by jngiam1 | 2026-02-04 22:00:24+00:00
i've a simple setup with Claude Code and MCPs; and i get real benefits from better task mgmt, email mgmt, calendar, health/food/fitness tracking, working together with claude on tasks (that go into md files).

i don't think we need ClawdBot, but we do need a way to easily interact with the model such that it can create long term memories (likely as files).
by Legend2440 | 2026-02-04 22:00:37+00:00
Eh, sure, we'll hit limits eventually. We appear to be pretty far off from hard limits like thermodynamics though, and the world after we hit those limits could look very science-fiction.

For antibiotics specifically, we will probably find other ways to fight bacteria even if we never discover another chemical antibiotic. As one technology S-curves, another technology replaces it.
by zbentley | 2026-02-04 22:00:40+00:00
If you use rot13 as your data encryption, then a ten year old can absolutely break it--not by knowing what "rot13" or "data encryption" mean, but by clicking a button in a one-click jailbreak app.

On the other hand, if you use stronger data protection, technical expertise can be required--remember the "kamikaze hack" for breaking hardware DRM on the Xbox 360? https://kotaku.com/one-of-the-wildest-console-hacks-ever-184...
by d4rkp4ttern | 2026-02-04 22:00:54+00:00
Since Llama.cpp/llama-server recently added support for the Anthropic messages API, running Claude Code with open-weight local models is now very easy. The messy part is what llama-server flags to use, including chat template etc. I've collected all of that setup info in my claude-code-tools [1] repo, for Qwen3-Coder-next, Qwen3-30B-A3B, Nemotron-3-Nano, GLM-4.7-Flash etc.

Among these, I had lots of trouble getting GLM-4.7-Flash to work (failed tool calls etc), and even when it works, it's at very low tok/s. On the other hand Qwen3 variants perform very well, speed wise. For local sensitive document work, these are excellent; for serious coding not so much.

One caviat missed in most instructions is that you have to set
CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC = 1
in your ~/.claude/settings.json, otherwise CC's telemetry pings cause total network failure because local ports are exhausted.

[1] claude-code-tools local LLM setup: https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools/blob/main/do...
by shoo | 2026-02-04 22:01:18+00:00
Crypto -- gold -- these are both assets classes where the price is primarily driven by speculation. Sometimes speculation causes prices to fluctuate up, other times speculation causes prices to fluctuate down. There's inherently no stability. Over the last year, the mass media has been filled with news articles about the gold price so it isn't surprising that a lot of speculators have jumped onto the bandwagon (or have been trying to jump off).

Some asset classes (stock, real estate, bonds) have intrinsic value based on the net present value of their associated future cash flows, independent of whatever price the market currently offers to buy or sell them.

If you're holding a heavy allocation to purely speculative assets and that's causing you to lose sleep, consider selling some and increase your allocation to assets that have intrinsic value.

The US stock market is probably a bit overpriced at the moment, I'd avoid piling 100% into that. A reasonable split of US stocks and international ex US stocks could be appropriate if you're investing money that you don't need for a decade or more. There are lots of low-fee passively indexed ETFs that can be used to easily and cheaply invest.

"In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine." -- Ben Graham

The voting machine dynamic is speculation. The weighing machine dynamic is anchoring of prices around long-term intrinsic value.
by lkey | 2026-02-04 22:01:40+00:00
DO NOT make financial decisions based on the advice of a youtube channel.
DO NOT make financial decisions based of of the advice of an an article written by a know associate of Curtis Yarvin.
You saw the video yesterday because this is a marketing exercise.
They hold a stake in the outcome, you are the greater fool.

Christ.

Find a professional fiduciary that doesn't have a youtube channel and never speculate more than you can afford to lose.
by bandrami | 2026-02-04 22:01:57+00:00
That's a huge part of it. But also you presumably hired a full-time programmer for a reason, and in almost every case that reason was not to have somebody to write and maintain your CRM system. So any system they build and maintain is not just another thing for you to worry about, it's a huge chunk of time that the developer isn't doing what you hired them for.
by ytpete | 2026-02-04 22:02:13+00:00
The 3D printers don't generate the plans for the gun for you though. If someone sold a printer that would – happily with no guardrails – generate 3D models of CSAM from thin air and then print them, I bet they'd be investigated too. Or for that matter a 3D printer that came bundled with a built-in library of gun models you could print with very little skill...