MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by psychoslave | 2026-02-06 11:05:12+00:00
That feels like Silicon-Valley-centric point of view. Plus who would really spend $20k in building any C compiler today in the actual landscape of software?

All that this is saying is that license laundering of a code-base is now $20k away through automated processes, at least if the original code base is fully available. Well, with current state-of-the-art you’ll actually end up with a code-base which is not as good as the original, but that’s it.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2026-02-06 11:05:15+00:00
I'm worried that this will lead to a Prop 65 [0] situation, where eventually everything gets flagged as having used AI in some form. Unless it suddenly becomes a premium feature to have 100% human written articles, but are people really going to pay for that?

> substantially composed, authored, or created through the use of generative artificial intelligence

The lawyers are gonna have a field day with this one. This wording makes it seem like you could do light editing and proof-reading without disclosing that you used AI to help with that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_California_Proposition_65
by mlrtime | 2026-02-06 11:06:01+00:00
Things I dislike about GHA (on Enterprise Server)

* Workflows are only registered once pushed to main, impossible to test the first runs in a branch.

* MS/GH don't care much about GHES as they do github.com, I think they'd like to see it just die. Massive lack of feature parity.

* Labels: If any of your workflows trigger from a label, they ALL DO. You can't target labels only to certain workflows, they all run and then cancel, polluting your checks.

* Deployments: What is a deployment even doing? There is no management to deploy.

* Statefulness: No native way to store state between runs in the same workflow or PR, you would think you could save some sort of state somewhere but you have to manage it all yourself with manifests or something else.

I can go on
by metalman | 2026-02-06 11:06:46+00:00
I cant sort of imagine a blank screen but w cant turn off the mental imagery that is with me all the time.
I can run two full sets of imagery at the same time, actual reality, like driving a car on the hyway, and then whatever I am thinking about, though I will have no recall of what I saw while driving, but will seamlessly pop back into actively thinking about driving when anything anomylous appears.
And lots of other little two channel visuals, looking at a screen while reviewing the last screen and thinking about where something might be...........in the huge mad jumble of stuff spread out over a lot of space in different buildings in the.
For me there is almost constantly two visual things happening, and sleep is when it gets paired down to one, and only if I work to full physical capacity will I just sleep through with no active dreaming, as it's called.
Certain physical activities will command my full attention, but the visual recall is always there.
Reading is special, as I must actualy see the words, but the images my mind creates to go with them are very strong.
I also design and build three dimensional
objects in varios materials, and am interested in aircraft design and systems, and will just sit, and play with ideas, and often waking up with finished workable solutions.
Maybe people who dont project imagery can just access the same information as direct knowledge without the visuals, or are they useless dumb fucks?, just read further down
and "spacedcowboy", obviosly not a dumb fuck
describes his experience of an elephant in the room, which I read, and understand, but with visuals running in the background.
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 11:07:29+00:00
When my exposé comments (with undisputable facts and valid links) are being deliberately downvoted (to cover up the shenanigans of evil men), then it will only spur me to share those truths to a wider audience.

The heart-wrenching laments of the families of healthy innocent children who died in such evil unscrupulous experiments by these evil billionaires and greedy evil Big Pharma megacorporarations, shall be heard across the world.

Karma will have its way, and its say.
by saubeidl | 2026-02-06 11:07:42+00:00
> which leaves you with hyperbole, misrepresentation, and of course these sort of semantic games.

> They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’

> "And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic.

[...]

> But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

~ They Thought They Were Free - The Germans, 1933-45; Milton Mayer
by charcircuit | 2026-02-06 11:08:17+00:00
So literally every article will be labeled as AI assisted and it will be meaningless.

>The use of generative artificial intelligence systems shall not result in: (i) discharge, displacement or loss of position

Being able to fire employees is a great use of AI and should not be restricted.

> or (ii) transfer of existing duties and functions previously performed by employees or worker

Is this saying you can't replace an employee's responsibilities with AI? No wonder the article says it is getting union support.
by ashkan01c | 2026-02-06 11:08:28+00:00
Imagine, create and iterate 3D environments instantly

Build your 3D environment through exploration and iteration. Amara brings AI to help you create each of your 3D models and then help you create your environment inside Unreal Engine so creators can create multiple scenes and refine them in seconds until a favourite emerges. Creative exploration becomes part of your workflow.

We built this because we were tired of "creative flow" dying the moment you had to hunt for a mesh or block out a room. Amara is our answer using AI not as a buzzword, but as the core engine to get you from "idea" to "walkable space" in seconds.

What makes Amara feel like magic?
Prompt-to-World: Describe your environment in natural language and watch a production-ready 3D space materialise.

Semantic Asset Search: Forget file names. Type "throne for a dark king" and Amara finds the right assets, no matter how messy your library is.

Scene-Level Intelligence: Tell Amara to "make the room look like an earthquake hit" and it intelligently rearranges the objects for you.

Unreal Engine Pipeline: Your iterations directly inside Unreal Engine (no migration needed)

The "Why" behind the build
We’re a small team of builders who spent way too many hours manually placing chairs and tweaking light switches just to test a vibe. We wanted a tool that felt more like a "Director’s Console" and less like a CAD manual.
by padolsey | 2026-02-06 11:08:52+00:00
I'm surprised to see so little coverage of AI legislation news here tbh. Maybe there's an apathy and exhaustion to it. But if you're developing AI stuff, you need to keep on top of this. This is a pretty pivotal moment. NY has been busy with RAISE (frontier AI safety protocols, audits, incident reporting), S8420A (must disclose AI-generated performers in ads), GBL Article 47 (crisis detection & disclaimers for AI chatbots), S7676B (protects performers from unauthorized AI likenesses), NYC LL144 (bias audits for AI hiring tools), SAFE for Kids Act [pending] (restricts algorithmic feeds for minors). At least three of those are relevant even if your app only _serves_ people in NY. It doesn't matter where you're based. That's just one US state's laws on AI.

It's kinda funny the oft-held animosity towards EU's heavy-handed regulations when navigating US state law is a complete minefield of its own.
by Arbortheus | 2026-02-06 11:09:14+00:00
There are two solutions GitHub Actions people will tell you about. Both are fundamentally flawed because GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst [1].

One thing people will say is to pin the commit SHA, so don't do "uses: randomAuthor/some-normal-action@v1", instead do "uses: randomAuthor/some-normal-action@e20fd1d81c3f403df57f5f06e2aa9653a6a60763". Alternatively, just fork the action into your own GitHub account and import that instead.

However, neither of these "solutions" work, because they do not pin the transitive dependencies.

Suppose I pin the action at a SHA or fork it, but that action still imports "tj-actions/changed-files". In that case, you would have still been pwned in the "tj-actions/changed-files" incident [2].

The only way to be sure is to manually traverse the dependency hierarchy, forking each action as you go down the "tree" and updating every action to only depend on code you control.

In other package managers, this is solved with a lockfile - go.sum, yarn.lock, ...

[1] https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager...

[2] https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/github-actions-supply-ch...
by rldjbpin | 2026-02-06 11:09:18+00:00
used it extensively in high school as a more approachable way to learn about countries without the daunting amounts that wikipedia pages tend to have.

come to realise down the line the "writer's biases" in the latter half of the articles. almost comical to see how nuanced situations are distilled down to "our perspective". recall how you could "learn" about the drug trade situation in almost any country, regardless of how you perceived the country's safeness before reading the page.
by vercaemert | 2026-02-06 11:10:29+00:00
It's impressive, even if the books and the posts you're talking about were both key parts of the training data.

There are many academic domains where the research portion of a PhD is essentially what the model just did. For example, PhD students in some of the humanities will spend years combing ancient sources for specific combinations of prepositions and objects, only to write a paper showing that the previous scholars were wrong (and that a particular preposition has examples of being used with people rather than places).

This sort of experiment shows that Opus would be good at that. I'm assuming it's trivial for the OP to extend their experiment to determine how many times "wingardium leviosa" was used on an object rather than a person.

(It's worth noting that other models are decent at this, and you would need to find a way to benchmark between them.)
by rsynnott | 2026-02-06 11:11:08+00:00
> Volkswagen (VOWG.DE), opens new tab overtook Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab in sales of fully-electric cars in Europe in 2025

This is pretty nonsensical. The VW _brand_ overtook Tesla in EV sales. However, VW AG (ie the VOWG.DE referenced above), has been outselling Tesla since about 2020. Audi and Seat and so forth are not independent companies in any meaningful way and their cars are for practical purposes the same as those sold under the VW brand.
by gg582 | 2026-02-06 11:11:11+00:00
Yes. But in my opinion, this is more than a problem of communication.
Many open source projects fail to retain their management cycle, or ecosystem even they have their Discord, or IRC to communicate. Many open source projects are having trouble retaining themselves and the core problem of them are 'they are just thriving in their cultural boundaries'. For example, in our country, South Korea, many open source projects are born and just die within a few years. And their core problem was 'only Korean developers can understand what is actually happening in that open source group'. I think that Debian volunteers communicate quite well, but the way how they communicate is immature. And, at least, they should let people know how they try hard to keep them alive. Debian is famous, and many developers in here think that it is 'a standard one for the normal office'. That means, no matter how Debian volunteers trying so hard, many people would perceive it as a 'untouchable' realm. Then it is important to re-think how to get people to continue on some positions. Debian still has translated documentations, even in a niche language. Like that, Debian should make more ways to 'encourage' developers to cooperate, in many languages. In 21th century, there's a great translator, so allowing people who don't speak English well, may not be a problem. Something like..yep, better than disappearing.

I guess my comment is kinda messy, hm..Anyway, thanks for the reminder.
Have a good day!

:)
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 11:11:44+00:00
I didn't even know that HN has karma! I thought that was a Reddit thing.

I have been using HN for some time, but I don't really know how it works.

People seem to be downvoting my comments that reveal some hard truths, but I don't see any downvote button when browsing HN conversations.

Anyway, I don't intend to downvote anyone. Let people have their own opinions and say, but is there anyway I can find out who is deliberately downvoting my comments?
by plqbfbv | 2026-02-06 11:11:48+00:00
> Tesla deserves credit but it’s not Tesla that accelerated the world. It’s China.

China supplied the batteries, sure.

But there's definitely a pre-Tesla and post-Tesla world regarding the vehicles themselves. Tesla changed the image of EVs available to the general public by making performant and low maintenance vehicles that looked futuristic and were capable of things basically only supercars could, for a fraction of the price. And they built the DC charging infrastructure all over the world to support long-range trips, which was non-existent before Tesla. EVs before Teslas were basically niche experiments.
by vasco | 2026-02-06 11:12:03+00:00
~Everything will use AI at some point. This is like requiring a disclaimer for using Javascript back when it was introduced. It's unfortunate but I think ultimately a losing battle.

Plus if you want to mandate it, hidden markers (stenography) to verify which model generated the text so people can independently verify if articles were written by humans (emitted directly by the model) is probably the only feasible way. But its not like humans are impartial anyway already when writing news so I don't even see the point of that.
by unsupp0rted | 2026-02-06 11:12:07+00:00
This is probably the only way "humans" are going to colonize any planets other than Earth. And probably lots of new places on Earth too.

Just include the genes for extreme-cold or extreme-arid climates. Or the genes for low oxygen environments, or even for metabolizing useful things from eating rocks. Or from spending 24 hours a day in salt water.
by rsynnott | 2026-02-06 11:12:16+00:00
For all the press, BYD isn't actually that big in Europe. As you can see, Geely (another Chinese brand, which gets very little press) is actually bigger.

If you look at the data for Spain, where they're quite big, you'll see them, but they're not getting into the top 8 for Western Europe as a whole (which is what this site shows).
by imtringued | 2026-02-06 11:12:23+00:00
Communism doesn't work because its originator (Marx) used Hegel's dialectical method, which was only ever meant to be used in conjunction with an idealist (=reality is derived from the mind) philosophy, and misappropriated it into dialectical materialism. The dialectical method is acceptable when the contradictions are between concepts during the process of gaining knowledge which if completed results in "the truth being the whole".

In materialist philosophy, the real world exists entirely outside the mind and the mind only interprets it. Having dialectical materialism would imply that material reality has a final destination (=communism) that it is striving to achieve and that rather than concepts such as life and death contradicting each other, it's people that are contradicting each other (capitalists vs proletariat). Because forward progress is guaranteed, there is no need to have knowledge/discussions about how to arrive at the final destination. The best way to accelerate the process is to simply destroy the existing order no matter what it is. Reformists (people who demand incremental improvements) are slowing down progress toward utopia while supporting the status quo and should be held in contempt.

What this ultimately means is that Marxist socialism has never been about building a good society for people to live in, but to dismantle the status quo, no matter what it is. This makes Marxist socialism an extremely attractive ideology for ruthless, violent or narcissistic individuals, while simultaneously luring in unsuspecting people who just want a better life and have reasonable grievances with the status quo. These subtractive ideologies fail because they're biting the hand that feeds them.

There is this socialist streamer (Vaush) that summarized all of this in a single sentence. "I don't care about principles, I only care about winning."
by breve | 2026-02-06 11:12:32+00:00
Toyota is a car company. Toyota sells cars. Toyota has sold more cars than any other automaker for the last six years straight:

https://asia.nikkei.com/business/automobiles/toyota-remained...

Toyota had record sales in 2025:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota...

Toyota's strategy has worked.
by epolanski | 2026-02-06 11:13:21+00:00
I know for a fact I deliver more and at higher quality and while being less tired. Mental energy is also a huge factor, because after digging in code for half a day i'd be exhausted.

People should stop focusing on vibecoding and realize how many things LLMs can do such as investigating messy codebases that took me ages of writing paper notes to connect the dots, finding information about dependencies just by giving them access to replacing painful googling and GitHub issues or outdated documentation digging, etc.

Hell I can jump in projects I know nothing about, copy paste a Jira ticket, investigate, have it write notes, ask questions and in two hours I'm ready to implement with very clear ideas about what's going on. That was multi day work till few years ago.

I can also have it investigate the task at hand and automatically find the many unknowns unknowns that as usual work tasks have, which means cutting deliveries and higher quality software. Getting feedback early is important.

LLMs are super useful even if you don't make them author a single line of code.

And yes, they are increasingly good at writing boilerplate if you have a nice and well documented codebase thus sparing you time. And in my career I've written tons of mostly boilerplate code, that was another api, another form, another table.

And no, this is not vibe coding. I review every single line, I use all of its failures to write better architectural and coding practices docs which further improves the output at each iteration.

Honestly I just don't get how people can miss the huge productivity bonus you get, even if you don't have it edit a singl line of code.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-06 11:13:28+00:00
> Are you suggesting that people should need to acquire some sort of credential to be allowed to code?

No, I am saying that you are comparing professional $FOO practitioners to professional $BAR practitioners, but it's not a valid comparison because one of those has review and safety built into the process, and the other does not.

You can't use the assertion "We currently allow $FOO practitioners to use every single bit of automation" as evidence that "We should also allow $BAR practitioners to use every bit of automation", because $FOO output gets review by certified humans, and $BAR output does not.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-06 11:13:34+00:00
First of all C did not had any generics, so same playing field.

C has a runtime, even if tiny. That is what calls into main(), handles floating point arithmetic when none is available, functions that run before and after main(), nowadays also does threading.

Heap memory handling in Pascal, Modula-2, Ada, is much safer than C, first of all no need to do math to calculate the right size, arenas are available on the standard library, dinamic allocation can also be managed by the compiler if desired (Ada), pointers are safe as they by default must be used with existing data, however if one really wants to do pointer arithmetic it is available.

The only issue that they have in regards to C, is the use-after-free, but that apparently isn't an issue for folks moving away from C into Zig, wich is basically Modula-2 with some C syntax flavour.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-02-06 11:13:43+00:00
> It could also be that factors surrounding the culture of construction workers (lots of alcohol to wind down) are huge contributing factors in of themselves.

Terrible food, too. I'm not in construction but I do have to tour worksites for my job somewhat regularly, and pretty much everybody is eating some combination of greasy kebabs and mcdonald's.

I like me a juicy kebab as much as the next guy, but eating just that for days on end can't be good for you.

Now they're certainly more active than a keyboard warrior like yours truly, but there seems to be a consensus around not being able to outrun / out-train a bad diet.
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by niklai | 2026-02-06 11:14:14+00:00
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I built Gazill because I want to code, not fight infrastructure.

When I'm vibe coding with Cursor, Claude, whatever — I'm in flow.
The last thing I want is to context-switch into Terraform, Kubernetes,
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by Avamander | 2026-02-06 11:14:49+00:00
This is why I've blocked all HTTP traffic outgoing from my machines.

A lot of people have brought this up over the years:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/ysqvsv/amd_autoupd...

(I'm fairly sure I have even mentioned AMD doing this on HN in the past.)

AMD is also not the only one. Gigabyte, ASUS, many other autoupdaters and installers fail without HTTP access. I couldn't even set up my HomePod without allowing it to fetch HTTP resources.

From my own perspective allowing unencrypted outgoing HTTP is a clear indication of problematic software. Even unencrypted (but maybe signed) CDN connections are at minimum a privacy leak. Potentially it's even a way for a MITM to exploit the HTTP stack, some content parser or the application's own handling. TLS stacks are a significantly harder target in comparison.