MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrweasel | 2026-02-08 08:34:42+00:00
That's not unreasonable, but if you can't do it without losing money then there's going be a problem.

The problem isn't that AI/LLMs can't be useful or generate revenue, the problem is still the cost. We're no where near production ready AI, it can sort of do coding and some medical stuff, but we're not at a level of technology where the potential is fully realized. How much are investors willing to pour into more research?

We looking at OpenAI contemplating ads and erotic chatbots. That's not a successful business who have those ideas for profit generation.

Revenue is pointless without eventual profit.
Show HN: Seedream 5.0: free AI image generator that claims strong text rendering
by dallen97 | 2026-02-08 08:34:52+00:00
Found this today while looking for text to image tools that handle typography well.

Link: https://seedream5ai.org/

What it appears to offer
• Text to image generation from prompts, positioned for creators and designers
• A focus on “text heavy graphics” and text rendering quality (based on how the site markets it)
• Extra utilities in the nav like an image upscaler and background remover
• A changelog page that describes a “My Images” workflow and an API endpoint for listing generations

Why it might be useful
• If you regularly generate posters, banners, thumbnails, UI mockups, or ads where readable text matters, it could be worth a quick test.

Questions for anyone who tries it
• How good is the actual text rendering versus other generators you’ve used
• Does it stay consistent with longer phrases and mixed language text
• Any issues with generation speed, pricing clarity, or output restrictions (watermark, resolution, etc.)

If you test it, please share prompt examples and results.
by int0x29 | 2026-02-08 08:36:34+00:00
The article is primarily about how wild unrestrained AI spending is causing problems. For example it is hard to get an electrician, anything with memory in it is either significantly more expensive or unobtainable, and building of homes, factories, and hospitals is being depressed pushing down supply (Housing supply being potentially depressed by AI is both serious and alarming). The HN conversation about this article seems to instead be will Google, OpenAI, etc break even? The degree of disconnect in Silicon Valley between the tech industry and everyone else's problems is alarming.
Show HN: WeaveMind – AI Workflows with human-in-the-loop
by quentin101010 | 2026-02-08 08:36:37+00:00
Hi! I spent 3 years evaluating LLMs for OpenAI, Anthropic, METR, and other labs. Kept running into the same problem: AI workflows break in production because there's no clean way to add human oversight, handle failures gracefully, or deploy without choosing between "all cloud" and "all self-hosted."

WeaveMind is a visual workflow builder in Rust. The core idea is that humans and AI are interchangeable nodes in the same graph. When a workflow needs judgment, it pauses, notifies the team via browser extension, first responder picks it up. There's also an AI assistant that generates workflows from natural language, and durable execution so nothing gets lost on failure.

Early beta, free (bring your own API keys). Planning to open source once stable (Q2 2026). Feedback welcome. Discord: https://discord.gg/FGwNu6mDkU
by jacquesm | 2026-02-08 08:36:43+00:00
Hence eco-systems, yes. But that's probably a harder problem than radiation shielding + hybernation. You'd still need the radiation shielding but it would be far, far more of it (because non-local).

These are interesting problems to think about, right now they are solidly SF but dragons are and always will be fantasy because physics says they can't exist in the way they are described. But you can't 100% rule out that one day descendants of humanity will visit the stars in person, assuming we don't blow ourselves up first.

That's one of the main reasons I dislike Musk so much: he takes people motivated by positive dreams (a clean planet, off-world travel and living) and then subverts their energy for grift. But 'DOGE' has shown the world who he really is, the mask is off now and anybody still empowering that asshole is co-responsible.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-08 08:37:34+00:00
There's always a possibility that cave men who constantly had huge clouds of smoke all the time in their caves ended up all dying off except the few who were resistant to such toxic smoke. Who were the only ones to pass on their genes from that point.

Meanwhile in other places where the smoke was not so thick it didn't make any difference to the ones whom the genes were passed on to.
by TonyStr | 2026-02-08 08:38:46+00:00
> [...]and the redemption, when it comes, is Red’s.

(spoilers)

It never sat right with me that Andy is shown to be innocent, and some viciously evil irrelevant character did it instead. This, I thought, takes away the whole redemption aspect of the movie, turning Andy into an innocent Mary Sue. I'd never considered that it may be more about Red's character instead. Though I didn't catch a satisfying explanation for that idea in the review, and it's been a long time since I watched the move.

I think I'll rewatch it today.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-08 08:39:43+00:00
It is when compared with C89, also the ISO C++ requires inclusion of ISO C standard library.

The differences are the usual that occur with guest languages, in this case the origin being UNIX and C at Bell Labs, eventually each platform goes its own merry way and compatibility slowly falls apart with newer versions.

In regards to C89 the main differences are struct and unions naming rules, () means void instead of anything goes, ?: precedent rules, implicit casts scenarios are reduced like from void pointers.
by danaris | 2026-02-08 08:40:17+00:00
Right, and we know that modern human societies are really good at planning for a major disaster on a multi-decade time horizon! Look at how well we've dealt with the climate cri—oh, wait.

This won't end humanity, no. But it is likely to cause absolutely catastrophic levels of upheaval and probably billions (with a b) of deaths—from famine, disease, exposure, and war.
by phil21 | 2026-02-08 08:41:06+00:00
Personally I feel the hims etc of this world need to go away. They give a false sense of security and they mask an incredibly shady industry.

I also think people should be able to source from the grey market if they can figure it out. This means they understand the risks and likely take measures like ensuring their compounds are properly tested before injecting them.

I’d feel differently if I didn’t understand how the average medspa gets their product and the corners they cut. I honestly trust some outright black market dealers better than most of those shops. They actually do testing on their product before shipping it. Likely sourced from exactly the same manufacturer as the guy in the locker room buys from.

So long as the choices are informed I agree. The issue is hims/hers puts a fancy veneer of “sanctioned medical system” on top of what amounts to a black market. They are laundering and obscuring the risk and many patients simply do not understand this fact.

It’s the difference between buying Xanax from a legit pharmacy vs a street dealer. The street dealer transaction you understand the risks involved and are making an informed decision. If you thought you were buying from a legit pharmaceutical company but they ended up just rebranding the same shit the street dealer is selling from his wholesaler - that is not informed consent even a little bit.

There is something in the middle here but some HLPC testing I’ve seen of supposed legit compounding pharmacies hasn’t been great for these drugs.
by DaedalusII | 2026-02-08 08:41:09+00:00
The biggest and least controversial thing will be when anthropic create a onedrive/googledrive integration that lets white collar employees create, edit, and export word documents into pdfs, referring to other files in the folder. This alone will increase average white paper employee productivity by 100x and lead to the most job displacement.

For instance:
Here is an email from my manager at 1pm today. Open the policy document he is referring to, create a new version, and add the changes he wants. refer to the entire codebase (our company onedrive/google drive/dropbox whatever) to make sure it is contextually correct.

>Sure, here is the document for your review

Great, reply back to manager with attachment linked to OneDrive
by philipswood | 2026-02-08 08:41:14+00:00
To be clear: I'm not engaging with your main point about whether LLMs are usable in software engineering or not.

I'm specifically addressing your use of the concept of determinism.

An LLM is a set of matrix multiplies and function applications. The only potentially non-deterministic step is selecting the next token from the final output and that can be done deterministically.

By your strict use of the definition they absolutely can be deterministic.

But that is not actually interesting for the point at hand. The real point has to do with reproducibility, understand ability and tolerances.

3blue1brown has a really nice set of videos on showing how the LLM machinery fits together.
by c0l0 | 2026-02-08 08:41:24+00:00
I disagree. If LineageOS builds were actually unsigned, I would have no way of verifying that release N was signed by the same private-key-bearing entity that signed release N-1, which I happen to have installed. It could be construed as the effective difference between a Trust On First Use (TOFU) vs. a Certificate Authority (CA) style ecosystem. I hope you can agree that TOFU is worth MUCH more than having no assurance about (continued) authorship at all.
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-08 08:41:24+00:00
this is really cool - the single binary thing solves a huge pain point I have with OpenClaw. I love that tool but the Node + npm dependency situation is a lot.

curious: when you say compatible with OpenClaw's markdown format, does that mean I could point LocalGPT at an existing OpenClaw workspace and it would just work? or is it more 'inspired by' the format?

the local embeddings for semantic search is smart. I've been using similar for code generation and the thing I kept running into was the embedding model choking on code snippets mixed with prose. did you hit that or does FTS5 + local embeddings just handle it?

also - genuinely asking, not criticizing - when the heartbeat runner executes autonomous tasks, how do you keep the model from doing risky stuff? hitting prod APIs, modifying files outside workspace, etc. do you sandbox or rely on the model being careful?
by imiric | 2026-02-08 08:42:35+00:00
I can't tell if your general premise is serious or not, but in case it is: I get zero dopamine hits from using these tools.

My dopamine rush comes from solving a problem, learning something new, producing a particularly elegant and performant piece of code, etc. There's an aspect of hubris involved, to be sure.

Using a tool to produce the end result gives me no such satisfaction. It's akin to outsourcing my work to someone who can do it faster than me. If anything, I get cortisol hits when the tool doesn't follow my directions and produces garbage output, which I have to troubleshoot and fix myself.
by danaris | 2026-02-08 08:42:49+00:00
> some other spot will, necessarily, become viable.

What is your basis for this claim?

It's entirely possible for prawns fished from the coast of Mozambique to simply...go extinct. For areas with good arable land to be plunged into inhospitably cold temperatures, only for other areas with arable land to be made too hot to reliably support their crops.

There's no cosmic balance being kept here.
by tkocmathla | 2026-02-08 08:42:50+00:00
> There’s a feeling in Hollywood that audiences have short attention spans and must be assaulted with fresh novelties. I think such movies are slower to sit through than a film like “Shawshank,” which absorbs us and takes away the awareness that we are watching a film.

This resonates with me and is a really concise way to explain why, to me, a 2 to 2.5 hour long Marvel or Transformers movie feels like an eternity, while a movie like Shawshank never has me checking my watch.
by misiek08 | 2026-02-08 08:43:09+00:00
Currently it’s about closing that gap.

And 10 orders is optimistic value - LLMs are random with some probability of solving the real problem (and I think of real systems, not a PoC landing page or 2-3 models CRUD) now. Every month they are now getting visibly better of course.

The „old” world may output different assembly or bytecode everytime, but running it will result in same outputs - maybe slower, maybe faster. LLMs now for same prompt can generate working or non-working or - faking solution.

As always - what a time to be alive!
by kkfx | 2026-02-08 08:43:39+00:00
As a domestic p.v. auto-builder: the real point is seasonal storage, until we will (if we will) be able to store energy across a whole year not just day-to-day, we simply can't run on p.v. while p.v. is excellent for self consumption if only we stopped trying to create large-scale solutions instead of solutions for domestic and small sheds self-consumption, which are the only technically viable options, given that large injection power plants are nothing but a problem for the grid...

Having cars integrated with the home (since they are 400V LFP on average, just like domestic storage and CSS is already there) is what works well to reduce summer demand peaks, not by passively injecting power but by helping the grid only when it actually needs it.

The only reason it isn't being done is because the political agenda is to strip the majority of private property, and for this reason, the "new deal" that works technically doesn't work in reality. They are trying to make it work for dense cities and large buildings, some not possible on scale for an unsustainable way of life as well. When the FAKE green supporters finally realize this, they will understand how many decades of evolution we are losing just to play into the hands of a few kleptocrats.
by tvbusy | 2026-02-08 08:45:45+00:00
Totally. Frameworks also make it a lot easier for new team members to contribute. React, for example, makes it a lot easier to hire. Any project with moderate size will require some kind of convention to keep things consistent and choosing a framework makes this easier.

Now look at the cross team collaboration and it gets even harder without frameworks. When every team has their own conventions, how would they communicate and work together? Imagine a website with React, Vue, Angular all over the place, all fighting for the same DOM.
by altmanaltman | 2026-02-08 08:46:37+00:00
But this just makes me feel like it's literally more ABOUT the code than less. The comment I replied to makes it seem like "code" and "solving humanity's problems" are two different things, when in reality, one leads to the other (if we assume you're working on good products, etc.).

It's one thing to have your approach where you're using AI to help w/ the code, but it's totally another to pretend like "code" is not something you were ever interested in, so it's okay for the AI to write it while you're busy "solving problems," which doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
by az226 | 2026-02-08 08:46:45+00:00
You have a different agent write the tests and another run the tests. You tell them each that they aren’t checking their own work, they’re checking someone else’s. You can tell them to be skeptical. Then you can also tell them that don’t fail the code for no reason, because a third agent will be checking your tests and you will be penalized for inaccurate testing.

This approach balances out and maximizes accuracy.
by Zakodiac | 2026-02-08 08:47:24+00:00
This is real and I deal with it constantly in consulting. When you're running teams of teams you physically can't see every mistake or learn every minor implementation detail - that's just the reality of scaling yourself. Doesn't matter if it's humans or agents doing the work.

The way I handle it is the same either way: trust but verify, delegate appropriately, set up checkpoints, and provide architecture and design direction up front so they don't spin their wheels going the wrong direction. The more context you give before they start, the less likely you end up reviewing something that went completely sideways.

It's kind of funny honestly - we talk about agents making "wrong design decisions" and missing context like it's a new problem, but this is literally what happens with human teams too. We trained these models on human output including all the human failure modes, so of course they reproduce them. The difference is just speed and scale.
by smurda | 2026-02-08 08:47:44+00:00
This is one of my favorite movies, yet it won 0 Oscars (nominated for 7) and was a box office flop (cost $25M to make and box office proceeds were $28M). It only gained popularity after the theatres from the VHS rental market.

I firmly believe part of the initial commercial failure was because of the title. With something more descriptive like, "Escape from Shawshank" or just "Prison Break" people would have been more interested to see it.
by TheSpiceIsLife | 2026-02-08 08:48:20+00:00
> that renewable energy is cheap

Where is this the case?

There is what? Approximately nowhere with high renewables penetration and cheap retail energy prices.

Australia has so much coal and gas we could have electricity plans similar to data plans: all you can reasonably consume for $80 a month, and it would still make approximately zero difference to global anthropogenic carbon emissions.

We’re plenty happy for everyone else to burn our LNG and coal. Our LNG is cheap the Japanese even resell it a profit.[1]

Instead, we have high renewables penetration and electricity prices that have increased at a rate three times higher than general inflation.

1. https://ieefa.org/resources/how-japan-cashes-resales-austral...
by atomicnature | 2026-02-08 08:49:30+00:00
Specification languages need big investments essentially - both in technical and educational terms.

Consider something like TLA+. How can we make things such as that - be useful in an LLM orchestration framework, be human friendly - that'd be the question I ask.

So the developer will verify just the spec, and let the LLM match against it in a tougher way than it is possible to do now.
by pointlessone | 2026-02-08 08:49:46+00:00
I’m not convinced. That sort of thing usually depends on some very specific arcana or weird interaction between systems that is not in the code. It usually requires either external knowledge or deep investigation and compilation of evidence from multiple sources. I haven’t seen AI do that much.

Look at recent examples of browsers and matrix servers. AI can’t even follow extremely detailed specs with extensive test suites.

If anything, nice and friendly but mediocre devs are in more immediate danger than rough but extremely competent devs.

But we’ve seen C-suits losing institutional knowledge at a drop of a hat for decades so who knows? Maybe knowledge and skill are not that valued.
by well_ackshually | 2026-02-08 08:50:11+00:00
> I value my morning coffee more than your parents getting their retirement at 61 and receiving more - after taxes - than people that actually work to pay for their fantastic retiree life.

Yep, that's probably why my parents are unable to retire before 65, because they'd otherwise be under the poverty line. Both of them retiring with rather high physical damage from their career.

Fucking hell, you keep reading headlines halfway, misunderstand them and then badly apply them broadly to a situation you don't understand
by bborud | 2026-02-08 08:51:05+00:00
Berkeley DB is one of those things everyone respected, for some reason, but that didn't actually work if you threw a bit of data at it. And not just for us. I remember talking to companies that paid them lots of money to work on reliability, and it never got better.

But I do remember reading much of the source (trying to figure out why it didn't work) and thinking "this is pretty nice code".
by port11 | 2026-02-08 08:51:32+00:00
This is a bit slandering, no? Cargill is a key supplier of arachidonic acid, and let’s say that’s where Nestlé gets it.

Are they at fault for Cargill’s sourcing of Chinese ARA/DHA? Okay, they are, let’s say. But why are you buying virtually any product? It’s your fault that lots of manufacturing is done in China. Go make your own algae oil to put in your baby formula and we’ll discuss the pricing.

What’s more interesting about all this: a) product recalls work fast; b) the baby formula industry is too dependent on a handful of suppliers of key ingredients; c) our brand of formula doesn’t use AHA so we appear to be safe for now.
by 9dev | 2026-02-08 08:53:18+00:00
I absolutely share your feelings. And I realise I’m way less hesitant to pick up the dredge tasks; migrating to new major versions of dependencies, adding missing edge case tests, adding CRUD endpoints, nasty refactorings, all these things you usually postpone or go on procrastination sprees on HN are suddenly very simple undertakings that you can trivially review.
by simianwords | 2026-02-08 08:53:45+00:00
What’s an equivalent movie in contemporary times? Not pretentious, sincere and relies on dialogue and story telling?

I kind of hated movies like Manchester By The Sea, American Sniper, Banshees of Insherin.

They all feel not so sincere to me. There’s something about them - a technique where audience exposition is deliberately toned down to such an extent that it’s just scene after scene with no soul.
Show HN: Jwtpeek – minimal, user-friendly JWT inspector in Go
by alesrdev | 2026-02-08 08:54:15+00:00
Built a small Go CLI/library to inspect JWTs locally and optionally verify HMAC signatures.

Repo: https://github.com/alesr/jwtpeek

Not trying to replace mature JWT libraries out there. Just sharpening my idiomatic Go and having a quick way to check JWTs without sharing secrets.

Feedback welcome. What would make it more useful: stdin support, JSON output, exit codes, JWKS/RS256 support, or claim/policy flags?
by gspr | 2026-02-08 08:54:20+00:00
> I don't consider that to be saying that society "owes" me something. I regard it mutually beneficial, not some kind of debt/debtor relationship.

You know, in phrases like "you owe it to your spouse/sibling/friend/self to...", people aren't talking about formal debt. Please try to keep that kind of meaning in mind when people say that society owes its people.
by cal_dent | 2026-02-08 08:54:24+00:00
An interesting addendum is the relatively weak new job creation through the 2nd half of 2025 (partly geopolitcs, partly ai; through the mechanism of diverting capital to tech capex rather than labour).

The economy feels in a tricky position to me. The last couple of days have shown that there are many people/institutions primed to bail out of the stock market at the whiff of any negativity (or things perceived to be negative). I suspect there is likely more bad news before there's good news so the short term looks like it could be a bit of a roller-coaster.
by cachius | 2026-02-08 08:54:29+00:00
Man there are about 50 Android launchers on F-Droid: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=launcher

Feels like picking a distro when going to Linux.

Notable changes compared to it's base Finn's Launcher: https://github.com/jrpie/launcher/blob/0.1.0/docs/launcher.m... (link is broken in readme on master branch)

Compatible with work profile, so apps like Shelter can be used.

Compatible with private space

...

The name of this one is a bit too clever: On GitHub in the URL it's just launcher, on HN uLauncher, actually on the website and stores it's µLauncher. I don't even know how to type and pronounce this 'micro' character - or is it 'mu'? https://old.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/wy53dr

For accessibility and shareability to people without an academic background an easier name would be better.