MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vessenes | 2026-02-07 15:58:25+00:00
It's improperly formed as a question - the ruffian can shoot whenever he likes;

Consider:

Does "random" mean

1. uniform distribution on x and y coordinates with some sort of capping at the circle boundary? what about a normal distribution?

2. a choice of an angle and a length?

3. A point using 1 or 2, and then a random walk for 2 and 3?

I could go on. The worked solution is for random = uniform distribution across all possible reals inside the boundary, I think.
by throwaw12 | 2026-02-07 15:58:41+00:00
> I point Claude Code at it and 90% of the time I have the solution a couple of minutes later.

Same experience, I don't know why people keep saying code was easy part, sure, only when you are writing a boilerplate which is easy and expectations are clear.

I agree code is easier than some other parts, but not the easiest, industry employed millions of us, to write that easy thing.

When working on large codebases or building something in the flow, I just don't want to read all the OAuth2 scopes Google requires me to obtain, my experience was never: "now I will integrate Gmail, let me do gmail.FetchEmails(), cool it works, on to the next thing"
by Thanemate | 2026-02-07 15:58:44+00:00
>I believe the argument from the other camp is that you don't need to understand the code anymore

Then what stops anyone who can type in their native language to, ultimately when LLM's are perfected, just order their own software instead of using anybody else's?

Do they actually believe we'll need a bachelor's degree to prompt program in a world where nobody cares about technical details, because the LLM's will be taking care of? Actually, scratch that. Why would the companies who're pouring gorrilions of dollars in investment even give access to such power in an affordable way?

The deeper I look in the rabbit hole they think we're walking towards the more issues I see.
by jayd16 | 2026-02-07 15:59:13+00:00
I think this is a subtle but important point.

If you use a well regarded library, you can trust that most things in it were done with intention. If an expectation is violated, that's a learning opportunity.

With the AI firehose, you can't really treat it the same way. Bad patterns don't exactly stand out.

Maybe it'll be fine but I still expect to see a lot of code bases saddled with garbage for years to come.
by learingsci | 2026-02-07 15:59:43+00:00
“But at the same time, Carney scrapped an electric vehicle sales mandate introduced by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2023,”

As you write, it appears kind of random. There’s an Aesop fable to the effect, “when you try to please everybody, you end up pleasing nobody.” Perhaps he is just trying to give himself more room to bargain, greater flexibility, in the renegotiations this year.
by dontwannahearit | 2026-02-07 15:59:54+00:00
I think the fact that this happens on HN, where the users are generally more tech-savvy is signaling that trust in media in the online age is in severe decline.

As AI gets better (and there seems no reason to believe it won't for video production) believing what you see online (or on the TV, which already tends to source video for some events from phone footage) will no longer really be a thing.

We have been in a sort of post-truth world for some time but this is a whole new level. Maybe we will go back to newspapers? Physical print can't be switched on you 1984 (the book) style and is delayed enough for there to be some fact checking.

Definitely living in interesting times.
by blenderob | 2026-02-07 15:59:57+00:00
February 13 seems right to me. I mean it's not like LLMs need to manually write out a 10 page proof. But a longer deadline can give human mathematicians time to solve the problem and write out a proof. So it a close deadline advantages the LLM and disadvantages humans which should be the goal if we want to see if LLMs are able to solve these.
by MBMatt09 | 2026-02-07 16:00:25+00:00
Hey everyone-

We built Nory to solve a problem: AI agents can't pay for things autonomously.

When an agent hits a paid API, it gets stuck. It can't pull out a credit card. We use HTTP 402 (Payment Required) - the status code that's been reserved since 1999 but never really used - to enable instant micropayments.

How it works:
1. Agent requests a paid resource
2. Server returns 402 with payment requirements (USDC amount, wallet address)
3. Agent settles payment via Nory (<400ms on Solana)
4. Agent retries with payment proof in X-Payment header
5. Server grants access

We have integrations for CrewAI, LangChain, AutoGen, and other AI frameworks, plus an MCP server for Claude.

Try it: curl https://noryx402.com/api/paid/premium-joke (returns 402 with payment instructions)

Tech: Next.js, Solana, USDC, x402 protocol (based on Coinbase's spec)

Looking for feedback from anyone building AI agents or paid APIs.
by eleventyseven | 2026-02-07 16:00:36+00:00
sigh To me, this is as much of a low effort spam as the PRs it is critiquing.

So this post got the the front page of HN with no comments, with a title "Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts." The article does not show reputation scores, it barely even sketches out ideas for a reputation score.

It should be titled "We Need Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts" to let people know that this is just a low effort feature request.
by Kuraptka | 2026-02-07 16:01:30+00:00
True, you pretty much have to open source your code if you are gonna build a browser extension.

I have tried WhatRuns and it is pretty bare bones. Not useful at all. Wappalyzer’s browser extension is free as well and much better data. It just is missing a lot of data on companies that use backend tools like ChatGPT and Claude, but so far Bloomberry has been pretty useful in that area.
by cameronrye | 2026-02-07 16:01:40+00:00
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by consp | 2026-02-07 16:02:23+00:00
> It affects many developers, has been known for years, and Apple still hasn't fixed it.

Not a feature they care about. Same for deleting apps not released yet. Haven't looked in a while but for over a decade it has been impossible to delete ios apps submitted and not released. So either you have to release the app, make it "apple approved" and then immediately kill it or have an app always present (I think you can hide it but I've not checked that in quite a while.
by throwaw12 | 2026-02-07 16:02:35+00:00
95% of the industry wasn't creating creative value, it was repetitive.

* auth + RBAC, known problem, just needs integration

* 3rd party integration, they have API, known problem, just needs integration

* make webpage responsive, millions of CSS lines

* even video gaming, most engines are already written, just add your character and call couple of APIs to move them in the 3D space
Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?
by buildingwdavid | 2026-02-07 16:02:55+00:00
I've been running into a wall with AI coding assistants. They're great individually, but I end up being the human middleware - copy-pasting between Claude windows, manually coordinating who works on what.

So I built something: Orcha (orcha.nl). It lets you run multiple Claude Code agents in parallel, each on separate git branches. Visual workflow builder to define hand-offs. All 100% local.

What took 2 hours now takes 20 minutes.

Curious: Has anyone else tried multi-agent setups? What worked? What didn't?
by jack_pp | 2026-02-07 16:03:15+00:00
That's a moral debate, not suitable for this discussion.

The discussion at hand is about purity and efficiency. Some people are process oriented, perfectionists, purists that take great pride in how they made something. Even if the thing they made isn't useful at all to anyone except to stroke their own ego.

Others are more practical and see a tool as a tool, not every hammer you make needs to be beautiful and made from the best materials money can buy.

Depending on the context either approach can be correct. For some things being a detail oriented perfectionist is good. Things like a web framework or a programming language or an OS. But for most things, just being practical and finding a cheap and clever way to get to where you want to go will outperform most over engineering.
by seeg | 2026-02-07 16:04:24+00:00
One thing I can say about the Wolfram language is that is actually Lisp with syntax that looks weird at first sight.

However when you look at rule processing, it's like pattern matching on steroids that I haven't seen in lisp world. It looks quite powerful and applies throughout the language (eg the "Query" book).

Too bad the whole language is closed and so heavily licensed .
by acdha | 2026-02-07 16:04:59+00:00
That leaves out staffing, backups, development and testing of a multi-location failover mechanism as robust as the RDS one, and a bunch of security compliance work if that’s relevant.

It’s totally possible to beat AWS and volume is the way to do it–your admin’s salary doesn’t scale be linearly with storage–but every time I’ve tried to account for all of the costs it’s been close enough that it’s made sense to put people on things which can’t be outsourced.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-07 16:05:07+00:00
The Culture can't happen. It requires Faster Than Light spaceships and that's not a thing in our universe. Also, and I know it's not what you meant, but in Banks' fiction "State of the Art" is specifically a novella about a Culture visit to Earth in the 1970s. They're not us.

Egan's "The Amalgam" is an SF society which could in principle descend in part from some future humanity, and I suppose if you like Banks' setting for its utopianism you'd be satisfied with the Amalgam. Its citizens tend to live long, full lives in which they're definitely mostly concerned with the upper parts of Maslow's pyramid and their practical needs are fulfilled as a matter of course in most cases.

I must say, to the extent we have any future at all, I think probably of Egan's "Dream Apes". An Orangutan-like self-engineered future humanity who have arranged that there are no apex predators above them, there's an abundance of resources for their relatively modest population, and they just chill, believing that if there is something out there it's not their concern. Of course in the story the Dream Apes are all annihilated by a cataclysmic event which destroys Earth, but hey, it's pretty quick.
by alsetmusic | 2026-02-07 16:05:54+00:00
From my own aliases:

alias curl='/opt/homebrew/opt/curl/bin/curl '
alias rsync-copy='/opt/homebrew/bin/rsync -avz --progress -h '
alias rsync-move='/opt/homebrew/bin/rsync -avz --progress -h --remove-source-files '
alias rsync-synchronize='/opt/homebrew/bin/rsync -avzu --delete --progress -h '
alias rsync-update='/opt/homebrew/bin/rsync -avzu --progress -h '
alias vi='/opt/homebrew/bin/vim -S ~/.vimrc'
alias vim='/opt/homebrew/bin/vim -S ~/.vimrc'
alias wget='/opt/homebrew/bin/wget -c '

There are others with flags added. These are the ones that override the builtin MacOS versions that aren't up-to-date.
by rokybeast | 2026-02-07 16:06:08+00:00
I think this operating system makes the use of Arch Linux easier, and if you stop and yell at the screen saying 'Omarchy', then please do consider the amount of bloatware/software not needed for you, is installed. I used Omarchy, and I had to remove a lot of binaries, AURs, etc. Then comes this OS, and when my friend recommended it, and he said "which doesn't install anything much, and only the required binaries, and ships it lightweight", I tried it, and liked it!
by jsnell | 2026-02-07 16:06:43+00:00
The abstract of the article is very short, and seems pretty clear to both of your questions.

This is what is special about them:

> a set of ten math questions which have arisen naturally in the research process of the authors. The questions had not been shared publicly until now;

I.e. these are problems of some practical interest, not just performative/competitive maths.

And this is what is know about the solutions:

> the answers are known to the authors of the questions but will remain encrypted for a short time.

I.e. a solution is known, but is guaranteed to not be in the training set for any AI.
by samiv | 2026-02-07 16:06:54+00:00
Exactly this. Even if right now you, bottom level wage earning grunt, get to lighten your workload for a fleeting second, sit back and enjoy the latte it's only but a fleeting second until the capital class tighten the screws.

Most people will get laid off and made redundant and those who remain are going to have to run faster than ever to produce wealth for the capital owners.
by troupo | 2026-02-07 16:07:00+00:00
> I don't know about fictional compilers, but gcc and clang will produce programs that behave differently from compile to compile where __DATE__ or __TIME__ is used

That's not non-determinism, is it?

> Where for a stable input the compiler produces a stable output. A non-deterministic compiler does not necessarily equate to a non-deterministic program

In case of LLMs that you're desperately trying to equate compilers to that's exactly what it is.

If I take a compiler and run it on an input in debug and release mode, with an extremely high degree of confidence I'll get the same working program (with the deterministic difference in debug logging etc.)

For most compilers determinism is such that people can often predict the final output (down to assembly instructions emitted by C++ compilers). Or target specific intermediate modes directly when needed.

If I take LLMs and change literally any variable from 0/0/0, I will get entirely unpredictable uncontrollable random output.

> If you wanted to talk about something completely different why not start a new thread?

Your vague and non-vague ad hominims are getting tiresome.

Adieu.
by dixie_land | 2026-02-07 16:07:06+00:00
Yup WSL feels closer to the Services for Unix which has been around since NT 4/5.

It was sad to see WSL2 taking the path of least resistance, that decision has always felt TPM driven ("we got unexpected success with WSL and people are asking for more, deliver xxx by Q4! No I don't care _how_ you do it!")
by stickfigure | 2026-02-07 16:07:29+00:00
Sure, and we probably all agree that these are personal decisions. If the OP wants to dedicate his life to working on this particular problem, great. Maybe he makes a meaningful contribution. Maybe he just helps his partner make better informed medical decisions. Even if you plan to follow standard of care, doctors often present choices that balance risk vs result.

Also, doctors split their time among patients and their various diseases. You, on the other hand, can focus your study on your disease. If you have a scientific mind, you can become an expert with enough study.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-07 16:08:08+00:00
The fact that it was a brand new account just means HN is susceptible to bot accounts with these tech savvy people using AI to make those bots. When the AI accusations are from new accounts like this, I don't think it speaks too much about HN comments as the GP thinks. Not being able to understand that the account is new doesn't say much about the GP either
by braiamp | 2026-02-07 16:08:18+00:00
With how many statements of fact you make, you are pretty wrong. There's not one of them being right. We have enough productivity that a minuscule part of the population can produce and distribute the basic needs for every human on earth. There's literally humans that can't find jobs to do because we don't educate them well enough to go and offer services that other humans need. Not only that, we try to say that they don't deserve enough pay to supply their basic needs.

And yes, I'm talking about teachers and medics. We don't have enough of either, because we don't pay them enough compared to their workload. Those things we will always need, in great quantities to support our population. Greater quantities than engineers, architects, researchers, etc. but guess where everyone flocks because it pays more?

- https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/250330/978924151...

- https://ipsnoticias.net/2022/10/el-mundo-necesita-69-millone...
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-02-07 16:08:36+00:00
Feedback:

I’m not paying $70/mo to try this but there’s a price that I would that’s above free, maybe $5/mo and I’ll bring my claude/oai API key

If you had a one time “local” setup fee with deepseek/llama or whatever instead of the services, I’d probably pay more than $70
by jraph | 2026-02-07 16:08:36+00:00
CryptPad is:

- an office suite, where La Suite is at least partly a coherent package bundling existing software which has documents, chat, video calls, etc but wouldn't really play the role of an office suite IIUC - they serve different purposes mostly

- E2EE, which comes with its unique set of benefits and drawbacks

(and yes, sadly at XWiki SAS we host our code on GitHub too, I wish it wasn't like this)
by sheepscreek | 2026-02-07 16:09:02+00:00
I love this so much! It got me thinking about the future we’re heading towards, that took me down a rabbit hole.

As agents become the dominant code writers, the top concerns for a “working class” programming language would become reducing errors and improving clarity. I think that will lead to languages becoming more explicit and less fun for humans to write, but great for producing code that has a clear intent and can be easily modified without breaking. Rust in its rawest form with lifetimes and the rigmarole will IMO top the charts.

The big question that I still ponder over: will languages like Hoot have a place in the professional world? Or will they be relegated to hobbyists, who still hand-type code for the love of the craft. It could be the difference between having a kitchen gardening hobby vs modern farming…
by DownrightNifty | 2026-02-07 16:10:33+00:00
But as the title of the post says, browsers already solved this problem.

https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2017/idn-phishing/

It does make running commands from an untrusted website a little safer, which is nice. I imagine it's not uncommon to copy installation scripts from random StackOverflow comments or blog posts, for example. But that's still not safe even with this tool. Homograph attacks aside, how can you tell if a URL you're pasting into your terminal is the official source for something? It's trivial to create fake GitHub accounts or organizations.
by touisteur | 2026-02-07 16:10:53+00:00
BTW if you're interested in the concept of upgrading a sensor without retooling the RF part, and the impact of 'just' putting new COTS racked server hardware and engineering man-hours to get a 'new' sensor with new capabilities, have a look at Julien Plante's work on NenuFAR (which isn't like the SKA at all :-) : https://cnrs.hal.science/USN/obspm-04273804v1 . Damien Gratadour, his PhD supervisor is an amazing technologist, dedicated to improving astronomy instruments, and I was very lucky to work with him and his team... the things the French can string together with small teams and thin budgets...
by thagra | 2026-02-07 16:11:02+00:00
If the author is this Alain di Chiappari, he works for a telehealth and psychology site:

https://theorg.com/org/unobravo-telehealth-psychology-servic...

It is interesting how many telehealth and crypto people are promoting AI (David Sacks being the finest of all specimens).

The article itself is of course an AI assisted mashup of all propaganda talking points. People using Unobravo should take note.
by blenderob | 2026-02-07 16:11:04+00:00
> I.e. a solution is known, but is guaranteed to not be in the training set for any AI.

Not a mathematician and obviously you guys understand this better than I do. One thing I can't understand is how they're going to judge if a solution was AI written or human written. I mean, a human could also potentially solve the problem and pass it off as AI? You might say why would a human want to do that? Normal mathematicians might not want to do that. But mathematicians hired by Anthropic or OpenAI might want to do that to pass it off as AI achievements?
by fauigerzigerk | 2026-02-07 16:11:29+00:00
I think this could work for some tasks but not for others.

We didn't invent formal languages to give commands to computers. We invented them as a tool for thinking and communicating things that are hard to express in natural language.

I doubt that we will stop thinking and I doubt that it will ever be efficient to specify tasks purely in terms of natural language.

One of my first jobs as a software engineer was for a bank (~30 years ago). This bank manager wasn't a man of many words. He just handed us an Excel sheet as a specification for what he wanted us to implement.
by oofbey | 2026-02-07 16:12:56+00:00
The amount of techno jargon marketing speak in this readme is impressive. I’m pretty well versed in most things computers, but it took me a long time to figure out what the heck this thing is good for. Leave it to Microsoft to try to rename lots of existing ideas and try to claim they’ve invented something amazing when it’s IMHO not all that useful.
by well_ackshually | 2026-02-07 16:13:03+00:00
Man, life must be easy when you can't read and just get to make things up online. Especially when things such as the URSSAF's simulation tool is like, freely available online: https://mon-entreprise.urssaf.fr/simulateurs/salaire-brut-ne... giving you a copy of a pay slip with detailed amounts of where your money goes.

Someone making 2500€ gross will take home 1885€ per month after taxes and contributions. On which you can add a 20% VAT. Even should you want to operate in incredibly bad faith and add employer contributions, it would only amount to 3175 in total. For fun, I tried to figure out what would be needed for someone to have 82% of their salary going away into taxes. It is physically impossible to go anywhere above 55%, the math just stops scaling. Even taking employer costs into account, the max will be 65%. This all starts happening when you have the lowly gross salary of about 30 000€/month, something that I'm sure you're being paid right now to complain about to much about it.

Hell, even the damn link you're posting shows that you can't read:

> In France, income tax and employer social security contributions combine to account for 82% of the total tax wedge, compared with 77% of the total OECD average tax wedge

What the fuck do you think tax brackets cover, ponies ? And acting offended about it like it's some unacceptable thing when the OECD average is... 5 percentage point lower ?

> 82% of the average gross salary in France is indeed taken by the state,

You literally can't read.

> In other words, in France the take-home pay of an average single worker, after tax and benefits, was 71.9% of their gross wage

> his means that an average married worker with two children in
France had a take-home pay, after tax and family benefits, of 83.1% of their gross wage

Now, there are ways to solve these expenses, they involve cutting all pensions. I'm sure you'll be okay with letting your parents, and mine, die, right ?