MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eesmith | 2026-02-25 15:44:55+00:00
You didn't think they were the wrong tools when you wrote it. You said "this example is simple enough that both Claude and ChatGPT can implement it using their default code environments".

From what I gather, a lot of people are using these code assistance tools because they too are in a hurry, under pressure from management forcing them to go faster with AI, and with limited ability to push back.

You have significantly more experience than most of your readership. Will you be providing guidelines about which tools to avoid for which problems, based on your experience?

Will you use this or something similar as an example of the negative consequence of being in a hurry, hopefully leading to a worked-out example of one might better audit or inspect tool-generated code, and the effort involved?

That would be invaluable for people dealing with overly-optimistic management pressure.

My personal belief is that one of the reasons for TDD's success is as a way for programmers to respond to ill-advised pressure to skimp on testing found in some test-after shops.

That disappears if managers believe instructing an agentic code generator to "use Red/Green TDD" easily ensures a robust automated test suite.

My apologies if you have already done this. I have not followed your work. My interest in this thread is from my views of TDD as a development approach, and the difficulty in generating a test suite which is robust, minimal, understandable, and maintainable.
Show HN: I got tired of writing Pandas scripts just to JOIN two CSV files
by debba | 2026-02-25 15:44:59+00:00
Every few weeks I get 2-3 CSV files and need to run a quick JOIN or aggregation. The options are always the same: fire up pandas, import into SQLite by hand, or use some janky web tool.

So I built a plugin for Tabularis (my native DB GUI) that treats a folder of CSV files as a database. Drop your files in, every file becomes a table, column types are inferred automatically, and you get a full SQL editor.

No code. No imports. Just SQL.

Example: 3 CSV files (users, orders, products) → this query works immediately:

SELECT
u.name,
u.country,
COUNT(o.id) AS orders,
ROUND(SUM(p.price * o.quantity), 2) AS total_spent
FROM orders o
JOIN users u ON o.user_id = u.id
JOIN products p ON o.product_id = p.id
GROUP BY u.id
ORDER BY total_spent DESC

The plugin is ~250 lines of stdlib Python (zero dependencies). It works because Tabularis has an open plugin protocol — JSON-RPC over stdin/stdout — so any data source can be a database.

Plugin: https://github.com/debba/tabularis-csv-plugin
Tabularis: https://github.com/debba/tabularis
by deaux | 2026-02-25 15:45:26+00:00
There's no chance in hell that he would because if there's one easy way to piss off the oligarchy it's to make their net worth plummet. And losing >20% of revenue in one fell swoop does just that. Europe remains a huge profit center. That's why all the talk by many Americans including on HN in the past about "well if the EU keeps fining Meta and co billions, maybe they'll stop doing business there!". They'd be removed from their positions before they could even utter the phrase considering it. Imagine how that earnings call would go. "Yeah uhh, we left a market where we were making 20 billion per year net profit because we got fined 5 billion. Mhm.".

Trump's grip on the US oligarchy isn't even 1% as tight as Putin's on Russia's, who has everything completely under his thumb. If the US oligarchy conspires to depose Trump, he's gone next week. That they're all sucking up to him doesn't refute that at all, that's just the optimal move until it isn't. All these people do is take the optimal move for their own net worth at the current point in time.

I'm sure this would be better received if I took an LLM and had it rewrite this in a less conversational and higher-brow way, but it's no longer the time for that.
by wolfejam | 2026-02-25 15:45:32+00:00
This paper validates what we've been building toward. The core issue isn't the idea of context files — it's that prose is the wrong format for structured facts.

AI crushes structured data like package.json but struggles with free-form markdown. Two developers describe the same repo completely differently. There's no schema, no validation, no scoring.

Our paper on CERN's Zenodo proposes FAF — a structured YAML format (IANA-registered as application/vnd.faf+yaml) that replaces prose with validated fields. One .faf file generates native outputs for CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .cursorrules, and GEMINI.md. The instruction files stay — they just sit on top of a structured foundation instead of floating independently.

Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18251362
by sails | 2026-02-25 15:45:39+00:00
I’m doing something similar to simulate llms in b2b lending, it’s slightly slower paced but the core mechanisms are using just-bash to analyse business financials and make profitable loans.

I quite like the idea of llms writing more code up front to execute strategies.

I’m currently developing the game mechanics and ELO. Please share anything relevant if it comes to mind
by vincentalbouy | 2026-02-25 15:45:49+00:00
Fair enough, I promise Garry is doing fine.

On TAM, corporate retreats and offsites in the US alone represent roughly a 500M+ venue booking market by our estimates, and that is just one slice, not counting flights, activities, or international events.
Since COVID, distributed teams have made in-person gatherings more important, not less. Almost every company does some form of corporate event, whether it is an annual retreat, sales kickoff, leadership offsite, or team meetup.

Almost all US company do corporate event and retreats, every year.

The bigger bet for us is not just that events are a sizable market. It is that this is exactly the kind of messy, coordination-heavy workflow that AI can now handle. Two years ago this would not have worked. With current multi-step reasoning and tool use, it finally does.
by tpm | 2026-02-25 15:45:59+00:00
> What I was referring to is that part of the society didn't roll with the legitimate leader's decision not to align with EU in 2013. And it was undemocratic.

So in a separate thread you are demanding a bit of history and here you are likely not mentioning a bit of history for a reason. Anyway.
The protests have not been 'undemocratic'. And the protesters did not decide to be murdered by snipers.

> But we'll never know what they'd choose because some chose to protest, and then continue doing so when it git violent.

Ah yes. Who exactly 'got violent'? Who authorised the decision to shoot to kill?

> Maybe there could have been a referendum on EU course.

Possibly, but let's not hold our breath whether the mass murderers in Moscow would respect the outcome if it didn't suit them.
by kstrauser | 2026-02-25 15:46:06+00:00
I’m a different person, but this happens to me, too. I have the kstrauser@yahoo.com email address because I signed up for it like 25 years ago. I log in every 6 months to see what the few other kstrausers in the world have signed me up for.

Not jsmith, but kstrauser. Not Gmail, but Hotmail. And I still get banking docs, and HOA meeting minutes, and birthday party invitations, and Facebook logins, and other bizarre random stuff.

I have so many questions. I’ve typoed my address before and had to correct it. That’s understandable. But to wholly invent one and say, yep, that looks good even though I’ve never used it before, I’m sure it’ll be fine! I just don’t get it.
by 9rx | 2026-02-25 15:46:35+00:00
"Hot water" is mostly the same as hot anything, but it is a word in the dictionary[1]. The article suggests the same may be true of "boiling water"; that it has picked up meaning beyond "water that is boiling". e.g. a hazard, a cooking stage.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hot%20water
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-25 15:47:12+00:00
>Much of the capital is US originated and domiciled.

Neither of your citations has any relevance to this at all. That endowments and pensions funds have money...what is your point? Ah, the old HN "look I've provided citations so upvote me, even if they don't support my contention".

Canadians alone hold almost $4 trillion dollars in US securities. Because the US was the centre of the capital universe. Just like we saw it as the centre of the media and music universe. Americans mistook the free world basically anointing the US into some confused notion that it was actually some earned accomplishment.
by Beretta_Vexee | 2026-02-25 15:47:23+00:00
The US ambassador to France has just had his access to parliamentarians and members of the government withdrawn because he is trying to turn a neo-Nazi who died in a fight into a political martyr. There are similar situations in Belgium and Poland.

American diplomats have been doing Trump's dirty work for a some time.

I am more concerned about US interference in elections and campaigning for the far right than lobbying for data at the moment.
by muzani | 2026-02-25 15:47:45+00:00
Three key things in coding which has helped recently:

1) Debug mode from Cursor. It highlights all possible hypotheses based on the steps to reproduce and whatever you know from the code. It slaps down logs and tests all these hypotheses at once.

2) Log reading, though this is a variant of the above. At times we get massive logs, like 10k lines for a bug. We go through what may possibly cause the bug - what screens, threads, race conditions, improper handling of ANY_KEY or default or something. Then we ask Opus to compare the logs to see if it matches the story. I ain't manually checking Line 314, Line 500, Line 44 to see if it shows in logs, but AI is just great at piecing together this whodunit.

3) Finding documentation. So there's been a few bugs unsolved around how very specific Android devices handle wifi reconnection or bluetooth or Ethernet. Instead of making assumptions, I can dig into the AOSP source code directly and see the conditions that trigger these. AI will even point out the exact lines.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-25 15:47:52+00:00
The point of the system is what it does.

They can't just say "we don't want to deal with small timer hobbyists doing nonstandard things that do not involve paying us lots of money" without pushback but they can write the policy so that a huge fraction of those use cases fall into some crack that can only be got out of by incurring the kind of expense that's a non-starter for those users. Your municipal code is rife with examples of this.
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by Jweb_Guru | 2026-02-25 15:48:41+00:00
My point is that a lot of people think it'd be really easy to build the next Salesforce until they actually try to compete with Salesforce in the market. Like it or not, if you want to build a Salesforce competitor (or try to get your company to build its own) you're going to be compared to actual Salesforce, not the version of Salesforce that existed when the market was new.
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-25 15:48:47+00:00
Oh for sure, this administration is just a symptom that the US has become an idiocracy levered by a plutocracy. A poorly educated, easily manipulated populace.

Trump is just the result of this, and it isn't going to stop when he kicks it. It'll be the next populist nonsense. The world needs to move on from America.
by blamestross | 2026-02-25 15:48:49+00:00
"AI Safety" got suborned, then dropped when it wasn't needed anymore.

Every misalignment/AI safety paper is basically a metaphor for how corporate values can misalign with actual human values under capitalism.

The first thing that happened when "AI Safety" became useful to corporate interests, is that the "goal" of it instantly became "profitability" not safety. "AI Safety" became about liability minimization, not actual safety for humanity. (Look! the system is now misaligned with the goal, wonder how that happened!?)

AI Safety concerns were instantly proven true, it happened, and now we live in the world where it is too late to prevent the superintelligences that we call "corporations" from paper-clipping us to death in pursuit of profit.
by munk-a | 2026-02-25 15:48:51+00:00
Pharma companies want to make money - they'll charge what the market can bear up to what they're allowed to. Some countries cap this - others don't. In the US the government actually subsidizes medication costs in a graduated manner that allows the price point to be set much higher than a natural market would allow - there are also tools like manufacturer rebates or drug trial cards that can also subsidize the price if you've got more time than money and are willing to jump through the various hoops.
by zaking17 | 2026-02-25 15:49:05+00:00
I’ve had decent luck with Termius because it gives you a row of keyboard shortcuts above the usual keyboard. Still cramped, but it works.

Tmux is annoying with a mobile keyboard, so I vibe coded a little mobile-friendly wrapper https://github.com/zakandrewking/pocketbot

Someone is going to solve this with a non-buggy app, but it really needs to have all the features of Claude code. Everyone is a power user in this segment
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-25 15:49:06+00:00
> current administration does not seem to be considering the majority within their own party considering how unpopular the current approach to immigration enforcement is

55% of Republicans say ICE's efforts are about right; 23% think they don't go far enough [1]. There is limited evidence Trump has lost touch with his supporters on this issue. The question is if this is this GOP's pronoun issue–popular in the base but toxic more broadly.

[1] https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/where-americans-stand-immigratio...
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-25 15:49:16+00:00
General consensus is when you're going through hell, don't stop there, keep on going :\

Ten months is not as bad as it was when you were younger. Look forward to even more maturity, I never thought it would be a superpower to be able to write off a whole decade, but that's how it turned out and I'm just about twice your age by now. Never would have known unless I kept on going.

>seems very late to do so now

I for one am going to do it again anyway. With complete confidence.

Complete confidence that I will never live long enough to find out whether my next company ultimately succeeds or fails in terms that mean anything to other founders like you would expect.

No matter how long I try to live.

When you think about it, it's largely a matter of scale and I should have been looking at it the same way already as a teenager, plus my 20's and 30's.

All the advice on the internet can really be food for thought, and the perfect answer may be in one obscure blog post or something, but the whole internet all adds up to less useful than what one warm human being can offer in a live back & forth conversation.

Maybe if you have had a non-throwaway username in the past (especially recently), revealing that could help this one website to give more meaningful advice in its own little way.

You have revealed so much already.

Tell this in person to someone who knows you only a little bit better than us internet randos and some inspiration could appear where previously there was none.

The thing that stands out is the way your "Tell HN" is heartfelt but this one message doesn't tell very much for this audience compared to a collection of previous comments. Which would give all kinds of people more to go on about things that mean something to you in particular.

To me it triggers a response more like an "Ask HN", but based only on the message of this one day alone.

It would be good to have some replies along those lines.
by csh0 | 2026-02-25 15:49:21+00:00
I think it’s fair to say that diplomats appear to be appointed under a two-faced system.

On the one side you have some diplomats who really are quite capable career foreign policy wonks, appointed in a manner which appears to be meritocratic.

On the other side you have folks appointed, like you mention, as a kind of patronage.

Traditionally, it has been that the softer counterparties (Friendly countries, European allies, small island nations, etc) are staffed with patrons while the more difficult or geopolitically sensitive relationships are manned by professionals, but this is certainly not always true, and one can find many counterexamples.
Ask HN: How can I avoid the "It's not just X, it's Y" writing
by milowata | 2026-02-25 15:49:26+00:00
Every single blog post now. Half of news articles. All tweets over 140 characters. This sentence structure is everywhere and it's driving me absolutely bananas. It's so obvious to me when something is written by ChatGPT and I find it shocking that people are putting this work out there and thinking it's okay.
by bluecheese452 | 2026-02-25 15:50:14+00:00
Those are some really interesting questions. To me giving a mustard gas receipt to someone with no intent to use it is unlikely to be dangerous. On the other hand some particularly inflammatory racial propaganda in an area with simmering ethnic tensions is very likely to be dangerous.

But give that same recipe to a wannabe terrorist and suddenly it is dangerous. Context matters, not just the information.
by game_the0ry | 2026-02-25 15:50:23+00:00
> I can’t imagine how any country would think the US is trustworthy enough to be the place where everyone stores their data.

I do not necessarily disagree, but playing devil's advocate here...

Who else would you trust with your data besides the US?

China...where you cannot criticize the CCP?

Europe...where they throw people in jail for social media posts? What do you think when they find out peoples' private convos?

Canada...where the gov is basically the same as Europe?

Or the US where even the mainstream media can challenge the president?

Give me the US any day.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-25 15:50:30+00:00
It is a hard and messy problem, and it doesn't help when people muddy the water further by stirring things like "Don't commit fraud," "Don't infringe on Disney's trademark," and "Don't be racist" into the mix and try to lump those things under the "Safety" umbrella.

Maybe this is an outdated definition, but I've always thought of safety as being about preventing injury. Things like safety glasses and hardhats on the work site, warning about slippery floors and so on. I think people are trying to expand the word to mean a great many more things in the context of AI, which doesn't help when it comes to focusing on it.

I think we need a different, clearer word for "The AI output shouldn't contain certain unauthorized things."
by program_whiz | 2026-02-25 15:50:34+00:00
Humans can't develop safety until there is enough blood in the streets. Only issue with AI is that threshold may come at a point where its too far gone to recover. But humans can't put in seatbelts until we're losing 40k people per year in car crashes. Unfortunately its just how we're wired. Those that are careful are outcompeted by the brash and the fast-moving, until the relative value of moving fast is removed, then we consider the value of making things safe. We didn't start with safe electricity, we started by killing lots of people and starting lots of fires. Many many years later, we ended up with electrical codes and standards.

The AI proponents who originally spoke of safety did so because they are aware of the dangers. However they, like all of us, are not able to change human nature or society. Molloch will drag them into the most dangerous game or eliminate them from the competition. Only with time, death, and damage (and many lawsuits) will any measure of safety be gained. The righteous will say "see we said AI was dangerous!" but that will be the only satisfaction they can have, many years after the damage is done.

If we want to speedrun safety, the only real mechanism is to make legal recourse more viable (e.g. $1M penalty per copyright infringement, $100M per AI-related death, etc.). If this was the case, lawyers self-interest and greed will compete with the self-interest and greed of the AI corps, balancing the risk (but there is no altruistic route to solving this).
by Ampersander | 2026-02-25 15:50:37+00:00
Isn't AI safety mostly a marketing thing? Like, we employ these safety people to make sure our chat bot does not turn into Skynet, implying the chat bot could turn into Skynet i.e. it's powerful and magic and please give us money.

Maybe the text prediction programs are too familiar to people for the Skynet marketing to bite like it used to.

Or maybe it was not just a marketing thing and the AI bros really did believe we were a few GPUs and some training data away from AGI, but now they no longer believe this.
by kakacik | 2026-02-25 15:50:45+00:00
She is the most hated EU politician in whole eastern part of EU, a symbol of EU failings and main reason there are many EU-sceptics across whole region.

A lot of current/recent crisis and utter dependence on russian gas and oil was her doing. She desperately tried to appease putin at all costs despite him mocking her from time to time, she pushed long term underfunding of German army despite war on Ukraine happening since 2014, closed down nuclear plants too fast so coal energy was needed immediately and so on.

Shame on her to be polite, not a good example if you want to show that engineering background (just studies in her case) can lead to better outcomes than lawyers.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-25 15:51:11+00:00
It's to highlight the depth of capital within the US.

When we in the VC/PE space raise a fund, we are investing other people's money. Most of that money is of American origin and American domiciled.

You do see some large players like in Canada and Europe, but even they are not similar in size to American pension funds and endowments, let alone other American institutional investors.
by h14h | 2026-02-25 15:51:12+00:00
I'm using kimi-k2-instruct as the primary model and building out tool calls that use gpt-oss-120b to allow it to opt-in to reasoning capabilities.

Using Vultr for the VPS hosting, as well as their inference product which AFAIK is by far the cheapest option for hosting models of these class ($10/mo for 50M tokens, and $0.20/M tokens after that). They also offer Vector Storage as part of their inference subscription which makes it very convenient to get inference + durable memory & RAG w/ a single API key.

Their inference product is currently in beta, so not sure whether the price will stay this low for the long haul.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-25 15:51:13+00:00
> I don't want the technology I work on to be used for targeting decisions when executing people from the sky

one problem i have with this specific case and Anthropic/Claude working with the DOD is I feel an LLM is the wrong tool for targeting decisions. Maybe given a set of 10 targets an LLm can assist with compiling risks/reward and then prioritizing each of the 10 targets but it seems like there would be much faster and better way to do that than asking an LLM. As for target acquisition and identification, i think an LLM would be especially slow and cumbersome vs one of the many traditional ML AIs that already exist. DOD must be after something else.