MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lilcodingthings | 2026-02-25 11:58:54+00:00
It's totally fair to be that guy, it's a great question! :) AI is absolutely a powerful tool, and I use it daily for coding problems and most of the times brainstorming too. But I don't see it as a replacement for everything else.

I still find myself searching Google, reading blogs, watching YouTube tutorials, and browsing documentation. Each format clicks differently depending on the context and what I'm trying to learn.

As for what we offer — our posts come from real experience and real problems we've encountered. There's a voice, a perspective, and a learning journey behind each one that AI-generated answers can't quite replicate (I hope).

As an example, we have posts like
https://littlecodingthings.com/remote-work-freedom-or-burnou... and
https://littlecodingthings.com/am-i-too-old-to-learn-coding/
these are real personal experiences and reflections from our own journey.
That's the kind of stuff you'd probably want to hear from an actual person, not an AI.

Overall I'd say to someone with your concerns, check out our blog, and hopefully our tone, style, and the way we break things down resonates with you in a way that other resources don't. If it does, we'd love to have you stick around! :)
by throw0101c | 2026-02-25 11:59:30+00:00
> This places the blame solely on the workers. Their CEO earns a ludicrous multiple of their wage. They are treated like shit and are expendable. It’s a two way street, treat workers with respect and and you might get some respect from them.

In southern Ontario there are multiple car factories from various makers. The plants of the Detroit Three are all unionized. There are also plants for Toyota/Lexus and Honda, and after decades of asking, the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) or Unifor unions has not unionized them: the employees are not interested.

Seems that the workers don't feel they need a union as a counter-weight to management at Japanese companies.
by piker | 2026-02-25 11:59:30+00:00
A lot of good behind this idea if nothing else than to keep Microsoft honest. The Azureware push is nauseating and such a transparent attempt to lock in its monopoly against disruptors. We’re hoping Tritium[1] can provide a free or commercial alternative for legal teams soon.

All that said, it’s easy to underestimate the quality of Microsoft’s office products. They handle millions of edge cases, accessibility, i18n. They are performant and in a lot of cases extended through long-term add ins.

Even Google hasn’t achieved real parity.

It’s Microsoft’s race to lose, but my bet is they’re too distracted by AI to even noticed those coming for them.

[1] https://tritium.legal
by sublinear | 2026-02-25 11:59:37+00:00
QR codes can be unreliable and unnecessary to convey a URL. That's why I said "an image is never the only format available".

Most QR codes are not even permalinks. When it really matters the link is dynamic and invisible. It's baked into a script your phone runs when you perform a higher level task in an app, tap-to-pay, etc.
by gammalost | 2026-02-25 11:59:47+00:00
I do not know what you mean. The US and US-based companies have now become a liability. Global politics change on a day-by-day basis, EU has frozen trade agreement discussions because the tariff situation is unclear. There are open discussions in Sweden about how we can reduce our dependence on US-based companies, because we do not know whether that dependency will be wielded as a political tool against us.
by reacharavindh | 2026-02-25 12:00:11+00:00
A few things. I intentionally clone the repo and build it locally for my use and use it as my-omp.. this way, I can make oh-my-pi make customisations like skills, tools, anything and yet retain the ability to do a git pull from upstream with cherry picking if necessary.

Until yesterday, this process was purely bliss - my own minimal custom system prompt, minimal AGENTS.md, and self curated skills.md. One thing I was wary of switching from pi to oh-my-pi was the use of Rust tools pi-native using NAPI. The last couple of days whatever changes I pulled from upstream is causing the models to get confused about which tool to use and how while editing/patching files. They are getting extremely annoyed - I see 11 iterations of a tool call to edit a damn file and the model then resorted to rewriting the whole file from memory, and we al know how that goes. This may not be a bug in oh-my-pi per se. My guess is that the agent developed its memory based on prior usage of the tools and my updating oh-my-pi brought changes in their usage. It might be okay if I could lose all agent memory and begin again, but I dont want to.

I'm going to be more diligent about pulling upstream changes from now on, and only do when I can afford a full session memory wipe.

Otherwise, the integrations with exa for search, LSP servers on local machine, syntax highlighting, steering prompts, custom tools (using trafilatura to fetch contents of any url as markdown, use calculator instead of making LLM do arithmetic) etc work like a charm. I haven't used the IPython integration nor do I plan to.
Show HN: LedgerMind – true zero-touch autonomous memory for AI agents
by sl4m3 | 2026-02-25 12:00:13+00:00
LedgerMind is a zero-touch memory system for AI agents that works using client-side hooks.

No manual tool calls.
No "remember this" prompts.
No extra setup.

It automatically:
• Searches and injects relevant memories before every prompt
• Logs every agent action and tool result (file reads, script executions, etc.)
• Self-heals every 5 minutes
• Keeps full Git-based audit trail
• Resolves memory conflicts autonomously

Currently 100% stable and working out-of-the-box with Gemini CLI.
Support for Claude Desktop and Cursor coming very soon.

Project: https://github.com/sl4m3/ledgermind

Would love feedback from people building long-running autonomous agents.
by pumpbro | 2026-02-25 12:00:35+00:00
The real friction isn't just the house cut; it's the latency between centralized books and decentralized liquidity. Sharps aren't just smarter; they're faster. Most "organic" volume gets eaten by bots arb-ing the spread between Poly, Kalshi, and offshore sportsbooks the second a headline hits. I’ve been running a cross-book arb alert tool to track these inefficiencies. If you aren't monitoring the delta across venues, you’re essentially paying a hidden tax to the guys with better API access. Edge is a function of infrastructure, not just conviction.
by theandrewbailey | 2026-02-25 12:01:22+00:00
MP3 is a pretty bad codec compared to newer ones, no surprise that you noticed a quality drop. It should only be used for reasons of maximum compatibility.

I was using Ogg Vorbis 20 years ago, and that was a massive step up from MP3. Now, I have FLAC, and convert to 96k Opus for mobile and browser playback. Combined with listening in the car or through subpar headphones, I don't sweat about leaving a lot of quality behind, and the space savings are worth it.
Show HN: Sustn, Turn unused Claude Code tokens into PRs that clean your codebase
by flyingsky | 2026-02-25 12:01:33+00:00
Hi HN! I use Claude Code a lot, but my token usage is directly proportional to how long I'm willing to sit there prompting it. If I'm not at my desk thinking up tasks and feeding them in, the tokens just go unusued[which i weirdly feel bad about].

over the past couple of days, I hacked on sustn, a tool that scans your repo, figures out what needs fixing on its own (dead code, missing tests, security issues, etc.), and puts it in a prioritized list. Then it just starts working through the list - whether you're there or not.

When it's done with a task, it either creates a PR automatically or waits for your approval - you choose. You can reorder the list to control what gets picked up next, set a schedule (e.g let it run overnight), set a token budget, and add your own tasks manually too.

It runs on your local Claude Code instance, so nothing leaves your machine. Free and open source - https://github.com/Ghvstcode/sustn Still very early but would love feedback.
by gaigalas | 2026-02-25 12:02:37+00:00
Dario Amodei used almost every single public interview he gave to press on the "Protect America, it's a matter of national security. Ban Chinese exports, etc".

He was clearly dancing to the DoD tune, like he REALLY wanted a DoD contract, which he eventually got.

But that's not the point. I'm talking about how coincidental all of this is with the recent Anthropic blunder with the distillation thing. That is my main point you dismissed.
by jorl17 | 2026-02-25 12:02:45+00:00
I honestly think this is definitely where (at least part of) the industry is heading, yes.

This is not to say engineers are getting replaced — but, certainly, they are changing their work. And, sure, maybe _some_ of them are being replaced. Not most of the ones I know, though. They are essential to orchestrate, curate, maintain, and drive all of this.

(Now, do they want to orchestrate it? Whole different story...)
by azalemeth | 2026-02-25 12:02:49+00:00
Device attestation is precisely the thing I do not want my government to ever adopt. I have a Danish CPR number. They've given me a FIDO secure token generator as my phone is degoogled for MitID. Most Danes don't know what those words mean, and if they did, wouldn't understand why I distrust (all) governments (and indeed things! Three default scientific position is scepticism, albeit with varying degrees of priors)
by dakolli | 2026-02-25 12:03:13+00:00
I'm pretty young and hate this technology with a passion. I didn't spend 100k on education, and studying for a decade to have my job reduced to being a project manager for a bot or to play with a prompt slot machine all day. This crap is reducing the thing I genuinely love doing more than anything, writing code, into nothing.. Reviewing code that lacks any sweat, any intention. I really can't stand this garbage.

I can't stand you old heads, I'm very happy for you that you got to stash away 40 years of SWE salaries. Its just ladder kicking behavior to be honest. Typical boomer, you got your nut and don't care what happens after.

25% of new college grads in STEM are unemployed and a bunch of companies (controlled by people in your age group) have laid off 400k Americans over the last 16 months while equities and profits are at an all time highs.

The replies : ItS NoT Ai, ItS cUz FrEe MoNeY fRoM CoViD HaS DrIeD uP.
by theshrike79 | 2026-02-25 12:03:17+00:00
When I use a CLI agent to code, I don't need the IDE for anything.

Think of it more like directing a coworker or subcontractor via text chat. You tell them what you want and get a result, then you test it if it's what you want and give more instructions if needed.

I literally just fixed a maintenance program on my own server while working my $dayjob. ssh to server, start up claude and tell it what's wrong, tab away. Then I came back some time later, read what it had done, tested the script and immediately got a few improvement ideas. Gave them to Claude, tabbed out, etc.

Took me maybe 15 minutes of active work while chatting on Slack and managing my other tasks. I never needed to look at the code at any point. If it works and tests pass, why do I care what it looks like?
by motoboi | 2026-02-25 12:04:10+00:00
Brazil’s free software initiative in 2000’s was all about technological dependency.

Brazil was hoping to leverage governmental spending to kickstart a national software development industry. Some sort of leap into the future, jumping over first the industrial era and then service-based economy we missed.

It was killed with fire by huge Microsoft (and American, I suppose) lobbying in congress, but then America had a very favorable public view as a nurturing and democratic partner. Some sort of older brother guiding you into adulthood.

Currently, at least in my bubble, the public view of America is more like a predator with Trump as a protodictator. Not necessarily true, understand me, just as that older brother view wasn’t. But it’s public perception.

A good part of that disabling of the Brazil initiative was simply free Google workspace for public universities (which were in the government plan).

I suppose that given the existencial threat level of anxiety caused by current developments will probably make Europe government immune to American lobby (at least in the short term), so I suppose this can actually happen.

Let’s see how it develops when they try to ban Microsoft from the universities. That would be the acid test.
by mopsi | 2026-02-25 12:04:24+00:00
> Was there something major that happened in 2013-2014 involving violence that interrupted the term of elected, legitimate president Yanukovich?

Yes; under extreme Russian pressure, Yanukovych blocked the passage of the highly anticipated Ukraine-EU trade treaty. This led to massive protests. He sent paid thugs (titushky) to harass and beat the protesters, but the protests only grew larger. When he panicked, about 100 protesters were shot in a single day. From that moment, he was politically a corpse and lost the support of even his own party. He ran away into hiding to escape arrest, and the Ukrainian parliament assembled and unanimously voted to hold snap elections, which took place a few months later.

This is the polar opposite of illegal seizure of power by a small group of people, or a coup.
by vidarh | 2026-02-25 12:04:51+00:00
It is a way of sharing and improving software already today. Not a major way, yet, but I don't agree with you it would be a bad thing for that to become more common, in as much as - to go back to my dashboard example - sharing a skill that contains some of the lessons learned, and packages small parts would seem far more flexible and viable as a path for me to help make it easier for others to do the same, than packaging up something in a way that'd give the expectation that it was something finished.

But also, note that skills can carry scripts with them, so they are definitely also more than a my_feature.md.
by sylware | 2026-02-25 12:05:18+00:00
From an applications point of view:

They want web apps only running in whatng cartel web engines?

libreoffice? A massive piece of software you can build only with US c++ compilers (MIT and mostly apple)? (the mistake was to use c++ in the first place, well computer languages on an insane level of complexity).

To put it together: it won't be perfect, lines for compromises will have to be drawn, and it will feel like getting out of 'the matrix' for the time (normal "users" won't understand), if you see where I am going. Digital freedom has a "price", efty "price" in a digital world dominated by Big Tech.

Going for a strong independence will have to hurt, or it will be slatted as "posture" more than a real long term/strategic will.

It is not "against" the US, but "in the interest" of the danish people (well, should be EU though...)
by daft_pink | 2026-02-25 12:05:58+00:00
Good luck. It’s just not really practical. Office 365 is cheap and training everyone on another platform will cost more and make it harder to onboard new talent than using another system.

I worked for a company that was fully Google and the executives who were highly effective all just paid for excel themselves. It’s just not really practical when you’re going to make a presentation to learn how to do pivot tables in a new software in the crunch time.

I’m not a fanboy. I prefer Mac, but in a high cost labor environment like Europe it’s not worth it to save less than 1% of your labor cost on new software.
by reacharavindh | 2026-02-25 12:07:21+00:00
I dont. I use this as my coding harness (replacement of gemini-cli/claudecode etc). I dont want to sandbox it because I expect it to be used only for coding on projects. I dont want to over complicate it.

I am building my own assistant as an AI harness - that is definitely getting sandboxed to run only as a VM on my Mac.
by Someone | 2026-02-25 12:07:22+00:00
FTA: “So far to the new OAC codebase there has been some tuning adjustments, renaming various symbols to using an "oaci_" prefix and other preparations for establishing the new Open Audio Codec project,”

So, basically all we know is that it’s a fork of Opus.

https://linuxiac.com/aomedia-begins-developing-oac-next-gene... agrees:

“Project documentation states that OAC is experimental and not production-ready. There is no finalized specification, standardization timeline, or guarantee of backward compatibility. It is also important to note that OAC currently mirrors Opus capabilities, with no publicly documented functional advantages.

[…]

In other words, at this stage, OAC appears to be just a development fork of Opus under the Alliance for Open Media’s governance. Whether it ultimately replaces Opus or evolves into a complementary format remains to be seen.”*
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-25 12:07:30+00:00
> Visit Washington DC some time and ride the metro. Red Hat puts out ads about all their public sector offerings.

I haven't had a single need to visit the US, and I still have zero needs for it. If I need to read subway ads to understand how a company is connected to FOSS, I think I'll skip that and continue using and working with companies who make that clear up front :) Thanks for the offer though!
by ahf8Aithaex7Nai | 2026-02-25 12:07:53+00:00
It is productive to think about the world in terms of good and evil. But if you really engage with more complex events in an intellectually honest way, you will always find that they cannot be easily mapped onto the poles of geopolitical conflicts, as you would like them to be, if I am interpreting the thrust of your question correctly.

If someone points a gun at you, if the threat seems credible, and if you are defenseless against it, and if you would rather be shot than hand over your wallet, then I can only interpret that as false pride, but not as rational behavior and certainly not as ethical behavior. This is all the more true if you are not making this decision for yourself alone.

It is not heroic to die because you did not want to give in out of personal pride, national consciousness, or other false ideals. It is heroic to accept a loss of face in such a difficult situation in order to avert or minimize harm to yourself and others.
by petre | 2026-02-25 12:08:30+00:00
What they've always been used for:

> Cold War computers were primarily driven by military necessity, focusing on
nuclear weapon simulation, ballistic missile trajectory calculation, and cryptography to support Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). Key uses included modeling hydrogen bomb design using Monte Carlo methods (e.g., on MANIAC), air defense systems like the Navy’s NTDS, and early AI for strategic planning.
by nicbou | 2026-02-25 12:08:32+00:00
I'm not sure I'm buying this.

Software is a packaged experience, business logic that gets refined over time. You pay for the likelihood that the logic is correct, a server that someone else manages, and hopefully someone who will answer your emails if something is wrong.

Sure, you can knock some things together quickly, but you still need to test your code against reality and your customers' expectations. Getting the recipe right takes a while.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-25 12:09:26+00:00
There are two types of software engineers: Those who do and then think, or those who think and then do. Claude Code seems to strictly be for the former, while typically the engineers who can maintain software long-term are the latter.

Not sure if we have any LLM-tooling for the latter, seems to be more about how you use the tools we have available, but they're all pulling us to be "do first, think later" so unless you're careful, they'll just assume you want to do more and think less, hence all the vibeslop floating around.
by imtringued | 2026-02-25 12:09:31+00:00
Event loops are great but composition is hard. This is due to the fact that the OS (e.g. Linux) provides event loops with custom event types (eventfd()) but the performance is worse than if you built it yourself.

The bad performance leads to a proliferation of everyone building their own event loops, which don't mesh together, which in turn leads to people standardizing on large async frameworks like tokio.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-25 12:10:11+00:00
I don’t have a good comparison of what rates are like for independent consultants. I have only worked full time salaried for consulting departments - at AWS directly (Professional Services - full time blue badge RSU earning employee) and now for a third party AWS partner.

But let’s say I make more as a staff consultant considering my actual billed hours, benefits (401K, health insurance, paid time off etc) than I would make working independently and I always know how much I’m going to get paid.

But I will say in today’s cloud consulting environment, it is a race to the bottom unless you can lead projects and even then there are relatively few high paying (over $200K with benefits and 80% utilization not including PTO) outside of being a full time employee working in the consulting divisions of AWS, Google (they had an RTO mandate so I ignored recruiters) or maybe Oracle.

The only reason they can justify American rates for someone like me who knows cloud but who is mostly a developer is because I can lead projects and churn out code quickly - thanks to AI.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-25 12:10:15+00:00
> This is not an example to what I asked for

Me: "Because people start shooting civilians thinking they're infiltrators, and even enemy civilians are protected persons."

You: "When did that happened in the Israel-Arab conflict?"

This was in the Israel-Arab conflict, and as you acknowledge, "wouldn't have happened if Hamas wore uniform". It is a perfectly responsive example to your request, and clearly illustrates the potential harm to innocent civilians from violations of the rule.
by helpfulmandrill | 2026-02-25 12:10:40+00:00
If self-determination means an enthnostate then no people has that right. If every ethnic group had its own state in which it was guaranteed supremacy, the world would be a complete mess. It doesn't work. We are seeing in Israel/Palestine a thoroughly worked out example of why it doesn't work, and what the consequences are when you try to make it work.
by vidarh | 2026-02-25 12:11:00+00:00
There isn't really anything other than training, but they generally don't. You probably can get them to do that with some extra instructions, but part of the problem - at least with Claude - is that it's really trigger-happy about re-running the commands if it doesn't get the results it likes, assuming the results reflects stale results. Even with very expensive (in time) scripts I often see it start a run, pipe it to a file, put it in the background, then loop on sleep statements, occasionally get "frustrated" and check, only to throw the results away 30 seconds after they are done because it's made an unrelated change.

A lot of the time this behaviour is probably right. But it's annoyingly hard to steer it to handle this correctly. I've had it do this even with make targets where the makefile itself makes clear the dependencies means it could trust the cached (in a file) results if it just runs make <target>. Instead I regularly find it reading the Makefile and running the commands manually to work around the dependency management.
by rasur | 2026-02-25 12:11:28+00:00
I do (also sometimes) use Emacs on Windows, but I must admit I have little experience of the issues surrounding Japanese textual input (I've not checked but I would have automaticaly assumed "there's an Emacs mode for that", but perhaps not) - without that additional requirement just a plain old basic Emacs would have worked out of the box, no?

But anyway, good luck in your travels in scratching that itch! :)