MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grvdrm | 2026-02-06 22:35:25+00:00
I love hearing this.

My story: mostly business analytics (2005-2022), sales engineering, sales (both at same tech start up), and now running a solo consulting business.

I also really liked sales. Updating a CRM, not so much. But sales allowed me to spend my day talking with people about problems. No day the same, and lots of focus on finding different/better ways to communicate.

In what industries did these roles happen? Same industry/domain or have you changed that as well?
by TonyStr | 2026-02-06 22:35:54+00:00
I initially wanted to write a comment applauding the effort (making a performant web-based wireframe editor is a technically challenging task). But after testing the site, I got the impression that this is a commercial product trying to get a foothold (as opposed to a hobby project for the sake of learning).

At the time of posting, there were no other comments with criticism, so I thought it better to contribute some of my thoughts.

My main concern for this project is not that it doesn't have feature parity with figma, but that I don't see a well-thought out business model. Vecti sells a seat-based subscription model (same as figma), has almost directly ripped much of figma's design (a proclaimed ex-figma employee pointed out that this may be cause for a lawsuit in another comment), and the only distinguishing selling point is that it has less features than figma (the tool it's trying to emulate).

My opinion (which may be wrong) is that figma is already very good at stripping away features, hiding them behind modes, toggles or contextual menus. I'm a figma power user, but I have held a course in figma and managed to get 20 non-technical people to grok the tool and be able to create their own interactive designs in half an hour.
by tfehring | 2026-02-06 22:36:36+00:00
Civ III is still my go-to activity for long flights with no internet - I've yet to find a better way to instantly time-travel forward 12 hours.

I haven't tried OpenCiv3, but I'm glad it exists - getting vanilla Civ III running on MacOS is a hassle and still has issues with e.g. audio and cutscenes. I also hope it leads to a way to improve worker automation. Managing your workers well is important, doing it manually is tedious, and the built-in Automate feature is really bad.
by blibble | 2026-02-06 22:36:49+00:00
> I see people at work who are drooling about being able to have code made for them .. but I'm not in that group.

people seem to have a inability to predict second and third order effects

the first order effect is "I can sip a latte while the bot does my job for me"... well, great I suppose, while it lasts

but the second order effect is: unless you're in the top 10%, you will now lose your job, permanently

and the third order effect is the economy collapses as it is built on consumer spending
by wedog6 | 2026-02-06 22:37:04+00:00
It says this but the numbers in the article actually show flatlining after 2013 with a huge drop off after 2020.

2022 8th grader cohort missed much of 6th and 7th grade. 2024 cohort missed 4th and 5th grade. These results are extremely in line with that effect, despite what people want to say about social media, teacher pay, etc.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-06 22:37:05+00:00
Curious, do you think his name should be as well known as Torvalds, Stroustrup, and Guido, who combined have ~120 years of serious contribution to the way that we write software, and continue to influence?

Because that’s the implication that I’m getting from downvotes + this reply.

Sure, Terraform is huge no doubt, but it’s no Linux, C++, or Python, yet. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I assume since they’re no longer involved with Hashicorp they’re no longer contributing to Terraform?
by viccis | 2026-02-06 22:37:10+00:00
>I love art and music, but unfortunately have no artistic talent whatsoever.

Then go pay someone to teach you to play <instrument>, and you'll get a life skill that will be satisfying to watch grow, instead of whatever this soulless crap is.

edit: Oh god after listening to those samples, send Claude to the same music teacher you choose...
by its_magic | 2026-02-06 22:37:16+00:00
A distinction without a difference. One mafia is as bad as another. One screws you in the short term, the other screws you in the long term, and much worse.

The problem in both cases is the massive attack surface at every level of the system. Most of these proposals about "security" are just rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic.

If you can't keep a nation state out (and you're referring to your own state, right?) then you can't keep a lone wolf hacker out either, because in either case that's who's doing the work.
by 9x39 | 2026-02-06 22:37:20+00:00
It's just that politics outweighs systems thinking.

Selling a narrative that money can fix, getting funds, and then allocating funds is comically easy and less risky than trying to fix something broken. You're capturing sentiment into political momentum, when you're the one who allocates money you are very, very popular and interesting and can make many things happen.

You can do all of this and move on independently of any results in the problem statements that may or may not have been written to begin with.

Contrast that with telling people hard truths like deified educators aren't effectual, or that per-capita pupil spending doesn't correlate with outcomes, or how parents and home culture are stronger effects than whether you offer rich IEPs or adopted Common Core - you can be tarred and feathered for rocking the boat before you get to make any change.

It's not that anyone thinks we should give up on the children, it's that we should probably give up on direct democracy in some areas, and at best, these spending splurges are incompetence and at worst, outright wealth transfers to the PMC and NGOs or fraud.
by wffurr | 2026-02-06 22:37:24+00:00
>> much of math education seems to have been farmed out to really crappy software and short video clips running on chromebooks

Our local school committee is debating this currently. There was a book mentioned "Ditch That Textbook" about using EdTech to reimagine curriculums. I have a hard time imagining actual high quality math education not using a textbook, and I don't really see how crappy software (and I do not for a second doubt that most ed tech is crappy - almost all software is crappy really, it's a total tragedy and a separate discussion) can possibly do better.

Personally I'd like to see fewer Chromebooks and iPads and such in classrooms and more textbooks and notebooks. I'm open to being convinced I'm just a curmudgeon, but it'll take real results in schools to do so.
by patio11 | 2026-02-06 22:37:38+00:00
The thing which is beyond intellectually serious dispute is industrial-scaled fraud.

You keep wanting to make me "own" the CCAP's estimate. I will not reciprocally try to make you "own" $5 million, because I am charitable and because history has been unkind to the officials who made it.

I do ask you to own: "Minnesota HAS NOT suffered industrial-scale fraud across several social programs." Otherwise this is judging a high school debate competition, and I've had better.
by signatoremo | 2026-02-06 22:37:53+00:00
There is no specific definition of clean room implementation. Please provide source for your claim otherwise.

There are many well known examples of clean room implementation. One example that survived lawsuits is Sony v. Connectix:

During production, Connectix unsuccessfully attempted a Chinese wall approach to reverse engineer the BIOS, so its engineers disassembled the object code directly. Connectix's successful appeal maintained that the direct disassembly and observation of proprietary code was necessary because there was no other way to determine its behavior - [0]

That practice is similar to GCC being used here to verify the output of the generated compiler, arguably even more intrusive.

[0] -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design
by schiffern | 2026-02-06 22:38:04+00:00
What do you think I said that you're contradicting?

IMO the presence of safety chase vehicles is just a sensible "as low as reasonably achievable" measure during the early rollout. I'm not sure that can (fairly) be used as a point against them.

I'm comfortably with Tesla sparing no expense for safety, since I think we all (including Tesla) understand that this isn't the ultimate implementation. In fact, I think it would be a scandal if Tesla failed to do exactly that.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't, apparently.
by Uehreka | 2026-02-06 22:38:29+00:00
> Oddly none of the anti-‘s were musicians themselves.

It is clearly plain to anyone who is a musician or hangs out with a lot of musicians that the independent music world is livid about this stuff. Everyone I’ve talked to, from acoustic songwriters to metal singers to circuit-bending pedalheads are united in their absolute hatred of this technology.

(Yes, follow-up commenter, I’ve seen the Timbaland interview)
by rsf | 2026-02-06 22:38:50+00:00
> The claim that the code is inefficient is really not substantiated well in this blog post.

I didn't run benchmarks, but in the case of clang writing zeros to memory (which are never used thereafter), there's no way that particular code is optimal.

For the gcc output, it seems unlikely that the three versions are all optimal, given the inconsistent strategies used. In particular, the code that sets the output value to 0 or 1 in the size = 3 version is highly unlikely to be optimal in my opinion. I'd be amazed if it is!

Your point that unintuitive code is sometimes actually optimal is well taken though :)
by reactordev | 2026-02-06 22:38:57+00:00
RIP Heroku.

It was good before SalesForce…

In 2018, I had to transition my org at the time from Heroku to AWS (with the org lacking any AWS experience outside of myself).

We ended up with a “Heroku-like” experience. Push to GitHub. Action triggers job. Job packages and deploys. À la carte yaml config for extras like databases and ALBs. It worked pretty well. It was an in house solution to an in house problem.

Still, it wasn’t quite Heroku…
Show HN: I built a YC-style interview practice tool for myself, now public
by zacharykapank | 2026-02-06 22:39:02+00:00
I built this while preparing for startup interviews because I noticed I rambled under pressure.

So I made a tool that runs a short, live YC-style voice interview with interruptions, follow-up questions, and post-call feedback.

It started as an internal project. I kept improving it because it helped me tighten how I explain the problem, market, and metrics.
Now I’m sharing it to get honest feedback from other founders.

I’d especially like feedback on:
1) whether the interview pressure feels realistic
2) what question types are missing
3) what would make the feedback more useful

There’s a 1-minute live demo on the landing page.

Not affiliated with Y Combinator.
by jdrhyne | 2026-02-06 22:39:43+00:00
We built an agent skill for document processing on top of this standard — it was a great fit since the SKILL.md convention means zero config for the user.

The skill gives any compatible agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) the ability to convert, OCR, extract, redact, sign, and fill PDFs via the Nutrient DWS API. Drop it in and ask your agent "redact all SSNs from report.pdf" — it just works.

What we found interesting: the skills approach was way easier to adopt than MCP for this use case. We maintain an MCP server too, but the SKILL.md file is simpler for users who just want document ops without configuring transport protocols.

Install: npx skills add PSPDFKit-labs/nutrient-agent-skill

Repo: https://github.com/PSPDFKit-labs/nutrient-agent-skill
by zacharykapank | 2026-02-06 22:39:50+00:00
Maker here.

I built this for myself first. The main goal was to practice giving short, concrete answers without rambling.

Current flow:
- Live voice interview in a YC-style format
- Interruptions and hard follow-ups
- Transcript + structured feedback after the session

What’s still rough:
- Some follow-ups can feel repetitive
- Feedback quality can still improve
- Pace/timing needs more tuning in some cases

If you try it, I’d really value blunt feedback on:
- what felt realistic
- what felt fake
- what single change would make it more useful
by simondotau | 2026-02-06 22:40:32+00:00
There are a sizeable number of deaths associated with the abuse of Tesla’s adaptive cruise control with lane cantering (publicly marketed as “autopilot”). Such features are commonplace on many new cars and it is unclear whether Tesla is an outlier, because no one is interested in obsessively researching cruise control abuse among other brands.

There are two deaths associated with FSD.
by bornfreddy | 2026-02-06 22:40:59+00:00
Isn't that a losing proposition? Or do you get 50 times the value out of it too? In my experience the more verbose the code is, the less thought out it is. Lots of changes? Cool, now polish some more and come back when it's below 100 lines change, excluding tests and docs. I don't dare touch it before.
by guywithahat | 2026-02-06 22:41:57+00:00
I was in school in Wisconsin when they got rid of the teachers union; schooling improved drastically. We had a physics teacher who went years refusing to write AP level physics courses when it was a union job, but suddenly found the motivation once the union left. Most substantially, at the state level the governor passed course options, which allowed high school students to take courses at local universities or other schools if their school didn't offer higher level courses.

Obviously unions aren't designed to protect students, they represent workers, however their negative impact on the quality of schooling students get is often quite significant despite being overlooked.
by bjconlan | 2026-02-06 22:42:07+00:00
I used to work for a human that did this (sits mostly on the classical therapeutics side). He actually started a business where he was reviewing and auditing the submission processes outlining approvals but he had been around the game enough to know where the next submission would put them in the approvals process for a number of agencies.

https://maestrodatabase.com/

Looks like he's still on top of everything given the most recent blog post is from 6/2/2026.

I believe the insights here could be useful given he has sense of when the penultimate submission has occured (but I'm not entirely sure what that is on a % basis nor as a basis for if the stock of the company reacts)
by toss1 | 2026-02-06 22:42:55+00:00
>> this kind of abuse of power still rarely happens

It is not even close to "rarely happens"

It happens in EVERY authoritarian state that has the technology, to BILLIONS of people around the world.

It is also already happening a LOT in the US (presumably where your comment is limited to).

Flock is used specifically to create parallel construction, where they observe cars moving "in a pattern" that might indicate "smuggling immigrants" such as driving from a border county, or working with pro-immigrant groups (a 100% legal activity), and local/regional police are alerted to find a pretext to stop the car, and often results in charges for someone who would otherwise never have been noticed.

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

This has been known for thousands of years.

This type of systems are only a step away from absolute power

>> most criminal convictions require a jury of our peers

Tell that to the people kidnapped by ICE, with ZERO due process, based on just a sighting and tracking with a camera that matches a racial profile, then they wind up in detention and deported, or dead, with zero judicial intervention.

Stop acting like this doesn't happen or the current 'administration' actually follows the rules. This administration is on the well-traveled road to corrupting democracy and implementing fascism, and systems like Flock actively help it happen.

You are arguing sophistry on the wrong side of the facts, the wrong side of civil society, and the wrong side of history. Reconsider your life
by genes_unknown_1 | 2026-02-06 22:43:03+00:00
I used to work at a private investment fund as a data engineer for building in house models to evaluate drug programs and biotech companies. We took a pretty varied approach with catalysts, investment data, people data, trial data, but also analyses on the molecule and drug itself. It was a lot of work and I really don't think we made a dent into understanding what succeeds and what doesnt. Also investors in biotech are really underwriting the biology. Its why they mostly invest in fast follow or me toos rather than new technology or new therapies. The work was a bit sad and less exciting than I thought.
by yencabulator | 2026-02-06 22:43:17+00:00
> it's "they could do anything you said YES to, in your AGENT.md" permissions checks.

Nothing fed to an LLM is a "permissions check", they're filler for a context window after which the generator produces the some likely tokens. If AGENTS.md can make your agent do something, it was already able to do that without the AGENTS.md.
by maerF0x0 | 2026-02-06 22:43:32+00:00
Some thoughts:

- Apathy is rampant in most workforces, presumably also teachers.

- In unionized workplaces where greater performance != greater pay, and greater pay is guaranteed regardless... No surprise there wasn't better outcomes.

- Not sure if this site has such a bent, but to me if the funding was going to rise 80% (twice as fast as inflation), it would have been nice to also see what market forces could have done via a voucher system.

Edit:

It will be really interesting to compare oregon public outcomes to something like this school in Austin https://nypost.com/2026/01/30/business/new-65k-private-schoo...
by scrubs | 2026-02-06 22:44:21+00:00
Right. But I covered that re: holding kids accountable. I'm a father .. believe me when I tell you several times I had to have a come to Jesus talk with my kid; teachers and school were fine. It's not 100% on the teacher. If the kid refuses to grow up I think he/she shouldn't matriculate in that subject. That means the kid is chiefly held responsible. I'll be applauding not scolding the teacher.
by godelski | 2026-02-06 22:44:27+00:00
Don't confuse what I'm saying, I do find LLMs useful. You're right, about knowledge based systems being useful and I'm not disagreeing with that in any way. I don't think any of the researchers claiming LLMs are not a viable path to AGI are. We're saying that intelligence is more than knowledge. Superset, not disjoint.

And yes, the LLM success has been an important step to AGI but that doesn't mean we can't scale it all the way there. We learned a lot about knowledge systems. That's a big step. But if you wonder why people like Chollet are saying LLMs have held AGI progress back it is because we put all our eggs in one basket. It's because we've pulled funds and people away from other hard problems to focus on only one. That doesn't mean it isn't a problem that needed to be solved (nor that it is solved) but that research slows or stops on the other problems. When that happens we hit walls as we can't seamlessly transition. I'm not even trying to say that we shouldn't have most researchers working on the problem that's currently yielding the most success, but the distribution right now is incredibly narrow (and when people want to work on other problems they get mocked and told that the work is pointless. BY OTHER RESEARCHERS).

Sure, you can get to the store navigating block by block, but you'll get there much faster, more easily, and better adapt to changes in traffic if you incorporate route planning. You would think a bunch of people who work on optimization algorithms would know that A* is a better algorithm than DFS. The irony is that the reason we do DFS is because people have convinced themselves that we can just keep going this route to get there but if more intellectual depth (such as diving into more mathematical understandings of these models) was taken then you couldn't be convinced of that.
by smuenkel | 2026-02-06 22:44:34+00:00
No, I definitely see why people hate on AI music. I appreciate that you had fun, but these songs suuuuuck.

Claude is excellent at a few things, decent at quite a few more. Art and music are not one of these things.

Ar they good as tools to aid in the creative process if you know how to use them and have some restraint? Oh absolutely. As replacements for actual art? Oh absolutely not.

Same goes for the entire genre of tools.
by watwut | 2026-02-06 22:44:37+00:00
Because when people sign up kids for sports, the thing they want them to learn the most is competitiveness and hard training. Everything else is basically perceived as being lazy. As a culture, we tend to turn evrything into grand moralization and duty.

So, consequently, sports club that is not trying to win is seen as lazy and bunch of loosers. And quite openly.
by Fricken | 2026-02-06 22:44:41+00:00
The cartilage in your knees is a living tissue. Like muscle, it responds and adapts to stimulus. If descending stairs gives you knee pain that isn't from some past injury being aggravated, then train them.

You get people who go skiing or running for the first time in a while and they complain "Oh, my knees hurt, I'm too old for this". Nope. You're just out of condition. Use it or lose it.
by toyg | 2026-02-06 22:44:54+00:00
> eventually reality catches up with the propaganda

Actually, I don't think that's necessarily the case. Look at the Chagos deal: that's the new reality created by international organizations catching up with the naked power of the original occupation, and pushing it into a corner. Again, far from perfect outcome (why Mauritius, etc etc), but quite a step forward from brutal colonialism. Humanity wins some and loses some, but at least we're still in the game. If we just give up and accept that might makes right, we slide backwards into the jungle.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-02-06 22:44:54+00:00
People also drastically underestimate how important a strong mathematical foundation is for teaching the basics.

Years ago a younger member of my family showed impressive understanding of mathematical reasoning in early grade school. They were both very curious about and good at understanding mathematical concepts. But then they were thrown mid-year into the next level math class and the teacher complained that "they weren't good at multiplication" during their first week. But the thing is, to pass a grade school multiplication exam, no matter how deeply you understand the concept of multiplication, you still have to just memorize the multiplication tables. Thrown into the subject mid-year is not likely to go well.

The memorization is important, but regardless of mathematical aptitude, it still takes time to memorize tables (unless, of course, your aptitude is for memorization). It was frustrating to have all the mathematical members of my family recognize this kid was very sharp at math and yet teachers couldn't recognize that because they had ultimately no understanding of actual mathematics. I've seen many cases where this leads to a child who "hates math" (thankfully that did not happen in this case), and it is largely the fault of teachers that don't understand their subject.

From my own school experience I recall many moments where a huge opportunity to get me excited and engaged with math was missed because my teachers lacked some pretty fundamental understanding of math. For a long time I thought I was "not good at math" simply because I didn't know what math really was. Once I got to college and had an enthusiastic math major friend did I finally realize that I, in fact, loved math and was quite capable of learning it.

Because, for many reasons other than (but still frequently including) pay, teaching has become an increasingly awful job, it is unattractive to more and more people that really know what they're doing. Basically anyone who had a deep enough understand of math to genuinely be great math teacher has much better ways to earn a living.