MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lucb1e | 2026-02-07 19:21:44+00:00
> (opening/saving Microsoft office compatible documents, with layout, etc)

Not being Microsoft Office®-compatible does not make something not an office suite. In that case, there is (by design) only one Office® suite in the world

> not a wiki/markdown editor

I was wondering if you meant WYSIWYG editing as opposed to markdown editing, but then you say

> La Suite Docs seems a product more similar to Atlassian Confluence

which is WYSIWYG (the best web-based wysiwyg editor I've ever used, in fact; even if I'd never choose it for being a vendor lock-in that has shown they want to own your data by removing the self-hosted options, maybe with exceptions for giant enterprises idk but at least we had to migrate and it wasn't fun)

so then what are you saying? What makes an 'office suite' an office suite to you?
by mystraline | 2026-02-07 19:21:47+00:00
And if everybody could thrive, then I say go for it.

But thats nowhere near the system we have. Instead, this is serving to take all intellectual and artistic labor, and lower everyone into the 'ditch digger and garbage man' class, aka the low wage class.

LLMs was never about building upwards. Its about corporate plundering from the folks who get paid well - the developers, the artists, the engineers, you name it. And its a way to devalue everyone with a pretend that they can be replaced with the biggest plagiarism machine ever created.

https://www.reddit.com/r/economicCollapse/comments/1hspiym/t...

is correct in their take. Why else would we see a circular economy of shoving AI everywhere? Because it serves to eliminate wages, paid to humans.

This stratification and cementing social classes nearly permanently is a way to have our race of humanity die. But hey, shareholder value was at an all time high for a while.
by accidentallfact | 2026-02-07 19:21:49+00:00
The mechanisms in the body are not heat engines. The stuff is so tiny that it works basically by reshuffling molecules, so the traditional concept of efficiency doesn't really apply, as the amount of stuff that happens is given by integral math. You get this amount of charges from reshuffling this amount of molecules. The type of stuff that can be done is limited by how hard the stuff sticks together.

Anyway, the core problem of obese bodies is that they can't produce energy. You can't outwill it, the reshuffling just isn't happening, and there is actually no great reason to believe that fat tissue is some kind of fuel tank, rather than a mass of broken cells.

Also, the body can just reshuffle the molecules in an idle mode. You don't need to spend the energy on moving around.
by softwaredoug | 2026-02-07 19:22:09+00:00
Post WW2 was a time of labor scarcity the US benefited from - but eventually that went away with global competition. The tech boom years were another labor scarcity time, and that’s also going away.

Both these times were plausible ways of entering the middle class.

What does economic theory say should happen to labor when scarcity ends but capital is strong? Does the economy expand until there’s more labor demand? Or will structural and monopolistic problems cause capital to benefit while suppressing wages - making us all serfs?
by krm01 | 2026-02-07 19:22:21+00:00
Will this mean that when cost is more important than latency that replies will now take longer?

I’m not in favor of the ad model chatgpt proposes. But business models like these suffer from similar traps.

If it works for them, then the logical next step is to convert more to use fast mode. Which naturally means to slow things down for those that didn’t pick/pay for fast mode.

We’ve seen it with iPhones being slowed down to make the newer model seem faster.

Not saying it’ll happen. I love Claude. But these business models almost always invite dark patterns in order to move the bottom line.
by AngryData | 2026-02-07 19:22:30+00:00
Manufacturing jobs produce locallly useful materials, pay for locally useful machines and equipment, and atleast in the first 2/3rs of industrializarion locally useful skills.

This stuff does bring them money which is nice, but a person having access to and learning to use a welder or lathe or loom or repair or fabricate such thhings has value far beyond merely their wage.

Tools and the skills to use them is the most important thing in building a modern society. Countries don't really ever transition from agrarian straight to a modern service economy.
by iambateman | 2026-02-07 19:22:59+00:00
I do not mourn.

For my whole life I’ve been trying to make things—beautiful elegant things.

When I was a child, I found a cracked version of Photoshop and made images which seemed like magic.

When I was in college, I learned to make websites through careful, painstaking effort.

When I was a young professional, I used those skills and others to make websites for hospitals and summer camps and conferences.

Then I learned software development and practiced the slow, methodical process of writing and debugging software.

Now, I get to make beautiful things by speaking, guiding, and directing a system which is capable of handling the drudgery while I think about how to make the system wonderful and functional and beautiful.

It was, for me, never about the code. It was always about making something useful for myself and others. And that has never been easier.
by gjlisjlrj | 2026-02-07 19:23:34+00:00
Well those are incredibly ignorant and mostly likely strongly biased beliefs. When I worked for NASA and the DoE, I was surrounded by the most competent, hard-working, productive people I've ever known. Silicon Valley engineers are a joke compared to government engineers. Silicon valley people have newer toys and more flexible funding and no oversight, but government employees have vastly more impact and actual measurable utility. Only morons born into enough safety and security that they can be completely ignorant of how the actual world works believe the government is unnecessary and as many government jobs as possible should be deleted. The owner of that twitter platform you linked to killed several hundred thousand people last year, and again this year, and again next year, through sheer narcissistic incompetence. Is that a good source for any information at all?
by sosomoxie | 2026-02-07 19:23:40+00:00
I started programming over 40 years ago because it felt like computers were magic. They feel more magic today than ever before. We're literally living in the 1980s fantasy where you could talk to your computer and it had a personality. I can't believe it's actually happening, and I've never had more fun computing.

I can't empathize with the complaint that we've "lost something" at all. We're on the precipice of something incredible. That's not to say there aren't downsides (WOPR almost killed everyone after all), but we're definitely in a golden age of computing.
by sm123 | 2026-02-07 19:24:01+00:00
You’re right - reading that back, it comes across as a “no,” and that wasn’t my intent.

We should show pricing, and we will. We temporarily stripped the site back while overhauling positioning and pricing, which is why it’s missing right now. That’s on us, not a stance against transparency.

In the meantime, I’m more than happy to share pricing directly.

At a high level on our pricing:
- Current customers are on a mix of usage-based and fixed monthly plans, depending on their needs. We've found many of our customers love the fixed plan as it's a whole new level of predictability.
- We’re generally architected to land well below Heroku’s Enterprise pricing and to be competitive with a IaaS.
- We want pricing to get out of your way as you scale, so no big steps in pricing as you add services.
- Databases are HA by default and support replication.
- Pipelines and review apps don’t require hacks to avoid per-review-app database costs.

Happy to answer specifics here or over email if helpful.
by lp4v4n | 2026-02-07 19:24:03+00:00
People have to stop talking like LLMs solved programming.

If you're someone with a background in Computer Science, you should know that we have formal languages for a reason, and that natural language is not as precise as a programming language.

But anyway we're peek AI hype, hitting the top on HN is worth more than a reasonable take, reasonableness doesn't sell after all.

So here we're seeing yet another text about how the world of software was solved by AI and being a developer is an artifact of the past.
by kaydub | 2026-02-07 19:24:13+00:00
Yeah, I don't know why you'd drop using frameworks and libraries just because you're using an LLM. If you AREN'T using them you're just loading a bunch of solved problems into the LLMs context so it can re-invent the wheel. I really love the LLM because now I don't need to learn the new frameworks myself. LLMs really remove all the bullshit I don't want to think about.
by AlecSchueler | 2026-02-07 19:24:15+00:00
> there's only more poverty

That's simply not true.

> A corrupt government is usually the reason a country doesn't prosper

You're probably ignoring the centuries of corporate rule in India that systematically removed wealth to Britain, and which left behind a traumatised and humiliated population that was allowed to play in a game of capitalism they didn't start with the cards already stacked against them.
by phendrenad2 | 2026-02-07 19:25:06+00:00
Yet housing costs keep increasing. The working class is being squeezed between employers who are suffering lost revenue and can't pay US wages, and landlords and mega-corp shareholders who won't budge on price. I foresee a slow protracted "collapse" (or really renegotiation) that will bankrupt stuck-in-the-mud billionaires (like Elon) as their means of recourse - law enforcement and the military - come under such powerful social coercion that no amount of money will stop them from siding with working-class-friendly new leadership like Mamdani, as the workers (who, despite what Elon tells himself in his robot fantasies, are still needed en masse), use their REAL voting power - moving their home to jurisdictions that are working-class-friendly.
by ares623 | 2026-02-07 19:25:15+00:00
For me it's because the same tech is doing it to everyone else in a more effective way (i.e. artists especially). I'm an "art enjoyer" since I was a child and to see it decimated by people who I once looked up to is heartbreaking. Also, if it only affected software, I would've been happy to switch to a more artistic career, but welp there goes that plan.
by roysting | 2026-02-07 19:26:29+00:00
Yes, because the bigger issue is that the whole American system has been so dominated by the rapacious and parasitic mindset of the blob that may be grouped as the PE/investor class (which I also belong to and have benefited from, even though it’s been deliberately secondarily), which has been extracting/monetizing value and cutting real, human, long term investment in lieu of short term, quick, unsustainable outsourcing and resource extracting methods for so many decades now that it has now left America in a tight spot.

Unfortunately, though it has left mostly the Europeans, but all American vassals in an even worse position as the vampiric fake American ruling class, devours America like Saturn devouring his son, as famously depicted by Goya. The parasitic American empire is in a bit of a panic and it is pulling out all the stops to make everyone else pay for its failures, evil, and detrimental activities. That comes in the form of extracting value from Europe and damaging their economy in order to make them even more dependent vassals who still think they can rebel like a toddler threading to run away from home, and dominating the Americas that are effectively helpless in the face of Americas overwhelming position over them.

The anxiety and panic among the American ruling class is palpable among the clubhouse chatter. The empire is in a bit of a panic to sustain itself, just as much as it is also trying to devour what little value is left among the American pension funds and people to save itself; Saturn devouring his son for fear of the prophesy that his child would overthrow him.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2026-02-07 19:26:29+00:00
2% is a lot! There's only fifty things you can invest 2% of GDP in before you occupy the entire economy. But the list of services people need, from food, water, shelter, heating, transportation, education, healthcare, communications, entertainment, mining, materials, construction, research, maintenance, legal services... there's a lot of things on that list. To allocate each one 1% or 2% of the economy may seem small, but pretty quickly you hit 100%.
by cfloyd | 2026-02-07 19:26:34+00:00
I fall in the demographic discussed in the article but I’ve approached this with as much pragmatism as I can muster. I view this as a tool to help improve me as a developer. Sure there will be those of us who do not stay ahead (is that even possible?) of the curve and get swallowed up but technology has had this affect on many careers in the past. They just change into something different and sometimes better. It’s about being willing to change with it.
by Banditoz | 2026-02-07 19:27:24+00:00
This is what I don't really understand. It's a bit difficult to take "wait x months" at face value because I've been hearing it for so long. Wait x months for what? Why hasn't it happened yet?

Things seem to be getting better from December 2022 (chatgpt launch), sure, but is there a ceiling we don't see?
by RyanShook | 2026-02-07 19:27:35+00:00
This was great, thank you for sharing.

The dataset claims there are significantly more Citibank locations than McDonalds worldwide which I don’t think can be correct?

It also lists over 56,000 Wildberries worldwide but a quick Google search shows they are a large online retailer. I wonder what is going on with the brand POIs…
by _wire_ | 2026-02-07 19:27:53+00:00
tl;dr

"Revolutionary change"? Buy his book to find out.

This is a typical publishers interview leaning hard into the author's babbling about consciousness (If something tells you it's conscious do you believe it? Yes.) and AI (experts told him it isn't going to get conscious no matter what it says) and psychedelics (he's too busy to explore psychedelics, what with all his book tour appearances).

No theories, no science, no insights, just pseudo intellectual navel gazing to make a publisher's payday.

Typical nyt telling readers what to think
by Nition | 2026-02-07 19:27:57+00:00
Note that you can't use this mode to get the most out of a subscription - they say it's always charged as extra usage:

> Fast mode usage is billed directly to extra usage, even if you have remaining usage on your plan. This means fast mode tokens do not count against your plan’s included usage and are charged at the fast mode rate from the first token.

Although if you visit the Usage screen right now, there's a deal you can claim for $50 free extra usage this month.
by IMTDb | 2026-02-07 19:28:03+00:00
I’m curious what’s behind the speed improvements. It seems unlikely it’s just prioritization, so what else is changing? Is it new hardware (à la Groq or Cerebras)? That seems plausible, especially since it isn’t available on some cloud providers.

Also wondering whether we’ll soon see separate “speed” vs “cleverness” pricing on other LLM providers too.
by scoofy | 2026-02-07 19:28:39+00:00
I spent Dry January working on a new coding project and since all my nerd friends have been telling me to try to code with LLM's I gave it a shot and signed up to Google Gemini...

All I can say is "holy shit, I'm a believer." I've probably got close to a year's worth of coding done in a month and a half.

Busy work that would have taken me a day to look up, figure out, and write -- boring shit like matplotlib illustrations -- they are trivial now.

Things that are ideas that I'm not sure how to implement "what are some different ways to do this weird thing" that I would have spend a week on trying to figure out a reasonable approach, no, it's basically got two or three decent ideas right away, even if they're not perfect. There was one vectorization approach I would have never thought of that I'm now using.

Is the LLM wrong? Yes, all the damn time! Do I need to, you know, actually do a code review then I'm implementing ideas? Very much yes! Do I get into a back and forth battle with the LLM when it gets starts spitting out nonsense, shut the chat down, and start over with a newly primed window? Yes, about once every couple of days.

It's still absolutely incredible. I've been a skeptic for a very long time. I studied philosophy, and the conceptions people have of language and Truth get completely garbled by an LLM that isn't really a mind that can think in the way we do. That said, holy shit it can do an absolute ton of busy work.
by FireBeyond | 2026-02-07 19:28:41+00:00
Is your implication that Zuck and Musk were somehow ... forced ... to visit Epstein's island and hang out with him repeatedly in order for their businesses to succeed?

That doesn't exactly tie in with reality - it's not like Epstein would be the only avenue for multi-billionaires to find partnerships.

And then you have Epstein, after Musk says "Hey, I'm looking for a wild party", saying "There are a bunch of UN diplomats visiting, do you want me to set up dinner for us?" "That sounds like the exact opposite of what I'm looking for. I want something where noone over the age of 25 is attending."
by user19870 | 2026-02-07 19:28:48+00:00
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by AlecSchueler | 2026-02-07 19:29:10+00:00
> Liar! That is mentioned by many throughout this discussion!

Not in this thread, no. I asked a question in response to a specific assertion.

> What does THAT have to do with anything??? Why do YOIU suddenly limit this international phenomenon to just the US?

Because the assertion I responded to with my questions was based in that context.

> I explicitly pointed out that it is older and international and not recent and US-only!

And again, it's irrelevant to the point at hand. Goodbye now.
by massysett | 2026-02-07 19:29:14+00:00
We have what I've dreamed of for years: the reverse dictionary.

Put in a word and see what it means? That's been easy for at least a century. Have a meaning in mind and get the word? The only way to get this before was to read a ton of books and be knowledgable or talk to someone who was. Now it's always available.
by mrinterweb | 2026-02-07 19:29:28+00:00
This article has some cowboy coding themes I don't agree with. If the takeaway from the article is that frameworks are bad for the age of AI, I would disagree with that. Standardization, and working with a team of developers all using the same framework has huge benefits. The same is true with agents. Agents have finite context, when an agent knows it is using rails, it automatically can assume a lot about how things work. LLM training data has a lot of framework use patterns deeply instilled. Agents using frameworks that LLMs have extensive training on produce high quality, consistent results without needing to provide a bunch of custom context for bespoke foundational code. Multiple devs and agents all using a well known framework automatically benefit from a shared mental model.

When there are multiple devs + agents all interacting with the same code base, consistency and standards are essential for maintainability. Each time a dev fires up their agent for a framework their context doesn't need to be saturated with bespoke foundational information. LLM and devs can leverage their extensive training when using a framework.

I didn't even touch on all the other benefits mature frameworks bring outside of shared mental model: security hardening, teams providing security patches, performance tuning, dependability, documentation, 3rd party ecosystems. etc.
by vaxman | 2026-02-07 19:29:31+00:00
Almost positive 'ol Bessent has by now warned Trump that there is an issue with the AI queens breaking 1930s securities reform laws. Last week's stock market and crypto moves have all but sealed the fate of the Bozo No Bozos. They will take down the people involved with the funky purchase orders quietly, except inside of the closed door meetings where they get handled. https://youtu.be/y_z9W_N5Drg
by webdevver | 2026-02-07 19:29:35+00:00
imo the engineers who stay in their nuts-and-bolts lane - those are the ones who are at a real risk of 'brainrot', who sometimes at the ripe age of 50+ continue to misunderstand what motivates management, the executives, seemingly unable to model anyones minds other than their own (or that of a very predictable entity, like a computer.)

infact, you could argue that politics is in some sense the biggest, most complex dynamic system of them all, and thus poses the greatest 'engineering' challenge. and it invariably involves promotion of oneself, or an idea, or a certain direction, with real trade-offs that have positive impact on some people, and negative on others.
by Krasnol | 2026-02-07 19:29:35+00:00
I wonder whether, in the end, it was simply poor accessibility that made programmers special, and whether it is that what some of them are missing. Being special by "talking" a special language their customers can't comprehend.

Sure, they are still needed for debugging and for sneering at all those juniors and non-programmers who will finally be able to materialise their fantasies, but there is no way back anymore, and like riding horses, you can still do it while owning a car.
Show HN: LinkScope – Real-Time UART Analyzer Using ESP32-S3 and PC GUI
by octablock | 2026-02-07 19:29:56+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a real-time UART analyzer using an ESP32-S3 and a Windows GUI.

It captures high-speed UART data and shows live statistics and visualization on PC.

Main features:
- Up to 921600 baud capture
- Real-time throughput monitoring
- RAW hex viewer
- Frame decoding
- Health / buffer status
- Standalone Windows EXE

How it works:
Target MCU TX → ESP32-S3 RX → USB → PC Analyzer

You just connect your device’s TX pin to the ESP32-S3 RX pin and run the PC app.

Supported devices:
STM32, ESP32/ESP8266, NRF52, RP2040, Arduino, and other UART devices.

GitHub:
https://github.com/choihimchan/linkscope-bpu-uart-analyzer

Demo GIF is in the README.

I’m actively improving this project and would really appreciate feedback, ideas, and bug reports.

Thanks!
by majormajor | 2026-02-07 19:30:06+00:00
AI could be here to stay and "chase a career as an electrician helping build datacenters" could also be a mistake. The construction level could plateau or decline without a bubble popping.

That's why it can't just be a market signal "go become an electrician" when the feedback loop is so slow. It's a social/governmental issue. If you make careers require expensive up-front investment largely shouldered by the individuals, you not only will be slow to react but you'll also end up with scores of people who "correctly" followed the signals right up until the signals went away.