MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by M95D | 2026-02-13 20:25:54+00:00
> [...] you have wrong expectations.

I did. (Past tense.) I'm calibrated now.

> You don't get to decide that.

You're exactly right. I only get to decide what I do with my own toys. And I've decided I won't waste any of my time. If you (plural) can't write a one line answer to a bug report or click a reject PR button, then why should I put any effort?

Isn't it nice "git clone" was invented?
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-13 20:26:59+00:00
> Well what do you think ? Do the authors (or a single symbolic one) of pytorch or numpy or insert <very useful software> typically get credits on papers that utilize them heavily ?

I don't know! That's why I asked.

> Well Clearly these prominent institutions thought GPT's contribution significant enough to warrant an Open AI credit.

Contribution is a fitting word, I think, and well chosen. I'm sure OpenAI's contribution was quite large, quite green and quite full of Benjamins.

> Cool Story. Good thing that's not what happened so maybe we can do away with all these pointless non sequiturs yeah ? If you want to have a good faith argument, you're welcome to it, but if you're going to go on these nonsensical tangents, it's best we end this here.

It was a genuine question. What's the difference between a chimpanzee and a computer? Neither are humans and neither should be credited as authors on a research paper, unless the institution receives a fat stack of cash I guess. But alas Jane Goodall wasn't exactly flush with money and sycophants in the way OpenAI currently is.
by shermantanktop | 2026-02-13 20:27:18+00:00
What’s the solution then? This is one of those emotional-labor questions.

Who is responsible for new contributors having a good experience? Especially thousands of eager, misinformed contributors?

It’s a DDOS that exhausts and burns out the maintainer even while the supply of newbie contributors is rarely meaningfully impacted by maintainer conduct.

The world has givers and takers, and we are all both at different times. The newbie thinks they are a giver, but mostly they are a taker.
by jferdizzle | 2026-02-13 20:29:07+00:00
I built Inlay (https://inlay.dev) to solve a simple problem: AI agents can’t reliably discover most websites.

When Claude/ChatGPT answers questions about a business, it often relies on stale or incomplete info. Inlay is my attempt at a “crawl + expose for AI” layer.

It does 3 things:

1) Audits your site across 11 AI-readiness criteria
(structured data, llms.txt, semantic HTML, crawler policy, meta quality, content accessibility, API discoverability, security/trust signals, freshness, image accessibility, MCP readiness)

2) Hosts AI-facing infrastructure for you
(MCP endpoint + generated llms.txt / llms-full.txt + sitemap/feed from crawled pages)

3) Auto-adds missing discoverability signals
(via one script tag: JSON-LD, canonical/meta improvements, MCP discovery tags)

The part I’m most interested in feedback on is scoring methodology: each analyzer scores 0–100 and rolls into a weighted overall score.

Free audit: https://inlay.dev/audit (no signup)
by gordonhart | 2026-02-13 20:29:21+00:00
Here's an example ticket that I'll probably work on next week:

Live stream validation results as they come in

The body doesn't give much other than the high-level motivation from the person who filed the ticket. In order to implement this, you need to have a lot of context, some of which can be discovered by grepping through the code base and some of which can't:

- What is the validation system and how does it work today?

- What sort of UX do we want? What are the specific deficiencies in the current UX that we're trying to fix?

- What prior art exists on the backend and frontend, and how much of that can/should be reused?

- Are there any scaling or load considerations that need to be accounted for?

I'll probably implement this as 2-3 PRs in a chain touching different parts of the codebase. GPT via Codex will write 80% of the code, and I'll cover the last 20% of polish. Throughout the process I'll prompt it in the right direction when it runs up against questions it can't answer, and check its assumptions about the right way to push this out. I'll make sure that the tests cover what we need them to and that the resultant UX feels good. I'll own the responsibility for covering load considerations and be on the line if anything falls over.

Does it look like software engineering from 3 years ago? Absolutely not. But it's software engineering all the same even if I'm not writing most of the code anymore.
by terminalbraid | 2026-02-13 20:29:24+00:00
It's a nontrivial calculation valid for a class of forces (e.g. QCD) and apparently a serious simplification to a specific calculation that hadn't been completed before. But for what it's worth, I spent a good part of my physics career working in nucleon structure and have not run across the term "single minus amplitudes" in my memory. That doesn't necessarily mean much as there's a very broad space work like this takes place in and some of it gets extremely arcane and technical.

One way I gauge the significance of a theory paper are the measured quantities and physical processes it would contribute to. I see none discussed here which should tell you how deep into math it is. I personally would not have stopped to read it on my arxiv catch-up

https://arxiv.org/list/hep-th/new

Maybe to characterize it better, physicists were not holding their breath waiting for this to get done.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-13 20:29:42+00:00
Now imagine I make a weird cake and I think it's interesting. I put up a poster with a photo and a recipe and say "thought this was cool, try it if you want." And then some nonce comes along and tells me off for a reckless disregard of other people's time and nerves. Compares it to an open manhole cover that could get somebody killed.

Throwing some interesting code onto a web site isn't like setting up a booth at a community event. Its not even really like putting up a poster, since posters get seen by whoever happens to come nearby whereas web sites only get seen by people who seek them out, but it's about the closest you'll get to a real-world analogy.
by epolanski | 2026-02-13 20:29:49+00:00
It's an obvious tension created by the title.

The reality is: "GPT 5.2 after crunching 12 hours mathematical formulas supervised and prompted by 4 experts in the field" which would be nice and interesting per se.

But the title creates a much bigger expectation.

I wouldn't be surprised if you give an LLM some of the thousands of algos we use there and with proper promoting from experts in the field guiding it through the crunching it found a version that works better for bigger or smaller numbers.
by DontForgetMe | 2026-02-13 20:29:52+00:00
Given that the esteemed Dame is almost completely blind and has never positioned herself as a tech influencer or aficionada, I feel that her (thoroughly deserved) prestige and social power might be a little wasted on the grand cause of 'the iOS keyboard could be better'.

I mean, I'd agree with her.
But it's hardly Joanna Lumley championing the gurkhas, when she's been saying for years that she can no longer recognise even loved ones standing right in front of her.
Apple could do a lot better, but I'm not sure they could improve the keyboard that much.
by 12_throw_away | 2026-02-13 20:30:42+00:00
The other heuristic I would add is one that works for commercial/closed source too: evaluate the project exactly as it is now. Do you still want to use it even if 0% of the roadmap ever materializes?

With open source, the good news is that that the version you currently have will always be available to you in perpetuity - including all the bugs, missing features, and security flaws. If you're ok with that, then the community around the thing doesn't even matter.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-13 20:30:56+00:00
I meant the jobs die. So I am not sure what would stand in for "labor shortage" in a situation of sustained net job losses. Perhaps a growth opportunity for mannequins to visually fill the offices/shops of the fired, and maintain appearances?

But yes, if lots of people deathed by AI, the remaining humans might have more job security! Could that be called a "soft landing"?
by uqual | 2026-02-13 20:31:12+00:00
In reality that would probably mean that something like 60% of the developer positions would be eliminated (and, frankly, those 60% are rarely very good developers in a large company).

The remaining "surplus" 20% roles retained will then be devoted to developing features and implementing fixes using AI where those features and fixes would previously not have been high enough priority to implement or fix.

When the price of implementing a feature drops, it becomes economically viable (and perhaps competitively essential) to do so -- but in this scenario, AI couldn't do _all_ the work to implement such features so that's why 40% rather than 20% of the developer roles would be retained.

The 40% of developer roles that remain will, in theory, be more efficient also because they won't be spending as much time babysitting the "lesser" developers in the 60% of the roles that were eliminated. As well, "N" in the Mythical Man Month is reduced leading to increased efficiency.

(No, I have no idea what the actual percentages would be overall, let alone in a particular environment - for example, requirements for Spotify are quite different than for Airbus/Boeing avionics software.)
by CooCooCaCha | 2026-02-13 20:31:15+00:00
Depends on what you think is valid.

The process you’re describing is humans extending our collective distribution through a series of smaller steps. That’s what the “shoulders of giants” means. The result is we are able to do things further and further outside the initial distribution.

So it depends on if you’re comparing individual steps or just the starting/ending distributions.
by 827a | 2026-02-13 20:31:35+00:00
The take that I am increasingly believing is that Software Engineers should broadly be worried, because while there will always be demand for people who can create software products, whatever the tools may be, the skills necessary to do it well are changing rapidly. Most Software Engineers are going to wake up one day and realize their skills aren't just irrelevant, but actively detrimental, to delivering value out of software.

There will also be far fewer positions demanding these skills. Easy access to generating code has moved the bottleneck in companies to positions & skills that are substantially harder to hire for (basically: Good Judgement); so while adding Agentic Sorcerers would increase a team's code output, it might be the wrong code. Corporate profit will keep scaling with slower-growing team sizes as companies navigate the correct next thing to build.
by throwaway346434 | 2026-02-13 20:31:38+00:00
You might need to go back and read that one again, this is the faintest criticism of a lengthy screed in which the person you are replying to labels user-hostile behaviours as "acting like a jerk" and generally disapproves.

Your counter argument to this is to just be contrarian and imply they are a jerk... because, well, you don't agree with them. You didn't add substance to the discussion (facts, evidence, argument seeking middle ground), you just sought to set fire to someone because you were uncomfortable with the dim prospect you might be wrong/guilty of acting like this/be the subject of the criticism.

Do you see how this undermines your point of view/actually re-enforces the validity of the criticism?
by asveikau | 2026-02-13 20:31:56+00:00
> I don't think there is an expectation of privacy for things you literally post to the public, like social media

Neither is there an expectation that automation would slurp it up and build a database on you and everyone else. Maybe the HN crowd is one thing, but most normies would probably say it shouldn't be allowed.

> Even the government doing the scraping directly I believe would not violate the 4th amendment.

Every time I see someone make a statement like this I think of the Iraq war era when a Berkeley law professor said torture is legal. Simply saying something that clearly violates the spirit of our rights is ok based on a technicality, I would not call that a moral high ground.

> The sensitive data needs to not be collected in the first place via technical and social solutions,

At this point and points forward I think your comment is much more on the mark.
by sanjayjc | 2026-02-13 20:32:08+00:00
> Telegram became my main interface to AgentX (my OpenClaw agent). Why Telegram?

> Secure (end-to-end encryption available)

It seems telegram bot conversations don't use the Secret Chat feature [1]. Even if they did, I'd be cautious [2].

[1] https://community.latenode.com/t/are-telegram-bot-conversati...

[2] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram...
by gordonhart | 2026-02-13 20:32:44+00:00
Curious to hear if you've seen this work with 100k+ LoC codebases (i.e. what you could expect at a job). I've had some good experiences with high autonomy agents in smaller codebases and simpler systems but the coherency starts to fizzle out when the system gets complicated enough that thinking it through is the hard part as opposed to hammering out the code.
by thinkingtoilet | 2026-02-13 20:33:14+00:00
Sigh... you know there's single digits number of trans athletes in the entire NCAA. The fact that this is even discussed at all is absurd given what else is going on in the country. Yes, intelligent people can have a conversation about it but even if you think it's a problem it's problem #43,948 on the list. Let's solve the other 43,947 problems first. It's really hard to believe people when they say it's not about bigotry. And it in every instance I've encountered people talking about it I would easily, and correctly, classify it has "hateful".
What have you been working on and AI is replacing you?
by l0new0lf-G | 2026-02-13 20:33:18+00:00
Really guys, I have a tough time believing AI is really replacing any serious developer.

It still screws up even simple tasks, and it often takes more time to accurately describe what you want than just writing the code.

And most importantly: it cannot understand complex contexts.

I am working on a corporate product that is essentially a big monolith, with much of the logic being complex because of legal reasons (the product is about real estate), and some bad past design decisions.

The features I am currently working on cannot be vibe-coded, because no AI can understand the context. And I have worked with similar projects in the past -I know that corporate software of monstrous complexity is usual.

The same applies to a caching library I am developing on and off on my spare time: I asked Claude to make some improvements, and it didn't even compile. The result was a disaster.

An actual question, to all of you who 'mourn your craft' and LLMs replacing you: what on earth have you been working on?

Am I the only one who doesn't see LLMs replacing us anywhere soon? Or am I just very lucky?
by repelsteeltje | 2026-02-13 20:33:36+00:00
> Polling booths are run by volunteers and they have hard enough of a time already checking the validity of Dutch ID, adding 27 other forms of ID will only make it easier to bypass the electoral protections we have.

Not sure about this one. For municipal elections in the Netherlands, you need to live in a particular municipal to vote. That means: even non-eu expats are eligible. I have had colleagues with UK, US and Turkish passports that voted (or could have voted) in Amsterdam for local representatives.
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-13 20:33:58+00:00
>I don't know! That's why I asked.

If you don't read enough papers to immediately realize it is an extremely rare occurrence then what are you even doing? Why are you making comments like you have the slightest clue of what you're talking about? including insinuating the credit was what...the result of bribery?

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. You've decided to accuse prominent researchers of essentially academic fraud with no proof because you got butthurt about a credit. You think your opinion on what should and shouldn't get credited matters ? Okay

I've wasted enough time talking to you. Good Day.
by lukebuehler | 2026-02-13 20:34:24+00:00
I think sandboxes are useful, but not sufficient. The whole agent runtime has to be designed to carefully manage I/O effects--and capability gate them. I'm working on this here [0]. There are some similarities to my project in what IronClaw is doing and many other sandboxes are doing, but i think we really gotta think bigger and broader to make this work.

[0] https://github.com/smartcomputer-ai/agent-os/
by kristopolous | 2026-02-13 20:34:33+00:00
It's always a value decision. You can say shiny rocks are more important than people and worth murdering over.

Not an uncommon belief.

Here you are saying you personally value a computer program more than people

It exposes a value that you personally hold and that's it

That is separate from the material reality that all this AI stuff is ultimately just computer software... It's an epistemological tautology in the same way that say, a plane, car and refrigerator are all just machines - they can break, need maintenance, take expertise, can be dangerous...

LLMs haven't broken the categorical constraints - you've just been primed to think such a thing is supposed to be different through movies and entertainment.

I hate to tell you but most movie AIs are just allegories for institutional power. They're narrative devices about how callous and indifferent power structures are to our underlying shared humanity
by stevekemp | 2026-02-13 20:34:43+00:00
Edge cases have probably slipped past my memory, but back in the day I iused to use qpsmtpd as an incoming SMTP server for processing a decent volume of mail.

As you'll see the core of qpsmtpd was very light but it was very extensible and allowed plugins to make changes/rejections to incoming mail at SMTP-time and that was very useful.

These days the project was superseded by https://haraka.github.io/

The only specific advice I'd have for you would be to use the SWAKS testing tool for various testing attempts in addition to the golang testing.

You should reject the obvious things (mail without Message-Id:, or Date: headers), you should avoid pipelining clients by dropping connections which start the transaction without waiting for the HELO/EHLO banner you send - which should be "slow".

You should probably also consider greylisting and similar built-in facilities. I found it very useful to automatically temp-fail 100% of incoming SMTP submissions if the system load were high, but that was back in the days when my SMTP server had 1gb of memory so it might be outdated.
by pjerem | 2026-02-13 20:34:51+00:00
I actually like the concept of an app in full screen creating a new virtual desktop.

I feel like it’s really intuitive when you switch desktops with the trackpad.

It’s just incredibly poorly implemented, like all the window management on macOS.

Disclaimer : I own MacBooks since 2010 and I have seen macOS rotting update after update. To me they achieved a really mature and pretty well thought OS with Snow Leopard and it’s been slowly rolling downhill since then.

I can totally say that KDE AND Gnome AND Cinnamon AND Sway AND even the immature Niri are all better experiences than macOS.
by dfxm12 | 2026-02-13 20:35:03+00:00
I don't know if paying taxes is a good prerequisite for voting. People travel and pay taxes to a lot of governments along the way. People from out of country may own vacation houses somewhere which represent a lot of property taxes, but are only there a few months out of the year. Should they get a vote? Probably not.

That said, there absolutely should be reasonable processes to allow you to vote in the country you live in. "Obtaining citizenship" sounds reasonable, but of course, not every country has reasonable way to obtain citizenship. The EU voting procedure sounds really onerous.
by saghm | 2026-02-13 20:35:28+00:00
I don't disagree with anything you're saying in the abstract, but I'm trying to point out that you were initially responding to someone who had in turn responded to a very specific viewpoint, and the viewpoint you're arguing for seems to be almost the exact opposite of that top-level comment. Someone claimed "XYZ is why I like lisp", and someone else responded "XYZ seems like it might cause issues in practice", and you jumped in to argue back against that by defending Lisp without engaging with the fact that what they were really responding to was XYZ.
by luqtas | 2026-02-13 20:35:53+00:00
have you actually read anything? indigenous were pointed as responsibles for cultivating dominant species which had an impact and shaped the flora. the last website i published is a whole book showing how its rich biodiversity happened over multi million year processes. it also points out the impact on the "funneling" of species indigenous occupations had

i still think despite their impact, they were exemplar compared to what we had on the rest of the world (but i never studied Asia). but it's not like they were magicians that had no impact on anything and lived in complete synergy with nature by increasing biodiversity. and if you think cultivating biological dominant species across a forest has no impact i suggest you to research on the many examples of alien flora effects on various ecosystem on modernity or even try to throw some Hawaiian Baby Woodrose somewhere out their native land to check how much these species take over anothers. they probably killed and reduced species expression to settle themselves there. but cest la vie. living has an impact after all
by nobody9999 | 2026-02-13 20:35:57+00:00
>I would give my left kidney for either a continuation or a reboot of Babylon 5 under the helm of J. Michael Straczynski with full creative freedom. Or hell, even an entirely different show.

There has been discussion about a reboot over the years, with JMS throwing some cold water[0] (at least for now) on the possibility in January 2026.

There's sort of a "continuation" with Babylon 5: The Road Home[1] from 2023.

There's also Crusade[2] which only ended up with a dozen or so episodes, although JMS had a multi-year story arc planned.

[0] https://www.ign.com/articles/j-michael-straczynski-is-being-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5:_The_Road_Home

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_%28TV_series%29
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-13 20:36:08+00:00
Commerzbank bank is Germany's second largest bank.

Related:

Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958399 - February 2026 (1020 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963089 (subthread)

https://werotracker.eu/
by dariosalvi78 | 2026-02-13 20:36:31+00:00
there should be a uniform system, something like that if you have lived in one country and have paid taxes there (fiscal residency) for more than X years you should be able to vote local elections.

A EU citizen living in the UK for long enough, and with a plan to stay, should have a say on the decisions of that country.

Yes, there is citizenship, but rules are all different and are made every more complicated as we speak (I like in Sweden, where the case is clear).
by bostik | 2026-02-13 20:37:22+00:00
The demands here are effectively extensions of netiquette[0] and "how to ask good questions"[1]. Every code contributor should at least understand what is asked of them.

[Julia's post sadly does not include the blunt expression "demonstrate that you have done your homework", which is a fundamental tenet.]

0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/netiquette

1: https://jvns.ca/blog/good-questions/