MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-15 15:56:22+00:00
Why do you have to waste ultra-expensive engineers on it? You have agents. And verifying your product works as it is claimed should absolutely be part of your mission. How can you possibly claim that your models are revolutionising software development if you haven't even used them to revolutionise your own software development in-house? Not only that, it would produce a huge marketing coup that would immediately lead to a flood of enterprise spending if you could demonstrate that your agents actually do what you constantly claim them to do.
by adventured | 2026-02-15 15:56:38+00:00
It's software eating everything that it can as capabilities and reach are added. This has been going on since the earliest software programs launched.

It's identical to Craigslist hollowing out offline classified ads. Classified ads used to be a hyper lucrative market for newspapers (both local and national). That market imploded from ~$17 billion ($32b+ adjusted) in 2000 to $1-$2 billion last year. Once it could, it did.

AI should enable software to touch more things more cheaply (more efficiently in many cases). As it can, it will. Expect a lot more wipe outs.
by arter45 | 2026-02-15 15:57:11+00:00
Aliens (which are not UFOs, much like people are not planes) can mean a lot of stuff.

We're used to the classic depiction of a humanoid, maybe with a different color or height or a different number of fingers (ET), with higher-than-average intelligence.

What if they're just skilled at driving their "vehicles" and can't really reason or think or talk?

What if they're more like rabbits or sharks or pigeons or mushrooms or rocks?

What if they're invisible to the human eye? Maybe they are mostly transparent like jellyfish, who knows.

For all we know, maybe UFOs are the alien equivalent of drones. Unmanned (should I say unaliened?).

Maybe government(s) just know aliens are real, but they are fundamentally different from us and cannot be seen at all without some specialized equipment, or maybe they can be seen but they look like average living beings on Earth. Or maybe they just know someone is remotely driving those UFOs but we've never actually come close to seeing them.
by intended | 2026-02-15 15:57:26+00:00
You (and the rest of the world) are not really swimming in a sea og alternatives.

If government regulation is the tool which can bring the amount of torque needed to loosen the screws on competition, then government is the tool you have to use.

Regulation is also being developed around the world to figure out how to address the challenges being thrown up. The DSA and GDPR are being studied and better policy will result.

Government has connotations in America, that end up derailing any conversation about it.

Usually at some point, it gets pointed out that Tech is booming in America, while it’s moribund in Europe, and do you really want to be Europe? This shifts the conversation to what kind of money you want to make.
by kjs3 | 2026-02-15 15:57:52+00:00
Calling something "entitlement" is an easy way to shut down discussion without engaging with the argument.

I have evaluated your discussion. I have read as many of your 'explanations' of your argument until I got a headache from rolling my eyes so hard. I find it petulant and entitled, and I called it out as such. Obviously, no discussion was shut down because here you are.

The only thing I am asking for is a bit of courtesy in return for the effort spent curating and submitting material.

And everyone else on the thread has made clear you are not owed this. No, the maintainer is not obligated to respond to every random submission to validate the time you took.

But suggesting that I'm somehow challenging the maintainer's right to make decisions about their own project is both inaccurate and disingenuous.

You clearly said a couple of lines up "The only thing I am asking for is a bit of courtesy in return for the effort spent curating and submitting material." You have done nothing but argue for your entitlement to tell the maintainer they are obligated to stroke your ego for submitting something. "Inaccurate and disingenuous" indeed.
by Athas | 2026-02-15 15:58:19+00:00
As others have mentioned, such tools exist. However, I believe they do more harm than help. Good --help output does not make for good --man output. In particular, while man pages are terse, good ones are more than just lists of command line options, and the part of them that are a list of command line options will usually have more detail than --help. The writing of documentation is a place where I often see programmers employ automation inappropriately.
by ethbr1 | 2026-02-15 15:58:51+00:00
> What this means is that at some point Anthropic will be able to prompt Opus to clone Jira and never pay an Atlassian bill again. Opus just needs to figure out what Jira is first. It's not there yet.

Bang on, and Jira is the perfect example! Because Jira isn't a bag of features: Jira is a list of features and the way they fit together (well or poorly, depending on your opinion).

That's the second-order product design that it's going to take next-gen coding AI workflows to automate. Mostly because that bit comes from user discovery, political arguments, sales prioritization, product vision, etc. It's a horrendous "art" of multi-variable zero-sum optimization.

When products get it right (early Slack) then it's invisible because "of course they made it do the thing I want to do."

When products get it wrong (MS Teams, Adobe Acrobat, Jira, HR platforms) then it's obvious features weren't composed well.

Expect there's more than one {user discovery} -> {product specification} AI startup out there, working on it in a hierarchical fashion with current AI now.
by anankaie | 2026-02-15 15:59:22+00:00
Why not use winget to do it?

`winget install --id Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.BuildTools`.

If you need the Windows(/App) SDK too for the WinRT-features, you can add `winget install --id Microsoft.WindowsSDK.10.0.18362` and/or `winget install --id Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8`
by ninjagoo | 2026-02-15 15:59:59+00:00
> No. It's because people got more creative. There are tens of thousands of us who are absolutely on fire creating new products, better versions of old products, new product categories etc.

Nitpicking, but I would argue that people have always been creative, it's a function of our brains. With the ubiquity of camera, videos now show that even birds and animals have levels of creativity. Biological/physical/physics/societal restrictions prevent them from taking it to the next level. Look at what ancient peoples managed to achieve without the benefit of modern tools and techniques; hard to argue people haven't always been creative.

What has changed is the ability to implement our ideas and harness our creativity - that has become significantly simpler in the age of AI.

Perhaps the discrepancy between the OP's framing of what's happening (negative impact to developers because app cost has gone to zero) and your positive perspective (hey, look at all these creative ideas we are now implementing) is a matter of perspective: you're both describing the same phenomenon, just different angles.
by maxxmod | 2026-02-15 16:00:27+00:00
> It would be nice to see what the end result is after enabling certain features.

The previews in the admin panel are meant to reflect the actual UI changes on YouTube. For example, if you enable Speed Control in the player, the control appears in the player preview. Settings are saved on the fly, and when you go to youtube.com you get the modified experience accordingly.

On the website I only included a static demo, not an interactive one. Does that clarify your concern?

Maxxmod is still in development but we already have functional alpha builds. If you’re interested in testing one and giving feedback, feel free to email me at maxxmod [at] proton.me. Thanks, Pablo.
by albert_e | 2026-02-15 16:00:31+00:00
anything that blocks the doom-scrolling mode on twitter videos?

I dont see youtube shorts, have no login to instagram or tiktok, and stopped using facebook years ago; only social media i frequent is twitter -- and once i view a video in the feed, it hijacks my attention by auto scrolling to a new video.

I burned a couple of evenings this way -- and I need to be more careful about this.
by KumaBear | 2026-02-15 16:00:41+00:00
As someone here with limited coding experience. I have built several custom applications that are too unique to be made by anyone. Now I can make several simple applications that do exactly what I need and want. It’s cut out hours of administrative work stuff I had to do. Do I share nope I gatekeep it at work. If only IT built these systems and databases to be easily used by us users.
by ej88 | 2026-02-15 16:01:01+00:00
I would posit another large factor is "owning" the software comes with the long tail of edge cases, bugs, support, on-call, regulations, etc... that an established SaaS has learned and iterated on for many years with many customers.

For the vast majority of companies they would (and should) rather let the SaaS figure that out and focus on their actual company
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-15 16:01:53+00:00
> Cambridge Analytica was an experiment run by a marketing team. I wouldn't say marketing will always side on ethics

The argument isn't against ethics. It's about self interest. Amazon bought the Super Bowl ad to sell Nest units.

"Unwitting" is correct. There are no lizard people coordinating our march towards dystopia. Just individual people who will–like me–read this article, think we should do more, and then probably do nothing.

(If you want a realistic conspiracy, Amazon may have greenlit the spot with an eye towards an audience of one or two in D.C.)
by anankaie | 2026-02-15 16:01:55+00:00
You do not need a Professional or Enterprise license to use the Visual Studio Build Tools:

> Previously, if the application you were developing was not OSS, installing VSBT was permitted only if you had a valid Visual Studio license (e.g., Visual Studio Community or higher).

From (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/updates-to-visual-stu...). For OSS, you do not even need a Community License anymore.
by fleabitdev | 2026-02-15 16:02:22+00:00
I'd describe that as a trend, rather than a consensus.

It wasn't an entirely bad idea, because comments carry a high maintenance cost. They usually need to be rewritten when nearby code is edited, and they sometimes need to be rewritten when remote code is edited - a form of coupling which can't be checked by the compiler. It's easy to squander this high cost by writing comments which are more noise than signal.

However, there's plenty of useful information which can only be communicated using prose. "Avoid unnecessary comments" is a very good suggestion, but I think a lot of people over-corrected, distorting the message into "never write comments" or "comments are a code smell".
by sunir | 2026-02-15 16:02:41+00:00
After the dot.com, there was the O-pocalypse that terrified me as a recent grad.

- Open source
- Outsourcing
- Offshoring

It was driving the labour cost of an engineer to zero I felt as a young man.

Then time passed, and I learnt that engineers aren't paid to code. Engineers are paid to solve problems for a business.

If you recall, the dot.com bust and 9/11 crashed finances for a few years. When the money printing gun went whir because "Deficits don't matter" Washington, then engineers were in demand again.

Right now we are in a weird situation where money is being printed and it is also tight. Most of it is going to the hardware and infrastructure layer, like the fiber optic bubble in the dot.com. Software will have its time in the sun again.
by iamnothere | 2026-02-15 16:03:07+00:00
Basically every civilization was built upon some form of slavery, and unfortunately slavery still takes place in many parts of the world. This was (and is) evil, yet we can’t seem to eliminate it, only push it under the rug. Often we encourage near-slavery conditions in other countries, but technically the work is “voluntary” so we don’t call it slavery. Do brutal work in the tin mines or you won’t have food for your family, and your only other choice is to join an armed militia/gang. That sort of thing.

Of course in the US we still have prison labor, thanks to the 13th amendment loophole, and under-the-table labor by immigrants, who can accept low pay and terrible conditions or get deported. Louisiana’s Angola prison is literally a former plantation and still basically operates as one.

The great hope of modernity, for those who believe in it, is that machines may finally replace slaves. (China’s “dark factories” are an example of how this could work.) Sadly we may hit planetary limits before we manage to automate the worst work, and in catabolic collapse we will almost certainly return to open slavery.

(To be clear, in no way is this a justification of slavery. It’s an indictment of the human race.)
by otterley | 2026-02-15 16:03:23+00:00
Yes. You’re the one making the assertion (not just that there is a violation but also that the activity is that “the government spying on everyone”); the burden of proof is thus on you.

Attorneys challenge each other as a matter of course in every case before a court. This is how the adversarial system works.

Perhaps what you meant to say is that “I don’t like the activity that is happening here,” or “I think some of this might be unconstitutional.” When someone makes a naked blanket assertion about the law, it’s usually a sign that that person doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
by flanbiscuit | 2026-02-15 16:03:41+00:00
> There is no set path, allowing players to switch freely between mining, ship-to-ship combat, and alien diplomacy. The broader plot of the game emerges slowly

This reminds me of Star Control 2, aka The Ur-Quan Masters

> The game influenced the design of numerous other games for decades after its release.

And in SC2 wiki page I see this:

> Once Reiche and Ford conceived Star Control 2, they would draw large inspiration from Starflight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Control_II

Never played Starflight before but seems right up my alley as SC2 is one of my favorite games

Edit:
Just finished reading the rest of the readme. Very cool! I honestly knew nothing about Forth (just that it was a programming language) and now I want to play around with it.
by newsoftheday | 2026-02-15 16:03:54+00:00
"...and it's perfectly legal."

It is interesting that this setup in which people buy stocks but do not actually own them started in the 1970's and I don't recall ever hearing about it until I saw the story on Fox's site today.

We have no more 401K or other retirement accounts and do not invest in the stock market, except for a couple share of IBM I bought years ago when I worked there.

So we're covered as I see it. We only use banks with money in savings, checking and CD accounts.
by thatcat | 2026-02-15 16:04:28+00:00
I've been using kimi, though not kimiclaw, for research and it is good - comparable to phind, better than GLM 4.7 . Opus 4.6 wasn't as good for my particular domain of interest. I think the long term pricing asymptote for US vs china is essentially dependent on energy pricing and so china will continue to undercut US AI pricing.
by barnacs | 2026-02-15 16:05:00+00:00
> stop using Google, Amazon, Meta products

That's the easy part. What do you do about stuff like face recognition and cameras everywhere? Should you hide your face every time you go out? Should you not speak because there might be a mic around picking up your voice?

This is only going to get worse. We can't trust companies or governments to respect our privacy. We can't trust each other to keep the data recorded by our devices private.

It seems like the fight for privacy is a lost cause. What do we do?
by garciasn | 2026-02-15 16:05:08+00:00
I'm technical (e.g., I've been using Linux since 1995). I lead highly technical teams (Data Engineering, DevOps, and Data Science). I used to play ALL THE TIME with technical stuff; I loved to tinker. Over the years I fell out of love with this and just wanted things to work so I could do my job and relax outside of it.

OpenClaw is the first thing I've truly enjoyed tinkering with again. I can leverage both the technical side of things (working w/it to build automated grocery ordering for me on demand or setting up more home automation that's all integrated) as well as the non-technical (e.g., I love having it welcome me home when it detects I've not been at home for >1h or automatically adjust the thermostat up/down a few degrees based on the weather and my absence while knowing to move it back to the 'normal' when I'm returning).

To say that I don't have a use case for OpenClaw even though I can do all of the tech stuff is seriously demeaning and absurd.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-15 16:05:59+00:00
> You're not making a judgment, but are somehow able to diagnose mental illness from a blog post? Wild.

The author literally talks about his "psychosis" that led him to his predicament, so no, I don't think it's a judgment, just the ability to read.

> And even if mental health is an issue, does that mean that they are somehow less worthy of assistance?

I have no idea where you seem to get this idea. My point is that, at least in this author's case, he has received assistance. He discusses 2 separate instances in this post where he declined resources and support - he is living under a bridge because he specifically rejected the shelter that was offered him.

Could the process of getting people support be better? Of course, but his experience dealing with the pains of bureaucracy doesn't seem much different that bureaucratic slights we all, rich and poor, have to deal with when trying to get assistance from government. FWIW I especially liked his "I identify as a woman" comment in order to get a shower.

> The level of self-righteousness and lack of empathy in your comments is baffling.

The only self righteousness I see on display is your belief that everyone else is so uncaring because we don't necessarily think the government should force this person into a shelter. I'm not judging the author at all, but I'm certainly judging you.
by m348e912 | 2026-02-15 16:06:01+00:00
> Cool, it’s encrypted on transit to me… now what about at rest with them? Is it encrypted and they absolutely can not view or hand that footage to police/gov? No.

Technically yes, e2e encryption means video hosted on their servers is only viewable by devices with decryption keys. So if the police/gov brought a subpoena to request the video, Ring could only offer them the encrypted video. They would have to take possession of your phone and gain access in order to decrypt and view the video.

In this case the "ends" in the e2e encryption is the camera and your phone.
by kranner | 2026-02-15 16:06:33+00:00
> Why? VERY good design signals this is tasteful and quality. Not an AI-slop-vibe-mess.

I'm not too sure about this. Very good design, at least in terms of marketing materials such as screenshots, may be end up signalling the use of AI in the coding as well. I know if an app has obviously-AI-generated photos in the screenshots I would be disinclined even to try it.
by sergiotapia | 2026-02-15 16:07:05+00:00
Have you seen non-technical people use AI for anything beyond read my emails or add a column to my sheet?

Yes, the guy who owns a boat and wants to track his calories is going to fuck around in claude code and figure out deployment, and sign up to some free PaaS and pay $1.38 a month to self host their app.

Sure.
by adventured | 2026-02-15 16:07:38+00:00
Open source should acquire greater, multiplied value once the new scaffolding is put into place. The open source community is still using the past approach, which is going to be largely washed away.

More people with more agents freely contributing more to even more concentrated and scaled-up projects.

Those agents will get more potent. The projects can get more ambitious.

One user with N Claude usage. 100 users with 100x the Claude usage. Who can build the superior product? If you put the right structure on it, the 100x wins by a drastic margin. Those 100x Claudes benefit in combination courtesy of the open source effect, their potential additive value is greatly enhanced.

The 1x outcome will end up being relegated to triviality (the one page homepage as website). The bar is about to be raised really, really, really high in software if you want to be relevant. This is merely a very short transition period.
by rafaelmn | 2026-02-15 16:07:38+00:00
Because I've seen the results ? Failure mode of LLMs are unintuitive, and the ability to grasp the big picture is limited (by context mostly I'd say), but I find CC to follow instructions better than 80% of people I've worked with. And the amount of mental stamina it would take to grok that much context even when you know the system vs. what these systems can do in minutes.

As for the hallucinations - you're there to keep the system grounded. Well the compiler is, then tests, then you. It works surprisingly well if you monitor the process and don't let LLM wander off when it gets confused.
by gruez | 2026-02-15 16:07:52+00:00
>They share just as much with the NSA as Microsoft and Google.

For something like icloud vs gmail/gdrive, they're approximately the same, but that doesn't mean "they share just as much [...] as Microsoft and Google. If they never collected data in the first place, they don't have to share with NSA. The most obvious would be for location data, which apple keeps on-device and google did not (although they did switch to on device a few years ago).
by weatherlite | 2026-02-15 16:08:08+00:00
There's a whole class of SAAS that's relatively well protected and that is everything that has to do with proprietry, hard to get data. For example a big cyber company like CrowdStrike could (and probably does) decare that its impossible to clone its cyber solution because their solutions and algorithms were trained on and improved on tons of clients data.
So there's that - the data moat.
Other than that I suppose everything that's a pain in the butt to duplicate - lots of regulation, tax codes etc etc. Think Shopify for instance, it's not just cloning the UI and some CRUD you need to clone a whole shitload of boring backend work that deals with this shit - and then keep a bunch of agents to constanty supervise regulation and update the software (And perhaps have a few humans overseeing the whole process); is it worth having the agents + few humans in the loop over paying for Shopify ? Currently - I doubt it. When agent costs plummet to almost zero and you dont need any humans in the loop - yes, probably worth it. We're not there yet.
Ask HN: Crazy to Pivot PM into Engineering in '26?
by ediblelegible | 2026-02-15 16:08:22+00:00
I’m a (fairly competent/successful?) mid-career product manager at a respected company in the enterprise AI space. No complaints or issues and I make great money for manageable WLB (no family)

But I have always had a burning curiosity to understand the “how” at a deeper level. I studied CS and started as an engineer for a couple years before pivoting

For most of my career, I could carve off 10-20% of my time or use weekends to stay fresh and fulfill my technical curiosity

But with coding agents, the pace of technological change, and new fundamental system design principles being defined seemingly every day, I can no longer keep up

I want to move back to being an engineer (probably L4-level) so I can really focus on the craft. My sense is that this is an inflection point in history for a valuable new skillset, while my PM-coded abilities to do user research, earn trust with stakeholders, and have business sense are something that I can maintain on the side.

Is this crazy? Am I going into a career field that will disappear in 24 months? Will I be unable to find a job as a PM after switching randomly to a software engineer for 2 years?