MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cg33 | 2026-02-28 18:49:03+00:00
Nice! Feels like a natural direction — once local coding agents became usable, bridging them into chat platforms almost becomes inevitable.

I took a slightly different approach with cc-connect: instead of targeting a single platform, I’m trying to make the bridge modular (platform adapters + agent adapters) so different IM tools and agents can plug in.

Curious — what challenges did you run into integrating with codex-cli?
by virgilp | 2026-02-28 18:49:14+00:00
Nothing of what you write here matches my experience with AI.

Specification is worth writing (and spending a lot more time on than implementation) because it's the part that you can still control, fully read, understand etc. Once it gets into the code, reviewing it will be a lot harder, and if you insist on reviewing everything it'll slow things down to your speed.

> If the cost of writing code is approaching zero, there's no point investing resources to perfect a system in one shot.

THe AI won't get the perfect system in one shot, far from it! And especially not from sloppy initial requirements that leave a lot of edge (or not-so-edge) cases unadressed. But if you have a good requirement to start with, you have a chance to correct the AI, keep it on track; you have something to go back to and ask other AI, "is this implementation conforming to the spec or did it miss things?"

> five different versions of the thing you're building and simply pick the best one.

Problem is, what if the best one is still not good enough? Then what? You do 50? They might all be bad. You need a way to iterate to convergence
by pton_xd | 2026-02-28 18:50:20+00:00
1. Agree

2. Agree

> The problem is that the Pentagon is trying to bury Anthropic as a company, calling it a danger to the United States because it exerted its non-controversial right in (1).

My take is that the DoD very much wanted to continue using Claude. However, Amodei refused to budge on relinquishing final say over Claude usage. The DoD took this as a personal offense (how dare this guy, does he know who we are, etc) and lashed out in retaliation. The whole sequence of events makes sense when viewed under this lense.
by hombre_fatal | 2026-02-28 18:50:33+00:00
I was using SyncThing, and it worked, but any time you have an Obsidian vault open on two devices, or shortly after another, you're always thinking about if you're going to have to clean up a bunch of sync conflict files later. And that mental overhead is not worth saving $4/mo.

The conflicts are never hard: it's like a git merge conflict where you just take the latest of every conflict block.
by rubslopes | 2026-02-28 18:50:42+00:00
Tools like OpenClaw have two core capabilities: the ability to rewrite themselves, and the ability to independently figure out how to connect to different services and establish those connections.

Yesterday, I was responding to a client ticket about what I knew wasn't a bug. It was something the client had requested themselves. The product is complex, constantly evolving, and has spawned dozens of related Jira tickets over time. So I asked my agent to explore the git history, identify changes to that specific feature, and cross-reference them with comments across the related tickets. Within minutes, I had everything I needed to write a clear response. It even downloaded PDF and DOCX files the client had attached. All of this was possible because my agent is connected to GitHub and Jira, and can clone repos locally since it runs on a VPS.

A second example: I was in an online meeting, taking notes as we went. Afterward, I asked the agent to pull the meeting transcript from Fireflies and use it to enrich my notes in Obsidian. I could have also asked it to push my action items straight into Todoist.
by ben_w | 2026-02-28 18:51:02+00:00
Anywhere offering opportunity.

I'm in Europe, I'd like to see it come here. The news I see suggests China's ahead of us in this race, but I don't know if that's for all talent, or if it was just an artefact of a lot of Chinese people in the US on work visas returning home.

Or indeed whether the news about China doing well here was real or hallucinated by an LLM.
by Verdex | 2026-02-28 18:51:24+00:00
There's code structure but then there's also code philosophy.

The worst code bases I have to deal with have either no philosophy or a dozen competing and incompatible philosophies.

The best are (obviously) written in my battle tested and ultra refined philosophy developed over the last ~25 years.

But I'm perfectly happy to be working in code bases written even with philosophies that I violently disagree with. Just as long as the singular (or at least compatible) philosophy has a certain maturity and consistency to it.
by Spooky23 | 2026-02-28 18:51:30+00:00
It’s all economic, pride and ego. Once you hit a certain amount of income, the marginal cost of children seems too much. It’s not a big deal when you have nothing.

Maintaining a middle/upper middle class lifestyle for your kids is expensive. Few people can afford daycare, 5x college tuitions, etc. Extended families tend to be spread out and social networks aren’t what they once were.

Dudes online blather about paternity, divorce, etc. all nonsense and all irrelevant. Bad marriages and divorce are not new, although religious and conservative people try to imply that. The entire movement for prohibition in the early 20th century was driven by absent fathers who would drink their wages away and let the children starve in some hovel.

The only thing that’s “new” is women have the ability to choose birth control.
by tmp10423288442 | 2026-02-28 18:52:11+00:00
Your comment seems to imply that trading based on material non-public information in prediction markets is always okay, which is not the case. The CFTC just made a press release detailing some instances of invalid use of nonpublic information on prediction markets: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9185-26

Interestingly, the CFTC objects to a political candidate trading on their own candidacy on the grounds that it is fraudulent. So it looks like they could attempt to regulate self-trading quite strictly, at least if that theory holds up after a court challenge.
by bluefirebrand | 2026-02-28 18:52:26+00:00
> Refusing to use AI out of principle is as irrational as adopting it out of hype.

My principles have nothing to do with whether or not AI is giving me extra productivity though. Even if AI made me 5000x more productive I still wouldn't want to use it out of principle. I think it is a deeply immoral technology that shouldn't exist

I also think that people who research and build AI are deeply immoral people who should be tried for crimes against humanity

Because I have no doubt in my mind that AI is leading us towards crimes against humanity. We are going to be culled the moment we are not useful anymore.
by hosh | 2026-02-28 18:52:35+00:00
I read other people’s code all the time. I work as a platform engineer with sre functions.

Gemini 3 by itself is insufficient. I often find myself tracing through things or testing during runtime to understand how things behave. Claude Opus is not much better for this.

On the other hand, pairing with Gemini 3 feels like pairing with other people. No one is going to get everything right all the time. I might ask Gemini to construct gcloud commands or look things up for me, but we’re trying to figure things out together.
by kennyadam | 2026-02-28 18:52:38+00:00
The NES was pretty popular in the UK, wasn’t it? In our solidly working-class home, we had a NES. I remember getting Super Mario Bros 3 for christmas one year and so did many of my friends at school, who all lived in semi-detached two-bedroom homes or masonettes. So, we weren’t in a wealthy bubble or anything. I’m sure it sold multiple millions of copies in the UK and TV shows like GamesMaster were popular and had NES games on a show watched by a pretty big audience. How old were you when it released that you’ve never seen one in the flesh?
by hyperhello | 2026-02-28 18:53:11+00:00
> For years, you’ve sat in front of a rectangle, moving tinier rectangles, only to learn that AI can now move those rectangles 10x better.

In response to this I would say that being in the industry comes with a lot of learned role-playing, and if you are no longer happy role-playing your job in one way, throw it entirely out and find a new path.
by adammarples | 2026-02-28 18:53:27+00:00
If the prompt is the compass, and represents a point in space, why walk there? Why not just go to that point in image space directly, what would be there? When does the random seed matter if you're aiming at the same point anyway, don't you end up there? Does the prompt vector not exist in the image manifold, or is there some local sampling done to pick images which are more represented in the training data?
by thisislife2 | 2026-02-28 18:53:41+00:00
That's just simplistic western propaganda. Sporadic protests, nationwide or otherwise, don't mean anything unless they are backed by long-term-opposition with strong grass-roots and singular political goals. Iran's regime remains strong and stable - it controls all the political institutions, it controls the civilian government at the local level, it controls the religious / cultural institutions, it controls the military and it has substantial support from the people. Why do you think Israel or the US isn't sending boots to the ground? Apart from the official military, the IRGC has a voluntary civil force, that can be armed by the Iranian military, in every district - if Israel or US send their soldiers to Iran, they will face a very brutal urban warfare with a high death toll.
by Lvl999Noob | 2026-02-28 18:53:49+00:00
I noticed a major problem. If I just keep writing in a single paragraph, the lines don't disappear. I was expecting it to automatically start fading the text once it reached 3-4 lines. As it is, I am afraid of adding new paragraphs because then I would 'lose' what I already wrote.

Edit: adding, it's also surprisingly... slow? I noticed some lag as I moved my mouse around. I don't know if it's because of the website or my browser (firefox) or my OS (Ubuntu) but I don't believe there's any reason for lag here so something should be fixed.

My autocorrect also didn't work. I did get the red squiggles on a misspelling but no suggestions on right click. Again, not sure if it's something wrong with the website or something with my setup (it works fine on other sites).
by gopher_space | 2026-02-28 18:53:58+00:00
I've had some luck creating tiny skills that produce summaries. E.g. a current TASK.md is generated from a milestone in PLAN.md, and when work is checked in STATUS.md and README.md are regenerated as needed. AGENTS.md is minimal and shrinking as I spread instructions out to the tools.

Part of my CI process when creating skills involves setting token caps and comparing usage rates with and without the skill.
by dannymi | 2026-02-28 18:53:59+00:00
I'm only using NanoClaw, but I like that I could (and did) just review the code it has, and that it uses containers for each agent (so I can have different WhatsApp groups working on different things and they can't interfere with each other), and that I could (and did) just swap those containers out easily for guix shell containers.

I am pretty confident that I know how the agent containerization works. In general there's really not a lot of complexity there at all.

If one wants, one can just (ask Claude to) add whatever functionality, or (and that's what I did) just use Claude skills (without adapting NanoClaw any further) and be done with.

What is annoying is that their policy is instead of integrating extra functionality upstream, they prefer you to keep it for yourself. That means I have to either not update from upstream or I am the king of the (useless so far--just rearranging the deck chairs) merge conflicts every single time. So one of the main reasons for contributing to upstream is gone and you keep having to re-integrate stuff into your fork.
by ltpajh | 2026-02-28 18:54:08+00:00
To summarize all nepotism indicators posted here by various people:

- The Kushner family has invested in OpenAI.

- OpenAI uses Oracle cloud. Ellison is close to Trump.

- Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan (the “spy sheikh") has invested $500 million in World Liberty and is also invested in OpenAI.

- Altman is a protege of Thiel, whose Palantir integrates the external AI at the Pentagon.

- The scam occurs right before the Iran war starts. The Groq sale scam (where Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital bought shares just months before the sale) occurred right before Christmas. So both were timed to be overshadowed by larger events or holidays.
by ruszki | 2026-02-28 18:54:26+00:00
I met a coder, who has several self made programming languages, and I would never allow him anywhere near any codebases for which I'm responsible. So writing a Lisp dialect, is not something which makes you a good coder for sure. Even as a junior you can do that. Making it good, and be able to really reason for choices is a different story. I've never seen any good new reasoning from Graham like for example how Dan Abramov do all the time. They are not even close, and definitely not in favor of Graham.
by rayiner | 2026-02-28 18:54:34+00:00
What's missing here is the complex network of alliances that led to WWI. The Iranian regime has alienated virtually everyone, including many of its Muslim neighbors. Nor is the regime part of some overarching international movement, like the communist countries were. Who is going to lift a finger to help Iran?

I'm not supportive of these strikes. Iranians created this government, and if they want to topple it they'll have to be the ones to do it, without foreign intervention.
by xp84 | 2026-02-28 18:54:42+00:00
Have you tried StrongBox? It uses standard KeePass vaults and covers the Apple platforms, sync the file with whatever you like and use any KeePass client for Android, Windows, and others. Strongbox is $25/year, but has a trial. If I remember correctly, the Windows and Android clients I chose are both free (of cost).

Note: no affiliation with the developer, I just discovered it from a post similar to this, having never heard of it, and thought your needs sounded similar to mine.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-28 18:55:37+00:00
This sounds a little bit like rkt? Which trims output from other CLI applications like git, find and the most common tools used by Claude. This looks like it goes a little further which is interesting.

I see some of these AI companies adopting some of these ideas sooner or later. Trim the tokens locally to save on token usage.

https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-28 18:56:03+00:00
You're not wrong in principle, but you've made some specific extraordinary claims. If you're really that productive, generating useful work product at a rate of 20 kloc/day, people would pay just to learn how you're doing it!

Y'all dunked on me in 2019 when I said AI was coming for Hollywood. Have you seen Seedance 2.0?

Being right at the wrong time is often worse than just being outright wrong, I've found.
by dgoldstein0 | 2026-02-28 18:56:11+00:00
My take, as an American: the outcome seems to be good - Maduro is out of power, his number 2 seems much more willing to play ball and from what I've read Venezuela's economy is now improving as money flowing in has turned around their previously out of control inflation. It managed to not flare into a full scale war, no Americans died - so I think approval is middle to high on it.

That said the justification for it made no sense to me and many others. Trump accused Maduro of narcoterrorism - profiting from the drug trade and violence. Where's the evidence? And the whole bit about the oil ... Usually that's the critique of US actions, not the reason we give; we should be moving full speed towards adopting renewables so an oil grab really doesn't make sense. Though Trump's energy policy has always been entirely backwards.

And we should probably also worry about the example we've set - that we'll just intervene when it suits us with a cooked up justification certainly incentivizes dangerous behavior - how many countries are now thinking about the deterrents they could acquire? But most Americans don't think about unintended consequences of laws or government actions.

One last thought re oil - the smart move would probably be to invest in Venezuelan oil not for sale in the US but for export to India and maybe Europe - try to use it as a replacement for Russian oil. That would in turn hurt Russia's economy and thereby reduce their efforts to wage war in Ukraine. But if that's the plan, Trump has never said that. And it also doesn't really fit his worldview that the Ukraine war should be Europe's problem and not the US's problem. But maybe it'll end up happening anyway, if Venezuela's oil production picks up and the US doesn't actually have the demand for it.
by samwillis | 2026-02-28 18:56:40+00:00
Have you considered doing property tests with Mathematica as an oracle?

An ai based development workflow with a concrete oracle works very well. You still need the research and planing to solve things in a scalable way, but it solves the "are the tests correct" issue.

What we've done is pull out failing property tests as a unit tests, makes regression testing during the agentic coding loop much more efficient.
by salawat | 2026-02-28 18:56:51+00:00
Folks; there isn't a geopolity agnostic equivalent of incorporation. There is no Anthropic without that grant of incorporation. Even if they wanted to take the most principled stance, they can only push so far, and to have a system that is incompatible with operating a mass surveillance network, it has to be capable of monitoring itself to recognize whether it has been configured in such a way as it's activity is aligned to the activity of mass surveillance. You'd have to build the mass surveillance oracle, which is in and of itself, a mass surveillance machine.
by mlsu | 2026-02-28 18:56:52+00:00
Prediction markets have only events whose outcome is eventually publically resolved, by design. With insider trading, the trader is incentivized to release the information as late as possible, as close as possible to the events.

Why are these big insider bets being placed within hours of the event actually occurring? The insiders are doing the equivalent of bid sniping — waiting until the last possible moment to exercise.

This is how inside info works in trading markets in general. And again this is inevitable and by design.

It also makes them largely useless, because the timeline for which useful position is shared is compressed to the point where nothing useful can be gleaned from the information.

The thing is a “lie incentiviser” — a market entirely for suckers. That’s why 95% of volume is sports betting.

That’s setting aside insider positions having an influence on the outcome of events which is a whole separate problem.
by skydhash | 2026-02-28 18:56:58+00:00
The usual person that believe in the trope is the one that wants something with short-term budget, but with long-term quality. Lot of engineers know the triangle of budget-scope-time. But a lot of managers want to have the cake and eat it too. When they ask to reduce time and the budget and the engineer ask what to reduce in the scope, they get all vague and shifty.
by Gliding7682 | 2026-02-28 18:56:58+00:00
I like this phrase from the post you shared:

> A species that cannot follow the reasoning of its own systems does not supervise them; it simply inhabits them until they stop working.

I feel this idea is closely related to additive bias. People are scared of breaking things, so the safest way is to just add another tiny part to an already complex system. As cognitive debt accumulates faster, this additive bias just becomes stronger imo.
by Onavo | 2026-02-28 18:57:31+00:00
Very good points. Though to be pedantic, for package managers with concurrent/diamond dependencies support, there's nothing stopping you from pulling in every single dependency of every dependency (this is ~linear time with respect to the depth dependency tree, since you are not conducting any search here but just pulling them in at face value), and maybe deduplicating in linear/constant time with a Set data structure. In this case it's it's very obviously not a SAT problem, but it's ridiculously inefficient since there's zero optimization on the dependency tree. The moment you apply optimizations on it to turn it into a graph from a tree and prune it gets closer to, yes, a SAT problem.
by rubslopes | 2026-02-28 18:58:03+00:00
Ha! Just yesterday I set up a git repo to sync my Obsidian vault with my Ubuntu VPS for LLM use. Part of me wishes this had come out one day sooner, though honestly, I've grown to like the git workflow. The deal-breaker is mobile: it just doesn't play nicely there, so I'll keep using native sync for that.
by nz | 2026-02-28 18:58:07+00:00
The vast majority of workplaces have never cared about code quality (with the exception being the actual engineers that write the code). Everyone else has no clue what programmers do, other than, "they write arcane symbols, and our product works, and our business continues to function". They do not know that code can even _have_ quality. It does not help that they only ever have to interact with engineering when something is going _wrong_, which conditions them to associate engineers with stress and failure and angry customers. Nobody ever thinks of engineers when everything is going well. The LLM mandates stem from a combination of mistrust and resentment.

I know, from second hand experience, that long before coding LLMs became a thing, engineers would ship slop when it became clear that their superiors cared about deadlines uber alles (i.e. not shipping slop would be the same thing as quitting, but without the paycheck -- slop code is often a form of quiet quitting).

Most people would _prefer_ to be able to "program" their entire business from a spreadsheet. LLMs have enabled them to get involved, and they cannot understand why engineers reject this "help" (it is for the same reason that a pilot would reject a copilot that thinks he knows how to fly because he played a flight simulator or read Jonathan Livingston Seagull; flight simulators are used in training too, but they are not a substitute for actual piloting experience). This refusal and resistance feeds into the mistrust and resentment. We live in a world where managers and administrators do not understand what they are managing and administrating, nor do they think that this is part of their job description. In the worst cases, they believe their job is to extract compliance from their subordinates.

There is a _lot_ of alpha in being part of a company, where authorities understand how the internals of the business (including software and IT!) _actually_ function. (One engineer told me that clueless yet demanding managers are, for all intents and purposes, unwitting saboteurs, and that the best a company can do about this is get him a job interview at a competitor). In some sense, the economy is just a machine for transferring wealth from those who do not know something essential, to those who do know something essential. This can veer uncomfortably close to exploitation. If we want to avoid crossing that line, we need to cultivate an economy where a lack of understanding is not seen as an _opportunity for profit_, but rather _as an opportunity for illumination_.