MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JamesTRexx | 2026-02-19 19:21:27+00:00
That's one of the things I like about C, the independence in how one can write code. I was able to develop my own style thanks to that, visualising the structure of the code to distinguish the different parts of statements and make it more clear (at least to myself).

(edited several times to try to correct changes in formatting for an example here, but it's just screwed up :-/ )
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-19 19:21:52+00:00
No, my then fiance/now wife and I canceled our wedding we had planned, and went to the courthouse and got married six months earlier so I could get on her insurance.

Also, just so happen I did end up in the hospital three weeks later because something happened that affected my breathing for an entire year.

And how do you “go back to work” if the entire reason you need to go back to work is that you have a health condition?

If you haven’t checked, jobs aren’t that easy to come by quickly in 2026 in tech like they use to be. Sure I could find someone to give me a contract if not hire me full time - but we are still back to not having insurance .

The US messing up insurance on the open market is the concern and it being back like it was pre ACA. That only affects the unemployed under 65.

As far as being between jobs - usually you can get COBRA for a limited amount of time - not an option for FIRE.

Oh yeah, that brings up another point, I did pay for COBRA for two months back then. The contract I had paid more than enough to afford it. Then the acquiring company shut down their insurance plan and COBRA wasn’t even an option
by nerdjon | 2026-02-19 19:22:30+00:00
> "Tie-in sale": the business practice where a seller conditions the sale of one product (the tying good) on the buyer’s agreement to purchase a different product (the tied good)

I will keep my response to this part in particular limited because I have limited understanding of this law. However based on doing a little bit of searching around the law is not as cut and dry as you are presenting it to be. It is possible that Claude code would fall under being fine under that law or no one has gone after them. I honestly don’t know and I don’t feel like having an argument that it is highly likely both of us don’t fully understand the law.

That being said I do question how exactly “Claude code” differs from those services as a digital good.

> I don't care about Claude Code. I do not want it and do not need it. All I care about is the access to the models through the client that I was already using!

OK! That is not what you’re paying for as part of Claude Pro, end of story. You are not paying for the API. It is no different that the people that have a free plan and can only chat through the web and the app also don’t get access to the API even though it is obviously using an API to access those endpoints as well.

Or are you also going to argue that free users should have access to the API because they are already using them in the browser.

> No, it is not! I paid for Claude Pro. Claude != Claude Code.

Claude Code is one of the features you are paying for as part of Claude Pro so yes in a way you are paying for it. And again not on that list is the API.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-19 19:22:39+00:00
Fujsitsu also does SPARC, and contrary to HP-UX, people still do buy Solaris.

EDIT:

https://www.oracle.com/servers/sparc/

https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/servers/un...

Finally, it is up to Intel and AMD to come up with hardware memory tagging, so far they have messed up all attempts, with MPX being the last short lived one.
by rtfeldman | 2026-02-19 19:22:47+00:00
Wow, this is one of the most surprising comments I've ever read on HN!

Personally, I bucket C++ and Rust and Swift under "basically the same syntax." When I think about major syntax differences, I'm thinking about things like Python's significant indentation, Ruby's `do` and `end` instead of curly braces, Haskell's whitespace-based function calls, Lisp's paren placement, APL's symbols, etc.

Before today I would have assumed that anyone who was fine with C++ or Rust or Swift syntax would be fine with the other two, but TIL this point exists in the preference space!
by threecheese | 2026-02-19 19:23:03+00:00
Edit: this is a ridiculous question, I know. Trying to eat my dogfood so to speak

Does Tailscale maintain an q&a agent, mcp, or llms.txt that anyone is aware of?

I’m trying to use Tailscale across my personal networks - without investing a lot of time - and so I’m throwing agents at it. It’s not going well, primarily because their tools/interfaces have been changing a lot, and so tool calls fail (ex ‘tailscale serve —xyz’ is now ‘tailscale funnel ABC’ and needs manual approval, and that’s not in the training set).
by verdverm | 2026-02-19 19:23:07+00:00
For my custom agentic coding setup, I use Claude Code derived prompts with Gemini models, primarily flash. It's night and day compared to Google's own agentic products, which are all really bad.

The models are all close enough on the benchmarks and I think people are attributing too much difference in the agentic space to the model itself. I strongly believe the difference is in all the other stuff, which is why Antropic is far ahead of the competition. They have done great work with Claude Code, Cowork, and their knowledge share through docs & blog, bar none on this last point imo.
by aatd86 | 2026-02-19 19:23:09+00:00
You will probably have time related free credits for AI usage.
The more you sell stuff that are in demand and ship fast, the higher price you can command.
Otherwise you just get basic income.
People will have to be creative. Creativity doesn't scale to machines. Creative decision making has too many branches.

So time based costs for product manufacturing and procurement.

Everyone will barter again in a sense.

Better money circulation. Those who just want entertainment can also do nothing. But entertainment will be a more important field. Already the case with tiktok, everyone is becoming an interntainer(sic) these days.

You have things such as the police olympics so to speak in the UAE...
:)

So coaching people, personal improvement, wellness, will be good fields to be in.
by taude | 2026-02-19 19:23:36+00:00
Here's AI responding to you:

"You're describing the default output, and you're right — it's bad. But that's like judging a programming language by its tutorial examples.

The actual skill is in the prompting, editing, and knowing when to throw the output away entirely. I use LLMs daily for technical writing and the first draft is almost never the final product. It's a starting point I can reshape faster than staring at a blank page.

The real problem isn't that AI can't produce concise, precise writing — it's that most people accept the first completion and hit send. That's a user problem, not a tool problem."
by throawayonthe | 2026-02-19 19:23:40+00:00
[re: page 40 NTP-over-HTTP] ooh i've heard of this! it's being used in real life by Whonix (sdwdate) and Tails (tails-htp/htpdate)

https://www.kicksecure.com/wiki/Sdwdate
https://tails.net/contribute/design/Time_syncing/
by cpcloud | 2026-02-19 19:23:50+00:00
Probably right. My brain is probably stuck in old-man spreadsheet land and I did not explore any new horizons that might have obviated micasa. That said, I also didn't want to invest a bunch of time in developing a domain specific app using spreadsheets as the API, I wanted to invest a bunch of time developing a domain specific app using AI. Might end up being a choice I regret!
by kouru225 | 2026-02-19 19:23:52+00:00
This issue exists in art and I want to push back a little. There has always been automation in art even at the most micro level.

Take for example (an extreme example) the paintbrush. Do you care where each bristle lands? No of course not. The bristles land randomly on the canvas, but it’s controlled chaos. The cumulative effect of many bristles landing on a canvas is a general feel or texture. This is an extreme example, but the more you learn about art the more you notice just how much art works via unintentional processes like this. This is why the Trickster Gods, Hermes for example, are both the Gods of art (lyre, communication, storytelling) and the Gods of randomness/fortune.

We used to assume that we could trust the creative to make their own decisions about how much randomness/automation was needed. The quality of the result was proof of the value of a process: when Max Ernst used frottage (rubbing paper over textured surfaces) to create interesting surrealist art, we retroactively re-evaluated frottage as a tool with artistic value, despite its randomness/unintentionality.

But now we’re in a time where people are doing the exact opposite: they find a creative result that they value, but they retroactively devalue it if it’s not created by a process that they consider artistic. Coincidentally, these same people think the most “artistic” process is the most intentional one. They’re rejecting any element of creativity that’s systemic, and therefore rejecting any element of creativity that has a complexity that rivals nature (nature being the most systemic and unintentional art.)

The end result is that the creative has to hide their process. They lie about how they make their art, and gatekeep the most valuable secrets. Their audiences become prey for creative predators. They idolize the art because they see it as something they can’t make, but the truth is there’s always a method by which the creative is cheating. It’s accessible to everyone.
by _3u10 | 2026-02-19 19:23:56+00:00
Oddly the countries that don’t do this have far better outcomes.

Imagine being allowed to have a beer outside, or after 2 am, oh the humanity. Surely such a society would devolve immediately into chaos.

What if the government wasn’t meant to be a strange parent that let you kill your kids but felt having a beer outside was too much freedom. It might just lead to being the happiest country on earth.
by dmonitor | 2026-02-19 19:23:57+00:00
Minor tweaks are still a mod. Gameplay overhaul modpacks that turn the game into Factorio are definitely the a small minority of the playerbase, but anyone who knows better plays with at least some sort of client-side performance mod (Optifine, Lithium, etc), and that's been true since before 1.0.

Etho's dedication to keeping a purely vanilla singleplayer world is a unique feat. If you want to use Hermitcraft as an example of the median SMP, their modlist is actually quite large: https://github.com/henkelmax/hermitcraft-server

Minecraft simply has a lot of areas for improvement that haven't been touched by Mojang for one reason or another, and a big reason why people stick with Java is because the community has built an ecosystem to tweak the game to their liking.
by mijoharas | 2026-02-19 19:24:02+00:00
gemini-2.5-pro has a listed shutdown date of "June 17, 2026" in the linked table.

(Another commenter pointed out that this is the earliest shutdown date and it won't necessarily be shut down on that date).

Where are you getting sept/Oct from? I see gemini-2.5-flash-image in October, but everything else looks like June/July to me?
by thomasmg | 2026-02-19 19:24:24+00:00
Yes. The problem is that most memory errors (out of bounds + use after free etc.) result in a vulnerability. Only a minority of the logic errors do.

For operating systems kernels, browsers etc, vulnerabilities have a much, much bigger impact than logic errors: vulnerabilities need to be fixed immediately, and released immediately. Most logic errors don't need to be fixed immediately (sure, it depends on the issue, and on the type of software.)

I would probably say "for memory unsafe languages, 80% of the _impact_ is due to memory vulnerabilities"
by ossa-ma | 2026-02-19 19:24:30+00:00
I agree with the risks. However the primary goal of the site is educational not accusatory. I mostly want people to be able to recognise these patterns.

The WIP features measure breadth and density of these tropes, and each trope has frequency thresholds. Also I don't use AI to identify AI writing to avoid accusatory hallucinations.

I do appreciate the feedback though and will take it into consideration.
by nmz | 2026-02-19 19:24:38+00:00
To this day, FPC uses less ram than any C compiler, A good thing in today's increasingly ramless world and they've managed this with way less developers working on it than its C compiler equivalent, I can't even imagine what it would look like if they had the same amount of people working on it. C optimization tricks are hacks, the fact godbolt exists is proof that C is not meant to be optimizable at all, it is brute force witchcraft.

At a certain point though, something's gotta give, the compiler can do guesswork, but it should do no more, if you have to add more metadata then so be it it's certainly less tedious than putting pragmas and _____ everywhere, some C code just looks like the writings of an insane person.
by Refreeze5224 | 2026-02-19 19:24:54+00:00
> The boring parts where you learn.

Exactly this. Finding that annoying bug that took 15 browser tabs and digging deep into some library you're using, digging into where your code is not performant, looking for alternative algorithms or data structures to do something, this is where learning and experience happen. This is why you don't hire a new grad for a senior role, they have not had time to bang their heads on enough problems.

You get no sense of how or why when using AI to crank something out for you. Your boss doesn't care about either, he cares about shipping and profits, which is the true goal of AI. You are an increasingly unimportant cog in that process.
by Macha | 2026-02-19 19:25:44+00:00
> Agentic workflows are a VERY small percentage of all LLM usage at the moment. As that market becomes more important, Google will pour more resources into it.

I do wonder what percentage of revenue they are. I expect it's very outsized relative to usage (e.g. approximately nobody who is receiving them is paying for those summaries at the top of search results)
by overgard | 2026-02-19 19:25:47+00:00
Well, think of it this way. You could make a meal out of healthy, fresh, whole foods cooked expertly. Or you could give someone a bag of Doritos. Nobody on "My 600lb Life" got there because they were eating great food. They were eating a lot of bad food that doesn't fire satiety signals in their head.

Addictive and Good are not exactly the same thing -- something can be objectively good and not addictive, and vice versa.
by burnte | 2026-02-19 19:26:30+00:00
The instant we bound encrypted connections with identity we failed. And decades later we're still living with the mistake.

I'm completely serious when we need to abandon the ID verification part of certificates. That's an entirely separate problem from encryption protocol. An encryption protocol needs absolutely no expiration date, it's useful until it's broken, and no one can predict that. Identity should be verified in a separate path.
by skrtskrt | 2026-02-19 19:27:13+00:00
> The magnitude of the investment also probably makes it impractical for anyone but the very wealthy to retire before that starts paying out...

But they can pull out for housing right? That's an enormous portion of most people's expenses. If I didn't have to worry about housing, I could be living large on less than half of my salary, I would certainly semi-retire at least.
by kazinator | 2026-02-19 19:27:18+00:00
Other reasons are:

- what they want is there but not explained or presented in a way that clicks for them

- something is there that they don't want

The latter would be a "WONTFIX". The former is a major difficulty because presenting the same ideas in umpteen ways adds bulk without significant content. If you have the same ideas from every possible angle, it becomes search problem for the reader quickly turning into a TL;DR.
Show HN: Matrix OS – An AI operating system where Claude is the kernel
by hamedmp | 2026-02-19 19:27:19+00:00
Matrix OS is an AI-native operating system: self-creating, self-healing, and self-expanding.

The Claude Agent SDK is the literal kernel:

CPU => Claude Opus 4.6
RAM => Context window (1M tokens)
Kernel => Main agent + 26 IPC tools
Processes => 5 sub-agents
Disk => ~/apps, ~/data, ~/system
Syscalls => Read, Write, Edit, Bash
Drivers => MCP servers
IPC => File coordination

Break something, the healer agent repairs it. Need a new capability, the OS writes its own agents and skills. Describe an app, it appears as a file you own.

The bigger vision is Web 4: OS + messaging + social + AI + identity, unified under one federated handle via Matrix protocol.

GitHub: github.com/HamedMP/matrix-os
Whitepaper: matrix-os.com/whitepaper

Happy to answer questions about the architecture.
by malux85 | 2026-02-19 19:27:21+00:00
In this case its about showing good judgement. Good judgement is putting the unity of the group above your own petty rivalries, when all the group is asking you to do is hold hands for a photo.

If he holds hands for the photo, it is not going to materially change whether OpenAI outperforms Anthropic or vice versa, but what it shows is a certain level of maturity - Im mature enough to understand the situation here is the projection of ultimate unity, of a greater mission that humanity is all here together, even though our system puts us in competition with each other, and for a moment, I will show that (just like everyone else standing here) I can rise above it, and hold hands for a photo.

It's not a big ask in a physical sense, but its an appeal to the wisdom that ultimately we are all on the same team together on this little floating rock, and maybe, just maybe, for a tiny second, it would be good to acknowledge that.
by znnajdla | 2026-02-19 19:27:45+00:00
“Let it crash” doesn’t mean keep bashing your head against the wall. Elixir makes it easy to write state machines which reason about different types of failures, but it’s more declarative (this process requires X and Y preconditions, otherwise do Z) rather than imperative (I have to try/catch failures due to X and Y, now do Z). With Elixir you can actually specify that the process doesn’t start until the DB connection is ready, if that was the cause of the failure, it won’t start again (something else can take care of the DB). When the LLM API returns an error you can put the agent in a paused “errored” state and then you can have a different process decide what to do with the error, and pass it back to the main agent when it’s done. This is all really elegant functional code in Elixir compared to try/catches and if statements.
by zinodaur | 2026-02-19 19:28:03+00:00
Using AI to write your code doesn't mean you have to let your code suck, or not think about the problem domain.

I review all the code Claude writes and I don't accept it unless I'm happy with it. My coworkers review it too, so there is real social pressure to make sure it doesn't suck. I still make all the important decisions (IO, consistency, style) - the difference is I can try it out 5 different ways and pick whichever one I like best, rather than spending hours on my first thought, realizing I should have done it differently once I can see the finished product, but shipping it anyways because the tickets must flow.

The vibe coding stuff still seems pretty niche to me though - AI is still too dumb to vibe code anything that has consequences, unless you can cheat with a massive externally defined test suite, or an oracle you know is correct
by latexr | 2026-02-19 19:28:09+00:00
> I think I can observe the world and my relative state therein, no?

Yes, to an extent. You can, for example, evaluate if you’re sensitive or courageous or hard working. But some things do not concern only you, they necessitate another person, such as being interesting or friendly or generous.

A good heuristic might be “what could I not say about myself if I were the only living being on Earth?”. You can still be sensitive or hard working if you’re alone, but you can’t be friendly because there’s no one else to be friendly to.

Technically you could bore yourself, but in practice that’s something you do to other people. Furthermore, it is highly subjective, a D&D dungeon master will be unbearably boring to some, and infinitely interesting to others.

> I know I am unfortunately less ambitious, driven and outgoing than others

I disagree those automatically make someone boring.

I also disagree with LLMs improving your situation. For someone to find you interesting, they have to know what makes you tick. If what you have to share is limited by what everyone else can get (by querying an LLM), that is boring.
by al_borland | 2026-02-19 19:28:21+00:00
When I have true contempt for something, I find in quite easy to quit.

There are things I am likely addicted to that I don’t like. I wish I didn’t do them and could stop, but I don’t have contempt for them. I have contempt for social media and even tell my own mother I won’t join when she tells me it would make her so happy if I was on Facebook.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-19 19:28:27+00:00
This was the funniest / most evil testimony I’ve seen, in any case, in a while.

Couldn’t find it in a quick skim in this article, but, he testified they don’t care about increasing user engagement (absolute lie, increasing use is goal #1 and there’s always a lead OKR tied to it), and they kept pulling up emails re: it, up to and including 2024.
by JohnMakin | 2026-02-19 19:28:41+00:00
I compare it to a project I worked on when I was very junior a very long time ago - I built by hand this complicated harness of scripts to deploy VM's on bare metal and do stuff like create customizable, on-the-fly test environments for the devs on my team. It worked fine, but it was a massive time sink, lots of code, and was extremely difficult to maintain and could have weird behavior or bad assumptions quite often.

I made it because at that point in my career I simply didn't know that ansible existed, or cloud solutions that were very cheap to do the same thing. I spent a crazy amount of effort doing something that ansible probably could have done for me in an afternoon. That's what sometimes these projects feel like to me. It's kind of like a solution looking for a problem a lot of the time.

I just scanned through the front page of the show HN page and quickly eyeballed several of these type of things.
by wtallis | 2026-02-19 19:29:23+00:00
As I recall, the PPC machines (like the Power Mac G5) never had EFI of any kind, and the early Intel Macs (including the Mac Pro) all had 32-but EFI even after the processors went 64-bit. I don't recall any of those Macs ever being switched from 32-bit EFI to 64-bit (U)EFI with a firmware update, or vice versa. It was a bit of a pain point because Linux was not initially ready to run a 64-bit kernel on top of 32-bit EFI, but that got resolved on the Linux side and I don't recall anything about Apple's firmware updates making that harder.
by dmonitor | 2026-02-19 19:29:32+00:00
Ironically, it was originally built to support Android phones.

Pocket Edition was a stripped down version of the game to support the xperia play, so it was built for optimization from the start. Later it got support for broader Android devices and iOS, while Mojang outsourced console development to 4J studios. Eventually, they decided to beef up Pocket Edition to be mostly feature complete with Java, renamed it Bedrock, and made it the de facto standard for all devices, sunsetting 4J's port.
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by anarhackist | 2026-02-19 19:29:53+00:00
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