MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by casey2 | 2026-02-11 09:29:09+00:00
Humans have been around for millions of years, only a few thousand of which they've spend reading and writing. For most of that time you are lucky if you can understand what your neighbor is saying.

If we consider humans with the same anatomy the numbers are
~300,000
~50,000 for language
~6,000 for writing
~100 for standardized education

The "end of your humanity" already happened when anybody could make up good and evil irrespective of emotions to advance some nation
by koliber | 2026-02-11 09:29:49+00:00
Am I getting Steve's point? It's a bit like what happened with the agricultural revolution.

A long time ago, food took effort to find, and calories were expensive.
Then we had a breakthrough in cost/per/calories.
We got fat, because we can not moderate our food intake. It is killing us.

A long time ago, coding took effort, and programmer productivity was expensive.
Then we had a breakthrough in cost/per/feature.
Now we are exhausted, because we can not moderate our energy and attention expenditure. It is killing us.
by redhale | 2026-02-11 09:30:00+00:00
There is no such command, according to the docs [0]. /s

I continue to find it painfully ironic that the Claude Code team is unable to leverage their deep expertise and unlimited token budget to keep the docs even close to up-to-date automatically. Either that or they have decided accurate docs aren't important.

[0] https://code.claude.com/docs/en/interactive-mode#built-in-co...
by dariagurevich | 2026-02-11 09:30:02+00:00
Me and my team at Skala have built a growing collection of legal workflows ready to plug into any AI agent.

These skills let you package expert legal logic — not just prompts, but structured workflows — so an AI agent can run them reliably, every time.

There are skills for document generation and review (NDA, SAFE, etc.), due diligence, seed round advice, and more. The results are far better than a generic chatbot reply.
by frm88 | 2026-02-11 09:31:26+00:00
Needs citation for your argument. All I read today on this subject claims the contrary:

"Associations between number of children, age at becoming a parent, and dementia risk were similar for both sexes. Lifestyle and socioeconomic factors are more likely to explain the observed associations than normal pregnancy-related physiological changes."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9976501/
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-02-11 09:31:29+00:00
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_... -- initiated by France and Britain, proving that NATO is not a "defensive military alliance"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia -- another offensive "humanitarian" action

By withdrawing from NATO and pulling our military bases out of Europe, it becomes more difficult for the US to "intervene" in the Middle East at the pleasure of Middle Eastern interests.

Furthermore, if Russia invades more countries in Europe, I don't want the US to "intervene" with yet another "humanitarian" operation.

We can slash the size of our military and spend that money at home on healthcare, debt reduction, etc.
by Lorkki | 2026-02-11 09:31:51+00:00
At their best they had an exceptional amount of demoscene / game development content overall, as well as several full (usually "previous") versions of various creative software like 3D modeling or photo editing apps.

Later on with the Internet biting into the cover disk magazines, they started to steadily fall towards the lowest common denominator and shift to the gamer lad segment. But I wouldn't have had as much fun with computers if it wasn't for a subscription back in the day. Thanks for the reminder.
by aenis | 2026-02-11 09:31:51+00:00
I am not sure its super toxic. Does anyone take this stuff seriously?

Its a bunch of people virtue signalling, writing cringeworthy pieces on their ground breaking ideas on leveraging AI, stuff like this can't possibly be read by anyone with an above-room-temperature IQ, no? LinkedIn can reliably be used as a high functioning moron detector.

I mean, if there are people doom scrolling linkedin, they need help.
by juanre | 2026-02-11 09:32:11+00:00
I’m in Steve’s demographic, showing similar symptoms, and I’m as worried as he is about how we’re going to cope.

It’s a matter of opportunity cost. It used to be that when I rested for an hour, I lost an hour of output. Now, when I rest for an hour, I lose what used to be a day of output.

I need to rewire my brain and learn how to split the difference. There’s no point in producing a lot of output if I don’t have time to live.

The idea that you’ll get to enjoy the spoils when you grow up is false. You won’t. Just produce 5x and take some time off every day. You may even be more likely to reflect, and end up producing the right thing.
by Scaevolus | 2026-02-11 09:32:17+00:00
Many engineers get paid a lot of money to write low-complexity code gluing things together and tweaking features according to customer requirements.

When the difficulty of a task is neatly encompassed in a 200 word ticket and the implementation lacks much engineering challenge, AI can pretty reliably write the code-- mediocre code for mediocre challenges.

A huge fraction of the software economy runs on CRUD and some business logic. There just isn't much complexity inherent in any of the feature sets.
by SenHeng | 2026-02-11 09:32:19+00:00
I've found used snowboarding gear is best for when you need to muck around in the snow.

Mittens keep your fingers warm while still letting you handle stuff like shovels and grab at things. You can dig through snow in mittens.

Used snowboard boots tend to be fairly water proof, soft enough that you can walk in them, hard enough that you won't stub your toes and are fairly good at keeping the snow out.

Snowboard pants and jackets are both water _and_ wind proof to keep the weather out. They're baggy so your movement is not restricted. They also have a million pockets so you can carry stuff. Jackets usually have a hoodie so you can put on headphones.

When shovelling snow, don't use a shovel. Use a snow scoop. Push instead of lifting. If you have to use a shovel, use something metallic that easily slices through snow, then push them out of the way with the scoop. Don't lift.

Or get a snow blower.

If your city plows your streets, clear the snow onto the streets just as the plower passes by your house. Then you don't have to get rid of the snow yourself.
by hebrides | 2026-02-11 09:32:35+00:00
>With a 10x boost, if you give an engineer Claude Code, then once they’re fluent, their work stream will produce nine additional engineers’ worth of value.

I keep hearing about this 10x productivity, but where is it materializing? Most developers at my company use Claude Code, but we don't seem to be shipping new features at ten times the rate. In fact, tickets still take roughly the same amount of time to complete.
by shswkna | 2026-02-11 09:33:02+00:00
In this response, I detect the typical European tendency of elevating risk over opportunity.

This is not meant as a personal attack, or meant to be defamatory. I am detecting a familiar pattern, that is entrenched culturally.

Further, I identify this cultural trait as one of the obstacles or reason for many European problems.

It’s an opinion I have.
by larodi | 2026-02-11 09:33:35+00:00
It's real and I've been telling all the people around me who get vested in this sort of exponential growth, to be very wary of the impeding burnout, which spares no soul hungry to get high on information. getting high on information is now a thing, it is not cyberpunk fiction anymore, and burnout is a real threat - VR or not. perhaps one can burn out on tiktok these days.
by metalman | 2026-02-11 09:33:57+00:00
It is not food that they sell.
What is on grocerie store shelves, are calorie units that have been adulterated for profit, the most toxic ingredient in all of it is, media.
And media has an absolute power to supply demand, and has long operated in world detached from reality.
The most egregious display is when a "food" products label, advertises itself, as bieng new packaging going so far as to base whole advertising campains on this.
The unfortunate conclusion is that anyone who consumes this glop is going to suffer negative consiquences.
Our world's biggest conspiracy, is working very very hard to not know, and pretend that there is a wide open "economy of sin", little indulgences that we ignore in each other or offer appologies on behalf of.
Having followed this subject since childhood , and seeing the direct 1:1 negative and almost imediate relationship between consumption of factory food and my physical well bieng, and the dramatic improvements from rejecting all factory food as an absolute practice I am totaly dedicated to maintaining a diet of whole, real, foods.
And lets say for argument that my experience is psycosymatic and has no real basis, then I spend a bit more time cooking than the average person, and eat a lot of good food that does not cost me much cash.
by chrisjj | 2026-02-11 09:34:38+00:00
There is no such societal change except this pressure itself. A plastic card is affordable, accessible, private, and easy to use for just about everyone. Smartphone not.

> Also to say, cash remains. That's more radical

?!

> and effective as a fall back than a card which one can lose.

Cash loos is a thing, actually. Plus cash is more attractive for theft.
by ChicagoDave | 2026-02-11 09:35:04+00:00
Checkpoints are not granular enough. You have to grab a work summary before the context window closes, not when you decide to commit. I have thousands of work summaries from one project alone. I use them to traverse sessions.

This is the agent that does the work: https://github.com/ChicagoDave/devarch/blob/main/docs/.claud...

My success with Claude Code is directly related to this agent and its output.
by mschild | 2026-02-11 09:35:15+00:00
I find that with more complex projects (full-stack application with some 50 controllers, services, and about 90 distinct full-feature pages) it often starts writing code that simply breaks functionality.

For example, had to update some more complex code to correctly calculate a financial penalty amount. The amount is defined by law and recently received an overhaul so we had to change our implementation.

Every model we tried (and we have corporate access and legal allowance to use pretty much all of them) failed to update it correctly. Models would start changing parts of the calculation that didn't need to be updated. After saying that the specific parts shouldn't be touched and to retry, most of them would go right back to changing it again. The legal definition of the calculation logic is, surprisingly, pretty clear and we do have rigorous tests in place to ensure the calculations are correct.

Beyond that, it was frustrating trying to get the models to stick to our coding standards. Our application has developers from other teams doing work as well. We enforce a minimum standard to ensure code quality doesn't suffer and other people can take over without much issue. This standard is documented in the code itself but also explicitly written out in the repository in simple language. Even when explicitly prompting the models to stick to the standard and copy pasting it into the actual chat, it would ignore 50% of it.

The most apt comparison I can make is that of a consultant that always agrees with you to your face but when doing actual work, ignores half of your instructions and you end up running after them to try to minimize the mess and clean up you have to do. It outputs more code but it doesn't meet the standards we have. I'd genuinely be happy to offload tasks to AI so I can focus on the more interesting parts of work I have, but from my experience and that of my colleagues, its just not working out for us (yet).
by mr_mitm | 2026-02-11 09:35:56+00:00
Unfortunately, code execution in text editors aren't a new thing. Vim had one published in 2019: https://github.com/numirias/security/blob/master/doc/2019-06...

Another in 2004: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1377

Neither vim nor Notepad are purely for displaying text though.
by rramadass | 2026-02-11 09:36:11+00:00
This is exactly my thoughts too !

The Gauss quote is what made me finally "understand" Complex Numbers as the article states; "The complex numbers are an algebraically closed field with a distinguished real coordinate structure <C,+,.,0,1,Re,Im>".

Welch Labs on Youtube has an excellent series of videos titled "Imaginary Numbers are Real" graphing the geometrical implications - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiaHhY2iBX9g6KIvZ_703... (book versions can be bought at - https://www.welchlabs.com/resources)

A Short History of Complex Numbers by Orlando Merino gives the historical context (pdf) - https://kleinex.mit.edu/~dunkel/Teach/18.S996_2022S/history/...
by tsoukase | 2026-02-11 09:36:54+00:00
"God made the integers, all else is the work of man", Kronecker, 1886.

Complex numbers are just a fancy way to represent 2-dimensional numbers that are convenient in geometry through the sq(-1)=π/2 rotation.

They are nothing special and they could just be a matrix. Out of my head I think about complex integers. Also there are higher-order complex numbers which are defined by sq(sq(-1)) etc. In Greek complex numbers are called "mongrel". Both names are bad, I would just use 2-dimensional numbers.
by close04 | 2026-02-11 09:37:16+00:00
Day 1 reviews, the ones that drives sales of any product, are flawed by definition. They take a narrow and superficial view of the product, a snapshot when what you need is a timelapse.

The winter tires that score great on day 1 but put a bit of wear on them and they turn to crap. The motherboard that scores the highest in the benchmarks at launch but later on burns your CPU, or gets a BIOS update that caps the performance, or gets no updates whatsoever. The car that shines at acceleration and feature list but breaks down often and is slow and expensive to fix.

Day 1 reviews certainly have some value but it’s higher for the reviewer than for the potential buyer. By the time the reviewer follows up after battle testing in time, if they even want to risk looking like they got it wrong the first time, the damage was done. And people aren’t that interested in reading about old stuff, those reviews don’t get the views.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-11 09:37:17+00:00
Again, you're not specifying what GPT-OSS you're talking about, there are two versions, 20b and 120b. Not to mention if you have a consumer GPU, you're most likely running it with additional quantization too, but you're not saying what version.

> Jinja threw a bunch of errors and GPT-OSS couldn't make tool calls.

This was an issue for a week or two when GPT-OSS initially launched, as none of the inference engines had properly implemented support for it, especially around tool calling. I'm running GPT-OSS-120b MXFP4 with LM Studio and directly with llama.cpp, the recent versions handle it well and I have no errors.

However, when I've tried either 120b or 20b with additional quantization (not the "native" MXFP4 ones), I've seen that they're having troubles with the tool syntax too.

> Not llama

What does your original comment mean then? You said llama was "strictly" better than GPT-OSS, which specific model variant are you talking about or you miswrote somehow?
by latexr | 2026-02-11 09:38:04+00:00
> He has PhD. He was not naive about what the company "wanted" from him when he joined.

Those two thoughts do not follow. Being academically accomplished has nothing to do with one’s naivety or general and social intelligence. In fact it isn’t rare for those people to especially suck at it.

I’m not saying that’s not what Mrinank did (I have no idea, I don’t know them), but having a PhD does not prove it one way or the other.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-11 09:39:44+00:00
>Moreau is apparently a Russian citizen living in Russia since 2013.

Is he not still a French born citizen deserving of a fair trial? Or should getting a dual citizenship of a foreign passport, of a nation that later becomes an adversary, become an automatic death sentence? US should then put all it citizens with Cuban and Iranian passports in jail with that logic.

And then what about Jacques BAUD who's Swiss living in Belgium? He doesn't deserve a fair trial either? On what grounds? With what evidence?

How can you justify dishing out death sentences without trial? Remember that blindly supporting the authoritarian hand waving of due process with no trial or evidence, just to easily get rid of undesirable people, can always be used against you too, if what you say becomes undesirable when politics shifts.
by arjie | 2026-02-11 09:39:53+00:00
He's early Amazon early Google so he's seen two companies super scale. Few people last two paradigm shifts so that's no guarantee of credentials. But at the time he was famous for a specific accidentally-public post that exposed people to the amount that Bezos's influence ramified through Amazon and how his choices contrasted with Google's approach to platforms.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101876
by newswasboring | 2026-02-11 09:40:17+00:00
The same reason why using a generator like antlr doesn't feel like plagiarism to me. I don't outsource thinking to these models, only coding. My spec files contain the architecture, and details of intent on each interface. That is the part of the work that actually matters, rest of it is just code monkey stuff. While I am sad I don't get the peace and satisfaction of churning out code, my primary goal is to make cool things not coding.

edit: typo.
by brushfoot | 2026-02-11 09:40:28+00:00
> But if you haven’t used specifically Opus 4.5/4.6 with specifically Claude Code for at least an hour, then you’re in for a real shock. Because all your complaining about AI not being useful for real-world tasks is obsolete.

These hyperbolic takes from Steve are wearing thin.

It wasn't my experience that Opus 4.5/4.6 was a sea change. It was a nice incremental improvement.

> And unfortunately, all your other tools and models are pretty terrible in comparison.

Personally, I like Copilot CLI. $10 a month for 300 requests. Copilot will keep working until it fulfills your request, no matter how many tokens it uses.

Calling all other tools "pretty terrible" without specifics reminds me of crypto FOMO from the 2010s.
by c420 | 2026-02-11 09:40:35+00:00
"A person familiar with the notices, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly, said the action to close airspace over a major U.S. for security reasons over extended period hasn’t happened since immediately after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001."

https://elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/unexplained-faa-order-s...
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-11 09:40:47+00:00
Here's a direct link to the notice: https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_6_2233

Temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) tend to be pretty terse, but they do usually call out "VIP" if they're due to someone visiting.

The type listing of "security" gets thrown around a lot, though. For example there's a permanent security TFR around the closest Air Force base to me (https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_5_8746) because they regularly fly unmanned aircraft that can't fly in insufficiently controlled airspace, and the standard airspace layout around an airport of that size isn't sufficient, so instead of making special rules for that airport, there's a "security" TFR to give air-traffic controllers extra control of what would normally be uncontrolled airspace.

It is pretty unusually to get such a short notice, and to not have instructions for exemptions.
by nikvdp | 2026-02-11 09:41:21+00:00
If you like the man page aesthetic, using pandoc with groff is the most readable way to read markdown on the terminal I've found:

mdless() {
if command -v pandoc >/dev/null; then
if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
cat | pandoc -s -f markdown -t man | groff -T utf8 -man | less
else
pandoc -s -f markdown -t man "$*" | groff -T utf8 -man | less
fi
else
less "$@"
fi
}
by FranklinJabar | 2026-02-11 09:42:18+00:00
Owning land. Whoever came up with this idea needs to be hung and revived a million times, and then tortured to death a million more. Our society has been mutilated as a result.

I think you could ascribe this to either NIMBY or YIMBY harebrained thinking. We need a third option that's pro-human.

We need public fucking housing.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-11 09:43:31+00:00
Anytime anything comes up, I do talk with them, thank you for asking. However, they're an ocean away from where the really bad stuff happen, where seemingly all people think about is how to maximize their salaries and then deploy their services for everyone else in the world to get addicted, my representatives can't do a lot about that except what they're already doing.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-11 09:43:57+00:00
Nintendo Switch supports OpenGL, across all its models.

https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-prod...

https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-prod...

https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-prod...
by jannesblobel | 2026-02-11 09:44:10+00:00
Imagine shipping a product, and a few weeks later, you see Thomas Dohmke raise $60M for almost the exact same idea.

Some weeks ago we launched this:

https://github.com/Legit-Control/monorepo/tree/main/examples...

The idea was simple: keep AI prompts, intents, and conversations alongside your code and commits — basically treating AI interaction as first-class development artifacts. everything just plain Git

We struggled to get momentum. Things happen.

Now, less than 24 hours ago, Thomas announced Entire.io:

“Entire CLI hooks into your git workflow to capture AI agent sessions on every push. Sessions are indexed alongside commits, a searchable record of how code was written.”

That’s… very, very close to what we tried to build.

Honestly, I love the vision and think this will matter a lot in the AI age. It’s validating to see someone with that reach betting big on it.

Best of luck to Thomas and the team behind Entire.
by vidarh | 2026-02-11 09:44:33+00:00
There is a significant amount both in credit card debt, buy-now-pay-later type offerings (e.g. Klarna), and payday loans - it's by no means all larger loans.

It also varies greatly by country, but all major European countries still have significant credit card (not consumer, so excluding e.g. car loans) debt, with the most "credit willing" countries like the UK reaching around 1/3 the US average credit card balance (but you'd also want to adjust for average salaries before comparing these). There is no single attitude to this across Europe.
by altairprime | 2026-02-11 09:45:27+00:00
I wonder if this was issued by the VP’s Secret Service to the FAA directly; they got caught last year fucking with DC airspace using a beacon spoofer, and they would (presumably, they’re the SS) have the authority to issue these secretly without having to be named and answer for the impact: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/aviation-flights-whi...

(See also Die Hard 2, I suppose.)

But: I think the nuclear testing theory is more likely, as it would be in character for the current U.S. administration to decide to turn a border region radioactive to both decrease both the quantity of, and the median fertility of, those who cross the border, especially following posturing about health care costs. Presumably the U.S. does not view itself as liable to Mexico for across-the-border downwinder’s treatment costs.