MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-02-07 23:58:31+00:00
This gives me "anyone can run their online presence with WordPress" vibes, back at the beginning of my career when I spent a lot of time repairing people's broken, exploited, corrupted websites. We saw an explosion of people creating websites, but even with the guard rails of a framework like WordPress it turned into a total mess. Now we've thrown out the guard rails.
Show HN: Kokki – A "Dual-Core" System Prompt to Reduce LLM Hallucinations
by Ginsabo | 2026-02-07 23:58:54+00:00
I built a system prompt architecture that forces LLMs (like Gemini 3.0 / Claude 4.5) to self-audit before responding.

It splits the model into two personas:

Agent: Generates the draft.

Auditor: Critiques the draft for logic errors and hallucinations.

The Code (Gist): [https://gist.github.com/ginsabo/9d99ee98068d904b214be9351f09...]

I also wrote a documentation book about the theory, but the Gist above is fully functional and free to use. I'd love to hear your feedback on this "User-Side Safety" approach.
by elamje | 2026-02-07 23:58:56+00:00
The situation is basically this -

Novo and Lilly spent billions making Semaglutide, Tirzepatide, and future formulations/modalities.

They are going to monetize this heavily while they have IP coverage. There is no world they will let HIMS or any compounding pharmacy of scale undercut them.

On the insurance front - expect your insurance to decline this forever unless you are at serious risk of diabetes. It would make you cost them $3-6k/yr more. Insurance premiums would rise for everyone if insurance was subsidizing this - no free lunch.

Fortunately, the prices are coming down. Amazon pharmacy has Wegovy in an auto-injector starting at $199 without insurance. And that’s delivered to your door in under 24 hrs in most major cities.

I highly recommend checking out the terms of trumprx.gov - not endorsing the entire government here, but it is actually working and quite cleverly written to ensure Americans are getting the lowest cost drugs in the world now. Historically, we subsidized R&D globally by allowing pharma to make most profits on Americans then have cheaper prices abroad. That is changing and hopefully that’s a net positive.
by wesammikhail | 2026-02-07 23:59:02+00:00
I deploy all my code on linux and have been thinking about switching from windows to linux for my daily driver. But even I dread that. It´s as if linux has tried as hard as possible to make every single little thing as complicated as possible.

imho, user experience is nowhere to be found in the linux landscape. There is very little focus on that. People will tell you try this or that distro. But once you run into a simple problem, it´s often a rabbit hole of a gazilling cli commands to fix it. In the mean time you´re praying to god to not brick something that used to work before.
by AuryGlenz | 2026-02-08 00:00:36+00:00
They’re down to hundreds a month, now, with a coupon.

I can’t say I disagree with insurance not being willing to pay those costs (apart from diabetes patients etc.). I bet a large part of the reason you can get the name brands cheaper now is because they did the math they’d make more that way than they could squeeze out of insurance companies.

Also, on a personal level it rubs me the wrong way to have my insurance premiums go towards something that people could just do themselves, from something they did to themselves. I know many will disagree, of course, and there are other examples (say, lung cancer treatments) that are similar.
by Nextgrid | 2026-02-08 00:01:16+00:00
An LLM isn’t (yet?) capable of remembering a long-term representation of the codebase. Neither is it capable of remembering a long-term representation of the business domain. AGENTS.md can help somewhat but even those still need to be maintained by a human.

But don’t take it from me - go compete with me! Can you do my job (which is 90% talking to people to flesh out their unclear business requirements, and only 10% actually writing code)? It so, go right ahead! But since the phone has yet to stop ringing, I assume LLMs are nowhere there yet. Btw, I’m helping people who already use LLM-assisted programming, and reach out to me because they’ve reached their limitations and need an actual human to sanity-check.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-08 00:01:24+00:00
Linux desktop environments are developed by its users wanting the best experience possible.

Windows is designed by a committee that tries to do as little as possible and has ulterior motives higher on the priority scale than UX. Like marketing copilot and other Microsoft subscription services. Microsoft software is always aimed to be just good enough for the users to not choose something better. They love just coasting on their marketshare without doing much to improve. Like they did with internet explorer and now do with office.
by kylegordon | 2026-02-08 00:01:28+00:00
And that's just DCC. You can also add in I2C, MQTT, Canbus, Ethernet, BiDiB, Modbus, etc the list goes on

Have a gander at https://www.jmri.org/help/en/html/hardware/index.shtml#netwo... for a good list of protocols
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-08 00:01:42+00:00
> All asynchronous interfaces form a monad whether you decide to follow the Haskell monad type class or decide to do something els

JS's then is categorically not a monad because it doesn't follow the monad laws.

fn1 : a -> Promise<b>
fn2 : b -> c
fn3 : b -> Promise<c>

With JavaScript, composing fn1 and fn2 with then gives you a -> Promise<c>. So then is isomorphic to map.

With JavaScript, composing fn1 and fn3 with then gives you a -> Promise<c>. So then is isomorphic to flatmap.

Therefore, with JavaScript, map is isomorphic to flatmap. Which obviously violates monad laws.
by Quothling | 2026-02-08 00:02:28+00:00
I work in the green energy industry and we see it a lot now. Two years ago the business would've had to either buy a bunch of bad "standard" systems which didn't really fit, or wait for their challengs to be prioritised enough for some of our programmers. Today 80-90% of the software which is produced in our organisation isn't even seen by our programmers. It's build by LLM's in the hands of various technically inclined employees who make it work. Sometimes some of it scales up a bit that our programmers get involved, but for the most part, the quality matters very little. Sure I could write software that does the same faster and with much less compute, but when the compute is $5 a year I'd have to write it rather fast to make up for the cost of my time.

I make it sound like I agree with you, and I do to an extend. Hell, I'd want my kids to be plumbers or similar where I would've wanted them to go to an university a couple of years ago. With that said. I still haven't seen anything from AI's to convince me that you don't need computer science. To put it bluntly, you don't need software engineering to write software, until you do. A lot of the AI produced software doesn't scale, and none of our agents have been remotely capable of making quality and secure code even in the hands of experienced programmers. We've not seen any form of changes over the past two years either.

Of course this doesn't mean you're wrong either. Because we're going to need a lot less programmers regardless. We need the people who know how computers work, but in my country that is a fraction of the total IT worker pool available. In many CS educations they're not even taught how a CPU or memory functions. They are instead taught design patterns, OOP and clean architecture. Which are great when humans are maintaining code, but even small abstractions will cause l1-3 cache failures. Which doesn't matter, until it does.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-08 00:02:50+00:00
Which side of that argument has lots of marketing dollars behind it. I suspect what we are all seeing is marketing plus a few useful idiots against everyone else. I will change my mind when I start seeing actual apps created by LLMs which people actually use. What I do see is LLMs replacing search engines and lots of failed software projects. The basic problem here is that the powers that be think the economics of software are like manufacturing. They aren't; they are closer to music publishing, just a lot bigger. And AI isn't having any real impact there.
Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?
by solarisos | 2026-02-08 00:03:27+00:00
I’ve run into this multiple times and I’m honestly still confused.
I’ve tested purchased B2B email lists (including ones sold as “verified”), and deliverability is often terrible — bounces, low engagement, the usual.
Is the core problem outdated data, weak verification, catch-all domains, or something else?
For people who’ve actually solved this, what approaches worked in practice?
by bossyTeacher | 2026-02-08 00:04:12+00:00
> there has never been a shortage of higher level problems to solve.

True, but whether all those problems are SEEN worth chasing business wise is another matter. Short term is what matters most for individuals currently in the field, and short term is less devs needed which leads to drop in salaries and higher competition. You will have a job but if you explore the job market you will find it much harder to get a job you want at the salary you want without facing huge competition. At the same time, your current employer might be less likely to give you salary raises because they know you bargaining power has decreased due to the job market conditions.

Maybe in 40 years time, new problems will change the job market dynamics but you will likely be near retirement by then
by hackyhacky | 2026-02-08 00:04:27+00:00
> you lack actual understanding of how compilers work

My brother in Christ, please get off your condescending horse. I have written compilers. I know how they work. And also you've apparently never heard of undefined behavior.

The point is that the output is different at the assembly level, but that doesn't matter to the user. Just as output from an LLM but differ from another, but the user doesn't care.
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-08 00:05:44+00:00
Nota bene, then is not a monad because the implementation of then implies map is isomorphic to flatmap. This is because `then` turns the return value of a callback into a flat promise, even if the callback itself returns a promise.

That is to say, then checks the type of the return value and then takes on map or flatmap behavior depending on whether the return value of the callback is a Promise or not.
by mjr00 | 2026-02-08 00:06:05+00:00
Uh that's not what engineers do; do you not have any software development experience, or rather any outside of vibe coding? That would explain your perspective. (for context I am 15+ yr experience former FAANG dev)

I don't meant this to sound inflammatory or anything; it's just that the idea that when a developer encounters a difficult bug they would go ask for help from the product manager of all people is so incredibly outlandish and unrealistic, I can't imagine anyone would think this would happen unless they've never actually worked as a developer.
by OutOfHere | 2026-02-08 00:06:26+00:00
The side effect of using LLMs for programming is that no new programming language can now emerge to be popular, that we will be stuck with the existing programming languages forever for broad use. Newer languages will never accumulate enough training data for the LLM to master them. Granted, non-LLM AIs with true neural memory can work around this, as can LLMs with an infinite token frozen+forkable context, but these are not your everyday LLMs.
by Veserv | 2026-02-08 00:06:27+00:00
Please cite the de minimis threshold you are referencing. Here is a basic 67 page overview by the IRS on this topic [1] which does not indicate any uniform generally accepted de minimis threshold for arbitrary expenses, so you need to cite specific laws, regulations, case law, or generally accepted accounting advice to support your statement.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p5137.pdf
by hackyhacky | 2026-02-08 00:06:46+00:00
> which completely changes the way the website has to be hosted--this category matters quite a bit, no?

It matters to you because you're a programmer, and you can't imagine how someone could create a program without being a programmer. But it doesn't really matter.

The non-technical user of the LLM won't care if the LLM generates PHP or JS code, because they don't care how it gets hosted. They'll tell the LLM to take care of it, and it will. Or more likely, the user won't even know what the word "hosting" means, they'll simply ask the LLM to make a website and publish it, and the LLM takes care of all the details.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-08 00:07:11+00:00
Also they have trouble stopping in Tau Zero so they have no choice going further than they planned. It's one of the best sci-fi novels of all time, read it!.

That Bussard Ramjet, though, is thoroughly discredited. It can't possibly work. Hydrogen hydrogen fusion is a terribly slow nuclear reaction and if you had to stop the gas to give it enough time to react, you'd end up stopping the rocket not accelerating it. In fact, the most credible use of that kind of magnetic scoop is as a brake!
by midnight_koi_9 | 2026-02-08 00:07:17+00:00
Most AI “dev environments” are text-first. Brood is image-first.

Brood is a desktop workspace where images are first-class inputs: you drag in one or two references and drive an agent through Quick Actions like Diagnose (creative-direction critique), Recast (reimagine in a new medium), Bridge (find the midpoint between two aesthetics), and Swap DNA (structure from one, surface from the other).

The goal is to make steering visual work feel like interacting with a canvas, not writing prompts.

Target users: creative directors, designers, and anyone iterating on visual direction.
by kentm | 2026-02-08 00:07:54+00:00
He hired the private investigator before he was sued.

You left out the part where he claimed a person was a pedophile and when asked if it was just an insult basically said “no I really think he’s a pedophile”, and started stating made up bullshit about child brides as fact. He only backtracked when he was sued. That is NOT the same as just throwing insults.
by killerstorm | 2026-02-08 00:07:59+00:00
You're missing the point. Consider this:

Mathematicians use LLMs. Obviously, they don't trust LLM to do math. But LLM can help with formalizing a theorem, then finding a formal proof. It's usually a very tedious thing - but LLMs are _already_ quite good at that. In the end you get a proof which gets checked by normal proof-checking software (not LLM!), you can also inspect, break into parts, etc.

You really need to look into detail rather than dismiss wholesale ("It made a math error so it's bad at math" is wrong.)
by okanat | 2026-02-08 00:08:13+00:00
Sure. I didn't say exactly lawsuit because my source only says a threat from Kiteworks (parent company of OwnCloud):

https://github.com/orgs/opencloud-eu/discussions/262#discuss...

They seem to avoid openly discussing and comparing products to avoid further action. Apparently some of the former members of OwnCloud have switch to Heinlein (maker of OpenCloud) and Kiteworks isn't happy about this.
by autoexec | 2026-02-08 00:08:35+00:00
> The internet would be vastly different if there were no ads because the amount of content would be greatly reduced.

In terms of quantity it wouldn't be noticeable to you at all. It'd still be more than you could ever consume in your lifetime. I saw the internet before ads and it was still filled with just about everything you see today. The content itself was actually better in many cases (technical limitations being what they were). It was certainly less harmful.

The only thing I really think we'd have to worry about losing is some of the youtube content made with extremely high production costs but even some of those channels started out producing the same content with lower production values and slowly improved the presentation as their channel grew which could still happen without ads through donations and other strategies.

The vast majority of the content we'd lose on the internet without ads is the stuff companies put out there for no reason other than because they want to make money, as it turns out, that stuff is mostly trash anyway. It's what brought us click bait, entire content farms of trash, the millions of AI generated websites filled with hallucinations that drown out the actual information you're looking for, etc.

Getting rid of ads on the internet wouldn't make all the bad stuff would go away though. Companies already often have other perverse incentives for putting stuff on the internet, but at least we wouldn't be getting the obnoxious ads and surveillance capitalism on top of that.
by krapp | 2026-02-08 00:08:37+00:00
Handmade Hero is a bad idea for anyone wanting to learn how to make a game in C or C++. Casey intentionally avoids using standard libraries and frameworks and his irrational hatred of high-level code and modern standards will lead developers astray and waste their time.

Even if you're using C you don't need to implement your own renderer or do half the things he does. Get a library like SDL3 to handle the basics, maybe use Lua/LuaJIT for scripting. Learn OpenGL or Vulkan. Stay away from HH and Casey Muratori until you're experienced enough to tell the difference between his wisdom and his bullshit.
by mahirsaid | 2026-02-08 00:08:48+00:00
humans collectively are responsible for the end results of innovations and achievements , otherwise who are you doing all this for. Wars are a extreme form of disagreements amongst a large body of opposing opinions or perspective IMHO. Earth (world!) simply exists, with or without you. You as Byorganism/Byproduct of this planet you have an obligation to this planet in good deeds. Have you not watched Star-Wars?
by jimnotgym | 2026-02-08 00:09:13+00:00
It actually has more to do with how you would implement the controls. What can and cannot be allowed is complicated and requires someone to read and understand the regulations. That is probably more than you can expect from the person processing the actual returns. Normally a person who can understand the rules deseminates it into much simpler company policy, partly by discarding edge cases and things they don't think will apply to the company, and trains the actual operator on the common cases. This edge case was outside of that persons (or systems) normal parameters for operation, so it for rejected.

It is not that Finance rolled over, it is that it got escalated to a person who could understand the rules better, who advised the operator how to apply the rules in this case.
by uxcolumbo | 2026-02-08 00:09:15+00:00
Neat experiment, but this is not good design.

Design is about solving problems.

A menu is suppose to help you to quickly find and get to a specific section of your site.

Why do I have to click on a thing to reveal the menu even though on my laptop there is enough space to show it all? And then I have to move my mouse all to the other side of the screen?

Who is this for?

Nothing wrong with experimenting with CSS, but avoid ‘dribbblizing’ your designs if you intend to ship it to users who use your site for information or to get a job done.

Edit: commenting more on the iventions.com website where this effect is in use.
by mjr00 | 2026-02-08 00:10:09+00:00
Is the LLM paying for hosting in this scenario, too? Is the LLM signing up for the new hosting provider that supports PHP after initially deploying to github pages?

Feels like the non-programmer is going to care a little bit about paying for 5 different hosting providers because the LLM decided to generate their burger website in PHP, JavaScript, Python, Ruby and Perl in successive iterations.
by navanchauhan | 2026-02-08 00:10:48+00:00
Using models to go from spec to program is one use case, but it’s not the whole story. I’m not hand-writing specs; I use LLMs to iteratively develop the spec, the validation harness, and then the implementation. I’m hands-on with the agents, and hands-off with our workflow style we call Attractor

In practice, we try to close the loop with agents: plan -> generate -> run tests/validators -> fix -> repeat. What I mainly contribute is taste and deciding what to do next: what to build, what "done" means, and how to decompose the work so models can execute. With a strong definition of done and a good harness, the system can often converge with minimal human input. For debugging, we also have a system that ingests app logs plus agent traces (via CXDB).

The more reps you get, the better your intuition for where models work and where you need tighter specs. You also have to keep updating your priors with each new model release or harness change.

This might not have been a clear answer, but I am happy to keep clarifying as needed!
by Quothling | 2026-02-08 00:11:24+00:00
I'm not saying Apple can't go the way of Microsoft, but if you've used macOS and Windows through the previous 5 years there isn't much of a comparison. Windows has gone from something I tolerated to something I absolutely dislike using. It's so bad that if it wasn't for WSL then I would consider finding a place to work where they didn't force me to use Windows. MacOS on the other hand hasn't really changed.

The moment someone makes a non macbook air, that does the same as a macbook air in terms of being cold to touch, battery life and no-noise I'm leaving for Linux though.
by vel0city | 2026-02-08 00:13:46+00:00
Ah, 30-45m drive, yeah. A lot of these places will still be within 15min or so to a lot of amenities, probably 20min most to most things. There are still some that are pretty way out there, easily 20+ minutes to most real amenities. A couple I can think of close by:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/fc2DS3dMQrDJK3na9

https://maps.app.goo.gl/AnygKw17WmFxHkc58

https://maps.app.goo.gl/kppAZYyDJuJZBGtD6

But a 10 minute walk to most of those amenities is also pretty uncommon. You look up walking directions for most of those places? I'll be amazed if there's a real grocery store within a 10 minute walk.
by Moriarty2026 | 2026-02-08 00:14:07+00:00
Readme is included.

What it does: This is my passion project. It is an end to end development pipeline that can run autonomously. It also has stateful memory, an in app IDE, live internet access, an in app internet browser, a pseudo self improvement loop, and more.

This is completely open source and free to use.

If you use this, please credit the original project. I’m open sourcing it to try to get attention and hopefully a job in the software development industry.

Target audience: Software developers

Comparison: It’s like replit if replit has stateful memory, an in app IDE, an in app internet browser, and improved the more you used it. It’s like replit but way better lol

Codex can pilot this autonomously for hours at a time (see readme), and has. The core LLM I used is Gemini because it’s free, but this can be changed to GPT very easily with very minimal alterations to the code (simply change the model used and the api call function).
by fjfaase | 2026-02-08 00:14:37+00:00
The code of TCC (0.9.26) is kind hard to compile, I have discovered in the past year, while developing a minimal C compiler to compile the TCC sources [1]. For that reason, I have concluded that TCC is its own test set. It uses the constant 0x80000000, which is an edge case for if you want to print it as a signed integer only using 32-bit operators. There is a switch statement with an post-increment operator in the switch expression. There are also switch statements with fall throughs and with goto statements in the cases. It uses the ## operator where the result is the name of a macro. Just to name a few.

[1] https://github.com/FransFaase/MES-replacement