MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by testdelacc1 | 2026-02-11 08:36:18+00:00
I agree with Joan here, communities aren’t fungible. Building something where something already exists does carry a cost.

But I can also see how this will be used as one more arrow in the quiver of NIMBYs. In addition to environmental, economic, political reasons not to build something, also consider the cost to potentially breaking existing community bonds. We shouldn’t build new high density housing because the new residents will never be able to replicate the community of the previous low density single family home neighbourhood.

You can tell this is a NIMBY piece because it doesn’t touch on how to build new communities, just that existing ones exist and new ones can’t be built and even if they can they’ll be poor imitations of the old ones. So instead of trying to build new things, let’s preserve what we have already. It would have been more interesting and honest if it had explored the role of say, third spaces and how consciously creating the right conditions can lead to community formation.

After all, even the communities that exist today were empty land once upon a time, until we built the infrastructure and community within. If all we ever did was preserve we wouldn’t even have the communities today that we value so much.
by nephihaha | 2026-02-11 08:36:28+00:00
Don't know what that's supposed to mean. It's pretty well established that Epstein had some kind of financial role although this has been underplayed throughout the reporting of all this. It has not been made clear where he made all his money.

Also curious underreporting of the mysterious death of Ghislaine Maxwell's father's death and how that may relate to all this.
by tosti | 2026-02-11 08:37:10+00:00
Clicking an unknown link shouldn't result in compromise. Fortunately, MS-Windows disallows running anything not vetted by MS unless you figure out how to bypass the "SmartScreen" filter. This filter is super annoying to many a techie or gamer, but for MS-Windows refusing to run "unknown" programs is a feature, not a bug.

So yes, MS will likely denounce this as not their problem and move on.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-11 08:37:25+00:00
The last time I saw so much blue and orange (see the images) was the era of Battlefield 3/Battlefield 4 box art. I really do miss it tbh.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Battlefield_3...

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-yzgoj/images/stencil/1280x12...

Downvoted within 1 minute. This website is a trash fire.
by kaoD | 2026-02-11 08:38:05+00:00
> But hey, don’t take it from me. Take it from… the Copilot people. According to The Verge and a bunch of other reputable news sources, Microsoft is openly encouraging their employees to use multiple tools, and as a result, Claude Code has rapidly become dominant across engineering at Microsoft.

Well, that explains the sloppy results Microsoft is delivering lately!
by factsaresacred | 2026-02-11 08:38:09+00:00
> I strongly suspect that the way major clouds do billing is just not ready for answering the question of "how much did X spend over the last hour", and the people worried about this aren't the ones bringing the real revenue.

See: Google's AI studio. Its built on Google Cloud infrastructure so billing updates are slow which peeves users used to instant billing data with Anthropic and OpenAI.
by paganel | 2026-02-11 08:38:32+00:00
> Jeffrey Emanuel and his 22 accounts at $4400/month

Paying $4.4k per month for the privilege of writing code is absolute madness, I'm not quite so sure with how we got to this point but it's still madness. Maybe Yegge is indeed right, maybe this is just like regular gambling/addiction, which sucks when it comes to being a programmer but at least it gets the dopamine levels higher.
by SenorKimchi | 2026-02-11 08:38:37+00:00
I have done some work at crypto exchanges so I am a bit biased.

I would agree that BTC and many assets are a terrible payment method due to poor UX (block time, clunky wallets), speculation, and wild price swings. But crypto in general works well for payments I would say.

Transaction fees have improved significantly where it can be on the order of a few cents per transaction. So yes this is a little high for a $1 candy bar but this is fantastic for a $1,000 watch.

The number of chains and interoperability is a bit of a pain at the moment, but this problem can be resolved by delegating to a payment processor, or simply targetting ETH, the top stablecoins, and BTC which account for the vast majority of the market.

> Expensive and difficult to run

Again I am biased because of my experience, but I could set up a payment gateway for ETH in a few hours using free public nodes at virtually no cost. No business overhead. No agreements with payment processors or card companies. The biggest cost and overhead ends up being accounting, because crypto still has ill defined laws and regulation.
by hdjrudni | 2026-02-11 08:39:17+00:00
I just sold my first solo(ish) business, so I can speak to this a bit.

'ish' because I had a partner, but he was non-technical.

AI is a boon. I'm currently finding it works best in apps that have established patterns but aren't enormous. If you lay some groundwork (as I did, because the AI didn't exist when I started), it's quite lovely for migrating heaps of old code and just doing all those annoying little things which were never very high priority but needed fixing.

If you're just starting, AI will do what you ask but it just doesn't know how to structure things in a maintainable way. So I'd argue it's still not particularly great if you "lack coding skills" but it might trick you into thinking so.

My customers (B2B) were generally older folks. They never once asked about AI. I don't see it being a serious threat yet. People are still afraid of spreadsheets and other things I would consider quite basic, the fact that coding is more accessible than ever... I don't think that's really enticing many people. Some, sure, but why would they want to mess around with that if your product is fairly priced, does what they need, and you will maintain it for them?

It's the same as us software engineers when we're deciding whether to pay for a 'managed' platform (SQL, Cloud, k8s) etc or roll our own. Sure, we can do it ourselves and for cheaper, but it just doesn't always make sense due to time and maintenance.

Anyway, I'm excited for the doors this opens up for me. I was looking to hire someone a few years back the guys I brought on briefly were very mediocre and required a lot of ramp up time. And also hiring is really hard. I can get away with not hiring for much longer now because the AIs understand the project and are productive instantly. Going from zero to one employee is hard. After that I imagine it would get easier but I never made it that far.
by anovikov | 2026-02-11 08:39:19+00:00
Good days of gambling are long since over. There was a lot of easy money to make there from ~2000 (when online gambling properly became a thing - i only heard about it, i joined in 2004 myself) through ~2012 (on a massive scale) and in some niche markets, through ~2017. Many of crypto billionaires today started as gambling millionaires then.

It's all gone now. Exchanges restructured fees in ways that make profitable game impossible, books got way too good on shutting down winners quickly by lowering their maximums to virtually zero, or banning outright.

Free money online is free only for a time, eventually it always runs out.
by Skeime | 2026-02-11 08:39:26+00:00
I don't quite get what you mean here. While you need to allow infinite expansions without repeating patterns, you also need to expansions with these pattern to get all reals. Maybe the most difficult part is to explain why 0.(9) and 1 should be the same, though, while no such identification happens for repeating patterns that are not (9).
by Schmerika | 2026-02-11 08:40:04+00:00
Except kelipo is still 100% correct to say that.

Doublespeak has a way of becoming exactly the opposite of what it says on the tin, regardless of its origins. It's literally in the name.

The people 'in the know' know what "Department of Peace" means, and the masses use it to laugh at anyone who dares to think they invent wars. That's the point.
by renhanxue | 2026-02-11 08:40:24+00:00
> The speaker says that Feynman didn't write the Feynman lectures. Wrong.

No, she's right, just talking about a different thing.

"The Feynman Lectures on Physics" is a physics textbook. [0] He did prepare his own lecture material, but he did not write the book.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feynman_Lectures_on_Physic...
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-11 08:40:27+00:00
Instruction manuals often only contain legally required information, making them particularly useless.

You've happened upon the difference between compliant and capable. See also, any military technology, which costs 10 times the normal price to meet strict compliance requirements, often while completely disregarding capability.

My favorite response to the issue is the AcessiByeBye plug-in (https://www.accessibyebye.org/) which blocks accessibility compliance overlays that make web pages difficult to use with keyboard navigation and accessibility tools like screen readers, but are needed to meet accessibility regulations.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-11 08:41:31+00:00
No, no and no.

First of all we have to make our minds. Do we need regulation or not. Many people cry from top of their lungs for less regulation, and now are we saying "if it's so damaging why we are not regulating it?" this is double-distilled, barrel-aged hypocrisy at its finest. You can bottle it and sell it as a limited reserve single malt.

Changing your life for a single generation while setting every pillar of a civilized society, moral imperative and human values and everything related on fire is again a monumental example of shortsightedness.

Trying to beat your conscience with the bat of "if I didn't do it, somebody else would do the same" will only make your heart and soul ache more and more over the years.

I (and many others) would live a peaceful life trying their best to leave the world a little bit better than they found rather than being slave of the money they earn and being bickered by their conscience because they betrayed to the essence and foundation of humanity just for a few {thousand, million, billion, trillion} bucks.

I have rejected much more lucrative offers because I value my family, people I love and personal life more than a shiny car which will rust in two decades anyway.

So, I'll hate the game and the players while trying to make our world a better place. At least I'll die peacefully.

Thanks.
by ben_w | 2026-02-11 08:41:41+00:00
I'm old enough to remember when the big names in social media sites decided to copy Facebook's "Real names" policy, which they added themselves for better targeted ads.

If this is an attack on free speech, the war was lost 15 years ago, even in the USA. Of course, given what's going on in the US right now, one may well respond "yes, the US did lose sometime around then".

For now though, I'd be more worried about all the verifiers leaking PII due to vibe coding and competent attackers.
by FranklinJabar | 2026-02-11 08:41:43+00:00
> And the main reason they started using git is because Github was such massive value on top of git, not because git was so amazing.

Github has always been mediocre and forgettable outside of convenience that you might already have an account on the site. Svn was just shitty compared to git, and cvs was a crime against humanity.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-11 08:42:36+00:00
Picts not Scots.

The Scots are descended from an Irish Gaelic (Celtic) tribe who migrated from Ireland to Scotland in the 5th Century [0] (when all three of Britain's countries were created, it was a fascinating century).

The Romans were there before then, and left before then. The walls they built were to keep the Picts out (though this gets fuzzy - the line between "Pict" and "Briton" isn't as clear as conventional Victorian history books say).

One of the interesting things that I heard about the walls, and may or may not be true (I'd be interested if anyone has an update) is that the Romans never explored the top of the island, or sailed around it, and just assumed there was a lot more of it going north. If they'd known how close they were to the end, they might have just conquered all of it, which would probably have been less effort than building those two walls.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Scotland
by neor | 2026-02-11 08:42:46+00:00
Ease of use, and a bit of customer protection.

Living in the Netherlands iDeal is perfect for online shopping, but once the money is gone there is no way to get it back.

With Visa/Mastercard there is a level of protection available which leaves the door open to get your money back if you are being scammed.

I believe Wero is going to implement this as well, so time will tell but I think any move to break the duopoly of Visa/Mastercard is good for consumers.
by keiferski | 2026-02-11 08:42:51+00:00
Right, but the van life people aren't aiming to build a billion dollar startup company.

I specifically mean that young people today - that are deliberately trying to be world-changing entrepreneurs, and claim deep inspiration from Jobs - don't typically wander India, take typography design courses, or go to Reed College. They aim for prestigious universities and prestigious accelerators/VC firms.

I think there is probably a lot of value in that young person doing something like Jobs (not the exact same thing), even if it's not optimized for the credentialized society. Maybe it puts you a few years behind your peers on the credentials track, but the experience will be worth it in terms of having a novel/well-rounded/expanded viewpoint.
by hodgehog11 | 2026-02-11 08:43:01+00:00
Sorry, I'm in academia too, but my ex-colleagues who left found themselves doing nearly identical work doing MFT research at hedge funds, climate modelling at our federal weather bureau, and SciML in big tech. I know of someone doing this kind of work in telecoms too, but I haven't spoken to them lately. Having said that, it's rough out there right now. A couple of people I know looking for another job right now (academia or otherwise) with this kind of training are not having much luck...
by mjr00 | 2026-02-11 08:43:18+00:00
I think Yegge hit the nail on the head: he has an addiction. Opus 4.5 is awesome but the type of stuff Yegge has been saying lately has been... questionable, to say the least. The kids call it getting "one-shotted by AI". Using an AI coding assistant should not be causing a person this much distress.

A lot of smart people think they're "too smart" to get addicted. Plenty of tales of booksmart people who tried heroin and ended up stealing their mother's jewelry for a fix a few months later.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-11 08:43:40+00:00
>Sure, there's an hypothetical risk of the EU turning sour.

European citizens getting sanctioned by the EU, (basically a death sentence), is not hypothetical, it's real.[1]

Jacques BAUD and Xavier MOREAU, Swiss and French nationals respectively, were sanctioned by the EU on the accusation of being russian mouthpieces, with no due process or public trial where they could pleads their case and defend themselves.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
by pmig | 2026-02-11 08:44:19+00:00
Congrats on building your custom delivery platform. We understand your pain ;-).
Any specific pain you want to share or feature you are still missing in your solution?

We’re happy to help you migrate to Distr if you decide you no longer want to maintain your solution or if you’d like to benefit from regular updates and continuous improvements.

Distr SaaS is configured for USD only (via Stripe) for simplicity, but EUR payments are definitely possible (either via Stripe, SEPA, etc.).
by catoc | 2026-02-11 08:44:20+00:00
> ”when they don’t even understand that the computer is the box attached to the monitor, not the monitor itself”

Laughed out loud at that - and cried a little.

I have had trouble explaining people: “No! don’t use your email password! This is not your email you are logging in to, your email address is a username for this other service. Don’t give them your email password!”
by smt88 | 2026-02-11 08:45:52+00:00
> If we made everyone over 300lbs lose 100lbs, we’d also see those benefits.

> Same if we limited the amount of cigarettes or alcohol people purchased.

We already attempt to do these things through public health campaigns and laws against the purchase of cigarettes/alcohol by minors.

You're actually making my point for me, because public interventions to reduce smoking have saved tens of millions of lives and many billions of dollars of taxpayer money.

> Certainly the same if we enforced our drug laws around things like fentanyl (although ODing in a Waffle House parking lot at 32 might actually save the taxpayer some money in the long run).

In what universe is the US not trying to enforce laws around fentanyl?
by paganel | 2026-02-11 08:46:50+00:00
The difference is that if those companies were to rely only on the AI part, and hence to transform us (computer programmers) only in copy-pasters and less, in about one to two years the "reasoning" behind the latest AI models would have become stale, i.e. because of no new human input. So good luck with that.

But my comment was not about companies, it was just about writing code, about the freedom that used to come from it, about the agency that we used to have. There's no agency and no freedom left when you start paying that much money in order to write code. I guess that can work for some companies, but for sure it won't work for computer programmers as actual human beings (and imo this blog-post itself tries to touch on that aspect).
by rs545837 | 2026-02-11 08:46:52+00:00
Weave replaces git's merge with entity-level merge. It parses all three versions (base, ours, theirs) with tree-sitter, extracts functions/classes/methods, matches them by name and structural hash, and merges per-entity instead of per-line.

On our benchmark of 31 real-world scenarios across 7 languages:

- weave: 31/31 clean (100%)
- mergiraf: 26/31 clean (83%)
- git: 15/31 clean (48%)

The 5 scenarios where mergiraf fails are both-add-at-same-position and decorator conflicts. Mergiraf works at tree-node level, so when both sides insert at the same tree position it can't distinguish them. Weave treats entities as unordered sets, so two agents adding different functions at the end of a file just get unioned.

Key differences from mergiraf (which was on HN last year, 432pts):

- Entity-level, not tree-node-level. Functions and classes are the merge unit, not AST nodes.
- Inner entity merge: when both sides modify the same class, methods are decomposed and merged independently by name.
- Decorator/annotation bundling: decorators move with the function they annotate through merges.
- Rename detection via AST-normalized structural hashing.
- ConGra conflict taxonomy (Text/Syntax/Functional) with resolution hints per conflict.
- MCP server with 15 tools for AI agent coordination (claim entities before editing, detect conflicts, preview merges, dependency/impact analysis).
- 12 languages: TS, TSX, JS, Python, Go, Rust, Java, C, C++, Ruby, C#, Fortran.

It plugs into git as a merge driver, so it works with merge, rebase, and cherry-pick. Setup is brew install ataraxy-labs/tap/weave && weave setup.

This blew up on Twitter/X yesterday. A lot of the interest came from people running multiple Cursor/Claude agents on the same repo and hitting constant false conflicts.

Built in Rust. Entity extraction powered by sem-core (our tree-sitter wrapper). Open source, MIT.

Happy to answer questions about the merge algorithm, the benchmark methodology, or the MCP coordination model
by RandomGerm4n | 2026-02-11 08:46:54+00:00
Using Fedora Kinoite/Silverblue is not really an option if you are using an Nvidia GPU. With Bazzite, the driver is pre-installed and also signed directly with a Secure Boot Key that you can import when installing Bazzite. With normal Fedora Atomic, you have to install and sign the driver manually, and with some updates, the whole thing breaks again, so you have to fiddle around with it.
In addition, Fedora Flatpak Remote has been removed, which is a “noobtrap” in normal Fedora Atomic. This allows you to install broken versions of browsers where the codecs are missing and videos don't work. In addition, Distrobox functions better than Toolbox, and in general, Bazzite's defaults are much more geared towards an immutable system. Silberblue/Kinoite's defaults are just like normal Fedora, and you have to layer dozens of things to achieve the same thing, whereas Bazzite is completely designed for a container workflow.

Even if you ignore any gaming optimizations, etc., this alone makes it a significantly better option than the official Fedora Atomic images.
by CurleighBraces | 2026-02-11 08:46:57+00:00
If you haven't read the first blog post it's pretty good at explaining the concepts.

https://blog.buenzli.dev/announcing-development-on-flirt/

The demo is particularly good if you can get past ( by the authors own admission ) slow typing speed.

As with everything these days I can see this being even more useful in reviewing agent code.

For example if an agent has spat out a bunch of code that I've reviewed and then I've asked it to make changes, I definitely do not want to review all that code again in the same diff later.
Ask HN: How to Use `npx skills add` with On-Prem / Private Repos?
by onurkanbkrc | 2026-02-11 08:47:10+00:00
As you know, we can install the desired skill using the following command:

npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill frontend-design

Is there a way to achieve the same setup in an on-premise environment without exposing the repository publicly?
by nephihaha | 2026-02-11 08:47:12+00:00
It describes the "strong possibility of intelligent life". Is this such a strong possibility? Life may be common but the universe is such a rough place that intelligent life may either be extremely uncommon or never reach to the level of a civilisation. Mainstream scientific consensus suggests that most of the Earth's biological history has been dominated by microbes. Most of human history appears to have been spent in the paleolithic — hundreds of thousands of years' worth — with very little in the way of technology.
by tosti | 2026-02-11 08:48:34+00:00
It's not a net-neutrality issue because they're not banking on any alternative.

Net-neutrality law doesn't work like that. Service providers still get to filter stuff.

What's illegal for an ISP is e.g. to give VoIP services other than their own a lower priority. That would tie in customers to use their own service and they could even charge more for it. Net neutrality means a level playing field for services on the Internet.

If you ask your ISP to do filtering, that's perfectly legal. If they filter specific traffic for the purpose of maintaining service, that's okay too.

Now if there was no alternative and they'd try to sell their product by blocking telnet, they could be sued.
by rvz | 2026-02-11 08:48:42+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. AI coding hit an event horizon on November 24th, 2025. It’s the real deal.

Yeah, it is over for several roles, especially frontend web development given Opus 4.6 is able to one shot your React frontend from a Figma design 90% of the time.

Why would I want to hire 10 senior frontend developers on a $200K asking price salary at this point when one AI can replace 9 of them (yes it can) and require one single junior-level engineer at a significant lower price?

This idea is very tempting for many companies to continue slashing headcount with less employees to find 'cost savings' by using AI to do more with less.