MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hippo22 | 2026-02-02 15:45:29+00:00
I didn’t quite mean that programming languages have reached their terminal state, although I understand how my comment was interpreted like that. I meant that programming languages, as we known them today have reached a terminal state.

Using Rust as an example: it aims to provide memory safety at the expensive of developer ergonomics. Personally, I shy away from Rust because I don’t like fighting the borrow checker.

However, with AI agents, Rust could make a lot more sense. Strict errors at compile time are helpful to an agent, which is more than happy to smash its head against the wall until it reaches a working solution.

Following this logic, we could see languages develop that are extremely impractical for humans to use yet provide benefits like memory safety or correctness. But these languages might not look anything like the languages we’re currently used to.
by infecto | 2026-02-02 15:45:38+00:00
Back up a bit. AdNauseam and similar tools are not illegal. The only real avenues would be violation of ToS, fraud, computer abuse or similar. For an individual running this on their home PC for their own use it would be a real challenge for anyone of any size to prove harm.

Now like I already said, if you are running a botnet clicking on your ads that is entirely a different story.

So tell us what does having the extension installed prove?
by tveita | 2026-02-02 15:45:45+00:00
The Copilot IntelliJ integration on the other hand is atrocious: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/17718-github-copilot--y...

I'm amazed that a company that's supposedly one of the big AI stocks seemingly won't spare a single QA position for a major development tool. It really validates Claude's CLI-first approach.
by mw2taba88 | 2026-02-02 15:45:48+00:00
Biomedical research has long been a discipline of precision, often hampered by the "reproducibility crisis." Among the most common yet variable procedures is the scratch assay (or wound healing assay), a staple for cell migration analysis, and studying cancer metastasis or tissue regeneration. On January 2026, CLYTE Technologies officially bridged the gap between manual labor and digital precision with the release of Soφ AI 3.0.

This update transforms Sophie from a protocol-driven assistant into a powerful computer vision powerhouse, featuring the highly anticipated Soφ Scratch Assay Analyzer.

What’s New in Sophie AI 3.0?
The 3.0 release is not just an incremental update; it represents a total overhaul of the AI’s core cognitive engine. While previous versions focused on natural language processing for generating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and troubleshooting lab failures, version 3.0 introduces:

Chat History: Now if you create an account you can save your SOPs!

Interactive UI: Better UI for interactive management of the long SOP responses for clarity and organization.

Enhanced Speed: Analysis that previously took minutes now resolves in seconds.

The Scratch Analyzer: A dedicated tool designed to "see" and interpret microscopy images cell migration analysis with zero-click thresholding.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-02 15:46:04+00:00
I'd say Jan 6, 2021. But there are so many examples between "bayonets" and now. 2020 Seattle CHOP, 2014/2016 Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 2011 Occupy Wall Street, 1999 Battle in Seattle, 1992 Ruby Ridge Standoff, 1969 People's Park, the entire civil rights movement era, 1946 Battle of Athens, 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain.

I intentionally alternated between left wing / right wing events. These things aren't limited to one side, and they're somewhat frequent, if a bit cyclical.
by qaq | 2026-02-02 15:46:46+00:00
Maybe it's the types of projects I work on but Gemini is basically unusable to me. Settled on Claude Code for actual work and Codex for checking Claude's work.
If I try to mix in Gemini it will hallucinate issues that do not exist in code at very high rate. Claude and Codex are way more accurate at finding issues that actually exist.
by softwaredoug | 2026-02-02 15:46:58+00:00
It really says something that MS/Github has been trying to shovel Copilot down our throats for years, and Anthropic just builds a tool in a short period of time and it takes off.

It's interesting to think back, what did Copilot do wrong? Why didn't it become Claude Code?

It seems for one thing its ambition might have been too small. Second, it was tightly coupled to VS Code / Github. Third, a lot of dumb big org Microsoft politics / stakeholders overly focused on enterprise over developers? But what else?
by pjc50 | 2026-02-02 15:47:36+00:00
"EU welfare state" is a meme that doesn't survive looking closely at the actual figures. Especially if you compare things like state pensions properly; the US moves these into a different column labelled "social security", but that doesn't mean they're not part of the state!

Note that the alternative is sending money overseas to rent US infrastructure. It may make a lot of sense to deploy spending locally where it stays in the economy rather than overseas, a standard "import substitution" play.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-02 15:47:47+00:00
RAID-sneaker with human-attended repair ;)

I was partial to Verbatim because those seemed to be pretty consistently good from the early 80's through the mid 90's.

Zip drives sold like absolute mad mid/late 1995.*

* In 95, I placed around the top for the high school virtual portfolio investing contest ROI with 90% in IOMG +150% (2.5x) in 2 weeks. I also happened to be selling Zip drives at my night/weekend job as fast as they came in. My high school econ teacher mentioned his investing club invested and sold it before sales took off stonks-style and so they lost money on it. These floptical/-alikes went poof as soon as CD+/-R(W) drives and discs came down in price.
by dktp | 2026-02-02 15:48:22+00:00
I would agree. I've been using VSCode Copilot for the past (nearly) year. And it has gotten significantly better. I also use CC and Antigravity privately - and got access to Cursor (on top of VSCode) at work a month ago

CC is, imo, the best. The rest are largely on pair with each other. The benefit of VSCode and Antigravity is that they have the most generous limits. I ran through Cursor $20 limits in 3 days, where same tier VSCode subscription can last me 2+ weeks
by reliefcrew | 2026-02-02 15:48:29+00:00
I find "impossible" hard to believe. Perhaps it's so difficult that it's not worth the opportunity cost though.

You may have to remove the disk or use a JTAG programmer, or heck... maybe even re-solder something.

The more nuanced question in these situations isn't "is it possible" but "is it economically viable".
by mrighele | 2026-02-02 15:48:38+00:00
I don't think being 1-indexed is what made the reason.

While it was already in widespread use, Python really took off in the scientific/research community, thanks first to numpy and then to all the other libraries built on top of it up to the current crop of ML/AI libraries.

Those people used to write a lot code in Fortran, Matlab and R (depending on their research area) which are all 1-indexed.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-02 15:48:40+00:00
> Modern hardware is fast, if you cannot fit more than 100 users (not even 100 concurrent users) on a single $50/month server, you're doing something very very wrong.

Depending on usage patterns you can go higher.

I put well over a few thousand users on a single $5/m DO droplet. The backend was a single Go binary updating a postgresql DB (on the same machine) as and when users finished their mandated training material, keeping track of which slide they were last on.

The actual training slides were served statically.

Python is slow; I mean, like really slow. Java and C# requires extra RAM, and not just a little - 1GB minimum for any webapp you intend to build.

Jenkins, written in Java IIRC, was not able to run on that $5/m droplet even serving just a couple of users. A Django app I built also had trouble with acceptable response times with just a a few users too.

My little Go binary, OTOH, peaked at 300MB RAM usage and had no problem even with 1000 users all logging in at 0800 and rapidly running through their training.
by riskable | 2026-02-02 15:48:42+00:00
Normies have a much more realistic take on AI than technical people or semi-technical "power users":

* They LOVE image-generating AI and AI that messes with their own photos/videos.
* They will ask ChatGPT, Gemini, etc and just believe the result.
* They will ask Copilot to help them make a formula in Excel and be happy to be done.

The common theme here is they don't care. To them, AI is just a neat thing. It's not a huge difference in their lives. They don't think about the environmental impact much unless someone tells them it's bad, via a high-quality video stream that itself was vastly worse for the environment than any AI conversation or image generation ever could be.

They will play a game 100% made by AI because their friend said it was fun. They don't care that some AAA publisher lost a sale on their "human made for sure, just trust us :nod:" identical game because the bored person was able to pull of something good enough with little effort (and better design decisions).

They also don't care if some article or book or whatever was written partially or entirely by AI as long as it's good. The AI part just isn't important to them. Not even a little bit!
by doctoboggan | 2026-02-02 15:50:01+00:00
> I don't see an obvious way for Waymo to get enshittified.

Oh ye of little faith! Here are some ideas off the top of my head, I am sure the suits at Google already have a bigger list.

* Ads in vehicle
* Adjust route so you see partner companies or billboards
* Offering alternative destinations (I see you are going to Burger King, would you rather go to our partner McDonalds?)
* Listening to conversations in car
* Selling ride data.
by EMM_386 | 2026-02-02 15:50:35+00:00
What are we discussing here?

The tools or the models? It's getting absurdly confusing.

"Claude Code" is an interface to Claude, Cursor is an IDE (I think?! VS Code fork?), GitHub Copilot is a CLI or VS Code plugin to use with ... Claude, or GPT models, or ...

If they are using "Claude Code" that means they are using Anthropic's models - which is interesting given their huge investment in OpenAI.

But this is getting silly. People think "CoPilot" is "Microsoft's AI" which it isn't. They have OpenAI on Azure. Does Microsoft even have a fine-tuned GPT model or are they just prompting an OpenAI model for their Windows-builtins?

When you say you use CoPilot with Claude Opus people get confused. But this is what I do everyday at work.

shrug
by Normal_gaussian | 2026-02-02 15:50:43+00:00
This is exactly the issue I bumped into eight or so years ago. I had a ratchet style job that would maintain a file of all of the type issues in the system. Add one, remove one was very common - particularly when it amounted "transform one" so the error change is all on the same line. Note that this is compounded by the errors often showing up quite far away from the code change.

I ended up using something similar to `// @ts-ignore` which would encode a truncated hash of the error message on the line, as well as a truncated hash of the lines AST; the original error message and the justification.

These were long lines so were a PITA, but they immediately had this 'ratchet' effect.

I tried several times to move to a central file referencing the issues, but the complexity in maintaining the references with common refactors was a blocker.
by martythemaniak | 2026-02-02 15:51:23+00:00
A lot of Trump supporters (and here I include everyone who does not vigorously oppose him in this group) have a very deep belief in America's exceptionalism. To them, it does not matter that the country is run by incompetent people, it does not matter that the rulers are deeply corrupt, immoral, lawless, or abusive. America's economy will run despite all this, America's qualify of life will not suffer because of this, America's position in the world will not suffer for it, because America is unique, exceptional and the centre of the world.

And in the short term they will seem to be right - after all "Liberation Day" tariffs were supposed to destroy the economy and everything is fine! It was just a bunch of boys crying wolf. But the reality is that it took decades to get to this level of integration and it's hard and slow to turn the ship of state around. But people outside the US are very motivated and getting increasingly motivated to turn things around and it'll be essentially a generation-long project to disengage from the US. At some point the US will try to squeeze someone and find out they simply don't have what they once had.
by timr | 2026-02-02 15:51:44+00:00
I mean, sure. But aside from the fact that everything in AI gets reduced to a single word ("Gemini", "ChatGPT", "Claude") [1], it's clearly not an excuse for misrepresenting the functionality of the product when you're writing a post broadly claiming that their AI products don't work.

Github Copilot is actually a pretty good tool.

[1] Not just AI. This is true for any major software product line, and why subordinate branding exists.
by nvader | 2026-02-02 15:51:48+00:00
Although this isn't my own article, I wanted to share it because we refer to it often at Imbue because we have an internal system inspired by it. One remarkable side-effect I've discovered of a ratchet system is the increased code quality you get from agents, once you build your workflow to respect them.

I have no qualms about adding patterns like 'interior mutability' in Rust to a ratchet, and forbidding front-line coding agents from incrementing the counter. Then when a feature truly requires it, they can request their parent coordinator agent to bump the count, which gives it a chance to approve or deny the request.

This also gives us the ability to run clean-up agents on the codebase in the background. They are tasked with finding unreasonable instances of the failing ratchets (our ratchet tool spits out file and line numbers), and attempting to fix them.

An early iteration I was mostly amused (and slightly frustrated) to see a cleanup agent stuck in a loop as it tried to clean up `expect()` calls by converting them into `unwrap()`s, which were also forbidden. Then we would see the `unwrap()`s and attempt to fix them by converting them into `expect()`s.
Show HN: MemoryStack – Memory layer for AI agents (92.8% on LongMemEval
by Pmopgar | 2026-02-02 15:52:21+00:00
MemoryStack - The memory layer for AI agents that doesn't forget

The problem: AI agents today have goldfish memory. They forget after each session, can't track preference changes, and don't learn from past conversations.
Current solutions fail:
Vector search alone: 40% failure rate on complex queries
Full-context approaches: Expensive, slow, less accurate

MemoryStack solved this with multi-stage memory retrieval.

Results on LongMemEval :
MemoryStack: 92.8%
Best commercial solution: 71.2%
Full-context: 60.2%
Biggest improvements:
Preference tracking: 93.3% vs 56.7%
Knowledge updates: 97.4% vs 83.3%
Multi-session: 89.5% vs 64%

Try it : https://memorystack.app

Fully Open Source
I'm releasing everything today:
Complete source code (MIT license)
Full research methodology and paper
SDKs (Python, TypeScript)
MCP integration for Claude,cursor,kiro
Benchmark suite and evaluation tools

Plugin for OpenClaw/Clawdbot
Enhance OpenClaw's memory with MemoryStack

give : https://github.com/memorystack-labs/Memorystack
Research Paper : https://memorystack.app/research
by catlikesshrimp | 2026-02-02 15:52:22+00:00
"if religious leaders worry/are motivated to speak by the fact ..."

Yes, IMO. But the topic is, or almost is, too complicated for the general public.

I just (right now) explained the document to a cathechist and her mind went to how video games harm the youth, which is tangential. I then explained "do not renounce to your ability to think" applied to feeds and fake news, which caused confusion; discussion is required for that. Again, this is a devote interested in education, I can _fear_ imagine how it would go with most people.
by dotBen | 2026-02-02 15:53:15+00:00
It's a very capital intensive operation given the amount of vehicles that need to be carried on the balance sheet.

There are many reasons why a conglomerate like Alphabet doesn't want to hold all of that directly on the balance sheet, which is why Waymo is run as a subsidiary with its own sources of capital.

When I was at Uber 10 plus years ago and we were ideating autonomous vehicles. The general consensus was that we would run the technology platform and private equity would own fleets of cars built and operated to our specification.

Waymo has concluded either we are too early in the journey to decouple the tight vertical integration or they want to go very big and own all of the capital expenditure for what will presumably be a global rollout ultimately.

For anyone like me with a finance and technology crossover interest I actually think this is as interesting, maybe more interesting, than the private equity play around data centers at the moment because all of that is constrained against chip delivery and power constraints.
by b33j0r | 2026-02-02 15:53:45+00:00
Just don’t take one if another one is operating nearby. If they see another waymo, having passed the insecure emotional Turing test, they get self-conscious and wander the neighborhood backstreets until the other one has dropped off its passengers.

(Just experienced this multiple times in Phoenix. It’s impressive at navigating and braking, but not rational planning or flocking.)
Show HN: Gryph – Audit Trail for AI Coding Agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini)
by abhisek | 2026-02-02 15:53:47+00:00
Hi everyone

I am the author of Gryph.

I have been using AI coding agents daily and realized I had no idea what they were actually doing across sessions. Sure, I could check git diff, but that doesn't show:

- Files the agent read but didn't change

- Commands it ran

- The sequence of actions in a session

- What happened last week when something broke

So I built Gryph - a CLI tool that maintains an audit log of all AI agent actions.

How it works:

- Installs hooks into Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI (and other supported coding agents)

- Logs every action to a local SQLite database

- Provides rich querying: filter by time, agent, file path, action type

Quick demo:

$ gryph install
Discovering agents...
[ok] Claude Code v2.1.15
[ok] Cursor v2.4.21
Installation complete.

$ gryph logs --today
14:32 claude-code session 7f3a2b1c
├─ 14:32:12 read src/index.ts
├─ 14:32:18 write src/utils/helper.ts +12 -3
└─ 14:32:22 exec npm test exit:0

$ gryph query --file ".env" --since "7d"
# See if any agent touched sensitive files

Privacy-first:

- 100% local - no cloud, no telemetry

- Sensitive file patterns are protected (actions logged, content never stored)

- Configurable verbosity

GitHub: https://github.com/safedep/gryph

Built with Go. Would love feedback from others using AI coding tools!

Previous post by someone else: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846849
by Retric | 2026-02-02 15:54:00+00:00
No, I’m saying solving obesity reduces the need for food. Did you not see the post directly below this one where I said:

“For clarity, Ozempic etc have actually measurably decreased food consumption.”

Technology isn’t going backwards we can expect increasingly effective medications with fewer side effects at lower costs to drive down food demand over time. Policies designed to prop up production in the face of falling demand are deeply flawed.
by godelski | 2026-02-02 15:55:15+00:00
Most don't even use functions when writing those scripts and it can straight up fuck your system on accident. It's very unlikely but it can happen and a malicious actor can trigger it on purpose.

But this is true about lots of code. We have this notion of "it works, therefore there's no problem" which is just bad engineering. Just because you don't know there's a problem doesn't mean there isn't. Just because it passes the tests doesn't mean you have test coverage.
by ronnier | 2026-02-02 15:55:36+00:00
> but I don't see an obvious way for Waymo to get enshittified

My guess is that once Waymo starts to extremely take off, law makers in various cities will start to pass laws to ban them or the number of regulations will make it impossible to run at a profit. This will almost certainly happen. It will disproportionately impact an entire segment of the population and will put them out of work.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-02 15:55:56+00:00
Eh, I'm not entirely sure if you commented this to the wrong parent comment, if not, how is this connected to what I wrote about?

Just to clarify just in case; We're talking about domain knowledge here, not management knowledge, I'm not entirely clear how that maps to your example, as you're talking about any general experience I suppose? I'm not saying we should put people without experience into management positions, if that's the misreading you did.
by rubslopes | 2026-02-02 15:56:10+00:00
I was fascinated by this website when I was a teenager about 17 years ago. Finding out about the Ian Knot was a "wow" moment. I've used it ever since!

I remember downloading the iOS app on my iPod Touch and being able to create your own lace pattern by dragging your fingers. Incredible stuff!

I'm very happy that the website is still up and running, preserving the same aesthetic as it had years ago.
by palmotea | 2026-02-02 15:56:21+00:00
> With the protestors entering in rental car license plates of ICE or suspected ICE agents into their own database, I wouldn't want to rent a car anytime soon - the possibility of getting a car previously rented by ICE or suspected ICE, and being assaulted by having whistles blown in my ears, is off-putting.

Oh this, 1000 times. I believe some of the protesters are also targeting cars out-of-state plates.

I recently had a rental with out-of-state Texas plates, which just gave me another reason to avoid any place where there was ICE activity.
by riskable | 2026-02-02 15:56:22+00:00
> devs willing to relocate to SF

It baffled me 10 years ago why a company would be willing to pay SF salaries for people who can work from anywhere and it still holds true to this day.

Unless your engineer needs to literally be next to the hardware AND "the hardware" isn't something that can be shipped to/run at their home, why TF would you want to pay Silicon Valley salaries for engineers?

I know a guy that does electrical engineering work that works from home. He makes medical devices! When he orders PCBs they get shipped to his house. He works on a team that has other people doing the same thing (the PCB testing person also gets the boards at home; but that guy's a consultant). For like $1000 (one time) you can setup a "home lab" for doing (plenty sufficient) electronics work. Why would you want to pay ~$100,000/year premium to hire someone local for the same thing?