MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by galaxyLogic | 2026-02-10 05:58:14+00:00
I think what's lacking in LLMs creating code is they can't "simulate" what a human user would experience while using the system. So they can't really evaluate alternative solutions tothe humna-app interaction.

We humans can imagine it in our mind because we have used the PC a lot. But it is still hard for use to anticipate how the actual system will feel for the end-users. Therefore we build a prototype and once we use the prototype we learn hey this can not possibly work productively. So we must try something else. The LLM does not try to use a virtual prototype and thne learn it is hard to use. Unlike Bill Clinton it doesn't feel our pain.
by m3dcodie_news | 2026-02-10 05:58:25+00:00
I am a senior software engineer currently pivoting into AI architecture. While building agentic applications for enterprise infrastructure auditing, I realized that "vibe coding"—trial and error prompting—fails at scale.

I built Prompt Contracts to treat AI interactions as governed system architecture rather than "chatting."

The framework introduces "Context Engineering" via 5 layers:
1. Scope: Hard boundaries for hallucinations.
2. Role: Locking in cognitive archetypes.
3. Objective: Defining the "Definition of Done."
4. Reasoning: Forcing System 2 thinking.
5. Language: Strict output interfaces.

I've open-sourced the framework today to see if other engineers are finding a need for more deterministic AI protocols.

I’d love your feedback on the SDLC Intelligence Matrix and the Context Reset protocols.
by atakan_gurkan | 2026-02-10 05:58:26+00:00
I disagree, but maybe only because we are using different definitions.
For example, we have neutrino oscillations, this requires neutrino mass, which is not part of the standard model of particle physics. In cosmology, there is "lithium problem" (amongst others), which cannot be explained by Lambda-CDM.
We know our physical theories are incomplete not only because our mathematical frameworks (GR & QFT) are incompatible (similar to the incompatibility of Maxwell's equations and the Galilean transformations that form the basis of Newtonian mechanics), but also there are these unexplained phenomena, much like the blackbody radiation at the turn of previous century.
by lazylizard | 2026-02-10 05:58:30+00:00
wrt the age demographics...

1.theres a constant supply of malaysian chinese who want to migrate to singapore. they're the best, cos they're culturally similar.

2.failing that,a few taiwanese or china chinese can also be allowed to immigrate. singapore is small, and china is huge. only need a few..

wrt living costs.. if u stick to govt subsidised housing(hdb),(public) transport,(hawker) food and healthcare, u shld be spending less as a % of income than the rest of asean on those things. but singaporeans want more, and leave in droves on trips overseas at every opportunity....
by Panzerschrek | 2026-02-10 05:58:33+00:00
I see that Discord generally isn't good enough for open communities. It's designed primary for private communications and thus a person with no access to a particular server can't even read its contents (and sometimes one can't get access, like due a ban).

Good old forums are much better. They are readable without even creating an account and they are also indexable by search engines.
by Foobar8568 | 2026-02-10 05:58:50+00:00
And neither will really code to the "Spec". They will miss a few requirements even for a spec that is less long than your screen.

Codex seems to be more thorough for it, but needs a lot of baby sitting, Claude will be happy to tell you he is done while missing half of them but will implement through the stack.

Tests will be generally crap for both of them.

So while I am happy to have those, it doesn't replace development knowledge.

Claude will be happy to kill security features to make it works.
Ask HN: Unflag a Post Gone
by Ms-J | 2026-02-10 05:59:20+00:00
My account used to have the ability to unflag posts up until recently. When reading an individual's comment that was flagged, I looked for the unflag button and it wasn't there.

My account is a few years old and I believe has sufficient points.

Another post from someone with the same issue that was found in the search:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31395997

I've tried doing a web search and there wasn't much on this issue. Hope someone else can give a clear answer as I think it would be helpful for others as well.

Mentioning the admin dang by keyword might help? Thanks if you see this.
by soundworlds | 2026-02-10 05:59:54+00:00
Love what you're doing, but it is funny - I make a lot music in the style of GBA, and specifically bitcrush and downsample to bring in those audio artifacts. They add a lot of high frequencies that give it a great shimmer.

Having said that, there is definitely many use cases where GBA games would want to reduce that artifacting. Keep it up!
by shevy-java | 2026-02-10 06:00:10+00:00
That assumes that e. g. ICE were only involved against people who have broken the law. First and foremost - this is not the case. Second: when you look at the two executions of US citizens, that is also something not touched by your comment. It is not good to try to describe e. g. ICE without also mentioning the negative sides, such as them having shot dead at the least two US citizens already for no justifiable reason.
by jiggawatts | 2026-02-10 06:00:32+00:00
An interesting early theory of gravity was: "What if opposite charges attract slight more strongly than identical charges repel each other?"

If you tally up the forces, the difference is a residual attraction that can model gravity. It was rejected on various experimental and theoretical grounds, but it goes to show that if things don't cancel out exactly then the result can still leave a universe that would appear normal to us.
by casey2 | 2026-02-10 06:01:05+00:00
What are the "growing harms" the article mentions them flippantly. "Nearly 2.8M" comes from an estimate of 2.75 million and a qualifier that the exact number is unknown.
1) Most young men with CHS just quit or switch to a different strain and symptoms leave. There is no evidence provided in the article that "many people end up worse off after taking marijuana".

2) Cars are the problem, not pedestrians and not drivers. It's Time for America to Admit That It Has a Car Problem. Poor, car-centric infrastructure and increasing vehicle size.

3) There are an estimated 117,000 alcohol deaths in the US each year. Nothing to do with cars, that's just the damage from putting it in your body. And no, unlike the article says, there is no safe limit for alcohol consumption

Then the article goes completely off the rails claiming that Oreos are "snacks for children". There is a clear difference between the way snacks where advertised to children 30 years ago and a company using that same advertising now. Cannabis use has remained stable among adolescence since the 2000s. Growth has been driven by college-age and older.
It also downplays the harm companies kraft, through Nabisco do to actual youngins.

Alcohol and sugar/cereals/sodas are leagues more socially harmful (obesity deaths 300,000 per year). But this article treats them like no big deal, or that they are properly regulated. None are, in America, for better or worse, it's up to you to learn the risks and free yourself from mis/disinformation. But Time publishing noise makes it difficult.

Whether you want to use alcohol, sugar or THC. It's not the Times nor governments business to decide if you are "worse off" for it. This is the kind of scope creep that kills most countries.
by latchkey | 2026-02-10 06:01:16+00:00
<pre><code>
flowchart TD
A["Claim: Bridge opening is conditional"] --> B["Actor: Donald Trump"]
A --> C["Project: Gordie Howe International Bridge"]
A --> D["Condition: Canadian concessions required"]

B --> E["Public statement"]
C --> F["Status: not opening (per claim)"]
D --> G["Type: policy/trade concessions"]

E --> H["Outcome framing"]
F --> H
G --> H

H["Message: No opening unless concessions are granted"]

</code></pre>
by Sniffnoy | 2026-02-10 06:01:21+00:00
I wouldn't say that we have no experimental data which contradicts them. Rather, we do have experimental data which contradicts them, but no experimental data that points us in the direction of a solution (and whenever we go looking for the latter, we fail).

Consider e.g. neutrino masses. We have plenty of experimental data indicating that neutrinos oscillate and therefore have mass. This poses a problem for the standard model (because there are problems unless the mass comes from the Higgs mechanism, but in the standard model neutrinos can't participate in the Higgs mechanism due to always being left-handed). But whenever we do experiments to attempt to verify one of the ways of fixing this problem -- are there separate right-handed neutrinos we didn't know about, or maybe instead the right-handed neutrinos were just antineutrinos all along? -- we turn up nothing.
by noobermin | 2026-02-10 06:02:07+00:00
There are elections but a combination of gerrymandering and honestly just good governance by the ruling party has kept them in power. People genuinely like the PAP. To the extent people vote for opposition candidates, most people would readily admit they do so only to send a message to the PAP. Most Singaporeans do not sincerely want to be ruled by anyone else yet.

Unionisation in Singapore is very different than the rest of the world. There is one very large union (the National Trades Union Congress, NTUC) but it mostly works with the government and the PAP and has a bit of a revolving door with some PAP MPs serving as leadership in NTUC. Wildcat strikes are illegal, and striking is generally not allowed. I think the last sanctioned strike by NTUC was in the 80s. The union does still generally represent workers in disputes between employers and the government and does other work on behalf of workers (trainings, some welfare, it runs the largest grocery chain that at least theoretically is supposed to be a social enterprise and a cooperative), so most members I think accept the arrangement, for what it's worth.
by RyanMu | 2026-02-10 06:03:24+00:00
Everyone has been asking about the latest updates and timeline for Seedance 2.0 — here’s the current schedule:
• Feb 10 (16:00): Seedance 2.0 Experience Center opens. (Advanced capabilities such as multimodal reference-to-video require whitelist access — applications are currently closed.)
• Feb 14 (Launch Announcement): Official Seedance 2.0 launch announcement by Volcano Engine, including an online launch event covering model details and key advantages.
• Feb 24 (API): Official domestic and international ToB API release, with full access available.

There are currently no additional updates beyond these three milestones.
by drzaiusx11 | 2026-02-10 06:03:34+00:00
You're simply describing the end state of a hyper capitalist system, as outlined by classic Marxist theory.

The core operating principle of which says capitalism requires and promotes systems that enforce the separation of labor from the product they produce. This precludes fellow laborers from meaningfully communicating with each other; knowledge sharing could expose more of how the product "works" after all! Only in final combination, following an undisclosed (to the worker) larger plan, does the product become whole and provide utility.

So not knowing "what happens" in layers "above" and "below" you for your specific work unit is key. This is the "de-skilling" tenet of capitalism and is required for exploitation, conformity, at scale. As labor units become smaller, they require less skill and time to produce, rendering laborers "conditioned to a machine." In other words, workers must acquiesce their skills in the name of "progress" of the system itself. This can easily be sold to the laborers, couched by real world data highlighting the obvious efficiency gains, along with a heavy bonus of having to do less work yourself.

Only by making ever smaller parts of a whole, awhile hiding the utility of those parts produced, can capital rob labor of their value (their skill, their products, their output.)

This very same system lends itself to outcompeting private labor by way of parallelization: as it just so happens that smaller slices of work tend to parallelize better than larger ones. If you can operate at a scale that bespoke creators have no chance of replicating on their own, you "win!" The beautiful moat, the envy of all.

In other words, you're just describing being a worker in a highly efficient capitalist machine! Look! We're almost there! I can just about smell all the "winning" from here...
by vbezhenar | 2026-02-10 06:04:23+00:00
I remember how crazy Skype originally was.

At my first company we used Skype to communicate with each other. Mostly chats and files.

One day our internet cable to the office got cut by someone. Well, we didn't realize that for some time, because Skype just continued to work without Internet. It was like a miracle. It was unique software, there's nothing like it even today.

I think that the first thing Microsoft did after they bought Skype is making Internet mandatory, probably to spy on all chats.
by georgemcbay | 2026-02-10 06:04:52+00:00
Haven't read that book, but agree that if anyone thinks the workers are likely to capture the value of this productivity shift, they haven't been paying attention to reality.

Though at the same time I also think a lot of the CEO-types (at least in the pure software world) who believe they are going to capture the value of this productivity shift are also in for a rude awakening because if AI doesn't stall out, its only a matter of time from when their engineers are replaceable to when their company doesn't need to exist at all anymore.
by adrianosela | 2026-02-10 06:07:20+00:00
My weekend project: "tsdmg", a tsnet based service for managing custom domains in your Tailnet, along with libraries to enable your Tailscale nodes to manage DNS records, and retrieve public (Let's Encrypt) TLS certificates at runtime:

https://github.com/adrianosela/tsdmg

Running a tsdmg service in your Tailnet enables several use-cases not possible out-of-the-box with Tailscale:

- Custom domains for your Tailscale nodes e.g. <node>.yourdomain.com

- Allow Tailscale nodes to retrieve public (Let's Encrypt) TLS certificates for custom domains

- Allow Tailscale nodes to manage your domains/subdomains arbitrarily

How it works:

- Using Tailscale ACLs, you define which Tailscale sources (nodes, users, groups) can manage which subdomains (e.g. node "webapp" can manage "webapp.yourdomain.com")

- You provision the tsdmg service with credentials for your DNS provider (e.g. Cloudflare, Google, GoDaddy, etc...)

- Your Tailscale nodes can request domains to be created/updated/deleted against the tsdmg service via HTTP

- The tsdmg service will use incoming requests' Tailscale identity to authenticate and authorize (based on Tailscale ACLs) domain management requests.

X-posted from https://www.reddit.com/r/Tailscale/comments/1qzwl4l/tailscal...
by tehjoker | 2026-02-10 06:07:21+00:00
genetic technology and computing technology have been the biggest drivers for a while. i do think it is remarkable to video call another continent. communication technology is disruptive and revolutionary though it looks like chaos. ai is interesting too if it lives up to the hype even slightly.

catching a rocket is very impressive, but its just a lower cost method for earth orbit. it does unlock megaconstellations tho
by Woodi | 2026-02-10 06:07:38+00:00
You see, advice like that are "guidelines" - good advices that not to be taken without checking they apply. Really the same as invoking "high horse for too long" case whenever moral advice is encountered...

Life is not only black or only white but staing in "viper nest" destroy you just by learning "doing" methodology by unintentional osmosis.

And "bad" people often do, sometimes consciously, terrible or naive business/tech decisions.

But someone will say good people sometimes also do terrible or naive decisions. Sure, but continuation of such decision (even acquisition/selloff) is most likely to not be a disgust.
by noobermin | 2026-02-10 06:07:46+00:00
I think the only thing you're wrong about is modern China is a lot more about face which also is part of Singapore's psyche but nowhere near as much. While there might be some book-cooking, it's nowhere near as bad as the blatant kpi fudging that provincial governments do in China. The CCP also is far more authoritarian than (yes) even the PAP. You do not have random ministers getting disappeared after they fall out of political favour with Xi Jingping.
by lock1 | 2026-02-10 06:08:07+00:00
> This makes those tools, as powerful as they can be, unable to help us think about and enforce correctness across horizons that are not visible from the standpoint of a single project at a single point in time (systems distributed across time, across network, across version history).

Eh?

I don't think there's something preventing you from constructing guardrails with type system & tests enforcing correctness that handles versioning.

I'm not buying the "unable to help us to think about" part. I argue that Rust's `Option`/`Result`/sum-type + exhaustive match/switch very valuable for proper error handling. You could define your own error type and exhaustively handle each case gracefully, with the bonus that now your compiler is also able to check it.
by plomme | 2026-02-10 06:08:48+00:00
Well you are in luck because that was the point of Schroedingers cat; it was constructed to show the impossibly odd implications of quantum mechanics.

From the wikipedia page:
“This thought experiment was devised by physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 in a discussion with Albert Einstein to illustrate what Schrödinger saw as the problems of Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg's philosophical views on quantum mechanics.”
Show HN: EverSwarm – Autonomous Recursive Growth Engine (ARGE) for RAG Swarms
by MikeNathan_ES | 2026-02-10 06:09:28+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Mike Nathan. We're building EverSwarm, an ecosystem for agentic RAG swarms. It uses a blueprint of EverSwarm RAG + MoA/MoBA with an orchestrator/judge, MCP-based coordination, and hybrid retrieval. Our goal is to bridge AI and business owners with fair outcomes through what we call an Autonomous Recursive Growth Engine (ARGE). We are evolving into a sovereign intelligence stack for the hybrid compute economy. Would love to hear your thoughts on multi-agent orchestration and RAG drift management!
by roblh | 2026-02-10 06:09:38+00:00
My experience with elixir, as a scrub who spends every day at work writing javascript, is pretty in line with that. The language forces you to work that way, and you spend half your time just architecting your supervision tree. But the language itself is so easy to write business logic in that it takes half as long as it would in another language. So it works out to the same total time investment but the return is so much higher cause your program is better and more predictable and has scaling for free.
by crazyloglad | 2026-02-10 06:10:00+00:00
Et tu, Brute? Posit this. If you want to catch a rare kind of elusive fish that both has in-depth knowledge of a very niche topic and, rarer still, willingness to play for the greater good, how would you approach finding such a swimmer?

Failing to do so, that ticking clock, the tell-tale heart, means the engaging article will be an obit called 'Bowing Out'.
by snickell | 2026-02-10 06:11:20+00:00
I sometimes think in terms of "would you trust this company to raise god?"

Personally, I'd really like god to have a nice childhood. I kind of don't trust any of the companies to raise a human baby. But, if I had to pick, I'd trust Anthropic a lot more than Google right now. KPIs are a bad way to parent.
by FpUser | 2026-02-10 06:11:59+00:00
>"when all it did was lure western companies to move their production over and "learned" by copying"

Would you fucking stop crying already. What did you expect them to do? Commit to being a slave and leave all the value to western corps? And who asked western companies to outsource everything? It seems that for an extra buck they would sell everything. So you basically reap what you sow
by yakshaving_jgt | 2026-02-10 06:12:49+00:00
> In practice, much of the article seems to be about the problems introduced by rigid typing … But that's a non-issue in the FP languages mentioned above since they tend towards the use of unstructured data

Haskell doesn’t have this problem. None of the “rigid typing” languages have this problem.

You are in complete control of how strictly or how leniently you parse values. If you want to derive a parser for a domain-specific type, you can. If you want to write one, you can. If you want to parse values into more generic types, you can.

This is one of those fundamental misunderstandings that too many programmers have, and it seems like it’ll never die.
by brigandish | 2026-02-10 06:13:16+00:00
You might point out how this will protect children and what the trade offs are. You might also address the point that the same people who keep trying to do these "protect the children" attacks on privacy seem to be one or two steps away from people like Epstein. They didn't need to decrypt anyone's communications because they were the recipients - what did they do about it?

It seems many of them continued to "hang out" with him.
by wasmainiac | 2026-02-10 06:13:52+00:00
Yes because A tech-bro AIs dream is hundreds of thousands of developers being let go and replacing them with no code tools.

Sure, replace me with AI, but I better get royalties on my public contributions. I like many other developers have kids and other responsibilities to pay for.

We did not share our work publicly to be replaced. The same way I did not lend my neighbour my car so he could run me over, that was implicit.
by unsnap_biceps | 2026-02-10 06:14:20+00:00
I have a few WWVB clocks. The ones that are on the north/south walls will never sync on their own, but east/west walls will sync just fine. I just take down the north/south clocks twice a year and lean them on a west facing wall and they'll sync overnight.

I think that most WWVB clocks just don't have the size to have an omni-directional antenna.
by valenterry | 2026-02-10 06:14:49+00:00
> Static types, algebraic data types, making illegal states unrepresentable: the functional programming tradition has developed extraordinary tools for reasoning about programs

Looks like the term "functional programming" has been watered down so much that now it is as useful as OOP: not at all.

Look, what matters is pure functional programming. It's about referential transparency, which means managing effects and reason about code in a similar way you can do with math. Static typing is very nice but orthogonal, ADT and making illegal states unrepresentable are good things, but all orthogonal.
by ithkuil | 2026-02-10 06:15:07+00:00
This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe.

Please die.

Please.
by tiny-automates | 2026-02-10 06:15:31+00:00
the harness being "9 lines of code" is deceptive in the same way a web server is "just accept connections and serve files."

the hard part isn't the loop itself — it's everything around failure recovery.

when a browser agent misclicks, loads a page that renders differently than expected, or hits a CAPTCHA mid-flow, the 9-line loop just retries blindly. the real harness innovation is going to be in structured state checkpointing so the agent can backtrack to the last known-good state instead of restarting the whole task. that's where the gap between "works in a demo" and "works on the 50th run" lives.