MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stego-tech | 2026-02-02 17:33:27+00:00
This is why Big Tech is so desperate for AI to work as a wholesale replacement for software developers: they do not pay for their Open Source consumption as-is, and new maintainers aren’t stepping up because they can’t afford rent, let alone to devote their full time to FOSS work free of charge like a lot of older project maintainers do.

The fact that sudo is a critical security pillar for trillions of dollars of global infrastructure but this guy gets bupkis for it screams volumes about the current state of technology.

We must do better, or it’ll be closed systems (OpenAI, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Oracle) all the way down as maintainers age out, go bankrupt, or die without succession plans in place.
by iso1631 | 2026-02-02 17:33:35+00:00
€65k is $77k is £56k. Takehome is 61% Germany, 76% UK, 77% US

€80k is $94k is £69k. Takehome is 60% Germany, 73% UK, 75% US

If Germany taxed at US rates at €65k it would be an extra €867 a month, "Not qualitatively different"

When US IT jobs are on twice the salary ($150-200k or €130-160k) that's a hell of a lot bigger impact than the tax.

US https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator

UK https://listentotaxman.com/

Germany https://www.how-to-germany.com/income-tax-calculator/
by deadbabe | 2026-02-02 17:33:57+00:00
To those who complain about these bots and the security concerns they raise, you basically have two options:

1. You can live in the future, and be at the bleeding edge of the latest AI tech, reaping the benefits. Be part of the solution.

2. You can stay in the past and get left behind, at the mercy of those who took the risks.
by falloutx | 2026-02-02 17:34:01+00:00
At least within the Gaming division morale looks like that Chegg stock graph.

> What would people proudly say “this is what my company built”?

Umm, we built the anger among about our best fans.

> There’s so much innovation, creativity possible using AI, especially as an integration in the OS.

No pls, we are already cooked enough.
by osigurdson | 2026-02-02 17:34:10+00:00
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by znq | 2026-02-02 17:34:23+00:00
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by imanol-mzd | 2026-02-02 17:34:32+00:00
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by Aunche | 2026-02-02 17:35:04+00:00
It's 2026. Everyone knows that NYT is written by liberal elites for liberal elites (or aspirational liberal elites) who spend their money to read such articles. Even if you think it's propaganda, legacy media offers information and a perspective that cannot be found everywhere else. It's the same reason why traders read Zero Hedge even if they aren't ultra-libertarians.

It may comfort you to imagine the NYT's editorial stance as the last thing holding back a revolution, but I guarantee that is not the case. That may change some wannabe liberal elites to wannabe revolutionaries, but the elites who you actually want to change will get their news someplace else.
by RickJWagner | 2026-02-02 17:35:05+00:00
Yeah, but no more Ted Talks, political moralizing, happy selfies with random bystanders.

Only the memories of the brief moments of fun and a lot of sideways glances from the people all around you.

From Gates to former Prince Andrew to Trump to both Clintons (!) there are a lot of people that rue the day they met Epstein.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-02 17:35:12+00:00
As you can see from the username, this is an anonymous account where I speak freely without concern of it being associated with me or my projects in perpetuity. I will extend the same question to you, though, as I have offered to every person I engage with on this subject on HN: what is your 10x project? Have you produced any software that other people would consider using[1]? I have yet to be shown a single project that is primarily LLM-developed which would indicate to me that LLMs are changing the future of software engineering.

[1] AI psychosis projects like Gas Town, which are only used by other psychosis victims to create more psychosis projects and which altogether in the end never result in a real project that solves a real-world problem for real people do not count.
by ritikpatni | 2026-02-02 17:35:17+00:00
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by ilc | 2026-02-02 17:35:17+00:00
LLMs are where you need the most tests.

You want them writing tests especially in critical sections, I'll push to 100% coverage. (Not all code goes there, but thing that MUST work or everything crumbles. Yeah I do it.)

There was one time I was doing the classic: Pull a bug find 2 more thing. And I just told the LLM. "100% test coverage on the thing giving me problems." it found 4 bugs, fixed them, and that functionality has been rock solid since.

100% coverage is not a normal tool. But when you need it. Man does it help.
by dqlobo | 2026-02-02 17:35:26+00:00
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by suydp | 2026-02-02 17:35:27+00:00
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by echelon | 2026-02-02 17:35:41+00:00
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by earlyriser | 2026-02-02 17:35:57+00:00
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by lII1lIlI11ll | 2026-02-02 17:36:05+00:00
Because:

1. LLMs tend to happily ignore those unless constantly prodded.

2. By the nature of my work I tend to spend a lot of time doing small modifications and fixes in other people's code for research and demo purposes. I can't just write a comprehensive code style documentation for every single library I touch, hence my attempts to improve the resulting code quality of Cursor agents with general global rules without much success.
by vidarh | 2026-02-02 17:36:13+00:00
Other models will only overtake as long as there is enough investor money or margins from inference for others to continue training bigger and bigger models.

We can see from inference costs at third party providers that the inference is profitable enough to sustain even third party providers of proprietary models that they are undoubtedly paying licensing/usage fees for, and so these models won't go away.
by mlejva | 2026-02-02 17:36:35+00:00
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by tialaramex | 2026-02-02 17:37:14+00:00
> Will waymo even be available in less mainstream areas?

Ever is a long time. It's not reasonable to predict beyond a decade or so. It's easily possible that this becomes huge and in the 2040s people are astonished that "driving yourself" was a thing, the same way it's hard to comprehend now that most people weren't literate. Not "Couldn't write an essay / read a newspaper" but "Couldn't sign their name / read a postal address"

But it's also possible that this goes nowhere, and outside of a few large cities there is never a robot taxi market, it just doesn't exist. Waymo is, among other things, a bet that there is a large market.

Dense places are where it starts, but that was also true for the telephone. Bell didn't provide service to tiny rural settlements, they wired places like Boston and New York, AIUI the general service provision was a government initiative even in the US, it was never strictly profitable enough for huge corporations to spend their own money making it universal.
QueueAi – A workspace for Mistral with client-side memory and project management
by Haseeb_Iqbal | 2026-02-02 17:37:19+00:00
OP here. I spent the last 3 months building this because I wanted a cleaner UI for the Mistral ecosystem.

The Stack: React, Node.js, Mongo, Mistral API. The Problem: Most wrappers are just 'stateless' chat. I wanted persistent memory that felt like an OS. Why Mistral?: I found 'Mistral Large' to have better reasoning for my specific coding tasks without the 'verbosity' of GPT-4.

Deeply appreciate any feedback on the latency or the memory retrieval logic

https://queueai.app/
by rickydroll | 2026-02-02 17:38:06+00:00
I also worry about the "stop the economy" problem. To me, it's analogous to the AI employment problem. If you cannibalize how a country makes money and generates tax revenue, what do you do instead? For example, Nigeria makes a lot of money from oil sales. Take away the oil industry and how do they make money? Nobody can pretend to be a Nigerian prince or a businessman trying to reclaim millions of dollars.

Now that I think of it, maybe the economic fallout from AI and the oil economic devastation will be widespread fraud, just so people can survive.
by jama211 | 2026-02-02 17:38:19+00:00
Not who you asked but I think it comes down to risk/reward. The consequences of some user finding a big in most websites is low, compared to the risk of an astronaut finding a bug the hard way whilst attempting re-entry.

There is genuinely a reasonable and rational argument to “testing requires more effort than fixing the issues as users find them” if the consequences are low. See video games being notorious for this.

So, industry is more important than language I’d say.
by tristansokol | 2026-02-02 17:38:26+00:00
Small boutique consulting | Remote (US) (some est meetings) | part-time/flexible/1099

Hi! I work with a small group of developers doing custom software development and consulting for small/medium businesses.

We are seeking a developery-data person with experience specifically with CloudSuite Distribution by Infor for one of our clients. It may be a bit of a shot in the dark, but if you have worked with this *specific* ERP system before, we'd be eager to talk to you. Reach out at "ekib.eikooc@rofni".reverse() Please include your experience in your email body/subject as we will have to quickly triage out most of the spam.

PS. Each time I post here I get ~500 emails, almost all are low effort that don't meet anything I am looking for, sometimes for months in the future. I expect it to be even worse as LLMs gain traction. I've hired 4 people from past posts (check my history if you want!), but it can take some time dig through everyone so I apologize to legitimate interests.
by JadoJodo | 2026-02-02 17:38:27+00:00
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by OJFord | 2026-02-02 17:38:44+00:00
Location: UK (but open to working other timezone)
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: language-agnostic, but professional experience mainly with Python, SQL, AWS, & Terraform; some Go & Rust
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Most recent role was building data analytics platform for agricultural customers; previously connectivity/control/update for IoT devices. I think I'm good at understanding and adapting to a new business domain, and enjoy that learning opportunity. I believe we build better software with a better understanding of the context it operates in.

Have done & can do full-stack work (helped last company grow from three engineers and through acquisition) but lean towards backend/infrastructure in expertise. Most recently platform technical lead (IC).

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Looking for something new to sink my teeth into in an organisation with room to grow. Remote opportunities only please, and that I'm eligible for residing in the UK & as a British citizen, though I'm perfectly willing to travel for particular events/big meetings. Cheers!
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-02 17:38:51+00:00
I'm a volunteer firefighter. I've wondered what my county's response would be if I borrowed one of our SCBAs (self-contained breathing apparatus) to wear to an anti-ICE demo or ICE observation incident. It's not a gas mask in the sense of this article, because as the name suggests it's an entirely self-contained air supply - it doesn't matter what is in the air at all. The one issue is that a single air bottle has a finite and not particularly long use time (if you're in good shape and don't panic, 20-30 minutes tops).
by softfalcon | 2026-02-02 17:39:05+00:00
> It almost always indicates some bottleneck in the application or TCP tuning.

Yeah, this has been my experience with low-overhead streams as well.

Interestingly, I see a ubiquity of this "open more streams to send more data" pattern all over the place for file transfer tooling.

Recent ones that come to mind have been BackBlaze's CLI (B2) and taking a peek at Amazon's SDK for S3 uploads with Wireshark. (What do they know that we don't seem to think we know?)

It seems like they're all doing this? Which is maybe odd, because when I analyse what Plex or Netflix is doing, it's not the same? They do what you're suggesting, tune the application + TCP/UDP stack. Though that could be due to their 1-to-1 streaming use case.

There is overhead somewhere and they're trying to get past it via semi-brute-force methods (in my opinion).

I wonder if there is a serialization or loss handling problem that we could be glossing over here?
by troupo | 2026-02-02 17:40:39+00:00
> - Modern Ergonomics

What does this even mean? Modern Swift looks like a haphazard mishmash of conflicting features where every problem is solved by "just one more keyword bro". In 2024 it had 217 keywords: https://x.com/jacobtechtavern/status/1841251621004538183 and that was reduced slightly, to 203, in 2025: https://x.com/jacobtechtavern/status/1962242782405267617

According to Lattner they never even had the time to design anything due to time pressure from Apple [1]. So Swift ended up with a type system that the compiler can't even check and is impossible to fix. So the compiler routinely just gives up and complains on even the most trivial code.

[1] https://youtu.be/ovYbgbrQ-v8?si=tAko6n88PmpWrzvO&t=1400

--- start quote ---

Swift has turned into a gigantic super complicated bag of special cases, special syntax, special stuff...

We had a ton of users, it had a ton of iternal technical debt... the whole team was behind, and instead of fixing the core, what the team did is they started adding all these special cases.

--- end quote ---
by ilyaizen | 2026-02-02 17:40:49+00:00
Thank you, much appreciated.

Of course, not everyone who appears on HN's front page is an experienced developer, and I'm not a statistician. I should note that the data underwent filtering and ideally it didn't count the managers' fluff.

This task is inherently impractical, even with comments, nobody should care about averages. If you want the real experts' opinion, go to the experts. https://youtu.be/-0MD3Jn60fw?t=130

I hope people understand that it's a meme website lol.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-02 17:41:03+00:00
The problems with your take (and others like it) are manyfold.

First, there are some "smells" that I noticed. You say that LLMs hallucinate APIs and in another comment (brief skim of your history to make sure it's worth replying) you say something about chatting with an LLM. If you're "using" them in a chat interface, that's already 1+year old tech, and you should know that noone here talks about that. We're talking about LLM assisted coding using harnesses that make it possible and worth your time. Another smell is that you assert that LLMs only work for languages that are popular. While it's true they work best in those cases, as of ~1 y ago, it's also true that they can work even on invented languages. So I take every "i work in this very niche field" with a grain of salt nowadays.

Second, the overall problem with "it doesn't work for me" is that it's an useless signal. Both in general and in particular. If I see a "positive post", I can immediately test it. If it works, great, I can include it in my toolbox. If it doesn't work, I can skip it. But with posts like yours, I can't do anything. You haven't provided any details, and even if you did, it would still be so dependant on your particular problem, with language, env, etc. that it would make the signal very weak for anyone else that doesn't have your particular problem.

I am actually curious, if you can share, what's your setup. And perhaps an example of things you couldn't do. Perhaps we can help.

The third problem that I see is that you are "fighting" other deamons, instead of working with people that want to contribute. You bring up hypebots, you bring up AGI, unkept promises and so on. But we, the people here, haven't promised you anything. We're not the ones hyping up agi asi mgi and so on. If you want to learn something, it would be more productive to keep those discussions separate. If your fight is with the hyperbots, fight them on those topics, not here. Or, honestly, don't waste your time. But you do you.

Having said that, here's my take: With small provisions made for extreme niche fields (so extreme that it would place you in 0.0x% of coders, making the overall point moot anyway) I think people reporting 0 success are either wrong or using it wrong. It's impossible for me to believe that everything that I can achieve is so out of phase with whatever you are trying to achieve as to you getting literally 0 success. And I'm sick and tired of hearing this "oh it works for trivial tasks". No. It works reliably and unattended mostly for trivial tasks, but it can also work in very advanced niches. And there's plenty of public examples already for this - things like kernel optimisation, tensor libraries, cuda code, and so on. These are not "amateur" topics by any stretch of the word. And no, juniors can't one shot this either. I say this after 25+years doing this: there are plenty of times where I'm dumbstruck by something working first try. And I can't believe I'm the only one.