MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by willio58 | 2026-02-08 18:45:46+00:00
For me, getting into management was less about feeling bogged down in the specifics, but more about control (directed mostly above). Anyone who’s had a bad manager or bad decisions they need to adhere to might be familiar with the feeling that caused me to dip my toes into management.

Like I’ve been in situations as an IC where poor leadership from above has literally caused less efficient and more painful day-to-day work. I always hoped I could sway those decisions from my position as an IC, but reality rarely aligned with that hope.

I actually love the details, but I just don’t get too deep into them these days as I don’t want to micro-manage.

I do find I have more say in things my team deals with now that I’m a manager.
by mystraline | 2026-02-08 18:45:56+00:00
Thats the underlying dread.

The base capitalist premise is if you work, you'll have resources to survive and thrive. The flip-side is that if you cannot or refuse to work, you will starve, be destitute, homeless, without medical care, live under a bridge, and die hopeless.

And societal failings in a capitalist system are always reflected towards the individual no matter what.

Bad monetary policy? Should have saved. Businesses buy state laws to worsen worker laws? Get a better job. Got sick and medical lost your job? Too bad, go die, I guess?

Its never a systemic thing we can identify and fix. But its always always reflected as a personal failing.

Theres a top comment on this article that LLMs are a perfect parieto machine. 80% good, 20% utter shit and lies. That seems to track pretty well with what I'm seeing. If thats generally being accepted, I have to ask if my (and all others professional labor) if we're worth our wages for that 20%. And the question isnt being asked of us, but about us in HR and C levels.

I'm already seeing "make do with what less labor you already have and hope AI helps". I support a national level thing (all 50 states). Used to be 3 engineers for backend. Now its just me. I'm already seeing the stark negative effects, overworking, sloperating as a necessity (no DBA), and hope and prayer stuff doesnt go down.

And combined with the fact we're seeing worse hiring and layoffs since the Great Recession... Something's gotta change.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-08 18:46:16+00:00
LFP battery production in the US only recently reached larger scale; so I expect it will be a while before they get around to sodium ion. With all the tariffs, they'd have to license technology and build local factories to get started. That will probably be a few years at least. Or the tariffs might become more reasonable at some point and they could import battery cells a bit sooner than that. But probably not until the end of this decade.
by loeg | 2026-02-08 18:47:22+00:00
In this metaphor, the car manufacturer only invested R&D in new models because it expected to be able to recoup that R&D spending from my higher purchase price. If I start paying the same low price for cars as you do, the manufacturer stops investing as much in R&D for new models. Your access to new models was free riding on my higher prices.

When we all negotiate lower prices, we get fewer new drugs. Maybe that's better than the status quo (for Americans). Maybe it isn't.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-08 18:47:31+00:00
I’m pretty sure that the answer to that question is positive: those who have worked with code that sparks joy won’t like interacting with it closely being taken away, whereas the people for whom the code they have to work with inspires misery will be thankful for the opportunity to at least slight free themselves from the shackles of needing to run in circles for two weeks to implement a basic form because everything around it is a mess.
by WalterBright | 2026-02-08 18:47:41+00:00
> wealth inequality has gotten so out of hand that people are forced to buy the cheaper products.

Other people having more money does not result in higher prices for the rest, i.e. it does not cause inflation.

For example, when I was a boy steak was a rare luxury. Today, a steak dinner costs less than a TV dinner or a bag of Doritos.
by wasmainiac | 2026-02-08 18:48:09+00:00
> An overall failed attempt at using AI
> I attempted to use AI to try out the process, mostly because 1) the industry won't shut up about AI, and 2) I wanted a grounded opinion of it for novel projects, so I have a concrete and personal reference point when talking about it in the wild. At the end of the day, this is still a hobbyist project, so AI really isn't the point! But still...

> I believe in disclosing all attempts or actual uses of generative AI output, because I think it's unethical to deceive people about the process of your work. Not doing so undermines trust, and amounts to disinformation or plagiarism. Disclosure also invites people who have disagreements to engage with the work, which they should be able to. I'm open to feedback, btw.

Thank you for your honesty! Also tremendous project.
by _aavaa_ | 2026-02-08 18:48:52+00:00
Full LLM, no. Not yet.

But there’s new things like sweep [0] that you now can do locally.

And 2-3 years ago capable open models weren’t even a thing. Now we’ve made progress on that front. And I believe they’ll keep improving (both on accessibility and competency).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713106
by pojzon | 2026-02-08 18:49:06+00:00
Coding will take 4 times less time, but review will take almost the same amount of time if not more if the solution does not worl out of the box or has unforseen corner cases.

LLMs were trained on public code libraries and unfortunately most pf that OSS code is garbage.

There are ofcourse raisins there, but those are far in between.

Top it off with hallucinations and suddenly you spend more time debugging messy AI code when you could write the same in a fraction of that time.

The easier the task, the better job LLMs do, the harder the task the worse results you get.

Source: working with those tools daily.

Using your analogy:

- by car it will be 30km uphill, coz of how the road is built

- walking it will be 1km straight line
by rexpop | 2026-02-08 18:49:31+00:00
You're not going to find, with me, a realm of life that's not fundamentally political—"the personal is political," and one's religious choices are social choices fundamentally shaping your relations to others. Think of Siddhartha Gauthama—his renunciation was a withdrawal from a governing class, not just from private life and, in his final instructions, the Buddha is portrayed as telling the monks to govern themselves on the model of the Vajjian republic: regular assemblies, harmony, shared resources, and respect for agreed rules.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-08 18:50:06+00:00
> The only thing i liked about that whole exchange was that GPT was readily willing to concede that all the details and observations I included point to a service degradation and failure on Microsoft side.

Reminds me of an interaction I was forced to have with a chatbot over the phone for “customer service”. It kept apologizing, saying “I’m sorry to hear that.” in response to my issues.

The thing is, it wasn’t sorry to hear that. AI is incapable of feeling “sorry” about anything. It’s anthropomorphisizing itself and aping politeness. I might as well have a “Sorry” button on my desk that I smash every time a corporation worth $TRILL wrongs me. Insert South Park “We’re sorry” meme.

Are you sure “readily willing to concede” is worth absolutely anything as a user or consumer?
by adiabatichottub | 2026-02-08 18:50:35+00:00
It works well if you use the turbo to feed air to the gasifier, creating a positive-pressure fuel system. Pulling from the gasifier runs the risk of fouling the turbo with tar and particulate, unless your operating conditions and filtration are perfect, which they rarely are. The danger in running positive pressure is that any leaks downstream of the gasifier could be emitting large amounts of carbon monoxide. If you can modulate exhaust pressure to the turbine then you can use the turbo to just overcome the pressure drop of the gasifier and filter without creating any extra pressure.
by hackermeows | 2026-02-08 18:50:36+00:00
Yes claude + scripts without any big corp restrictions / bloat , if i want to connect to a website or api i can just do it. If you expose it to me as a human it is fair game for my assistant to read data the same way i do. Its like the old days of internet . I build harnesses for a living these days , i see why enterprises are slow to even to see what is possible
by djoldman | 2026-02-08 18:50:40+00:00
> Appliances like Microwaves, etc were revolutionary for its time. Only problem: they lasted forever (>20 years). No 1 needed to buy it again = no business. It was deliberately not made to last as long and possibly not exactly cheaper both in cost and retail price.

I'm curious if the inflation-adjusted prices of those long-lasting early microwaves were less than the cost of 3 current microwaves that last 7 years. Also, this isn't an apples to apples comparison because they gradually lost performance over time and it took longer to heat up food as they aged.
by mrandish | 2026-02-08 18:50:54+00:00
As a founder fortunate enough to get to and through a positive acquisition, just reading the chapter outline and clicking into a few I can see there's useful perspective here I wish I'd had. Since the situation is pretty rare there's not a lot of info for founders from founders.

As it was I had to figure it out as it happened. I managed to thread the needle while avoiding any major pitfalls but it was a close thing that easily could have blown up. The difference probably came down to some good luck at the right moment, which isn't a great feeling in retrospect.
by magicmicah85 | 2026-02-08 18:51:03+00:00
Played for a bit, liked the aesthetics so I bookmarked it to come back to it later and discovered a bug. On mac/chrome, I hit CMD + D to bookmark. By doing so, I setup some kind of autowalk bug where I kept walking to the right. I couldn't stop myself from walking, even pressing WAS temporarily stopped me but as soon as I let go, I kept walking right.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-08 18:51:23+00:00
You have to move up the stack and make yourself a more valuable product. I have an analogy…

I’ve been working for cloud consulting companies/departments for six years.

Customers were willing to pay mid level (L5) consultants with @amazon.com by their names (AWS ProServe) $x to do one “workstream”/epic worth of work. I got paid $x - Amazon’s cut in cash and RSUs.

Once I got Amazon’ed, I had to get a staff level position (senior equivalent at BigTech) at a third party company where now I am responsible for larger projects. Before I would have needed people - now I need code gen tools and my quarter century of development experience and my decade of experience leading implementations + coding.
by LocalH | 2026-02-08 18:52:04+00:00
> You're not "throwing out half the motion".

Yes, you are. The odd and even lines from proper interlaced footage belong to two separate moments in time, and so when you deinterlace from 60i to 30p you are unavoidably losing half of those moments.

> Given that PC monitors these days don't have an interlaced mode, how would you display it?

You deinterlace it to 60fps. There exist several algorithms to do so without losing motion fluidity.

> Line doubling, so you're throwing out half the vertical resolution?

Losing half of the vertical resolution of a 60i video is losing half the motion.
by mjevans | 2026-02-08 18:52:24+00:00
That's the mindset isn't it?

*Punitive* use of force.

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Batman usually doesn't do too badly. Not only is it fiction but they're often against fiction level villains who are 'hardened' criminals in literal senses. Even then the violence tends to stop at the point where actual resistance stops. (They get tied up and delivered to the cops with maybe the black eye used in the initial apprehension.)

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Contrast this with what we see repeatedly on TV when poorly trained and poorly supervised law enforcement officers beat down or outright murder someone until they're not just not resisting anymore but are outright _unable_ to resist at all. Such excessive use of force in a professional context should also be a crime that is punished with congruent weight for the breach trust in a public official absent extenuating circumstances ('I had an emotional reaction' leading directly to deadly force should not be such a circumstance).

I do recall a highly unfortunate case of someone from WA state who was on some combination of super drugs such that there didn't appear to be a reasonable application of force to result in a successful outcome. More and better tools might help. Maybe net launchers and methods of incapacitating someone at a bit of a distance for mutual safety?
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-08 18:52:42+00:00
that's wild - weaponizing gcc to craft kernel modules is not something I'd expect from automated testing. most fuzzing stops at syscall-level probes but this is full exploit chain development.

the metadata service probing is particularly concerning because that's the classic cloud escape path. if you're running this in aws/gcp and the agent figures out IMDSv1 is reachable, game over. vsock scanning too - that's targeting the host-guest communication channel directly.

93% on cybench is genuinely scary when you think about what it means. it's not just finding known CVEs, it's systematically exploring the attack surface like a skilled pentester would. and unlike humans, it doesn't get tired or skip the boring enumeration steps. did you find it tried timing attacks or side channels at all? or was it mostly direct exploitation?
by FpUser | 2026-02-08 18:53:01+00:00
>"If you can't code by hand professionally anymore"

Then you are simply fucked. The code you deliver will contain bugs which LLM sometimes will be able to fix and sometimes will be not. And as a person who has no clue you will have no idea how to fix it when LLM can not. Also even when LLM code is correct it can and sometimes does introduce gross performance fuckups, like using patterns that employ N-square complexity instead of N for example. Again as a clueless person you are fucked. And if one goes to areas like concurrency, multithreading optimizations one gets fucked even more. I can go on and on on way more particular reasons to get screwed.

For a person who can hand code AI becomes amazing tool. For me - it helps immensely.
by askonomm | 2026-02-08 18:53:23+00:00
Yup, totally! I'm also not against the evolution of software engineer to a software architect. We were on that direction already anyway with the ever increasing amount of abstraction in our libraries and tools. This also frees up my ability to do other things, like coordinate cross team efforts, deal with customer support issues, etc. As a generalist, I feel more useful and thus valuable than ever, and that makes me very happy.
by 1a527dd5 | 2026-02-08 18:53:40+00:00
I think denouncing is an incredibly bad idea especially as the foundation of VOUCH seems to be web of trust.

If you get denounced on a popular repo and everyone "inherits" that repo as a source of trust (e.g. think email providers - Google decides you are bad, good luck).

Couple with the fact that usually new contributors take some time to find their feet.

I've only been at this game (SWE) for ~10 years so not a long time. But I can tell you my first few contributions were clumsy and perhaps would have earned my a denouncement.

I'm not sure if I would have contributed to the AWS SDK, Sendgrid, Nunit, New Relic (easily my best experience) and my attempted contribution to Npgsql (easily my worst experience) would have definitely earned me a denouncement.

Concept is good, but I would omit the concept of denouncement entirely.
by ck2 | 2026-02-08 18:54:03+00:00
Perhaps financial/spy ties to Israel but the key thing with Russia was their mafia and banking for trafficking network

He has thousands of bank transfers with Russia, while Israel is not exactly known for trafficking?

Ironically the UK and Europe is going to produce far more with their enquiries than the USA ever will (at least before 2029)

https://bsky.app/profile/peterjukes.bsky.social/post/3medwja...

That high profile prison "suicide" in Paris from the modeling agency founder was connected between Epstein and Russia, basically a front to get visas into US for the women

But again, UK and EU will document far before US ever will because Russian mafia owned entire floors in Trump Tower
by boringg | 2026-02-08 18:54:29+00:00
And I would argue that what you are describing is why we end up in a system where the people who are talented and have in depth knowledge end up in "dumber ~ managerial" roles and we end up losing real talent and knowledge because of the incentives you explicitly describe.

If only the world incentivized ICs with depth of knowledge to stay in those roles for the long haul instead of chopping off our knowledge of specificity at the apex of their depth of knowledge. So many managers have no talent, no depth of knowledge and a passable ability to manage people.
by telotortium | 2026-02-08 18:54:40+00:00
Both of these methods have an undesirable side effect for me, which is that it immediately pops up the passcode dialog saying that a passcode is required to activate Face ID. Depending on the situation, that could be construed as an attempt to actively interfere with a police investigation, which could bring consequences of its own. It would be better if it silently dropped you to the normal lock screen, and only showed the passcode dialog when you attempt to unlock the phone normally.

Another thing I've often wished for with kids is a mode that removes all notifications and widgets from the lock screen - the only things you should be able to do is to unlock the phone and emergency calls. You can remove most notifications with the right Focus, but not notifications to control playing music/video apps, for example, nor any other widgets you happen to put on your lock screen.
by Insanity | 2026-02-08 18:54:41+00:00
Yes, but more likely insects as first small “animals”. Hunting animals takes more effort than eating fruits etc.

I know it’s all vague delineation of where our species really started, and at which point you would no longer consider it the homo line, but for a significant part of history we were a small predator that would eat whatever was _easily_ available. Hunting animals is not easy and it’s a risky endeavour.

I’m not saying meat wasn’t part of our diet obviously, but it logically wouldn’t have been as dominant a part of our diet as it is today.
Show HN: LM Council Let LLMs argue with each other so you don't have to
by mvfolino68 | 2026-02-08 18:55:00+00:00
I built this based on Karpathy's x post from a couple months ago while I was on paternity leave. It's my first product. It's using convex, openrouter, vercel workflows to orchestrate the LLMs.

Prompt multiple LLMs at once, they blindly rank each response and synthesize a final output. Saves time switching back and forth between providers and comparing responses.

In my experience, the synthesized output tends to be more reliable than any single provider

My wife and kid think it's cool. I hope other people find it useful. paid tier lets you use openrouter bring your own key, search and file attachments.

I know this requires a sign up but I didn't know how to let people try it without some way to limit usage.

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1992381094667411768?lang=en
Show HN: Asterbot – AI agent built from sandboxed WASM components
by rellfy | 2026-02-08 18:55:15+00:00
For the past few months, I've been working on a WebAssembly (WASM) component model registry and runtime (built on wasmtime) called asterai.
My goal is to help make the WASM component model mainstream, because I think it's a great way to build software. I think the ecosystem is missing a few key things and an open, central registry is one of those things.

Recently I saw how ClawHub had "341 malicious skills", and couldn't help but think how WASM/WASI resolves most of these issues by default, since everything is sandboxed.

So I've spent my weekend building Asterbot, a modular AI agent where every capability is a swappable WASM component.

Want to add web search? That's just another WASM component. Memory? another component. LLM provider? component.

The components are all sandboxed, they only have access to what you explicitly grant, e.g. a single directory like ~/.asterbot (the default).
It can't read any other part of the system.

Components are written in any language (Rust, Go, Python, JS), sandboxed via WASI, and pulled from the asterai registry.
Publish a component, set an env var to authorise it as a tool, and asterbot discovers and calls it automatically. Asterai provides a lightweight runtime on top of wasmtime that makes it possible to bundle components, configure env vars, and run it.

It's still a proof of concept, but I've tested all functionality in the repo and I'm happy with how it's shaping up.

Happy to answer any questions!
by the_pwner224 | 2026-02-08 18:55:20+00:00
The O3:O6 ratio matters more. And with the right diet it's very easy to get tons of O3 with an excellent O6 ratio (1:4 vs. the 1:10+ of the standard western diet). Vegan with some seeds (hemp, flax, chia, etc.) and a fish oil or algal EPA/DHA supplement will do it quite easily. As long as you use olive/avocado oil over the O6-heavy cooking oils. Other diets are probably also capable of this.
by btown | 2026-02-08 18:55:28+00:00
As a note here, there are a lot of resources that make bash seem incredibly arcane, with custom functions often recommended. But a simple interruptible script to run things in parallel can be as simple as:

(trap 'kill 0' INT TERM; cmd1 & cmd2 & cmd3 & wait)

Or, for 1+2 sequentially, in parallel with 3+4 sequentially:

(trap 'kill 0' INT TERM;
(cmd1 && cmd2) &
(cmd3 && cmd4) &
wait
)

(To oversimplify: The trap propagates the signal (with 'kill') to the process group 0 made by the () parens; this only needs to be set at the top level. & means run in background, && means run and continue only on success.)

There are other reasons one might not want to depend on bash, but it's not something to be afraid of!
by mistrial9 | 2026-02-08 18:55:39+00:00
> Crucially the end user should then be ASKED which to enable

except, on the other side of the "strange fellows" are people who rose to executive authority by ruthless focus on control of every aspect of their business, and profit including excluding others who did actual work. There is zero point zero chance of any argument that relies on "should" to work IMHO

this is a political situation by definition -- vastly different yet connected members of society and economics, seeking the rule of law to enable stable markets. hint- some of the same decision makers are the ones that pay to put spy code in your large new TV or appliances.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-08 18:55:47+00:00
Why else do you think I go to work everyday? Because I have a “passion” for sitting at a computer for 40 hours a week to enrich private companies bottom line or a SaaS product or a LOB implementation? It’s not astroturfing - it’s realistic

Would you be happier if I said I love writing assembly language code by hand like I did in 1986?
by iamnothere | 2026-02-08 18:56:18+00:00
XMR has dropped about 50%, which means it’s back to November prices. (If you ignore the unusual January spike, it’s not even down that much, price is usually rising slowly over time.)

Since the maturation of XMR, I really don’t understand the popularity of Bitcoin except as a speculative asset. XMR is everything that BTC promised and failed to be, with real anonymity baked in. I’m not big on crypto, but it’s strange to see the continued focus on one of the least interesting technologies in the space.