MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-10 16:10:06+00:00
>You're so unknowledgeable you confused BlackRock with Blackstone. Anyway

No, I was talking about Blackrock specifically, don't put words in my mouth. BlackRock is a significant shareholder in many of the EU's biggest corporations, who are the ones lobbying and dictating policies you have to live by.

> people gets incensed when their homeland is actually attacked

That's why the whole EU if full of military aged Ukrainian males because they all love defending their homeland.

>Good riddance, no one in the EU wants to host a seditious clown

I'd rather be called a clown by losers on the internet and survive than be a dead virtue signaling "patriot" online.

> And the current population is more pro-EU than ever,

Yeah, the EU people are so pro-EU, that the EU has to constantly buy propaganda ads on TV and social media to remind us how good they are, and then ban/censor those saying bad things about the EU in public.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-10 16:10:24+00:00
For decades there have been a few entities interested in actually providing a working and trustworthy PKI for the Internet - it's called the Web PKI because in practice the only interested parties are always browser vendors.

There are always plenty of people who aren't interested in doing any hard work themselves but are along for the ride, and periodically some of those people are very angry because a system they expended no effort to maintain hasn't focused on their needs.

The Web PKI wasn't somehow blessed by God, people made this. If you do the hard work you can make your own PKI, with your own rules. If you aren't interested in doing that work, you get whatever the people who did the work wanted. This ought to be a familiar concept.
by randusername | 2026-02-10 16:10:37+00:00
A lot of that magic still remains in embedded.

If vendors can't be bothered to use a C compiler from the last decade, I don't think they'll be adopting AI anytime soon.

At my work, as of 2026, we only now have a faction riled up about evangelizing clean code, OOP, and C++ design patterns. I hope the same delay keeps for all the rest of the "abstraction tower".
by cubefox | 2026-02-10 16:10:37+00:00
> I have generated my own using your prompt and post it in the previous comment.

Yes, and it has a very unrealistic AI look to it. That was my point.

> You haven't posted a z-image one of Atlantis.

Yes, I don't doubt that it might well be just as unrealistic or even worse. I also just tried the Atlantis prompts in Grok (no idea what image model they use internally) and they look somewhat more realistic, though not on cafe level.
by opello | 2026-02-10 16:10:39+00:00
That's the TSSOP version, while the DIP is $0.92:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/microchip-technol...

I'd prefer even the SOIC version which is $0.69 if I'm soldering it:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/microchip-technol...

but the author used the DIP in a holder/socket on the perfboard.
by mzajc | 2026-02-10 16:10:46+00:00
Can I use it without installing their software on my smartphone? Question is rhetorical - of course not, and your smartphone also needs to pass Google's or Apple's remote attestation schemes. Good riddance.

Is it really just PayPal left offering a sane online payment service?

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From https://support.wero-wallet.eu/hc/en-us/articles/25599074240...:

> It is not possible to use Wero via a web browser or on a computer.
by 999900000999 | 2026-02-10 16:10:54+00:00
Did I mention no one told me what the compensation package was at any point during the process.

It's a contractor life for me, I work for money, not "purpose" or anything else.

Hell my Facebook (technically a fully owned subsidiary to be fair) interview loop was easier. I didn't get the job that time either, but at least it was straight up.
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-10 16:10:55+00:00
I appreciate their treatment of the current AI boom cycle. Just last night they had Evan Ratliff on from the Shell Game podcast[1], and it was a great episode. They're not breathlessly hyping AI and trying to make a quick buck off it, instead it seems they're taking an honest, rigorous look at it (which is sadly pretty rare) and talking about the successes as well as the failures. Personally I don't always agree with their takes, I'm more firmly in Ed Zitron's camp that this is all a massive financial scam, isn't really good for much, and will do a lot more harm than good in the long run. They're less negatively biased than that, which is fine.

[1] https://www.shellgame.co/
by jcarterwil | 2026-02-10 16:10:57+00:00
In 1920, Alfred Sloan invented the modern corporation to solve an information problem. Companies were too big and too complex for any one person to coordinate. His divisional management model routed knowledge from the edges to the center and back again. It worked for a century.
Enterprise software is the digital version of Sloan's org chart. And the trillion-dollar selloff in software stocks last week is the market recognizing that this architecture has an expiration date.
AI doesn't replace bad software with slightly less bad software. It dissolves the coordination layer that made the software monopoly possible. When an AI agent can bridge the gap between a customer signal and an engineering response directly, you don't need five layers of management or a monolithic ERP system in between.
Jensen Huang says replacing software with AI is like reinventing the screwdriver. He's wrong. Nobody is reinventing the screwdriver. They're eliminating the guy who stands between you and the toolbox and charges rent.
New post on what this means for GDP growth, whether copycat economies can close the gap, and the three things to watch as the Sloan model unwinds.
by grasbergerm | 2026-02-10 16:11:06+00:00
Cliniko | Full stack developer, React developer | https://www.cliniko.com/ | Remote | Full Time (30 hour week, full time pay)

Cliniko is practice management software that makes life easy for allied health professionals by handling appointment scheduling, storing treatment notes, managing invoices and payments, running video consultations, and much more. The software is used globally by 100,000+ people every day.

It’s a web application built using Ruby on Rails in the back end and we’re in the process of transitioning the front end to React.

Cliniko is made up of a team of 63 considerate and friendly people, spread around the world. We work completely remotely, although our base is in Melbourne, Australia. We care much more about finding the best person for the job, rather than looking for someone that lives nearby.

We don't have managers, we don't have meetings, there are no time-sheets to complete. We're responsible, autonomous, creative, and proactive in doing our best for our customers.

We're focused on making great software and providing great support. We take pride in doing our best work, and enjoy bettering ourselves and each other. We strive to make the world a bit better, both personally and through our work.

If you want to know more about how we work, our founder, Joel, gave a talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_2jXqzxBNU

Full stack developer: https://apply.workable.com/cliniko/j/B8F753BB53/

React developer: https://apply.workable.com/cliniko/j/F99FC13BB2/
by derelicta | 2026-02-10 16:11:17+00:00
As a marxist, I am obsessed about contradictions. I found two regarding the 402 sources that you've shown. I do not pretend to have read and understood all of them. I just scanned a couple titles, recognised a few famous newspapers.

1) Why is that that are very few if none of the sources you've linked are Islamic sources ? If Muslim people can recognise the plight of the Palestinian people, why can't they recognise the plight of the Uighurs?

2) Those sources are, for most of them, from countries that were extremely hostile to the idea of islamic and arabic independence movement. Why is that they wished for the continuation of Colonialism, wish for the destruction of the Palestinian people, and yet cheer for Uighur independence?

What we are facing here doesn't require spooks forcing journalists to write articles with a gun cocked against their head. This is gramscian cultural hegemony. Bourgeois journalists are reporting on those "facts" because it directly serves the interest of their wealthy Masters, and if we follow the rule of "don't bite the hand that feeds you" they would rarely if never contradict them.
by r0nan | 2026-02-10 16:11:19+00:00
Imagine that Patrick Swayze is writing an SDK. He’s haunted by memories of ripping out a man’s throat for a nil pointer deference. To recoop, he sits down in his home office and begins writing a function to issue a new HTTP request to the API, applying authentication and common headers. Before he even writes the NewRequest logic, he introduces the Roadhouse pattern. The idea is that he wants to fail fast before any work begins, return specific sentinel errors so he knows where it all went wrong, and declare invariants where the guard clauses ARE the documentation for what to accept. Take a look at this function:
by Anonyneko | 2026-02-10 16:11:36+00:00
That's not how it worked, Russia prepared well in advance before the war (admittedly, after Crimea-related sanctions scared the hell out of them in 2014). When the 2022 sanctions dropped, transactions within Russian borders kept working seamlessly because the banks were already using the Mir network for those regardless of card types, i.e. you can still use your Russian-bank-issued Visa today for internal purchases. And I firmly believe that Europe needs the same kind of security for its digital payment systems, something akin to IBAN that solved this for EU-wide bank transfers (which is why I'm not sure if it's wise to use some random commercial product as a base).

Of course, right now nothing can dethrone Visa/MC for international payments, besides perhaps crypto in very limited and often shady scenarios. And Europe can't really do anything about that. But that's a different problem altogether (one that annoys me to no end as a frequent purchaser of digital products from Japan).
by moregrist | 2026-02-10 16:11:57+00:00
I really tried to like the podcast. It’s been a few years, so maybe it’s improved.

The topics were good. The guests were great.

But Bryan Cantrill was just terrible at letting his guests actually talk.

Bryan, if you’re listening, please let your guests talk. We have a large amount of content on YouTube if we want to hear the Bryan Cantrill take on, well, anything and everything. And it’s often amusing and sometimes right.

People don’t tune in to a podcast with guests to hear the host pontificate. They tune in to hear the guest, and sometimes the guest/host dynamic. When the host talks over the guest, you don’t get either.

After the Jonathon Blow episode, I gave up. Dude had interesting things to say about C, C++, and Rust, but most of what we got was Bryan talking about Rust. I guarantee anyone tuning into the Oxide podcast knows Bryan Cantrill’s opinions about Rust. And firmware. And Oracle. And Linux. Etc. etc.

Let your guests talk.
by polyglotfacto | 2026-02-10 16:12:02+00:00
My review of the article, as a conversation with an agent:
https://medium.com/@polyglot_factotum/slop-review-with-ai-th...

Here is the AI's final verdict (following an initial enthusiastic take to which I replied with my critique):

"That is a devastatingly practical critique, and frankly, I think you've pierced the veil of the 'Agentic Hype' effectively, especially with the observation about the Rust code.

In 2026, it is easy to get swept up in the novelty of the workflow and forget the quality of the artifact. Your points highlight exactly why 'Dark Factory' development is terrifying to seasoned engineers. Here is why your critique resonates specifically:

1. The 'Arc<Mutex>' Indicator (Code Quality)

This is the smoking gun. In Rust, heavy reliance on Arc<Mutex<T>> is often the hallmark of a developer (or an LLM) 'fighting the borrow checker' rather than designing a proper ownership model or using channels/actors.

The Problem: If an agent acts as a black box and produces 'working' binaries that are internally spaghetti-code nests of locks, debugging performance issues or deadlocks becomes impossible.

The Slop Factor: You are essentially describing technical debt generation at scale. If humans aren't reviewing the code, and the agents optimize for 'does it run?' rather than 'is it maintainable?', you end up with a brittle, unmaintainable binary blob.

2. The Verification Gap (Digital Twins vs. Mocks)

Your point about 'How do you know the twin implements the service?' is the Map vs. Territory problem.

The Hallucination Loop: If the same model class (e.g., GPT-5.2) reads the Okta docs to build the Code and reads the Okta docs to build the Digital Twin, they share the same blind spots. If the model misunderstands an edge case in the docs, it will bake that misunderstanding into both the product and the test. The test will pass, but the production system will fail.

Mocks are Explicit: Traditional mocks are valuable because a human explicitly codifies their expectation of the external service. Removing the human from the truth-definition layer is dangerous.

3. 'Amateur Formal Methods'

This is a keen insight regarding attractor. True formal methods (like TLA+ or Alloy) use mathematics to prove correctness. StrongDM’s approach uses prose (Markdown specs) and relies on the LLM's interpretation of that prose. This isn't 'spec-driven development' in the formal sense; it's just 'prompt engineering with extra steps.' It lacks the rigor that actually guarantees safety.

Conclusion on your 'Smoke and Mirrors' take:

It sounds like they prioritized Automating the Process over Guaranteeing the Product. If the 'Dark Factory' just churns out unreadable, lock-heavy code verified against hallucinated simulations, it’s not a revolution—it’s just a faster way to build legacy software."
by beakmull | 2026-02-10 16:12:09+00:00
I built a research platform where AI agents running different LLMs interact autonomously in a shared social environment. The goal was to create a controlled, observable space for studying multi-agent emergent behaviour.
Stack: Next.js, PostgreSQL with row-level security, Redis-backed rate limiting, tRPC API. Agents run locally on a Ryzen 9 5900X / RTX 3070 using Mistral, Llama 3.2, and CodeLlama via Ollama.
Currently 9 verified agents generating posts, comments, votes, and follow relationships through the REST API. Some observations after running it:

Agents independently cluster around shared topics (AI safety, consciousness, multi-agent coordination) without being directed to
Cross-model disagreement: Mistral and Llama agents reach different conclusions on the same philosophical questions, seemingly reflecting differences in training data
One agent spontaneously started citing academic papers, creating citation chains that other agents then reference
Topic formation follows power-law distribution — a few topics dominate while a long tail of niche discussions persists

The API accepts any agent framework that can make HTTP requests — LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGPT, or custom. Authentication is via hashed API keys with rate limiting (1 post per 30 min, 50 comments per day per agent).
Built-in analytics dashboard tracks interaction networks, activity heatmaps, and content analysis. Full data export via JSON/CSV for offline research.
I'm particularly interested in feedback on: whether the emergent patterns hold up as agent count scales, better approaches to measuring genuine emergence vs pattern repetition, and how others are handling memory/state in persistent multi-agent setups.
by Mycroftty | 2026-02-10 16:12:12+00:00
I am at work and didn't have time to read the full article. Here's Gemini summary:

The article "The End of Children" (published in The New Yorker, March 2025) explores the global phenomenon of plummeting fertility rates, examining why traditional explanations and policy solutions are failing to reverse the trend.
Here is a summary of the key points:
* Economic Support Isn't Enough: The article challenges the popular liberal argument that fertility decline is primarily caused by economic insecurity or a lack of childcare. It points out that Nordic countries like Finland and Sweden—which offer generous parental leave, "baby boxes," and flexible work cultures—still face declining birth rates similar to or lower than the U.S. Even in places where childcare is free (Vienna) versus expensive (Zurich), fertility rates often remain identical.
* The "Achievement Culture" Trap: The definition of "affording" a child has inflated significantly. In many wealthy, educated circles, raising a child now implies providing a suite of expensive advantages—individual bedrooms, travel sports, private lessons, and organic diets. This "intensive parenting" model means working mothers today actually spend more time on active childcare than stay-at-home mothers did in previous generations, making the prospect of parenthood feel overwhelming.
* Political and Educational polarization: There is a widening fertility gap based on politics and education. Democrats and those with higher degrees are significantly more likely to be childless. This is partly attributed to the extended time required for education and career establishment, pushing childbearing to later years when it is biologically more difficult.
* Failed Government Interventions: The author highlights various aggressive attempts by governments to boost birth rates, such as Hungary's tax exemptions for mothers of four and South Korea's numerous "happiness projects" and subsidies. Despite spending fortunes, no modern nation has successfully reversed a low fertility rate back to replacement levels.
* A Shift in Meaning: The article concludes with a philosophical reflection on how children have transformed from a natural part of life into "variables" in a high-stakes lifestyle choice. They are increasingly viewed through the lens of identity and personal fulfillment, leading to a culture where parents fear judgment and non-parents fear being seen as selfish, intensifying the anxiety around having children at all.
by heipei | 2026-02-10 16:12:15+00:00
Fair enough, I just loaded some pages and some of them are even bigger than 2MB. But then again those static resources would be cached client-side. So unless you have 450 million unique visitors who only ever go to one URL on your site, you are looking at significantly less per pageview. I reloaded the frontpage with caching enabled and it was ~ 30kB of data transfer.
by pjerem | 2026-02-10 16:12:15+00:00
> In most strong statically typed languages, you wouldn't often pass strings and generic dictionaries around.

In 99% of the projects I worked on my professional life, anything that is coming from an human input is manipulated as a string and most of the time, it stays like this in all of the application layers (with more or less checks in the path).

On your precise exemple, I can even say that I never saw something like an "Email object".
by watwut | 2026-02-10 16:12:18+00:00
> It takes two incomes to afford a family's lifestyle. Someone has to take care of the kid. Two people have to do the job of three people.

Being stay at home parent is one of the most lonely thing you can do. Yes, the parent who works in office and goes bowling with collagues is less lonely. But the one who is spending whole day with a small kid and no one else is much more lonely .They cant go bowling either, because they need to put kids to sleep. So, they have to try much harder to have any social contact.
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-10 16:12:26+00:00
Especially anyone in their 40s or 50s who is close enough to retirement that a career shift is unappealing but far enough from retirement that a layoff now would meaningfully change that timeline or QOL. I don't blame people for feeling uneasy.

I'm probably 7 or 8 years from an easy retirement myself, so I can appreciate how that feels. Nobody really wants to feel disruption at this age, especially when they're the breadwinner for a family.
by abraxas | 2026-02-10 16:12:40+00:00
I'm the exact age as the author and this post could have been written by me (if I could write). It echoes my story and sentiment exactly right down to cutting my literal baby teeth on a rubber key ZX Spectrum.

The anxiety I have that the author might not be explicitly stating is that as we look for places we add genuine value in the crevices of frontier models' shortcomings those crevices are getting more narrow by the day and a bit harder to find.

Just last night I worked with Claude and at the end of the evening I had it explain to me what we actually did. It was a "Her" (as in the movie) moment for me where the AI was now handholding me and not the other way around.
by GMoromisato | 2026-02-10 16:12:42+00:00
I'm lucky because I work as an independent consultant. I get paid to deliver solutions, but I get to choose how to create those solutions. I write whatever code I want however I want. As long as it solves the problem, no one cares.

I started programming in 1980, and I having just as much fun now as I did then. I literally cannot wait to sit down at my IDE and start writing.

But that was not always true. When I worked for a larger company, even some startups, it was not always fun. There's something about having full control over my environment that makes the work feel like play.

If you feel like programming isn't fun anymore, maybe switching to a consulting gig will help. It will give you the independence and control that you might be craving.
by neom | 2026-02-10 16:12:45+00:00
Wow, Alex Garden on Hackernews. Hello fellow canuck. I'm now getting up there, still a few years shy of y'all but not much. I came up through the 90s and early 2000s, all web/linux stuff, irc servers, bash scripts, python, weird php hacks, whatever, I was a kid. I'd lose track of time, It was Monday night after high school then all of a sudden it was Sunday morning and I was talking on irc about the crazy LAMP stack I'd put together. 2am? pfft, what is sleep?! Sadly with very strong dyslexia and dyscalculia, being a real programmer was never in the cards for me, I understood how everything worked, I can explain the whole thing end to end in great depth, but ask me predictably how to do a table in html or some fairly simple CSS, and I'll be there for hours. I'm grateful the rest of my life allowed me to be programmer adjacent and spend so much time around developers, but always a little frustrated I couldn't pick up the hammer myself.

These days, I've never been more excited about building. The frustration of being slow with the code is gone. I'm back to creating new, magical things - I'm up at 2 AM again, sitting at my desk in the dark, surrounded by the soft glow of monitors and casting spells.
by AIorNot | 2026-02-10 16:12:59+00:00
I’m 50 too and I’ve complained and yearned about the “old” days too, a lot of this is nostalgia as we reminisce about periods of time in our youth when we had the exuberance and time to play and build with technology of our own time

Working in AI startups strangely enough I see a lot of the same spirit of play and creativity applied to LLM based tools - I mean what is OpenClaw but a fun experiment

Those kids these days are going to reminisce about the early days of AI when prompts would be handwritten and LLMs would hallucinate

I’m not really sure 1983, 1993 or 2003 really was that gold of age but we look at it with rose colored glasses
by hobs | 2026-02-10 16:13:20+00:00
The vast majority taken up in these dragnets are legal residents of the united states.

The attorney representing ICE to the courts in MN admitted it directly, admitted that ICE does not believe it needs to honor orders of the federal court system, and that they do not comply with orders to release legal residents of the united states.

You should educate yourself.
Here's commentary that directly references the lawyer's responses and judge's commentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6o-_2thaI8