MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by canucker2016 | 2026-02-07 19:43:04+00:00
from page 25 of https://issuu.com/utschools/docs/uts-root-fall-2019_36f8084a...:

The invention of Intellisense, Matthew's most impressive programming patent, began while visiting his sister Laura, President of Integrated Statistics. "Matt needed a programming project in Visual Basic (VB). My client needed a program to measure the speed and location of marine mammals, like dolphins. Once he started, Matt realized VB needed statement completion.

Friend and co-inventor David Sobeski, former Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of The Walt Disney Company, continues the story, "We were working on VB. Matt was working on the compiler when he tells me he has the symbol table and a lot of data which we can use to predict what people should type next. In a weekend, he and Martin Cibulka created a prototype. Then we created what nerds call statement completion but marketing named Intellisense. We showed Bill Gates. He was floored. Matt fundamentally changed how developers wrote code."
by fastasucan | 2026-02-07 19:43:11+00:00
>For all those who think they're not talented and therefore can't learn how to sing, some good news here: Learning to sing is a matter of coordinating and strengthening muscles, so it can be practiced and improved just like anything else. The predisposition is largely the same for everybody (vocal pathologies excluded).

When I got children I started singing for them almost every night. After doing that for some years now it's incredible how much better my singing has become (for me at least). Before that I didn't dare to sing when other people could hear me, but now I have no problems with that. I really enjoy singing for my kids and look forward to it every evening.
by duxup | 2026-02-07 19:43:15+00:00
>There are a lot of better, smaller, companies you could be working for, but you chose the evil ones because it pays better.

Amen.

I have a buddy who has very strong attitude about how "companies / your employer are not your friends" and I understand that to an extent. At the same time he also thinks that most companies are there to just extract what they can from you and discard you. Some sure, and at a high level yeah feels that way.

His approach is to behave similarly. He is there to extract every $ he can from his employer, and he does make a lot of money.

But the result is that he ends up working for those same companies he hates, they pay a lot so they expect a lot and the method of getting more is to do more and ... it seems more like a cycle where he gets the whole dynamic that he thinks is everywhere.

Personally I'm sure I could (well in the past) have made a lot more money, but I like working for places that give me flexibility, care if I'm happy there, and have good people around me. They're smaller places, but the lifestyle is better.
by paulhebert | 2026-02-07 19:43:15+00:00
I don’t think it’s that simple. A couple of examples:

Food:

A lot of the processed foods that are easily available make us unhealthy and sick. Even vegetables are less nutritious than they were 50 years ago. Mass agriculture also has many environmental externalities.

Consumer goods:

It has become difficult to find things like reliable appliances. I bought a chest freezer. It broke after a year. The repairman said it would cost more to fix than to buy a new one. I asked him if there was a more reliable model and he said no: they all break quickly.

Clothing:

Fast fashion is terrible for the environment. Do we need as many clothes as we have? How quickly do they end up in landfills?

Would we be better off as a society repairing shoes instead of buying new ones every year?
by XenophileJKO | 2026-02-07 19:43:38+00:00
Um.. Claude Code has been out less than a YEAR.. and the lift in capability in the last year has been dramatic.

It does seem probable based on progress that in 1-2 more model generations there will be little need to hand code in almost any domain. Personally I already don't hand code AT ALL, but there are certainly domains/languages that are under performing right now.

Right now with the changes this week (Opus 4.6 and "teams mode") it already is another step function up in capability.

Teams mode is probably only good for greenfield or "green module" development but I'm watching a team of 5 AI's collaborating and building out an application module by module. This is net new capability for the tool THIS WEEK (Yes I am aware of earlier examples).

I don't understand how people can look at this and then be dismissive of future progress, but human psychology is a rich and non-logical landscape.
by sunshowers | 2026-02-07 19:43:44+00:00
Migrating to a place where people can contribute more to society is both a core tenet of individual liberty and one of the most positive-sum things any human being can do.

But given that you both feign concern over visa holders' working conditions [1], while at the same time advocating for policies that lead to worse working conditions [2], perhaps you just hate freedom and were never acting in good faith in the first place.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656527

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323501
by apitman | 2026-02-07 19:43:51+00:00
In some ways, I'd say we're in a software dark age. In 40 years, we'll still have C, bash, grep, and Mario ROMs, but practically none of the software written today will still be around. That's by design. SaaS is a rent seeking business model. But I think it also applies to most code written in JS, Python, C#, Go, Rust, etc. There are too many dependencies. There's no way you'll be able to take a repo from 2026 and spin it up in 2050 without major work.

One question is how will AI factor in to this. Will it completely remove the problem? Will local models be capable of finding or fixing every dependency in your 20yo project? Or will they exacerbate things by writing terrible code with black hole dependency trees? We're gonna find out.
by bgar | 2026-02-07 19:44:01+00:00
Well, on the surface it may seem like there’s nothing being created of value, but I can assure you every company from seed stage to unicorns are heavily using claude code, cursor, and the like to produce software. At this point, most software you touch has been modified and enhanced with the use of LLMs. The difference in pace of shipping with and without AI assistance is staggering.
by Applejinx | 2026-02-07 19:44:07+00:00
This. People are way too easily impressed. I don't think this easily-impressedness will generalize to most people in the real world.

If you really buy all that you'd be part of the investor class that crashed various video game companies upon seeing Google put together a rather lame visual stunt and have their AI say, and I quote because the above-the-fold AI response I never asked for has never been more appropriate to consult…

"The landscape of AI video game generation is experiencing a rapid evolution in 2025-2026, shifting from AI-assisted asset creation to the generation of entire interactive, playable 3D environments from text or image prompts. Leading initiatives like Google DeepMind's Project Genie and Microsoft's Muse are pioneering "world models" that can create, simulate physics, and render games in real-time."

And then you look at what it actually is.

Suuuure you will, unwanted AI google search first response. Suuure you will.
by carstimon | 2026-02-07 19:44:24+00:00
You pointed out one error in your own answer, here's another. I haven't figured out the adjustments, but presumably they cancel.

You've done

∫₀¹ ∫₀¹⁻ᶜ (2π r)³ dr dc

However,

- the `dr` integral is assuming that the radii are uniformly likely in [0, r]

- the `dc` integral is assuming that the centers are uniformly likely in [0, c]

You need to wait these integrals by the conditional probability distributions.
by Ronsenshi | 2026-02-07 19:44:45+00:00
Agree with the author. I like the process of writing code, typing method names and class definitions while at the same time thinking ahead about overall architecture, structure, how much time given function would run for, what kind of tests are necessary.

I find it unsettling how many people in the comments say that they don't like writing code. Feels aliens to me. We went into this field for seemingly very different reasons.

I do use LLMs and even these past two days I was doing vibe coding project which was noticeably faster to setup and get to its current state than if I wrote in myself. However I feel almost dirty by how little I understand the project. Sure, I know the overall structure, decisions and plan. But I didn't write any of it and I don't have deep understanding of the codebase which I usually have when working on codebase myself.
by Fraterkes | 2026-02-07 19:45:46+00:00
I've seen a hundred ai-generated things, and they are rarely interesting.

Not because the tools are insufficient, it's just that the kind of person that can't even stomach the charmed life of being a programmer will rarely be able to stomach the dull and hard work of actually being creative.

Why should someone be interested in you creations? In what part of your new frictionless life would you've picked up something that sets you apart from a million other vibe-coders?
by MrResearcher | 2026-02-07 19:45:53+00:00
That will lead to the same set of problems currently manifested in bit torrent'ing:

1. You'll have to expose a port externally. God only knows who will attempt to take over it.

2. You'll have spammers advertising addresses of known businesses in attempt to get everyone to spam (initiate connections with) them.

3. Sooner or later people start distributing content not related to Zig, which will attract acute attention from law enforcement agencies.

Consider these to be my predictions.
by lukekim | 2026-02-07 19:45:55+00:00
Like other tech disrupted crafts before this, think furniture making or farming, that's how it goes. From hand-made craft, to mass production factories (last couple of decades) to fully automated production.

The craft was dying long before LLMs. Started in dotcom, ZIRP added some beatings, then LLMs are finishing the job.

This is fine, because like in furniture making, the true craftsmen will be even more valuable (overseeing farm automation, high end handmade furniture, small organic farms), and the factory worker masses (ZIRP enabled tech workers) will move on to more fulfulling work.
by salawat | 2026-02-07 19:46:50+00:00
Wouldn't matter. No one is interested in enforcing it, and there is too much value in the datapoint to credit rating agencies to tear the entire edifice down. Hell, back in 2011, I was part of a group migrating away from SSN usage at the Federal level. The biggest delay? Waiting for another semantically compatible I'd to manifest. TIN (taxpayer identification number) could be synthetically combined with a couple other ID's in the dataset such that they could finally retire the SSN's we weren't supposed to be using in the first place.
by Eridrus | 2026-02-07 19:47:05+00:00
I do not mourn typing in code.

But I am still quite annoyed at the slopful nature of the code that is produced when you're not constantly nagging it to do better

We've RLed it to produce code that works by hook or by crook, putting infinity fallback paths and type casts everywhere rather than checking what the semantics should be.

Sadly I don't know how we RL taste.
by MuffinFlavored | 2026-02-07 19:47:15+00:00
I always wondered this, is this true/does the math come out to be really that bad? 6x?

Is the writing on the wall for $100-$200/mo users that, it's basically known-subsidized for now and $400/mo+ is coming sooner than we think?

Are they getting us all hooked and then going to raise it in the future, or will inference prices go down to offset?
by lucb1e | 2026-02-07 19:47:16+00:00
> https:[...]?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Considering the number of replies here saying "source does not contain claim" / "that is a misinterpretation of what it says"... LLMs are still autocomplete functions. Exceptionally good ones, but they don't reason. And they kiss your boots unprompted. Beware of whatever opinions this thing is justifying to you
by throaway146 | 2026-02-07 19:47:53+00:00
I used to play it on my dad's mac at work (which he hated, it was a non-computer role and management forced a switch from Windows to Mac). It had a great look that does seem similar to LLL.

Of course on those machines, most of my time was spent dealing with the "insert disk for the program you were previously using" bug!
by randomartist | 2026-02-07 19:48:05+00:00
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by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-07 19:48:27+00:00
> With AI doing mostly everything we should forget these past riddles.

How I finally was able to make a large Rust project without having to sacrifice my free time to really fully understand Rust. I have read through the Rust book several times but I never have time to fully “practice” Rust, I was able to say screw it and built my own Rust software using Claude Code.
Show HN: Gemini Station – A local Chrome extension to organize AI chats
by rajeshkumar_dev | 2026-02-07 19:48:53+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Rajesh (rajeshkumar_dev).

I built this because I often have 5-10 Gemini tabs open while coding, and they all just say "New Chat" or "Gemini." I was losing my context constantly.

This is my daily driver extension. I've been using it for a month to keep my sanity, and I cleaned it up to share today.

It does two simple things:

Auto-Renames Tabs: Scrapes the conversation topic from the sidebar and updates the browser tab title instantly.

Fixes Context Menus: Adds a right-click "Open in New Tab" option to the sidebar (fixing the native UI behavior).

Why Unpacked? I submitted it to the Chrome Web Store today, but I didn't want to wait for the review queue to share the code. You can install it in Developer Mode in 10 seconds.

Privacy: No tracking, no external API calls. It's just a ~80 line content script that runs locally.

Source is MIT licensed. Feedback welcome!
by whatshisface | 2026-02-07 19:48:59+00:00
In the context of investing there is a correct price for financial assets that is given by trading everything back to dollars in the present. There is one remaining parameter (the exchange rate between future payouts on different dates, the "discount rate"), but all the subjectivity reduces to that one number.

However if everyone is deluded about what the future payouts of different insturments will be, you can get $10 for $1 in one place and $0.001 for $1 in another (given that in both cases the influence weighted participants think they're selling you a dollar). That invalidates the picture of reducing the unknowns to the discount rate.

In your examples, you're talking about goods and services, which have different values to different people. They have an equilibrium price but as you say, that's not the "right price for everyone," like there is for say a bond.
by jdjuwadi | 2026-02-07 19:49:01+00:00
Hey everyone, we are Juan and Neel and we’re building Milq - a mac application to vibe code iOS apps in Swift.

Milq uses a custom orchestration system that uses both on-device and cloud models, incorporating a build feedback loop to push builds directly to the local iOS simulator or user’s device. It also has simplified UI elements for managing Xcode-specific features - like external Swift packages and project configurations (display name, icon) - as well as database tables from our Supabase integration. Files remain local on the machine and users manage the entire process without needing to open Xcode.

Ultimately, our goal is to bring Swift to the masses. We both come from Swift heavy backgrounds in big-tech and noticed most of the mobile vibe coding tools (Rork, Replit, Anything etc.) use React. We want to show users unfamiliar with mobile development a Swift alternative.

Given the latest buzz around Codex App and Agentic capabilities in Xcode, we thought it’d be a good time to go a little public on something we’ve been quietly building since last year.

We’re currently doing a private beta with $100 of free credits. We typically use a white listing system but wanted to open it up this weekend so the HN community could try it easily without any blockers. We would be really grateful if you could give us a spin!
by uejfiweun | 2026-02-07 19:49:13+00:00
There is a certain logic to it though. If the scaling approaches DO get us to AGI, that's basically going to change everything, forever. And if you assume this is the case, then "our side" has to get there before our geopolitical adversaries do. Because in the long run the expected "hit" from a hostile nation developing AGI and using it to bully "our side" probably really dwarfs the "hit" we take from not developing the infrastructure you mentioned.
by shimman | 2026-02-07 19:49:18+00:00
Yeah, they call this "accumulation by dispossession" and it's been a mainstay of neoliberal economics since it's inception roughly ~50 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulation_by_dispossession

Don't know why you're downvoted, that such possibilities are allowed in a completely made up system that can be changed at any time to better society, and not just ~10,000 people across the world, is a gross indictment of the current system.

All neoliberalism has done is made us more alienated, privatized the public commons, destroyed the environment, and hasten income inequality to levels that were worse than the gilded age.

If something doesn't change soon... we'll you can use your imagination to fill in the blanks.
by Schmerika | 2026-02-07 19:49:23+00:00
> there's still zero evidence of Mossad involvement.

Please, please learn the difference between evidence and proof. There's a lot of evidence, from circumstantial to testimonial to an abundance of hearsay.

Not proof, no. Proof is what follows from investigation - which hasn't happened. Are you familiar with the concept of "the dog that didn't bark"?

> how is a business relationship with a wealthy Jewish family evidence of being a Mossad spy?

Never said it was.

You claimed "This is just false" when my source [2] claimed that he worked for the Rothschilds, and now have moved the goalposts because he said so himself and there's thousands of emails backing that up.
by linguae | 2026-02-07 19:49:30+00:00
I’m not the OP, but my answer is that there’s a big difference between building products and building businesses.

I’ve been programming since 1998 when I was in elementary school. I have the technical skills to write almost anything I want, from productivity applications to operating systems and compilers. The vast availability of free, open source software tools helps a lot, and despite this year’s RAM and SSD prices, hardware is far more capable today at comparatively lower prices than a decade ago and especially when I started programming in 1998. My desktop computer is more capable than Google’s original cluster from 1998.

However, building businesses that can compete against Big Tech is an entirely different matter. Competing against Big Tech means fighting moats, network effects, and intellectual property laws. I can build an awesome mobile app, but when it’s time for me to distribute it, I have to either deal with app stores unless I build for a niche platform.

Yes, I agree that it’s never been easier to build competing products due to the tools we have today. However, Big Tech is even bigger today than it was in the past.
by iafan | 2026-02-07 19:49:40+00:00
It makes me sad to read posts like this. If it is a necessary step for you on the journey from denial to acceptance to embracing the new state of the world, then sure, take your time.

But software engineering is the only industry that is built on the notion of rapid change, constant learning, and bootstrapping ourselves to new levels of abstraction so that we don't repeat ourselves and make each next step even more powerful.

Just yesterday we were pair programming with a talented junior AI developer. Today we are treating them as senior ones and can work with several in parallel. Very soon your job will not be pair programming and peer reviewing at all, but teaching a team of specialized coworkers to work on your project. In a year or two we will be assembling factories of such agents that will handle the process from taking your requirements to delivering and maintaining complex software. Our jobs are going to change many more times and much more often than ever.

And yet there will still be people finding solace in hand-crafting their tools, or finding novel algorithms, or adding the creativity aspect into the work of their digital development teams. Like people lovingly restoring their old cars in their garage just for the sake of the process itself.

And everything will be just fine.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-07 19:49:45+00:00
What incentives lol.

We lobbied where we needed to. Now we're bankrolling Trump's Venezuela [0] and "Drill Baby Drill" [1] policy and bankrolling Iowa [2] and Montana GOP's [3] agricultural exports.

This is how a trade war is fought.

Policymaking is always secondary to politics. That's why I left the policy space to climb the ladder in business.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indias-reliance-talk...

[1] - https://www.livemint.com/companies/ongc-exxonmobil-collabora...

[2] - https://governor.iowa.gov/press-release/2025-09-16/gov-reyno...

[3] - https://www.daines.senate.gov/2026/01/20/daines-travels-to-i...
by gatlace | 2026-02-07 19:50:12+00:00
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