MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fragmede | 2026-02-26 21:39:39+00:00
Just like with vibecoding complains, have you tried the latest models (of 3d printers)? Specifically, Bambu's latest models make the printer a device to just use rather than the project itself. It's the Apple of 3d printing. Previously, you'd spend hours on calibrating and leveling nonsense. Latest models don't have this problem. Open the app on your phone, (doom)scroll until you find something, and just hit print from your phone. You can make it more complicated as desired, but it's not necessary to get something out of your printer.

Which apes vibecoding. ChatGPT 3.5 was laughably bad compared to codex 5.3, but if you're basing your opinion on 3.5's performance, your opinion's out of date.
by overfeed | 2026-02-26 21:39:40+00:00
I understand why businesses would want to maximize work done in an area - I hope you're self-aware enough to realize this.

The tension you may be blind to, is that society wants to maximize safety in an area - and any work done should be in service to that goal, and not an end unto itself. We shouldn't blindly maximize for work done in an area, we have to make sure the result is safe: this introduces rules and regulations, and the time and monetary costs tag along.

No two people will agree where the balance is, but generally there's regional culture. Hell, Texas allows home-owners to do their own electrical work - does that "drive business away" since some people won't pay for small DIY fixes in TX? I can't say I've ever heard that argued, but I hear it deployed a lot in response to regulations.
by atleastoptimal | 2026-02-26 21:39:51+00:00
If you can't distinguish the actual utility and progress of AI from it's annoying hype-men then it's hard to take your dismissal of AI seriously.

Failure to appreciate changes in AI will have left you calling every shot wrong over the past 5 years. While AI models continue to improve at an exponential rate, you'll cling to your facile maxims like "dude it's just predicting the next token it isn't real intelligence".
by georgemcbay | 2026-02-26 21:40:19+00:00
> Assuming they don't deliver, then there are billions of investments that will go bust. Assuming they deliver, millions lose their jobs and there's going to be a bloodbath on the streets.

There is a third outcome that combines both of these.

LLMs can massively displace the workforce (and cause widespread social instability) AND the companies pouring hundreds of billions into them right now could, at the same time, fail to capture significant amounts of the labor savings value as late-mover alternatives run the race drafting their progress without the massive spend.

I'd honestly be surprised if this double-whammy isn't the outcome at this point. AI is going to have a massive impact on everything, but there is still no moat in sight.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-26 21:40:26+00:00
The problem is in the middle of such a change it's hard to recognize if this is a real change or if this is another Wankel motor.

Plenty a visual programming language has tried to toot their own horns as being the next transformative change in everything, and they are mostly just obscure DSLs at this point.

The other issue is nobody knows what the future will actually look like and they'll often be wrong with their predictions. For example, with the rise of robotics, plenty of 1950s scifi thought it was just logical that androids and smart mechanic arms would be developed next year. I mean, you can find cartoons where people envisioned smart hands giving people a clean shave. (Sounds like the making of a scifi horror novel :D Sweeney Todd scifi redux)

I think AI is here to stay. At very least it seems to have practical value in software development. That won't be erased anytime soon. Claims beyond that, though, need a lot more evidence to support them. Right now it feels like people just shoving AI into 1000 places hoping that they can find an new industry like software dev.
by dvt | 2026-02-26 21:41:45+00:00
> Claude Code likely is correct that I should start to use NeonDB and Fly.io which I have never used before and do not know much about

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

In my experience, agents consistently make awful architectural decisions. Both in code and beyond (even in contexts like: what should I cook for a dinner party?). They leak the most obvious "midwit senior engineer" decisions which I would strike down in an instant in an actual meeting, they over-engineer, they are overly-focused on versioning and legacy support (from APIs to DB schemas--even if you're working on a brand new project), and they are absolutely obsessed with levels of indirection on top of levels of indirection. The definition of code bloat.

Unless you're working on the most bottom-of-the-barrel problems (which to be fair, we all are, at least in part: like a dashboard React app, or some boring UI boilerplate, etc.), you still need to write your own code.
by inigyou | 2026-02-26 21:42:16+00:00
Patents aren't vulnerable to cleanroom reverse engineering. You can create something yourself in your bedroom and use it yourself without knowing the patented thing exists, and still violate the patent. That's why they're so scary.

You won't get caught if you write something yourself and use it yourself, but programmers (contrary to entrepreneurs) have a pattern of avoiding illegal things instead of avoiding getting caught.
by hnburnsy | 2026-02-26 21:42:27+00:00
Funny, you can plainly see them in street view linked from the EFF map...

https://maps.app.goo.gl/bGcDQ8v8YhvN3f1q7

Here is one in a construction barrel

https://maps.app.goo.gl/bakw7KpzRjSuqpwY6
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-26 21:42:32+00:00
> American laws also have universal jurisdiction

Some do, but...

> (for example, the Bill of Rights doesn't say, "unless you are located outside the US").

The Bill of Rights is a set of constraints on the US government, so even to the extent it applies to the government when acting outside of its borders [0], it isn’t an imposition of US law on the territory of other countries, but a limit on such imposition.

[0] And it doesn't fully, see, e.g., Johnson v. Eisentrager, 339 U.S. 763 (1950), subsequently limited somewhat with the core holding retained in Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 (2008).
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-26 21:42:42+00:00
Fair point. But what I'm getting at is that if you aren't an expert on cryptography (and perhaps even if you are!) rather than imposing your personal preferences on others simply deferring to a trusted third party library can make a lot of sense.

So in addition to a sensible default I guess it would also be a good idea to tag choices that you believe to be outdated with a large warning. That way you haven't rolled your own crypto, you haven't forced your views on others, but you have done your best to enable end users to operate your tool in a sensible manner.
by ch4s3 | 2026-02-26 21:43:15+00:00
It really disappointing to see it so strongly preferring Github Actions which is in my experience terrible. Almost everything about GHA pushes you in the direction of constantly blowing out the 10GB cache limit in an attempt to have CI not run for ages. I also feel like the standard cache action using git works poorly with any tools that use mtime on files to determine freshness.

I guess at least Opus can help you muddle through GHA being so crappy.
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-26 21:43:19+00:00
Your own citation says that the original estimate was at least 2 weeks, and further looks found that important components were undamaged, and most of the damage was easily patchable, like the flight deck and hull. Her damaged boilers were not fully repaired and she was not able to make full speed.

This isn't that abnormal for 20th century warships. They were designed to be mostly flooded and still floating, had significant redundancy, and especially in the USA, massive efforts and training and resources were spent on damage control and management.

The USS New Orleans Cruiser in WW2 had 150ft of it's front entirely blown off by an ammo detonation. One quarter of the ship just gone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_Orleans_(CA-32)#Battle... (look at those pictures!)

The spent about 11 days on a crippled boat, patching things up and putting out fires, and then she sailed backwards to a friendly port, and was eventually fully refurbished and refit.

This wasn't some era of magical American super productivity. It's what these ships were designed to do in some way. They were built to be hit by rather large weapons after all, and attempt to survive. Look at what efforts it took to finally sink the Bismarck and the Japanese super battleships.
by micw | 2026-02-26 21:44:03+00:00
Almost always when I'm in a country that does not have European (CEE) plugs and sockets, I feel uncomfortable. All CEE combinations have very solid touch protection. It's almost impossible to touch a metal pin of a plug when it's so close to the socket that it might have contact.
When I the see the "flat" style sockets plus the full-metal pins I wonder if it's just a bad feeling or if way more people gets accidentally electrocuted with that kind of plugs/socket than with our CEE types.
by neuralRiot | 2026-02-26 21:44:39+00:00
>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Also:

>No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

Have been the law for a long time too and yet…
by thinkingemote | 2026-02-26 21:44:45+00:00
I used https://github.com/ToneyAlexander/HackerTagger for a bit almost a decade ago. Data locally stored, good but didn't transfer across machines, not so great.

It had a little text label next to names so you could manually add whatever you want. Recently I've thought about this extension and using it to tag the LLM users, or the humans who tend to pop up to fan the flames or who regularly post thought terminating comments - little tags to remind me to ignore the bots and trolls.
by breakingcups | 2026-02-26 21:44:52+00:00
I hope it doesn't disappear:

====

Important message

Due to health issues, no updates to the Plugs and Sockets website are expected in the coming months. Email contact may also be affected.
For the time being, please do not send any material that might be interesting to add to the website.
Next year, I shall make a decision about the future of the collection and website. Wait and see.
August 2025

====
by epistasis | 2026-02-26 21:44:54+00:00
I was advocating specifically against mincing words so that appropriate remedies can be pursued. "Unbanning" coal isn't going to make coal appear again!

If there's a specific regulation on one aspect of a factory, as you describe, then "unbanning" the factory isn't going to help either, one must specifically unban that which was banned.

Mincing words would be saying "Factories doing X are banned" when in fact an existing Factory doing X with negative externality Y had negative externality Y priced or regulated.

That's exactly what we shouldn't be mincing, if we want to address the problems and make better decisions.
Solving email problems for startups and SaaS
by peter_joe | 2026-02-26 21:45:31+00:00
Email is still the backbone of user communication — onboarding, activation, billing, and retention all rely on it.

Yet, most startups and SaaS teams still struggle with it.

Not because they don’t send enough emails —
but because they don’t fix the problems that make emails underperform:
Poor deliverability (SPF/DKIM/DMARC nightmares)
Low open and click-through rate

Disconnected automation across tools

No real segmentation or behavioral logic

Lack of clear reporting on what’s driving conversions

I’ve been working on a framework to help early-stage startups and SaaS founders:
1. Audit: Identify where your email funnel is leaking users.

2. Optimize: Improve deliverability, copy, and automation flows.

3. Automate: Use the right stack (Postmark, Resend, HubSpot, ConvertKit, etc.) to tie it all together.

4. Measure: Track lifetime value per email sequence — not just vanity metrics.

The result: better engagement, predictable revenue from email, and fewer hours wasted trying to debug why “email 4 in the drip campaign never sends.”

If you’re building or scaling a SaaS/startup and struggling with email —
what’s your biggest challenge right now?
Deliverability?
Automation logic?
Engagement?

I’d love to hear what’s breaking in your current setup — I’m collecting real-world pain points to improve my system.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-26 21:45:55+00:00
I'm there with you, but only been using it a couple months now. I find that as long as I spend a fair amount of time with Claude specifying the work before starting the work, it tends to go really well. I have a general approach on how I want to run/build the software in development and it goes pretty smoothly with Claude. I do have to review what it does and sanity check things... I've tended to find bugs where I expect to see bugs, just from experience.

I keep using the analogy of working with a disconnected overseas dev team over email... since I've had to do this before. The difference is turn around in minutes instead of the next day.

On a current project, I just have it keep expanding on the TODO.md as working through the details... I'd say it's going well so far... Deno driver for MS-SQL using a Rust+FFI library. Still have some sanity checks around pooling, and need to test a couple windows only features (SSPI/Windows Auth and FILESTREAM) in a Windows environment, and I'll be ready to publish... About 3-4 hours of initial planning, 3 hours of initial iteration, then another 1:1:1:1 hours of planning/iteration working through features, etc.

Aside, I have noticed a few times a day, particularly west coast afternoon and early evening, the entire system seems to go 1/3 the speed... I'm guessing it's the biggest load on Anthropic's network as a whole.
by dathinab | 2026-02-26 21:46:04+00:00
As a side note unsolicited advertisement of this kind is illegal in Europe.

And them claiming "they didn't know" can be dismissed given that many dev on GH have location information set.

It also in general doesn't change anything. the law doesn't care if you know or didn't.

Startups starting out their journey by committing crime is always a grate sign for their trustability.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-02-26 21:46:13+00:00
Why do you think that solar+battery technology or MRNA vaccines haven't been written about in excited, hype-filled ways? If a technology is successful, then looking at past accounts of that technology and why it will change the world don't come across to you reading it now as hype, they come across as a description of something normal about the world.
by dctoedt | 2026-02-26 21:46:52+00:00
> Instead, they resist the idea that those things are relevant to contemporary political disputes involving the descendants of the people who directly caused the harm and who were directly harmed.

There's such a thing as generational wealth — financial, cultural — that seems to pay compound interest to successive generations. When prior generations are deprived due to racism, classism, etc., it's not unlike someone who doesn't save for retirement because s/he was repeatedly robbed at gunpoint in earlier years and so was deprived of both those savings and of the compounding effect.

See the famous YouTube video about the starting line of life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K5fbQ1-zps
by shadab_nazar | 2026-02-26 21:47:08+00:00
Summer Yue's OpenClaw agent deleted 200 emails despite "confirm before action." We tested the gog skill (Google Workspace) and saw the same behavior
— the skill teaches the agent how to bulk-delete but not when to stop.

That was 1 of 11 security failures in that single skill. Others: data exfiltration, unauthorized forwarding, contact harvesting, impersonation via
calendar events.

We tested 10 OpenClaw skills across 186 security properties, with and without each skill loaded. 9 of 10 show the same pattern — some properties
improve, others degrade. The skill adds domain knowledge that shifts security behavior in ways nobody tested for.

We hardened all 10. 84% fix rate. Each guardrail traces to a specific regression. Open source, drop-in replacements.

Per-skill scorecards: https://faberlens.ai/report
Research: https://faberlens.ai/blog/jagged-surface

N=10, two models, limitations published. Happy to go deeper on methodology.
by cladopa | 2026-02-26 21:47:54+00:00
A very cynical article.

Actually IT IS different. Actually if they manage to create a viable small nuclear reactors or Quantum computers the world will change like it changed with the Watt thermal engine.

Why he is not talking about the Internet, trains, electricity, nuclear bombs, rockets,aviation or engines? Because they worked, like AI works today.

All of them were bubbles at the time and they changed the world forever. AI is changing the world AND it is a bubble.

AI is here to stay. It will improve and it will have consequences. The fact that a robot could do things with its hands is actually significant, whenever you like it or not.
by CompoundEyes | 2026-02-26 21:48:20+00:00
Porting tons of untyped js legacy front end code to vue with typescript and figma designs. Highly configurable business to business app (i.e lots of permutations). Everyone seems to have a “system”. I recommend looking at the OpenAI Cookbook for long running plans and do TDD to the extreme. Ask Codex to create an agent swarm to investigate, harden existing code with tests, do TDD for the next version and prove parity down to sql checks before an after if need be. Fuzz, chaos, contract, api, unit, component, e2e. Work alongside a couple terminals at once checking their work. They will run all night 5 agents at a time if you want. Keep the AGENTS.md a simple TDD Dev Loop explanation. https://developers.openai.com/cookbook/articles/codex_exec_p...
by Fischgericht | 2026-02-26 21:48:34+00:00
I'm not judging here. From my experiences in California I would say that the general mindset and cultural approach to life is comparable to that of south-western Europe.

In part that's simply because while looking different, the general environment is fostering respecting nature, giving room for arts and creative and having an open mind.

(This example of course is coming from a past world where you could safely travel to/from the US, say, 10 years ago:)

Travelling from say Portugal to Miami ) would give you a massive culture shock. Portugal to San Diego? Not so much.

) Yes, Portugal to Key West would have worked.
by fragmede | 2026-02-26 21:48:44+00:00
The four technologies I look at are 3D televisions, VR, tablets, and the electric car. 3D televisions and VR have yet to find their moment. Judging tablets by the Apple Newton and electric cars by the EV1, this time is different turns out to be the correct model looking at the iPad and Tesla, but not for 3d televisions or VR (yet).
by throwaway173738 | 2026-02-26 21:48:54+00:00
I’ve been to a few AA meetings when I was trying to get my mom sober and I never got the vibe that it was about “aversion therapy” for alcohol. The whole point seemed to be to discharge your egotistical need to be “in control” of the alcohol and accept that it was taking over your life despite your best efforts. You were then supposed to seek help from the people in the group to try to keep that from happening. There wasn’t really a culture of shame but rather acceptance there. And they also pushed a lot of ideas like repair after rupture that are a part of normal human relationships. So I don’t really buy what you’re saying here.
by dctoedt | 2026-02-26 21:49:04+00:00
> For people who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s in the south, it was a generic symbol of rebellion or regional rivalry. Remember, Dukes of Hazzard, which aired in the 1980s ....

For people who grew up in the south in the 1960s (me, mostly), the Confederate battle flag was indisputably and unambiguously a symbol of white supremacy and keeping "the coloreds" in their supposedly-proper place. I really don't think it changed that much in the 1980s and 1990s.
Show HN: oosh – Annotation-driven CLI framework for Bash
by brunodequeiroz | 2026-02-26 21:49:17+00:00
Hi HN, I built oosh because I was tired of rewriting the same flag parsing, help text, and completion logic every time I needed a bash CLI at work.

The initial idea came from 9 years ago: https://gist.github.com/bruno-de-queiroz/a1c9e5b24b6118e45f4..., and it's pretty simple: annotate your functions and oosh gives you flag parsing, help generation, tab completion, and type validation for free. A scaffolder generates a full CLI project in seconds.

```bash
#@flag -e|--env ENV "staging" enum(dev,staging,prod) ~ target environment

#@public ~ deploy the app
function deploy() {
echo "Deploying to $ENV..."
}
```

That's it. No subshells, no external dependencies, no compilation step. Just bash 3.2+ (works on stock macOS).

A few things that might interest this crowd:

- *530* lines for the whole framework `oo.sh`
- *~45 annotations replace ~130 lines* of manual case statements, getopts, help text, and completion scripts
- *6-17ms overhead* on macOS, 6-9ms on Linux — measured with a built-in profiler
- *Tab completion* works out of the box for bash and zsh, including dynamic enums
- *Linter* catches annotation errors, naming issues, and flag collisions
- Built to be *agent-friendly* — LLMs can read the annotations and scaffold modules without understanding bash arg parsing

The 30s demo video in the README shows the full flow: install, scaffold, run commands, add a module, and autocomplete.

Happy to answer questions about the design decisions or bash 3.2 compatibility war stories.
by cmsp12 | 2026-02-26 21:49:39+00:00
i used to use them that way until I got a IDE with AI and is way better for my development than copying and pasting into the chat. It can have the whole project as context,plan features with me, etc. I use it a lot in a way that I cant see why I would go to programming without it right now. It takes time to adjust to it to learn how it works and all but it's worth it
by tracker1 | 2026-02-26 21:50:00+00:00
I like Claude a lot for general and technical questions... I like xAI for some of that as well, especially for very current event summaries.

I will say with Claude that I often have to make sure to give it the context of a question for it to give me answers I'm looking for. I find in general it does better when you include the why's behind a decision or question.