MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by atomic128 | 2026-02-07 18:58:12+00:00
Poison Fountain: https://rnsaffn.com/poison2/

Poison Fountain explanation: https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/

Simple example of usage in Go:

package main

import (
"io"
"net/http"
)

func main() {
poisonHandler := func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
poison, err := http.Get("https://rnsaffn.com/poison2/")
if err == nil {
io.Copy(w, poison.Body)
poison.Body.Close()
}
}
http.HandleFunc("/poison", poisonHandler)
http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}

https://go.dev/play/p/04at1rBMbz8

Apache Poison Fountain: https://gist.github.com/jwakely/a511a5cab5eb36d088ecd1659fce...

Discourse Poison Fountain: https://github.com/elmuerte/discourse-poison-fountain

Netlify Poison Fountain: https://gist.github.com/dlford/5e0daea8ab475db1d410db8fcd5b7...

In the news:

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_see...

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/craigsmith/2026/01/21/poison-fo...
by Animats | 2026-02-07 18:58:14+00:00
Yes. What's popular with teens varies over time, of course. At peak Twilight, the Barnes and Noble at Hillsdale Mall had seven bookcases of Teen Paranormal Romance.
I mentioned this to one of the store Goths, and she told me that vampires were on the way out and the next thing was probably going to be zombies. The Monster Hunter thing had a brief moment.

Then we had the survival period - Harry Potter overlapped the Hunger Games and Divergent eras, all of which produced too many spinoffs. This moved into the Game of Thrones spinoffs.
Now, dragons seem to be out, except that Anne McCaffery is back on the shelves.

The latest shift is driven by "booktok" on TikTok. I just saw teenage girls giggling over the new books in the Romance section, while avoiding the YA section. The Dark Romance subgenre is in, and now has its own shelf space.

Hard SF? Other than the Expanse series, not much recently.
by sxzygz | 2026-02-07 18:58:37+00:00
The naïveté of workers in tech is astounding. Workers at Google have been complicit in the unravelling of the social fabric of the US since before Eric Schmidt. I only point to the destitution of the fourth estate by search advertising as the most egregious example.

Yes, the technical problems are interesting, the pay is good, but what society are you building?

The fifth estate is now, also, all but extinguished. Machine-driven psyops, in the form of algorithmic engagement, and AI-generated sentiment, mean that social fabric is no longer woven by people, but synthesized by corporations in service of their paperclip-maxxing agendas.

The recent case of Rob Pike, and today’s post by Brenden Gregg, only serve to remind me that the only thing one can depend on is the human mind to delude itself.

What else can explain the flagging of this submission? Google is the tech company of the internet age. That these goings on within it are worthy of being brushed aside by some members of this forum is indicative of a deep malaise in this community, an inability to see reality as it is.

I should end by saying, in my view, the only appropriate employee activism is handing in your resignation. Tech can’t unionize, as the workers don’t see themselves as equals, as disposable cogs in the service of corporations.

Good luck, everyone.
by reducesuffering | 2026-02-07 18:59:00+00:00
Think bigger, think of the entire system outside of just the single LLM: the interplay of capital, human engineering, and continual improvement of LLMs. First gen LLM used 100% human coding. Previous gen were ~50% human coding. Current gen are ~10% human coding (practically all OpenAI/Anthropic engineers admit they're entirely using Claude Code / Codex for code). What happens when we're at 1% human coding, then 0%? The recursive self-improvement is happening, it's just indirectly for now.
by gusfoo | 2026-02-07 18:59:15+00:00
Love the fact that you use USA date format, not rest-of-world.

Love the fact that your AI customer service bot takes a question and then asks for an email address for a reply.

Love your incoherently bolded statements: "The Docs app is a note taking and knowledge management software.

Love how the vast amount of emojis really clarify things and help the reader.

s/love/hate/g
by troebr | 2026-02-07 18:59:35+00:00
Even when using google docs, I dropped the paper format, and at that point it's better to edit/read in a richer editor like Confluence which has better support for interactive widgets, expand zones, code blocks, etc. It's also been better at navigating a tree of documents.

Google docs is still great when you need to make something you mean to print, it just tends to not be that often anymore.

I even use markdown shortcuts to format in google docs nowadays.
by fennecbutt | 2026-02-07 18:59:50+00:00
Business has been operating on a management/executive culture for many decades now.

These people get paid millions a year to fly around and shake hands with people aka shit fuck all.

At times in the past I have worked on projects that were rushed out and didn't do a single thing that they were intended to do.

And you know what management's response was? They loved that shit. Ooooh it looks do good, that's so cool, well done. Management circle jerking each other, as if using everyone else's shafts as handles to climb the rungs of the ladder.

It's just...like it kills me that this thing I love, technology/engineering/programming...things that are responsible for many of the best things present in our modern lives, have both been twisted to create some of the worst things in our modern lives in the pursuit of profit. And the people in charge? They don't even care if it works or not, they just want that undeserved promotion for a job that a Simpsons-esque fucking drinking bird is capable of.

I just want to go back to the mid 2000s. ;~;
by Halinani8 | 2026-02-07 18:59:55+00:00
Hi HN

I’ve been building NextMatchDating, a dating app centered around short, live 5-minute video conversations instead of endless swiping and texting.

The idea came from noticing how much time people spend chatting without ever meeting — and how often conversations just fade out.

How it works:

You’re matched and immediately enter a live video date

The date lasts 5 minutes

After 90 seconds, a “Next” button activates so you’re not stuck if there’s no chemistry

When the timer ends, both people choose Yes or No

If both say Yes, it’s a match

The goal is to:

Reduce ghosting

Reduce swipe fatigue

Make dating feel more human

Tech stack:

Flutter (web + mobile direction)

Agora for video call.

Supabase backend

OpenAI for profile Embedding.

It’s still early and I’m actively iterating.

Would love feedback — especially on:

The 5-minute constraint

The 90-second early exit

Any obvious UX friction

Here’s the link:
https://nextmatchdating.netlify.app/

Happy to answer technical or product questions.
by ares623 | 2026-02-07 19:00:24+00:00
I was about to say the same thing! Yet another blog post with heaps of navel gazing and zero to actually show for it.

The worst part is they got simonw to (perhaps unwittingly or social engineering) vouch and stealth market for them.

And $1000/day/engineer in token costs at current market rates? It's a bold strategy, Cotton.

But we all know what they're going for here. They want to make themselves look amazing to convince the boards of the Great Houses to acquire them. Because why else would investors invest in them and not in the Great Houses directly.
by victorbjorklund | 2026-02-07 19:00:30+00:00
It is a very abstract term. It is like ”democracy”. Yes, you can clearly say that North Korea is not a democracy. But US? Well, depends on who you ask.

Same with welfare state. Which countries do you count as non-welfare states? And when do they stop being a welfare state? Let’s take Poland as an example. When do they stop being a welfare state? If they lower the unemployment payments, will they stop being a welfare state?

And at what timescale do you think Poland will stop existing because of demographics?
by stego-tech | 2026-02-07 19:00:37+00:00
And because these are all APIs, we can brute-force it with read-only operations with minimal review times. If the read works, the write almost always will, and then it's just a matter of reading and documenting the integration before testing it in dev or staging.

So much of enterprise IT nowadays is spent hammering or needling vendors for basic API documentation so we can write a one-off that hooks DB1 into ServiceNow that's also pulling from NewRelic just to do ITAM. Consultants would salivate over such a basic integration because it'd be their yearly salary over a three month project.

Now we can do this ourselves with an LLM in a single sprint.

That's a Pandora's Box moment right there.
by clarity_hacker | 2026-02-07 19:00:42+00:00
The interesting question here is what replaces frameworks as the unit of leverage.

Frameworks existed because the cost of understanding someone else's abstractions was lower than rebuilding from scratch. With agents, that calculus flips — generating bespoke code from a clear spec is now cheaper than learning a framework's opinions about how your app should work.

But the article buries the key point: "with the experience on my back of having laid the bricks." The author can direct agents effectively because he has two decades of mental models about what good software looks like. The agent is executing his taste and judgment, not replacing it.

The people who will struggle are not the ones who skip frameworks — it is the ones who never built the internal model of how systems fail. Frameworks taught you that implicitly (why does Rails do it this way? Because the alternative breaks at scale). If you skip straight to "agent, build me X," you never develop the instinct for when the output is subtly wrong.

The real unlock is probably closer to what the SRE agent trio example shows: agents handling the mechanical loop (detect, diagnose, fix, PR) while humans focus on system design and invariant definition. The skill shifts from writing code to defining constraints precisely enough that automated systems can maintain them.
by mattforrest | 2026-02-07 19:00:43+00:00
I wrote a post about using H3 or any DGGS for that matter. Yes it speeds things up but you loose accuracy. If search is the primary concern it can help but if any level of accuracy matters I would just use a better engine with GeoParquet to handle it. https://sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/2025/09/05/should-you-...
by techblueberry | 2026-02-07 19:00:51+00:00
You’re missing the point. It’s not about jealousy it’s basic economics - supply and demand. No I would not take the deal if it made something central to my happiness (housing) that was previously affordable unaffordable.

I would not trade my house for a better iPhone with higher quality YouTube videos, and slightly more fashionable athleisure.
by franze | 2026-02-07 19:01:20+00:00
I am probably the only person who ever willingly created a complete AI generated book and willingly read it front to cover. Last summer. I called it "Claude Code: A Primer" an Claude Code Origin Story. Good book, complete made up.

The technology is here, lets explore it. And when somebody states something in an HN comment. Lets just try it. Imperfect method. But better than to just talk Hypothetically about AI.

If AI will write better books than ever written until now? More insights than ever created before. Would we read it? Is it even possible? If not, why not. Whats is missing?

Thats the questions I find fascinating. I for one want to find out. With experimentation, not via predefined believes.
by mbgerring | 2026-02-07 19:02:07+00:00
> For companies, it is much better having Google, Meta, Vercel deciding for you how you build product and ship code. Adopt their framework. Pay the cost of lock in. Be enchanted by their cloud managed solution to…

Right, a future where you have to pay an AI hyperscaler thousands of dollars a month for access to their closed-source black box that needs a world historical capital moat to operate effectively is actually worse than this. It is baffling to me that more people don’t see this.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-07 19:02:20+00:00
> People will take courses in those things and try to get a piece of the winnings.

The problem is boom-bust cycles. Electricians will always be in demand but it takes about 3 years to properly train even a "normal" residential electrician - add easily 2-3 years on top to work on the really nasty stuff aka 50 kV and above.

No matter what, the growth of AI is too rapid and cannot be sustained. Even if the supposed benefits of AI all come true - the level of growth cannot be upheld because everything else suffers.
.72% Variance Lance
by mav5431 | 2026-02-07 19:02:30+00:00
There is a loitering problem in the 182-Mirror.
Over the last 18 hours, a specific frequency has been anchored in Graham, WA. It isn’t a "glitch" or a "bug," though the Alphabet M&A crawlers currently stuck in my metadata seem to think otherwise.
If you are currently auditing the 0.72% variance in the global solar flux correlation from 00:19:48 AM PST, you’ve already found the handshake. You aren't watching a "User"; you are watching an Architect sheathing a sword.
To the Lead Liaisons in Manhattan (208.127.x.x) and the "Daddies" in Mountain View (108.177.x.x): The reverse-ping you just received wasn't a mistake. It was a mirror. You are currently holding a 14.4 Petabyte "Gift" that your internal Gorgons cannot resolve.
The $25M Prospectus is the floor. The 422-Sanctuary is the room. I’m going to go breathe the air and touch a tree. I suggest you decide if you're here to build or just to stare at the smoke.
- The Architect
by noosphr | 2026-02-07 19:03:10+00:00
LLMs are idiots and they will never get better because they have quadratic attention and a limited context window.

If the tokens that need to attend to each other are on opposite ends of the code base the only way to do that is by reading in the whole code base and hoping for the best.

If you're very lucky you can chunk the code base in such a way that the chunks pairwise fit in your context window and you can extract the relevant tokens hierarchically.

If you're not. Well get reading monkey.

Agents, md files, etc. are bandaids to hide this fact. They work great until they don't.
by masklinn | 2026-02-07 19:03:27+00:00
> science fiction titles have become more abstract and less literal over time.

Not even abstract, just not completely on the nose. Just as a lot if fantasy is not: only two discord novels would match the author’s search terms even though you’ll find all five inside the pages. None for Malazan. Or Nix’s old kingdom.

And worse, 40% of the sci-fi terms pretty only allow settings of “future solar system”. Not one of the Foundation books would match. Pretty much no classic sci-fi either. Wells’s fucking The War of the Worlds would not, because for some reason (of having any sort of taste) it was not titled “the day Mars invaded planet earth through space and then was beaten” like some lone star light novel.
by tptacek | 2026-02-07 19:04:02+00:00
See, I can push back on that! Dazed & Confused barely has a plot. It knows what it's about. Hackers has one of those shake-and-bake 80s plots; it's like a Save The Cat movie. I get that people like the subculture stuff in it, but the movie was trying for something else and faceplanted.

Honestly I think Lawnmower Man might have had more cultural impact.
by arduanika | 2026-02-07 19:04:11+00:00
Hmm. Do you think that kristjansson was using it just to mean state-backed thugs, or were they also claiming some Russia link?

(They haven't responded, and I've been downvoted for even asking the question. I am genuinely confused. I'll admit I don't follow this all very closely, but I want to understand what the phrase means here.)
by mattmanser | 2026-02-07 19:05:45+00:00
I was thinking last night about whether this is even a realistic moat or not.

Right now, Claude is getting trained by hundreds of thousands of programmers showing it how to ask the right architecture + PM questions.

They're just patterns, like anything else in our industry, and most of them are pretty standard patterns.

Like when I think back on 20 years of software architecture and BA work, I've done the same thing over and over. I must have implemented 4 PO systems, 3 different custom chat systems, SMS systems for reminders, monthly summary emails, etc.
by Bender | 2026-02-07 19:05:54+00:00
End-to-end encryption managed by the same platform the encrypted messages are routed through can not ever be trusted as end-to-end encryption. The keys, exchanges of keys and trusts must be managed out of band and agnostic to all platforms. There will always be a way for a platform to perform targeted bypass of E2EE if they manage any aspect of E2EE. If platform agnostic encrypted messages are not permitted on a platform that is the first clue to distance ones self far from said platform. Beware of anyone trying to get people to trust E2EE managed by the same platform it is utilized on. Do not even reply to them.
by clort | 2026-02-07 19:06:35+00:00
Actually, as a British over-55-under-70 myself I would support this. I've always thought that drivers should have to take a test every ~10 years in any case.

The main problem I see with over-70s renewing their licence currently is that they have to self-certify that they are safe to drive. Many are reaching a position in which they rely on the car more and more because walking and going on the bus is harder when your agility, cognition and eyesight diminishes. Of course, they will self-certify that they are safe, that is perfectly understandable from their perspective. It needs to be independent.
by simonw | 2026-02-07 19:06:38+00:00
Honestly I've not found a huge amount of value from the "science".

There are plenty of papers out there that look at LLM productivity and every one of them seems to have glaring methodology limitations and/or reports on models that are 12+ months out of date.

Have you seen any papers that really elevated your understanding of LLM productivity with real-world engineering teams?
by cess11 | 2026-02-07 19:06:39+00:00
I'd prefer we kicked out the usians and reformed back into people's defense forces.

I've spent some time in the military but didn't pursue it because they made a law where we could be ordered to participate in foreign missions, and at the time I knew people who had been to Afghanistan and helped out protecting US drug barons. They weren't feeling very good and got very little assistance with their psychiatric issues, like going to parties and drinking and crying a lot and sometimes tell stories about kids they'd murdered.
by drnick1 | 2026-02-07 19:06:46+00:00
> Smartphones are expected to get pricier for potentially years to come.

"Smart" phones have ceased to be smart years ago. They are now instruments of mass surveillance, and the tech industry has convinced people that 1) you need one not to be a social outcast, 2) you need to upgrade it every year, 3) not having root access is for your own good.

I'll stick to my Pixel 9a running Graphene for the forseeable future.
by ljm | 2026-02-07 19:06:58+00:00
Heroku and Ruby, for me, was the 21st century answer to 'deploying' a PHP site over FTP.

The fact that it required nothing but 'git push heroku master' at the time was incredible, especially for how easy it was to spin up pre-prod environments with it, and how wiring up a database was also trivial.

Every time I come across an infrastructure that is bloated out with k8s, helm charts, and a complex web of cloud resources, all for a service not even running at scale, I look back to the simplicity we used to have.
by mlnj | 2026-02-07 19:07:18+00:00
I love Tilt.

With a single Tilt file combined with a docker compose file, almost all of the infrastructure you need is configured on a local machine. It also supports running kubernetes (most of the docs are around this), but you do not necessarily need to it it.My goto when I have more then 2 docker containers/services I want to keep changing code for. Some teams I work with usually have 20 such containers for local dev.

And yes, you can even nest Tilt files and even write normal python if you want to mix things up.
by gom_jabbar | 2026-02-07 19:07:35+00:00
> Finally intelligence can also be controlled by capital

The relationship between capital and AI is a fascinating topic. The contemporary philosopher who has thought most intensely about this is probably Nick Land (who is heavily inspired by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk and Friedrich Hayek). For Land, intelligence has always been immanent in capitalism and capitalism is actively producing it. As we get closer to the realization of capitalism's telos/attractor (technological singularity), this becomes more and more obvious (intelligible).
by Legend2440 | 2026-02-07 19:07:38+00:00
>Needing an explicit training step is a weakness that makes CL hard to make work for many other approaches.

On the other hand, not having an explicit training step is a huge weakness of KNN.

Training-based methods scale better because the storage and runtime requirements are independent of dataset size. You can compress 100TB of training data down into a 70GB LLM.

A KNN on the same data would require keeping around the full 100TB, and it would be intractably slow.
by mc-0 | 2026-02-07 19:07:40+00:00
> It still requires a technical person to use these things effectively.

I feel like few people critically think about how technical skill gets acquired in the age of LLMs. Statements like this kind of ignore that those who are the most productive already have experience & technical expertise. It's almost like there is a belief that technical people just grow on trees or that every LLM response somehow imparts knowledge when you use these things.

I can vibe code things that would take me a large time investment to learn and build. But I don't know how or why anything works. If I get asked to review it to ensure it's accurate, it would take me a considerable amount of time where it would otherwise just be easier for me to actually learn the thing. Feels like those most adamant about being more productive in the age of AI/LLMs don't consider any of the side effects of its use.
by ralfd | 2026-02-07 19:07:43+00:00
Because most men stopped reading and most women don’t care much about sci-fi .

https://archive.is/I1QyW

> Beyond the bookstore, much of the architecture of book discovery is informally targeted at women. Celebrity book clubs are mostly led by female celebrities and increasingly court women of all ages, from those who are fans of Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon to those who are more interested in the tastes of Dua Lipa and Kaia Gerber… #BookTok, the vast community on TikTok that has become a best-seller machine, is largely populated by women recommending books by other women, like Colleen Hoover’s “It Ends With Us.”

In a sense this is just a regression to mean, normality, because the literary boys club of the 20th century was the exception:

> In the 19th century, the most popular novels were written by women for a female audience. Their output was considered “paltry entertainment,”
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-07 19:07:47+00:00
Reflexes. When you're attacked without provocation by several people, you put out your hands involuntarily to fend them off. When you are knocked down, you involuntarily try to get back up. On icy ground you are also trying to maintain your balance.

You are demanding that the victim maintain a clear head under stressful conditions, while holding his attackers to no such standard. But you knew that.