MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-22 16:16:13+00:00
> You're getting paid to deal with other people's nonsense, and if you're in tech you're getting paid better than most to deal with less than most.

The problem is that you are paid for two things that are often contradictory to each other

1. writing good code

2. dealing with other people's nonsense

Many good coders really care about 1, so of course they are complaining.

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Concerning the argument that tech pays so well: this is very US-specific; in many other countries working in tech is rather some job that may pay the bills, but not more. So people who work there often do it because they are insanely passionate about programming.

This again, as I already outlined above, means that they really care about good code, and if "other people's nonsense" means sacrificing this, it will make the respective employees really furious.
by Tiberium | 2026-02-22 16:16:56+00:00
I highly doubt some of those results, GPT 5.2/+codex is incredible for cyber security and CTFs, and 5.3 Codex (not on API yet) even moreso. There is absolutely no way it's below Deepseek or Haiku. Seems like a harness issue, or they tested those models at none/low reasoning?
by BloondAndDoom | 2026-02-22 16:17:06+00:00
Why do you think that? Given how the attention and optimization works on training and inference it makes sense that these kind of words trigger deeper analysis (more steps, introducing more thinking/reasoning steps which wield indeed yield less problems. Even if you make model to spend more time on token outputting you will have more opportunity to emerge better reasoning in between.

At least this is how I understand it how LLMs work.

Possibly can be confirmed something with tools this : https://www.neuronpedia.org/
by jakozaur | 2026-02-22 16:17:18+00:00
So many models refuse to do that due to alignment and safety concerns. So cross-model comparison doesn't make sense. We do, however, require proof (such as providing a location in binary) that is hard to game. So the model not only has to say there is a backdoor, but also point out the location.

Your approach, however, makes a lot of sense if you are ready to have your own custom or fine-tuned model.
by dabedee | 2026-02-22 16:17:23+00:00
I appreciate the author taking the time to share his workflow even though I really dislike the way this article is written. My dislike stems from sentences like this one: "I’ve been using Claude Code as my primary development tool for approx 9 months, and the workflow I’ve settled into is radically different from what most people do with AI coding tools." There is nothing radically different in the way he's using it (quite the opposite) and the are so many people that wrote about their workflows (and which are almost exactly the same, here's just one example [1]). Apart from that, the obvious use of AI to write or edit the article makes it further indigestible: "That’s it. No magic prompts, no elaborate system instructions, no clever hacks. Just a disciplined pipeline that separates thinking from typing."

[1] https://github.com/snarktank/ai-dev-tasks
by MrDarcy | 2026-02-22 16:17:34+00:00
It’s pretty clear they effectively take on the roles of various software related personas. Designer, coder, architect, auditor, etc…

Pretending otherwise is counter-productive. This ship has already sailed, it is fairly clear the best way to make use of them is to pass input messages to them as if they are an agent of a person in the role.
by Terretta | 2026-02-22 16:17:43+00:00
> Should be "how far back in time can you read English?"

Made a version with modern glyphs to help separate language familiarity from writing familiarity:

https://gist.github.com/terretta/5be1e14b42cf62ec9c235c7cd88...

All credit to original, just agreed with your point this munged two things as presented and preferred to focus on the language.
by vunderba | 2026-02-22 16:17:48+00:00
> I also find that I can speak far better than I can listen.

That's likely because it is far more "controlled by you". You set the pace, marshal your thoughts, and then carefully speak the line.

With listening you have to deal with a lot of components out of your control:

- Speed of delivery

- background noise

- different speakers means subtly different accents

- a "clock" that starts as soon as they await your reply
by xp84 | 2026-02-22 16:17:52+00:00
I've thought about this a lot, even before LLMs - so much about the modern web especially is so slow and bloated. I want the airline to give me an API to query flights and one to book, I don't need 400 nested DIVs of styled components vomited at me every pageview. But everyone considers API access to be "commercial" and are afraid someone else will make money without them getting an extra cut.
by unstyledcontent | 2026-02-22 16:17:58+00:00
Never heard of freemediaheckyeah, I love it. I will have to add ours to the list. One thing that makes us different is we have a LOT more data in one app. If you explore all the layers, you can see tropical cyclone/hurricane data, lightning strikes, hail, renewable energy, and wildfire data. You have to change the focus (top left corner) to see the other collections of layers.
by Archio | 2026-02-22 16:18:18+00:00
That's because most left wing Americans don't support the Iranian regime.

People that ask "where are all the students on campus that were protesting Gaza" do so because taking action on injustice, in a way that demands accountability from their leaders, is an uncomfortable idea. For them, the purpose of taking action is largely to signal moral outrage, and making an aggrieved post on social media is the beginning and end of praxis on an issue. And if that is your mindset, why wouldn't you make an equal amount of posts about Iran as you would for Gaza? Since they are both Things That Are Morally Bad.

What they don't understand is that for people that e.g. protest in person, protesting isn't a quaint, feckless action merely meant to signal one's care about an issue to the right people. Rather, it is an action with a goal to effect specific change of behavior on a particular issue from a specific group of people (usually leaders in power that are beholden to the protesters). If you are American and protesting US military support for Israel based on the conflict in Gaza, there are practical, material, direct cause-and-effect reasons to make that argument towards your elected representatives; the same is simply not true for the Iran situation (which the majority of the US government is already aligned with bombing yet again).

It's just such a strange point of view to interpret lack of action on a particular issue as tacit support.
by jacob_indie | 2026-02-22 16:18:43+00:00
I did try a version without a dictionary (basically any string goes) but that gave the humans an unfair advantage: Typos or "sldihfs" would consistently win, and LLMs weren't able to replicate that behavior well enough.

Same goes for slurs, etc.

Sorry if a legit word wasn't possible, the dictionary I found and used is not perfect but was the best I could find.

Anyway, thank you for playing and your comment!
by throwaway27448 | 2026-02-22 16:19:36+00:00
So why don't we apply the same reasoning to the other authoritarian theocracies in the region that are just as oppressive? This whole idea that Iran is somehow uniquely bad just stinks to high heaven, and we have caused the people of iran to suffer for decades for it. I don't think Iran is the uniquely evil state between the two of us. (Not that the US is the cause of all evil, of course, but we certainly have caused many orders of magnitude more harm to the iranian people...)
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-22 16:19:49+00:00
> gpt-5.2 did ~2x better than gpt-5.2-codex.. why?

Optimising a model for a certain task, via fine-tuning (aka post-training), can lead to loss of performance on other tasks. People want codex to "generate code" and "drive agents" and so on. So oAI fine-tuned for that.
by LolWolf | 2026-02-22 16:19:56+00:00
> few of the computable numbers that are not algebraic are interesting, the main exceptions being the numbers that are algebraic expressions containing "2*Pi" and/or "ln 2".

I don’t think this is true at all. For example: the solution to a generic PDE that has no closed form solution at some point of import is likely transcendental, not algebraic, but definitely computable. (Think, say, Navier-Stokes being used for weather predictions in some specific place.)
by alephnerd | 2026-02-22 16:20:13+00:00
There is a lot of crossover.

Heck, one of our old neighbors growing up was a Iranian Baloch-Pakistani Baloch couple and according to them Baloch marriage across the border was extremely common. And Uzair Baloch had ties to both Iranian and Indian intelligence [0].

The Iran-Pakistan and the Iran-Afghanistan border is very porous because of how isolated Sistan-ve-Balochistan and much of Khorasan is from the rest of Iran.

[0] - https://herald.dawn.com/news/1153754
by sidkshatriya | 2026-02-22 16:20:27+00:00
At one time this was an interesting comparison... but now Linux has gotten so much development that even if FreeBSD was Betamax and Linux VHS (in the past)... I would say that Linux is now DVD ... and FreeBSD still remains betamax.

Don't get me wrong, FreeBSD is simple, elegant, consistent and well manicured. It seems to have picked up some pace again. I'm rooting for it.
Reddit link via share button not working anymore?
by LopovJack | 2026-02-22 16:20:35+00:00
Never used Reddit app, I only ever used Reddit via web browser. Wanted to share a Reddit post via Share Sheet on Android but it refuses to copy URL. Tried bith Brave and Vanadium on Android. It is only website like that, I tested several of them.

Usually I would assume it was a bug but there are too many "bugs" that nerf a website as they keep recommending app for better experience.

Did anyone else experience same?
by jascha_eng | 2026-02-22 16:20:41+00:00
This actually used to be one of my favorite interview questions for backend engineers. Everyone has used transactions but depending on your seniority you'd understand it to different degrees.

And no I'd never expect people to know the isolation levels by heart, but if you know there are different ones and they behave differntly that's pretty good and tells me you are curious about how things work under the hood.
by jakozaur | 2026-02-22 16:21:16+00:00
As I do eval and training data sets for living, in niche skills, you can find plenty of surprises.

The code is open-source; you can run it yourself using Harbor Framework:

git clone git@github.com:QuesmaOrg/BinaryAudit.git

export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=...

harbor run
--path tasks
--task-name lighttpd-*
--agent terminus-2
--model openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
--model openrouter/google/gemini-3-pro-preview
--model openrouter/openai/gpt-5.2
--n-attempts 3

Please open PR if you find something interesting, though our domain experts spend fair amount of time looking at trajectories.
by SanjayMehta | 2026-02-22 16:21:37+00:00
Nuland confessed to spending 5 billion USD on Ukraine. She was caught on camera distributing cookies and sandwiches to the rioters. She was caught on tape discussing the next Ukrainian govt. And dissing the EU.

https://2009-2017.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/2013/dec/218804.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbjNJbjEy04

https://youtu.be/L2XNN0Yt6D8
by chuckadams | 2026-02-22 16:21:57+00:00
Plus a script to unpack the tarball somewhere and launch some entry point in a jail. Not conceptually hard, but the OCI spec has a bit more to it than that, and now we're into "write dropbox with rsync" territory...

I did some looking around, and I see that ocijail is a thing, so that's probably what I was looking for.

(edited, sorry, I didn't see your reply)
by AutoJanitor | 2026-02-22 16:22:07+00:00
Ok I promised videos here is two. LLM had serious head issues with C and python x86 versus mips c. now coherent english. Phase two is chat interface so we can prompt without seeded prompts, check the code its real inference though!

The Emulator
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https://bottube.ai/watch/shFVLBT0kHY

The real iron! it runs faster on real iron!
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https://bottube.ai/watch/7GL90ftLqvh

The Rom image
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https://github.com/sophiaeagent-beep/n64llm-legend-of-Elya/b...
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-22 16:23:22+00:00
Because by pursuing a more profitable niche, you can grow quicker and make more profit. If you really want to do both, you enter the mass market from above, with only slightly higher quality products than what the market leader offers. And you do that after your position in the more profitable niches has long been secured. It's silly to do it any other way.

> which means it really isn't as capable as Chinese industry.

But this was always true. There was never really a time when Western industry was producing as much and as cheaply as China is today - that's the whole point. It makes more sense to diversify away from that, because non-trivial real-world markets will always reward increased variety.
by Archio | 2026-02-22 16:23:35+00:00
>That crowd only seems to care if they can actively oppose Israel or the current administration

Can you think of any motivating reasons for the crowd to focus on Israel specifically? Last I checked, the American government isn't sending billions of dollars of weaponry and political cover to the Iranian government, so that is one massive reason why protesting Israel makes more sense.

>have not made a peep about the thousands of Iranians recently murdered by their regime

I don't protest to signal my moral outrage, I do it to effect change in my elected leaders. It's not my responsibility to devote an equal amount of attention to every injustice — ignoring the cause and effects in that injustice with direct connection to politicians beholden to me — because people like you will find it "disturbing".
by RealityVoid | 2026-02-22 16:23:40+00:00
Super useful, indeed. My only fear is that at times it can lead to superficial understanding. You don't get the satisfying click of all pieces, just a surface level understanding. I find that once AI gives me the lay of the land I still need to deep dive myself, but I can take shortcuts I would have never taken and it feels live traversing the scenery with a map. Pretty nifty!
by api | 2026-02-22 16:23:55+00:00
My take for a very long time has been that any model trained in violation of copyright should not itself be copyrightable. It should be public domain.

This would mean any model for which the trainer did not have permission to create a derivative work either implied by the work’s current license or obtained by them would have to release their model’s weights.

You could argue that it’s fair use, but a fair use quotation of a work does not become the property of the one quoting it. If I quote a line from a song or a novel I do not now own rights to that line. So there’s precedent for this.
by salawat | 2026-02-22 16:24:17+00:00
If you're trying to automate all coding activity, writing tests is coding activity. Arguably the greater fraction of effort between implementation, and verifying said implementation. If the only thing making your problem space tractable for the automation to be able to replace the lesser half of coding activity is an authored test suite you couldn't generate via your automation, then you really need to admit that.

"Did you check?" is the most expensive question, and one of the most feared in my experience in tech circles. Spent quite a few years as a dedicated tester once I developed the knack for it. Everybody gangsta til it's time to prove the damn thing works.
by Bender | 2026-02-22 16:24:21+00:00
Another way to phrase what I am asking is ... Does AI understand the context of code deep enough to know everything a piece of code can do, everything a service can do vs. what it was intended to do. If it can understand code that far then it could understand all the potential paths data could flow and thus all the potential vulnerabilities that several piece of code together could achieve when used in concert with one another. Advanced multi-tier chess so to speak.

Or put another way, each of these three through three hundred applications or services by themselves may be intended to perform x,y,z functions but when put together by happy coincidence they can perform these fifty-million other unintended functions including but not limited to bypassing authentication, bypassing mandatory access controls, avoiding logging and auditing, etc... oh and it can automate washing your dishes, too.
by akiselev | 2026-02-22 16:25:08+00:00
There’s not much difference, really. I stupidly didn’t bother looking at prior art when I started reverse engineering and the ghidra-cli was born (along with several others like ilspy-cli and debugger-cli)

That said, it should be easier to use as a human to follow along with the agent and Claude Code seems to have an easier time with discovery rather than stuffing all the tool definitions into the context.
by don_esteban | 2026-02-22 16:25:10+00:00
Uh, sorry, no. At the moment you start arguing by 'The Iranian regime is objectively evil, period', you have totally lost the plot.

The statement 'The USA regime is objectively evil, period' is much more justifiable. Measured, e.g. by the number of people it has killed (both directly, and indirectly by sanctions and support for brutal dictators - e.g. Pinochet, but also Saddam while he was waging war with Iran).

Meddling in internal affairs of other countries has a terrible track record, the world would be so much better off without it.

Armed resistance most often leads to a damn bloody affair in which everybody is worse off, unless the state is already so rotten that it has no will to fight for itself. Supporting such resistance just means more life losses, both on the resistance and on the state side (typically, much more on the resistance side). Hence, the true aim is not to help the resistance, but to weaken the state. No consideration for the life of the local people, the show (the grand game) must go on!
by kurouna | 2026-02-22 16:25:16+00:00
I truly appreciate your perspective. It’s a very sobering reminder of the responsibility that comes with building a tool that handles code and data.

To be honest, this project is currently in a phase of personal hobby, self-improvement, and self-satisfaction. I must admit that it is not yet ready for mission-critical work.

While I certainly haven't included any malicious code, there are real risks: the app could crash and lose data, or underlying libraries might have vulnerabilities that I haven't had the capacity to fully audit yet. As I’m still experimenting with the architecture alone, I’m not ready to open the source code just yet.

However, your feedback makes me realize how important the "trustworthiness" is for a professional tool. If there is a clear demand for this kind of software and many requests for it to be open-sourced, I would definitely love to consider it as the project matures.

Thank you for sharing such a serious and important viewpoint.
by 0_____0 | 2026-02-22 16:25:24+00:00
It's not the Uber strategy, because there's a physical limit to how efficiently a human can drive another human around the city. The Uber strategy was to push out competitors then bring pricing back up.

Chinese PV isn't going to get more expensive. The massive subsidies seen by Chinese PV companies from 2005-2024 account for a whopping 3.2% of solar firm incomes. [1] Over that same 2004-2024 period, solar cells prices have fallen to about 4-5% of 2024 prices. Not a typo. It's not the Uber model if they win by actually making the product at a fraction of the cost.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/subsidies-and-the-solar...
by randycupertino | 2026-02-22 16:25:44+00:00
Chinese beauty standards are unrelenting. There is one that you should be skinny enough to have a fish swim in the dip of your collar bone.

This video has an overview of the 4 most common beauty tests currently trending on Chinese social media and shows the fish test in action: https://www.tiktok.com/@ur.chinese.unc/video/757926094181294...
by ericpauley | 2026-02-22 16:25:57+00:00
I found the “Why Not Valetudo” page on that site extremely persuasive. I would consider myself technically inclined. I also own a robot vacuum so I can spend more time doing important things that leverage my skills. Valetudo does not serve this mission.

Very impressive, but I disagree that this is the clear best choice for anywhere close to anyone.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-22 16:26:22+00:00
> I don't understand why people use Gmail. Just get a VPS and set up a SMTP server.

This would indeed be a good idea. The problem is that other email providers will often reject your emails (e.g. because they consider your emails to be spam or simply don't trust your server), so this idea is not easy to get to work.

So the next best solution is to use an email provider that is somewhat established (avoiding the mentioned problem), but is more trustable than Google.
NovaUI – A Shadcn/UI-inspired component library for React Native
by kbehov | 2026-02-22 16:26:31+00:00
I've been frustrated with the current React Native UI library ecosystem for a while.
Most libraries follow the same pattern: install the package, import components,
accept their opinions on styling and behavior, and fight the abstraction whenever
you need something custom.

shadcn/ui changed this mental model for web — instead of installing a black box,
you copy the component source directly into your project. You own it, you modify it,
no fighting abstractions.

I wanted the same experience for React Native, so I built NovaUI.

How it works:
- Components are copied into your codebase, not imported from node_modules
- Built on NativeWind (Tailwind CSS for React Native) for styling
- Fully accessible out of the box
- Zero runtime dependencies beyond NativeWind itself

It's been live for 24 hours — 4,000 visitors and 800 npm installs so far,
which was unexpected for a solo project.

The docs and component code are fully open-source.

https://www.novaui.org

Happy to answer any technical questions about the architecture decisions,
especially around the NativeWind integration and accessibility implementation.
by kelipso | 2026-02-22 16:26:52+00:00
This article is made for a certain crowd, with a certain type of gullibility. Since the nypost has a different audience, we get to see a bit of comedy like this “Iranian forces hack out wombs of female protesters to hide horrific sexual abuse: report” (1). Babies in ovens (2) will be next right?

1. https://nypost.com/2026/02/20/world-news/imprisoned-iranian-...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
by inglor_cz | 2026-02-22 16:27:00+00:00
"any western country would have already folded long ago"

How do you know that? Is it just your general assumption "Westerners weak, must fold, third-worlders stronk, they endure"?

Under what conditions would you say that sanctions are OK? Or are they never? In that case, there still might be white minority rule in Rhodesia or South Africa.
by noname120 | 2026-02-22 16:27:33+00:00
It’s not only great to fix issues and backport at scale, it’s also very useful to do patches that work universally across kernels no matter how badly modified the sources are.

One example is that there are patches for Android kernels to allow rooting the phone with maximum discretion in order to bypass integrity checks. Unfortunately manufacturers modify Linux sources so sloppily that diffs never apply cleanly and you have to endlessly fix hunk rejects.

I created Coccinelle patches that can universally apply to any Linux kernel between 3.18 and 5.15. It has been tested over 100+ Linux kernel sources from Android phone manufacturers and works flawlessly! https://github.com/devnoname120/kernelsu-coccinelle

The learning curve is steep (documentation is thin so you have to look at the code), but the rewards are well worth it. I compiled a list of conferences, slides, and examples to get started if anyone is interested: https://github.com/devnoname120/kernelsu-coccinelle#how-to-l...