MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2026-02-06 09:09:31+00:00
I'll be that guy.

For what boils down to a personal take, light on technicalities, this reads like uncannily impersonal, prolonged attempt at dramatic writing.

If you believe the dates in this blog, it's totally different in tone, style, and wording to a safely distant 2021 post (https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2021-10-04-garbage-in-ne...).

It made me feel paranoid just in about three paragraphs. I apologize to the author if I'm wrong but we all understand what my gut tells me.
by sublimefire | 2026-02-06 09:09:39+00:00
Very much the same experience. But it does not talk much about the project setup and the influence of it on the session success. In the narrow scoped projects it works really well, especially when tests are easy to execute. I found that this approach melts down when facing enterprise software with large repositories and unconventional layouts. Then you need to do a bunch of context management upfront, and verbose instructions for evaluations. But we know what it needs is a refactor thats all.

And the post touches on a next type of a problem, how to plan far ahead of time to utilise agents when you are away. It is a difficult problem but IMO we’re going in a direction of having some sort of shared “templated plans”/workflows and budgeted/throttled task execution to achieve that. It is like you want to give a little world to explore so that it does not stop early, like a little game to play, then you come back in the morning and check how far it went.
by larsbrinkhoff | 2026-02-06 09:10:25+00:00
Lisp dialects have diverged quite a bit, and it would be a lot of work to bridge the differences to a degree approaching 100%. 90% is easy, but only works for small trivial programs.

I say this, having written a "95%" Common Lisp for Emacs (still a toy), and successfully ran an old Maclisp compiler and assembler in Common Lisp.

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-cl

https://github.com/PDP-6/ITS-138/blob/master/tools/maclisp.l...
by maccard | 2026-02-06 09:10:49+00:00
Also game dev here - I disagree with your take. Our _build tools_ need to be hyper aware but our CI systems absolutely do not and would be better served as general purpose. What good is Horde when you need to deploy your already packaged game to steam via steamcmd, or when you need to update a remote config file for a content hotfix. Horde used BuildGraph meaning you need a full engine sync’ed node to run curl -X POST whatever.com

Game dev has a serious case of NIH - sometimes for good reasons but in lots of cases it’s because things have been set up in a way that makes changing that impractical. Using UBA as an example - FastBuild, Incredibuild, SNDBS Sccache all exist as either caching or distribution systems. Compiling a game engine isn’t much different to compiling a web browser (which ninja was written for).

I’ve worked at two game studios where we’ve used general purpose CI systems and been able to push out builds in < 15 minutes. Horde and UBA exist to handle how epic are doing things internally, rather than as an inherent requirement on how to use the tools effectively. If you don’t have the same constraints as developing Unreal Engine (and Fortnite) then you don’t have the same needs.

(I worked for epic when horde came online, but don’t any more).
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-02-06 09:10:51+00:00
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by xg15 | 2026-02-06 09:13:07+00:00
What would make sense for me is to use an AI to turn implicit context that is only there in the moment into explicit context that is stored in the ticket.

E.g. maybe you have your application open in a browser and are currently viewing a page with a very prominent red button. You hit that /issue command with "button should be yellow not red".

That half-sentence makes sense if you also have that open browser window as context, but would be completely cryptic without.

An AI could use both the input and the browser window to generate a description like "The background color of the #submit_unsafe button widget in frontend/settings/advanced.tsx should be changed from red to yellow." or something.

Sort of like a semantic equivalent to realpath if you want.

I do see utility in that.
Show HN: LibTTAK- Explicit lifetime-as-data for C systems
by gg582 | 2026-02-06 09:13:17+00:00
LibTTAK is a C systems collection that moves lifetime management from control flow logic into the data model.

In traditional C, memory safety relies on the programmer correctly ordering `free()` calls. Even in C++ or Rust, while RAII and ownership rules automate this, the logic still lives in the control flow. LibTTAK encodes the lifetime directly into the allocation.

Key features:

Lifetime as data: Every allocation has an explicit expiry.

Access validation: `ttak_mem_access(ptr, tick)` enforces expiry checks at the data level.

Minimalistic cleanup: No GC, but automatically frees memory with an interval, which can be turned off. Also, the user can manually clean up targeted pointers.

Operational coupling: Simplifies staged shutdowns and subsystem boundaries by grouping allocations under a single lifetime.

The goal is to provide the safety of deterministic cleanup without the overhead of a garbage collector or the complexity of complex ownership tracking.

Docs: https://gg582.github.io/libttak
by jjav | 2026-02-06 09:13:23+00:00
I don't know how rare they are overall, but you can make them rare for yourself by quitting such places.

In over 30 years of career, I'd say I've spent a total of about 2.25 years (between 3 companies) in roles where I wasn't allowed to do my job and was, instead, expected to just listen. In each case, I left pretty quickly.

I'm an expert, if you hire me it is so you will delegate the decision making of my areas of ownership to me. Otherwise why am I here? If there is no good answer to that, then I won't be there long.

I don't recommend staying in any job where you don't own any decision making.
by m4c-pl | 2026-02-06 09:13:59+00:00
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by snayan | 2026-02-06 09:14:00+00:00
I don't see a flaw, I think you're just gatekeeping software creation.

Anyone can pick up some CAD software and design a house if they so desire. Is the town going to let you build it without a certified engineer/architect signing off? Fuck no. But we don't lock down CAD software.

And presumably, mission critical software is still going to be stamped off on by a certified engineer of some sort.
by guptamanan100 | 2026-02-06 09:14:08+00:00
Good question! The main reason is that sqlglot is written in Python, so it wouldn't integrate natively with our Go codebase. We actually faced a similar decision with pg_query_go (https://github.com/pganalyze/pg_query_go) and passed on that too, anything that requires bridging another language means translating the AST back into Go, which adds a performance cost we wanted to avoid.
by pfannkuchen | 2026-02-06 09:14:11+00:00
Yeah I generally agree, my point is that as a society I thought that we used “not being in jail anymore” as a proxy for that.

And, at the time of people dealing with Epstein before the second arrest, I thought he had “only” been convicted of a very reduced charge of something like “soliciting an underage prostitute”, not trafficking at all.
by pcl | 2026-02-06 09:14:33+00:00
I think the offline storage situation is improved with the latest manifest structure, although I haven’t experimented in depth. I know that at least one of my PWAs has local data going back a couple years at this point.

I really wish Apple had kept investing more fully in this space. So many of the pieces are there, but like you said, there are still assorted blockers.

It’s clear they still care about this space to a certain extent, since they have been fixing bugs and making improvements (screen-lock APIs and offline support, for example). But it could be so much better.
by Symbiote | 2026-02-06 09:14:47+00:00
I ran through roughly our numbers here [1], it looks like self-hosted costs us about 25% of AWS.

I didn't include labour costs, but the self-hosted tasks (set up of hardware, OS, DB, backup, monitoring, replacing a failed component which would be really unusual) are small compared to the labour costs of the DB generally (optimizing indices, moving data around for testing etc, restoring from a backup).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910521
by jamiecurle | 2026-02-06 09:15:28+00:00
I wasn't in construction but I did spend three years working as an arborist / forester between 2022 and 2025 whilst taking a little break from tech after a long 20-year stint. I've been in good shape since I was 30 with strength training, cardio and even a little stint as a masters level competitive olympic weightlifter. A long way of saying, I know my body fairly well.

Two years into climbing trees in domestic settings and hand cutting in timber plantations, even three days a week and my body was hammered. Now maybe that's because I was in the 46–50 year old range, but it was clear it wasn't a viable long-term strategy for me. Speaking about the people I now know in that industry, it's commonplace for "climbers" to be done by their mid-thirties. Shoulders all mashed up from climbing and carrying heavy loads. It's not pretty.

On the positive side and injuries notwithstanding (I did get a shoulder issue just like everyone else) my bodyweight dropped 10kg and I did look (and feel) much nimbler. The core of the problem in this kind of work is that when the rubber hits the road "getting the job done" always comes before "correct techniques for doing X". And there's no liability claim to be had as at the start of each job you sign the risk assessment which states that you will get it done in a health-and-safety-compliant way. If you don't sign, you're not on the crew the next day and you're walking home from site. This is basically how it is in the UK for these kinds of jobs where salaries are between £24–34K annually.
by pythonbase | 2026-02-06 09:16:44+00:00
Location: Pakistan

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Product focused Software Consultant looking for remote contract or freelance positions. These days, I am doing AI-enabled software development, vibe code cleanup, MVP development and business application development. Have worked with mid-to-large sized businesses in the Europe, US and Middle East.
by noumi0k | 2026-02-06 09:16:59+00:00
Author here.

I built this for "vibe coding" — when you're in the flow with AI pair
programming and just need to quickly browse files without context switching.

Existing file managers like yazi and ranger are great, but they're designed
for file management (copy, move, delete). I only needed viewing + fuzzy search.

What makes vfv different:
- Zero config: fuzzy search built-in (nucleo, same engine as Helix editor)
- ~3MB single binary, starts instantly
- CLI mode for AI assistants: `vfv find "config" ~/dev -q -j`

Would love feedback, especially from folks using AI coding assistants daily.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-06 09:17:00+00:00
I definitely don't think this is the case. For somebody who hasn't trained - they're not holding 180kg on their shoulders. I think two big reasons would be that they're not going to have core strength/training to support it, and they wouldn't even have the traps to support the bar on their upper back, it'd dig into them and cause immense pain and probably just roll as well.
by Propelloni | 2026-02-06 09:17:26+00:00
I have to use MS products at work and use Collabora (on Linux) at home. Sometimes, I have to edit the same spreadsheet at home and at work and that usually works flawlessly, besides automatic coloring. Now, I also don't try to code in Excel, so that might be one reason. Excel graphs are also nicer.

Here is a comparison by the Document Foundation for spreadsheets [1]. I think it speaks for itself.

Regarding Powerpoint I can't say. I can't recall when I last used Powerpoint for anything. We have an in-house system where I just select slide type, enter my text and attach pictures in a form and it builds a CI-styled PDF for me. I think its basically a LaTeX front-end, but I never cared.

HTH

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_Libr...
by kakacik | 2026-02-06 09:17:33+00:00
Its not even something hard to come up with if you are active, understand you body and generally how workouts work on you.

I've trained in similar fashion for my trip to Aconcagua or Nepal, and never researched for that nor discussed with anybody. You carry big backpacks up there a lot, or smaller backpacks for 10-12h each day, every day in places where lack of oxygen makes you lose breath in 5-10 steps easily when walking uphill. It figures that when training for strength-endurance there needs to be a lot of repetitions with some added weight.

I just took some weights into backpack at building I was living back then, hiked those 8 floors on stairs, took elevator down, rinse and repeat many times. Or elliptic trainer with same backpack. Or other movements/machines (just don't run with that).
by anileated | 2026-02-06 09:17:35+00:00
I was going by this example:

> /issue you know that paint bucket in google docs i want that for tldraw so that I can copy styles from one shape and paste it to another, if those styles exist in the other shape. i want to like slurp up the styles

What kind of context may be there?

Also, the entire repository and issue tracker is context. Over time it gets only more complete.
by repelsteeltje | 2026-02-06 09:17:45+00:00
Nope, sorry. I known I'm not good at it.

I suppose it's primarily a matter of experience. And as the article alludes, it's very important to deeply understand the subject matter. I highly value some of my non-programmer colleagues responsible for documentation. But can't put my finger on what exactly they brought to table that made their prose exceptionally good (clear, concise, spot on)...
by int_19h | 2026-02-06 09:17:51+00:00
It's a popular myth, but not really true anymore with the latest and greatest. I'm currently using both Claude and Codex to work on a Haskell codebase, and it works wonderfully. More so than JS actually, since the type system provides extensive guardrails (you can get types with TS, but it's not sound, and it's very easy to write code that violates type constraints at runtime without even deliberately trying to do so).
by czottmann | 2026-02-06 09:19:14+00:00
I had to look that up, found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffice#Organization:

> Based in Latvia, OnlyOffice owner Ascensio System SIA was a subsidiary of Russian-based New Communication Technologies. Due to EU economic sanctions targeting Russia, European organizations that used the commercial version of OnlyOffice were prohibited from doing so.
by bostik | 2026-02-06 09:19:28+00:00
Everything more complex than a hello-world has bugs. Compiler bugs are uncommon, but not that uncommon. (I must have debugged a few ICEs in my career, but luckily have had more skilled people to rely on when code generation itself was wrong.)

Compilers aren't even that bad. The stack goes much deeper and during your career you may be (un)lucky enough to find yourself far below compilers: https://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/random/developer-debugging...

NB. I've been to vfs/fs depths. A coworker relied on an oscilloscope quite frequently.
by duskdozer | 2026-02-06 09:20:29+00:00
>BUT things moved quickly in the phone battles. Some people say that the legal system has never caught up to the data brokering, and in fact the surveillance state grew by leaps and bounds.

Partially by discrepancy in how responsive you can be or comprehensive you must be to win the next round of cat-and-mouse, and partially because a private/corporate surveillance apparatus is useful to a government that might otherwise be hampered by constitutional bounds.
by tymonPartyLate | 2026-02-06 09:20:29+00:00
I try to see this like F1 racing.
Building a browser or a C compiler with agent swarms is disconnected from the reality of normal software projects. In normal projects the requirements are not full understood upfront and you learn and adapt and change as you make progress.
But the innovations from professional racing result in better cars for everyone.
We'll probably get better dev tools and better coding agents thanks to those experiments.
by kakacik | 2026-02-06 09:21:27+00:00
Nah thats also part of historical tradition (in Slovakia). Folks doing that could earn way more working regular jobs down in city (even say Poprad, closest one). Its their passion, hobby, and there is a lot of respect in community for them. Even normal hikers can take some smaller load up, its encouraged and appreciated. It doesn't have to be 2 full 50l alluminium barrels of beer or similar 120-150kg loads.

In alps for example all this is done by choppers these days, a tradition lost.
by rezonant | 2026-02-06 09:21:52+00:00
Guy uses his project's GitHub issues as personal TODO list, realizes his one line GitHub issues look unprofessional, uses AI to hallucinate them into fake but realistic looking issues, and then complains when he gets AI slop PRs.

An alternative idea: Use a TODO list and stop using GitHub Issues as your personal dumping ground, whether you use AI to pad them or not. If the issue requires discussion or more detail and would warrant a proper issue, then make a proper issue.
by xandrius | 2026-02-06 09:23:00+00:00
At our company we use AI extensively to see if we missed edge cases and it does a pretty good job in pointing us towards places which could be handled better.

I know we all think we are always so deep into absolutely novel territory, which only our beautiful mind can solve. But for the vast majority of work done in the world, that work is transformative. You take X + Y and you get Z. Even with brand new api, you can just slap in the documentation and navigate it in order of magnitude faster than without.

I started using it for embedded systems doing something which I could literally find nothing about in rust but plenty in arduino/C code. The LLM allowed me to make that process so much faster.
Show HN: I built a puzzle game for couples to connect
by lmq10 | 2026-02-06 09:23:21+00:00
Hi HN,

Lovepuzzles started as an anniversary gift for my girlfriend. I built a small puzzle experience for her to play, where solving the puzzles gradually reveals a real numeric code. That code unlocked a physical combination padlock I gave her.

She really loved it, which made me wonder whether this idea might work beyond just the two of us. So I cleaned it up and launched it publicly.

From a builder perspective, I kept things intentionally simple: web-based, no app install, and focused on one clear experience rather than a feature-heavy product.

It’s very early and I’d really appreciate feedback on:
– whether the concept is clear when you land on the site
– if the experience feels meaningful or gimmicky
– anything confusing or unnecessary

Link: https://lovepuzzles.com

Thanks for taking a look.
by azamsayeedit | 2026-02-06 09:23:46+00:00
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by globular-toast | 2026-02-06 09:24:01+00:00
The point was more that the female characters turn up in books two and three. Three in particular.

If you like SF you can't go wrong reading all of Asimov IMO. The entire Robots/Empire/Foundation series is fantastic. It doesn't mean you can't also read other, "better" SF either. Asimov's main SF work will take a few months to read at most.
by sublimefire | 2026-02-06 09:24:11+00:00
> Isn’t one agent fast enough? Why lose accuracy over +- one week to write a compiler?

My thinking as well, IMO it is because you need to wait for results for longer. You basically want to shorten the loops to improve the system. It hints at a problem that most of what we see is a challenge to seed a good context for it to successfully do something in many iterations.
by hereonout2 | 2026-02-06 09:24:12+00:00
I was playing about with Chat GPT the other day, uploading screen shots of sheet music and asking it to convert it to ABC notation so I could make a midi file of it.

The results seemed impressive until I noticed some of the "Thinking" statements in the UI.

One made it apparent the model / agent / whatever had read the title from the screenshot and was off searching for existing ABC transcripts of the piece Ode to Joy.

So the whole thing was far less impressive after that, it wasn't reading the score anymore, just reading the title and using the internet to answer my query.
Show HN: Spip – Open-Source Self-Hosted TCP Network Sensor
by Robbedoes | 2026-02-06 09:25:02+00:00
Spip is a lightweight, low-interaction network honeypot sensor. It listens for arbitrary incoming TCP traffic (plain and TLS), captures what scanners and bots send, and logs each connection as structured JSON (ECS-shaped) for easy ingestion into your SIEM or data lake.
by GJim | 2026-02-06 09:25:13+00:00
> I feel like people forget that so much of what they blame on social media now existed with television

TV news/documentary broadcasts have a "fairness doctrine" in most of the democratic world [1], meaning both sides of political discussions must be presented. This is a very good bit of legislation which makes television (and radio) broadcasts much more impartial and open minded than a typical social media bubble.

TV programming might well be "mind rot" to some. But to equate TV news/documentaries with social media is a poor comparison. One is demonstrably worse.

[1] USA excepted. Obviously.