MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stonith | 2026-02-05 23:50:07+00:00
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by evanelias | 2026-02-05 23:50:35+00:00
pgroll is definitely interesting; it overlaps between both schema management tools and online schema change tools. At scale, I would want to have a better understanding on the performance implications of putting views in front of hot tables. I don't like its use of YAML. iiuc, it is an imperative migration tool, not a declarative tool.

Grate is also imperative, not declarative.

That last link (david.rothlis.net) is about a declarative tool for sqlite, not Postgres.
by davemp | 2026-02-05 23:51:30+00:00
Brute forcing a problem with a perfect test oracle and a really good heuristic (how many c compilers are in the training data) is not enough to justify the hype imo.

Yes this is cool. I actually have worked on a similar project with a slightly worse test oracle and would gladly never have to do that sort of work again. Just tedious unfulfilling work. Though we caught issues with both the specifications/test oracle when doing the work. Also many of the team members learned and are now SMEs for related systems.

Is this evidence that knowledge work is dead or AGI is coming? Absolutely not. I think you’d be pretty ignorant with respect to the field to suggest such a thing.
by rune-dev | 2026-02-05 23:51:43+00:00
As a business expense to make profit, I can understand being ok with this price point.

But as an individual with no profit motive, no way.

I use these products at work, but not as much personally because of the bill. And even if I decided I wanted to pursue a for profit side project I’d have to validate it’s viability before even considering a 200$ monthly subscription
by libraryofbabel | 2026-02-05 23:52:50+00:00
I mostly mentioned Claude Code because it's what Mitchell first tried according to his post, and it's what I personally use. From what I hear Codex is pretty comparable; it has a lot of fans. There are definitely some differences and strengths and weaknesses of both the CLIs and the underlying LLMs that others who use more than one tool might want to weight in on, but they're all fairly comparable. (Although, we'll see how the new models released from Anthropic and OpenAI today stack up.) Codex and Gemini CLI are basically Claude Code clones with different LLMs behind them, after all.
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2026-02-05 23:53:11+00:00
Swap partition is set and forget. Can be detected by label automatically, never fails.

Swap file means fallocating, setting extended attributes (like `nocow`), finding file offset and writing it to kernel params, and other gotchas, like btrfs not allowing snapshotting a subvolume with an active swap file.

Technically it's preferable, won't argue with that.
by quotemstr | 2026-02-05 23:53:20+00:00
Only if DuckDB is an acceptable value of PostgreSQL. I agree that PostgreSQL has eaten many DB use-cases, but the breathless hype is becoming exhausting.

Look. In a PostgreSQL extension, I can't:

1. extend the SQL language with ergonomic syntax for my use-case,

2. teach the query planner to understand execution strategies that can't be made to look PostgreSQL's tuple-and-index execution model, or

3. extend the type system to plumb new kinds of metadata through the whole query and storage system via some extensible IR.

(Plus, embedded PostgreSQL still isn't a first class thing.)

Until PostgreSQL's extension mechanism is powerful enough for me to literally implement DuckDB as an extension, PostgreSQL is not a panacea. It's a good system, but nowhere near universal.

Now, once I can do DuckDB (including its language extensions) in PostgreSQL, and once I can use the thing as a library, let's talk.
by standardUser | 2026-02-05 23:53:30+00:00
I recall visiting Cuba during the second term of Obama (shortly after his visit) and seeing the various reforms that were taking place and feeling very optimistic about the island's future. We saw a lot of highly political art on display, ate at some of the first private restaurants, watched a helicopter explode overt the ocean as they were filming a Fast and Furious film, and went to a nightclub/art show event that rivaled anything I've been to in NYC.

In a sane world, we would be Cuba's largest trading partner and largest source of tourists. In that hypothetical world, the ongoing economic and cultural exchange would have propelled the island towards a different political system. Instead, we doubled down on an approach that has failed for 70+ years.
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-05 23:54:23+00:00
> The citizens of the U.S. are neither organized enough, sufficiently intelligent and motivated, to keep the various levels of government in check.

Isn't this basically the job of Wyden and his colleagues in our republic? If your critique is that his colleagues are doing a poor job of it (or worse, they're actively working against it), I'd agree but would add that inherent flaws in both the pre and post- civil- war-system have brought us to such a point. IMO the citizens of today are less to blame than the people who passed laws like the Permanent Apportionment Act in 1929, or who've consistently defunded education systems across the country, etc.

That's not to say that today's citizens are helpless or blameless, of course.
by muwtyhg | 2026-02-05 23:54:28+00:00
You may not have seen it, but are you familiar with the financials of it?

I don't care about the quality of the movie or feeling superior to the viewers who enjoy it. I hate the openly corrupt bribery via the pay she received for this documentary. She received 28 MILLION dollars out of the 40 MILLION dollars paid for the rights to produce this movie. Amazon is effectively purchasing favors from the Trump admin via this movie. That is unacceptable.
by viccis | 2026-02-05 23:54:38+00:00
>10,000 dead in 2 days.

Again, "genocide" doesn't have to do with the scale of the killing. It's a specific word with its own meaning.

>Nobody can make you do anything, but the moral obligation is there. People say things like "we're not the world police", as if overthrowing the elected government of a country is nothing. It cuts both ways.

Governments don't have "morals". They do whatever is most expedient. We have never done something because it's the moral thing to do, and we never will. That's just not how hegemonic powers like the US work.
by jstrong | 2026-02-05 23:55:28+00:00
redis is single-threaded but handles lots of connections (i.e. > 500) with much better performance vs. postgres. there's zero chance someone building postgres in 2025 would do one process per connection, I don't think there's any argument that it's a good design for performance. it's just a long-ago design choice that would be difficult to change now.
by sobjornstad | 2026-02-05 23:56:13+00:00
I have a vague recollection that it might come up named as such in Half-Blood Prince, written in Snape's old potions textbook?

In support of that hypothesis, the Fandom site lists it as “mentioned” in Half-Blood Prince, but it says nothing else and I'm traveling and don't have a copy to check, so not sure.
by TFSFVentures | 2026-02-05 23:56:31+00:00
It sounds like you've identified a clear market need for software due diligence, especially for investors and creditors, and have the deep technical and business experience to address it. We've seen this exact scenario before where a founder has a strong vision and expertise but needs the right organizational structure or capital to scale. There's usually a path through this, and happy to sanity-check your approach to building out this business and attracting the right financing if it helps.
by IgorPartola | 2026-02-05 23:56:48+00:00
Where I have used SQLite most successfully is really two use cases. First, I use it for data processing. Say I need to retrieve lots of data and transform it to a different setup. I could do that in something like Python but SQL is just more expressive for that and I can also create a new database, populate it with data I have, fetch new data, combine it together, export the update to a permanent data store (usually Postgres).

Second, when I need a local save file. Sometimes small local apps are better served by a save file and they save file might as well have an extensible format that I can update as I go. This is more rare but still can be useful.

The first use case is very powerful. A temporary SQL database that can be blown away with zero trace of it is great. And the ability to run complex queries on it can really help.

But 99% of the time I just use Postgres. It works, it has sane defaults, it is crazy extensible, and it has never not met my needs, unlike Oracle or MySQL.
by davegoldblatt | 2026-02-05 23:57:10+00:00
built this because I got tired of re-teaching Claude Code the same context every session. Preferences, decisions, “we already tried X,” “don’t touch this file,” etc. After a few days it starts to feel like onboarding the same coworker every morning.

Most “agent memory” tools auto-save everything. That feels good briefly, then memory turns into a junk drawer and retrieval gets noisy. Total Recall takes the opposite approach: a write gate. Before anything gets promoted, it asks one question: “Will this change future behavior?” If not, it doesn’t get saved.

How it works:

Daily log first (raw notes)

Promote durable stuff into registers (decisions, preferences, people, projects)

Small working memory loads every session (kept intentionally lean)

Hooks fail open. SessionStart can surface open loops + recent context. PreCompact writes to disk (not model-visible stdout)

The holy shit moment is simple: tell Claude one important preference or decision once, come back tomorrow, and it behaves correctly without you repeating yourself.

Would love feedback from heavy Claude Code users:

Does the write gate feel right or too strict?

Does this actually reduce repetition over multiple days?

Any workflow/privacy footguns I’m missing?
by ricardobeat | 2026-02-05 23:57:44+00:00
No harm meant, but your writing is very reminiscent of an LLM. It is great in fact, there is just something about it - "it wasn't.. it was", "it stopped being.. and started". Claude and ChatGPT seem to love these juxtapositions. I think you are a couple em-dashes away from being accused of being a bot.
by rohan2003 | 2026-02-05 23:58:02+00:00
We ran 24 API calls through Claude Sonnet 4.6 - same questions about code changes, same model, same temperature. One gets git diff output. The other gets structured JSON from sem diff. Results: 95.9% accuracy vs 41.5%.

The failure modes are systematic, not random:

1. git diff has no concept of "entity." Ask an agent to count added functions and it counts + lines instead. On one commit it reported 238 adds - that was the number of + lines. Actual: 32 entities.

2. No way to distinguish add vs modify. A modified function shows +/- hunks, same as a new function in a changed file. The model listed 9 "added" functions - 4 were actually modified. Precision: 55.6%.

3. No entity type vocabulary. Asked for entity type counts, the model returned {"file": 11}. It counted files because line diffs have no AST. Truth: 15 functions, 12 interfaces, 3 variables, 1 class.

4. Config files are invisible. JSON/YAML changes are just +/- key-value lines. The model doesn't classify them as entities. Missed package.json entirely.

5. Large diffs get truncated. A 3,905-line diff hit the 100KB cap. The model saw partial context and found 25/67 functions (37% recall). Structured JSON is compact enough to fit - 64% recall on the same commit.

sem is a Rust CLI (30ms, single binary) that sits on top of git. It uses tree-sitter to parse your code into entities - functions, classes, properties - then does three-phase matching (exact ID, content hash, fuzzy similarity) to classify each change as added/modified/deleted/renamed.

Output is JSON. Pipe it into your agent, CI, or whatever. git stays your source of truth - sem just reads from it.

brew install sem-diff

Benchmark script + full results: https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem/blob/main/bench/agent-ac...
by svachalek | 2026-02-05 23:58:14+00:00
I've been in this profession for 32 years now and this is my experience. Every time coding gets easier or cheaper, the response is first to lay off developers but quickly the demand for more software spikes and they need everyone back and more than ever.

When we achieve true AGI we're truly cooked, but it won't just be software developers by definition of AGI, it will be everyone else too. But the last people in the building before they turn the lights out for good will be the software developers.
by eek2121 | 2026-02-05 23:58:43+00:00
Also: a large amount of folks seem to think Claude code is losing a ton of money. I have no idea where the final numbers land, however, if the $20,000 figure is accurate and based on some of the estimates I've seen, they could've hired 8 senior level developers at a quarter million a year for the same amount of money spent internally.

Granted, marketing sucks up far too much money for any startup, and again, we don't know the actual numbers in play, however, this is something to keep in mind. (The very same marketing that likely also wrote the blog post, FWIW).
by steveklabnik | 2026-02-05 23:58:46+00:00
> Or perhaps write a complier for a new language that someone just invented, after writing a first draft of a spec for it.

Hello, this is what I did over my Christmas break. I've been taking some time to do other things, but plan on returning to it. But this absolutely works. Claude has written far more programs in my language than I have.

https://rue-lang.dev/ if you want to check it out. Spec and code are both linked there.
by satvikpendem | 2026-02-05 23:59:39+00:00
There are some people on r/LocalLlama using it [0]. Seems like the consensus is while it does have more unified RAM for running models, up to half a terabyte, the token generation speed can be fairly slow such that it might just be better to get an Nvidia or AMD machine.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/search?q=mac+studio&rest...
by toneric | 2026-02-06 00:01:18+00:00
I've never enjoyed GitHub's notification system, as I usually find myself drowning in it.

While querying PRs works well enough for me, sorting them in a way that actually reflects my priorities was always a manual mental overhead.

I couldn't find a tool that handled this for me, so I built PR Bro.

PR Bro connects to the GitHub API, pulls PRs from your configured queries, and calculates a weighted priority score based on factors like age, approval count, size, labels, and whether you've already reviewed it.
Everything is configurable, so you decide what matters most to you.

It runs as an interactive TUI (built with ratatui) with vim keybindings, a score breakdown view, snoozing, and ETag-based HTTP caching to stay fast and easy on your API rate limit.

Won't bore you with any more details, but feel free to check it out and give feedback.

Hopefully someone finds it useful and saves some time using it!
by JainamDosi | 2026-02-06 00:01:41+00:00
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by quotemstr | 2026-02-06 00:01:42+00:00
There's a fascinating gap between PostgreSQL theory and practice here. Elsewhere in this thread, I complained that PostgreSQL extensions can't do everything yet. One thing they can do, however, or ought to be able to do, is provide alternative storage engines. That's the central thing they're supposed to be especially good at providing.

So what did the VACUUM-free, undo-based MVCC storage engine project stall? https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Zheap

Why is there no InnoDB for PostgreSQL?

(Maybe OrioleDB will avoid a similar fate.)
by daniel77766 | 2026-02-06 00:01:53+00:00
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by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-06 00:02:26+00:00
In that same world we have Puerto Rico with a fragile power grid. I'm not sure what the best course of action is for Puerto Rico, I am from the Island, and there's just way too many issues on the island, the biggest thing I do know is that the old tax incentives made the island thrive drastically. There was a point in time where Puerto Rico was as high up in terms of production quality as Japan, above the US itself. A lot of pharmaceuticals come from Puerto Rico, so much so that hospitals in Florida have shortages if the Island loses power due to a major hurricane.
by _se | 2026-02-06 00:02:47+00:00
No, not a single reply, because your statement wasn't "Excel can cause problems sometimes". That's a different conversation. You said "Don't use Excel for accounting", which is something you could only say if you have no idea at all about how accounting works in the real world.

I'm not arguing about whether or not Excel is perfect, or if it causes problems, or if it makes demons fly out of your nose. I am educating you about the real world and how it's important to understand that no matter how "well akshually" technically correct you are, it doesn't matter at all if the advice you're giving is WRONG and not useful to people.

So, I repeat. Idiots confidently spouting nonsense.
by yomismoaqui | 2026-02-06 00:03:44+00:00
You can do it for $40 month. What I'm doing:

- $20 for Claude Pro (Claude Code)
- $20 for ChatGPT Plus (Codex)
- Amp Free Plan (with ads and you get about $10 of daily value)

So you get to use 3 of the top coding agents for $40 month.
by belorn | 2026-02-06 00:04:10+00:00
If the employee are destroying property owned by the employer, for which is not part of the employee role or assignment, then they could be charged with hacking and property destruction just as if it was done by someone outside the company. The way around this that some people can attempt is work-to-rule strike. That would be a legal way to sabotage a contract without actually going beyond that of the employee contract.
by logicallee | 2026-02-06 00:05:04+00:00
In previous installments, Claude Code ported a reference c++ and python implementation of a neural net to javascript and wasm. It next ported it to webGPU, even though it does not have a gpu in its server instance. The webgpu code worked, however it produced gibberish. Now in this livestream, it is trying to debug the webGPU code by thinking through it carefully and comparing it to the reference implementation - even though it doesn't have a GPU to test its results.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-06 00:05:31+00:00
Yes, correct.

If you are using a storage device with a Layer 3 interface, you have already signed off that you aren't too concerned with the connection being airgapped. Otherwise you would have used a Layer 1 protocol, or hell, even a layer 2.

You are giving the thing an IP address and IP capabilities? It's like signing one of those lengthy disclaimers that you might die and won't sue anyone for side effects.

Not saying it needs to happen, but you can't be surprised if it does.
by habinero | 2026-02-06 00:06:36+00:00
Yeah, that's not what the person you were replying to is talking about. I was explaining the jargon.

Complexity and LoC has nothing to do with "only coding for the happy path". Both complex and simple software can be written this way.

A great example is the moltbook hilarity. They slapped together something that looked good and did function -- in the happy case only. They put together an "authorization" flow but exposed their entire database because they didn't know how to secure Supabase. They had no rate limiting on account creation -- so one dude created 1M in an hour.

Even putting aside adversarial usage, you have to code for, like, normal stuff going wrong or your app will lose data, crash, leak information, fall over, etc, etc.
by orbital-decay | 2026-02-06 00:06:41+00:00
Gemini is very paranoid in its reasoning chain, that I can say for sure. That's a direct consequence of the nature of its training. However the reasoning chain is not entirely in human language.

None of the studies of this kind are valid unless backed by mechinterp, and even then interpreting transformer hidden states as human emotions is pretty dubious as there's no objective reference point. Labeling this state as that emotion doesn't mean the shoggoth really feels that way. It's just too alien and incompatible with our state, even with a huge smiley face on top.
by skoskosko | 2026-02-06 00:06:51+00:00
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