MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keyle | 2026-02-06 00:30:27+00:00
Architects went from drawing everything on paper, to using CAD products over a generation. That's a lot of years! They're still called architects.

Our tooling just had a refresh in less than 3 years and it leaves heads spinning. People are confused, fighting for or against it. Torn even between 2025 to 2026. I know I was.

People need a way to describe it from 'agentic coding' to 'vibe coding' to 'modern AI assisted stack'.

We don't call architects 'vibe architects' even though they copy-paste 4/5th of your next house and use a library of things in their work!

We don't call builders 'vibe builders' for using earth-moving machines instead of a shovel...

When was the last time you reviewed the machine code produced by a compiler? ...

The real issue this industry is facing, is the phenomenal speed of change. But what are we really doing? That's right, programming.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-02-06 00:30:46+00:00
Sure, you could just draw the full new screen image (albeit a bit inefficient if only one character changed), and no need for the flicker-inducing clear before draw either.

I'm not sure what the history of log-output has been or why it does the clear-before-draw. Another simple alternative to pre-clear would have been just to clear to end of line (ESC[0K) after each partial line drawn.
by HPMOR | 2026-02-06 00:31:13+00:00
No - because the AI will be super human. No human even at $1mm a year would be competitive with a $100k/yr corresponding AI subscription.

See people get confused. They think you can charge __less__ for software because it's automation. The truth is you can charge MORE, because it's high quality and consistent, once the output is good. Software is worth MORE than a corresponding human, not less.
by stubish | 2026-02-06 00:31:25+00:00
I guess some companies try to limit the harm they do to children while profiting, and some companies try not to know the harm they do to children while profiting. What remains to be seen is how much harm we allow to be done to children in the name of profits. Maybe we even insist that things need to be a positive influence. Less profit, but maybe better to the economy over all. And the kids, if they matter.
by overfeed | 2026-02-06 00:31:40+00:00
> And they will almost certainly have the biggest wrench

Tech CEOs can easily outlive their usefulness once the machinery is built, and can easily find themselves labeled "terrorists" if they try to fight back with whatever feeble power they have.

Political factions, purges and patronage is what comes next, amd despite their inflated egos, they won't be the patrons.
by myvoiceismypass | 2026-02-06 00:31:45+00:00
Don't know your age, but today's $20 indoor antennas are pretty unobtrusive and don't require much adjustment beyond the initial placement. Its a nicer experience with digital hd antennas for sure than what we experienced 30+ years ago. Mine is a single flat antenna taped onto the wall behind my tv and shared to all other tvs and devices via hdhomerun + plex.
by scarrilho | 2026-02-06 00:31:54+00:00
With so much noise in the AI world and constant model updates (just today GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 were announced), this was a really refreshing read. It’s easy to relate to his phased approach to finding real value in tooling and not just hype. There are solid insights and practical tips here. I’m increasingly convinced that the best way not to get overwhelmed is to set clear expectations for what you want to achieve with AI and tailor how you use it to work for you, rather than trying to chase every new headline. Very refreshing.
by ArchieScrivener | 2026-02-06 00:31:55+00:00
How else are they going to supplement their own development expenses? The more Claude Anthropic needs the less Claude the customer will get. By their own admission that is how the Anthropic model works. Their end value is in using vibe coders and engineers alike to create a persistent synthetic developer that replaces their own employees and most of their customers.

Scalable Intelligence is just a wrapper for centralized power. All Ai companies are headed that way.
by cloudmanager | 2026-02-06 00:31:58+00:00
I built a CLI tool to scan AgentSkills (SKILL.md format) before installing them. Works with OpenClaw/ClawHub, Claude Code, Cursor, and any AgentSkills-compatible platform.
Given the ClawHavoc campaign and reports of 26% of skills containing vulnerabilities, I wanted a quick gut check before installing anything.

It runs four analysis layers: permission audit, prompt injection detection, code analysis via TypeScript AST, and cross-reference checks for permission mismatches.

Zero config, zero API keys, one command: npx acidtest scan ./my-skill

https://github.com/currentlycurrently/acidtest
by hn_acker | 2026-02-06 00:32:59+00:00
I think classified wrongdoings at national intelligence agencies like the CIA fit right in on Hacker News. In the US, few politicians go as far as Wyden to hold such intelligence agencies accountable. (Semantics note: most employees of government agencies are not politicians.) You can't expect whistleblowers and non-government hackers to do all the work.

Perhaps posting this article was premature, because the classified wrongdoings Wyden concerns himself with today remain unknown. I find Edward Snowden's leaks of classified documents about NSA surveillance relevant to Hacker News, so if you can overlook the boring present, feel free to treat TFA as a brief reminder of an interesting yesteryear:

> Apparently, one of the things that reportedly pushed Snowden to leak was watching then Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, lie to Wyden’s face in a hearing about whether the NSA was collecting data on millions of Americans.
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-06 00:33:50+00:00
> It also has a basic mistake in text editor UX: the caret blinks independently of caret movement. This means that the caret is invisible half of the time while trying to navigate text. Most text editors avoid this by restarting the blink cycle to force the caret visible on each movement.

It doesn't do that on my computer. LibreOffice 7.0.4.2 shipped with GNU/Linux Debian.
by hocuspocus | 2026-02-06 00:34:10+00:00
Aren't stablecoins better for that? Especially when the current US government is seemingly OK with a very centralized entity holding over $100 billion in T-bonds, backing a coin that's mostly used for pig butchering scams and sanction evasion. No need to pretend blockchains are remotely useful with such actors (BNB comes to mind too).
by replwoacause | 2026-02-06 00:34:44+00:00
I feel like I can't even try this on the Pro plan because Anthropic has conditioned me to understand that even chatting lightly with the Opus model blows up usage and locks me out. So if I would normally use Sonnet 4.5 for a day's worth of work but I wake up and ask Opus a couple of questions, I might as well just forget about doing anything with Claude for the rest of the day lol. But so far I haven't had this issue with ChatGPT. Their 5.2 model (haven't tried 5.3) worked on something for 2 FREAKING HOURS and I still haven't run into any limits. So yeah, Opus is out for me now unfortunately. Hopefully they make the Sonnet model better though!
by II2II | 2026-02-06 00:34:45+00:00
The license says it's free for personal or educational use. The only real restrictions prohibit commercial use, redistributing, reverse engineering, disassembling, and decompiling without permission. While that is a a lot less restrictive than most licenses, most of those restrictions are also rather curious. It pretty much negates the value of the software as an educational tool, reducing it to a technology demo.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-06 00:36:05+00:00
Glad you're enjoying Ardour and thanks for supporting our work.

Things aren't often "ported over from Mixbus", though there are a few features that do start life there (the new perceptual analyzer is one good example).

The pianoroll stuff was started so that we could do clip editing. It appeared in Mixbus first because ... well, let's just say that there was some disagreement about when it was appropriate for that stuff to go public, and the release of Ardour 9.0 represents the ardour team's judgement on that :)
by FergusArgyll | 2026-02-06 00:36:41+00:00
My 2 cents:

All the labs seem to do very different post training. OpenAI focuses on search. If it's set to thinking, it will search 30 websites before giving you an answer. Claude regularly doesn't search at all even for questions it obviously should. It's postraining seems more focused on "reasoning" or planning - things that would be useful in programming where the bottleneck is: just writing code without thinking how you'll integrate it later and search is mostly useless. But for non coding - day to day "what's the news with x" "How to improve my bread" "cheap tasty pizza" or even medical questions, you really just want a distillation of the internet plus some thought
by andrekandre | 2026-02-06 00:37:56+00:00
> if people correct the LLM, the companies can use the session context + feedback to as training.

it definitely seems that way; just the other day coderabbit was asking me where i found x when when it told me x didn't exist...

> LLM interaction with customers might become the real learning phase.

sometimes i wonder why i pay for this if i'm supposed to train this thing...
by tomlis | 2026-02-06 00:38:42+00:00
Well, at some point it's up to us to say 'no.' Weekends have not always been a widely accepted ritual[1]. They only became one because of collective action.

Dedicating any and all of your free time to work only becomes a norm if we let it.

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by jart | 2026-02-06 00:39:23+00:00
That's not how the Google IPO worked. If you bought that at IPO and held it this whole time, you'd be very rich by now. Which is why the financial system will never let that happen again. These days many of the companies that go public will be nefarious financial schemes in Florida that hired and fired a guy in a San Jose at one point (thus transforming the scheme into a Silicon Valley startup) and anything good like Anthropic you need permission to invest in them, or you invest in them by proxy. If you want to long OpenAI you then you long Microsoft. If you want to long Anthropic then you long Google. Guess which one the carry traders liked more these past few days?
by IMTDb | 2026-02-06 00:39:45+00:00
A significant portion of engineering time is now spent ensuring that yes, the LLM does know about all of that. This context can be surfaced through skills, MCP, connectors, RAG over your tools, etc. Companies are also starting to reshape their entire processes to ensure this information can be properly and accurately surfaced. Most are still far from completing that transformation, but progress tends to happen slowly, then all at once.
by knowsatyam | 2026-02-06 00:40:04+00:00
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by lovich | 2026-02-06 00:40:47+00:00
> Tech CEOs are not statesmen…

I mildly disagree mostly because I can’t get hard evidence, but everything’s I’ve heard from faang workers is that they are basically run like nation states on a logistical level. Complete with their own forms of courts to handle interdepartmental disputes and PMCs that they like to keep very quiet about.

The US military is famously a logistics network that dabbles in shooting things, and companies like Amazon are already very very good at that.
by jMyles | 2026-02-06 00:40:56+00:00
I can't tell if you are disputing or agreeing?

Obviously, in the scenario you describe, people will continue describe themselves as "anti-rapist" and everybody will understand that they mean that they are opposed to rape.

There is no "loose-knit ideology/movement" called "antifa" - there are groups like SDS and Don't Shoot PDX and a zillion others who describe themselves as "antifa", using it as an adjective. I'm aware of no person or organization who has attempted to proclaim that they are the one true antifa org.
by mistrial9 | 2026-02-06 00:41:28+00:00
this exchange -- obvious critical / perhaps insurrection speech versus a stable voice of business economics -- should be within the purview of an orderly and predictable legal environment. 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.

So, reasonable people may disagree. This is a fine place to mention it .. what if individual profiles built at LinkedIn are being combined with illegitimate and even directly illegal surveillance data and sold daily? Everyone stand up and salute when LinkedIn walks in the room? there has to be legal and direct ways to deal with change, and enforcement to complete an orderly and predictable economic marketplace.
by dennis_jeeves2 | 2026-02-06 00:42:14+00:00
Lol, the reaction that you are getting to your post...

They sure have a pretty dim view of their fellow humans while paradoxically believing in the goodness of the gubberment.

One tiny correction to your post. While it's true that most income tax is in the region of 30%, the cumulative taxes would be of the order of 60% of what of what one could potentially earn. Cumulative taxes = income + payroll+ property taxes etc.
by notnullorvoid | 2026-02-06 00:42:19+00:00
Claude requires many lifetimes worth of data to "learn". Evolution aside humans don't require much data to learn, and our learning happens in real-time in response to our environment.

Train Claude without the programming dataset and give it a dozen of the best programming books, it'll have no chance of writing a compiler. Do the same for a human with an interest in learning to program and there's a good chance.
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by kstrauser | 2026-02-06 00:44:08+00:00
Wow, that just gave me a PTSD shudder. I started at one shop and they had a small team continually fighting against their home rolled message queue and task runner. After joining in the fray, asking about a million questions about why this is done like that, etc., I talked them into replacing it with a stock Python Celery setup. The original author of the local version protested, understandably, explaining why it couldn't possibly work.

It worked. It didn't require handholding. It continued working after I left there.

My coworker was a smart guy, but he got it in his head that their specific use case was something that couldn't possibly be served by a COTS project. Turns out, it could, and easily.
by ipdashc | 2026-02-06 00:44:32+00:00
Zulip is phenomenal. Cool and unique concept, clean and snappy UI. I have no idea why it's not more popular. (Network effects and an unfamiliar layout, I suppose.)

I see the comments that say Matrix has improved a lot, so maybe it's fine now, but yeah, when I tried it previously it sucked. Weird UI was my chief complaint, but more importantly it didn't seem like there was a proper concept of organizations, in the sense of Discord or Slack servers? With roles, channels, even silly things like custom emojis. Matrix at the time seemed like just an SMS group chat replacement, I have no idea why people recommended it for organizational use. Maybe it's improved since.
by dzaima | 2026-02-06 00:44:34+00:00
Clicked on the first thing I happen to be interested in - SIMD stuff - and ended up at https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/blob/6f1b99..., which is a fast path incompatible with the _mm_free implementation; pretty trivial bug, not even actually SIMD or anything specialized at all.

(obviously) a whole lot of UB in the actual SIMD impls, but that can actually be fine here if the compiler is made to not take advantage of the UB.
by jason_oster | 2026-02-06 00:45:16+00:00
Personally, I’ve only been using a coding agent for a few months infrequently, so I have nothing to show for it. (It is not 100x productivity, that’s absurd.)

But I have plenty of examples of really atrocious human written code to show you! TheDailyWtf has been documenting the phenomenon for decades.
by keepamovin | 2026-02-06 00:45:32+00:00
I made this by mining the “Related:” comments that people make. I figured they might be a way to link together the vast canvas of Hacker News to itself, and aggregates in one place discussions that spanned time and threads.

My main goal was seeing HN respond to stories that develop over time.

Technically, I just scanned the 46 million HN items and aggregated clusters via these related comments. That results in a small corpus of 36500 clusters. Also doing a quick bag-o-words sanity check to ensure titles were somewhat consistent.

There’s multiple ways to sort it, so you can explore. Hope you enjoy finding some stuff here!
by protocolture | 2026-02-06 00:45:58+00:00
>The failure mode I kept hitting wasn’t just "it makes mistakes", it was drift: it can stay locally plausible while slowly walking away from the real constraints of the repo. The output still sounds confident, so you don’t notice until you run into reality (tests, runtime behaviour, perf, ops, UX).

Yeah I would get patterns where, initial prototypes were promising, then we developed something that was 90% close to design goals, and then as we try to push in the last 10%, drift would start breaking down, or even just forgetting, the 90%.

So I would start getting to 90% and basically starting a new project with that as the baseline to add to.
by dbolgheroni | 2026-02-06 00:46:06+00:00
To anyone into knots, I recommend Knots 3D on Android. It is really handy because most people keeps the phone with them all the time. Beautiful and well maintained app. It's not overwhelming, in the sense that it doesn't try to add every existing knot in the same database, it has usage, which gives context, history and specially related knots, which makes it possible to compare different related knots that are usually used for the same thing.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-06 00:46:32+00:00
I don't really understand what "pronating" is supposed to mean if you're not referring to human hands. This isn't a problem for the phrase "bunny hands", which refers to human hands.

But for, say, human feet, "pronation" would appear to refer to a position in which the soles of the feet face toward the ground, just as in hands it refers to a position in which the palms face toward the ground, or in humans overall it refers to a position in which the face and belly face toward the ground. That is the meaning of "prone" ("lying on your front"; it is the opposite of supine, "lying on your back"), and "pronation" just means "making something be prone".

But obviously all feet are always pronated in this sense. The article seems to have a model of the word which is more like "pronation [in the hands] involves a certain configuration of the bones in the arm, and I'm going to call that configuration pronation too". But then they also refer to rotating the forearm, which confuses bone configuration with yet another issue, the changeability of the configuration.†

So I'm left mystified as to how this single-or-possibly-manifold concept is supposed to apply to feet, human or otherwise. The article suggests that pronat_ed_ feet have the toes facing forward, parallel to the direction of the gaze, and also that pronat_ing_ feet requires the ability to rotate the lower part of the leg.

In humans, these claims cannot both be true. Toes are angled forward, but the lower leg doesn't rotate. Something else has happened.

So it's hard to say what I should conclude about the mammoth legs that the article also complains about.

† The article complains about a dinosaur skeleton in which the hands aren't pronated - they face inwards, in a pose we might call "karate chop hands". But it says that this pose requires "pronation" in what is presumably the arm-bones sense. In "bunny hands", the hands are pronated according to the normal definition of the word, facing the ground.
by davegoldblatt | 2026-02-06 00:48:31+00:00
Good catch. I agree the safe default is to ignore memory/ since it can contain personal notes, people context, and daily logs. I’m updating the installer to add memory/ to .gitignore by default (along with CLAUDE.local.md and .claude/settings.local.json).

For teams that do want shared context, I’ll document a “team mode” gitignore pattern that commits only selected registers (e.g. decisions/projects) while keeping daily logs + preferences/people local.
by PostOnce | 2026-02-06 00:48:44+00:00
It's amazing that it "works", but viability is another issue.

It cost $20,000 and it worked, but it's also totally possible to spend $20,000 and have Claude shit out a pile of nonsense. You won't know until you've finished spending the money whether it will fail or not. Anthropic doesn't sell a contract that says "We'll only bill you if it works" like you can get from a bunch of humans.

Do catastrophic bugs exist in that code? Who knows, it's 100,000 lines, it'll take a while to review.

On top of that, Anthropic is losing money on it.

All of those things combined, viability remains a serious question.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-06 00:50:37+00:00
https://archive.today/Etg5x

https://x.com/ycombinator/status/2019456167362072827 | https://archive.today/bO4Z8

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