MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Even as a fast dev, I wasn't fast enough for my ideas. Then came Vibe Coding
by derverstand | 2026-02-03 21:19:52+00:00
The Speed Trap of Modern Dev

I’ve always been a fast developer. I know my stack, I know my shortcuts. But there was still a painful latency between my mental architecture and the screen. My ideas always outpaced my output. No matter how fast I typed, the "Implementation Friction" was a tax on my creativity.

The 10x Shift: Moving at the Speed of Thought

Vibe Coding didn't just make me "better" — it removed the mechanical bottleneck. I’m no longer translating thoughts into code; I’m describing the vibe of the system and watching it manifest.

The Result: I’m building things alone that previously required a dedicated team or a month-long sprint.

The High: The dopamine hit isn't just about "it works." It’s the rush of zero latency. It's the feeling of your brain being directly plugged into the compiler.

The "Dark Side" of Hyper-Flow

But here’s the rub: When you remove the friction, you remove the "sanity check."

The Addiction: The feedback loop is so fast that it becomes a slot machine. Each prompt is a pull of the lever. Because I'm fast, I can pull that lever 100 times an hour.

The Loss of Friction: Typing was a form of "slow thinking." It forced me to vet my own architecture while my fingers moved. Now, I’m building at the speed of light, but am I outrunning my own ability to reason about the system?

The speed is a drug, and I'm fully addicted. For the first time in my career, my output matches my imagination. But as the friction of implementation hits zero, the value of 'knowing how to code' is being replaced by the value of 'knowing what to build.' If you could manifest any system in an hour, would you actually know what to build, or would you just get lost in the 10x dopamine loop of pure iteration?
by GetTheFacts | 2026-02-03 21:19:59+00:00
>> The legislature
>Congress 53/45 R; House 219/215 R

It's the Senate, not "Congress". Colloquially, "Congress" usually refers to the House of Representatives.

>SCOTUS (5-4 R)

> interprets the laws.

Actually, it's 6-3, not 5-4.

I get that you're not from or live in the US. Please understand, I'm not trying to insult or demean you. But you're making statements that are not true.

I believe the term is "FTFY." And you're welcome.
by irishcoffee | 2026-02-03 21:20:25+00:00
If the messaging doesn't change there is a ~50% chance JDV wins next, and the joke will be on the whole world. It is absolutely in the best interest of the entire _world_ for the left to figure out the messaging.

There was a time right after the election [0] where messaging was being talked about, and it seems that effort tailed off as people got more emotional and angry, which I suppose isn't surprising.

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/22/democrats-woke-lang...
by chrisjj | 2026-02-03 21:20:37+00:00
> First paragraph on Wikipedia

"...the encyclopedia anyone can edit." Yes, there are people who wish to redefine CSAM to include child porn - including even that between consenting children committing no crime and no abuse.

Compare and contrast Interpol. https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Crimes-against-children/A...

> The whole argument seems to be centered around the fact that sexualizing children is disgusting, hence it shouldn't be called porn.

I have no idea how anyone could reasonably draw that conclusion from this thread.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-02-03 21:20:59+00:00
>Now, in practical terms, this means that, given a MZ twin who died recently of natural causes, we could obtain an estimate for ourselves,

Uh... am I misreading your comment, or are you suggesting that when your identical twin dies of non-accidental death, you can be pretty sure you're about to croak in the next wee days or weeks yourself? Very difficult to engineer that alarm bell (you either have a twin, or not), and too damned late to matter.
by valdezm | 2026-02-03 21:21:09+00:00
Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, staying in Bay Area
Technologies: 15 years full stack - react and ruby, etc. -- but very broad bleeding edge. Build 0-1 products with Founders for 10+ years. Built geosite.io first year beta/foundation before entering Y-Combinator in 2019. Building AI in 2025 - competed and won Hacking Agents Hackathon put on by Datastax (Langflow) at Cloudflare in March 1st 2025. Spent 4 months in 2025 building an POC AI marketplace, https://goodbruce.com

Building startups (based in San Francisco) @ http://sharedfounders.com/ (helping founders take their ideas built on platforms like v0.dev, lovable.com, replit.com, bolt.new, base44.com from AI generated scaffolding to Production)

More: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markavaldez_ai-activity-73922...

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by whispem | 2026-02-03 21:21:10+00:00
Yes, I do split my working tree into separate commits whenever possible!
I use interactive staging (git add -p) to split logical chunks: features, fixes, cleanups, and documentation are committed separately for clarity.
Early in the project (lots of exploratory commits), some changes were more monolithic, but as minikv matured, I've prioritized clean commit history to make code review and future changes easier.
Always happy to get workflow tips — I want the repo to be easy to follow for contributors!
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-02-03 21:21:11+00:00
Faster evolution does not necessarily translate to better outcomes. Exhibit A: the respiratory capabilities of the brachycephalic pug. Exhibit B: the rabbit fear response – they can get so terrified that they break their own spines trying to escape. Exhibit C: every creature with a hybrid r/K reproductive strategy involving child- or sibling-cannibalism.
by adventured | 2026-02-03 21:21:34+00:00
There's a question as to whether China's surplus capability is enough to overflow the deprivation that a space program might suffer in a chaos Taiwan scenario.

Their resources and capabilities are obviously substantial and sustained (not going anywhere). The USSR had only a few patches of sustained serious economic output, the rest of the time was rolling from one disaster to another, one deprivation after another.

It seems entirely plausible that China getting bogged down in Taiwan wouldn't be enough to deprive them of a run to the Moon. The US was able to sustain NASA during Iraq-Afghanistan, and go to the Moon during the Vietnam War (plus cultural chaos).

That said, China isn't going to get bogged down in Taiwan. It's going to unfortunately be easier than most are imagining. China will ultimately regret not moving on the island sooner when they see how easy it's going to be to take it and how weak the US response will be (the US can't sustain a stand-off with China in that region for more than a few weeks before folding, unless it's willing to go to full war mode economically (which it's not)).
by TheMagicHorsey | 2026-02-03 21:21:39+00:00
America is "Three Corporations in A Trench Coat"?

Everything America is doing right now is because America is precisely NOT taking corporate decisions. America is doing things to the international order that are directly fucking up American corporations. Only a committed social democrat can look at the populist right-wing chaos right now, and claim that's "Corporate" action. If anything, Corporations were more liberal than the population at large in America, and that's part of the reason why Trump's racist populism is so popular ... he's exploiting a backlash. Turns out America has far more nativists than you ever imagined.

But yeah, go ahead and call it "Corporations in a trenchcoat" because then you don't have to think about how Corporations have actually played the biggest role in promoting diversity in America. While government consistently goes sharply left and right based on whichever lunatic the American public elects next.
by whispem | 2026-02-03 21:21:50+00:00
minikv actually supports a fully S3-compatible API (PUT/GET/BATCH, including TTL extensions and real-time notifications).
By default, the storage engine is segmented/append-only with object records in blob files, not “one file per object”.
However, you can configure a backend (like the in-memory mode for dev/test, or Sled/RocksDB) and get predictable, transparent storage behavior for objects.
Storing each object as an individual file isn’t the default — for durability and atomics, objects are grouped inside segment files to enable fast compaction, consistent snapshots, and better I/O performance.

If you need “one file per object” for a specific workflow, it’s possible to add a custom backend or tweak volume logic — but as you noted, most production systems move away from that model for robustness.
That said, minikv’s flexible storage API makes experimentation possible if that’s what your use-case demands and you’re fine with the trade-offs.

Let me know what your usage scenario is, and I can advise on config or feature options!
by ghaff | 2026-02-03 21:21:57+00:00
A number of years back I somehow managed to lose my driver's license between the car and the airport door. Even called the limo company to have the driver look. But <poof> apparently. Normally I have a backup ID but this was a very last minute and short trip.

Amazingly (to me) the TSA process was easy. What wasn't easy was checking into a crappy Travelodge near the airport. I imagine if I were staying at one of my usual chains where I have a loyalty card, a manager would have waved away any problems. (I did have photo ID and I was plastered all over the Web; I just didn't have backup government issued photo ID which I now make a particular point of carrying.)
by zokier | 2026-02-03 21:21:57+00:00
Thanks for the pointers!

one more thing, that guide says:

> You can choose UD-Q4_K_XL or other quantized versions.

I see eight different 4-bit quants (I assume that is the size I want?).. how to pick which one to use?

IQ4_XS
Q4_K_S
Q4_1
IQ4_NL
MXFP4_MOE
Q4_0
Q4_K_M
Q4_K_XL
by subw00f | 2026-02-03 21:22:01+00:00
It's amazing. The American president is quite literally creating a parallel military force to jail and kill people on the streets, they're arresting opposing journalists, politicians, pressuring tv channels and news organizations to fire people, invading countries without congressional approval, threatening allies with annexation for no fucking reason, dismantling any social programs left, and all of that led by a proven pedophile billionaire that was the customer and friend of a huge human trafficker, as were most of his billionaire friends who he favors with absolutely no shame.

And this is just the latest news coming from over there. I won't mention the fact that there are people alive today who couldn't drink from the same fountain as other people because their skin is dark. It was never fucking great.

So if you are American and still talk all this shit about China being a dictatorship and authoritarian this and “purge” that, I wish you would honestly shut the fuck up. Really. You are in no position to have an informed opinion on this because all of your information is force fed down your throat by half a dozen mega companies that are in bed with your regime.

So yeah, I'm sure China has a lot of issues, but if you didn't live there for some time or even speak the language for that matter, just shut the fuck the up.
by cyrusradfar | 2026-02-03 21:22:19+00:00
OT: Rant

Xcode being loaded on my computer causes something akin to a kernel panic.

Not the fun kind where you get to read a backtrace and feel something. The existential kind.

Every time it hijacks a .json or .xml file association, I experience a rage that hasn't been matched since the Emacs/vi wars ... and at least those were about editors that could open in under a geological epoch.

I just want to look at a text file with pretty print.

I do not need a 12GB IDE to render curly braces. cat has been doing this since 1971. Dennis Ritchie solved this.

Why, Apple, in 40 years, could you not ship a lightweight dev-oriented text viewer? You had NeXTSTEP. You had the DNA of the most elegant Unix workstation ever built.

And you gave us... this behemoth? An app whose launch time rivals a full Gentoo stage 1 install ( see: https://niden.net/post/gentoo-stage-1-installation )

TextEdit is not the answer.

I've used Xcode for native iOS development and honestly, once you get past the Stockholm Syndrome phase, it's just fine.

- The interface is learnable.

- The debugger mostly works.

But the load times -- on every high-end MBP I've ever owned -- suggest that somewhere deep in the Xcode binary, there's a sleep(rand()) that someone committed in 2006 and no one has had the courage to git blame.

FWIW, I fear someone here tells me I've been missing a launch flag. Alas, it's my truth and I can't hold it in anymore.
by Nextgrid | 2026-02-03 21:22:31+00:00
> usually mandate a minimum of 2 litres

Out of curiosity how does that work (never been in a situation where I have to worry about minimal fuel purchases) - does the pump simply round up the price to the minimum when done, or did you actually have to dispense extra fuel, either into a jerrycan or donating it to someone else's car otherwise the pump would not actually finalize the transaction?
by paulsmith | 2026-02-03 21:22:35+00:00
I like this approach. Something related I've been tinkering with are "protected bookmarks" - you declare what bookmarks (main, etc) are protected in your config.toml and the normal `jj bookmark` commands that change the bookmark pointer will fail, unless you pass a flag. So in your local "CI" script you can do `jj bookmark set main -r@ --allow-protected` iff the tests/lints pass. Pairs well with workspaces and something that runs a local CI (like a watcher/other automated process).

I haven't yet submitted it to upstream for design discussion, but I pushed up my branch[1]. You can also declare a revset that the target revision must match, for extra belts and suspenders (eg., '~conflicts()')

[1] https://github.com/paulsmith/jj/tree/protected-bookmarks
by turtlesdown11 | 2026-02-03 21:22:49+00:00
> And people are using it for revenge porn? I haven't seen that.

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/grok-says-safeguard...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/technology/grok-deepfakes...

https://www.vogue.com/article/grok-deepfakes-trend-essay

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-grok-twitter-fake-im...

https://techpolicy.press/the-policy-implications-of-groks-ma...

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/grok-s...

The French raided the X offices in Paris.

> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/03/french-he...

> It said the alleged offences it was investigating now included complicity in the possession and organised distribution of child abuse images, violation of image rights through sexualised deepfakes, and denial of crimes against humanity.
by whispem | 2026-02-03 21:23:10+00:00
Yes, in minikv, I set up GitHub Actions for automated CI.
Every push or PR triggers tests, lint, and various integration checks — with a typical runtime of 20–60 seconds for the core suite (thanks to Rust’s speed and caching).
This means that after a commit, I get feedback almost instantly: if a job fails, I see the logs and errors within half a minute, and if there’s a fix needed, I can push a change right away.

Rapid CI is essential for catching bugs early, allowing fast iteration and a healthy contribution workflow.
I sometimes use small, continuous commits (“commit, push, fix, repeat”) during intense development or when onboarding new features, and the fast CI loop helps maintain momentum and confidence in code quality.

If you’re curious about the setup, it’s all described in LEARNING.md and visible in the repo’s .github/workflows/ scripts!
by bpg_92 | 2026-02-03 21:23:12+00:00
Congrats on the launch! The constraint of a ~60W compute budget for fully onboard autonomy in a GPS-denied environment is impressive, I'm curious about the 'feature-poor' aspect you mentioned. Warehouses are notorious for having repetitive scenery which usually hard for visual SLAM regarding loop closures. How do you prevent the drone from getting lost when aisle 4 looks exactly like aisle 40? Best of luck!
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-03 21:23:17+00:00
> Did the USSR ever manufacture 80% of the stuff in your house?

China makes about a third of the world’s stuff [1]. Soviet Union probably peaked around a fifth, though it might have been as high as a fourth.

China is undoubtedly stronger today, absolutely and relative to the U.S., than the Soviets ever were. But history is littered with self-obsessed autocrats ruining a good thing.

Part of what makes the world today frustrating is both America and China are squandering their advantages in remarkably-similar ways, with each regime’s defenders speaking almost identically.

[1] https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/china-worlds-sole-manufacturi...
by hilbert42 | 2026-02-03 21:23:22+00:00
We saw this happen with the Montreal Protocol over CFCs/greehouse gases when everyone went mad and banned just about every fluorocarbon known to science.

This was a case of zealotry and overregulation egged on by puritanical ideologs without full consideration of the consequences.

We correctly banned fluorocarbons as refrigerants in systems where they would not be properly recycled, such as domestic refrigerators, air-conditioning systems incuding those in vehicles, and like. This made for good regulation, and it made sense.

The volume of CFCs with other specislist applications was miniscule by comparison, and for most of these recovery, capture and recycle systems along with protocols for use could have been implemented.

Instead, we stupidy put an outright ban on just about every CFC in sight, many of which have no direct equivalents that are anywhere near as effective as CFCs, and many are dangerous and inflammable and form explosive mixtures with air.

Right, in one fell swoop we banned many of the most useful chemicals ever invented. Little wonder these's now a backlash to overregulation. If Montreal were to be repeated today the zealots would have to take more of a backseat.
by zen4ttitude | 2026-02-03 21:23:24+00:00
I built ACF (AgentCodeFactory but open-source/MIT) because I got tired of sending code to cloud APIs and wanted a structured, local way to run multi-agent workflows for coding tasks. It's a pipeline that runs entirely on your machine (Ollama, LM Studio, or API keys if you want), where you can compose and share extensions like agents, skills, profiles, and RAG sources.

Quick example:
acf run "Add login rate-limiting to my FastAPI app"

Under the hood it's a 7-stage pipeline (Spec → Context gathering → Design → Implementation → Testing → Docker validation → Verification). Each stage feeds artifacts to the next, with optional human approval gates before anything risky (auth changes, secrets, etc.) gets committed. Every run creates a git branch with commits for each iteration—so you can diff, resume, or rollback easily.
Key bits I find useful:

Routes tasks to different models based on needs (small one for summaries, code-specialized for generation, embedding for RAG).
YAML policies for enforcement (e.g., block secrets, require >80% coverage, flag payment-code changes).
RAG over your codebase so agents actually understand patterns, not just grep.
Marketplace for extensions: someone writes a great security scanner skill or React profile with best practices → publish once, others install and plug in.

Why local? My code (especially proprietary stuff) stays mine. Modern local models (Qwen, Mistral variants, CodeLlama) handle most stages surprisingly well when you split work into focused agents instead of one giant prompt.
The marketplace is live (though sparse), and extensions include context estimates so you know if it'll fit your hardware/model.

Current state: the core pipeline works reliably on my setup, but it's still early—one person can only test so much. Vision includes self-improving loops (learning from retry failures), configurable stages (skip Docker if you don't need it), shared policy packs for teams, and way more community extensions.

I'm looking for:

People running local models who want to stress-test with different sizes/backends
Folks who've built code-review/transform agents/skills that could become extensions
Security-minded people to poke at the policy system and scanners
Anyone with ideas on making pipelines more composable or self-healing

Quick start (Python 3.11+, Ollama running):
git clone https://github.com/Tennisee-data/acf.git
cd acf
pip install -e ".[dev]"
acf run "Add login rate-limit"
Repo: https://github.com/Tennisee-data/acf
Happy to dive into the agent routing, policy engine, how the git integration works, or why I think shared local extensions could be a game-changer for offline/dev privacy workflows. What do you think—useful? Missing pieces? Fire away.

(And yes, it's possible to monetize more advanced/complex extensions if someone wants to support ongoing work, but that's secondary—the focus is open collaboration.)
by ivan_gammel | 2026-02-03 21:23:24+00:00
I doubt it’s killing open source. The “too big to fail” software will be maintained no matter what, but the contribution model will change. It is not great, but we can live with it - majority of users of OSS never touch the code, so nothing is going to change for them. For a few enthusiasts the barrier will be higher, but we need some trust building incorporated in the process anyway.

The small libraries will be eliminated as a viable solution for production use, but that’s a good thing. They are supply chain risk, which is significantly amplified in the LLM age.

It may happen and it will be great if it happens, when open training datasets will replace those libraries to recalibrate LLM output and shift it from legacy to more modern approaches, as well as teaching how to achieve certain things.
by p_ing | 2026-02-03 21:23:40+00:00
> It would be much unlike Microsoft if they didn't bring Win32/Win64 compatibility along for the ride somehow, and very stupid also, because as you say that is the real core of Windows in a lot of ways.

This requires NT API compatibility due to applications using NT API. Despite Microsoft telling devs don't use the NT API, devs use the NT API and Microsoft makes adjustments to ensure compatibility.

> I have no idea what they're planning or why

Clearly, because the whole idea not only makes no engineering sense, it makes no financial sense. They need to build the NT kernel anyway -- it runs the entirety of Azure services!
by zamadatix | 2026-02-03 21:24:04+00:00
I'll use both depending. Things which benefit from staying in the window context in the IDE window I use the IDE one, things which don't as much or are only tangentially related in an iTerm2/Terminal/Foot window (depending on the platform I'm on).

I expect others do things differently for different reasons as much as much as I expect an IDE to support more than one type of user.
by irishcoffee | 2026-02-03 21:24:13+00:00
> Yes, of course, the reason Republican voters embrace the concept of deplorable is because the Dems are mean to them. That totally makes them noble and not in fact deplorable.

I don't think anyone ever embraces being called deplorable, that seems like a strange take. If anything, being called deplorable would just make someone dislike the name-caller. Don't take my word for it, this is behavior exhibited by children and adults every day.

Or are you twisting up a reference where HRC called the right "a basket of deplorables" ?