MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skeptic_ai | 2026-02-14 09:39:26+00:00
Let’s do some math.

He does 100 units of product per 100 units of time.

80 units of time on data entry
20 units of time on “thinking”

We now automatise the task in such a way that ratios flip:

So now we do 20 units of time for 100 products. Let’s assume we use same thinking as before of 20. So we use 40 units of time to produce 100 units of product.

Now let’s assume it’s linear growth:

We use 40 units of time for each task and we produce 200 units of product for 80 units of time.

Let’s now do 50 units of time for each and produce 250 units of product with same time as before. It’s definitely not the same.

you either work 40 and produce the same or work the same and produce 250. NOT THE SAME
by Ygg2 | 2026-02-14 09:39:29+00:00
> Instead of debating for years (like other languages), zig just tries things out.

So did Rust pre-1.0

Stability guarantees are a pain in the neck. You can't just break other people's code willy nilly.

> This makes zig unique. It's fun to use and it stays fresh.

You mean like how Rust tried green threads pre-1.0? Rust gave up this one up because it made runtime too unwieldy for embedded devices.
Show HN: A personal, open-source web runtime
by pixelswithin | 2026-02-14 09:40:41+00:00
Hi! I built Cute Magick because I wanted the simplicity & power of early web dev, but not the fragility.

It's an open source, self-hostable web host where your sites are plain folders of real code — HTML, PHP, Python, Node, Lua, SQL — and every file save creates a snapshot you can preview and rewind in one click.

No build steps, no abstractions. (Literally -- these are per-request runtimes).

Source: https://github.com/pinkhairs/cutemagick

Site: https://cutemagick.com

Docs: https://pixelswithin.notion.site/Cute-Magick-Docs-2fdb91326d...
by MarcellusDrum | 2026-02-14 09:40:48+00:00
I read this in it's entirety. Not skimmed through it, but read every single word (took about 30 minutes)

You can imagine my disappointment when in the end, the code is still basically a mystery, a a wrapper around the core game was made.

Not because what you did is not hard or impressive, it's because, up until the line line were you said you are going to use a wrapper, you made it seem like you're deciphering the code. That isn't really clickbait, because I had already clicked and spent 20 minutes reading. Being misled felt a bit bad, considering how beautifully the story is written.

Impressive work nonetheless.
by grey-area | 2026-02-14 09:42:59+00:00
I’m not talking about the em-dash, which is not a great indicator IMO but the horrible overuse of binary oppositions with a kind of false surprise - I.e. It is not x but y.

The problem was not em dashes —but binary opposition!

That sort of thing.

It is a much clearer marker of llm use than the em-dash. The sad thing is when searching for info on this the most convincing reply in search was generated by an LLM, which went on at length about why LLMs do this as some sort of consequence of their internal structure. I have absolutely no idea if that’s true - it really sounds a bit trite and exactly the kind of thing LLMs would confidently assert with no basis. I would want to hear from someone working in LLMs, but their blogs are probably all generated by an LLM nowadays.

This is the most insidious damage word generators are inflicting on our culture - we can no longer assume most writing is honest or well-meaning because amoral LLMs fundamentally are not wired to make that distinction of true and untrue (unlike most humans) and many people will use and trust what they generate without question polluting the online space and training data until everything is just a morass of half known facts sprinkled with generated falsehoods that are repeated so often they seem true.

How do we check sources when the sources themselves were generated by LLMs?
by M95D | 2026-02-14 09:43:07+00:00
> You could put it on your blog, in an email list, or keep it in a fork.

Get serious. Nobody's going to look into forks of a project to see what other people improved. Not even github has a search that good that would show bug fixes and improvements from forks that someone is searching for. How would you even search? (Well, to be honest, maybe Github has, or maybe Copilot can do that kind of search based on a half a page text description of what I'm looking for, but I'm really not aware that it exists.)

> By opening a PR, you make it visible to other people who also benefit from the project and who may be interested in using it.

Yeah, but if I have moral standards and care about not wasting those interested people's time, then I have to keep the PR forever maintained and rebased on current HEAD, even if I don't need to update my fork that often, or I stopped using that project altogether. If I didn't do that, then I would be a hypocrite.
by norman784 | 2026-02-14 09:43:08+00:00
I have my doubts on Jai, besides being built towards game development, from what I read/watched about it, it has 2 or 3 meta programming capabilities, like comptime, macros, etc it feels too much of the same, also Jai is not built towards correctness or safety, John mentality is that he knows what he is doing, so he doesn’t need those guardrails and he wants instead expressiveness.

Also Jai is like C++ in complexity, while Zig is similar to C, very simple language.

Carbon is vaporware so far, there’s no language that could be used yet, because they first need to solve the C++ interop and fast compilation times, that is what will shape the language, so no one is using it, because it doesn’t exist yet.
by entech | 2026-02-14 09:43:19+00:00
The prevailing view of government’s incompetence and inability to act has reached such high levels that people do not even factor any sort of meaningful intervention anymore.

Does everyone really think that the world governments would allow any level job loss that would create panic before shutting this whole thing down within the area of their control?

It’s probably the western culture bias - people in UK or US have not seen or experienced big enough government intervention. US citizens are probably feeling a bit of the change now.
by llbbdd | 2026-02-14 09:43:45+00:00
That's what bylines are for, though. Both authors are attributed, and are therefore both responsible. If they didn't both review the article before submitting that's their problem. It's exaggerating to call this throwing away two lives, if all they do for a living is hit the big green button on crap journalism then I'm fine with them re-skilling to something less detrimental.
by atoav | 2026-02-14 09:44:05+00:00
I am betting people would quickly ignore the spitit of the law and make it about "inginite scroll verboten" like with the GDPR where some people quickly moved to make it mean "you have to have a cookie banner!"

No you don't have to have a cookie banner. The law means you need to ask for informed consent for each purpose where you collect and or transfer personal data from your users. So (1) if you don't collect the data, you don't have to ask for consent at all and (2) it doesn't matter too much if cookies are involved (or you use some other client side storage for tracking) and (3) you need to have their informed consent, meaning just having them click OK somewhere is absolutely useless unless you explained which data you collect for what purpose. Good luck doing that for your 300+ "partners".

The ad industry and self-declared SEO experts have displayed an astounding inability to read the text of the law and follow its spirit. One could argue, probably on purpose. The same will happen here. This is clearly about giving users an way to sue against addictive designs and giving the EU a lever to protrct consumers from particularily bad actors. Now anybody who still profits from using these dark patterns will try to make it about one thing "infinite scroll verboten" and then proceed to violate the spirit of the law.
by dxdm | 2026-02-14 09:44:12+00:00
RLHF = Right Left Hand Foot. It's a technique in Bavarian interpretative folk dance where you jump around, artfully hitting the soles of your feet with your hands in order to court women who are busy carrying unbelievable numbers of beer Steins into the mountains.

That's what came to mind when I saw the abbreviation. Then I looked it up:

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback.
by jakubtomanik | 2026-02-14 09:44:46+00:00
Because when human comes to the team they already have internal repository with skills. They may need to update them on-the-job or create new ones but they never start fresh. LLM in the other hand starts clean, they are literally blank slates and it’s your job to equip them with the right skills and knowledge. As programmers we must transition from being coders to being trainers/managers if we want to still have premium paid jobs in this brave new world
by hnlmorg | 2026-02-14 09:45:16+00:00
As a hiring manager who’s worked at various different scales of organisation, I think the original article is a fair warning.

Headcount doesn’t take 2+ years to resolve. Even in heavily bureaucratic organisations, it’s a few months at worst.

Organisation wide restructures can take years and changes to departmental structure can be suspended while the org restructure happens, barring any unusual and typically director approved circumstances (like scoring major new project with a key client).But any employee would be well aware of such restructures and client projects.

Changes to pay will typically be postponed until the next pay review cycle. So could be up to a year. But if it’s longer then that’s typically a sign that your manager (or above) has already vetoed any such pay increase and they’re not being truthful with you about it.

Ultimately, if you get told to wait 2 years and the reasons are not “company wide restructuring” then there’s some shadow politics going on and you should definitely be reviewing your job prospects. And if there is a company wide restructure happening, then you should also be updating your CV just in case too.

If you get told to wait 3 years the just assume it’s never going to happen. Because you can guarantee even if your management has the best of intentions, priorities will shift multiple times within those 3 years.
by int_19h | 2026-02-14 09:47:06+00:00
$200/month would cover many such sessions every month.

The real question is, what does it cost OpenAI? I'm pretty sure both their plans are well below cost, at least for users who max them out (and if you pay $200 for something then you'll probably do that!). How long before the money runs out? Can they get it cheap enough to be profitable at this price level, or is this going to be "get them addicted then jack it up" kind of strategy?
by wdkrnls | 2026-02-14 09:47:09+00:00
I heard the original story with O'Hare was for Babylon 5 to blow up after an alien attack and for the Babylon 4 to be sent into the near future (present) to replace it. We saw hints for that in two different premonitions in season 1. That's a pretty big departure from the story we actually got where Babylon 4 instead got sent to the distant past and Sinclair became the religious leader Valen 1000 years ago.
by egorfine | 2026-02-14 09:47:53+00:00
Oh, indeed!

Although the doc only mentions CORS [1] on an "exposing website page" which is not exactly related; also the mention strongly suggests using reverse proxy for CORS [1] which is an overkill and perhaps not needed if supported natively?

Also googling the question only points out to the same reverse proxy page.

Now that I know about PutBucketCORS it's perfectly clear but perhaps it's not easily discoverable.

I am willing to write a cookbook article on signed browser uploads once I figure out all the details.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/r3KoNkM
by gniv | 2026-02-14 09:48:12+00:00
A point that the article doesn't touch on directly, but it's part of the bottlenecks mentioned: a lot of jobs already are bullsh*t. They are there because a scapegoat is needed or because the nephew of the CEO needs a job, etc. In theory these jobs could have been removed long ago but they were not, and AI won't change that.
by Sentinel-gate | 2026-02-14 09:48:14+00:00
The proxy vs packet capture debate is a bit of a non-debate in practice — the moment TLS is on (and it should always be on), packet capture sees nothing useful. eBPF is interesting for observability but it works at the network/syscall level — doing actual SQL-level inspection or blocking through eBPF would mean reassembling TCP streams and parsing the Postgres wire protocol in kernel space, which is not really practical.

I've been building a Postgres wire protocol proxy in Go and the latency concern is the thing people always bring up first, but it's the wrong thing to worry about. A proxy adds microseconds, your queries take milliseconds. Nobody will ever notice. The actual hard part — the thing that will eat weeks of your life — is implementing the wire protocol correctly. Everyone starts with simple query messages and thinks they're 80% done. Then you hit the extended query protocol (Parse/Bind/Execute), prepared statements, COPY, notifications, and you realize the simple path was maybe 20% of what Postgres actually does. Once you get through that though, monitoring becomes almost a side effect. You're already parsing every query, so you can filter them, enforce policies, do tenant-level isolation, rotate credentials — things that are fundamentally impossible with any passive approach.
by maccard | 2026-02-14 09:48:34+00:00
OPs comment isn’t a charade, he’s pointing out that it’s a very blurry line.

If I receive compensation from company A for a product, and I genuinely like it, is it advertising if I talk about another item on their product line that I bought because of the free item I got?

If I run a retail business, and have a better deal with a provider, am I allowed to prioritise their results?

If I run an AI SAAS, with a bring your own key model, am I allowed to recommend a provider that I think gives the best results, even if my margin is bigger on that model?

I’m not trying to gish gallop you here - the point isn’t to cherry pick any specific example it’s that advertising isn’t just a billboard or a sponsored VPN segment in a YT video.

> HN commenters are not legislators

That doesn’t mean we’re not allowed to have a discussion about it.

> a minimally funded team of experts would have any difficulty with the problem.

I’m a hugely pro EU person, and support the vast majority of what they do. The Cookie Banner is a disaster and has just resulted in a massive step back for the Internet worldwide. The USB C charger rule missed the forest for the trees. Their stance on technology has been poor, misguided and misunderstood, and often pushes the needle towards US companies winning out.
by red75prime | 2026-02-14 09:49:06+00:00
Waymo routinely uses safety drivers, sorry, "autonomous specialists" when expanding to new cities[1][2]. Waymo cars occasionally contact the remote support. If support is not available, the cars just stay where they stopped[3].

Tesla has rolled out a small number of cars with no safety driver[4].

In short, you are either grossly misinformed or intentionally lying.

[1] https://waymo.com/faq/ "Our vehicles are primarily driving autonomously, but you’ll sometimes notice that our cars have autonomous specialists riding in the driver’s seat. These specialists are there to monitor our autonomous driving technology and share important feedback to help us improve the Waymo experience."

[2] https://waymo.com/waymo-in-uk/ "Our autonomous specialists who are present in the vehicle during testing are highly trained professionals."

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36zdxl41jro

[4] https://youtu.be/03e5ixbXIa4
by lunar_rover | 2026-02-14 09:49:52+00:00
Window management mostly works fine, but app design is years behind.

KDE Dolphin has a static toolbar like Finder, with its config menu being two lists like some Microsoft toolbars, and the available items list is sorted alphabetically.

The flat view switcher is multiple separate items, named directly after their corresponding view type, one called list, another called icons and so on.

So if you want a Finder style view switcher, you first need to know it exists beforehand because the naming is confusing, then you need to know how many views are available beforehand because they're separate items, and finally you need to hunt them down because the list is alphabetical.

Another example is breadcrumbs, the current folder doesn't have an arrow, so you can't browse deeper with it without perhaps expanding folders, unlike on Windows 7. Side bar favourites also replace the top folder, so if you browse the home folder with it you'll often find yourself suddenly unable to use it.
Show HN: ChexHQ – Financial decision intelligence for finance teams
by DhirajKadam27 | 2026-02-14 09:50:33+00:00
Hi HN — I’m the founder of ChexHQ.

We’re building a financial decision intelligence platform for finance teams that are tired of spreadsheet-heavy forecasting and manual consolidation.

The goal: help finance leaders get real-time visibility into runway, cash flow, and key metrics without building complex models from scratch.

We’re early and would love feedback — especially from CFOs, finance managers, or operators here.

What would make something like this genuinely useful for you?
by Marazan | 2026-02-14 09:51:00+00:00
It's LARPing.

Everyone knows all the best programmers are using the command line firinf off one line Awk scripts that look like runic incantations occasionally opening vim to do stuff.

So the AI tools people build want to take on those trappings to convince people they are serious tools for grown ups.

Ignore that they are basically a full web stack React/CSS conglomeration - feel the L33t hackerness of 'using the command line'. No IDE like a scrub developer you are using a text console, you are a real programmer now.
by DanOpcode | 2026-02-14 09:51:00+00:00
> If I'm friendly, responsible, honest, not poor, do sports, learn new things, keep the house clean, then the fuck more you want.

I think you are describing a person who has worked on himself. Like doing sports, that's good. I think too many guys continue with their teenage hobbies like playing computer games, and that's generally not attractive to women.

Of course, there are no guarantees. There's no magic checklist that you can fulfill and be guaranteed to find a partner. But I think there's always more you can do to make yourself more attractive.
by Penligentai | 2026-02-14 09:51:20+00:00
正文文案（HN 口吻，短段落，不尬吹）

I’ve been noticing a pattern lately: people are using Gemini (and other frontier models) for vulnerability research—reading code, summarizing attack surfaces, generating exploit hypotheses, and iterating quickly.

One reason AI hasn’t been applied everywhere by gray/black hat actors (at least indiscriminately) is that high-volume workflows still burn a lot of tokens. That cost adds up fast when you’re doing broad recon, mass triage, or running “agentic” loops over huge corpuses.

Cloudflare just shipped “Markdown for Agents,” which serves an agent-friendly Markdown version of pages and claims ~80% token reduction vs HTML for the same content. Combine that with gateway-side caching / edge optimizations and it feels like a meaningful change in the economics of large-scale AI-assisted scanning/triage.

Curious what people here think: does lowering token consumption materially shift offensive capability, or do other constraints dominate (rate limits, data quality, sandboxing, operational security, detection)? If you’re doing vuln research with LLMs today, what’s actually your limiting factor?
by WJW | 2026-02-14 09:51:49+00:00
Kinda weird to blame Zig for not being at 1.0 yet while Jai is still in closed beta after 11 years. Meanwhile Zig is being in used in big-ish projects all over while Jai has... a single game engine? Jai looks cool but it's far far FAR behind and losing ground.
by benstopics | 2026-02-14 09:52:31+00:00
Good eye! I hope to go back and finish editing it. But it's better use of my time to work on the game itself. But hey, I did all the research at least which took me years so. I just wanted to share the story instead of listing bullet points. I have pretty bad ADHD so, I didn't wanted the article to be a rambling.
by kodomonocch1 | 2026-02-14 09:52:39+00:00
Hi HN — I’m looking for a buyer or an exclusive licensee for an ESRS/CSRD reporting pipeline.

I published an artifact-only demo (no source code in the repo). The release includes:
- Generated ESRS-style report (DOCX/PDF)
- Sanitized proof logs (anchor injection stats / computed snapshot / legal proof)
- SHA256SUMS for integrity
- audit/proof ZIPs

Release (v0.1.0):
https://github.com/kodomonocch1/esrs-audit-pack/releases/tag...

Q&A / Repro (public):
https://github.com/kodomonocch1/esrs-audit-pack/discussions/...

Acquisition / exclusive license (inbound):
- I’m open to an asset sale or exclusive licensing.
- Source access is available after NDA for serious evaluations.
- To keep the process fair, I may start exclusive talks with the first party that can share a clear evaluation plan (timeline + decision owner) and move quickly.

If you’re on a sustainability reporting team (or advising one), I’d love feedback:
1) What proof/logs would you need before NDA?
2) What’s the fastest path to a decision in your org?

Contact: LinkedIn / X
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tetsuro-kawamoto-114907388/
https://x.com/kamikakusi0001
by bitwize | 2026-02-14 09:53:12+00:00
> The trajectory over the last 3 years do not lead me to believe that it will be true in the future.

Everything changed in November of 2025 with Opus 4.5 and GPT 5.2 a short time later. StrongDM is now building out complex systems with zero human intervention. Again, stop and actually use these models first, then engage in discussion about what they can and can't do.

> But, lets assume that in some future, it is true: If that is the case, then Lisp is a better representation than those other languages for LLMs to program in; after all, why have the LLMs write in Javascript (or Java, or Rust, or whatever), which a compiler backend lowers into an AST, which then gets lowered into machine code.

That's your human brain thinking it knows better. The "bitter lesson" of AI is that more data=better performance and even if you try to build a system that encapsulates human-brain common sense, it will be trounced by a system simply trained on more data.

There is vastly, vastly more training data for JavaScript, Java, and Rust than there is for Lisp. So, in the real world, LLMs perform better with those. Unlike us, they don't give a shit about notation. All forms of token streams look alike to them, whether they involve a lot of () or a lot of {;}.
by krisoft | 2026-02-14 09:53:39+00:00
If you ask for a raise and they say “maybe in two to three years” thats simply a polite no.

> “you know the world outside is hostile to job seekers and a steady paycheck beats the unemployment line”

You can search for a new job while employed. Unless you are stuck on an underwater submarine playing hide-and-seek you can always fire off a few inquiries.
Decision Guardian: Enforce ADRs in PRs Using Regex and JSONPath
by iamalizaidi | 2026-02-14 09:54:06+00:00
I stumbled across this tool recently and thought it was worth sharing for anyone managing large codebases or monorepos.

The Problem: We write ADRs (Architectural Decision Records), put them in a folder, and then ignore them. New engineers break architectural rules because they don't know the history.

The Solution: Decision Guardian runs in CI. You define rules (ADRs) linked to file patterns.

What makes it interesting:
It goes beyond simple glob matching. You can define rules based on:

Content (Regex): e.g., Alert if someone commits a secret key pattern or a banned function.

Structure (JSONPath): e.g., Watch $.dependencies in package.json to prevent library drift.

Location (Line Range): Protect the first 50 lines of a legacy file.

It’s open source and there's a helper site to generate the rule configs: https://decision-guardian.decispher.com/