MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reliabilityguy | 2026-02-27 03:50:23+00:00
> It appears as though they will act as they see fit - defensively or otherwise - regardless of my position on the topic.

Well, you stated your position multiple times w.r.t. Palestinian rights, so I think for the sake of completeness you can state your position on the rights of Israelis as well.

So, do the Israelis have a right to act as they see fit, or no?
by treetalker | 2026-02-27 03:50:28+00:00
Surely you realize that the same result does not mean that the process leading to the conclusion was the same.

Even if the processes were identical, using an LLM arguably likely broke any privilege and confidentiality protections you might previously have enjoyed. See, e.g., United States v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y.) (recent case of first impression).

So there's that.

I was also going to comment separately that LLMs have been great to identify opposing counsel whom I suspected of not litigating in good faith / actually reading the cases and applying them. Now the confabulated cases are proof positive!
by strange_quark | 2026-02-27 03:50:32+00:00
Right, there are dozens of open source versions of wikis/task trackers/CRMs/ERPs/whatevers. Just because you can vibecode your way to a bad version of a bunch of SaaS products shouldn't fundamentally change anything. Companies buy SaaS products to make running the thing someone else's problem. It's times like these where I wish we had a functional SEC; I really wonder how much market manipulation is going on.
by tototrains | 2026-02-27 03:50:45+00:00
I regularly check geopolitical markets to see if a breaking news story is substantial or not, and find it useful. It can help distinguish between propaganda and intelligence there.

It does seem like there could be a distinction between markets which require genuinely knowledge and analysis (geopolitics), versus pure gambling (sports, crypto up/down 5 minutes, etc), but I'm not sure who's going to bother making it.
by varenc | 2026-02-27 03:51:11+00:00
You can do:

2>/dev/stdout

Which is about the same as `2>&1` but with a friendlier name for STDOUT. And this way `2> /dev/stdout`, with the space, also works, whereas `2> &1` doesn't which confuses many. But it's behavior isn't exactly the same and might not work in all situations.

And of course I wish you could use a friendlier name for STDERR instead of `2>`
by dakolli | 2026-02-27 03:51:35+00:00
Stoping trying to cope that AI/LLM augmented automation isn't to blame here. equities and profits are at all time highs, rates are still really low!! This has nothing to do with the cost of money.

It doesn't matter if AI is effective at reducing head count, it only matters that decision makers believe it will! If they go on twitter and see "SWE is dead" "4th industrial revolution is here" ect ect, they will eventually fall for the psyop and give half of their payroll to an AI company (or someone claiming they can do this)..

It will all backfire, probably, but in the meantime 400k SWEs have been laid off in the last 16 months while profits and equities are at all time highs. You can try to say its not AI, but I really think that's cope.

Go have lunch with a C-suite / decision maker in tech, they won't shut up about how all the jobs are going to be bots in the near future (and how rich it will make them). They are sincerly stupid but until then lives/families are going to get crushed and Dalio and Altman or similar people are going to continue to convince these people to give your salary to them..

Props to block for letting people keep their devices, and helping people out, its more than most companies but this absolutely has to do with AI BS. They've been itching to cut human labor out of the equation since slavery was crushed. They yearn for labor that doesn't demand a paycheck (slaves).
by keeda | 2026-02-27 03:51:51+00:00
Yes, unfortunately. Each headcount, properly trained and reskilled, is now worth a whole team by themselves! I blame capitalism and the inability to look past the next quarterly earnings statement for what's happening instead.

I think in the (very) long run it will end up being for the best. This will force us lowly serfs to grow beyond our wage-labor mindset and leverage this force multiplier for ourselves.

AI lets those with capital get rid of labor, but by the same token(s ;-)) labor can now achieve outsize results without capital!

It is going to be very uncomfortable, but evolution always is.
by realityloop | 2026-02-27 03:52:20+00:00
I've received several of these types of messages including Voice.ai one mentioned in comments, and the following today:

Tonho<tonho@tonho.wtf>

Hey, I found your GitHub profile and thought you might find this useful.

I've been building Omniget, a desktop downloader that works with YouTube, Telegram, Udemy, Hotmart and 1000+ other sites. It's open source and built with Rust and Tauri.

The part I'm most proud of: you don't even need to open the app. Just press a hotkey and it grabs whatever video you're watching.

I've been working on this for a while now, even got an artist to design a mascot. I'm shaping the app based on feedback from people who actually use it, so if you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them.

Here's the repo: https://github.com/tonhowtf/omniget

Thanks for your time!

Tonho
by blobbers | 2026-02-27 03:52:24+00:00
I for one appreciate that these markets are allowed to exist, but I think the contracts themselves need to be less open to manipulation and interpretation. The Zelensky suit, the mention markets (see coinbase CEO: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/01/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstro...), the bets on reality TV shows with tons of insider knowledge, the list goes on and on.

By volume these markets only exist because of sports.
by smileysteve | 2026-02-27 03:52:49+00:00
You and the poster above disagree about the state of Twitter.

Twitter had been a growth company, it was early/missed the market with Vine, but was showing ad growth.

Now, as a private company, backed by the world's richest man, sovreign wealth funds, and banks that have written down their stakes, it has different economics than a tech / growth company.

It's ad revenue is now, not in the ballpark of the fortune 500 or trendy Instagram ads, but somewhere between reddit and sin site markets.
Show HN: VeryBot – Self-hosted AI assistant for work
by verybot | 2026-02-27 03:52:55+00:00
I built VeryBot because I was tired of juggling ChatGPT + Trello + cron jobs + Slack bots as separate tools. I wanted one self-hosted assistant that could actually do work, not just answer questions.

What it does:

- Chat with an AI assistant that creates tasks, teams, and schedules from conversation

- Kanban board the assistant can populate and update

- Scheduled automation (recurring reminders, follow-ups) without external cron

- Playbooks: save workflows (onboarding, incident triage, release checklists) and rerun them

- Connect Telegram, Discord, Slack, or WhatsApp as channels

- Mobile-friendly UI, same interface from desktop or phone

All data stays local under ~/.verybot. MIT licensed. Node.js >=22.

npm install -g verybot && verybot

Open http://localhost:28789, pick a model provider in Settings > Agent, and try: "Set up a team and starter tasks for launch planning."

Happy to answer questions and hear what's missing.
by icegreentea2 | 2026-02-27 03:53:24+00:00
UK uses "imperial gallons", which are no more metric than US customary gallons. Expanded to 3 decimals, a UK/imperial gallon is 4.546L, and a US customary gallon is 3.786, and a US gallon is close to 3.8L, than a imperial gallon is to 4.5L.
by xyzzy123 | 2026-02-27 03:53:37+00:00
So I wonder about sharable skills? Like if it's a problem that lots of people have, I find the base model knows about it already.

But how to do things in your environment? The conventions your team follow? Super useful but not very shareable.

Whats left over between those extremes does not seem to be big enough to build an ecosystem around.

Final problem, it seems difficult to monetise what is effectively a repo of llm generated text files.
Show HN: CodeLeash: framework for quality agent development, NOT an orchestrator
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-02-27 03:54:01+00:00
Hi HN,

I built my first project using an LLM in mid-2024. I've been excited ever since. But of course, at some point it all turns into a mess.

You see, software is an intricate interwoven collection of tiny details. Good software gets many details right; and does not regress as it gains functionality.

My bootstrapped startup, ApprovIQ (https://approviq.com) is trying to break into a mature market with multiple fully featured competitors. I need to get the details right: MVP quality won't sell. So I opted for Test-Driven Development, the classic red/green/refactor. Writing tests that fail - then making them pass - forces you to document in your tests every decision that went into the code. This makes it a universal way to construct software. With TDD, you don't need to hold context in your head about how things should work. Your software can work as intricate as you like and still be resilient to regression. Bug in a third-party dependency? Get a failing test, make it pass. Anyone who undoes your fix will see the test fail.

At the same time as doing TDD with Claude Code, I also discovered that agents obey all instructions put in front of them! I started to add super-advanced linting: architectural guideline enforcement, scripts that walk the codebase's AST and enforce my architecture, I even added one that enforces only our brand colors in our codebase. That one is great because it prevents agents from picking ugly "AI generic" colors in frontends. Because the check blocks commits with ugly colors, our product looks way less like an AI built it - without human involvement.

In time I was no longer in the details of what the agent was building and was mostly supervising the TDD process while it implemented our product. Once that got tedious, I automated that into a state machine too.

All the ideas that now allow me build at high quality are in this repo.

This isn't your weekend vibe project. I've spent months refining the framework. There are rough edges but it's better out and rough than in hiding until perfect.

Hopefully some ideas here help you or your agent. I recommend cloning it and letting your agent have a look! And if you want to contribute please to - and if you want to get in touch, contact details in my profile.

Thanks for looking.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-27 03:54:42+00:00
I agree with that!

The issue is most CS programs in the US don't require a 15-410 style class anymore, or removed much of the more complex content within it.

There's a reason why a CS@CMU degree (and a handful of other similar programs) are well regarded and continue to attract early career recruiters.

That said, I do still feel that the EE/CE/CS shouldn't be treated as different majors and should instead be treated as tracks within the same degree (yes ik what I'm describing is EECS but it ain't wrong), but that shouldn't distract from your overarching point.
by nmfisher | 2026-02-27 03:56:01+00:00
As a complete outsider, I genuinely believe that Dario et al are well-intentioned. But I also believe they are a terrible combination of arrogant and naive - loudly beating the drum that they created an unstoppable superintelligence that could destroy the world, and thinking that they are the only ones who can control it.

I mean if you sign a contract with the Department of War, what on Earth did you think was going to happen?
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-02-27 03:56:42+00:00
// deprecated; use ThingTwo instead
type Thing = ...

// deprecated; use ThingThree instead
type ThingTwo = ...

// deprecated; use...

I do frequent insistent cleaning passes with Claude, otherwise manually. It gets out of hand so fast

This is one reason why it blows me away that people actually ship stuff they've never looked at. You can be certain it's riddled with craziest garbage Claude is holing away for eternity
by reliabilityguy | 2026-02-27 03:57:53+00:00
> I'll just quote Wikipedia for you:

And? What do these figures tell you? You are accepting a very lazy explanation for the disparity in the number of casualties and calling a day.

I will give you an example where with the same logic you will arrive to an unconventional conclusion. There was order of magnitudes more German civilians killed by the US forces during WW2 than the other way around. Does it mean that Nazi Germany are the good guys here? Probably no.

One alternative explanation why there was more Palestinians killed than Israelis is because:

1. Israelis have shelters, so they have places to hide from rockets

2. Israelis have Iron Dome and alert systems to alert civilians of incoming rockets

Palestinians did not have these things. Moreover, Gaza's government used underground facilities only for military purposes and did not allow civilians to hide there for the duration of hostilities.

As a result, it is reasonable to assume that there will be more causalities on the side that has fewer defenses.

But, you can stick to your intellectually lazy argument that paints a very specific picture.

> Nope, that's the wrong prejudice for my intersectional group, but it certainly reveals some of your own biases.

You have no idea what my biases are. You were the one who went with personal insinuations, not me. I just showed you that this type of discourse is not very productive as it lead nowhere.

So, what did your pager anxiety outburst tell us about your biases?
by QuiEgo | 2026-02-27 03:57:54+00:00
I'd be amused beyond all reason if we saw this chain of events:

- Anthropic says "no"

- DoD says "ok you're a supply chain risk" (meaning many companies with gov't contracts can no longer use them)

- A bunch of tech companies say "you know what? We think we'd lose more money from falling behind on AI than we'd lose from not having your contracts."

Bonus points if its some of the hyperscalers like AWS.

Hilarity ensues as they blow up (pun intended) their whole supply chain and rapidly backtrack.
by blobbers | 2026-02-27 03:58:36+00:00
I mean yes and no, if an AP is configured for multiple VLANs you could implement inter VLAN routing on the AP itself. It seems stupid but if your software is ported from a switch or a router to an AP, it could include that.

But yeah I agree, generally it would be receive traffic on a bssid, tag it, and send it out the wire upstream and let the switch deal with sending it back if its allowed by whatever VLANing policy you have.
by heavyset_go | 2026-02-27 03:59:26+00:00
The great thing about vibecoding is we're at the point where people like me have to come in to fix core problems for apps and platforms that non-domain experts are outputting as slop.

Those problems span from fundamental architecture flaws, to issues anyone who spent 5 minutes reading the docs would never do, like create an entire app that slows to a crawl when more than one user uses it, because all parallel work gets serialized due to a complete misunderstanding of how concurrency, async/await and threads work in the language they're "writing".

People with too much money build entire apps on foundations that crumble and significantly hold them back from doing simple things, and I love it.
by ChadNauseam | 2026-02-27 03:59:55+00:00
> - 10 AIs running on 10 machines, each with 10 million GPUs
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> OR
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> - 10 million AIs running on 10 million machines, each with 10 GPUs

If we dramatically reduced the number of GPUs per AI instance, that would be great. But I think the difference in real life is not as extreme as you're making it. In your telling, the gpus-per-ai is reduced by one million. I'm not sure that (or anything even close to it) is within the realm of possibility for anthropic. The only reason anyone cares about them at all is because they have a frontier AI system. If they stopped, the AI frontier would be a bit farther back, maybe delayed by a few years, but Google and OpenAI would certainly not slow down 1000x, 100x or probably even 10x.
by exodust | 2026-02-27 04:00:09+00:00
I read the statement twice. I can't understand how you landed on "take my money".

Looks like an optics dance to me. I've noticed a lot of simultaneous positions lately, everyone from politicians and protesters, to celebrities and corporations. They make statements both in support of a thing, and against that same thing. Switching up emphasis based on who the audience is in what context. A way to please everyone.

To me the statement reads like Anthropic wants to be at the table, ready to talk and negotiate, to work things out. Don't expect updated bullet-point lists about how things are worked out. Expect the occasional "we are the goodies" statements, however.
by dakolli | 2026-02-27 04:00:44+00:00
You are VC. Your opinion literally doesn't matter, you're high on your own supply. I go to lunches and dinners with people like yourself frequently and every VC and finance guy wont stop talking about their idiotic delusions of having an AI workforce (slaves). You people yearn for the days of slavery again, but without humans.

Have fun during the neo-French Revolution Mr. VC, hope you made enough to fill your safe room with treats!
by nl | 2026-02-27 04:00:45+00:00
I think a lot of the conflict about what imperialist policies means is different framing.

For better or worse, inside this the border in this map China has fairly imperialist policies. Outside it not so much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_of_National_Shame

That's different to the expansionist imperial policies of Spain in the 1500s or Britain in the 1700s. It also affects a very large proportion of the world's population.

But it's an important point when considering China's place in the world.
by angelgonzales | 2026-02-27 04:00:55+00:00
Bottom line up front it’s probably better to address the root cause of this situation with the general solution — making government drastically smaller and less pervasive in people’s lives and businesses. I remember not too long ago during the last administration very heavy handed rhetoric and executive orders that intruded into the bodily autonomy and of millions of Americans and threatened millions of American’s jobs. This happened to me and I personally received threats that my livelihood would be taken away from me. This isn’t a problem where Congress has ceded powers to the Executive branch, it’s a problem that so much power to legislate and tax is in the hands of the government at all!
by wumms | 2026-02-27 04:00:55+00:00
From [0]: "In a talk at the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles on 11 May 2009, Serafini stated that there is no meaning behind the Codex's script, which is asemic; that his experience in writing it was similar to automatic writing; and that what he wanted his alphabet to convey was the sensation children feel with books they cannot yet understand, although they see that the writing makes sense for adults. However, the book's page-numbering system was decoded by Allan C. Wechsler and Bulgarian linguist Ivan Derzhanski, as being a variation of base 21."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus#Writing_sy...
by BobbyJo | 2026-02-27 04:00:59+00:00
> I think most engineers vastly overestimate how important high quality, maintainable, reliable code is to product success. Yes, you need an experienced engineer to steer Claude into making good high-quality code. But your customer doesn't see your code, they don't see how many servers you need or how often an on-call engineer is woken up. They just see how well the app meets their needs

Your customers definitely see the quality of code, just by proxy. When features take forever to ship, and things fall over all the time, those are code quality and design problems.

Honestly, code quality is somewhat more important right now, because use common and clear patterns will help AI make better changes, and using a more resilient architecture will you hand more off without worry things will fall over.
by Onewildgamer | 2026-02-27 04:01:35+00:00
Fully autonomous weapons are a danger even if we can reliably make it happen with or without AI.

It essentially becomes a computer against human. And such software if and when developed, who's going to stop it from going to the masses? imagine a software virues/malwares that can take a life.

I'm shocked very few are even bothered about this and is really concerning that technology developed for the welfare could become something totally against humans.
by dangus | 2026-02-27 04:01:52+00:00
I totally get the point of the article but the analogy isn’t a good one. It’s got the vibe that it’s written by someone who hasn’t been following the 3D printing/maker scene in a long time, which is more popular than ever.

I realize that the wildest promises of 3D printing and maker stuff like Arduono never came to fruition, but maker spaces have matured greatly. If that is the analogy we are making, that means that vibecoding won’t reach “the masses” necessarily but it will be popular beyond the present audience.
by Nifty3929 | 2026-02-27 04:03:47+00:00
There is not always a lot more to do. If your business is making typewriters then what? Or you mine coal that nobody wants to use anymore?

These companies could spin up entirely new lines of business, but why? It's much better for someone else to start that business and hire the best people for it.

There is no reason why businesses must continue growing, or even existing - even if they are run well and profitably. The universe changes, and business come and go to align with that.
by duskwuff | 2026-02-27 04:03:52+00:00
The vast majority of bets on Kalshi (90% according to another user) are sports bets. There's no risk being hedged here; it's just gussied-up sports betting.

A substantial portion of the other bets on the market are other trivial events of no financial significance. For instance, the second insider case described in the article involved the contents of Mr. Beast videos.

> For example, if you are a high level democrat party leader and you will lose your job if a republican wins...

This would probably constitute insider trading, as the party leader has a direct role in their party's election results.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-27 04:04:02+00:00
As the article says, the workers didn't petition the CEO, they petitioned the head of Google AI who's already expressed solidarity with Anthropic. If they can convince Jeff Dean, I don't think Sundar necessarily gets a say; it's a lot easier to stick your head in the sand and ignore things than to fire one of your most widely respected engineers because he won't help the Pentagon build Terminator robots.
by lr4444lr | 2026-02-27 04:04:04+00:00
I dislike Jack going back several years, but I think in this instance he's admitting that he's taking responsibility between weighing the risk of doing this vs. not doing this. Maybe morale will tank anyway and the company will hold on, but be out-innovated by competitors that invested in growth. There are future outcomes that could prove he made the wrong call, and I any time layoffs are announced, there is a tacit mea culpa about past over-hiring.
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