MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keyshapegeo99 | 2026-02-09 00:56:55+00:00
The paper is complete AI slop, run it through GPTZero - there's virtually no human authorship here. (The abstract and intro appear to have been hand-tweaked, but the rest is pure slop.)

I can only assume the coding and analysis was also conducted entirely by ChatGPT, which might explain why it appears superficially convincing but falls apart upon interrogation.

Will be interesting to see if any journal actually touches this. If so, they're going on my list of predatory journals.
by 8note | 2026-02-09 00:56:57+00:00
i just got finished making myself a stylus based cad app and a bit of web app for doing layout so i think im well setup for a leather-working and embroidering setup for tbe next while.

just about finished making my sister a new wallet using it for putting together a pattern: https://imgur.com/a/gTehRra

next fun thing is to try making a better "claude plays pokemon" i havent played emerald before, but the end goal is to get it to be able to play the hard nuzlockes like Run and Bun
by andrekandre | 2026-02-09 00:56:57+00:00
> My Sony died very quickly. My Apple's are on their way out.

same

i'll never buy those apple earbuds ever again; hundreds of dollars down the drain and more e-waste cause those batteries cant be replaced... and sony: charging 70 bucks for wired earbuds and the cover falls off after a couple months usage what the f...
(ok rant finished)
by adamos486 | 2026-02-09 00:57:07+00:00
Skulto - offline-first package manager for Claude/Codex agent skills

https://github.com/asteroid-belt/skulto

Started building this after getting nervous about installing random SKILL.md files from GitHub. Scans for prompt injection in markdown/references and suspicious patterns in scripts/.

- 200+ curated skills included

- 33 supported agents

- Symlinks for one install anywhere and automatic updates

- CLI, TUI, or MCP interface: try asking Claude to find and add Awesome repos.

- Semantic search across skill content

Working on: local skill authoring, mise-style directory activation

Go + Bubble Tea. Happy to hear what's missing.
by whatshisface | 2026-02-09 00:57:48+00:00
Ok, so basically, the author is saying that you can spend the prime working years of your life living on a small stipend, in exchange for a 20% chance of a middle class salary when you're 40. Let's assume the worst, that tenured professors work like retirees. This amounts to getting five people to work for one-fourth pay in exchange for allowing one of them - just one - to retire 25 years early. Who's begin scammed, again? ;-)

(In reality, everyone is motivated by the pursuit of knowledge, and maybe a little by the pursuit of fame, including underpaid grad students, and tenured professors, and even the actual retirees (emeritus professors) who often keep working.)
by laborcontract | 2026-02-09 00:57:55+00:00
I like this. It reminds me of the interesting type of experimentation that was done with LLMs before agentic coding took over as the primary use case.

I am interested in seeing a personal version of this. Help people work out their own brain knots to make decision-making easier. I'm actually decent at mending fences with others. Put making decisions myself? Impossible.
by readingnews | 2026-02-09 00:58:52+00:00
I worked at 5 universities, two of them in the top 50, and I do not know of one tenured professor that "does nothing" and "publishes next to nothing". Some of them teach very little, and that may have been for the best, but all tenured professors I was aware of needed to do research, bring in money (or you were, yes that's right, fired), and teach.

Granted, I worked in STEM fields. Maybe this author does not realize what it is like in the physical sciences or engineering?
by int_19h | 2026-02-09 00:59:04+00:00
I'm using AdGuard running in Home Assistant and I don't see any ads in Apple News.

Looking at what gets blocked when I open the News apps, try going for these domains:

news.iadsdk.apple.com

news-app-events.apple.com

news-sports-events.apple.com

news-events.apple.com
by enum | 2026-02-09 01:00:45+00:00
> For tenure-track professors at top-twenty schools, step five is hard. Their tenured professors jealously guard their status, so rejection is the default. However, as school ranking goes down, runaway nepotism swiftly supplants professorial pride. At schools ranked worse than fifty, acceptance is the default.

Like everyone else, I have always had the pleasure of being at a top-20 school (in some list or the other!). Fortunately, I think this article is only attacking tenure at schools rated lower. (Let me know if I misinterpreted the article.)

We could eliminate tenure at lower-ranked schools. I'm not sure who will teach there if we do. The 90th percentile salary for a new tenure-track professor is 145K (https://cra.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2023-CRA-Taulbee-... page 49). Nobody competent is going to take that salary without the possibility of tenure.
by pixodaros | 2026-02-09 01:02:10+00:00
I am a former academic. The tenured faculty who have 20 years of union-negotiated annual raises, and in some trendy fields or fields with business applications, earn good money for salaried workers. A newly minted Associate Professor of Linguistics does not!

None of them earns as much as a billionaire's child earns just by having parents who gave them a trust fund.
by wpm | 2026-02-09 01:02:21+00:00
Endpoint security software on the Mac, if it's worth the hit to system resources that is, inspect every call to exec and fork that occur in the kernel and also inspect those for known attack vectors, malicious scripts, etc. The one I have installed on my work Mac will kill reverse shell attempts before they are run. Will stop keychain attacks. Infostealing (as they can also get every file system op as they are happening in the kernel).

Gatekeeper and Xprotect are good, but there's only so much they can do.
by esafak | 2026-02-09 01:02:30+00:00
> On a personal project, I asked an AI agent to add a test to a specific file. The file was 500 lines before the request and 100 lines after. I asked why it deleted all the other content. It said it didn't. Then it said the file didn't exist before. I showed it the git history and it apologised, said it should have checked whether the file existed first.

Ha! Yesterday an agent deleted the plan file after I told it to "forget about it" (as in, leave it alone).
by tunesmith | 2026-02-09 01:03:02+00:00
I tend to be surprised in the variance of reported experiences with agentic flows like Claude Code and Codex CLI.

It's possible some of it is due to codebase size or tech stack, but I really think there might be more of a human learning curve going on here than a lot of people want to admit.

I think I am firmly in the average of people who are getting decent use out of these tools. I'm not writing specialized tools to create agents of agents with incredibly detailed instructions on how each should act. I haven't even gotten around to installing a Playwright mcp (probably my next step).

But I've:

- created project directories with soft links to several of my employer's repos, and been able to answer several cross-project and cross-team questions within minutes, that normally would have required "Spike/Disco" Jira tickets for teams to investigate

- interviewed codebases along with product requirements to come up with very detailed Jira AC, and then,.. just for the heck of it, had the agent then use that AC to implement the actual PR. My team still code-reviewed it but agreed it saved time

- in side projects, have shipped several really valuable (to me) features that would have been too hard to consider otherwise, like... generating pdf book manuscripts for my branching-fiction creating writing club, and launching a whole new website that has been mired in a half-done state for years

Really my only tricks are the basics: AGENTS.md, brainstorm with the agent, continually ask it to write markdown specs for any cohesive idea, and then pick one at a time to implement in commit-sized or PR-sized chunks. GPT-5.2 xhigh is a marvel at this stuff.

My codebases are scala, pekko, typescript/react, and lilypond - yeah, the best models even understand lilypond now so I can give it a leadsheet and have it arrange for me two-hand jazz piano exercises.

I generally think that if people can't reach the above level of success at this point in time, they need to think more about how to communicate better with the models. There's a real "you get out of it what you put into it" aspect to using these tools.
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-09 01:03:05+00:00
> his use cases for LLMs at the time were summarizing emails in his email client

Sounds just like my manager. Though he never has made a proclamation that this meant developers should be 10x as productive or anything along those lines. On the contrary, when I made a joke about LLMs being able to replace managers before they get anywhere near replacing developers, he nearly hyperventilated. Not because he didn't believe me, but because he did, and already been thinking that exact thought.

My conclusion so far is that if we get LLMs capable of replacing developers, then by extension we will have replaced a lot of other people first. And when people make jokes like "should have gone into a trade, can't replace that with AI" I think they should be a little more introspective; all the people who aspired to be developers but got kicked out by LLMs will be perfectly able to pivot to trades, and the barrier to entry is low. AI is going to be disruptive across the board.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-09 01:03:17+00:00
Use of a single sentence for --reason is an anti-pattern. The reasons for vouches are more important than the vouch themselves, as it gives context to the reader to whether the vouch is valuable or not. You'll see this when you look at other reputational review systems of humans. If there's very shallow vouch reasons (or none at all) it quickly leads to gaming of the system and fraudulent social credit increases. If there's rich vouch reasons, it's much harder to game the system, and easier for other members of the network to avoid fraudulent vouches.

The reason input should require a text field at least 5 lines long and 80 chars wide. This will influence the user to try to fill the box and provide more reason content, which results in higher quality signals.

Trust is a core security mechanism that the entire world depends on. It must be taken seriously and treated carefully.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-09 01:03:48+00:00
OK, but the point is, it doesn't fix any problems either.

But it does create them, if drones have to travel 2x as far by following roads, which wastes energy, limits range, and requires flying more drones to achieve the same level of e.g. deliveries.

The larger point is that property owners don't have a legitimate reason to ban drones passing 200 ft over their house. If they're bothered by noise, why are they going to be any less bothered because the drone is flying 50 ft away over the road at the end of their driveway? If they're worried about drones falling out of the sky, they're still going to be bothered about their car being hit during their entire morning and evening commute.
by enum | 2026-02-09 01:04:02+00:00
This isn't true right? You really can bring in zero dollars in grants and phone it in in the classroom. (Now, literally on Zoom!) I don't think it helps to pretend that everyone keeps pushing hard post tenure.

But, I think most people do. The system is deliberately designed to push an assistant professor so hard, that when they get a permanent contract, they're conditioned to keep pushing. It typically succeeds.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-09 01:04:10+00:00
It would be better for governments to provide tax credits / subsidies to battery manufacturing facilities than it would be to directly subsidize consumers. The hope being the cheaper battery component cost gets passed onto consumers.

Vehicle sales subsidies frankly just end up rolled into the price as a markup.

The Canadian government here partially has the right idea in only subsidizing vehicles under a 50k CAD ($36k USD) price tier -- unless they're manufactured in Canada. But I don't think that barrier is low enough. Should be $40k or even less. Our subsidy also takes the form of a direct cash subsidy instead of a tax credit -- which is regressive and helps people less in lower income tiers who don't pay much in income taxes.
by OgsyedIE | 2026-02-09 01:05:44+00:00
The bulk of the Democrat party's policy is based on their leadership's cultural values more than a nihilist effort to grift. They are happy to sponsor funding for opera, client journalism and districts that host the finest private schools, after all.

The article's argument that they need to pivot to addressing technological unemployment neglects this lens. It strongly implies that the best way forward is to focus on the narrowing employment prospects of the upper class. Unlikely as it may seem, they are losing jobs to AI as well, just slightly slower.
by waterTanuki | 2026-02-09 01:06:54+00:00
Hi, I'm one of those people.

Welcome to being a human being, where you need dozens of different accounts and passwords and passkeys and authenticators to live in modern society.

Apple passwords just work. They integrate nicely with most websites where I can authenticate using biometrics instead of copy-pasting and leaving my credentials on my clipboard.

And let's be real here, no one else in the industry comes even close to the amount of investment, research, and maintenance of security platforms than Apple. I would not bet against Apple's security failing.

Everything is a tradeoff between convinience and security. I think Apple's password manager is the perfect middleground. I let it generate different passwords for every site, store my passkeys etc.

No one has the time to fully optimize their security footprint. No one. And if you do you're either A) working in a sensitive area that requires it for your job or B) being targeted by state-level threat actors or C) lying. Anything beyond a password manager + 2fa is severe overkill for anyone else.
by WD-42 | 2026-02-09 01:07:15+00:00
A Jellyfin music client for Linux written in Rust and GTK:

https://github.com/Fingel/gelly

I thought it would be pretty simple, but here I am almost 6 months later still adding features. The positive feedback has been nice, though! People seem to appreciate (like I do) that its fast and doesn't use Electron or some other cross platform toolkit. Learning a lot.

It's not vibe coded. Sad that I have to make that qualification these days, but here we are.
by zhyan7109 | 2026-02-09 01:07:20+00:00
Here are all the materials/books that were useful while I was in the thick of it:
Bilal who sold his startup to Amplitude: https://bilalmahmood.medium.com/how-to-sell-your-startup-744...
Touraj who is the COO of Serve Robotics and previously did a couple M&As and was leading Corp Dev at GoDaddy: https://www.amazon.com/Exit-Path-How-Startup-Game/dp/1264703...
Ezra's book on Magic Box Paradigm: https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Box-Paradigm-Framework-Acquisit...
by laughfactory | 2026-02-09 01:09:13+00:00
Frankly, it sounds like you have a lot to learn about agentic coding. It’s hard to define exactly what makes some of us so good at using it, and others so poor, but agentic coding has been life changing for myself and the folks I’ve tutored on its use. We’re all using the same tools, but subtle differences can make a big difference.
by tunesmith | 2026-02-09 01:09:25+00:00
You can actually register now (with a waiting list) and make your own private graphs, if that's what you meant by a personal version. (You'd be like member #4 haha)

I've actually had a lot of fun hooking it up to LLM. I have a private MCP server for it. The tools tell it how to read a concludia argument and validate it. It's what generated all the counterpoints for the "carbon offset" argument (https://concludia.org/step/9b8d443e-9a52-3006-8c2d-472406db7...) .

And yeah... when I've tried to fully justify my own conclusions that I was sure were correct... it's pretty humbling to realize how many assumptions we build into our own beliefs!
by AuthAuth | 2026-02-09 01:11:18+00:00
I disagree with everything this article tries to say and just outright reject its framing. There is no risk.

The democrats didn't lose blue collar workers because they "failed to have a policy to deal with globalization and automation" Dems did have policy and they did try to address those issues. Republicans did nothing to address those issues. Blue collar workers dont care and actually dont listen to policy or Democrat campaign messaging.

So now we look at the same for AI, the author is delusional if they think Dems will be losing votes because they dont have a policy on AI. If they are writing for a publication like this they should do bare min research and go look at the dems policy on AI.

Thier policy was to entice hyperscalers into Gov datacenters to exert control over how these models could be trained and deployed. They wanted to use this leverage + regulation to ensure stronger guard rails,model bias and misuse addressed. They proposed a lot of new avenues of research to understand the impacts to the workforce before models were released into the wild. Basically still investing in the tech and the innovation but slowing the rollout to avoid destabilizing the job economy and having the shitshow we have today. It is good reasonable policy and its probably gotten a lot stronger as im reading this from their 2023 policy.

But none of it matters because people like this will write as if there is no policy and the dems have absolutely no plans to do anything regarding AI. Trump will have an AI policy that actively destroys people and _somehow_ voters will still choose republicans. Do you know why? Its because they are republicans, they are not democrats and never will be, they larp as undecided centrists but always vote republican. These people are worthless and dems should spend any effort trying to win them over.
by the_fall | 2026-02-09 01:11:30+00:00
They're not coming from anywhere. It's an LLM-written article, and given how non-specific it is, I imagine the prompt wasn't much more than "write an article about how OpenClaw is changing my life".

And the fact this post has 300+ comments, just like countless LLM-generated articles we get here pretty much daily... I guess proves the point in a way?
by pixodaros | 2026-02-09 01:11:43+00:00
Also, that 2/2 teaching load is for a research university. The average community college professor or land-grant university professor is not teaching that little. And in lab science the professor will have a serious management and fundraising job aside from teaching (and if he or she stops getting grants the university and the department chair will not be happy).

This site does not whine when someone like Maciej Ceglowski creates a "lifestyle business" that only takes 10 hours or so a week, but it whines when people unionize or climb the academic ladder to get good working condition.
by rabf | 2026-02-09 01:11:54+00:00
Applications for Linux that I always wanted but could never quite find the one that works how I think it should.

traymd: A system tray notes application that supports basic live input of markdown.
https://github.com/rabfulton/TrayMD

reelvault: A local film browser and launcher.
https://github.com/rabfulton/ReelVault

preditor: A simple image viewer that shows each image in the center of the screen in a window sized for that image with some basic editing functions built in.
https://github.com/rabfulton/preditor
by MKuykendall | 2026-02-09 01:11:57+00:00
We decoded 286 million raw Ethereum events from Sepolia's early blocks (genesis through ~3M) into clean, query-ready Parquet files. The focus is on ERC-20/ERC-721 transfers and approvals — the kind of data you'd need for ML training, compliance analysis, or building indexers.

Why this exists: Getting historical decoded event data usually means running your own archive node or paying per-RPC-call. We had the infrastructure from another project, so we packaged the output as a flat file.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-09 01:12:19+00:00
> An agent that can truly “use your computer” is incredibly powerful, but it's also the first time the system has to act as you, not just for you. That shifts the problem from product design to permission, auditability, and undoability.

Or rather, just reveals that the industry never bothered to properly implement delegation of authority in operating systems and applications, opting instead to first guilt-trip people for sharing their passwords, and later inventing solutions that make it near-impossible to just casually let someone do something for you.

Contrast with how things in real life function, whether at family level or at the workplace.
by whakim | 2026-02-09 01:12:34+00:00
Yes; you can phone it in post-tenure. But just because it is possible doesn't mean (in my experience) it is common; and I don't think it's helpful (as TFA claims) to equate this possibility with "a total scam." To get tenure anywhere doesn't just require a huge amount of work as an Assistant Professor; it also requires a huge amount of work as a PhD student and potentially multiple rounds of post-doc'ing or other non-tenure-line work. In my experience, tenured professors have spent nearly two decades distorting their work-life balance beyond all recognition to the point that grinding insanely hard in pursuit of publications just feels normal.
by colechristensen | 2026-02-09 01:12:45+00:00
Is it annoying that I tell it to do something and it does about a third of it? Absolutely.

Can I get it to finish by asking it over and over to code review its PR or some other such generic prompt to weed out the skips and scaffolding? Also yes.

Basically these things just need a supervisor looking at the requirements, test results, and evaluating the code in a loop. Sometimes that's a human, it can also absolutely be an LLM. Having a second LLM with limited context asking questions to the worker LLM works. Moreso when the outer loop has code driving it and not just a prompt.
by troad | 2026-02-09 01:12:46+00:00
> The final straw with Mac

> Obviously there was a solution, probably an easy one, but I didn’t even look for it

It's hard to take this seriously. It's the most obvious setting possible. Settings > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access > tick the apps you want to have it.

What's even the complaint here? That Mac has solid app permissions, but you can't be bothered to open the settings?
by logicprog | 2026-02-09 01:14:57+00:00
Coding agents are getting most meaningful improvements in coding ability from RLVR now, with priors formed by ingesting open source code and manuals directly, not SO, as the basis. The former doesn't rely on resources external to the AI companies at all, and can be scaled up as much as they like, while the latter will likely continue to expand, and they don't really need more of it if it doesn't. Not to mention that curated synthetic data has been shown to be very effective at training models, so they could generate their own textbooks based on open codebases or new languages or whatever and use that. Model collapse only happens when it's exclusively, and fully un-curated, model output that's being trained on.
by belorn | 2026-02-09 01:15:16+00:00
It is a major simplification to put the political spectrum on a single line
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum). If we put it as a triangle, the Overton window can be as far from left to right as left/right is to the middle.

The Overton window is not involved in defining the middle, and the middle definitively do not need to agree 50% with any specific decision done by the left or right.