MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leumon | 2026-02-16 12:02:43+00:00
For programmers or people who know computers quite well the difference to claude code is small i would say. But for "Normies" its magical that you can just ask your computer to do anything from anywhere (set timers, install stable diffusion, send you a specific doc in your download folder). You don't even have to write it, you can send it a voice message and it will install whisper or send it to the openai whisper api, etc. Obviously this is more then dangerous, but looking at what passwords people still choose today (probably also the reason why everything requires MFA nowadays), most people don't care about Security.
by m4rtink | 2026-02-16 12:02:56+00:00
While the ore other factors that make Lunar observation satellites harder to do and more expensive (harder to communicate with due to distance, different thermal environment, no protection from radiation by the Van Allen belts, etc.) one big issue is that low Lunar orbit is by default unstable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit#Perturbation_effec...

Basically the gravitational field of the Moon is "lumpy", resulting in deceleration of low orbiting bodies as they are pulled around in orbit, until they crash into the surface.

There might still be dead probes from the 1960s/1970s orbiting Mars, but there are no inactive spacecraft orbiting around the Moon. There are now some specific orbits known that you can place a spacecraft in to reduce the effects but I don't think even that works to 100% percent efficiency & thing will still go down quite quickly of you loose control and can't do course corrections.
by nasmorn | 2026-02-16 12:03:14+00:00
What he built is genuinely interesting even if it is not something I would want to give all my credentials to. Makes sense for OpenAI to hire someone who has shown he can build something a lot of people want even they don’t know how to make an even half secure app out of it.
They probably think he has the right judgement of where UX would need to move to. That is easily more valuable for them than any coding.
by dostick | 2026-02-16 12:03:17+00:00
<Jordan Peterson voice>
But first you must ask yourself - do you wash your car often enough, and maybe you should be choosing the car wash as your occupation? And maybe “50 meters” is the message here, that you’re in metric country living next to a car wash, its also pretty good that you’re not born in medieval times and very likely died within first year of your life…
by SyneRyder | 2026-02-16 12:03:21+00:00
That isn't what the hype is. If that's the kind of stuff you're reading about or watching, you should find better sources. You can one-shot some things, and it makes for an impressive demo (oh yay, yet another video game made instantly) but anything larger and more useful will probably be a conversation. (Though not necessarily with a human, AIs can discuss it among themselves too.)

Your first one-shot might be a good rough prototype. From there, you continue the conversation with your refinements. While Claude goes and works on that for 15 minutes - you can go and do other work. Or talk with another Claude in another window to make progress on another project.

A good mental model is to imagine you're talking to a remote developer. You need to give them an extremely detailed spec on the first go if you expect them to get it right the first time. Sometimes it's better to explain "this is my grand vision, but how about we first mockup a prototype to see if that's actually how I want it to work". Sometimes Claude will suggest you talk about your plan together first to remove the ambiguities from the plan, or you can encourage Claude to do that with you.

(Also, the remote developer mindset is useful - treat the remote developer with respect, with humanity, and they're more likely to be helpful towards you and motivated to align with your goals.)

Consider that in an hour or two of conversation, you now have your app, completed, fully debugged... and not once did you look at the code, and you spent half of that time catching up on your other tasks. That's vibe coding.
by DeusExMachina | 2026-02-16 12:05:24+00:00
> If you're the type of programmer who thinks of yourself as just a programmer, and take pride in your secure code, ability to optimize functions and algorithms, you're exactly the kind of programmer AI will replace.

I'm not sure how this follows logically from the comment you are replying to, which states:

> We have someone who vibe coded software with major security vulnerabilities.
by u1hcw9nx | 2026-02-16 12:05:32+00:00
It's the ability to concentrate that starts to go.

Kasparov have talk about this. Older players can play at a world-class level for the first few hours, but their ability to maintain intense concentration declines as the game progresses. Most blunders by older GMs happen in the 5th or 6th hour of play. Older players also can't recover from earlier intense game next morning as well.

According to Kasparov older players get "calculation blackouts" and inability to visualize the board.
by DharmaPolice | 2026-02-16 12:06:02+00:00
Rule of thumb for everyone (i.e. both). If I ask you a question, start by assuming I want the answer to the question as stated unless there is a good reason for you to think it's not meant literally. If you have a lot more context (e.g. you know I frequently ask you trick or rhetorical questions or this is a chit-chat scenario) then maybe you can do something differently.

I think being curious about the motivations behind a question is fine but it only really matters if it's going to affect your answer.

Certainly when dealing with technical problem solving I often find myself asking extremely simple questions and it often wastes time when people don't answer directly, instead answering some completely different other question or demanding explanations why I'm asking for certain information when I'm just trying to help them.
by rsynnott | 2026-02-16 12:06:40+00:00
> I think what bugs me about EU legislation like this is how micro-targeted it is. Why apparel specifically? If waste and a disregard for the finite-ness of natural resources is the problem, why not impose a blanket, Pigovian-style tax on all extracted resources?

"Don't attempt to in any way address the problem unless you're willing to go for an absolute maximalist solution" is a pretty weird stance.
by panick21 | 2026-02-16 12:06:52+00:00
They go first to private medicine, like literally every new innovation. But new technology is consistently getting rolled out. Late live quality has increased. Caner 5 year survival rates have increased. Live expectancy has generally increased.

The claim that out of 20+ countries only 5-6 are not totally corrupt and its impossible to get a doctor visit is simply not true.
by conartist6 | 2026-02-16 12:06:58+00:00
...huh?

10x programmers aren't the ones grinding hacker-rank.

Neither are the programmers like me who actually focus on building good systems under any significant threat.

And Facebook's codebase is pretty decent for the most part, you'd probably be shocked. Benefits of moving fast and breaking things include making developer experience a priority. That's why they made Hacklang to get off PHP and why they made React and helped make Prettier
by brabel | 2026-02-16 12:07:04+00:00
You seem to believe the West is doing very little to help Ukraine. You say they only contribute a tiny fraction of their economy, but you ignore that that fraction is coming on top of their own budgets which are already quite constrained as well as increased spending on their own militaries due to the situation + pressure by the US, and that many countries, especially Germany, lost an enormous amount of money by becoming severely less competitive after rejecting Russian oil and gas , which had made energy prices much lower before the war.
What do you think Europe can do more? Do you support tax hikes to allow more money to be sent? Do you want a direct military involvement and are you prepared to be drafted, or have your children be, to the front lines, even if that means direct attacks by drones/missiles on many of your cities in retaliation ?
Most people answer no to those questions, otherwise they would be demanding that and in a democracy people do get what they want if the majority agrees, yet we don’t see anyone in Europe going to the streets or even signing major petitions or anything like that!
Show HN: Logtide – Open-source log management and SIEM for European SMBs
by polliog | 2026-02-16 12:07:36+00:00
Hi HN! Creator of Logtide here.

Built this for European SMBs needing log management with:
- GDPR compliance (self-hosted, data residency)
- Boring tech philosophy (PostgreSQL+TimescaleDB, zero AI/ML)
- Transparent deployment (Docker Compose, no hidden scripts)

Stack: SvelteKit, Fastify, PostgreSQL+TimescaleDB, BullMQ
License: AGPLv3 (network copyleft for cloud provider protection)

Features:
- Multi-tenancy, SIEM (Sigma rules + MITRE ATT&CK)
- PII masking, OpenTelemetry traces, anomaly detection
- Real-time streaming, alert correlation

Storage: Pluggable architecture in development
- TimescaleDB (default, production-ready, 80%+ compression)
- ClickHouse support coming for enterprise scale
- Hot/warm/cold tiers with S3 archival

Production-tested: Millions of logs/day, 10-50x faster dashboard queries via continuous aggregates.

Why AGPLv3? Protects against cloud vendor forks while aligning with European data sovereignty needs. Understand it's controversial - happy to discuss.

GitHub: https://github.com/logtide-dev/logtide
Docs: https://logtide.dev/docs

Questions welcome on architecture, scaling, or SIEM implementation!
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-16 12:08:07+00:00
Recently got a nice 4k 27" OLED, and it's been a considerable upgrade over the regular backlit 27" LCD I had before.

When I got my first LCD, it looked a bit better for reading and such, but had worse motion clarity than my CRT for games, so I'd say this OLED upgrade was comparable.
by raxxorraxor | 2026-02-16 12:08:32+00:00
Sonnet 4.5 after thinking/complaining that the question is completely off topic to the current coding session:

Walk! 50 meters is literally a one-minute walk.
But wait... I assume you need to get your car to the car wash, right? Unless you're planning to carry buckets of soapy water back and forth, you'll probably need to drive the car there anyway!
So the real question is: walk there to check if it's open/available, then walk back to get your car? Or just drive directly?
I'd say just drive - the car needs to be there anyway, and you'll save yourself an extra trip. Plus, your freshly washed car can drive you the 50 meters back home in style!
(Now, if we were talking about coding best practices for optimizing car wash route algorithms, that would be a different conversation... )

And yes, I like it that verbose even for programming tasks. But regardless of intelligence I think this topic is probably touched by "moral optimization training" which AIs currently are exposed to to not create a shitstorm due to any slightly controversial answer.
by fersab | 2026-02-16 12:08:44+00:00
Most AI-assisted projects you see today are LLM wrappers, CRUD apps, or a handful of frameworks stitched together with API calls. I wanted to push Claude Code in a different direction — heavy algorithmic work, real-time math, and the kind of low-level graphics programming that takes you back to the demoscene. No frameworks, no crazy abstractions, just pixels and linear algebra.
by skydhash | 2026-02-16 12:08:50+00:00
> I’ve always been more of a product/business person who saw code as a way to get to the end goal.

That’s what code always is. A description on how the computer can help someone faster to the end goal. Devs care a little more about the description, because end goals change and rewriting the whole thing from scratch is costly and time-consuming.

> That elite coder who hates talking to business people and who cares more about the code than the business? Not me. I’m the opposite.

I believe that coder exists only in your imagination. All the good ones I know are great communicators. Clarity of thought is essential to writing good code.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-16 12:08:54+00:00
> Instead of feeding 500 lines of tool output back into the next prompt

Applies for everything with LLMs.

Somewhere along the idea, it seems like most people got the idea that "More text == better understanding" whereas reality seems to be the opposite, the less tokens you can give the LLM with only the absolute essentials, the better.

The trick is to find the balance, but "more == better" which many users seem to operate under seems to be making things worse, not better.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-16 12:09:19+00:00
Tcl has stopped being everything a string with the release of Tcl 8.0 and bytecode engine.

> In earlier versions of Tcl, strings were used as a universal representation; in Tcl 8.0 strings are replaced with Tcl_Obj structures ("objects") that can hold both a string value and an internal form such as a binary integer or compiled bytecodes.

http://www.ira.inaf.it/Computing/manuals/tcl/man-8.0/Changes...

I remember this quite well, because as part of the core team tasked with writing native C extensions, the migration to Tcl 8 had quite an impact on our code.

I learned Python with version 1.6, and have a few O'Reilley books proving the point the language wasn't really that simple, those that never bothered reading the reference manuals end-to-end though it was.
by tliltocatl | 2026-02-16 12:09:37+00:00
What we have of RISC-V mostly goes ARM route. The problem isn't ISA itself, it's the peripherals. Most x86 motherboards comes with ACPI that (while being an unholy mess of a specification) allows vendors to provide bytecode drivers for simple stuff like power regulators and fan controls. In theory ACPI and UEFI are cross-platform, but no SoC or platform vendor seems to bother. RISC-V embraced opensource which means you get a declarative devicetree specification, but no runnable drivers to go with it. So all peripheral drivers must be upstream to be usable. That's of course not realistic because SoC vendors don't give a shit about your problems (and because Linux isn't the one and only OS!). Interestingly, devicetree, originally conceived as a part of OpenFirmware, was supposed to go with a Forth virtual machine exactly for this reason, but that part never made it to RISC-V.

Paradoxically, Linux core maintainers prefer the ARM situation (as do RMS-grade FOSS fans). For them going x86 route means constantly getting blame for crappy code they didn't wrote. Not that I'm unsympathetic, but it really goes against users' interests. And again, BSDs and smaller OSes often simply doesn't have resources to support the myriads of platform hardware.
Show HN: Is the "frozen weights" paradigm the main bottleneck for AGI?
by 8lamaster8 | 2026-02-16 12:10:35+00:00
I believe the bottleneck for AGI is our reliance on static, "pre-frozen" weights. If the logic is frozen during inference, it’s just a glorified lookup table. Real intelligence needs a substrate that rewires itself through experience.
As a passion project, I’m building an AI assistant that learns in real-time without any underlying LLM or external generative APIs.
Just a heads-up: This is a solo enthusiast project, and I'm still deep in the 'build-test-break' cycle. It’s very much a work in progress. I’m not claiming to have solved AGI — I’m just exploring a different path.
An open-source AI browser agent [Yamak]
by threos | 2026-02-16 12:11:07+00:00
Built an open-source desktop AI agent that can browse web, take actions, do research, fill forms, and such. Based on Kotlin Multiplatform, Koog, and Playwright. Works on your local Chrome installation.

Open to DMs, PRs, and feedbacks. Would appreciate stars and contributions.

https://github.com/threos/yamak-agent
by taylodl | 2026-02-16 12:11:08+00:00
I immediately remembered myself writing birthday congrats with LLMs and myself pushing every email through Claude, putting linguistic perfection over authenticity.

Being charitable, one could argue that you spent extra time because you cared - which, hopefully, is what your friends are doing. Some people send sympathy cards from Hallmark for the same reason - to express what they find difficult to express. Is it really any different? Something to think about in this age of LLMs.
by PurpleRamen | 2026-02-16 12:13:00+00:00
There is a difference between popular and (in)famous. OpenClaw is famous, has popularity at the moment, but is it sustainable? Will OpenClaw (or some kind of successor) still have a relevant usage (outside of fan circles) next year? Or in 5 years?

And I'm not talking about just any kind of assistant, because those are already existing for decades now with various degrees of competence and all kind of flavours.
by kwanbix | 2026-02-16 12:13:17+00:00
We have had that in Argentina for 40 years. The result? One of the most expensive countries to live in the world. The PS5 you can buy for 500 dollars in USA? it is 1000 here in Argentina. The Samsung Galaxy you pay 800 in USA? It is 1600 in Argentina. The Levi jean you pay 100? It is 250 in Argentina. Or, if you want to pay the same price for a jean, you can, but the quality will be 1/3 of the one you can buy in USA/EU.
by jbstack | 2026-02-16 12:14:09+00:00
I don't understand your point. We're talking about ways to reduce dependence on big corp products. Some people object on the basis that it's not always feasible. I've responded that it doesn't have to be all or nothing. You've identified some products that you think you can't move away from. I've identified some that I think you probably can, and acknowledged that you might still by stuck with those others. I don't see how your latest comment fits in.

In the context of the present debate, Pixel phone is inherently bad because it's a Google product. You're putting money in Google's bank account when you buy one, and you're running your phone the way Google wants you to. The point of the debate is whether it's feasible to move away from such things. In the case of a Pixel phone, it is possible (to some extent, anyway).
by thomasmg | 2026-02-16 12:14:14+00:00
Yes. His work is really inspiring, eg. the text editor less than 1000 lines, tiny language in less than 1000 lines etc. When I read this on HN, I converted his text editor to my hobby programming language [1] (330 lines), and then wrote a chess engine with terminal UI [2] (400 lines), Tetris clone [3] in 140 lines. I also have a QR code generator and parser [4] (700 lines, still in Java only), a PDF generator (200 lines), and now also a tiny programming language [5].

[1] https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang/blob/main/src/test...
[2] https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang/blob/main/src/test...
[3] https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang/blob/main/src/test...
[4] https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang/blob/main/src/test...
[5] https://thomasmueller.github.io/bau-lang/at.html
by whynotmaybe | 2026-02-16 12:14:57+00:00
I don't think it's as easy to do the example in the article just by using information_schema.

> Which tables have a column with the name country where that column has more than two different values

But on their product page, the definition of floesql left me puzzled

> It uses intelligent caching and LLVM-based vectorized execution to deliver the query execution speed your business users expect.

> With its powerful query planner, FloeSQL executes queries with lots of joins and complicated SQL syntax without breaking your budget.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-16 12:16:29+00:00
I think it's more that he wanted to go out undefeated, rather than lacking motivation. Or rather the former driving the latter.

He made 5 title defenses. Two were against the previous generation of players, and he did extremely well. 2 were against players of his generation and were anything but compelling victories. He only won a total of 1 classical game in the 24 played, and that was in a must-win scenario because he had just lost for a final record in these matches of +1 -1 =22. And finally there was his match against Nepo which was looking to be another extremely close match until Nepo lost a critical game, and then went on monkey tilt, as is his reputation - proceeding to play horribly for the rest of the match and get wiped.

In an interview with Rogan, Carlsen stated he felt he peaked a bit before his match against Nepo, and so he probably did not view his chances of success in a world championship match as especially high. So he was going to have to spend months preparing for a match he could very well lose which would certainly tarnish his reputation as the GOAT of chess. I think this is why he couldn't find the motivation.

For instance there were new world records just around the corner. The most successful world title defenses is 6 and that was back in the early 20th century. With one more he could have surpassed Kasparov and at least tied the record.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-16 12:16:46+00:00
No, Qualcomm was willing to pay the Nuvia license fees, but Arm said that this is too little, because they licensed Nuvia only for products to be sold for servers, which was expected to be a small market, and now Qualcomm wanted to reuse some of the work in laptop CPUs.

So Arm requested increased license fees, which Qualcomm refused, claiming that the license contracts that both Qualcomm and Nuvia had remain valid, with their already negotiated license fees.
by iso1631 | 2026-02-16 12:16:54+00:00
So ITV don't get any money, so they stop making this stuff

They gave you an option to pay for it without adverts, but you decided to invest your time and energy in bypassing the adverts rather than pay the cost of a pint of beer. You could have paid for it on Apple TV but perhaps you consider it too expensive.

How much do you value an episode? Presumably enough to watch it - so 90 minutes of your time, which at minimum wage is £18. But you don't value it £4 to watch a 90 minute program just once on apple tv, let alone how cheap itvx is.

Justify it to yourself all you want, just don't cry when TV series like that are no longer made.
by fleshmonad | 2026-02-16 12:16:54+00:00
Vim is my only text editor, I use it for writing everything. Emails, scripts, messages, 100k+ lines codebases, prose, never needed this plugin. One line for 80 char wrap on certain filetypes, and a that is it, never needed such a plugin.

For prose, you can simply hard wrap at 80 (arguably you should), and vim supports this via a single config line. OOTB vim soft breaks anyway and you can navigate between in those broken lines via gj, gk etc.

Seems like bloat to me.
by jcgl | 2026-02-16 12:19:07+00:00
Most systemd components do rely on some core systemd components like systemd (the service manager) and journald. I would say that a core thesis of systemd is that Linux needs/needed a set of higher-level abstractions, and that systemd-the-service-manager has provided those abstractions. The fact that other parts of systemd-the-project rely on those abstractions does not imply that the project is monolithic.
by OJFord | 2026-02-16 12:20:39+00:00
> The rise of freestyle chess could viably see players extending their dominance for much longer, because there's currently believed to be no realistic way to do impactful opening prep in that game.

For those out of the know like me, the tldr seems to be that it shuffles the positions in the first rank - symmetrically with your opponent, but not the usual rook/knight/bishop/royal both sides. So you can't study openings well because you don't even know the starting position.

https://www.freestyle-chess.com/fc-players-club-rules/
by nandomrumber | 2026-02-16 12:21:56+00:00
Wild!

They just totally made up[1] a number, tripled it, doubled that, and finally applied a multiplier before using it as the basis to support their preconceived… let’s not mince words: agenda.

1. That’s not very kind. I’m sure they didn’t “just make it up”. There’s bound to be an entire bureaucracy if not dedicated to, at least tasked with, conjuring up this sort of codswallop.