MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by prewett | 2026-02-05 00:16:03+00:00
I really wish posts like this explained what sort of development they are doing. Is this for an internal CRUD server? Internal React app? Scala server with three instances? Golang server with complex AWS configuration? 10k lines? 100k lines? 1M+? Externally facing? iOS app? Algorithm-heavy photo processing desktop app? It would give me a much better idea of whether the argument is reasonable, and whether it is applicable for the kind of software I generally write.
by harmonyresearch | 2026-02-05 00:16:27+00:00
Thanks for checking it out!

RE:engineering: You're spot on, on the engineering side it's dead simple. Simple, reliable, serviceable were all part of the goal.

RE:pricing: Other devices in this category are expensive and several have built-in synth engines and audio cards. This build uses mostly off the shelf components in an effort to keep the price down.

Instagram said I 'violated community guidelines'. Not sure how, I posted a photo of the controller and two videos of it in action. I think my error was following too many people too quickly, maybe lots of external traffic from reddit hurt too?
by shimman | 2026-02-05 00:16:38+00:00
I'm sorry but the amount of companies that need something like DataDog is quite small compared to their 30,000+ customer count. Maybe 5,000 companies on Earth truly need something like DataDog, 80% of their customers would be perfectly fine with a self hosted instance of grafana.

Using an open source self hosted solution should be the industry standard, encouraged position, by default. Our industry does not gain overall from using DataDog but only from truly open source solutions that utilized AGPL licenses that allows everyone to move forward together + share lessons together + contribute together toward a common goal of better observability.

Why are we acting like it's hard to set up? This isn't the 1990s, it's 2026. Tooling has gotten quite good over the last decade.

Also corporations stupidly spend money all the time, they over spend too. I recently left a company that was paying SalesForce $10mil a year in licenses when only 8 people in the entire 3,000 person company was using it. I doubt that was the only single instance across our industry too. There is a massive amount of waste and graft in enterprise sales.

I honestly doubt it if you replaced grafana for 10,000 DataDog customers they would notice the difference.
by UncleMeat | 2026-02-05 00:16:46+00:00
What history course would you expect to see this in? Courses don't tend to contain "by-the-ways" for things outside of the course material. Should it be against the rules to have a course specifically on the african slave trade? If somebody is teaching a course on the italian renaissance, should they be obligated to mention that great art was made in china too?

College history courses aren't "one-sided morality plays."
by aspenmartin | 2026-02-05 00:17:12+00:00
Can you be clear what you mean? What are you saying has not worked once?

And "it will be the norm" is a clear corollary of, absent any significant and unforeseen roadblock, even with the current highly imperfect agentic sausage-making factories we have today, what capabilities will be in like 6-12 months time.
by dpoloncsak | 2026-02-05 00:17:21+00:00
> sidewalk, not obstructing traffic, and shouting?

Are these the people supposedly getting added to the database? We have no evidence of who's actually being added, just that people supposedly are.

>Which law is broken by telling people that masked, armed thugs (maybe ICE, maybe not, impossible to tell) are assaulting people in the area?

I don't think any law here is broken.

>Which law is broken by recording and reporting on those masked, armed thugs who are assaulting and killing lawful protestors and other innocent civilians?

Like them or not, reporting federal police activities to the people they are investigating is in fact disrupting a federal investigation.

>Which local, city, or state official deputized Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be legal Law Enforcers of local, city, or state traffic laws?

This one's gonna vary a lot based on your location, but generally the 287(g) program that most states signed up for does.
by sandworm101 | 2026-02-05 00:17:45+00:00
That is sooo google. Every big tech company has a defining trait. Microsoft is evil. Microsoft doesnt care about customers and never will. Apple is expensive. No matter what they produce, it will cost more than the alternatives. Such things are in the corporate DNA and we should not expect change in our lifetimes. Google? Google is internally focused. Every google product exists to leverage or prop up the others. The value of any product, new or old, is judged only by how much traffic/business/money it can funnel to others. Any product that doesnt support, even if profitable on its own, is a threat.
by ghshephard | 2026-02-05 00:17:51+00:00
Lot of places that I see AI disrupting - I'm not buying that SaaS is going to be a significant one.

Reading through the article:

> They were paying $30,000 to a popular tool3

Couple things we needed to understand here:

- How large is the client company
- Is that $30,000/month or day or hour....

If it's a technology company of > 1000 employees - then $30,000 month doesn't even get Finance's attention. And there is next to zero chance that anyone is going to vibe-code, deploy, support and run anything in a 1000 person+ company for $30,000 a month. SaaS wins hands down.

Any product/service that people care about comes with a pager rotation - which is 6-7 employees making > $200k/year. If you can offload that responsibility to a SaaS for < $1mmm/year - done deal.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-05 00:18:19+00:00
Instapaper is the granddaddy of Read it Later apps. It was first written and published by Marco Arment - the co founder of Tumblr - in 2008. He sold it off because he started seeing dwindling sells.

These days, I just star articles in my RSS newsreader - NetNewsWire free and open source for the Mac and iOS - or just favorite the submission if I come across it on HN first
by cj | 2026-02-05 00:19:53+00:00
> Why are we acting like it's hard to set up?

Because the current generation of “full stack” engineers are great at spinning up react apps, but struggle with infrastructure and systems management. It’s really not any more complicated than that.

On a typical 8 person engineering team, maybe 1 or 2 people will know how to deploy anything to the cloud if you’re lucky.

The expertise just isn’t there at most companies.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-05 00:20:01+00:00
Why act so snobbish about it? They're both cromulent databases. You should try doing one project with each. The converse of this list would tell the diehard postgres user that mariadb is irrelevant to him.

They have quite different internal design, this affects what features are possible. No clustered index in postgres for instance, and UPDATE can reorder rows, but it supports replication much better.
by dpoloncsak | 2026-02-05 00:20:48+00:00
A) The one ICE is performing

B) The same way you make the jump from keying a Tesla to domestic terrorism? I'm not saying I support it, but it atleast makes more sense for someone illegally protesting federal agents to be considered "a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims."
by wat10000 | 2026-02-05 00:20:54+00:00
Lots of terrestrial locations have the grid. That's nearly 24/7 and it's dirt cheap compared to rockets. There are many places where land is cheap and permitting is easy. They may not be exactly where you'd prefer, but they're going to be a lot closer than space. Stable, proven comm links are easily available in the form of fiber lines. Many of these places are in stable countries where there's no realistic physical threat against your data center. And if people think that putting equipment in space somehow gets them away from regulation, they're going to be in for a very rude shock. Unless they themselves are going to go live in space, they're still very much subject to regulation.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-05 00:21:20+00:00
> I'm always puzzled by such a claim. One can look at Facebook to see the comments people put up tied to their real name and find no shortage of utterly abhorrent comments. Not sure why there's such a pervasive memory-holing of this when people talk of wanting to tie the ability to comment publicly to peoples' identities.

This should give insanely obvious evidence that clear-name policy does not lead to a more civilised discussion. I mean, everybody who went to a public school [in the American sense of the word] already knows this well: "everybody" knew the names of the schoolyard bullies.

The political wishes of clear-name policies are rather for surveillance and to silence critics of the political system.
by 0xsbeem | 2026-02-05 00:21:32+00:00
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by mreid | 2026-02-05 00:22:06+00:00
> When my partner goes to the store I get periodic text messages from them asking how much X we have and to check I look in the fridge or pantry in the kitchen and then go downstairs to the fridge or pantry in the basement.

We used to have a similar problem until we made a policy that if you use something up you add it to our shared shopping list, usually with a voice command to Siri. Whenever someone is at the store we just check the list, making sure we mark off things that are purchased.
by HDThoreaun | 2026-02-05 00:22:13+00:00
Always with the excuses lmao. Dictatorships exist because the people they rule over allow them to. The iranian revolution is yet another example of the people refusing to live under a government they didnt like. When your government sucks its the peoples fault, especially when the government isnt a foreign occupier but a homegrown political movement. Did the US meddling in iran hurt iranians? Sure, but they made the situation worse for themselves over and over again throughout the past 50 years instead of fixing the problem. Every country has had to deal with foreign meddling, some rise to the challenge and some wallow, only making things worse and worse
by ynac | 2026-02-05 00:22:27+00:00
Triggered a great lost memory: When I was on a dev team testing the graphing systems for a scientific data presentation software back in the early 90s I would try to come up with "fictional data sets" that would make interesting graphs. I tried to make them pretty, or weird, or just break the systems. Occasionally, it was so interesting I'd end up looking at the data / formulae that lead to the graph / design. Great creative space to be in for jumping back and forth between math and art.
by Centigonal | 2026-02-05 00:22:29+00:00
I don't understand why you're being downvoted. This is a topic worth discussing.

Like every previous invention that improves productivity (cf. copiers, steam power, the wheel), this wave of AI is making certain forms of labor redundant, creating or further enriching a class of industrialists, and enabling individuals to become even more productive.

This could create a golden age, or a dark age -- most likely, it will create both. The industrial revolution created Dickensian London, the Luddite rebellion & ensuing massacres, and Blake's "dark satanic mills," but it also gave me my wardrobe of cool $30 band T-shirts and my beloved Amtrak train service.

Now is the time to talk about how we predict incentive structures will cause this technology to be used, and what levers we have at our disposal to tilt it toward "golden age."
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-05 00:24:17+00:00
Sell the risky stock that has inflated in value from hype cycle exuberance and re-invest proceeds into lower risk asset classes not driven by said exuberance. "Taking money off the table." An example would be taking ISO or RSU proceeds and reinvesting in VT (Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF) or other diversified index funds.

You concentrate wealth to get wealthy, and diversify to stay wealthy, broadly speaking.

Taking money off the table - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45763769 - October 2025 (108 comments)

(not investing advice)
by sfRattan | 2026-02-05 00:24:33+00:00
When a game shows an unskippable ad, the user is consciously aware of what is happening, as it is happening, and can close the program to stop watching the ad. It is in no sense comparable to what you describe.

When a third party library bundled into a game makes ongoing, commercial, surreptitious use of the user's Internet access, the vast majority of users aren't meaningfully consenting to that use of their residential IP and bandwidth because they understand neither computers nor networks well enough to meaningfully consent.

I don't doubt your bases are sufficiently covered in terms of liablities. I don't doubt that some portion of whatever EULA you have (that your users click right on past) details in eye-watering legalese that you are reselling their IP and bandwidth.

It's just... The notion that there has been any meeting of minds at all between your organization and its games' users on the matter of IP address and bandwidth resale is patently risible.
by bhaktatejas922 | 2026-02-05 00:25:21+00:00
its more of a comment on human nature. on average when we did monitoring at scale reviewers averaged around 150 lines of code actually reviewed. thats the normal, day to day human limit. human attention is woefully unable to scale to meet the demands of how much AI slop is getting pushed and this is a swing and helping solve this by valuing human attention spans. This isn't going to solve it all at once but we're working on it!
by array_key_first | 2026-02-05 00:25:27+00:00
Doing work is easy, not doing work is hard. It's trivial for any engineer to find stuff to do. The trick is doing the right stuff. Most software is bad and clunky, most requirements are wrong, and most of your customers, at best, tolerate your product.

I think most software companies need to be doing less. Deleting code, refining, and making their product genuinely useful as opposed to "able to technically contort to client needs".
by _heimdall | 2026-02-05 00:25:39+00:00
100% agree. If I am using a cloud log provider I wouldn't expect them to solve my logging issue(s) as fast as I need, more importantly I have no real way to put more resources on that fix.

More importantly, with a third party service I'd be very surprised if both went down at the same time and it wasn't a further upstream issue like AWS. If its my own logging service and it went down during a prod outage, I likely didn't properly isolate my logging service in the first place.
by cj | 2026-02-05 00:25:43+00:00
> I don’t think that’s a reasonable thing to really assign much value to as it’s incredibly unlikely.

In my experience the systems/tools needed to debug production issues are often only used when they’re needed.

Which now means you need health and uptime monitoring on your log server since without that, it might break randomly and no one notices until you need it.

> The hypothetical problems people imagine for on-prem infrastructure get really strange to me

It really comes down to the people and whether you have the expertise on the team. And whether the team can realistically manage the system long term. It’s typically safer to spend more money for the managed service.

(It’s a safer decision, not necessarily better)
by kimjune01 | 2026-02-05 00:26:21+00:00
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by janalsncm | 2026-02-05 00:26:56+00:00
Well for example the last step is to softmax over all output logits, which is the same as your vocab size. You need the sum of the exponentiated values of each logit to calculate the denominator which is O(N).

Bigger impact is before that you need to project the hidden state matrix to the vocab list. Something like 4096x250000. Bigger vocab=more FLOPs.

If you’re on a GPU things are parallelized so maybe it’s not quite linear if everything fits nicely. But on a cpu you’re going to struggle more.

This is why the juiciest target when shrinking models is the token embedding table. For example AlBERT factorized the whole embedding table to two low rank matrices.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-02-05 00:27:11+00:00
If you can gin these things up in a weekend then why would you bother with a monthly subscription model for software? The only valuable part is the specification and possibly the hardware to run it. If I were a CTO trying to save money I might pay for the labor to develop good specs, but I would prioritize getting out from under software companies with a rent seeking models and 80 to 90% margins
by bloomca | 2026-02-05 00:27:33+00:00
If the models don't get to the point where they can correct fixes on their own, then yeah, everything will be falling apart. There is just no other way around increasing entropy.

The only way to harness it is to somehow package code producing LLMs into an abstraction and then somehow validate the output. Until we achieve that, imo doesn't matter how closely people watch out the output, things will be getting worse.
by stop50 | 2026-02-05 00:27:58+00:00
I personally favor the features of "Ur-Fascism" by Umberto Eco:

1. cult of tradition

2. rejection of modernism

3. action for action’s sake

4. disagreement is treason

5. fear of difference

6. appeal to a frustrated middle class

7. obsession with a plot

8. the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.

9. pacifism is trafficking with the enemy.

10. contempt for the weak

11. everybody is educated to become a hero

12. machismo - both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality,[...] Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons

13. selective populism

14. Newspeak

These are only his major points of his speach in 1995. The speach is at the moment available here: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
by keybored | 2026-02-05 00:28:03+00:00
The bloodless pragmatists aided and abetted them. Those who have no apparent values. Only short-term, terminally idiotic obsession with building things, creating value, creating business value, or whatever the pragmatist posturing of the day is.

Now they can have the fruits of their labor. Nothing. But why would they even want that? It’s not about getting something out of it. Or maintaining a living. It’s about building things.
by peterldowns | 2026-02-05 00:28:17+00:00
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The best way to apply is directly through those jobs pages. I got so much direct email spam the last time I posted here, I'm afraid I have to ask you not to contact me directly about this role. If you're a real HN reader you're always welcome to contact me with any questions or concerns, but please do not just apply by sending me an email.

Any other hiring managers seeing an incredible amount of fake applicants?
by oriettaxx | 2026-02-05 00:28:31+00:00
No ads in AI? cheap commitment

Ads are more then obsolete

Using ads in AI, today, is like printing flyers when the Internet started, (or sending email ads 30 years ago: of course Google could have promised: "we will not send spam to your gmail mailbox..." :).

"Ads" aim to influence your behavior: AI is a doing much much more with no need for ads (Claude included)
by montroser | 2026-02-05 00:28:34+00:00
Yes, we've used skeema for this for many years, and it is just plain lovely. Putting into source control your desired end state is so much more intuitive and understandable than accumulating migrations. In a way it's like the difference between jQuery and React -- you just say how you want it to look like in the end, and the computer does the work to figure out how to make it so.
by thallavajhula | 2026-02-05 00:28:35+00:00
I was reading through the article and waiting for the key info to drop, but nope. It never did. It seemed like marketing fluff. If anything, vibe coding may eliminate some of the B2C SaaSes, but not B2B. If you think an enterprise is going to vibe code a B2B offering that they pay millions for, you're out of your mind.

Here's my general mantra regarding AI: NEVER take suggestions about AI from people who have a vested interest in it. CEOs of companies that train and offer LLMs, Authors of Books about LLMs and AI in general, etc.

This may come off as an unpopular opinion, but this is how I felt after listening to Steve Yegge recently. He has a new book about Vibe coding and he goes on in the interview/podcast to say that the best programmers he knows in the world (the ones better than him and maybe even the top world class programmers), would be equivalent to those of interns in an year, if they don't start vibe coding or use AI. I respect the guy, but damn, this is just peak delusion. He didn't even say it as a hyperbole, he meant it.

According to popular CEOs of companies training LLMs, 2024 was supposed to be the year that would eliminate the need for Junior and mid-level engineers. 2025 happened. Now, we are in 2026.

So yeah, I'm never taking advice about AI from these people ever again.
by defrost | 2026-02-05 00:28:41+00:00
> Shooting people who are robbing you

Check the civil trial transcripts, they were panhandling by multiple accounts.

> Each of the four youths .. was facing a trial or hearing on criminal charges at the time of the incident.

Minor stuff that was upgraded to a bench warrent after the shootings, ...

> Sounds like predators to me

That was how they were presented by much of the press until a good year after the first trial and Goetz's own description of his actions came out in the civile trial .. he one that awarded several million against him.

Thanks for providing a perfect foil for the comment about heavily politicized and media warped "justice" in the US.