MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gbnwl | 2026-02-05 22:00:53+00:00
I also share your confusion about him somehow managing to dominate credit in this space, when it doesn't even seem like Gastown ended up being very effective as a tool relative to its insane token usage. Everyone who's used an agentic tool for longer than a day will have had the natural desire for them to communicate and coordinate across context windows effectively. I'm guessing he just wrote the punchiest article about it and left an impression on people who had hitherto been ignoring the space entirely.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-05 22:01:20+00:00
I waffled on choosing 100-250 initially, thinking similarly as you for authors like Shakespeare, Freud, Nietzsche, etc.

But then I kind of thought, for most people, that is probably overkill. If you stick with just one text from each great author, 50 is still a huge variety relative I think to what was available to people in the past. More is great, but not necessary: there are plenty of other sources of depth in life beyond texts, and text doesn't work well for everyone either.
by well_ackshually | 2026-02-05 22:01:41+00:00
There's hundreds of gameboy emulators available on Github they've been trained on. It's quite literally the simplest piece of emulation you could do. The fact that they couldn't do it before is an indictment of how shit they were, but a gameboy emulator should be a weekend project for anyone even ever so slightly qualified. Your benchmark was awful to begin with.
by atonse | 2026-02-05 22:01:59+00:00
Jarred Sumner (bun creator, bun was recently acquired by Anthropic) has been working exclusively on bringing down memory leaks and improving performance in CC the last couple weeks. He's been tweeting his progress.

This is just regular tech debt that happens from building something to $1bn in revenue as fast as you possibly can, optimize later.

They're optimizing now. I'm sure they'll have it under control in no time.

CC is an incredible product (so is codex but I use CC more). Yes, lately it's gotten bloated, but the value it provides makes it bearable until they fix it in short time.
by joriJordan | 2026-02-05 22:02:06+00:00
Wild. Growing up through Reagan, I saw the world only act like this.

Apple's 1984 commercial didn't age well: https://youtu.be/ErwS24cBZPc

Everyone ran towards this Brave New World based on media fueled populism.

To me religion isn't Christianity or Islam. It's following orders of arbitrary leaders who give themselves titles via narrative. Priest, Minister, CEO, General... just words.

Provenance such as "this is what I want to do with my life" are poor justification for enabling it.
by bitwize | 2026-02-05 22:02:24+00:00
"1984? Yeah, RIGHT, man, that's a typo. Orwell's here now and he's living large. We have no names, man, no names. We are NAMELESS. Can I score a fry?" —Cereal Killer, Hackers, whose words ring even more true today even as we watch tech billionaires attempt to build an all-watchful god in silico
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-05 22:02:32+00:00
> I'm not [yet?] running multiple agents, and currently don't really want to

This is the main reason to use AI agents, though: multitasking. If I'm working on some Terraform changes and I fire off an agent loop, I know it's going to take a while for it to produce something working. In the meantime I'm waiting for it to come back and pretend it's finished (really I'll have to fix it), so I start another agent on something else. I flip back and forth between the finished runs as they notify me. At the end of the day I have 5 things finished rather than two.

The "agent" doesn't have to be anything special either. Anything you can run in a VM or container (vscode w/copilot chat, any cli tool, etc) so you can enable YOLO mode.
by olivia-banks | 2026-02-05 22:03:04+00:00
I do agree, I don’t know why more people don’t just use Postgres. If I’m doing data exploration with lots of data (e.g., GIS, nD vectors), I’ll just spin up a Postgres.app on my macOS laptop, install what little I need, and it just works and is plenty fast for my needs. It’s a really great choice for a lot of domains.

That being said, while I think Postgres is “the right tool for the job” in many cases, sometimes you just want (relative) simplicity, both in terms of complexity and deployment, and should use something like SQLite. I think it’s unwise to understate simplicity, and I use it to run a few medium-traffic servers (at least, medium traffic for the hardware I run it on).
by ggm | 2026-02-05 22:03:17+00:00
Could waste heat drive Stirling engines? Web says they were explored by NASA but also has a lot of yea... nah comments.

If there was an acceptable efficiency to concentrate the heat into mass, you wind up at ion engines and shed heat physically for thrust.

I think he hasn't done his sums, or maybe we need a "show your workings" moment over the Fermi numbers on this.

I'm sceptical.
by KaiserPro | 2026-02-05 22:03:23+00:00
sorry A lack of context:

https://ollama.com/library/gemini-3-pro-preview

You can run it on your own infra. Anthropic and openAI are running off nvidia, so are meta(well supposedly they had custom silicon, I'm not sure if its capable of running big models) and mistral.

however if google really are running their own inference hardware, then that means the cost is different (developing silicon is not cheap...) as you say.
by underdeserver | 2026-02-05 22:03:51+00:00
> when agents started to compile the Linux kernel, they got stuck. [...] Every agent would hit the same bug, fix that bug, and then overwrite each other's changes.

> [...] The fix was to use GCC as an online known-good compiler oracle to compare against. I wrote a new test harness that randomly compiled most of the kernel using GCC, and only the remaining files with Claude's C Compiler. If the kernel worked, then the problem wasn’t in Claude’s subset of the files. If it broke, then it could further refine by re-compiling some of these files with GCC. This let each agent work in parallel

This is a remarkably creative solution! Nicely done.
by cootsnuck | 2026-02-05 22:04:28+00:00
We'll see. The first two things that they said would move from "emerging tech" to "currently exists" by April 2026 are:

- "Someone you know has an AI boyfriend"

- "Generalist agent AIs that can function as a personal secretary"

I'd be curious how many people know someone that is sincerely in a relationship with an AI.

And also I'd love to know anyone that has honestly replaced their human assistant / secretary with an AI agent. I have an assistant, they're much more valuable beyond rote input-output tasks... Also I encourage my assistant to use LLMs when they can be useful like for supplementing research tasks.

Fundamentally though, I just don't think any AI agents I've seen can legitimately function as a personal secretary.

Also they said by April 2026:

> 22,000 Reliable Agent copies thinking at 13x human speed

And when moving from "Dec 2025" to "Apr 2026" they switch "Unreliable Agent" to "Reliable Agent". So again, we'll see. I'm very doubtful given the whole OpenClaw mess. Nothing about that says "two months away from reliable".
by Tiberium | 2026-02-05 22:04:32+00:00
To be honest, while KolibriOS is open-source, I wouldn't call it "active" that much. MenuetOS has progressed much further than KolibriOS over the years in both performance (it has SMP support!) and being 64-bit.

You can check the commit activity:
https://git.kolibrios.org/KolibriOS/kolibrios/commits/branch... - last commit on the first page is already 10 months ago.

And compare it to "News" on the MenuetOS page:
- 22.01.2026 M64 1.58.10 released - Improvements, bugfixes, additions

- 26.08.2024 M64 1.53.60 released - MPlayer included to disk image

- 24.07.2024 M64 1.52.00 released - Partial Linux layer (X-Window/Posix/Elf)

- 12.07.2024 M64 1.51.50 released - New graphics designs by Yamen Nasr

- 08.05.2024 M64 1.50.80 released - Fasm-G, many 32 bit apps & sources
by jorl17 | 2026-02-05 22:07:17+00:00
Claude is quite good at European Portuguese in my limited tests. Gemini 3 is also very good. ChatGPT is just OK and keeps code-switching all the time, it's very bizarre.

I used to think of Gemini as the lead in terms of Portuguese, but recently subjectively started enjoying Claude more (even before Opus 4.5).

In spite of this, ChatGPT is what I use for everyday conversational chat because it has loads of memories there, because of the top of the line voice AI, and, mostly, because I just brainstorm or do 1-off searches with it. I think effectively ChatGPT is my new Google and first scratchpad for ideas.
by NotNerdz | 2026-02-05 22:07:26+00:00
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by lucas1068 | 2026-02-05 22:08:04+00:00
I've found that Postgres consumes (by default) more disk than, for example, MySQL. And the difference is quite significant. That means more money that I have to pay every month. But, sure Postgres seems like I system that integrates a lot of subsystems, that adds a lot of complexity too. I'm just marking the bad points because you mention the good points in the post. You're also trying to sell you service, which is good too.
by satvikpendem | 2026-02-05 22:08:12+00:00
The examples are in the video I linked, as I said, if you don't bother to watch it then I'm not sure what to tell you. As I said for games I don't know and won't presume to search up some random vibe coded game if I don't have personal experience with how LLMs handle games, but for web development, the sites I've made and seen made look pretty good.
by tavavex | 2026-02-05 22:08:45+00:00
> The thing is the billionaires are terrified of US.

Are they though? The odds of any kind of coordinated response that could seriously threaten the billionaires seem next-to-none. Flock seems to be a lot more offensive than defensive - it enables the targeting and mass surveillance in order to find and punish the 'right people', as well as mass tracking to create yet another datapoint to understand the way people move, think and coordinate. The defensive side is already covered through internet services, like social media. They don't have much to fear. I reckon that a powerful/rich enough person could kill a stranger on the street in plain view of a huge crowd and have absolutely nothing happen to them.
by NicuCalcea | 2026-02-05 22:09:24+00:00
LinkedIn itself provides tools for scummy recruiters to mass spam, so this is just them protecting their business.

Also, not all of them are data collection tools. There are ad blockers listed (Hide LinkedIn Ads, SBlock - Super Ad Blocker) and just general extensions (Ground News - Bias Checker, Jigit Studio - Screen Recorder, RealEyes.ai — Detect Deepfakes Across Online Platforms, Airtable Clipper).
by bartonfink | 2026-02-05 22:09:24+00:00
esoteric: adjective, intended for or understood by only a small group, especially one with specialized knowledge or interests

This seems like a good descriptor of a dead German who has only minor influence on the modern world. They are irrelevant to people who are disinterested in Christian religious history. This site exists to discuss the intersection of business and technology, not different interpretations of imaginary topics. Read the FAQ.
by lstodd | 2026-02-05 22:09:24+00:00
There are data structures in Redis?

They may be its point, but I frankly didn't see much use in the wild. You might argue that then those systems didn't need Redis in the first place and I'd agree, but then note that that is the point tigerdata makes.

edit: it's not about serious uses, it's about typical uses, which are sad (and same with Kafka, Elastic, etc, etc)
by soperj | 2026-02-05 22:09:43+00:00
You'll have to prove the "an actual charity" at that.
It's literally in his name, Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, and Melinda had enough of Bill that she nixed their relationship.

Bill and Melinda Gates foundation are also behind Common Core and basically ruined public education in the US.

The foundation is a way for Bill to keep doing what he likes without having to pay taxes on it, he's just done a better job of repairing his image than Larry.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-05 22:09:45+00:00
Sometimes to get big amounts of money to change hands, businesses scale up and the sky's the limit with the only bottle-neck being the consumers' ability to afford what mass-produced commodities they so strongly desire.

Other times the limit is on the capital side, and boy do the biggest capitalists have more money than ever, so much it can put consumers to shame like never before. Plus some people think consumers' ability to spend is a fraction of what it was not long ago, and getting worse.

The amount that well-heeled capitalists are capable of parting with, without having any effect on their lifestyle, can be truly phenomenal by comparison.

People are people and not everybody is going to limit themselves to what they can really afford all the time, and it can be pretty easy to slip into unfathomable debt, especially if there is a little too much exuberance. Average consumer or not. The sky might not be the limit for some, but getting into orbit might require a bridge (loan) too far.

Now if all the richest people in the world combined can't afford something, it's got to be big. Using up all the free cash in their hands and then some should not be a problem as long as nothing else more serious comes along until the debt can be paid back.

"Should" is doing a lot of work here though.
by bumahkib7 | 2026-02-05 22:09:46+00:00
I wanted Semgrep's security rules without the Python runtime overhead, so I built a compiler that translates Semgrep YAML patterns into tree-sitter queries at build time.

The rules get embedded via include_bytes!(), so there's no file loading or parsing at runtime - just pattern matching against ASTs.

Trickiest part was metavariables. Semgrep patterns like eval($X) need to capture arbitrary expressions, but tree-sitter queries don't have that concept natively. Ended up building a
translator that converts patterns to S-expressions with captures.

647 rules across 28 languages. Still has false positives on generated code.

cargo install rma-cli
by Retric | 2026-02-05 22:09:47+00:00
You completely misunderstood what everyone was talking about. The point is to make people in other countries do what we want them to do.

American diplomacy, foreign policy, spying, soft, and hard power etc is obviously primarily targeting non Americans here.

Thus like most things the CIA does this is targeting foreigners or foreign influence, though of course direct impact on Americans is a nice bonus. We don’t want young Americans looking up facts on a Chinese or Russian website.
by ltcyb | 2026-02-05 22:10:24+00:00
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by legitimate_key | 2026-02-05 22:10:48+00:00
This is a smart workflow. I've been doing something similar (record screen, then manually write docs) and the AI approach saves hours.

One thing that still trips me up though - the prep before hitting record. I spend like 10 minutes closing personal tabs, clearing browser history, making sure nothing sensitive is visible on screen. By the time I'm "ready" to record, I've lost the spontaneous energy that makes demos feel natural.

Does your tool handle any of that? Like auto-detecting sensitive content before processing or helping sanitize the recording after? Or is it assumed you're recording in a clean environment?

Curious because the actual documentation generation is only half the workflow. The "setup tax" before recording is the part that kills my momentum.

Congrats on shipping this. The 15 minute turnaround is impressive.
by simonw | 2026-02-05 22:11:19+00:00
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

> 1) We do NOT provide evidence that AI systems do not currently speed up many or most software developers. Clarification: We do not claim that our developers or repositories represent a majority or plurality of software development work.

> 2) We do NOT provide evidence that AI systems do not speed up individuals or groups in domains other than software development. Clarification: We only study software development.

> 3) We do NOT provide evidence that AI systems in the near future will not speed up developers in our exact setting. Clarification: Progress is difficult to predict, and there has been substantial AI progress over the past five years [3].

> 4) We do NOT provide evidence that there are not ways of using existing AI systems more effectively to achieve positive speedup in our exact setting. Clarification: Cursor does not sample many tokens from LLMs, it may not use optimal prompting/scaffolding, and domain/repository-specific training/finetuning/few-shot learning could yield positive speedup.
by __mharrison__ | 2026-02-05 22:11:47+00:00
I realize my comment was unclear. I use codex the CLI all the time, but generally with this invocation: `codex --full-auto -m gpt-5.2`

However, when I use the 5.2codex model, I've found it to be very slow and worse (hard to quantify, but I preferred straight-up 5.2 output).
by ndesaulniers | 2026-02-05 22:11:50+00:00
> Does it really boot...?

They don't need 16b x86 support for the RISCV or ARM ports, so yes, but depends on what 'it' we're talking about here.

Also, FWIW, GCC doesn't directly assemble to machine code either; it shells out to GAS (GNU Assembler). This blog post calls it "GCC assembler and linker" but to be more precise the author should edit this to "GNU binutils assembler and linker." Even then GNU binutils contains two linkers (BFD and GOLD), or did they excise GOLD already (IIRC, there was some discussion a few years ago about it)?
by kuboble | 2026-02-05 22:11:52+00:00
The tool is absolutely fantastic coding assistant. That's why I use it.

The amount of non-critical bugs all over the place is at least a magnitude larger than of any software I was using daily ever.

Plenty of built in /commands don't work.
Sometimes it accepts keystrokes with 1 second delays.
It often scrolls hundreds of lines in console after each key stroke
Every now and then it crashes completely and is unrecoverable (I once have up and installed a fresh wls)
When you ask it question in plan mode it is somewhat of an art to find the answer because after answering the question it will dump the whole current plan (free screens of text)

And just in general the technical feeling of the TUI is that of a vibe coded project that got too big to control.
by shakna | 2026-02-05 22:12:28+00:00
During a "clean room" implementation, the implementor is generally selected for not being familiar with the workings of what they're implementing, and banned from researching using it.

Because it _has_ been enough, that if you can recall things, that your implementation ends up not being "clean room", and trashed by the lawyers who get involved.

I mean... It's in the name.

> The term implies that the design team works in an environment that is "clean" or demonstrably uncontaminated by any knowledge of the proprietary techniques used by the competitor.

If it can recall... Then it is not a clean room implementation. Fin.
by lapcat | 2026-02-05 22:12:29+00:00
> The fact that you have now replied—which automatically disables comment deletion—is the only thing that prevented my removing it just now. So great job.

How was I supposed to know that you intended to delete it?

In any case, you may still have time to edit your comment, as I did with my erroneous root-level comment, since I can't delete that either, for the same reason.
by notnullorvoid | 2026-02-05 22:13:26+00:00
I wouldn't say I need to invent much that is strictly novel, though I often iterate on what exists and delve into novel-ish territory. That being said I'm definitely in a minority where I have the luxury/opportunity to work outside the monotony of average programming.

The part I find concerning is that I wouldn't be in the place I am today without spending a fair amount of time in that monotony and really delving in to understand it and slowly push outside it's boundary. If I was starting programming today I can confidently say I would've given up.
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-05 22:13:37+00:00
I use firefox on the steam deck, and am pretty pleased with the UX

You use touchpads on the Steam Controller or deck to move a mouse cursor and there are good gestures for scrolling. I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gesturefy/ in Firefox to quickly switch tabs and other features without keybinds I struggle to remember or moving the mouse. I've used gestures exactly like this in firefox since 2004.

The keyboard using two trackpads is also pretty good.

What are you expecting to be different? What are you hoping for and why?

The real question IMO is what browser? Is it Chrome? Will DRM content work out of the box? Will high resolution streaming work?
by ninalanyon | 2026-02-05 22:14:13+00:00
I wonder what Asimov would write if he were to re-do that review now? Now that we actually do have televisions that can hear us as well as show us ads and in which governments of every nominal political stripe are falling over themselves in the rush to buy Palantir's products and to inject monitoring software into every mobile phone and 3D printer.
by Gigachad | 2026-02-05 22:14:52+00:00
Unsecured fresh install states that rely on you signing in before an attacker does were always a horrible idea. It's been a welcome change on the Linux side where Linux distros can install with your SSH key and details preloaded so password login is always disabled.

These PHP apps need to change so you first boot the app with credentials so the app is secured at all moments.
by dogleash | 2026-02-05 22:15:05+00:00
>> False, he is forcing Flock on EVERYONE

>> No one has permitted themselves to be surveilled

> As much as I dislike Flock, this is bad logic. There's no such thing as opting out of surveillance in public spaces.

You're agreeing that he is forcing flock on people. Legality doesn't make it not-forced. Not needing consent is different from receiving consent.
by sdf2erf | 2026-02-05 22:15:48+00:00
"This entire site is full of idiots confidently spouting nonsense."

Too right - this goes for the arrogant geeks at the within the orgs of LLM producers who still havent displaced call center workers with their technology.

Comical stuff. Really is.

The lack of disconnect with what people actually do in jobs is absolutely breathtaking.