MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hireclay | 2026-02-02 01:42:35+00:00
Hey! I'm glad to hear that you had a similar idea. It uses deterministic AST parsing and static analysis for the core spec generation. LLMs are only optionally invoked for natural language descriptions and documentation enhancement. The structural extraction (functions, parameters, types, dependencies) is fully deterministic and replicable since it's based on tree-sitter parsing, not probabilistic inference.
by blazers777 | 2026-02-02 01:43:05+00:00
i see both sides, having lived with both super sensitive and petty neighbors, and also inconsiderate, loud neighbors.

There are definitely sensitive people who have either misophonia rage, or PTSD from something, and they can't handle normal levels of city noise.

on top of that, some apartments simply allow smoking inside. If they always use the balcony, they're really doing you a favor.

if you are worried about emissions, you really have to think about cars and refineries and jets, and even restaurants. These are incredibly out of control when it comes to pollution and disease.

in my experience, if you're buying machines and building devices, and your target refuses to play that game, then it's clear who the adult is, and who the child is.
by sheepscreek | 2026-02-02 01:43:11+00:00
That was my line to the CS lab supervisor for handing me the superuser password. Guess what? He didn’t budge. Probably a good thing.

Lesson - never trust a sophomore who can’t even trust themselves (to get overly excited and throw caution to the wind).

Clawdbot is a 100 sophomores knocking on your door asking for the keys.
by Marsymars | 2026-02-02 01:43:18+00:00
> I don't get the hourly backups that TimeMachine has, but my SuperDuper backups are directly bootable in the event that my system disk dies.

Well as long as Apple hasn’t broken that with an update: https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/index.php/shadedgrey/youre_...
by nine_k | 2026-02-02 01:43:55+00:00
Every new manager who inherits a reputable product (anything, from software to food) is tempted by the idea of cutting costs drastically to the detriment of the product quality. While the product would be coasting on its prior reputation, the manager would get promoted for saving oodles of money, and promoted away from that product, or leave the company altogether. The one who comes next would take the blame, and handle the consequences.

I assume many managers resist this temptation, but someone yields with regularity.
by suprstarrd | 2026-02-02 01:44:02+00:00
Speaking as someone who doesn't like the idea of AI art so take my words with a grain of salt, but my theory is that this input method exclusivity is intentional on their part, for exactly the reason you want the change. If you only let people making AI art communicate what they want through text or reference attachments (the latter of which they usually won't have), then they have to spend time figuring out how to put it into words. It IS painful to ask for those refinements, because any human would clearly understands it. In the end, those people get to say that they spent hours, days, or weeks refining "their prompt" to get a consistent and somewhat-okay looking image; the engineers get to train their AI to better understand the context of what someone is saying; and all the while the company gets to further legitimize a false art form.
by danpalmer | 2026-02-02 01:44:03+00:00
I've noticed a huge gap between AI use on greenfield projects and brownfield projects. The first day of working on a greenfield project I can accomplish a week of work. But the second day I can accomplish a few days of work. By the end of the first week I'm getting a 20% productivity gain.

I think AI is just allowing everyone to speed-run the innovator's dilemma. Anyone can create a small version of anything, while big orgs will struggle to move quickly as before.

The interesting bit is going to be whether we see AI being used in maturing those small systems into big complex ones that account for the edge cases, meet all the requirements, scale as needed, etc. That's hard for humans to do, and particularly while still moving. I've not see any of this from AI yet outside of either a) very directed small changes to large complex systems, or b) plugins/extensions/etc along a well define set of rails.
by Lerc | 2026-02-02 01:44:12+00:00
Gory, grisly and grim can be seen as synonymous on a axis maybe close to brutal. They refer to the appearance. brutal evokes the action that happened. The other words are about how things ended up.

An autopsy can be gory, grisly and depending on circumstances, grim. It is not brutal.

Scary is about a state of mind.

so you have appearance, appearance, appearance, and state-of-mind being considered similar to an action descriptor.
by seblon | 2026-02-02 01:44:22+00:00
Yeah, Software protection was very naive in the beginning. Fun fact: I owned a windows 3.11 for workgroup UPGRADE disc collection, it was clearly explained and also enforced from the setup installer. So, no previous installed win 3.0 == upgrade installer will fail. The fix: just create an empty Textfile named win.com at any place - the installer simple scans the WHOLE disk just for this existing filename. Next fun fact: in reality, the Upgrade contained the full installation, no only a delta. Men, software was so simple these days....
by JimboOmega | 2026-02-02 01:44:25+00:00
(This is a total digression, so apologies)

My mind instantly answered that with "bright", which is what you get when you combine the sun and moon radicals to make 明(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%98%8E)

Anyway, that question is not without reasonable answers. "Full Moon" might make sense too. No obvious deterministic answer, though, naturally.
by myfakebadcode | 2026-02-02 01:44:41+00:00
I’m trying to learn rust coming from python (for fun). I use various LLM for python and see it stumble.

It is a beautiful experience to realize wtf you don’t know and how far over their skis so many will get trusting AI. The idea of deploying a rust project at my level of ability with an AI at the helm is is terrifying.
by dwd | 2026-02-02 01:44:51+00:00
The 150 minute moderate to vigorous exercise a week comes up a lot, and for a lot of different benefits.

There's also heart muscle elasticity:

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circulationaha.117.0...

and reduced dementia risk:

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/small-amounts-of-moderate-...
by subhobroto | 2026-02-02 01:45:22+00:00
> My take: learning to use AI is not hard. They can do that on their own. Learning programming is hard, and relying on AI will only make it harder

Depends on what your definition of "hard" is - I routinely come across engineers who are frustrated that "AI" hallucinates. Humans can detect hallucinations and I have specific process to detect and address them. I wouldn't call those processes easy - I would say it's as hard as learning how to do integration by summing.

> but you can't use AI in coding effectively if you don't know how to code

Depends on the LLM. I have a fine-tuned version of Qwen3-Coder where if you ask it to show you to compare to strings in C/C++, it will but then it will also suggest you look at a version that takes unicode into account.

I have stumbled across very few software engineers who even know what unicode codepoints are and why legacy ASCII string comparison fails.

> but won't know how to write for loop on their own. Which means they'll be helpless to interpret AI's output or to jump in when the AI produces suboptimal results

That's a very large logical jump. If we went back 20 years, you might come across professors and practising engineers who were losing sleep that languages like C/C++ were abstracting the hardware so much that you could just write for loops and be helpless to understand how those for loops were causing needless CPU wait cycles by blocking the cache line.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-02 01:46:10+00:00
But their docs also say:

> Unless previously approved, Anthropic does not allow third party developers to offer claude.ai login or rate limits for their products, including agents built on the Claude Agent SDK. Please use the API key authentication methods described in this document instead.

Which I have interpreted means that you can’t use your Claude code subscription with the agent SDK, only API tokens.

I really wish Anthropic would make it clear (and allow us to use our subscriptions with other tools).
by throwbigtech256 | 2026-02-02 01:47:08+00:00
This is something I've also been mentioning to my engineers, since before LLMs in some shape, that if you do something that can't be commoditized (solving hard problems vs exclusively focusing on "programming") you'll have better career resiliency.

Problem I'm running into (and why I still share OP's anxiety) is that after being in bigtech for nearly 15 years you lose a lot of touch with the outside world, in terms of avenues into those sort of non-tech companies.

I realize this is a very "from left field" question so totally understand if you pass on it, but how does one cross the fence into that side of things? I have no contacts in businesses like that, and at least in bigtech, applying through the front door is a moonshot at best. If you look at folks with a pure tech background, what do you look for/where do you typically find folks (For EM through director level roles)?

Throwaway as I'd like to avoid broadcasting on my professionally linked account that I'm actively trying to move out of bigtech.
by Marsymars | 2026-02-02 01:47:29+00:00
> I would imagine a more typical consumer would be buying a USB or Thunderbolt connected drive and following the prompts to set it up.

The problem is that the typical consumer with a laptop never uses it in a docked configuration and just plugs it in to charge.

You may as well tell someone they need to regularly plug a USB hard drive into their iphone to back up their photos.
by xp84 | 2026-02-02 01:47:56+00:00
Lol, no you're not going to pass a constitutional amendment that effectively removes all the voting power of everyone outside the major coastal areas. You couldn't even pass the ERA, and that one was actually the pre-2010s version of feminism, where actual equality was being advocated (and which, overall, I'd have supported, short of forcing women to be draft-eligible).

And the main reason why you'll never pass that, or any other legislation you promise, is that Democrats lost their ability to convince anyone else. They threw it in the trash and replaced it with screaming "__ist and __phobe" at literally half the country anytime they step out of line of the latest Official Beliefs, which keep getting revised.
by spiderice | 2026-02-02 01:49:18+00:00
> what if the current prices really are unsustainable and the thing goes 10x?

Where does this idea come from? We know how much it costs to run LLMs. It's not like we're waiting to find out. AI companies aren't losing money on API tokens. What could possibly happen to make prices go 10x when they're already running at a profit? Claude Max might be a different story, but AI is going to get cheaper to run. Not randomly 10x for the same models.
by majormajor | 2026-02-02 01:49:32+00:00
I'm having trouble reconciling "30 sheet mind numbingly complicated Excel financial model" and "Two or three prompts got it there, using plan mode to figure out the structure of the Excel sheet, then prompting to implement it. It even added unit tests to the Python model itself, which I was impressed with!"

"1 or 2 plan mode prompts" to fully describe a 30-sheet complicated doc suggests a massively higher level of granularity than Opus initial plans on existing codebases give me or a less-than-expected level of Excel craziness.

And the tooling harnesses have been telling the models to add testing to things they make for months now, so why's that impressive or suprising?
by duskwuff | 2026-02-02 01:49:59+00:00
One reasonable niche application I've seen of image models is in real estate, as a way to produce "staged" photos of houses without shipping in a bunch of furniture for a photo shoot (and/or removing a current tenant's furniture for a clean photo). It has to be used carefully to avoid misrepresenting the property, of course, but it's a decent way of avoiding what is otherwise a fairly toilsome and wasteful process.
by subhobroto | 2026-02-02 01:51:00+00:00
> Nothing strange nor new: the average teacher is reactionary even at top universities, generally incapable of evolving

It feels to me like teaching has always been bandwidth constrained and providing 1:1 feedback to students have always been a bottleneck. I believe that AI agents are the true gateway to fixing that limitation and education should be embracing AI agents to increase bandwidth of 1:1 teacher student interaction.

I worry that everytime I talk to a teacher about how they're adapting to AI, it's almost as if they are trying to figure out how they can continue to use the same teaching techniques that they had seen their teachers practice decades ago.

Printed books are expensive and they should be. We already have paper equivalents that allow highlighting, rewriting, annotating, sharing notes - recyclable materials in all ways superior to paper that can be reused by multiple students - these are things we should be embracing instead of going back to one time use printed materials that are heavy to carry around, take up space in a room and will need to be disposed of soon.

If current technology is creating an issue for teachers - teachers need to pivot, not block current technology.

Society typically cares about work getting done and not much about how it got done - for some reason, teachers are so deep into the weeds of the "how", that they seem to forget that if the way to mend roads since 1926 have been to learn how to measure out, mix and lay asphalt patches by hand, in 2026 when there are robots that do that perfectly everytime, they should be teaching humans to complement those robots or do something else entirely.

> We continue to teach children (at least in the EU) to write by hand, to do calculations manually throughout their entire schooling, when in real life, aside from the occasional scrap note, all writing is done on computers and calculations are done by machine as well. And, of course, no one teaches these latter skills

Is your intuition that the EU will continue down it's path of technical irrevelance? If so, what are the top 5 reasons this is happening?
by smuhakg | 2026-02-02 01:51:13+00:00
> On one hand, you have Microsoft's (awful) Copilot integration for Excel (in fairness, the Gemini integration in Google Sheets is also bad). So you can imagine financial directors trying to use it and it making a complete mess of the most simple tasks and never touching it again.

Microsoft has spent 30 years designing the most contrived XML-based format for Excel/Word/Powerpoint documents, so that it cannot be parsed except by very complicated bespoke applications with hundreds of developers involved.

Now, it's impossible to export any of those documents into plain text that an LLM can understand, and Microsoft Copilot literally doesn't work no matter how much money they throw at it. My company is now migrating Word documents to Markdown because they're seeing how powerful AI is.

This is karmic justice imo.
by m463 | 2026-02-02 01:51:17+00:00
I remember I had some demo software that could be enabled with a code. I was just curious and at the code prompt, I entered the debugger. I dumped the process space and there was a nul-terminated string of letters and numbers. I restarted the process and entered them at the prompt and voila, it was enabled.

(I did go on to pay for the software)
by FreakLegion | 2026-02-02 01:51:18+00:00
You did do pretty well! I don't think the final result was ruined at all. Not many people will notice things like his pants only being brown in the first image, or their eyes only having whites in the third image, or his jacket sometimes having a hood and sometimes not.

Compared to what we see on most blogs, even patio11's, this is capital-A Art.
by another_twist | 2026-02-02 01:51:21+00:00
Depends on the language and the way code is written. Actually if you can run the code locally, getting things to compile is a bottleneck in Java especially for constructor juggling. Once code compiles, iterations do the rest. Iterations are better done by hand I think, we can get feedback on the code while keeping things fresh in our heads. For critical stuff where coding = thinking, its just faster to code.
by ctippett | 2026-02-02 01:51:23+00:00
I gifted a Brick Hammer[1] to my
brother-in-law for Christmas. It's an amazing little device, form factor of a Gameboy Pocket and can run games from the PS1/N64 down to NES. The build quality is extremely high too (I got him the metal chassis version). I think it can even run 3DS games, but don't quote me on that.

[1]: https://retrohandhelds.gg/trimui-brick-hammer-review/ (most links are to third-party resellers, so a link to a review is probably safest)
by Marsymars | 2026-02-02 01:51:46+00:00
> I just switched back to Sequoia. I gave Tahoe a good shot, used it for 4 months. Tahoe is half-baked. I upgraded to Tahoe because most of the complaints were cosmetic which I don't care about at all, but the problems are worse than cosmetic.

Yeah, this is most I’ve regretted updating macOS in a decade. Apple Music in Tahoe is no longer capable of playing LAN-shared music without bugging out.
by Sophira | 2026-02-02 01:52:02+00:00
The fact that the software and hardware is evidently still in use at some companies gives me pause about whether releasing it in a cracked form publicly after having published it on a personal website would be a good idea.

Software companies love to milk enterprises for all their worth, because they're the entities who will pay the most amount of money if it means that the software they use can still work - and a big part of how they do this is via vendor lock-in. We can see in this article that this company was still using Windows 98 - they're clearly locked-in!

All of which is to say that this intellectual property might actually still be owned by a company who'll be able to sue.

If you haven't already checked whether the patent and other intellectual property is still owned by any company, OP, I would strongly suggest doing so first.
by tharkun__ | 2026-02-02 01:52:10+00:00
This is a pet peeve of mine at work.

Any and I mean any statistic someone throws at me I will try and dig in. And if I'm able to, I will usually find that something is very wrong somewhere. As in, the underlying data is usually just wrong, invalidating the whole thing or the data is reasonably sound but the person doing the analysis is making incorrect assumptions about parts of the data and then drawing incorrect conclusions.
by 51Cards | 2026-02-02 01:52:19+00:00
I was hired in the early 90's by a collection of franchises for a home care company. The privately owned head office self-developed and distributed required monthly updates to the only software franchises were permitted to run their business. The monthly updates (floppies) reset the license for another month at each location. After years of problems, poor support, and in a couple cases offices getting shut down because head office just "didn't like them anymore", they banded together to sue the owners (one of which developed the software). I did IT work for a couple of the offices and was already familiar with maintaining the software / systems. They hired me to bypass the licensing code which was a lot of fun to figure out. In the end I wrote a DOS based license generator each office had that could update their software by just getting a code over the phone for the upcoming month (or any date for 365 days). A few years later once the lawsuit settled and the company broke apart we issued a patch for the software to remove the license check completely. I should fire up a 16bit VM sometime so I can play with that old software again.
by tolerance | 2026-02-02 01:52:22+00:00
> If anything they should be glad the punishment was as civilized as this. There are many places in this world where it could easily escalate to actual violence.

Agreed. But there’s a reason that guy apparently felt no worries about closing the door in OP’s face. Perhaps the likelihood of it escalating was slim. And there’s a reason why OP didn’t knock again.

In the resolution you propose in another comment, deviance doesn’t cease. It transfers to the guy who thinks he can correct people’s behavior with technology. But I need to remind myself where I’m saying this at.
by doanbactam | 2026-02-02 01:52:36+00:00
A developer built a 10-agent production team using OpenClaw, utilizing Soul.md for personas and Convex as a shared real-time brain. The system relies on file-based Memory (WORKING.md) for task continuity and 15min heartbeats to keep Cost manageable. Specialized Roles (e.g., skeptical analysts) proved more effective than generalists.

Does file-based state beat vector DBs for active agent coordination? How would you handle persistent memory across long-running autonomous sessions?
by rayiner | 2026-02-02 01:53:02+00:00
It’s not clear that healthcare has much to do with life expectancy. The group with the lowest access to healthcare and highest rate of lacking insurance, hispanics, also have the second highest life expectancy.

Lifestyle seems to play a huge role in life expectancy. Mormons live 10 years longer than white Americans generally: https://www.deseret.com/2010/4/13/20375744/ucla-study-proves.... That’s a huge difference—it dwarfs the 2.5 years difference between men in the U.S. and men in the UK.
Show HN: Open-source, offline Kanban board with "swim lanes"
by Intragalactic | 2026-02-02 01:53:29+00:00
I’ve been using Trello for a while and there were so many paper cuts over time that I decided to hack together a clean little kanban board for my needs as a weekend project.

For my projects there are a lot of different hats I have to wear so that’s where “swim lanes” come in. Basically I have frontend/backend/marketing/support tasks and it was getting really polluted and hard to parse to have all these types of tasks together in a column. So this kanban board has swim lanes where all the cards of a category stay together.

It’s open source, works offline and of course fully free with no ads.

Feature list:

- unlimited boards
- add/delete/rename columns
- tag cards and keep them together
- auto-replace tag if you drop the card into a new lane
- offline editing
- quick task creation (tip: if you add the tag in square brackets before the title it’ll auto-add it as a tag)

enjoy! hosted at: kanbanned.com
by martinald | 2026-02-02 01:53:46+00:00
No it didn't make a giant plan of every detail. It made a plan of the core concepts and then when it was in implementation mode it kept checking the excel file to get more info. It took around ~30 mins in implementation mode to build it.

I was impressed because the prompt didn't ask it to do that. It doesn't normally add tests for me without asking, YMMV.