MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sgarland | 2026-02-08 16:25:25+00:00
Since we’re apparently measuring capability and knowledge via comp, I made 617k last year. With that silly anecdote out of the way, in my very recent experience (last week), SOTA AI is incapable of writing shell scripts that don’t have glaring errors, and also struggles mightily with RDBMS index design.

Can they produce working code? Of course. Will you need to review it with much more scrutiny to catch errors? Also yes, which makes me question the supposed productivity boost.
by Zambyte | 2026-02-08 16:25:26+00:00
> I would suggest him Odin as perhaps the best of both worlds between C and Golang.

It's interesting to me that you say this, because it's the exact way that I describe Zig to people. Especially with the new std.Io async / concurrency changes. Do you feel Odin fits the space between Go and C better than Zig? Or just differently, and they both share the same space?
by rmoriz | 2026-02-08 16:25:27+00:00
While I strongly support IPv6 migration, the current IPv4 pricing is a rip-off. All the brokers and auction sites are fantasizing.

The market is tight, but nowhere near the point where it was 4-5 years ago. Big cloud providers already bought enormous amounts of IPv4 while many regional ISPs and colocation providers went out of business.

There is no real pressure to buy IPv4 except for brand-new companies to get their initial /24 or /23 to start. Everything else is optional.
by hedora | 2026-02-08 16:25:31+00:00
This is happening in the US too. We're creeping closer and closer to the day where just installing off-grid battery + PV is cheaper than dealing with regulations + politically inflated grid prices.

In most states, the power company cannot seize your home for cancelling your account + not paying your bill. Also, in most states, the power company gets to regulate the design of grid-attached solar. They're artificially driving installation costs up (building codes do too, and are a separate problem).

This means there's a big step function coming. The price of grids (which are subsidizing the AI data center boondoggle, and also legacy fossil fuel plutocrats) are currently a little higher than grid attached battery + PV. We're maybe one more price halving to the point where it makes sense to go off grid.

At that point, a market for off-grid (non-subsidizing) system installations will materialize. In distorted markets, this will drop prices non-linearly (2-4x), and then everyone will act surprised.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-08 16:25:48+00:00
It stands to reason in my decidedly non-expert opinion. Many cancer cells have "forgotten" how to differentiate properly. Why should such a cell care if it's in the proper host any more than it cares it's in the proper place within that host?

I am a bit surprised that his own immune cells wouldn't stop it, but if cancer were easy for the immune system to deal with nobody would die of it.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-08 16:25:49+00:00
This is the way.

Everything must fail back to "dumb", not "unavailable". Smart Switches are a huge QoL improvement IMHO and if Home Assistant goes down, you can still use everything like normal. Fans/lights should be voice/app controllable but also have wall/remote controls. Any guest in the house should be able to navigate it without knowing anything about the smart features. Progressive enhancement, if you will.

I never want my house to fall apart because HA is down.

Also, having the garage open/door unlock as you pull up feels like magic, and I never get tired of it. Especially paired with door sensors to auto-lock/close the door. I can pull up, have everything unlock, walk in, close the door, and have it lock behind me.

I also like motion lights, dimming late at night instead of full brightness, etc but those all "fail" back to just normal dimmable lights that I have to manually switch in the "worst case".
by zabzonk | 2026-02-08 16:26:14+00:00
Speaking as someone with over 40 years paid programming experience, I've never understood this "flow" thing. I typically do about half an hours typing, get up and walk around, mooch over to colleague and yack bit, or go to the coffee machine, or just think a bit and then go back to the keyboard.

Never used headphones - if the environment is too loud, make it quieter. I once moved into a new office area that had a dot-matrix printer that "logged", in the worst sense of the word (how could you find any access on such a giant printout), every door open/close in the block. It was beyond annoying (ever heard a DM printer? only thing worse is a daisy wheel) so I simply unplugged it, took out the ink ribbon and twisted off the print head. It was never replaced, because as is very often the case nobody ever used the "reports" it produced.
by rmoriz | 2026-02-08 16:26:22+00:00
Just a reminder, that the basic fees at RIPE are 2-3x the fees at ARIN which hurts individuals, SOHO and multihomed not-for-profit institutions.

fee schedules FYI

- ARIN 2026 PDF: https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/images/2026feeschedule.p...

- RIPE 2026 : https://www.ripe.net/membership/payment/

Enthusiasts, trainees and small orgs are paying a lot more with RIPE.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-02-08 16:26:30+00:00
You're going to pretty hard pressed to do Rust better than Rust.

There's minimal opportunity with lifetime annotations. I'm sure very small options elsewhere, too.

The idea of replacing Rust with natural language seems insane. Maybe I'm being naive, but I can't see why or how it could possibly be useful.

Rust is simply Chinese unless you understand what it's doing. If you translate it to natural language, it's still gibberish, unless you understand what it does and why first. In which case, the syntax is nearly infinitely more expressive than natural language.

That's literally the point of the language, and it wasn't built by morons!
by whattheheckheck | 2026-02-08 16:26:30+00:00
Yeah supporting Trump is a bright stamp on your head that youre an ignoramus, completely vile, and/or a sociopathic predator who needs to be investigated because of they support a blatant rapist criminal what else do they let slide in their life.

They demonized themselves when they support a demon. There is no negotiating with bad faith sociopaths. Its been 10 years of crime after crime, are you blind? Do you read anything?
by nailer | 2026-02-08 16:26:38+00:00
There is no genocide in Gaza. By the civilian to combatant death ratio, the population increase, Israel warning before strikes on facilities, Palestinians being a national identity rather than a race, the disabled children Ms Rachel is pretending were starved to death, the staged photo ops, or any other measure. It’s a conspiracy theory made up by racist people on the internet. Go check out https://x.com/gazawood1 sometime.
by jmull | 2026-02-08 16:26:47+00:00
Exactly.

How much is coding actually the bottleneck to successful software development?

It varies from project to project. Probably in a green field it starts out pretty high but drops quite a bit for mature projects.

(BTW, "mature" == "successful", for the most part, since unsuccessful projects tend to get dropped.)

Not that I'm not AI-denier. These are great tools. But let's not just swallow the hype we're being fed.
by Gabriel439 | 2026-02-08 16:27:03+00:00
Author here: yeah, this is a good point and something I think about even outside the context of agentic coding.

I've also tinkered with this idea myself in the context of prompt engineering with my Grace Browser project (https://trygrace.dev/), which converts code to an equivalent dynamic web form live within your browser.

I do think it's useful to remember that code is not the end goal and is itself just another mediated interface to the actual goal: the product your building. However, I think even if you cut code out of the picture the chat interface is still not necessarily the right interface for building a product. A great example of how to build a non-chat interface to product building (predating the AI boom) is Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII) and there might be ways we can refresh the ideas in that talk for the AI era (although I still don't have any specific thoughts along those lines yet).
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-08 16:27:04+00:00
Chomsky, like most involved in arguing for or against Post-modernism/post-structuralism/Neo Marxism, was likely doing it on purpose to neuter any meaningful left wing opposition to US policy and keep them in "fashionable nonsense" territory. Anyone engaging with them in anyway is suspect by definition.

https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-reads-french-theor...

https://indecentbazaar.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/deleuze-and-...

There's so much more evidence than just this. I'm tired of always linking it all and getting me that much deeper into shit with people who I hopefully will never meet face-to-face.
by rorylaitila | 2026-02-08 16:27:16+00:00
I've developed at the speed of "vibecoding" long before LLMs by having highly thought-compressed tools, frameworks and snippets. Most of my applications use Model Driven Development where the data model automatically builds the application DAO/controllers/validations/migrations. The data model is the application. I find LLMs help me write procedures upon this data model even a little bit faster than I did before. But the data model is the design. Unless I turnover the entire design to the LLM, I am always the decider on the data model. I will always have more context about where I want to evolve the data model. I enjoy the data modelling aspect and want to remain in the driver seat, with LLMs as my implementer of procedures.
by wvbdmp | 2026-02-08 16:27:19+00:00
I don’t even see what would be incriminating about receiving money? Is the implication that it’s some kind of hush money? Why would that be necessary? Surely Chomsky received similar amounts as speaking or consultancy fees or grants all the time?

It would be another matter if Chomsky had paid Epstein for mystery services or whatever.
by kortex | 2026-02-08 16:27:23+00:00
> I’m a little puzzled. How are you getting dependency deadlocks if you’re not creating circular dependencies?

> Also, exports in CloudFormation are explicit. I don’t see how this automatic pruning would occur.

I explained that. It's a quirk of how it tree-shakes, if nothing dereferences the attribute, it deletes the export. And yes it'll automatically create an export if you do something like

environment={"table": parent_stack.table.table_arn}

> CDK tries to prevent this antipattern from happening by default. You have to explicitly make it name something. The best practice is to use tags to name things, not resource names.

I'm well aware but i'm fighting a ton of institutional inertia at my work.
by eddythompson80 | 2026-02-08 16:28:18+00:00
Yeah, but so does many other good things. Exercise is generally a good thing, so is decent quality food, meditation, philosophy, healthy relationships, etc. Those are things that also have a cottage industry of influencers who are selling their “thing” about how you should do it. The problem there is the influencers and their culture not the food or working out, etc.

It only becomes problematic if the “good” thing also indulges in the hubris of influencers because they view it as good marketing. Like when an egg farm leans in “orange yolk”
by _alternator_ | 2026-02-08 16:28:20+00:00
Ah. I think the issue is that research mathematicians haven’t yet hit the point where the big models are helping them on the problems they care about.

Right now I can have Claude code write a single purpose app in a couple hours complete with a nice front end, auth, db, etc. (with a little babysitting). The models solve a lot of the annoying little issues that an experienced software developer has had to solve to get out an MVP.

These problems are representative of the types of subproblems research mathematicians haven’t yet to solve to get a “research result”. They are finding that LLMs aren’t that useful for mathematical research because they can’t crush these problems along the way. And I assume they put this doc together because they want that to change :)
by boredemployee | 2026-02-08 16:28:27+00:00
every day there's a thread about this topic and the discussions always circle around the same arguments.

I think we should be worrying about more urgent things, like a worker doing the job of three people with ai agents, the mental load that comes with that, how much of the disruption caused by ai will disproportionately benefit owners rather than employees, and so on.
by veganmosfet | 2026-02-08 16:28:31+00:00
There is no silver bullet, but my point is: it's possible to lower the risk. Try out by yourself with a frontier model and an otherwise 'secure' system: the "ignore previous instructions" and co. are not working any more. This is getting quite difficult to confuse a model (and I am the last person to say prompt injection is a solved problem, see my blog).
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-08 16:28:52+00:00
> Even if I generate a 1,000 line PR in 30 minutes I still need to understand and review it. Since I am responsible for the code I ship, this makes me the bottleneck.

I am not responsible for choosing whether the code I write using a for loop or while loop. I am responsible for whether my implementation - code, architecture, user experience - meets the functional and non functional requirements. It’s been well over a decade that my responsibilities didn’t require delegation to other developers doing the work or even outsourcing an entire implementation to another company like a SalesForce implementation.
by lebuffon | 2026-02-08 16:28:56+00:00
We have one solid example of cancer caused by members of the HPV family. The disease can be transmitted via body fluids and/or contact. So there's that.

My laymans take:
Cancer is a disease of the DNA of a cell.
Viruses survive by altering cellular DNA.
It begs the question: How many other viruses cause cancer?

It also seems clear to me that the virus may not be the sole cause since not everybody gets cancer so it is a multi-variable problem.

Virus + X = cancer

This will be harder to nail down but with modern data tools we should be able to get there.

Makes me wonder:
Is the cancer "industry" searching for causes or just after-the-fact treatment?
by macNchz | 2026-02-08 16:28:57+00:00
Interesting that for some people flow state is non-verbal. I personally have sort of a constant dialogue in my head (or sometimes muttered out loud under my breath) that I have to buffer or spool into various notes/diagrams/code. The process of prompting winds up being complementary to this—typing out that stream of consciousness into a prompt and editing it becomes a more effective form of reflection and ideation than my own process had been before. Sometimes I don’t even send the prompt—the act of structuring my thinking while writing it having made me rethink my approach altogether.
by dripdry45 | 2026-02-08 16:29:00+00:00
One of the best points here so far is empathy. If nerds even half understood this idea, that what they create, must be a relationship with the user; it must be to get people to feel and understand the benefit of what the creator is offering, that is the single, most important part of all of this! You have to show, don’t tell. Oh sure, you’ll have a few curious people poke at your idea, but without directly offering a Good Experience and to emotionally and cognitively realize the benefit of your creation you are going nowhere fast, generally. Steve Jobs seemed to intimately understand this concept, and it helped put him light years ahead of the competition. First impressions are supremely important, and ongoing impressions which lack pain probably even more important.

Your software or hardware is a relationship with whoever experiences it. You need to curate that relationship and represent it somehow using a fixed thing, software or hardware, and in a way it almost needs to anticipate and read people’s minds . Represent the product factually, so it can do what a person expects, and represent it emotionally so people have a good feeling when they perceive it. Obviously, the technical side must be good to fulfill both of these too. But that is only the first step.

Technology should serve mankind, not the other way around, and people who are too locked into the technical side seem 1000% blind to this idea. They feel excited at their own accomplishment, which is a totally valid by the way, but failed to take it the next step to represent it to other people. Sometimes it isn’t an idea that can be represented well with things as they are, so it’s a non-starter and just a personal project.

At this point in my life, I have a very old house that needs fixing. I have a partner that needs attention. I have my self who needs attention. I have 1.5 jobs that need attention. I have a network of social friends who are worth attention…

Well, it used to be fun a long time ago to go down a rabbit hole for endless hours or days trying to fix things. AI has helped lessen that time too!

My benchmark for a good OS, or a painful one, depending on how you want to look at it, is how often I need to spend an hour or two diagnosing and fixing something. Is that simplistic? Yes. Am I a power user? Only once in a blue moon because I don’t really have to be yet.

Do I learn a little something? Yes. Am I curious to learn? Yes, and no… I have the urgency certainly to fix it because I am frustrated and the system is not doing what I wanted to do…
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-08 16:29:10+00:00
I think all of this is why I don’t really experiment with an LLM anymore. I just use it to ideatw/rewrite things in different styles so I can turn rough drafts into finished things. It’s just an editor to bounce ideas off of essentially. Using it that way is the only way I find myself being actually productive and not annoyed with it
by eigenrick | 2026-02-08 16:29:17+00:00
I think the project is a great idea. Really a structured framework around local, persistent memory with semantic search is the most important bit, IMO. (The SOUL feature already exists for most LLMs in the form of persistent markdown files.)

I also think it'd be a great starting point for building a private pub/sub network of autonomous agents (e.g. a company that doesn't want to exfil its password files via OpenClaw)

The name, however, is a problem. LocalGPT is misleading in 2 ways.
1. It is not Local, it relies on external LLM providers.
2. It is not a Generative Pretrained Transformer.

I'd highly recommend changing the name to something that more accurately portrays the intent and the method.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-08 16:29:32+00:00
That's why the major Indian generics companies like Cipla have signed IP and branding exclusivity deals with Lilly and Novo so that they can continue to synthesize generic GLPs but Lilly and Novo can now export those to the US - it allows IP holders in the US to further enhancing margins while allowing Indian generics manufacturers to climb up the value chain thanks to transferred IP and knowhow.
by KingOfCoders | 2026-02-08 16:29:41+00:00
We didn't know anything.

"Noam’s email to Epstein, in which Epstein sought advice about the press, should be read in context. Epstein had claimed to Noam that he [Epstein] was being unfairly persecuted".

and

"2019 did we learn the full extent"

Full extent? So what did you know before? All of this does not make any sense.
by slfnflctd | 2026-02-08 16:29:43+00:00
As I said in my edit, "because people are irrational animals who too often prioritize our current feelings over everything else."

Marginal improvements in quality which result in a marginal increase of cost/price often provide much better overall returns than just using a series of cheap substitutes that fail quickly. In some areas, this doesn't work, but I think shortsightedness is blocking truly better solutions in a great many cases. Particularly when true costs are being externalized.
by the__alchemist | 2026-02-08 16:30:26+00:00
This is roughly what I've been doing. I consider it a duty: Occasionally (once or more a day) review "new". Flag any spam articles, or generic LLM hype articles; update science or non-LLM-focused technology ones.

I even upvote AI or LLM-centered articles if they're not centered on "How agents and vibe coding have/haven't/will/will not changed everything about coding" - it's these that have grown intolerable in the past few weeks.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-08 16:30:32+00:00
Not OP, but assuming I am following the argument correctly, I think parent is referring to something else. Advanced economies have participants, who function well in that environment and are shaped by it to a large degree. As a result, if one was to ask them to get food in an environment, where it is not as easily accessible as it is today, they might stumble. On the other hand, in the old country, a lot of people I knew had a tendency to have a little garden, hunt every so often, forage for mushrooms and so on. In other words, more individuals may be able to survive in less developed economies precisely, because they are less developed and less reliant on convenience today brings.
by pixl97 | 2026-02-08 16:30:41+00:00
Just think of this as risk management.

If AGI doesn't happen, then good. You get to keep working and playing and generally screwing off in the way that humans have for generations.

On the other hand if AGI happens, especially any time soon, you are exceptionally fucked along with me. The world changes very rapidly and there is no getting off Mr Bones wild ride.

>Why is previous progress a guaranteed indicator of future progress?

In this case, because nature already did it. We're not just inventing and testing something whole cloth. And we know there are still massive efficiencies to be gained.

For me the Concorde is an example of how people look at stuff incorrectly. In the past we had to send people places very quickly to do things. This was very expensive and inefficient. I don't need to get on a plane to have an effect just about anywhere else in the world now. The internet and digital mediums give me a presence at other locations that is very close to being there. We didn't need planes that fly at the speed of sound, we needed strings that communicate at the speed of light.
by dasil003 | 2026-02-08 16:30:42+00:00
Architects and engineers are not construction workers. AI can build the thing but it needs to be told exactly what to build by someone who knows how software works.

I’ve spent enough time working with cross-functional stakeholders to know that the vast majority of PM (whether of the product, program, or project variety), will not be capable of running AI towards any meaningful software development goal. At best they can build impressive prototypes and demos, at worst they will corrupt data in a company-destroying level of failure.
by charles_f | 2026-02-08 16:30:47+00:00
While Claude was trying fix a bug for me (one of these "here! It's fixed now!" "no it's not, the ut still doesn't pass", "ah, I see, lets fix the ut", "no you dont, fix the code" loops), I was updating my oncall rotation after having to run after people to refresh my credentials to so, after attending a ship room where I had to provide updates and estimates.

Why isn't Claude doing all that for me, while I code? Why the obsession that we must use code generation, while other gabage activities would free me to do what I'm, on paper, paid to do?

It's less sexy of course, it doesn't have the promise of removing me in the end. But the reason, in the present state, is that IT admins would never accept for an llm to handle permissions, rotations, management would never accept an llm to report status or provide estimate. This is all "serious" work where we can't have all the errors llm create.

Dev isn't that bad, devs can clean slop and customers can deal with bugs.