MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nextime | 2026-02-08 05:53:59+00:00
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by sandGorgon | 2026-02-08 05:55:37+00:00
kubedock is its own command set. it doesnt work with compose.yml . This project specifically starts with a compose file.

NOTE: kubedock has some automatic compatibility with compose, this is not their goal - https://github.com/joyrex2001/kubedock/blob/e4c8540f63d65e33...

If you are not on the compose ecosystem, this is isnt useful to you.

Just fyi - the hottest thing in the world right now is OpenClaw.
This is OpenClaw docker compose yml - https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/main/docker-compos...

even if you dont do docker compose....everyone else does it anyway.
by hattmall | 2026-02-08 05:56:30+00:00
I use AI frequently. I am frequently let down. Occasionally satisfied and very rarely impressed. My results seem typical for everyone else I know. It's a free and widely promoted tool that has the potential to be useful, of course people will use it. The features I find most useful, is not providing me new knowledge. It's formalizing something I wrote or summarizing some other text, that I am going to read anyway or can at least reference as needed and confirm the output. This is also where the local models Excel.

I also often see people post AI generated advice and answers that are simply incorrect in Facebook groups and get roasted with 100s of people chiming in on how you can trust ChatGPT.

I just can't see regular people are going to pay more than (NetFlix + HBO + Prime + WM+) for an AI subscription. I think you would see tons of competitors pop up if that were at all viable.
by ksec | 2026-02-08 05:56:49+00:00
The Launch of iPhone sets off the Smartphone revolution. Although it might be better to call it computer in a pocket revolution. There were plenty of Smartphone before iPhone launch, Windows Mobile, Palm etc, but it was iPhone that made the difference and drove consumer to Smartphone era.

iPhone 5 ( and its Android counterpart era ) for many was the first Smartphone they use, we are talking about normal consumers, not the audience of HN. Even many of the so called professional YouTubers and Reviewers only have their first Smartphone during iPhone 4 - 5 era. Four years in many who thought it was hype, many who didn't understand why internet on your phone was a big thing, many who didn't know why you want an App. It also the first time iPhone was made with Supply Chain and operation in mind because previously supply could not keep up with demand. I believe it was first to break 100M yearly unit sold. iPhone 4 might have been luxury, but iPhone 5 was the time when majority wakes up and finally say we need smartphone. To put this in AI perspective, Claude Code is working, ( aka the PR commit percentage in the article ).

iPhone 6 Plus was the first iPhone with big screen at 5.5" ( 16:9 ), breaking 200M yearly sales, and finally a data points to the world is moving to big screen called phablet at the time. Smartphone is replacing Personal Computer, or your Smartphone is your PC replacing Desktop and Laptop. The Internet is happening on Phone, not PC. At this point it is just consistent growth, 200M unit sales as standard until around 2020 when things start to level off in 2020.
by zhyan7109 | 2026-02-08 05:56:52+00:00
Thanks for that perspective, Einar.

I agree that good bankers are hard to come by and unfortunately most simply forward decks to a broad list, and they won’t get founders the outcome they deserve. My point was more about readiness for a sale. Having gone through it, I’ve come to believe there are certain prerequisites for even kicking off a process, primarily business fundamentals and pre-existing relationships.

In my experience, a banker can amplify an existing market, but they can’t create one from scratch (at least not easily).

For example, in our case we had roughly six serious inbound inquiries before engaging bankers. While our bankers (and they are great) ran a broad discovery process and put us in front of many potential acquirers, the eventual buyer was one that reached out to us unsolicitedly rather than being introduced through the process.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-08 05:57:10+00:00
> actually found that pretty much every worker was using AI almost daily

What they found is that people search the Internet for things and an AI bot is right there. What they didn't find is people using Vibe coded apps, learning from AI or buying AI services. They did find companies buying AI services, but as an experiment. Also, blaming AI is easy when someone messes up and costs a customer or sale. The more that happens, the sooner the company stops experimenting. If that happens in a widespread way, then this bubble collapses.
by anonnon | 2026-02-08 05:58:37+00:00
> Steve Yegge recently wrote about an exponential growth in AI capabilities

I'm not sure that the current growth rate is exponential, but the problem is that it doesn't need to be exponential. It should have been obvious the moment ChatGPT and stable diffusion-based systems were released that continued, linear progress of these models was going to cause massive disruption eventually (in a matter of years).
by smallstepforman | 2026-02-08 05:59:04+00:00
Ever use a leak detector? Even my graphics engines (with shared resources) uses a leak detector in debug mode. The monent you forget to release a resource, assertion at program termination.

Leaks are trapped with tooling, and all you need is one dev in the team to be diligant to run valgrind or visual leak detector or similar.
by zachYCB | 2026-02-08 05:59:18+00:00
> The refugee process isn’t based on visas

I wasn’t implying that. I specifically mentioned walking to the border. I was saying what you did in fewer words.

The wait times for these judgments were turning into multi-year long stints in the country. And there’s no guarantee someone would show up for their hearing (although if the numbers are to be believed, they usually did).

If Trump is doing this without the popular support of the people, then yeah, he’s behaving like a king. But this is what conservatives largely voted him in for. Among people voting for Trump, immigration is usually their first or second concern besides maybe “the economy” — and the two aren’t divorced from each other. So I don’t think that’s particularly anti-democratic like you say.
by anon946 | 2026-02-08 06:02:17+00:00
Isn't this a little bit of a category error? LLMs are not a language. But prompts to LLMs are written in a language, more or less a natural language such as English. Unfortunately, natural languages are not very precise and full of ambiguity. I suspect that different models would interpret wordings and phrases slightly differently, leading to behaviors in the resulting code that are difficult to predict.
by wazHFsRy | 2026-02-08 06:02:37+00:00
I have the same feeling recently that we should focus more on using AI to enable us, to empower us to do the important things. Not take away but enhance, boring , clear boilerplate yes, design decisions no.
And making reviewing easier is a perfect example of enhancing our workflow.
Not reviewing for us, but supporting us.

I am recently using this tiny[1] skill to generate an order on how to review a PR and it has been very helpful to me.

https://www.dev-log.me/pr_review_navigator_for_claude/
by ekipan | 2026-02-08 06:02:45+00:00
I actually have the below clashes function in my bashrc to detect overloaded names, and a few compgen aliases for sorted formatted command lists. Clashes takes a few seconds to chew through the 3000ish commands on my Steam Deck.

I also discovered the comma thing myself, and use it for `xdg-open <web-search-url>` aliases, i.e. `,aw xdg` searches archwiki for "xdg", since the SteamOS on this thing doesn't have manpages.

alias words='iftty xargs' # join by spaces
alias c='compgen -c | sort -u | words' # eg: c | grep ^k | chop
# ... a for aliases, f for functions etc ...
alias man='g !archman' # https://man.archlinux.org
alias ,aw='g !aw' # https://wiki.archlinux.org
alias ,mdn='g !mdn' # https://developer.mozilla.org
alias ,nix='g !nixpkgs' # https://search.nixos.org
# ... a dozen others ...

g() { local IFS=+; xdg-open "https://ddg.gg/?q=$*"; }
iftty() { if [ -t 1 ]; then "$@"; else cat; fi; }

chop() { # [TABS] [STARTCOL] [CUTOPTS..] # eg. ls ~/.co* | chop
set -- "${1:-2}" "${2:-1}" "${@:3}"
cut -c "$2"-$(($2+8*$1-2)) "${@:3}" | column #| less
}

clashes() { # [CMDS..] # print overloads eg: clashes $(c)
(($#)) || set -- $(compgen -A alias -A function)
local ty cmd; for cmd; do ty=($(type -at "$cmd"))
((${#ty[@]}>1)) && echo -n "$cmd "; done; echo
}
by Zakodiac | 2026-02-08 06:05:24+00:00
The Digital Twin Universe is the most interesting thing in this article and the part most people are glossing over. The real question Simon nails is: how do you prove software works when both the implementation and the tests are written by agents? Because agents will absolutely game your test suite - return true, rewrite assertions to match broken output, whatever gets them to green.

Their answer of keeping scenarios external to the codebase like a holdout set is smart. And building full behavioral clones of services like Okta, Jira, Slack so you can run thousands of end to end scenarios without hitting rate limits or production - that's where the actual hard engineering work is. Not the code generation, the validation infrastructure.

Most teams trying this will skip that part because it's expensive and unglamorous. They'll let agents write code and tests together and wonder why things break in production. The "factory" part isn't the agents writing code. It's having robust enough external proof that the code does what it's supposed to.
by roenxi | 2026-02-08 06:06:00+00:00
> Individuals don’t demand solutions to diffuse problems

Markets solve diffuse problems really well, people signal how much their section of the problem is worth solving and the market judges whether the overall problem can be solved cost effectively. Getting food to everyone is a diffuse problem for example.

Tragedy of the commons is different. Markets don't solve how to solve owning things in common and the usual market recommendation is not to do that.
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-02-08 06:07:52+00:00
A long article, about rising prices driven by fossil fuel costs but also a lot of positivity as you read towards the end and a sudden sharp downturn that’s coming to Australias power prices. Australia’s wholesale power prices halved in q4 2025 due to massive solar and battery investment that on a per capita basis dwarfs china. Australia is now over 50% renewables. It’s set to accelerate too.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/big-swings-in-austral...

So at least one continent in this picture is making great progress to achieving this.
by ThePowerOfFuet | 2026-02-08 06:08:40+00:00
>any kind of respectable wage taxed at over 50% with rent being over half of your post-tax earnings.

What sort of easily-disprovable horseshit is this?

https://www.economie.gouv.fr/particuliers/impots-et-fiscalit...

Income 11k-30k taxed at 11%, 30k-80k at 30%.

80k puts you in the top 5% of wage earners.

If you are spending an amount which rounds to zero on world-class healthcare, all of a sudden rent being even half your post-tax income (which would indicate you are living near the edge of your means, if not beyond) isn't so bad.
by echelon | 2026-02-08 06:09:03+00:00
> JPMorgan calculated last fall that the tech industry must collect an extra $650 billion in revenue every year

If you take half the software engineers in the US and replace them with AI, you're halfway there. And why stop with software?

There's a reason for the fervor and excitement of these companies.

The positive outlook is that you don't fire folks - they have even more work to do. But we'll see how it pans out in practice.
by wazHFsRy | 2026-02-08 06:09:08+00:00
> Honestly the model that works best for me is treating agents like junior devs working under a senior lead. The expert already knows the architecture and what they want. The agents help crank through the implementation but you're reviewing everything and holding them to passing tests. That's where the productivity gain actually is. When non-developers try to use agents to produce entire systems with no oversight that's where things fall apart.

I tried to approach it that way as well, but I am realizing when I let the agent do the implementation, even with clear instructions, I might miss all the “wrong“ design decisions it takes, because if I only review and do not implement I do not discover the “right“ way to build something. Especially in places where I am not so familiar myself — and those are the places where it is most tempting to rely on an agent.
by Zakodiac | 2026-02-08 06:09:21+00:00
This is the part that worries me the most. I work as a Principal in consulting and finding people with real technical depth is already hard. If the next generation of engineers learns to lean on agents instead of actually understanding what's going on, that gets worse. You need people who can look at agent output and know if it's right, and that skill only comes from years of doing the work yourself - or perhaps in the new era at least understanding everything that the agent is doing and why. The crutch risk is real.
by epistasis | 2026-02-08 06:10:27+00:00
The biggest impediment to clean energy, which is actually cheaper than fossil fuels, is politics. We have political interference at the highest level to impede solar, storage, and wind.

In the US, residential solar is 5x-6x more expensive than in Australia per W, i.e. on identical system costs, not on what's generated. And they pay their labor better than we do in the US at the same time. It's because of a lot of regulatory and utility interference, and a laundry list of other things:

https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-real-story-with-australian

This is the headline from a non-partisan energy media outlet when it comes to wind: "
How Trump dismantled a promising energy industry — and what America lost---The demolition of the offshore wind sector in 2025 will reverberate for decades, resulting in lost jobs, higher utility bills, and less reliable power grids."

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/how-trump...

And when it comes to batteries, people that don't care about the effects of mining or oil extraction or toxicity of gasoline all of a sudden start to get all worked up about supposedly "toxic" lithium batteries, because they've consumed a ton of propaganda on the matter, and no facts. People also seem to think that we somehow burn lithium, instead of mine it once, and use a tiny amount (dozens of pounds) to power an entire car, which can then be recycled.

And I can't tell you how many times I've been told that we can't do solar because it takes "too much land" or "physics" by people that pretend to be good with numbers but have never figured out how to calculate the actual requirementns by solar...

This is a US-specific comment, but the rest of the world is not as foolish and is plowing full-steam ahead to a world of ever decreasing energy costs because they are not stopping the progress of better technology.
by DavidPiper | 2026-02-08 06:11:00+00:00
One of the reasons we have programming languages is they allow us to express fluently the specificity required to instruct a machine.

For very large projects, are we sure that English (or other natural languages) are actually a better/faster/cheaper way to express what we want to build? Even if we could guarantee fully-deterministic "compilation", would the specificity required not balloon the (e.g.) English out to well beyond what (e.g.) Java might need?

Writing code will become writing books? Still thinking through this, but I can't help but feel natural languages are still poorly suited and slower, especially for novel creations that don't have a well-understood (or "linguistically-abstracted") prior.
by mdf | 2026-02-08 06:11:02+00:00
Yes, and the corn-based ethanol here is used for "feeding cars" that have combustion engines, i.e. it's already used exactly for energy production. The most recent Technology Connections video[1] quoted some numbers on this. All this land dedicated to disposable energy production could be dedicated to renewable energy production instead.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM
by Zakodiac | 2026-02-08 06:12:35+00:00
This matches my experience. The agents are useful for cranking through implementation once you already know what the architecture should look like. But that "knowing what it should look like" part - understanding the client's constraints, the failure modes, what needs to be bulletproof vs what can be eventually consistent - that's still completely a human job. And it probably will be for a while.
by ashton314 | 2026-02-08 06:14:50+00:00
Reminds me of the reputation system that the ITA in Anathem by Neal Stephenson seem to have. One character (Sammann) needs access to essentially a private BBS and has to get validated.

“After we left Samble I began trying to obtain access to certain reticules,” Sammann explained. “Normally these would have been closed to me, but I thought I might be able to get in if I explained what I was doing. It took a little while for my request to be considered. The people who control these were probably searching the Reticulum to obtain corroboration for my story.”

“How would that work?” I asked.

Sammann was not happy that I’d inquired. Maybe he was tired of explaining such things to me; or maybe he still wished to preserve a little bit of respect for the Discipline that we had so flagrantly been violating. “Let’s suppose there’s a speelycaptor at the mess hall in that hellhole town where we bought snow tires.”

“Norslof,” I said.

“Whatever. This speelycaptor is there as a security measure. It sees us walking to the till to pay for our terrible food. That information goes on some reticule or other. Someone who studies the images can see that I was there on such-and-such a date with three other people. Then they can use other such techniques to figure out who those people are. One turns out to be Fraa Erasmas from Saunt Edhar. Thus the story I’m telling is corroborated.”

“Okay, but how—”

“Never mind.” Then, as if he’d grown weary of using that phrase, he caught himself short, closed his eyes for a moment, and tried again. “If you must know, they probably ran an asamocra on me.”

“Asamocra?”

“Asynchronous, symmetrically anonymized, moderated open-cry repute auction. Don’t even bother trying to parse that. The acronym is pre-Reconstitution. There hasn’t been a true asamocra for 3600 years. Instead we do other things that serve the same purpose and we call them by the old name. In most cases, it takes a few days for a provably irreversible phase transition to occur in the reputon glass—never mind—and another day after that to make sure you aren’t just being spoofed by ephemeral stochastic nucleation. The point being, I was not granted the access I wanted until recently.” He smiled and a hunk of ice fell off his whiskers and landed on the control panel of his jeejah. “I was going to say ‘until today’ but this damned day never ends.”

“Fine. I don’t really understand anything you said but maybe we can save that for later.”

“That would be good. The point is that I was trying to get information about that rocket launch you glimpsed on the speely.”*
by popalchemist | 2026-02-08 06:15:47+00:00
Fantasy is not a downgrade from sci-fi; the genre serves an altogether different purpose which is equally valuable, if not moreso - the development of spiritual faculties of perception. It is the neglect of those faculties which leads to societal decay -- the current nadir we are in is STILL the fallout of the "death of God" (as Nietzsche put it) -- man's recognition that the Sky Daddy myth is no longer enough to explain the world led to a vacuum of a cohesion between metaphysics and morality. In its absence, materialism - hedonism in the realm of the senses - is all that that there is to derive hope or reason for living from.

Without fantasy -- Lord of the Rings being the chief example -- the "post-God" world has no means of developing said faculties outside of fantasy (the genre), and art - which, as a whole, is a form of fantasy.
by bunnie | 2026-02-08 06:16:11+00:00
$650bb / ($34.72 * 12 months) = 1.56 billion users.

That's far larger than the population of the USA (unclear to me if that 650bb number is global or USA only) but by sheer scale this is assuming that these companies can collect that fee from a global customer base - including users in developing economies, EU, China, etc. and after the middleman fees are accounted for.

The comments in this thread seem to be thinking within the context of 'the poorest in their nation'. This calculation assumes collecting this fee from among 'the poorest in the world'.

Sure, 1.56bb users could also be interpreted as 'the wealthiest 20% of the world'. But the tail is especially long on this curve given how wealth is concentrated in a small percentage of the global population (1% of users have 50% of wealth).
by ashton314 | 2026-02-08 06:16:18+00:00
> Then again, if this is the case, why would you risk your own reputation to vouch for anyone anyway.

Good reason to be careful. Maybe there's a bit of an upside to: if you vouch for someone who does good work, then you get a little boost too. It's how personal relationships work anyway.

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I'm pretty skeptical of all things cryptocurrency, but I've wondered if something like this would be an actually good use case of blockchain tech…
by jwrallie | 2026-02-08 06:16:41+00:00
High user count will make much more information available, but once in a while you will hit one bad issue that is niche enough, and your only hope will be to reach MS.

At that point I'd rather deal with an LLM that know the insides of my open source OS than MS support. Have you seen their community answers on the web? I'd rather deal with Arch wiki and the command line even without an LLM.
by andersa | 2026-02-08 06:17:06+00:00
This pricing is pathetic. I've been using it for two hours at what I consider "normal" interactive speed and it burned $100. Normally the $200 subscription is enough for an entire month. I guess if you are rich, you can pay 40 times as much for roughly double speed (assuming 8 hours usage a day, 5 days a week)?

Edit: I just realized that's with the currently 50% discounted price! So you can pay 80 times as much!
by lelandbatey | 2026-02-08 06:17:45+00:00
A determinisitic prompt + seed used to generate an output is interesting as a way to deterministically record entirely how code came about, but it's also not a thing people are actually doing. Right now, everyone is slinging around LLM outputs without any trying to be reproducible; no seed, nothing. What you've described and what the article describe are very different.