MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eddyg | 2026-02-08 15:00:54+00:00
There are already agents doing this in SRE roles.

An agent monitor logs.
A bug is introduced into the system.
Error rates go up and the agents notify diagnostic agents.
These agents look at recent commits and figure out the problem.
They instruct another agent about who fix the issue and deploy the change.
The problem is fixed before an engineer even has time to start looking at logs.

If you aren’t seeing this, you’re not keeping up with what others are already doing. It’s not just people vibe coding ToDo apps.
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-08 15:01:12+00:00
> Sure, I doubt Pfizer et al will just outright stop selling medications to France. Far more likely they will both reduce US prices and raise EU+ prices

This is my point – quoting the man on what he says will happen is pointless because he's just using scary hypotheticals to make the best case to keep the cash hose turned on. He's not some altruistic saint bestowing new formulations upon the world if only he had more money, he's a slimeball pharma CEO trying to balance that R&D with reaping maximum profits.

Would lowering prices for Americans mean the world has less R&D bankrolled by American consumers? Probably. But the current situation is untenable.
by moogly | 2026-02-08 15:01:43+00:00
Not to defend this fiend, but it might be because the White House got mad at him and his wife for first donating $50M to another society destroying super PAC.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/white-...

Still means he's more than fine with fascism.

This is why people using the "voting with your dollar" argument need to never use that ever again.
by veganmosfet | 2026-02-08 15:01:58+00:00
Regarding prompt injection: it's possible to reduce the risk dramatically by:
1. Using opus4.6 or gpt5.2 (frontier models, better safety). These models are paranoid.
2. Restrict downstream tool usage and permissions for each agentic use case (programmatically, not as LLM instructions).
3. Avoid adding untrusted content in "user" or "system" channels - only use "tool". Adding tags like "Warning: Untrusted content" can help a bit, but remember command injection techniques ;-)
4. Harden the system according to state of the art security. 5. Test with red teaming mindset.
by EvanLandau | 2026-02-08 15:02:02+00:00
New tool automates SaaS motion video creation — no After Effects, no editors, just prompts.

We built it because we kept seeing the same problem:

Brands need a strong product or launch video, but the path to getting one is rough.

Good agencies are expensive.
Edits are slow.
After Effects takes years to learn.
And yet… most modern SaaS motion videos follow very similar structures and motion patterns.

So instead of generating random videos, we automated what’s already proven.

Wevi is not an AI video generator like Sora or Veo.
It’s an automation platform that makes professional motion design accessible. It’s fast, customizable, and accessible to people who don’t know animation.

This is an early release.
We want feedback!

Check us out on X: https://x.com/WeviMotion
by margalabargala | 2026-02-08 15:02:09+00:00
So you weren't actually using the thesaurus as a reverse dictionary here. The thesaurus contains definitions, and the reverse dictionary was the search tool built into their website. It would work just as well against a dictionary as a thesaurus.

Importantly to the point being discussed, what you did does not work at all against an actual physical thesaurus book.
by barishnamazov | 2026-02-08 15:02:13+00:00
This write-up has good ideas but gives me the "AI-generated reading fatigue." Things that can cleanly be expressed in 1-2 sentences are whole paragraphs, often with examples that seem unnecessary or unrealistic. There are also some wrong claims like below:

> The Hacker News front page alone is enough to give you whiplash. One day it's "Show HN: Autonomous Research Swarm" and the next it's "Ask HN: How will AI swarms coordinate?" Nobody knows. Everyone's building anyway.

These posts got less than 5 upvotes, they didn't make it to home page. And while overall quality of Show HN might have dropped, HN homepage is still quite sane.

The topic is also not something "nobody talks about," it's being discussed even before agentic tools became available: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=AI+fatigue
by JackSlateur | 2026-02-08 15:02:32+00:00
This is correct, we see (and have seen before the AI slops) code those quality is not really important

At job, we have a lot of internal web apps coded like hell : "people just have to reload the page ..": this is lame

On the other hand, on many situations, when people are faced with something that works, that is well designed and well executed, it's a breath of fresh air and they do notice and they do note that "that team is not like the others" (even if they cannot always pinpoint the "why")

High quality work also leads to higher velocity, low/no regressions etc

Management does notice, product owner do notice
by stuartjohnson12 | 2026-02-08 15:02:37+00:00
Absolute middlebrow dismissal incoming, but the real thinking atrophy is writing blog posts about thinking atrophy caused by LLMs using an LLM.

It is getting very hard to continue viewing HN as a place where I want to come and read content others have written when blog posts written largely with ChatGPT are constantly upvoted to the top.

It's not the co-writing process I have a problem with, it's that ChatGPT can turn a shower thought into a 10 minute essay. This whole post could have been four paragraphs. The introduction was clearly written by an intelligent and skilled human, and then by the second half there's "it's not X, it's Y" reframe slop every second sentence.

The writing is too good to be entirely LLM generated, but the prose is awful enough that I'm confident this was a "paste outline into chatgpt and it generates an essay" workflow.

Frustrating world. I'm lambasting OP, but I want him to write, but actually, and not via a lens that turns every cool thought into marketing sludge.
by danielvaughn | 2026-02-08 15:02:39+00:00
Generally agree with the idea of calm technology, but I feel like inlay hints are a bad example. They actively give me anxiety because it makes the code feel harder to read, it takes my attention away from the code, and it feels more awkward to edit the text because you have these virtual characters getting in the way and having to re-render as you type, causing a shift in your cursor position. It's not at all calming for me, lol.
by iepathos | 2026-02-08 15:02:59+00:00
If AI is good enough that juniors wielding it outproduce seniors, then the juniors are just... overhead. The company would cut them out and let AI report to a handful of senior architects who actually understand what's being built. You don't pay humans to be a slow proxy for a better tool.

If the tools get good enough to not need senior oversight, they're good enough to not need junior intermediaries either. The "juniors with jetpacks outpacing seniors" future is unrealistic and unstable—it either collapses into "AI + a few senior architects" or "AI isn't actually that reliable yet."
by Covenant0028 | 2026-02-08 15:03:09+00:00
Human beings are able to work out the ambiguity because a lot of meaning is carried in shared context, which in turn arises out of cultural grounding. That achieves disambiguation, but only in a limited sense. If humans could perfectly disambiguate, you wouldn't have people having disputes among otherwise loving spouses and friends, arising out of merely misunderstanding what the other person said.

Programming languages are written to eliminate that ambiguity because you don't want your bank server to make a payment because it misinterpreted ambiguous language in the same way that you might misinterpret your spouse's remarks.

Can that ambiguity be resolved with more English words? Maybe. But that would require humans to be perfect communicators, which is not that easy because again, if it were possible, humans would have learnt to first communicate perfectly with the people closest to them.
by anonymars | 2026-02-08 15:03:40+00:00
But does that change the end result? Finding a compiler or SQL bug doesn't mean you yourself can learn enough to fix it. I don't see any reason why AI would be inherently incapable of also concluding that there's a bug in an underlying layer beyond its ability to fix

That doesn't mean AI can do or replace everything but what fraction of software engineering work requires that final frontier?
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-08 15:03:40+00:00
Everything Everywhere... is a much better movie than the incredible Pulp Fiction. Some of the visual effects are actually psychedelic (I've "seent" them), and the storytelling is exceptional.

The scene where the antagonist is walking down a hallway while the background keeps changing — is among the best fight scenes / visuals in any film, ever.
by Narciss | 2026-02-08 15:04:36+00:00
That was a different matter altogether. I agree though that I didn't touch on that.

My experience is different in that case, but it certainly depends on the type of technical challenge, the programming language, etc.

Candidates that perform better or worse exist with and without agentic coding tools. I've had positive and negative experience on both fronts, so I'd attribute the OP's experience to the N=1 problem, and perhaps to the model's jagged intelligence.

I work mostly in Typescript, and it's well known that models are particulary well versed in it. I know that other programming languages are less supported because the training data for them is lower, in which case models could be worse with them across the board (or some SOTA models could be better than others)
by dweekly | 2026-02-08 15:05:07+00:00
The FAA just effectively grounded all drone flights. FDC 6/4375 NOTAM published two weeks ago makes it illegal for a drone operator to operate within 3000 feet laterally of any Department of Homeland Security mobile operation in the United States. But given that such locations are not published or marked, operators are typically in unmarked vehicles, etc - it is now impossible for any drone operator anywhere in the United States to be sure they are compliant with the TFR. (It's pretty clear this was published to deter filming of ICE agents in Minneapolis.)
by twoodfin | 2026-02-08 15:05:32+00:00
My pet peeve with the modern macOS architecture & its 600 coordinating processes & Grand Central Dispatch work queues is debugability.

Fifteen years ago, if an application started spinning or mail stopped coming in, you could open up Console.app and have reasonable confidence the app in question would have logged an easy to tag error diagnostic. This was how the plague of mysterious DNS resolution issues got tied to the half-baked discoveryd so quickly.

Now, those 600 processes and 2000 threads are blasting thousands of log entries per second, with dozens of errors happening in unrecognizable daemons doing thrice-delegated work.
by orangepanda | 2026-02-08 15:06:21+00:00
> What should this function be named? I didn't care. Where should this config live? I didn't care. My brain was full. Not from writing code - from judging code.

Does it matter anymore? Most good engineering principles are to ensure code is easy to read and maintain by humans. When we no longer are the target audience for that, many such decisions are no longer relevant.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-08 15:06:33+00:00
Same. It’s always disappointing when otherwise promising competing laptops turn out to be considerably more noisy if you’re doing anything more intense than using MS Paint.

It’s probably the single most common corner to cut in x86 laptops. Manufacturers love to shove hot chips into a chassis too thin for them and then toss in whatever cheap tiny-whiny-fan cooling solution they happen to have on hand. Result: laptop sounds like a jet engine when the CPU is being pushed.
by coldtea | 2026-02-08 15:06:50+00:00
>Replacing this with AI is a welcome development.

Not if you fed your kid doing it, and now you can't.

> As for jobs like translator, graphic designer and journalist, it's only the extremely low-end work that can possibly be replaced with LLMs. Not an issue if they move upmarket.

Yes, fuck the 90% of those working in that space, and let's hope the 10% gets an "upmarket" gig there.

All this grand-visioning sounds devoid of empathy and real understanding of millions of real people's situations and needs.
by preommr | 2026-02-08 15:07:22+00:00
I'd like to also add 'perceived cost aversion':

AI generates a solution that's functional, but that's at a 70% quality level. But then it's really hard to make changes because it feels horrible to spend 1 hour+ to make minor improvements to something that was generated in a minute.

It also feels a lot worse because it would require context switching and really trying to understand the problem and solution at a deeper level rather than a surface level LGTM.

And if it functionally works, then why bother?

Except that it does matter in the long term as technical debt piles up. At a very fast rate too since we're using AI to generate it.
by steveBK123 | 2026-02-08 15:07:42+00:00
> I look at the trajectory of LLMs, and the shape I see is one of diminishing returns

It seems even more true if you look at OpenAI funding thru 2022 initial public release to how spending has exponentially increased to deliver improvements since. We’re now talking upwards of $600B/yr of spending on LLM based AI infrastructure across the industry in 2026.
by spudlyo | 2026-02-08 15:08:34+00:00
Can verify. When I started in the catalog department in '97, "the catalog" was essentially a giant Berkeley DB keyed on ISBN/ASIN that was built/updated and pushed out (via a mountain of Perl tools) to every web server in the fleet on a regular cadence. There were a bunch of other DBs too, like for indexes, product reviews, and other site features. Once the files landed, the deploy tooling would "flip the symlinks" to make them live.

Berkeley DBs were the go-to online databases for a long time at Amazon, at least until I left at the turn of the century. We had Oracle databases too, but they weren't used in production, they were just another source of truth for the BDBs.
by gaigalas | 2026-02-08 15:08:53+00:00
True determinism is rare, we often don't get it. That's what purely functional languages are all about and they're a minority.

We are trained on the other thing: unpredictable user interaction, parallelism, circuit-breaking, etc. That's the bread and butter of engineering (of all kinds, really, not just IT).

The non-deterministic intuition is baked into engineering much more than determinism is.
by bonoboTP | 2026-02-08 15:09:08+00:00
I personally am a lot less stressed. It helped my mood a lot over the last couple of months. Less worries about forgetting things, about missing problems, about getting started, about planning and prioritizing in solo work. Much less of the "swirling mess" feeling. Context switches are simpler, less drudgery, less friction and pulling my hair out for hours banging against some dumb plumbing and gluing issue or installing stuff from github or configuring stuff on the computer.

Its a million little quality of life stuff.
by Forge36 | 2026-02-08 15:09:43+00:00
For me: Will this task take 30 seconds or 3 minutes.
With good planning I've been able to step away and come back. Sometimes it decides to prompt me within 5 seconds for permissions. Sometimes it runs for 15 minutes.

The output is still small and I can review it. I can switch tasks, however if it's my primary effort for the day I don't like stepping away for an hour to do something else.
by adventured | 2026-02-08 15:09:57+00:00
There will be a split of two major outcomes from LLM coding near-term.

The larger often half-baked projects will flail like they always have. People will get tired of bothering to attempt these. Oh look you created a big bloated pile of garbage that nobody will ever use. And of course there will be rare exceptions, some group of N people will work together to vibe code a clone of a billion dollar business and it'll actually start taking off and that'll garner a lot of attention. It'll remain forever extremely difficult to get users to a service. And if app & website creation scales up in volume due to simplicity of creation, the attention economy problem will only get more intense (neutralizing most of the benefits of the LLMs as an advantage).

The smaller, quasi micro projects used to more immediately solve narrow problems will thrive in a huge way, resulting in tangible productivity gains, and there will be a zillion of these, both at home and within businesses of all sizes.
by greatgib | 2026-02-08 15:10:09+00:00
I don't want people to switch away from Windows; I want Microsoft to treat its premier operating system like it used to.

Total Stockholm syndrome. The user is mistreated by a company but they continue accepting whatever offense is done to them. A big I'll advised fidelity.
So, obviously the provider has no reason to change anything regarding the fact that consumers are happy to be victims.

The funniest is the user having the feeling that the OS was better to them previously when it was like this since forever, even if it was just broken for the user in other aspects than breaking notepad for cloud licensing.
by throw0101c | 2026-02-08 15:10:29+00:00
> After moving to the University of Delaware, Farber helped conceive and organize the National Science Foundation’s Computer Science Network (CSNet), which made then-experimental networking technology available to academic computer scientists and was instrumental in spreading the technology globally, to both industry and academia. Farber also helped plan and develop NSFNET and National Research & Education Network (NREN), efforts that led to the development of the current commercial Internet. Along with Bob Kahn, he conceived the pioneering Gigabit Testbed activity of the NSF.

* https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/dave-farber/
by irishcoffee | 2026-02-08 15:10:40+00:00
> It reduces the friction of coding tremendously. Coding was usually not the bottleneck but it still took a significant amount of time.

I don’t think I agree. How can something be both “usually not a bottleneck” that usually “takes a significant amount of time” ?

> Now we get to spend more time on the real bottlenecks. Gathering requirements from end users, deciding what should be built, etc.

Sounds like you might really enjoy a PM role. Either way, LLM or not, whatever gets written up and presented will have a lot of focus on a bike shed or will make the end user realize allllll the other things they want added/changed, so the requirements change, the priorities change…

So now we just don’t get to do the interesting part… engineer things.

If I wanted to be a PM I’d do that.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-08 15:11:07+00:00
I don't understand why Optane hasn't been revived already for modern AI datacenter workloads. Being able to augment and largely replace system RAM across the board with something cheaper (though not as cheap as NAND, and more power-hungry too) ought to be a huge plus, even if the technology isn't suitable for replacing HBM or VRAM due to bulk/power constraints.
by well_ackshually | 2026-02-08 15:11:12+00:00
This way you can do twice the terrible job twice as fast!

(Also, this only applies if what you're working on happens to be easily parallelizable _and_ you're part of the extremely privileged subset of SV software engineers. Try getting two Android Studios/XCodes/Clang builds in parallel without 128GB of RAM, see what happens).
by N_Lens | 2026-02-08 15:11:19+00:00
I don’t know about the Japanese political landscape enough to say much about this, but I do know that cost of living is crushing people here.

Takaichi is very popular but is a right wing politician. From my reading of history, right wing populism is .. popular, in times of crises, but tends to make things worse in the long run.

However Japanese society and politics are atypical enough not to fit neatly into left/right categories.
by nubg | 2026-02-08 15:11:30+00:00
I truly feel like we are witnessing a 180 of the current world order. Some will massively lose, others will gain, but the transition is certainly gonna be very unpleasant for a lot of people. Especially if you live in the West, I'd have prefered to be born in the 1950 and be about to pass away right now than to have to live a few more decades through what's about to come.
Show HN: GameSquares.live – Free, Open Source Super Bowl Squares
by johnpolacek | 2026-02-08 15:12:25+00:00
’m hosting a Super Bowl party and couldn’t find a simple, free online Super Bowl Squares game, so I built one over the last couple days.

The backend is Convex. There are no traditional user accounts, just a magic link sent to your email. Boards update automatically in realtime using ESPN data.

To keep costs under control, the first 100 users are free. After that, anyone can sponsor the next 100 for $5.

Code is open source:
https://github.com/johnpolacek/gamesquares.live
by 9rx | 2026-02-08 15:12:27+00:00
It is a fundamental property of the universe. Whether or not it is useful is immaterial. Humans are unable to read minds. They can only make up words and use them as they intend. There is no other way.

Despite your insistence, I think you will find that the human consensus is that it useful. The human consensus is especially biased in this case, I will grant you that, but it seems few humans wish they were bears in the forest. Our ability to so effectively communicate in such a messy, imperfect environment is what has enabled us to be unlike all the other animals.

It might not sound like it should work on paper, but in the real world it does.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-08 15:12:30+00:00
> if you're always flitting between different products

But that's not what I suggested. I suggested use the best thing, try other things, switch if they're better. I don't think that's "always flitting between different products and never learning any one deeply", unless you happen to rely on tools that have new solid (and better) competitors every single month, but I'm not aware of any industry/space that is like that.
by ramesh31 | 2026-02-08 15:12:31+00:00
I also came to a pretty simple understanding over the years. If I'm coding and making progress on a project, I'm happy. If I'm not, or I'm stuck on something, I'm unhappy. This is a profoundly unhealthy way to live because life will pass you by. There is more to our existence than work, or even hobbies. And if AI lets me get more time for that, I am happier than ever.
by Chance-Device | 2026-02-08 15:13:07+00:00
Executive functioning fatigue. Usually you’re doing this in between applying skills, here it’s always making top level decisions and reasoning about possibilities. You don’t have nearly as much downtime because you don’t have to implement, you go from hard problem to hard problem with little time in between. You’re probably running your prefrontal cortex a lot hotter than usual.

People say AI will make us less intelligent, make certain brain regions shrink, but if it stays like this (and I suspect it won’t, but anyway…) then it’ll just make executive functioning super strong because that’s all you’re doing.
by cthalupa | 2026-02-08 15:13:19+00:00
Just posting for general awareness - people search this stuff up and then find nothing but research chem sites singing the benefits and providing no info on the risks.

I've had great success with BPC-157 and tendon issues, but I try to use it sparingly - no history of cancer, but everyone has no history of cancer until they do - and try to rehab any injuries with slow heavy eccentrics, etc., and only go for the BPC when that isn't making any improvement.