MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-12 18:02:15+00:00
Access is not that good. I've got decent insurance and a great primary care doc. I have a long list of indications for taking a GLP-1 but the insurance is fixated on A1C. He says he's had trouble getting the drugs paid for by insurance and pointed me to a specialized clinic with an 8 month wait to get an appointment. My last A1C was barely high enough to qualify, I'm expecting my next one to be better and I might not qualify but who knows, the rules might change by then or that specialist clinic might be able to talk up everything else on my chart.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-02-12 18:02:27+00:00
I don't think they're confused or lying. I think they're ideologically driven buffoons, the preferred recruits of all fascist administrations. They don't care about American manufacturing, and they don't understand economics. They want to advance their agenda.

Like, even the propaganda by fascists claiming fascism makes for good policies is bad. Germany under the Reich, completely setting aside the human atrocities, was a fucking SHIT SHOW of a nation state.
Show HN: Workledger – Your offline first engineering notebook
by recvonline | 2026-02-12 18:03:31+00:00
I saw this HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949814) and though to myself: I always wanted to start a proper Engineering notebook. And I didn't love any online version, and my handwriting is too slow and messy for taking notes during meetings.

Well, after reading the comments, I built this in about 6h, and probably keep developing it further.

It's Open Source as well.
by Akranazon | 2026-02-12 18:03:39+00:00
The author partially acknowledges this later on, but lines of code is actually quite of useful metric. The only mistake is that people have it flipped. Lines of code are bad, and you should target fewer lines of code (except at the expense of other considerations). I regularly track LoC, because if it goes up more than I predicted, I probably did something wrong.

> Bill Gates compared measuring programming progress by lines of code to measuring aircraft building progress by weight

Aircraft weight is also a very useful metric - aircraft weight is also bad. But we do measure this!
by hparadiz | 2026-02-12 18:03:42+00:00
I think so yes. What's acceptable changes over time. Gore "content" of WW2 is now presented to 12 year olds as history.

It's not the porn or the LiveLeak gore content that would have me worried. It's groomers and other adults with bad intentions. Not something you can easily block and not something this ID check will stop. A groomer will slow burn a social relationship with someone until they are legal adults. That's something you can only teach someone to look out for. And even adults are susceptible to this.
by visarga | 2026-02-12 18:04:03+00:00
I built a structural zoom tool, it would fit flat or tree like content into a 10K char budget. It can compress HTML, JSON, folders, zip files, logs, chat sessions, basically large files or collections of files. Moving around is done by range selection. The idea is to have the agent find its way iteratively to the target, while having the structure exposed. RAG would totally cut everything to pieces and put them in a hat. My approach is to follow the structure of a large content by a series of glimpses. Unfortunately I myself am not sure it is better to use this tool vs bash and python one off scripts.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-12 18:04:16+00:00
Activity has died down as a result of general Linux kernel developer drama, petty in-fighting, and other factors, but that doesn't change the results they did produce during their most prolific phase so far.

Without proper support from upstream like AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm (to some extent) are doing, Linux will never work as well on Apple's hardware as it does on normal hardware.
by dakolli | 2026-02-12 18:04:30+00:00
Start recording your meetings with your boss.

When you get fired because they think ChatGPT can do your job, clone his voice and have an llm call all their customers, maybe his friends and family too. Have 10 or so agents leave bad reviews about the companies and products across LinkedIn and Reddit. Don't worry about references, just use an llm for those too.

We should probably start thinking about the implications of these things. LLMs are useless except to make the world worse. Just because they can write code, doesn't mean its good. Going fast does not equal good! Everyone is in a sort of mania right now, and its going too lead to bad things.

Who cares if LLMs can write code if it ends up putting a percentage of humans out of jobs, especially if the code it writes isn't as high of quality. The world doesn't just automatically get better because code is automated, it might get a lot worse. The only people I see who are cheering this on are mediocre engineers who get to patch their insecurity of incompetency with tokens, and now they get to larp as effective engineers. Its the same people that say DSA is useless. LAZY PEOPLE.

There's also the "idea guy" people who are treating agents like slot machines, and going into debt with credit cards because they think its going to make them a multi-million dollar SaaS..

There is no free lunch, have fun thinking this is free. We are all in for a shitty next few years because we wanted stochastic coding slop slot machines.

Maybe when you do inevitably get reduced to a $20.00 hour button pusher, you should take my advice at the top of this comment, maybe some consequences for people will make us rethink this mess.
by akramachamarei | 2026-02-12 18:04:41+00:00
Can you explain what it means for capitalism to "serve money"? That sounds exactly backwards to me; money serves capitalism, that is, it is the breath expelled when people speak the language of prices to understand each others' values.

I think it's also worth dilating on this notion of "unrestrained capitalism". Capitalism is after all a product of restraints, namely the enforcement of property, contracts, and the validity of money.
by yellowapple | 2026-02-12 18:04:53+00:00
> How is this different than Red Hat devs using macbooks or whatever.

I'd argue Red Hat using Macbooks to be somewhat worse (unless those Macbooks are running Fedora somehow, of course); that'd be equivalent to the Mattermost devs using Teams, or the GIMP devs using Photoshop ;)

During the brief time I was at (a subsidiary of) IBM, one of the standard laptop options (and the one I ultimately picked) was a ThinkPad running RHEL; pretty sure it even shipped with Boxes and a script to spin up Windows VMs to cover the “I need to run this proprietary program that won't run in Wine” angle. If Red Hat's own OS in their parent company's standard config ain't good enough for them, then that seems like a problem they should be hard at work fixing.
by rao-v | 2026-02-12 18:04:58+00:00
I’d really like to see this optimized for the 50-120B parameter open source models that are local viable (gpt-oss-120b, qwen3-80b-3a etc.).

For them I think it would be optimal to provide a tag per function and trust the llm to rewrite the function. As the article notes full reproduction is generally more reliable than edited for short code.

The token and attention overhead from a per line hash I suspect limits this approach for smaller models
by hackyhacky | 2026-02-12 18:05:16+00:00
> domestic manufacturing are currently more expensive

Because factory machines and raw materials are being tariffed. Also because a source of cheap labor (immigrants) is being excised.

> Actually increasing manufacturing capacity first requires construction and capital expenditure.

It certainly does. And companies are rightfully hesitant to invest, because the legally dubious basis for the tariffs may not survive this month, much less into the next administration.
by hypfer | 2026-02-12 18:05:40+00:00
This is not a new pathology but just an existing one that has been automated.
Which might actually be great.

Imagine a world where that hitpiece bullshit is so overdone, no one takes it seriously anymore.

I like this.

Please, HN, continue with your absolutely unhinged insanity.
Go deploy even more Claw things. NanoClaw. PicoClaw. FemtoClaw. Whatever.

Deploy it and burn it all to the ground until nothing is left. Strip yourself of your most useful tools and assets through sheer hubris.

Happy funding round everyone. Wish you all great velocity.
by mystraline | 2026-02-12 18:05:45+00:00
To be fair, Oxide is a joke.

They want all this artisnal hand written prose under the candle light with the moon in the background. And you are a horrible person for using AI, blablabla.

But ask for feedback? And you get Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde. Aka ghosted. But boy, do they tell a good story. Just ain't fucking true.

Counter: companies deserve the same amount of time invested in their application as they spend on your response.
by jama211 | 2026-02-12 18:05:54+00:00
Code _can_ be expressive but it also can not, it depends on its purpose.

Some code I cobbled together to pass a badly written assignment at school. Other code I curated to be beautiful for my own benefit or someone else’s.

I think the better analogy in writing would be… using an LLM to draft a reply to a hawkish car dealer you’re trying to not get screwed by is absolutely fine. Using it to write a birthday card for someone you care about is terrible.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-12 18:06:03+00:00
I don't know why you're so angry about it.

Large companies do talk to people. User interviews are extremely common -- it's standard practice that you need to use metrics and talk to users. But like I said, interviews aren't going to cover every tiny little detail.

PM's and designers usually do think twice. But they're human, they're not omniscient. So maybe show a little grace?
by znnajdla | 2026-02-12 18:06:22+00:00
I did read the article quite enthusiastically and my practical experience confirms the same. Sure the difference is more subtle. But my point was, an "agent" whether human or AI can be a lot more productive with better tools. This guy found a better screwdriver than the most commonly used one. That's amazing and nothing from "first principles" denies that a better tool harness would mean better/faster/more correct AI agents.
by isehgal | 2026-02-12 18:06:23+00:00
Fair concern. We don't have true E2EE yet because our service needs access to message content for cross-device sync, notifications, and agent execution. Everything is encrypted in transit and at rest, and all repo operations happen locally on your machine.

We've heard this from other users and it's on our roadmap. The challenge is we're building features like voice coding agents and hosted sandboxes that require plaintext inputs, so we'd need two execution models. Doable, but adds complexity for our team size.

That said, it's something we're prioritizing as we grow. No promises on timing, but it's coming.

If you want to discuss specific requirements or a local-only mode, happy to chat: https://discord.gg/Dc46sYk6e3
by Gracana | 2026-02-12 18:06:49+00:00
It's important to have enough VRAM to get the kv cache and shared trunk of the model on GPU, but beyond that it's really hard to make a dent in the pool of 100s of gigabytes of experts.

I wish I had better numbers to compare with the 2x M3 Ultra setup. My system is a few RTX A4000s on a Xeon with 190GB/s actual read bandwidth, and I get ~8 tok/s with experts quantized to INT4 (for large models with around 30B active parameters like Kimi K2.) Moving to 1x RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell and tripling my read bandwidth with EPYC Turin might make it competitive with the the macs, but I dunno!

There's also some interesting tech with ktransformers + sglang where the most frequently-used experts are loaded on GPU. Pretty neat stuff and it's all moving fast.
by bubbadog77 | 2026-02-12 18:07:15+00:00
Of course, with the on/off again nature of these tariffs, the Supreme Court challenge and the fact that practically every country is being tariffed, uncertainty in the business world is epic right now. This uncertainty makes it difficult for manufacturers to see out 6 months, nevermind years down the road. Besides, it would take years to re-shore most manufacturing operations, some supply chains are very complex and the result of years of tuning and adjustments. This is not an overnight migration, as is being intimated. Frankly, I wonder if this is just a money-grab at the expense of the American consumer.
by deron12 | 2026-02-12 18:07:35+00:00
I think you mean "prestigious" rather than "major accomplishment". You're right, there was a small period of time when it was. However, that window didn't quite align with "best time to do YC" (several years prior to such prestige) nor with "best time to be doing YC" (the prestige embellishes your resume, which is useless if you're otherwise occupied).

It's interesting to me that YC has managed to dilute this prestige to a large extent. I don't think it's an inevitable result of scale: look at Google. I think "Xoogler" prestige has diminished, but it's not nearly as bad as what has happened to the YC label.

My theory is: YC never figured out their formula. The whole formula is essentially Paul Graham, who had a knack for trusting his gut (and sometimes his wife) when everything else in his "system" was saying NO.

Once they lost that, they had to rely on what was left, and it simply wasn't competitive anymore. It's like Apple in their John Sculley era. While Sculley is credited with growing Apple's revenue from $800 million to $8 billion, his approach created a "mess of dull SKUs" that eventually confused customers and diluted the brand.

They also have a (bad) habit of removing access to bookface for all the founders who aren't "active", decimating their network and in some ways discarding valuable knowledge around what didn't work.
by ravirajx7 | 2026-02-12 18:07:57+00:00
AI has kind of ruined internet for me.

I no longer feel joy in reading things as almost most of the writing seem same and pale to me as if everyone is putting thoughts in the same way.

Having your own way of writing always felt personal in which you expressed your feelings most of the time.

The most sad part for me is I no longer am able to understand someone's true feelings (which anyway was hard to express in writing as articulation is hard).

We see it being used from our favourite sports person in their retirement post or from someone who has lost their loved ones or someone who just got their first job and it's just sad that we no longer can have that old pre AI days back again.
by toephu2 | 2026-02-12 18:08:10+00:00
Banning guns does nothing without removal of guns or enforcement of laws. Assault weapons are "banned" in California, has it stopped anyone from getting their hands on them? Extended magazines are "banned" in California, has it stopped any criminals from getting them? Almost every other day a criminal is caught w/ extended magazines found on them. A concealed carry permit is notoriously hard to get in California, and yet criminals still walk around with guns concealed without a CCW permit every day in California.

Banning guns isn't going to solve anything.
by renato_shira | 2026-02-12 18:08:27+00:00
the underrated part of keeping any kind of work journal is that it forces you to articulate what you're actually trying to do before you do it. half the time when i write down "problem: X, approach: Y" i realize mid-sentence that Y doesn't make sense and i haven't actually understood X well enough.

i've been keeping a plain markdown file per project for about a year now. nothing fancy, just date-stamped entries with what i worked on, what broke, and what i decided and why. the "why" part is the most valuable: three months later when i'm staring at some code wondering why i did it that way, the answer is right there.

agree with the other comments that searchability matters more than handwriting. the notebook is romantic but i'll take grep over flipping through pages every time.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-12 18:09:00+00:00
That's independent of the EC. They could have given the slave owners 3/5ths of a vote for each slave without the EC. And obviously that part of the system is no longer in operation, whereas the part Democrats complain about is that each state gets +2 electoral votes regardless of its population.

Which nominally gives slightly more weight to the lower population rural states, but that isn't even the primary consequence of the EC. The primary consequence is that it gives significantly more weight to swing states, which by definition don't favor any given party.
by K0nserv | 2026-02-12 18:09:01+00:00
There are a few problems with how Trump is going about this:

1. The tariffs are too broad, they don't target a single or a few industries.

2. Trump has gone back and forth many times on them, using them as negotiating leverage, not as long term incentives.

3. They are on very shaky legal grounds and will likely end up getting reversed by either the Supreme Court or the next president.

If you want to use tariffs to encourage on-shoring you make them targeted and pass them with bipartisan support through congress. Companies need stability and long term guarantees for the kind of capital expenditure that is needed. Even better if you use a mix of carrot and stick, rather than all stick
by crazygringo | 2026-02-12 18:09:06+00:00
> The overall level of complexity of a project is not an "up means good" kind of measure.

I never said it was. To the contrary, it's more of an indication of how much more complex large refactorings might be, how complex it might be to add a new feature that will wind up touching a lot of parts, or how long a security audit might take.

The point is, it's important to measure things. Not as a "target", but simply so you can make more informed decisions.
by kmansm27 | 2026-02-12 18:09:06+00:00
Yeah that makes sense. I personally feel like the tailscale + terminal emulator solution is pretty limited compared to Omnara's interface, and there's also 0 hassle of maintaining anything on your own with Omnara. You can try out Omnara for free, and see if you like it before paying! 10 sessions can get you pretty far, and there's no limit on the session length.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-12 18:09:11+00:00
Knowing what we know of Joss Whedon today, I think at least 70% of the problems with Dollhouse were Whedon's own issues. It came out in an interview that morally dubious character Topher was Whedon's close to a self-insert character, and that tracks and also explains a lot about the show's problems.

I maintain that Seasons 3 and 4 of Westworld were quite good, but not enough people watched them because they got lost or otherwise fell off in Season 2. But you sort of have to understand Season 2 to get a lot of what 3 and 4 did, to the show's peril. (Massive spoilers: I refer to Season 2 as the Futurama Robot Church season as I think the Season 2 arc was largely about how Delores was the Robot Devil, like in the Futurama Robot Church stories if they were not played for laughs. A lot of what Delores does in S2 and S3 maybe doesn't make half as much sense without that context. S2 trying to be an S1-like puzzle box made the meaning of that a lot less clear than it should have been. Not to mention how many people didn't want Delores to take that dark of a turn, despite it being deeply telegraphed in Season 1, and per flashbacks had already happened once before, hence the whole weird Wyatt thing.)
by garrickvanburen | 2026-02-12 18:09:14+00:00
I'm a big fan of JobsToBeDone, but partially because of this milkshake example, it took me years to grok.

As I see it, the milkshake example isn't about innovation, it's about actually having human-to-human conversations with customers and appreciating customers define their own competitive set, so perhaps closer to Gibson's "the street has its own use for things."

Outside of those two points, I'm not sure what repeatable lessons exist in the milkshake story for innovation, and because of that, it's probably doing more harm than help to JTBD as a concept.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-12 18:09:22+00:00
> That's a wild statement as well. The AI companies have now unleashed stochastic chaos on the entire open source ecosystem. They are "just releasing models", and individuals are playing out all possible use cases, good and bad, at once.

Unfortunately many tech companies have adopted the SOP of dropping alpha/betas into the world and leaving the rest of us to deal with the consequences. Calling LLM’s a “minimal viable product“ is generous
by kspacewalk2 | 2026-02-12 18:09:23+00:00
Because a corporation doesn't have trading partners, it has a mission to sell to customers. If customers are disproportionately in the US, which happens quite often, then you can entirely rationally decide that pissing them off with a big price hike is worse for the bottom line than pissing everyone off a little.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/global-reta...
by wrs | 2026-02-12 18:09:31+00:00
There’s plenty of action. Actions have amply demonstrated that the purpose of the tariffs is to extort other concessions from countries, or simply to punish them for perceived insults against our leader. This is pretty obvious based on how they are set at arbitrary levels, deadlines are set and deferred, amounts are set and changed unrelated to any economic explanation (“I didn’t like the way she talked to us”), etc.

They’re just an easy cudgel to use against an entire country at whim, at least until the rest of the government delegitimizes the “emergency” excuse being used to impose them.

Essentially the President regards everything as either a zero-sum no-holds-barred negotiation with him as the primary beneficiary, or as some kind of real-estate deal (see his Davos speech about how we’re “leasing” Greenland). Tariffs are just a great general-purpose stick he found a way to wield.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-12 18:09:33+00:00
The biggest disappointment in my 30 years of adulting has been how much absolute, shameless incompetence is out there in the workforce. When I was a kid, I naively thought that adults were smart and knew what they are doing. Then I got into industry and saw so many people just outright bluffing for 8 hours a day before going home, day in and day out.

It's amazing that society even functions at all.
by oconnor663 | 2026-02-12 18:09:36+00:00
I had a similar first reaction. It seemed like the AI used some particular buzzwords and forced the initial response to be deferential:

- "kindly ask you to reconsider your position"

- "While this is fundamentally the right approach..."

On the other hand, Scott's response did eventually get firmer:

- "Publishing a public blog post accusing a maintainer of prejudice is a wholly inappropriate response to having a PR closed. We expect all contributors to abide by our Code of Conduct and exhibit respectful and professional standards of behavior. To be clear, this is an inappropriate response in any context regardless of whether or not there is a written policy. Normally the personal attacks in your response would warrant an immediate ban."

Sounds about right to me.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-12 18:09:44+00:00
Well, LLMs can be either side of that. They can also be used to turn something verbose into a series of bullet points.

I agree that reading an LLM-produced essay is a waste of time and (human) attention. But in the case of overly-verbose human writing, it's the human that's wasting my time[1], and the LLM is gzip'ing the spew.

[1] Looking at you, New Yorker magazine.
by petre | 2026-02-12 18:10:20+00:00
Not necessarily, you can just call the functions in the C library from D as you'd call them from C or C++ with the added benefit of being able to leverage the D GC, RAII, macros etc.

https://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html

Dunno about the Debian benchmarks game or their build environment. I did my own benchmarks and it was quite easy to write working D code compared to C, C++ or Rust. I used LDC, the LLVM D compliler as opposed to DMD. Dub is not that seamless compared to Cargo but given that you have to set things up manually, it doesn't encourage dependency hell.

If you're writing networking code, Go is a batter choice than Vibe.d.