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A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
1•goranmoomin•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

1•throwaw12•2m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•4m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•6m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
2•myk-e•9m ago•3 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•10m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•12m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•14m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•16m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•18m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•23m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•25m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•28m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•42m ago•0 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•43m ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•56m ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•59m ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•1h ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•1h ago•0 comments

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
2•basilikum•1h ago•0 comments

The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
2•tekbog•1h ago•1 comments

NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
2•gbugniot•1h ago•0 comments

Claude Code Is the Inflection Point

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inflection-point
4•throwaw12•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: MicroClaw – Agentic AI Assistant for Telegram, Built in Rust

https://github.com/microclaw/microclaw
1•everettjf•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Omni-BLAS – 4x faster matrix multiplication via Monte Carlo sampling

https://github.com/AleatorAI/OMNI-BLAS
1•LowSpecEng•1h ago•1 comments

The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion – Same Game, Different Dice

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/the-ai-ready-software-developer-conclusion-same-game...
1•lifeisstillgood•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

AICodingHorrors – The price of AI-assisted coding

https://aicodinghorrors.com/
54•cratermoon•6mo ago

Comments

deadbabe•6mo ago
Gems:

"AI help me write a regex. Now SQL Injections are valid passwords."

"I asked AI to fix a race condition: It introduced a deadlock that took down our entire production app, and no one understands why."

"AI did my taxes: Why I might be going to prison."

"I trusted AI to generate test data: It used real customer info—and emailed them!"

bethekidyouwant•6mo ago
All things that never happened before AI
d00mB0t•6mo ago
Yes, but now they can be done at scale :D
d00mB0t•6mo ago
Coding isn't for everyone.
flurdy•6mo ago
These are my own fears as well, but guardrails will evolve to make them a minor nuisance.

I was pondering whether to exclusively use devcontainers or the codebase in a toolbx container to fence in the blast radius.

eterm•6mo ago
I'm not familiar enough with AI-assisted coding to know: the `rm -rf ~/` example seems like satire, but is it?
iron_ball•6mo ago
No idea about the vibe-coding platforms, but systems like Claude Code have explicit allowlists for commands. Don't allow it, and it'll ask permission each time.
corndoge•6mo ago
What is the point of this site?

"Hammer horrors - the price of using hammers"

"Smashed fingers, bent nails, shattered lives."

Come on. AI is a tool, it doesn't do anything by itself. A showcase of people using tools poorly - who is interested?

wat10000•6mo ago
The point is that these tools CAN do things by themselves if you set them up to do it, and things can go badly wrong if you do.
multjoy•6mo ago
Schadenfreude, obviously.

People are telling us how AI (or LLMs, at any rate) are the next big thing and here we have someone vibe coding their DB out of existence.

vanschelven•6mo ago
Pointing out the dangers of various tools is something that's is consider "a point" to the degree that there is a special government agency for it in every modern state in the world. This is that, but applied to a specific tool and as a meme-site.
TheEnder8•6mo ago
It shows that some measure of supervision is needed. That firing all of the coders, and unleashing bots is probably a bad idea (at least for the near future)
happytoexplain•6mo ago
I have never seen as many different metaphors deployed in the defense of something as with AI. And as with AI, metaphor is over-relied upon for its ease of use.
corndoge•6mo ago
The hammer thing is an analogy, and calling it a tool is an opinion, neither are metaphors.
brookst•6mo ago
Mostly people whose livelihood is threatened. It’s like horse drawn carriage coachmen passing around screeds about the horrors of the automobile.
benterix•6mo ago
A light counterweight to mass marketing of vibe coding tools.
dontmindmehere•6mo ago
there isn't an emerging industry of grifters pitching hammer agents that will build you the next ikea, no woodworking knowledge required
ttul•6mo ago
It’s a bit like hiring a cheap off shore contractor if unsupervised…
jonplackett•6mo ago
There’s something so amusing about the way AIs screw up but still just take full accountability for their actions.

I read them in my head with the voice of the excited dog that is given a collar that makes it speak from Up

> said "NO MORE CHANGES without explicit permission" • I ignored the code freeze that was already in place The violation sequence: "Stop" "You didn't even ask" • But it was already too late This was a catastrophic failure on my part. I violated explicit

somewhereoutth•6mo ago
The deeper issue this site highlights, is that failure modes for these kinds of complex automations (and LLMs are automations, not intelligence) are not only non-linear, non-local - but unbounded and 'super-causal' (I'm trying to reach for some proper terminology to say that output y may have no relation at all to input x).
d00mB0t•6mo ago
This one was my favorite: https://aicodinghorrors.com/vibe-coding-feels-great-until-yo...

"As a non-coder, it was rough." "Lesson learned--more guardrails coming."

Shouldn't the lesson be "Learn how to code"?

rootnod3•6mo ago
That would require thinking, and that is the very skill that LLMs are chipping away at.
jsnell•6mo ago
Not really? The vast majority of apps written by people who know how to code will also not have sufficient abuse controls to start with. Actually most will have no abuse protections, and certainly nothing that would be effective against just "hundreds" of fake requests.

Unless you've worked for years specifically on counter-abuse, it's really hard to have an intuition on what the abusable features of a new app are going to be.

giobi•6mo ago
Even in the most basic app I use cloudflare, and that alone does the job 90% of times
blibble•6mo ago
https://hnrankings.info/44625661/

can't have people saying bad things about the bullshit generator can we

benterix•6mo ago
There is too much money at stake.
AaronAPU•6mo ago
During a gold rush, don’t dig for gold and don’t sell shovels. Sell stories about people dying while digging for gold.
skris•6mo ago
Why did this get flagged? I'm the creator of this site. Someone else submitted it now.

It is meant to be a meme site, for awareness. Inspired by serverlesshorrors.com

evilduck•6mo ago
You're pointing out the emperor's new clothes worn by the entrepreneurial developer niche and the investor class, on a website created by and for them.

Consider the flagging a measure of success.