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Dev with 5 of experience switched to Rails, what should I be careful about?

1•vampiregrey•1m ago•0 comments

AlphaFace: High Fidelity and Real-Time Face Swapper Robust to Facial Pose

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16429
1•PaulHoule•2m ago•0 comments

Scientists discover “levitating” time crystals that you can hold in your hand

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/february/scientists-discover--levitating--t...
1•hhs•4m ago•0 comments

Rammstein – Deutschland (C64 Cover, Real SID, 8-bit – 2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VReIuv1GFo
1•erickhill•5m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam

1•Philpax•5m ago•0 comments

Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ)

https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq
1•Lwrless•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone

https://github.com/kjnez/django-rclone
1•cui•11m ago•1 comments

NY lawmakers proposed statewide data center moratorium

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/ny-lawmakers-proposed-statewide-data-center-morat...
1•geox•13m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok – these scientists are listening in

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
2•EA-3167•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent forgets user preferences every session. This fixes it

https://www.pref0.com/
5•fliellerjulian•15m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
2•DustinEchoes•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SSHcode – Always-On Claude Code/OpenCode over Tailscale and Hetzner

https://github.com/sultanvaliyev/sshcode
1•sultanvaliyev•17m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/microsoft-appointed-a-quality-czar-he-has-no-direct-reports-and-no-b...
2•RickJWagner•19m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent coordination on Claude Code: 8 production pain points and patterns

https://gist.github.com/sigalovskinick/6cc1cef061f76b7edd198e0ebc863397
1•nikolasi•20m ago•0 comments

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
7•jbegley•20m ago•1 comments

DevXT – Building the Future with AI That Acts

https://devxt.com
2•superpecmuscles•21m ago•4 comments

A Minimal OpenClaw Built with the OpenCode SDK

https://github.com/CefBoud/MonClaw
1•cefboud•21m ago•0 comments

The silent death of Good Code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
3•amitprasad•22m ago•0 comments

The Internal Negotiation You Have When Your Heart Rate Gets Uncomfortable

https://www.vo2maxpro.com/blog/internal-negotiation-heart-rate
1•GoodluckH•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Glance – Fast CSV inspection for the terminal (SIMD-accelerated)

https://github.com/AveryClapp/glance
2•AveryClapp•24m ago•0 comments

Busy for the Next Fifty to Sixty Bud

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/busy-for-the-next-fifty-to-sixty-had-all-my-money-in-bitcoin-...
1•mithradiumn•25m ago•0 comments

Imperative

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/imperative
1•mithradiumn•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I decomposed 87 tasks to find where AI agents structurally collapse

https://github.com/XxCotHGxX/Instruction_Entropy
2•XxCotHGxX•30m ago•1 comments

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

https://www.theverge.com/report/875077/linux-was-a-mistake
3•timpera•31m ago•1 comments

Octrafic – open-source AI-assisted API testing from the CLI

https://github.com/Octrafic/octrafic-cli
1•mbadyl•32m ago•1 comments

US Accuses China of Secret Nuclear Testing

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-has-been-clear-wanting-new-nuclear-arms-control-treaty-...
3•jandrewrogers•33m ago•2 comments

Peacock. A New Programming Language

2•hashhooshy•38m ago•1 comments

A postcard arrived: 'If you're reading this I'm dead, and I really liked you'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/02/07/postcard-death-teacher-glickman/
4•bookofjoe•39m ago•1 comments

What to know about the software selloff

https://www.morningstar.com/markets/what-know-about-software-stock-selloff
2•RickJWagner•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Syntux – generative UI for websites, not agents

https://www.getsyntux.com/
3•Goose78•43m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months, and it created a genz programming language

https://ghuntley.com/cursed/
20•imasl42•5mo ago

Comments

BugsJustFindMe•5mo ago
I'm sorry but substituting keywords does not make a new language.

You waited 3 months for a list of arbitrarily selected find/replace terms.

> how much did this cost - 1/4th of a San Francisco software engineer's monthly salary

Man, I really hope this isn't true. Spending 1/4 of an SF software engineer's monthly salary to set the planet on fire for a list of arbitrary and phenomenally-googleable find/replace terms demonstrates only bad qualities.

swader999•5mo ago
Bro, it's literally giving new language energy. Enjoy your semicolons boomer!
roxolotl•5mo ago
Yea I’d expect Claude to be able to one shot this and I’m pretty pessimistic about the capability of these tools. I’m just so bewildered by posts like this.
vidarh•5mo ago
One-shot a regexp, sure. One-shot a full compiler, not a chance.

Check out the repository - it has a full compiler that produces binaries, and a bunch of additional tooling. Doing that, even if he'd asked for a compiler for an existing language with no changes, is impressive.

philipp-gayret•5mo ago
Well, that was the author's intent. The prompt was:

> Hey, can you make me a programming language like Golang but all the lexical keywords are swapped so they're Gen Z slang?

vidarh•5mo ago
The language is the least interesting part of this. What is interesting is if it was truly built with a simple loop and without manual involvement to produce a working compiler (albeit with fairly cursed code... 5.5kloc for a parser for a grammar that appears this simple is not great)

Sadly, the linked page glosses over the specifics of the setup and instead focused on the less interesting parts..

BugsJustFindMe•5mo ago
It produced...something, alright. Something that can be replaced by a very small shell script.
vidarh•5mo ago
And that is entirely irrelevant, as the purpose was to produce a compiler.

As an experiment this is amazing in terms of telling us a lot about how capable these tools are. Most developers would not be capable of producing a working compiler and the associated tooling in this kind of timeframe.

pxndxx•5mo ago
Some of the keywords are quite sus, but I enjoyed the boolean literals being based/cringe.
rich_sasha•5mo ago
For completeness: how much does this cost? Asking as a dinosaur normie who has never paid for LLMs. Genuinely curious.
sethaurus•5mo ago
According to the author[0], the total spend was $14k USD.

[0]: https://x.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/1965295152962097550

vidarh•5mo ago
3 versions... Yikes. But the output, while messy, is still impressive, and makes me wonder how much you could trim that down by giving more comprehensive instructions.
4b11b4•5mo ago
I consider this adjacent to AI psychosis...
dobladov•5mo ago
This is the software equivalent of purchasing a 3d printing without goals and printing all those useless toys that will be used once and forgotten
juancn•5mo ago
I kinda like that `var` is `sus`.
EmptyCoffeeCup•5mo ago
Confused...

If "struct" is "squad"

Why is it "struct" in his example?

arunix•5mo ago
Recently, I wondered what would happen if two of these systems were set up doing mutual pair programming ...
marak830•5mo ago
You can test that out. Ollama does allow you to run open source models at home. I've been playing around with a bit lately and have been really enjoying it.

On my to do list is two models running at once and building a middle layer for them to interact.

vidarh•4mo ago
One of my fun experiments recently has been putting ChatGPT in conversation mode when I go for a walk. I recently had a 45 minute conversation where "we" fleshed out a multi-agent platform. I think a key is that you need to give each agent an "inner conversation" and criteria for when output from it gets copied to the other agents and the main chat, coupled with a process to regularly compact. I intend to set up a test system I want to run continuously, and given I enjoy working on compilers maybe I'll see how much cheaper you can do something like what OP did if you orchestrator a few agents with domain knowledge in specific areas.

I think I'd want to test a state of the art model, but it'd be fascinating to see how far you can get with Ollama as well - especially whether you can compensate for less smarts by just giving it far more runtime than I could afford with e.g. Claude.