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Logic Puzzles: Why the Liar Is the Helpful One

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/knights-and-knaves/
1•wasabi991011•9m ago•0 comments

Optical Combs Help Radio Telescopes Work Together

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/03/optical-combs-help-radio-telescopes-work-together/
1•toomuchtodo•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Myanon – fast, deterministic MySQL dump anonymizer

https://github.com/ppomes/myanon
1•pierrepomes•20m ago•0 comments

The Tao of Programming

http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
1•alexjplant•21m ago•0 comments

Forcing Rust: How Big Tech Lobbied the Government into a Language Mandate

https://medium.com/@ognian.milanov/forcing-rust-how-big-tech-lobbied-the-government-into-a-langua...
1•akagusu•21m ago•0 comments

PanelBench: We evaluated Cursor's Visual Editor on 89 test cases. 43 fail

https://www.tryinspector.com/blog/code-first-design-tools
2•quentinrl•23m ago•1 comments

Can You Draw Every Flag in PowerPoint? (Part 2) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BztF7MODsKI
1•fgclue•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP-baepsae – MCP server for iOS Simulator automation

https://github.com/oozoofrog/mcp-baepsae
1•oozoofrog•32m ago•0 comments

Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety

https://github.com/Deso-PK/make-trust-irrelevant
2•DesoPK•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sem – Semantic diffs and patches for Git

https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/
1•rs545837•37m ago•1 comments

Hello world does not compile

https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1
23•mfiguiere•43m ago•9 comments

Show HN: ZigZag – A Bubble Tea-Inspired TUI Framework for Zig

https://github.com/meszmate/zigzag
3•meszmate•45m ago•0 comments

Metaphor+Metonymy: "To love that well which thou must leave ere long"(Sonnet73)

https://www.huckgutman.com/blog-1/shakespeare-sonnet-73
1•gsf_emergency_6•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django N+1 Queries Checker

https://github.com/richardhapb/django-check
1•richardhapb•1h ago•1 comments

Emacs-tramp-RPC: High-performance TRAMP back end using JSON-RPC instead of shell

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•todsacerdoti•1h ago•0 comments

Protocol Validation with Affine MPST in Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev
1•o8vm•1h ago•1 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
3•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Zest – A hands-on simulator for Staff+ system design scenarios

https://staff-engineering-simulator-880284904082.us-west1.run.app/
1•chanip0114•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: DeSync – Decentralized Economic Realm with Blockchain-Based Governance

https://github.com/MelzLabs/DeSync
1•0xUnavailable•1h ago•0 comments

Automatic Programming Returns

https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html
1•benrules2•1h ago•1 comments

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation [pdf]

https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/Why%20Are%20there%20Still%20So%20Many%...
2•oidar•1h ago•0 comments

The Search Engine Map

https://www.searchenginemap.com
1•cratermoon•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Souls.directory – SOUL.md templates for AI agent personalities

https://souls.directory
1•thedaviddias•1h ago•0 comments

Real-Time ETL for Enterprise-Grade Data Integration

https://tabsdata.com
1•teleforce•1h ago•0 comments

Economics Puzzle Leads to a New Understanding of a Fundamental Law of Physics

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/economics-puzzle-leads-to-a-new-understanding-of-a-fundamental...
3•geox•1h ago•1 comments

Switzerland's Extraordinary Medieval Library

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260202-inside-switzerlands-extraordinary-medieval-library
4•bookmtn•1h ago•0 comments

A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight?

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-comet-visible-broad-daylight.html
5•bookmtn•1h ago•0 comments

ESR: Comes the news that Anthropic has vibecoded a C compiler

https://twitter.com/esrtweet/status/2019562859978539342
2•tjr•1h ago•0 comments

Frisco residents divided over H-1B visas, 'Indian takeover' at council meeting

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2026/02/04/frisco-residents-divided-over-h-1b-visas-indi...
5•alephnerd•1h ago•5 comments

If CNN Covered Star Wars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vArJg_SU4Lc
1•keepamovin•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Google CEO Pushes 'Vibe Coding' – But Real Developers Know It's Not Magic

https://www.interviewquery.com/p/ai-coding-vibe-coding-explained
14•birdculture•2mo ago

Comments

VerifiedReports•2mo ago
Abolish this stupid, non-descriptive term.
codyswann•2mo ago
It's very problematic for companies, mainly because of the tooling. Large companies are equating lovable, replit, bold, V0 with Claude Code, Codex, etc all under the "Vibe Coding" banner.

I try to fit the former under the banner of "Prompt-to-app Tools" and the latter as "Autonomous AI Engineering"

VerifiedReports•2mo ago
Better for sure.

The ascendancy of non-descriptive, jargon for everything is irritating as hell. If something is supposed to mean "AI-generated code" then it needs to contain at least the important word from that description. Sad that this has to be explained now.

more_corn•2mo ago
That seems like a very shortsighted thing to do. Does he not understand the limitations of LLM generated code?
weikju•2mo ago
He understands how to hype and increase the value of his shares. Everything else is insignificant
burnt-resistor•2mo ago
It's all about wrecking the economic futures of millions for a handful of billionaires to become trillionaires. Anyone who aids them is complicit in digging their own grave and graves for their friends and colleagues. Actions have moral and ethical consequences.
aixpert•2mo ago
i'm a real developer and it is absolutely magic! if someone showed me a demo of talking to a computer which works for one hour to find and fix my bugs all on its own five years ago I'd definitely call it magic and I still call it magic.

does it make a mistakes? yes sometimes but you can verify with tests or with lean.

aurareturn•2mo ago
Agreed. Imagine if a developer was in a comma for 3 years, wakes up, and sees a state of the art coding agent for the first time.
brazukadev•2mo ago
They'll be impressed for a few months and then start to notice where it fails.
aurareturn•2mo ago
It's not perfect. When you hire a new software dev, you'll quickly notice where he/she fails too.
jxixjxjx•2mo ago
I experience(d) the same level of magic when I throw keywords into google and get relevant results back. LLMs are just an extension of this kind of magic.

Their efficacy opens up a lot more possibility, but given they’re not AGI (without getting into a definitions debate) a lot of the magic is gone. Nothing fundamentally changed. I still use them a lot and they’re great, but it’s not a new paradigm (which I would then call magic).

I think the key point here too is LLMs demo like magic. You see the happy path and you think we have AGI. You show me of 10 years ago the happy path and I’d be floored until I talked to me of now and got the whole story.

cpldcpu•2mo ago
I am not a professional software developer but instead more of multi-domain system architect and I have to say it is absolutely magical!

The public discourse about LLM assisted coding is often driven by front end developers or rather non-professionals trying to build web apps, but the value it brings to prototyping system concepts across hardware/software domains can hardly be understated.

Instead of trying to find suitable simulation environments and trying to couple them, I can simply whip up a gui based tool to play around with whatever signal chain/optimization problem/control I want to investigate. Usually I would have to find/hire people to do this, but using LLMs I can iterate ideas at a crazy cadence.

Later, implementation does of course require proper engineering.

That said, it is often confusing how different models are hyped. As mentioned, there is an overt focus on front end design etc. For the work I am doing, I found Claude 4.5 (both models) to be absolutely unchallenged. Gemini 3 Pro is also getting there, but long term agentic capability still needs to catch up. GPT 5.1/codex is excellent for brainstorming in the UX, but I found it too unresponsive and intransparent as a code assistant. It does not even matter if it can solve bugs other llms cannot find, because you should not put yourself into a situation where you don't understand the system you are building.

snowfield•2mo ago
Agreed, I know Networks, requests, protocols, Auth flow etc but is been years since I actually coded stuff

This is magical to me.

I love cursor, I use it to deploy docker packages and fix npm issues etc too :p

I use some guardrails, like SonarQube as static code analyzer and of course some default linters. Checks and balances