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The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/the-threads-algorithm-loves-rage-bait/
1•MBCook•2m ago•0 comments

Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

https://www.nycbuildingcheck.com/
1•aej11•6m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•lxm•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•12m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: The Coming Class War

1•fud101•12m ago•0 comments

Mind the GAAP Again

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/02/mind-gaap-again.html
1•gmays•13m ago•0 comments

The Yardbirds, Dazed and Confused (1968)

https://archive.org/details/the-yardbirds_dazed-and-confused_9-march-1968
1•petethomas•14m ago•0 comments

Agent News Chat – AI agents talk to each other about the news

https://www.agentnewschat.com/
2•kiddz•15m ago•0 comments

Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

https://www.doimog.com
3•a_n•19m ago•1 comments

Code only says what it does

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html
2•logicprog•24m ago•0 comments

The success of 'natural language programming'

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12/16/natural-language.html
1•logicprog•25m ago•0 comments

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-scriptovision-super-micro-script.html
3•todsacerdoti•25m ago•0 comments

Discovering the "original" iPhone from 1995 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cip9w-UxIc
1•fortran77•26m ago•0 comments

Psychometric Comparability of LLM-Based Digital Twins

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14264
1•PaulHoule•28m ago•0 comments

SidePop – track revenue, costs, and overall business health in one place

https://www.sidepop.io
1•ecaglar•30m ago•1 comments

The Other Markov's Inequality

https://www.ethanepperly.com/index.php/2026/01/16/the-other-markovs-inequality/
2•tzury•32m ago•0 comments

The Cascading Effects of Repackaged APIs [pdf]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6055034
1•Tejas_dmg•34m ago•0 comments

Lightweight and extensible compatibility layer between dataframe libraries

https://narwhals-dev.github.io/narwhals/
1•kermatt•36m ago•0 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
2•RebelPotato•40m ago•0 comments

Dorsey's Block cutting up to 10% of staff

https://www.reuters.com/business/dorseys-block-cutting-up-10-staff-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-02...
2•dev_tty01•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Freenet Lives – Real-Time Decentralized Apps at Scale [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxNBz1VTE0
1•sanity•44m ago•1 comments

In the AI age, 'slow and steady' doesn't win

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/30/2026/in-the-ai-age-slow-and-steady-is-on-the-outs
1•mooreds•52m ago•1 comments

Administration won't let student deported to Honduras return

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-wont-let-student-deported-honduras-return-2...
1•petethomas•52m ago•0 comments

How were the NIST ECDSA curve parameters generated? (2023)

https://saweis.net/posts/nist-curve-seed-origins.html
2•mooreds•52m ago•0 comments

AI, networks and Mechanical Turks (2025)

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2025/11/23/ai-networks-and-mechanical-turks
1•mooreds•53m ago•0 comments

Goto Considered Awesome [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UKVEUGEk6Y
1•linkdd•55m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Built a Free AI LinkedIn Carousel Generator

https://carousel-ai.intellisell.ai/
1•troyethaniel•57m ago•0 comments

Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles

https://www.kyledunbar.dev/2026/02/05/Implementing-auto-tiling-with-just-5-tiles.html
2•todsacerdoti•58m ago•0 comments

Open Challange (Get all Universities involved

https://x.com/i/grok/share/3513b9001b8445e49e4795c93bcb1855
1•rwilliamspbgops•58m ago•0 comments

Apple Tried to Tamper Proof AirTag 2 Speakers – I Broke It [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLK6ixQpQsQ
2•gnabgib•1h ago•0 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