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Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•22s ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
1•roknovosel•28s ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•8m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•9m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•11m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•11m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
1•surprisetalk•11m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
2•pseudolus•12m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•12m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•13m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•13m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
3•obscurette•14m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•19m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•21m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•21m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•22m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
7•derriz•22m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A fast TUI for managing Azure Key Vault secrets written in Rust

https://github.com/jkoessle/akv-tui-rs
1•jkoessle•23m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•24m ago•0 comments

Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting?

2•MicroWagie•26m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
2•edward•27m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•29m ago•1 comments

Neutron Scans Reveal Hidden Water in Martian Meteorite

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/neutron-scans-reveal-hidden-water-in-famous-martian-meteorite
2•geox•30m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
2•fortran77•31m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Why are AI code editors not continuously working?

1•sigalor•1mo ago
I am getting more and more baffled by the incompetency of AI code editor developers. Why not simply have a "janitor" always running in the background, doing exactly the right refactorings, ensuring clean, well-tested code etc.? It would help so much against the AI slop problem. And it would be so simple to implement: Just some intelligent prompting or even static and dynamic analysis to detect re-occurring patterns in code and execution paths.

Comments

codingdave•1mo ago
> doing exactly the right refactorings

Are you aware of any LLM models that can do that?

baobun•1mo ago
> And it would be so simple to implement: Just some intelligent prompting or even static and dynamic analysis to detect re-occurring patterns in code and execution paths.

So just do it, then? Or are you just as incompentent yourself?

sigalor•1mo ago
Oh of course I am, do you think I would need AI editors otherwise?
baobun•1mo ago
Maybe you are not as good a judge of difficulty of what you are proposing and others competence as you believe.
icedchai•1mo ago
It's not the fault of the "code editor developers." The underlying technology, GenAI, is non-deterministic. When you add input that varies widely in quality (prompts, existing code) what you describe is actually quite difficult.
delaminator•1mo ago
There is a tension between provider and user.

Like a gym membership the provider wants you to pay a monthly fee and not use it 24/7.

That’s one of the reasons Claude Code has short OAuth renew times. If you run it in a loop, it eventually asks you to login - and it is not time based as far as I can tell.

On PAYG you’d be paying for endless “nothing to do” messages.

But as others have pointed out, the end user is the AI code editor developer. As you might have realised - I do have “always running in the background” agents.

But mine use GitHub (and our local hosted Gogs) actions on the issue trackers to run the agents on demand rather than continuously crawling the code.

I use labels to co-ordinate add-feature, add-documents, fix-bug etc. to determine which agent takes a look and have custom prompts for each label.