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Show HN: 26/02/26 – 5 songs in a day

https://playingwith.variousbits.net/saturday
1•dmje•1m ago•0 comments

Toroidal Logit Bias – Reduce LLM hallucinations 40% with no fine-tuning

https://github.com/Paraxiom/topological-coherence
1•slye514•3m ago•1 comments

Top AI models fail at >96% of tasks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-failed-test-on-remote-freelance-jobs/
3•codexon•3m ago•1 comments

The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/
1•NaOH•4m ago•0 comments

Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115820462402673&w=2
2•birdculture•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: a glimpse into the future of eye tracking for multi-agent use

https://github.com/dchrty/glimpsh
1•dochrty•8m ago•0 comments

The Optima-l Situation: A deep dive into the classic humanist sans-serif

https://micahblachman.beehiiv.com/p/the-optima-l-situation
2•subdomain•9m ago•0 comments

Barn Owls Know When to Wait

https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-barn-owls-know-when-to-wait/
1•fintler•9m ago•0 comments

Implementing TCP Echo Server in Rust [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOBZ_Xzuio
1•sheerluck•9m ago•0 comments

LicGen – Offline License Generator (CLI and Web UI)

1•tejavvo•12m ago•0 comments

Service Degradation in West US Region

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status?gsid=5616bb85-f380-4a04-85ed-95674eec3d87&utm_source=...
2•_____k•13m ago•0 comments

The Janitor on Mars

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/26/the-janitor-on-mars
1•evo_9•15m ago•0 comments

Bringing Polars to .NET

https://github.com/ErrorLSC/Polars.NET
3•CurtHagenlocher•16m ago•0 comments

Adventures in Guix Packaging

https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html
1•todsacerdoti•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We had 20 Claude terminals open, so we built Orcha

1•buildingwdavid•18m ago•0 comments

Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-07-your-best-thinking-is-wasted-on-the-wrong-decis...
1•iand675•18m ago•0 comments

Warcraftcn/UI – UI component library inspired by classic Warcraft III aesthetics

https://www.warcraftcn.com/
1•vyrotek•19m ago•0 comments

Trump Vodka Becomes Available for Pre-Orders

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirkogunrinde/2025/12/01/trump-vodka-becomes-available-for-pre-order...
1•stopbulying•20m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•23m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•27m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•29m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
2•Anon84•33m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•34m ago•1 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•35m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•42m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
2•shervinafshar•44m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•48m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
10•mooreds•49m ago•4 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•50m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

DiLLeMma

https://media1.tenor.com/m/auIHDOEiIFoAAAAd/dumb-thats-dumb.gif
1•r0x0r007•1mo ago

Comments

r0x0r007•1mo ago
We, as developers are currenty using a technology where: - we add things like 'You are an expert developer/DBA/{whatever}' to improve its performance - we add things like 'please' to make it work better - we no longer code, we write novels that describe code(features) - we pretend to be doing technical work, when all we do is write english, often yelling and cursing at the technology From the wannabe millionaire perspective that looks at devs and engineers like expenses, I get it. You write what you want and you are promised to get it.

But as developers we need to push back and point out few things, beacuse of professionalism and safety: - To describe a feature and get it, there are only 2 ways: - LLM is soooo amazingly good and knows not just to code, but what you need, what you meant and what you didn't mean, it knows your business, knows your clients it knows everything, it works alone it is amazing. This will never happen, and certainly not with this technology. - You are a technical user that is able to describe to llm exactly what you want, all the important steps, and all the edge cases and important stuff. Then you review it's code, fix it, prompt it more and so on. In this case, there are several big issues: - you already need to be a fairly experienced technical person (which kind of beats the whole LLM point) - you need to prompt the shi* out of it to make it work - you need to spend many a hours debugging issues around code you didn't write - you don't remember the code cause you didn't write it - how can you add new features if you didn't write the code? Tests? If LLM wrote them what's the point? These are pretty serious roadblocks, why aren't people talking about them? Why the fuc* are we doing todo apps instead? If llm's do everything what about new concepts, programming languages,paradigms? Are we supposed to use same forms, code block for everything forever? That might even be a good thing if the code was well written! But the crux of it is, programming is technical, if you don't write code you are not programming and are not meant to be churning out code. People could get hurt. And llm is not at fault, you are, check the contracts and warnings. If you are not programmming and are instead prompting, you should think about switching to alternate carrer like a novelist or scriptwriter. All is good, I just kind of wanted to ask you, did you actually buy the ticket and board the AI train?

turtleyacht•1mo ago
> knows your business... will never happen

Why not?

> new concepts, programming languages, paradigms

We're seeing AI-assisted proofs, drug discovery, and novel materials & methods.

> novelist or scriptwriter

That's interesting, because in some sense the book or screenplay is a "program" to persuade someone to suspend belief, or to finish reading it and "go to" the next step (acquire film rights, update their worldview, etc).