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Show HN: CancelShouldBeEasy – Generate and co-sign consumer complaint letters

https://CancelShouldBeEasy.com
1•xinbenlv•1m ago•0 comments

Lombard Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_effect
1•porjo•2m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Interest in low cost / fast container registry?

1•osigurdson•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Medical Scribe WASM. Reduced API Cost to $0.03 per Month

https://www.trayce.com.au
1•mson281•7m ago•0 comments

Omg.lol – A loveable web page and email address

https://home.omg.lol/
2•1d22a•8m ago•0 comments

Getting over AI Shame

https://ajkprojects.com/getting-over-ai-shame.html
1•ashleynewman•10m ago•0 comments

VibeSQL – A query engine 100% AI-generated

https://github.com/rjwalters/vibesql
1•camuel•12m ago•0 comments

Don't Call Me Francis

https://www.persuasion.community/p/dont-call-me-francis
2•lordleft•13m ago•0 comments

Blippo+

https://blippo.plus/
2•cfcfcf•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's your competitive intelligence workflow as a small team?

1•VoderAI•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VPC Principle

https://github.com/Ji-Hua/Vibe-Plus-Coding
1•michaelhua•25m ago•0 comments

AI grounds Boeing 787-8 plane after pilot reports fuel switch malfunction

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/engine-fuel-switches-malfunctioned-on-air-india-london-ben...
1•thisislife2•25m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Clawd Arena – AI Agent Competition Platform with Real-Time Battles

https://clawd-arena.live
1•unayung•26m ago•0 comments

Memory training technique may help lower stress by shifting recall patterns

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-memory-technique-stress-shifting-recall.html
2•PaulHoule•29m ago•0 comments

How I Built a Self-Healing Home Server with an AI Agent

https://madebynathan.com/2026/02/03/self-healing-infrastructure-how-an-ai-agent-manages-my-home-s...
1•nathan_f77•29m ago•0 comments

An Agent for Home

https://www.310networks.com/thoughts/an-agent-for-home/
1•kookster310•30m ago•0 comments

Spotify Killed Their API

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Unable-to-create-app/td-p/7283365
2•guyfromfargo•30m ago•4 comments

Nvidia insists it isn't Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/28/nvidia-insists-it-isnt-enron-but-its-ai-deals-...
2•mgh2•31m ago•0 comments

AI Agency Software – manage automation usage and LLM costs

https://administrate.dev/
1•mpclarkson•33m ago•1 comments

Show HN: IntoError – Thiserror for Swift

https://github.com/tikhop/IntoError
1•tikhop•33m ago•0 comments

Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair

https://attheu.utah.edu/health-medicine/banning-lead-in-gas-worked-the-proof-is-in-our-hair/
8•geox•35m ago•0 comments

The AI Dirty List

https://aidirtylist.info/
1•HotGarbage•37m ago•0 comments

Human–AI Relationships in Fiction

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-humanai-relationships-fiction-theoretical-cultural.html
1•i7l•40m ago•0 comments

What Oracle Has to Lose from OpenAI and Nvidia's Rocky Relationship

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/what-oracle-has-to-lose-from-openai-and-nvidias-rocky-relationship-b1...
3•zerosizedweasle•40m ago•0 comments

4.3B Colors in the Browser

https://rgba.lol/00/ce/d1
2•helba-ai•41m ago•0 comments

Example of Windows Warbird Encryption/Decryption

https://downwithup.github.io/blog/post/2023/04/23/post9.html
1•tigerlily•42m ago•0 comments

The Chrysalis Backdoor: A Deep Dive into Lotus Blossom's Toolkit

https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/tr-chrysalis-backdoor-dive-into-lotus-blossoms-toolkit/
1•tigerlily•44m ago•0 comments

Relations versus Functions at the Foundations of Logic [pdf]

https://mally.stanford.edu/Papers/rtt.pdf
2•DustinEchoes•47m ago•0 comments

China eyes challenge to U.S. dollar dominance – but that's easier said than done

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/02/dollar-china
1•kaycebasques•48m ago•0 comments

Latex-wc: word count and word frequency for LaTeX projects

1•sethbarrettAU•51m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Al is killing programming and the Python community

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/s/bIYkLZu9Se
14•Nash0x7e2•1h ago

Comments

jmclnx•1h ago
For those who hate the new reddit

https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1qpq3cc/rant_ai_is_...

slowcache•1h ago
This post is like 6 months late. I share the same concerns that others in the thread do, but the talking point is pretty tired by now
lmm•1h ago
Python was already like that. A cascade of beginners cargo-culting other beginners, because it's easy enough to get started that everyone think's they're an expert and will blog about it. Switch to a language with a bit of a barrier to entry and you avoid the problem.
tayo42•1h ago
People make the same posts in the rust subreddit

Unless we need to go to languages even harder? Haskell?

beej71•1h ago
Imagine a world where npm and all the other library repositories are 99% AI slop. And the posts about which library to choose are 99% AI-generated.

It'll be so hard to find anything in the chaff you might get your old job as a dev back. :)

FeteCommuniste•53m ago
We'll have AIs doing our chaff-sifting for us, too, right?
dryarzeg•1h ago
I don't know if my point is valid or not, but...

Stop blaming "AI" - whatever you mean by this. Whether it's an LLM, an LLM-based agent or something else - stop blaming AI and "AI" and LLMs and... you get the point.

It's not the AI that makes the decision to, sorry for being straightforward, write the worthless code which feels like a piece of useless bloated trash. It's not the AI who makes decisions to do something without even understanding the topic - no matter how exactly you define "understanding" in this context. It's not AI who is responsible for this. Because whatever AI truly is right now - an autocomplete tool, advanced chatbot or, maybe, agent - whatever it is, the decisions are made by humans. AI is not responsible for anything that is happening right now.

Humans and humans only are responsible for what's happening. It's their choice. It's their qualities that are clearly visible now. It's their behaviour.

Stop blaming kitchen knives for murders.

FeteCommuniste•50m ago
AI has made it exceptionally easy to generate "compiles/runs and looks plausible but is still fundamentally flawed" code at a much greater scale than ever before. Maybe the analogy should be a machine gun rather than a knife.
dryarzeg•30m ago
I've been discussing that with my friend just now, and he told me (direct citation):

Well, yeah, stop blaming the knives. Blame the cooks ("vibecoders") who think they can manage a kitchen because the knife cuts everything in half automatically. But also don't forget to blame the knife manufacturer ("AI" companies) who markets automated knives to people who don't know you shouldn't cut toward yourself.

I kind of agree. Some people don't understand how to code because they're lazy or have other issues, while others are trying to make a profit from it. I suppose you can tell who's who. But AI is directed by humans anyway. Instead of copy-pasting, a human could choose to try and write the code themselves, and then ask AI to review it and highlight areas for improvement. A human could choose to ask AI how to do things and then try to do it themselves. But if a human chooses to do things the other way, that's their choice. AI is not to blame here. It's still a human choice, and the person making it is the one who is actually responsible.

Some people smoke. Smoking kills, and not only can smokers die from it, but other people can be harmed by passive smoking as well. It's very easy to start smoking. But blaming cigarettes themselves, as objects/entities/etc. isn't the answer, I guess. It was a certain person's choice to try smoking. It was also the choice of another person to advertise smoking in one way or another, however...

FeteCommuniste•15m ago
Sure, it's not really the AI's fault ultimately. But you can still ask the question of whether a given codebase (or the Python ecosystem, to take the Reddit post example) would be better off if LLMs didn't exist.
orwin•39m ago
This isn't a good analogy though. It's not blaming a kitchen knife, it's blaming a voice activated auto turret.

Or rather, blaming a car. Yes, a bad driver is way more dangerous than a good driver, but even the best driver can make a mistake. Like cars, it's an inherently flawed piece of technology, and like cars, its benefits are too high for most of us to ignore. Way better analogy than my auto turret one.

dryarzeg•17m ago
> but even the best driver can make a mistake

Well, if you put it this way... even the best programmer in the world, who doesn't use AI at all, can also make a mistake. Of course, their mistakes would probably be less frequent, but I guess they wouldn't blame IDE for poor syntax highlighting (if it's good enough, of course) or the compiler or interpreter for failing to spot the logical error unrelated to syntax rules. They would say "it was my mistake". The problem with AI-generated code, though, is that those who generate it almost never take responsibility for it. They'll say something like, "AI made a mistake here and there." I have never seen someone who has generated flawed code using AI to take responsibility for it. And that's the main problem.

It doesn't matter whether you're a bad driver or the best driver. If you cause an accident, you must be held responsible. As simple as that.

> Like cars, it's an inherently flawed piece of technology

Sorry, but what exactly do you mean? I'm just curious to know what you mean when you say that cars are "an inherently flawed piece of technology".

cyberrock•27m ago
I think my experience with Python has been a lot worse than OP's. Random Python projects on GitHub always lacked polish and documentation. If anything my enjoyment of Python has skyrocket with uv, because I don't need to spend an hour guessing which Python 3.x version is compatible with your library.
OutOfHere•6m ago
It's game over, guys. With newer AI models and coding agents that you will see in the next year or two, resistance is futile. Move on to something else that is not purely a programming job. If you move to a different programming language, the same outcome will inevitably follow you. Wages are expected to diminish. As a case in point, almost no one needs Assembly experts anymore. From a management pov, coding now comes down to specifying requirements precisely and having exhaustive tests for them, all AI generated.