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Show HN: ArguSeek – Agent‑first deep‑search API for hard‑to‑find dev answers
by justagoat | 2025-07-15 19:50:38+00:00
Hi HN,

Even the smartest AI coding agents stall when the fix isn’t in their training data. AgruSeek runs an agentic search loop across ~30 M developer sources to dig up solutions normal web search misses.

REAL‑WORLD USES

• Found an undocumented `--runtime‑bypass` flag (buried in a 2017 gist)

• Pulled actual Claude Code pricing from forum anecdotes - no “contact us” paywalls

• Traced a race condition by cross‑linking five issue trackers across forks

WHY POST NOW

We’ve abused AgruSeek internally for three weeks; we’d love outside stress tests. Access is free (limited seats for Beta, no saleswall).

Would love to get your feedback.

Thanks! — Nadav & the tiny AgruSeek crew
by eqvinox | 2025-07-15 19:50:45+00:00
I think the scaling parameters are a bit different here since the primary concern is the DSP power processing and correlating for MIMO 19 signals simultaneously. But the 16W figure for a 120km 400Gbps module includes a high-powered¹ transmitter amplifier & laser, as well as receive amplifiers on top of the DSP. My estimate is based on O(n²) scaling for 19×19 MIMO (=361) and then assuming 2≈3W of DSP power per unit factor.

[but now that I think about it… I think my estimate is indeed too low; I was assuming commonplace transceivers for the unit factor, i.e. ≤1Tb; but a petabit on 19 cores is still 53Tb per core…]

¹ note the setup in this paper has separate amplifiers in 86.1km steps, so the transmitter doesn't need to be particularly high powered.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-15 19:50:52+00:00
> The act of sitting yourself in the cinema with other people to actively engage with a movie transforms the experience.

To share an anecdote to counter this, a group of ~10 people gathered at a friends house to watch a movie none of us had seen. At the end of the movie, we all got up in a similar state and we then spent quite a bit of time talking about that shared experience. It was probably one of the coolest group movie watching experiences to date.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-07-15 19:51:11+00:00
What specifically do you find to be mediocre? I feel like LLMs write better than most people I know, myself included.

There could be a mismatch on what the state of the art really is these days. In my experience, since the release of GPT-4 and especially 4o, ChatGPT has been able to do the vast majority of concrete things people tell me it can't do.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-15 19:51:26+00:00
With OSS, unless every add-on is part of the build tree or package repo testing... it quickly becomes broken as the ecosystem constantly evolves.

i.e. of the $3k of community Blender plugins/add-ons we evaluated last year, only around 60% are still functional in stable blender releases. Additionally, many built-in core features like Fracture became broken in 4.x due to API permutations, and getting split into its own module.

In a production environment one must version lock Blender for the project. =3
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-07-15 19:52:13+00:00
> Meanwhile, Bitcoin has been around for 17 years and there still are no non-criminal use cases apart from buying it and hoping it will be worth more in the future.

That is plain and simply false. It works just fine as a currency, and some legitimate businesses even accept it. I think it's true that Bitcoin is not particularly useful, but that's not the same as there being no non-criminal use cases.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-15 19:52:43+00:00
Rather myopic and crude take, in my opinion. Because if I bring out a net, it doesn't change the woods for others. If I introduce AI into society, it does change society for others, even those who don't want to use the tool. You have really no conception of subtlety or logic.

If someone says driving at 200mph is unsafe, then your argument is like saying "driving at any speed is unsafe". Fact is, you need to consider the magnitude and speed of the technology's power and movement, which you seem incapable of doing.
by librasteve | 2025-07-15 19:53:03+00:00
Speaking on behalf of the superficial camp, I admire the Rust core regex focus on linear performance and I can well believe that it is based on recent theoretical work.

Splitting the regex features between some core ones that meet a DoS standard and some non-core modules that do other "convenience" features makes sense as a trade off for Rust. It would not make sense in a scripting language like Raku where the weight is on coder expressiveness and making it easier / faster to write working code.

I seem to have hit a seam of intense implementation guys - and they are holding their own since they know their stuff.

I think there is room for improvement BOTH with new system language / core performance innovation AND with advancing the PCRE regex syntax (largely unchanged since the 1990s) and merging it seamlessly with standard language support for Grammars.
by inglor_cz | 2025-07-15 19:53:28+00:00
I'd be surprised if this was the only reason.

Generally, in mixed-gender groups aged 13+, you will have some dating activity and a subsequent drama / bad blood from various heartbreaks and betrayals. Having to sit in the same classroom makes everything emotionally worse.

This is somewhat less of a problem if the same activites take place outside school and thus are less likely to complicate relationships within the class.
by zahlman | 2025-07-15 19:53:32+00:00
> But somehow these days if it's not all polished, HN "hackers" aren't interested.

The fun part is that these days, typically the READMEs (especially) and licensing and documentation and maybe even the packaging setup are "polished"; the actual code (and perhaps the tests), not so much. It's quite backwards from what you expect from humans writing new code based on personal intrinsic motivation.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-15 19:53:51+00:00
It competes with a lot of other things.

If I cared about portability and wanted something small I'd probably go for an Olympus 4/3 camera. I find that 50MP in full frame is a lot of pixels -- when my body failed I thought about getting a 7R (more pixels) series because I wanted to do focus stacking for flowers but I do a lot of sports stuff and come back with 1000 photos from a game and don't need to double the size. So I could live with less than full frame if I cared more about small.

As a semi-pro photographer I have an investment of more than that in bodies and glass not to mention flashes, tripods and stuff. Often I think "wouldn't it be nice to have a kit which is more compact?" but my photog friends remind me "are you going to give up any quality for that?" So I don't see myself paying pro prices for anything that isn't pro in every way.
by ben_w | 2025-07-15 19:53:55+00:00
> It's pretty obvious that the play right now is to lock down the AI as much as possible and use that to facilitate control over every system it gets integrated with. Right now there's too many active players to shut out random developers, but there's an ongoing trend of companies backing away from releasing open weight models.

More the opposite, despite the obvious investment incentive to do as you say to have any hope of a return on investment. OpenAI *tried* to make that a trend with GPT-2 on the grounds that it's irresponsible to give out a power tool in the absence of any idea of what "safety tests" even mean in that context, but lots of people mocked them for it and it looks like only them and Anthropic take such risks seriously. Or possibly just Anthropic, depending how cynical you are about Altman.
by FiloSottile | 2025-07-15 19:54:01+00:00
Huh, iCloud Keychain supports the prf extension when used with Chrome, so I had assumed they added support to Safari as well, but I just tested it and sure enough, you're right.

Edit: well https://webauthn-passkeys-prf-demo.explore.corbado.com/ works with an iCloud Keychain passkey on Safari on macOS 15.5, but Typage doesn't work with a YubiKey 5, so there is some support (the MDN data is out of date) but also something weird.
by korse | 2025-07-15 19:54:33+00:00
It is also possible to appropriate an established community by bringing in new members over time with views opposing the founding principles. This is much easier if the leadership preaches tolerance.

This is one of those things that is kind of hard to say without people getting triggered because of negative stereotypes but sometimes you have to stand up for principles and kick people out of social groups to keep a good thing going.
by kenjackson | 2025-07-15 19:54:53+00:00
I think this is both right and wrong. There was a good book that came out probably 15 years ago about how technology never stops in aggregate, but individual technologies tend to grow quickly and then stall. Airplane jets were one example in the book. The reason why I partially note this as wrong is that even in the 70s people recognized that supersonic travel had real concrete issues with no solution in sight. I don't think LLMs share that characteristic today.

A better example, also in the book, are skyscrapers. Each year they grew and new ones were taller than the ones last year. The ability to build them and traverse them increased each year with new technologies to support it. There wasn't a general consensus around issues that would stop growth (except at more extremes like air pressure). But the growth did stop. No one even has expectations of taller skyscrapers any more.

LLMs may fail to advance, but not because of any consensus reason that exists today. And it maybe that they serve their purpose to build something on top of them which ends up being far more revolutionary than LLMs. This is more like the path of electricity -- electricity in itself isn't that exciting nowadays, but almost every piece of technology built uses it.

I fundamentally find it odd that people seem so against AI. I get the potential dystopian future, which I also don't want. But the more mundane annoyance seems odd to me.
by reactordev | 2025-07-15 19:55:04+00:00
>And in a way, as an engineer, that's what I want to be doing anyway…

Yuk. That’s pure project management.

> If, in the future, PMs can launch whole features without engineers writing a line of code, that's awesome.

No it’s not! Because then, there is no incentive to engineer anything anymore. Just let the AI do it, Yey! Need new features? Let the AI do it! Need to fix your infrastructure, AI has your back! Has your product gotten so unwieldy that you have context rot and AI can’t do it anymore? Pivot, throw it away, rebuild with AI, who needs engineers.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-07-15 19:55:20+00:00
I think both things can be true:

1. This is a great time to get your hands dirty with LLM tech and explore workflows and tooling that bring you joy.

2. The writing around this exploration is often low quality insights or low quality engagement bait that leads to flamewars. Engagement bait that often takes one of two forms. One being a novella on how surely this time the human race is doomed due to singularity/capture by the rich/fascism/etc. The other being how we're one cm away from utopia because automation/flourishing of creativity/etc.

I am enjoying playing around with the tech a lot but the presence of 2 is just annoying. I do think that's an HN problem and not a problem with tech writing as a whole. There's subreddits that, while they have their own problems, are a lot less flamey when discussing these topics.
by FerkiHN | 2025-07-15 19:56:11+00:00
For example, my favorite programming language is the C programming language, it offers endless possibilities (I know it's complicated, but I like everything and I don't see any difficulties), I've already done a lot of cool things github projects, and one of them is: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-image...

I don't want to be greedy, but please, if you can, support me by putting a star on the repository, you will help me develop the project. :)
by waldopat | 2025-07-15 19:56:14+00:00
Sure thing. TL:DR; If your market won't even respond to a friendly email or outreach for you to learn from them (not sell), how will you market to them later? That's your first test. Can you talk to 20 people who you think are your ICP?

Here are some pearls of wisdom from over a decade building B2B SaaS aka there are no hacks:

1) It's definitely easier to build a product than to build a business. VCs invest in businesses.

2) Sales & Marketing need to be a step or two ahead of product development (as a product person, I hate to say this but it's true) so that you build the thing the market wants, not just what the founder wants

3) It's a grind. All the break out successes are either outliers or took 7 years of hard knocks to get there or are well capitalized and the founders have diluted themselves away. Either way, it's a grind

4) Do not skip customer discovery. Feel free to pick up a heavy book by Steve Blank to learn more, but this is probably the most important step. I see so, so, so many startups in GSD mode and realize they don't actually know their market

5) Your founding team needs to lead marketing, sales and product, not hired guns, fractionals or advisors. You'll spend a lot of money going nowhere if you're not careful.
by hobs | 2025-07-15 19:57:46+00:00
Because convincing the owners of the house they have a shaky foundation and you have a cheap fix matters more than the actual integrity and the fix.

There's no question that the predictions around LLMs are shaking up the industry - see mass layoffs and offers for 8 figures to individual contributors. The question is will it materially change things for the better? no idea.
by wellwellwell2 | 2025-07-15 19:58:04+00:00
> ('Wrongquote':) Whether your mind is engaged or not seems unrelated to any video.

heck...damn... that was a lot of fun in the Job's area, steve Jobs official presented his 1st Ipad showing an interactive Book for children but also adults, and for sure there was something to learn.

> But... Does it also let you unset any limits?

Nah they never released any well known interactive books as far as i know, so i didn't bought that ipad. But was interested in the 'screen-only'-technology since 2003 (bought my first tablet PC around 2005)...

A few days ago, there was a topic about the book 'neuromancer' could you even imagine such a book as interactive (not a game) ?

It may took years and a hell of a crowd to finish something like that satisfying enough to get only a niche of people.

HINT: The Message of the Book (the Punk-Part) was about: 'Everybody needs money (Products) so you have to get a job.'

Quoting more "nonsens" but remarkable;

It's quite possible to live with websites. Nothing else.

Clue: Apps let you set a limit on withdrawals when you are away from home.

(edited: found some typos^^) You enjoyed the ads, but do you enjoy the products designed to optimize Clickrates and funnel conversions?

And if it was too OT, think just a random person typing something...never mind...

ᬛ btw: google didn't show, what does that mean - it has more speculated 'space' one screen than the regular charsetting, tinyer chars i had known and seen before...but... ??
by echelon | 2025-07-15 19:58:28+00:00
I wouldn't want to go from modal to non-modal.

In fact, I have a hard time editing in web browser textareas and Google Docs because of the muscle memory of vimlike keybindings and how I've associated them with tactile keyboards. (Smartphones and tablets don't give me this problem since they feel different, but laptop/desktop Google Docs editing throws me for a loop.)

Once you learn, modal is the way to go. It feels like playing a piano over an AST. It's so elegant for code and syntax trees.

I've been using vim keybindings in vim and vimlikes (JetBrains IDEs and VS Code) for nearly twenty years now. I learned most of it within just my first three months and have picked up additional surface area every year. I would still call myself a novice relative to vim masters, but you can get a ton of value from the basic movements and chords and occasional macros. All that to say, the learning curve might look steep, but it's shallower than you think and certainly well worth it.

The only reason I'd see non-modal being useful in a modal editor is as a crunch to learn and make the onboarding smoother. But you'd probably still want the first steps to be modal anyway, so I'm not sure it would provide much value.

Just jump in. It feels weird and slow at first, but let it grow on you. It pays dividends.
by leakycap | 2025-07-15 19:59:06+00:00
I assumed it would be an unpaid bidder given the recent issues on getting paid for these high-profile auctions, but the article says

> He laughed when he looked at the brand who bought it and said, “It’s funny,” but didn’t disclose the name.

I bet eBay was happy with their cut on this auction if the payment is successful. If I'd ran the world's laughingstock of a festival I'd be happy for $5 branding rights, this guy has more luck than he deserves.
by frankfrank13 | 2025-07-15 19:59:17+00:00
> As often as OpenAI is maligned in the press, everyone I met there is actually trying to do the right thing

I doubt many people would say something contrary to this about their (former) colleagues, which means we should always take this with a (large) grain of salt.

Do I think (most) AT&T employees wanted to let the NSA spy on us? Probably not. Google engineers and ICE? Palantir and.. well idk i think everyone there knows what Palantir does.
by naravara | 2025-07-15 19:59:33+00:00
It’s a shame the evolution to DVD and later Blu-ray went with the VCD/CD size rather than Laserdisc sized discs. It was the right call for the time, that makes them much easier to transport and store and allowed the players to double as CD players and let game consoles double as blu-ray/HDDVD players. All huge perks to encourage adoption.

But now that we are entering a world where physical media is largely an enthusiast past-time I think something laserdisc sized is much better suited for appealing to geeky collectors as a “trophy” or collectible item. It’s more pleasing to flip through them, the size of the sleeve ends up functioning as a display poster. Commentary about “warmth” aside, it’s the same reason music nerds have revived vinyl, with even half the vinyl market consisting of people who don’t even own turntables and just listen to the music off the included digital download codes that come with the records. Plus, the sheer size would mean you can encode a LOT onto this hypothetical next-gen laserdisc before having to resort to compression and exotic layering tricks to increase data density like they do with these 8k Atmos releases now.
by bluerooibos | 2025-07-15 20:00:34+00:00
I imagine once this app becomes more mature, it'll have more options and functionality around its specific use-case, and tailored UX.

ChatGPT just has a text input and output. They can't build ChatGPT to have the perfect UX for every single eventuality. TLDR - UX, convenience, and ease of use.
by rickcarlino | 2025-07-15 20:01:04+00:00
I can’t speak to that aspect specifically, but I have flip-flopped in the last five years or so. I don’t go there anymore hardly and conversely I find myself using HN a lot more. My decline in usage coincided with some policy changes they made years ago. I still think there are people who will really enjoy lobste.rs over HN. It’s not for everyone (and as of late, not for me).
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-15 20:01:07+00:00
If I'm ever accused of a crime, please, please, get literally anyone other than Alan Dershowitz to defend me in the court of public opinion.

Stuff like this is deeply unserious.

> I have absolutely no doubt that Epstein never worked for any intelligence agency. If he had, he would surely have told me and his other lawyers, who would have used that information to get him a better deal.

"Yes, I'll betray the Mossad! That sounds great."

(I'd note that Dersh himself is accused of being in the files. He has a vested interest in discrediting the whole thing.)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/epstein-li...

> Former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz issued an explosive response maintaining his innocence after a tranche of documents relating to his former client Jeffrey Epstein raised allegations that he took part in the late paedophile’s sex trafficking ring.

> However, the newly released documents contained allegations that Mr Dershowitz forced a minor girl, named in court documents as Jane Doe 3, to have sex with him on several occasions. The filings by attorneys for Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, in which Mr Dershowitz is named a total of 137 times, also allege that he witnessed other girls being abused. Mr Dershowitz previously denied allegations in 2015 that he had sex with an underage girl.
by lukebechtel | 2025-07-15 20:02:02+00:00
> H-Net demonstrates three important results on language modeling:

> 1. H-Nets scale better with data than state-of-the-art Transformers with BPE tokenization, while learning directly from raw bytes. This improved scaling is even more pronounced on domains without natural tokenization boundaries, like Chinese, code, and DNA.

> 2. H-Nets can be stacked together to learn from deeper hierarchies, which further improves performance.

> 3. H-Nets are significantly more robust to small perturbations in input data like casing, showing an avenue for creating models that are more robust and aligned with human reasoning.
Show HN: Screwball.ai – MLB stat search in real-time with natural language
by birken | 2025-07-15 20:02:32+00:00
This launched at the beginning of the MLB season and can handle anything from simple queries like "Which team has the best record this year?" to complicated queries like "When was the last time a hitter had 2 home runs in the 5th inning?", and anything in between.
by gojomo | 2025-07-15 20:03:07+00:00
I'd expect a noticeable delay with current local LLMs - especially visiting a site for the 1st time. But then they could potentially memoize their heuristics for certain designs, including recognzing when some "deeper thought" newly required by server-side redesigns.

But of course local GPU processing power, & optimizations for LLM-like tools, all adancing rapidly. And these local agents could potentially even outsource tough decisions to heavierweight remote services. Essentially, they'd maintain/reauthor your "custom extension", themselves using other models, as necessary.

And forward-thinking sites might try to make that process easier, with special APIs/docs/recipe-interchanges for all users' agents to share their progress on popular needs.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-07-15 20:03:22+00:00
I disagree with respect to Microsoft. Steve hated everything that worked but was ugly. Windows and Office had a brutalist beauty to it that you could fully customize if you desired to do so. Today with O365 and Azure it is a parody of its former design. Only after its default UI changed from 'dentist office' to 'parade of clowns with toasters' did everyone else decide they hated it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture
by immibis | 2025-07-15 20:03:32+00:00
That sounds like a different issue. With low quality "information" thrust at people from all sides, you have to immediately prove that you're not just AI slop video #63547, because I'm seeing your video on a platform that mostly delivers AI slop that I will scroll past within 3 seconds.

Why am I on a platform that mostly delivers slop? That's a trillion dollar question. The advertising industry won.

Also because if I was on a non-slop platform, it wouldn't be showing me your ad because ads are slop.