MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pverheggen | 2025-10-16 18:21:39+00:00
I feel like this could work if the selectors are chosen carefully to capture semantic meaning, rather than basing off of something arbitrary like a class name. The agent must have some understanding of the document to be able to perform those actions in the first place.

If it can find an ellipse tool, it's likely based off some combination of accessible role, accessible name, and inner text (perhaps the icon if it's multi-modal.) So in theory, couldn't it capture that criteria in a JS snippet and replay it?
by tracker1 | 2025-10-16 18:21:54+00:00
Yeah.. I started adding a random 1-4 second delay returning from failed logins regardless of the reason when creating auth systems. I really wish I would have been able to open-source the auth platform I wrote at a previous job.

It wasn't that complex, but pretty nice in that it had pretty typical features for auth, was simple to setup/configure and would simply generate a signed jwt passed to your app/url. I had db adapters to be able to use SQLite, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL and DynamoDB. It also had integrations for AD, Okta and Azure Entra.
by bobbiechen | 2025-10-16 18:22:04+00:00
There are a lot of dedicated anti-detect browsers, you can search for that term or fingerprint switcher, multi-accounting browsers, etc. Many of them are based on Chromium.

In my experience they're generally detectable by mismatches in various attributes compared to the "real" browser whose user agent they are spoofing (though of course, the ground truth of adversarial detection is always hard to know for sure).
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-16 18:22:04+00:00
The problem is the lack of "everyday" socializing, and commute is the cause of that. In ye olde heavy industry days, workers lived relatively near to their workplace, and often gathered for a beer after work - just visit any of the old heavy industry towns here in the Ruhrpott, there's so damn many pubs situated closely to the mines, pits and smelters. That also was the prerequisite for why and how unions got popular - the employer could ban unions from entering the workplace itself, but they could not restrict political activity on third party places such as beer halls.

Today, all of that is gone. Average commute times tend to be measured in hours, so with regular "overtime" you're looking at 12 hours of being away from home for work purposes - eight hours of working , two hours of commute, one hour of lunch break, one hour of overtime. And on top of that, work is condensed ever more by everything being tracked, can't even take a piss any more as a call center worker before the supervisor gets a notification that you haven't picked up a call in 60 seconds.
by iyn | 2025-10-16 18:22:24+00:00
Does anyone know how skills relate to subagents? Seems that subagents have more capabilities (e.g. can access the internet) but seems that there's a lot of overlap.

I've asked Claude and this it answered this:

Skills = Instructions + resources for the current Claude instance (shared context) Subagents = Separate AI instances with isolated contexts that can work in parallel (different context windows) Skills make Claude better at specific tasks. Subagents are like having multiple specialized Claudes working simultaneously on different aspects of a problem.

I imagine we can probably compose them, e.g. invoke subagents (to keep separate context) which could use some skills to in the end summarize the findings/provide output, without "polluting" the main context window.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-16 18:22:38+00:00
Hmm... I didn't have this experience at all. Apart from dotting a bunch of capacitors around the busses I didn't have to do much differently. I was able to find the exact components he used myself on Mouser. It's been a while though so maybe I'm forgetting something or maybe I was just lucky as you say. I should really dig it out and see if it still works.

The only major thing I changed was I designed my own EEPROM programmer as I found the way he was doing it laborious.
by Havoc | 2025-10-16 18:23:17+00:00
Currently trying to track down a something I'm sensitive/allergic to and this is where I started - a wide but pretty bland whole foods diet.

Theory being that the issue is one of the billion colourants/flavourants/preservatives & cooking from scratch cuts most of them.

Too early to confidently tell (4 days in)...but the vibes sure feel promising
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-16 18:23:21+00:00
I've _never_ seen a wiki or internal documentation stay up to date.

My experience has been to encourage public blogging / speaking of technical information. If its public, there are several benefits. First you need to explain to people with little context from the company. You also feel scrutiny to make it accurate and not embarrass yourself. And readers will see the date of authorship, and have a sense of when this information was true. And of course, Google is a better search engine than anything you'll have internally!

For example, when I worked on search at Reddit, I didn't point people at anything internal (that stuff rots) but instead I would point people at places like:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/1985mnj/bringing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUtF1gyHsSM

The downside to this approach is companies are too precious about IP so don't want you to be specific. (despite it almost certaintly not being special). Also company blogs can get over-edited to the point where they lose authenticity in favor of SEO spam.

This isn't the tool to use for things like runbooks, etc. It's a more useful thing for broader context.

I wish more companies just gave their developers their own personal blogs, and were less precious about preventing speaking.
by lukev | 2025-10-16 18:23:47+00:00
I agree with your conclusion not to sweat all these features too much, but only because they're not hard at all to understand on demand once you realize that they all boil down to a small handful of ways to manipulate model context.

But context engineering very much not going anywhere as a discipline. Bigger and better models will by no means make it obsolete. In fact, raw model capability is pretty clearly leveling off into the top of an S-curve, and most real-world performance gains over the last year have been precisely because of innovations on how to better leverage context.
by saurik | 2025-10-16 18:24:50+00:00
Ok, that's fair: it is always quite disappointing when a project lies about its status (and if I ever get a chance to complain directly about that, I probably will)... but, at least it used to be accurate (and likely was until very recently)? A lot of projects (I see this often with terminal apps) say stuff like "the fastest X", only, when you do a benchmark, they aren't even fast in an absolute sense, much less in a relative sense to other projects (and I believe I remember this being the case for nginx for a while vs. Apache with mpm_event).
Ask HN: Cheap smartwatch recommendations while waiting for the new Pebble?
by noncovalence | 2025-10-16 18:25:06+00:00
My old smartwatch finally gave out. Usually when buying any new tech the main question I ask myself is "how likely is this to survive for practically forever?", so I've been eyeing the Pebble Time 2, which looks to be shipping early next year.

Was wondering if anyone can recommend an affordable interim smartwatch, that would still provide good value even when I'm only expecting to use it for around half a year?
by anomaloustho | 2025-10-16 18:25:46+00:00
Looks like they added the link. But I think it’s doing RL in realtime vs pre-trained as an LLM is.

And I associate that part to AGI being able to do cutting edge research and explore new ideas like humans can. Where, when that seems to “happen” with LLMs it’s been more debatable. (e.g. there was an existing paper that the LLM was able to tap into)

I guess another example would be to get an AGI doing RL in realtime to get really good at a video game with completely different mechanics in the same way a human could. Today, that wouldn’t really happen unless it was able to pre-train on something similar.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-10-16 18:25:51+00:00
Agreed wholeheartedly. I'm not certain it's the company encouraging it, though. IMHO it's far more the economic realities we find ourselves in, where holding onto the same job for an extended period of time is basically, according to all casual career advice, fucking yourself over in terms of compensation.

My generation has been encouraged by this reality since we entered the workforce to change jobs every few years, because companies are so stingy with raises. If you're planning to do that, you naturally keep distance with your coworkers; they're probably leaving before you are, and even if not, you are planning to.

Companies see no value in their existing workforce and it's honestly quite self-defeating and stupid. "Losing" any worker be it to their choice, or layoffs, or whatever it might be is a genuine LOSS to your team. It's however many months or years of experience not just with code, but with your code-base, your business, and your products going out the door. The fact that so many companies lose so many good people because they simply refuse to let an employee have a bit more money is honestly mind-bending; and once they're gone, they'll happily list their job online, often with a salary range even higher than the employee they just fired wanted.

Absolute corporate idiocy.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-10-16 18:25:59+00:00
I designed the project around what I can lean on LLMs for, so its not like I can just drop into an existing codebase and make it look like a good idea to let your agent crank while you get coffee. Perhaps not so badass a context engineer after all.

Still the pattern is generalizable enough, so yeah I'll think on ways to bring it to a wider audience.
by littlestymaar | 2025-10-16 18:26:12+00:00
> Nitrites are what give bacon (and ham) its flavor.

Are you sure about that?

Because it's the first time ever I stumbled upon this argument.

The explanation I heard is that there are legit bacterial food safety concerns (salmonella and listeria, IIRC) that justify using nitrites even if they are by themself harmful, the benefit/risk ratio is simply favorable to nitrites.
by spankalee | 2025-10-16 18:26:28+00:00
Yeah, induced demand is a real thing, and a huge reason to invest in public transit and walkable neighborhoods in the first place, since they benefit from induced demand as well.

I personally really support autonomous cars for safety reasons, and to hopefully reduce car ownership, but the definitely didn't solve traffic or the external costs of cars. I hope there's an indirect path from then towards increased public transit.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-16 18:26:58+00:00
Video game unions are such an interesting case because the worker is very skilled and the skills are highly transferable. This isn't a situation where you only know how to mill steel and there is only 1 steel mill around. You can stay and fight to unionize or you could just go get a better job right now. The fact that people stay speaks to how passionate they are about the industry, but also how willing they are to settle for less.
by cons0le | 2025-10-16 18:27:05+00:00
Then it's time for cities to not be cowards, and go all in on the food bus hyperloop model. It needs to be like those conveyor sushi places, except on the scale of a city. Places like mcdonalds should have fleets of busses with hot-and-ready food just doing loops around town, only returning when they re stock.

Companies could even share busses. Or delivery companies like door dash could switch to the collective bus model and turn thier drivers into bus drivers.

I need to be able to just walk outside and flag down the burrito man, just like you would for an ice creme truck
by jjk166 | 2025-10-16 18:27:07+00:00
If "the mission" is survive, then yeah probably. I doubt the colonists would hold any loyalty to Earth, but they'ed definitely set up a colony for their own sake.

Also we do have plenty of institutions which have to some degree or another stuck to the mission many lifetimes after their founding. Religious institutions like the catholic church come to mind - obviously much has changed and plenty would argue about how well current behavior matches the founders' intent, but thousands of years later there is still an organization of people working towards a broadly similar goal. Less controversial examples include some construction projects which took centuries, like the Cologne Cathedral.

It should be noted that while none of the original crew would survive the journey, there would be an unbroken chain of people raising new crew members, educating them to the mission, and their adoption of the existing crew's values as their own, and propagating them forward, would be necessary for both their own well being and the group's. There would be little if any outside influence to cause the group to diverge from its mission, and no realistic alternative they would be able to pursue even if they wanted to. There might be ideological drift, but it would probably be a lot less than people who have been free to do whatever they want for the same period of time.
by beyarkay | 2025-10-16 18:27:09+00:00
> To my understanding this is managed by the temperature

This is true, but sampling also plays a fairly large role. The model will produce probabilities for the next token, temperature will modify these probabilities somewhat, but different sampling techniques (top-K, top-P, beam search, others) will also change these probabilities.

> I wasn't under the impression that it was to give the user a feeling of "realism", but rather that it produced better results with a slightly random prediction.

My understanding is that it's a bit of both. If the AI responded exactly the same way to every "hi can you help me" prompt, I think users' would call it more robotic. I also think that slightly varying the token prediction helps prevent repetitive text
by incomingpain | 2025-10-16 18:27:15+00:00
This is super exciting. Gemini 2.5 pro was starting to feel like it's lagging behind a little bit; or at least it's still near the best but 3.0 had to be coming along.

It's my goto coder; it just jives better with me than claude or gpt. Better than my home hardware can handle.

What I really hope for 3.0. Their context length is real 1 million. In my experience 256k is the real limit.
by lukev | 2025-10-16 18:27:17+00:00
How this reads to me is that a skill is "just" a bundle of prompts, scripts, and files that can be read into context as a unit.

Having a sub-agent "execute" a skill makes a lot of sense from a context management, perspective, but I think the way to think about it is that a sub-agent is an "execution-level" construct, whereas a skill is a "data-level" construct.
by graybeardhacker | 2025-10-16 18:27:18+00:00
Not sure if you're joking about the victims getting their money back. In case you're not, they won't.

The DOJ adds seized crypto to the American crypto reserve. https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-pr...

From the webpage: " The Executive Order begins to resolve the current disjointed handling of cryptocurrencies seized through forfeiture by, and scattered across, various Federal agencies. Currently, no clear policy exists for managing these assets, leading to a lack of accountability and inadequate exploration of options to centralize, secure, or maximize their value. Taking affirmative steps to centralize ownership, control, and management of these assets within the Federal government will ensure proper oversight, accurate tracking, and a cohesive approach to managing the government’s cryptocurrency holdings. This move harnesses the power of digital assets for national prosperity, rather than letting them languish in limbo. "
by chimpanzee | 2025-10-16 18:28:08+00:00
> You can see exactly what you're getting without even squinting at the fine print on the back.

So the nutrition facts and ingredients list doesn’t convey any new information? The designers managed to cram all that info into an appealing front facing label? And the marketers refrained from soft deceptions and convenient omissions, prioritizing truth and clarity over sales numbers? Sure.
by theamk | 2025-10-16 18:28:24+00:00
My belief is that people care more about things that affect them directly.

And this means your pro-control statements like "I pay a known enemy of state to fund a terrorist attack" are pretty abstract - do you know anyone who funds terrorists? Why would terrorists use US banks anyway, surely they use gold or drugs or something?

On the other side, your anti-control side ("I buy illegal drugs from a friend for personal use.", "I buy a ticket to a comedy show that makes fun of your government.") is much more relatable - I have friends who I know buy illegal drugs! I go to comedy shows! So despite stakes being much lower, the feelings are much stronger.

So if you want to get balanced view, it's important to keep local, relatable reasons for both sides. "30 emergency rooms were closed due to a ransomware cyber-attack, and government has no way to track the attackers" is a nice example of the locally relatable argument for "control" side. "Scammers stole all of the life savings from someone. Government has no way to get this money back" is another one.
by fluoridation | 2025-10-16 18:28:33+00:00
>The problem is the hardware magics you need to make x86 actually performant, there's a lot of patents surrounding that area.

Those aren't even patented, they're straight up trade secrets. The relevant IPs concern the ISAs alone. Without doing anything too crazy you could implement x86 on your own silicon and make something that's slower than mainstream processors, but still usable for some things; certainly better than emulation in software, that's for sure.
by lawlessone | 2025-10-16 18:28:59+00:00
employees aren't services, they're employees.

This libertarian fantasy where you can do as you please, pretending your company is a person and your employees are furniture might be what you think is a "properly ordered society".

But guess what? , most of us don't, and it's a common view across both the left and the right :-). It's same reason most people left and right didn't really care when some guy that denied people their health insurance got denied himself.
by Slowrodreguez | 2025-10-16 18:29:01+00:00
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by pvtmert | 2025-10-16 18:29:21+00:00
I do cycling, currently based in Luxembourg. I cycle (for fun & sports) about 10.000 (ten-thousand) kilometers per year. I also like 100+km rides, although I do that weekly mostly between mid-April to mid-September period...

I can easily sleep 10 hours, start at any time. It's not a problem of falling asleep, it's a problem of waking up :)
by bgwalter | 2025-10-16 18:29:52+00:00
> That's not how capitalism nor the world works..

Scott Bessent worked with Soros (who was previously the devil for Republicans, but I digress). His buddy Mr. Citrone (also Soros) was betting heavily on Argentine. Turns out that Chainsaw-Milei wasn't so competent after all and Argentine needs a bailout. So, in the best socialist manner, Citrone is bailed out under the condition that Milei is reelected.

Or should we talk about DARPA socialism for companies or socialism for the Silicon Valley bank?

> each according to his needs, each according to his abilities

That is called the Peter Principle in "capitalism".
by SpaghettiCthulu | 2025-10-16 18:30:01+00:00
> When you reach out to one of your recovery contacts for help, you will share a code with them. They will get an email or notification and can confirm it’s really you by verifying that code, helping you securely regain access to your account. While you should choose someone you trust, rest assured that your recovery contact will not have access to your account or any of your personal information.

What additional verification will be required to regain access to your account?
by buzzovich | 2025-10-16 18:30:25+00:00
Ah, you're misunderstanding. I'm not measuring "cognition."

See, it's much simpler.

Concrete test setup:

- Flawed codebase given to agents for review - Agent A: Standard behavioural instructions - Agent B: Same + COGNITION::ETHOS (4 lines added)

Agent B found 20% more flaws than Agent A. Only variable: those 4 lines.

Objective measurement: count of flaws detected.

N=40 runs, statistically significant improvement.

The evidence is all in the repo.
by jedberg | 2025-10-16 18:30:28+00:00
> Gemini 3.0 is one of the most anticipated releases in AI at the moment because of the expected advances in coding performance.

Based on what I'm hearing from friends who work at Google and are using it for coding, we're all going to be very disappointed.

Edit: It sound like they don't actually have Gemini 3 access, which would explain why they aren't happy with it.
by theamk | 2025-10-16 18:30:42+00:00
"Can you please try and spend less?"

"Sure, we can get some on-prem machines. They'll pay for themselves in 6 months. I just need permissions from Finance to spend some CAPEX, and get IT and Facilities to cooperate"

"Ugh, actually please keep using AWS. But try and spend less.. if you can and this does not compromise deadlines"
by rlpb | 2025-10-16 18:31:18+00:00
That's not a problem. You won't get into trouble for not declaring a deduction (in my jurisdiction, anyway).

They don't know your business income either of course and you do have to declare that, but most people have only income as an employee and they do know that figure, so most people don't need to "file" anything here. It's all automatic.