MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by agentifysh | 2025-11-19 18:27:42+00:00
lots of tools that do this and I ended up going down this rabbit hole something that could just plug in to codex instead of requiring a fork

http://github.com/agentify-sh/10x

does minimal overhead with agent orchestration (its just a bash/typescript) as its main focus was adding enhancements to codex like double redundant checkpoint via git and jj (lessons learned from codex being git reset --hard happy), something like claude skills (just a bunch of mds that steer it towards specific activity like think, plan, execute), timeout wrappers (to get you unstuck if codex waits a long time), blacklist commands during yolo (rm -rf, git reset banned even if it by small chance run it) MIT licensed

you can work sequentially (subagents launch one after the other) or parallel (worktrees) but tbh sequentially is better because you understand what is going on with parallel it might be best for dealing with tests and UI.
by chuckadams | 2025-11-19 18:27:46+00:00
What put perl out to pasture for me was lack of static types, nor any capability of adopting them. We were told to wait for Perl 6 for that, and well, we saw how that went. I'm told that disabling indirect object syntax gives Perl a fighting chance at static analysis, but that in the end it's still the case that only Perl can parse Perl.
by szszrk | 2025-11-19 18:27:47+00:00
It's not always better. Docker on lxc has a lot of advantages. I would rather use plain lxc on production systems, but I've been homelabbing on lxc+docker for years.

It's blazing fast and I cut down around 60% of my RAM consumption. It's easy to manage, boots instantly, allows for more elastic separation while still using docker and/or k8s. I love that it allows me to keep using Proxmox Backup Server.

I'm postponing homelab upgrade for a few years thanks to that.
by bnchrch | 2025-11-19 18:28:02+00:00
To be fair. I'd be fine lumping Golang in this camp as well.

Theyre all different languages and ecosystems.

But in terms of what use cases they fill? Theyre more similar that not.

In otherwords if I'm evaluating Java for a use case, in many situations, I'd also be evaluating C# and/or Golang along side it.

Where as it would be less common for me to compare Java against Python, Javascript, Elixir, Erlang, Rust etc..
by adastra22 | 2025-11-19 18:28:16+00:00
With full tidal locking and no external perturbations, it would be permanently stable. If that still bothers you, then consider L4/L5 orbits. An object orbiting around the L4/L5 points in a 3-body system will be perpetually stable so long as there is no external perturbations with total energy above the "hill" at the edge of the L4/L5 space.
by travisgriggs | 2025-11-19 18:28:22+00:00
> Namely that someone tries to gain control of a project by appeals to "community", while subtly insulting the people who actually did the work.

Lately, I’ve taken to labelling these different behaviors with D words: Doers, Discussers, Deciders, etc.

It’s amazing to me how often people want to create a specialty for themselves, where the doing is relegated to the doers, but all the doing is dictated by others.

This happens in businesses, NGOs, communities, churches, just about everywhere.
by ge96 | 2025-11-19 18:28:28+00:00
not a fan of the design but for rally I like the stratos or a Focus hatchback/Volkswagen style

active aero seems silly on a truck-design but ehh

regarding cars I did enjoy this video (comparing C8, GT3, GTD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw7tDXLyLVo

admittedly not much of a track guy currently

personally I drive a 2 liter 4 banger as well with a turbo, fastest I've gone so far is 150mph, next car I'm trying to get is a supercharged Lotus Exige in orange

I know if you want speed it's cheap with a Corvette C6
by shambu2k | 2025-11-19 18:28:31+00:00
Damn, you beat me to it. I was building something similar but got too caught up optimizing the context extraction. I actually ended up building a full spec for it—basically a PoC of "grep for videos."

My end goal was to let an agent make semantic changes (e.g., "remove the parts where the guy in the blue dress is seen") by simply grepping the context spec for the relevant timestamps and using ffmpeg to cut them out.

How are you extracting context from videos?
by ciconia | 2025-11-19 18:28:41+00:00
In a way it's comforting to know those people who hold these positions, with distinguished careers and supposedly made of better stuff than us mere mortals, are in fact just a bunch of miserable weasels, a-holes and sycophants.

We in western democracies used to regard with disdain those corrupt, ridiculous leadership figures in so-called banana republics and third-world dictatorships, with their openly corrupt dealings and amoral excesses.

Now that the moral posturing of the west is unraveling, the question is really what comes next. Fukuyama talked about western liberal democracy being the "end of history", but it is more and more evident that this is a system ripe for disruption.
by ikety | 2025-11-19 18:29:12+00:00
It's quite odd to me that Nix or something similar like Mise isn't completely ubiquitous in software. I feel like I went from having issues with build dependencies to having that aspect of software development completely solved as soon as I adopted Nix.

I absolutely can't imagine not using some kind of tool like this. Feels as vital as VCS to me now.
by rvz | 2025-11-19 18:29:57+00:00
> On the weekend, I hack around with ML & AI to build cool stuff.

Stopped reading this rage-bait when I saw this. The company he works at is starting to go all in on AI and prediction content themselves the very same thing that he is opposing. [0]

> But even myself, as an AI engineer, I am just soooo sick of that type of content. It’s the same generic stuff. It appears we have become the LLMs, regurgitating what’s already out there as if it was new ideas.

The author is not an AI engineer™ (whatever that means these days). Just yet another "dev".

[0] https://www.medbridge.com/educate/webinars/ai-in-healthcare-...
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-19 18:30:01+00:00
> Bill Clinton as its most valuable elder statesman?

Huh? Bill Clinton has been a relatively invisible ex-president compared to the other modern ones (aka Carter & Obama, Biden hasn't been gone long enough for data).

Perhaps that's because he didn't want to overshadow Hillary, but it's at least partly because of the Lewinsky affair.
Ask HN: Have you ever seen a perfect codebase?
by mcdow | 2025-11-19 18:30:04+00:00
In my experience even the best software projects have a few skeletons in their closet, blemishes on an otherwise well-built project.

At the end of the day, we all have to build things that simply work and provide business value. Striving for perfect code is not the goal. But it does make me wonder: does perfect software even exist? If not, what's the gold standard?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-19 18:30:09+00:00
But now we're getting into the crux of it.

What you want is a better (and easier to use) sandbox for native apps, so that users can feel as comfortable installing an app as visiting a web page as long as the app doesn't have any more permissions than the web page would have, and then you don't need central gatekeepers approving them.
by mmh0000 | 2025-11-19 18:30:11+00:00
There’s literally insurance for everything you can think of. There’s even insurance for insurance!

It’s not a bad deal for either side. The CIA doesn’t have to pay if an agent does something naughty and the insurance company gets a standard income.

Just wait until you hear about employers taking out life insurance policies on their employees.

https://clark.com/insurance/has-your-employer-taken-out-life...
by morellt | 2025-11-19 18:30:47+00:00
Absolutely agree. Many, many abhorrent ideas and perspectives are accepted very often due to them being deliberately well thought-out and appearing more "academic" sounding to the layperson. There are entire organizations (colloquially, "think-tanks") dedicated to writing pamphlets, books, and memos filled with eloquent in-depth talking points that get distributed to their respective talking heads. I can't blame many people today for seeing this problem as the foundation of all mainstream media, instead of taking the time to individually investigate each source of information. However it does lead to this "everything is the opposite of what we're told" hysteria the author talks about
by marcelr | 2025-11-19 18:30:47+00:00
yea i tried to do this (somewhat successfully) with a custom editor for css https://github.com/feralsoft/charisma (demos on my old x https://x.com/charisma_css)

css is primed for this since you can write your rules in such a way that rule order doesn't matter, which means you really don't have to think about where your code it

in my dream world, i have very smart search (probably llms will help), i look at just the minimal amount of code (ideally on a canvas), edit it and remove it from my context

i don't care where or how the code is stored, let the editor figure it out and just give me really good search and debuggers
by alielroby | 2025-11-19 18:30:48+00:00
Glad you like the platform! You make a good point about keeping content fresh. I think the standard YC questions are the most high-value to practice, so I want to keep the list curated rather than open it up to the public right away (to avoid noise/duplicate questions). However, I will make sure to keep the database updated as the 'meta' changes.
by taylodl | 2025-11-19 18:30:57+00:00
The biggest problem with Target is that their product mix and selection are meh at best. Their grocery section lacks specialty items like Trader Joe’s. Their clothes are overpriced for the quality - and I’ve even seen the same brands deliver lower-quality versions to Target compared to Kohl’s. Their housewares feel disposable, and Amazon easily beats them there. So what does that leave? Pharmacy and personal care - a space where they face fierce competition from Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, and even online retailers. Without a clear differentiator, Target has become a retailer with no category where it truly wins. Even worse - just about everybody beats them on price! That's not sustainable.
by sillywalk | 2025-11-19 18:31:10+00:00
I'd also give a shout out to AmiKit.[0] It's pretty slick, and has a ton of software already setup. You still need to get the Kickstart ROMs from AmigaForever. The only thing is it's different from vanilla Amiga workbench.

https://www.amikit.amiga.sk/
by ntonozzi | 2025-11-19 18:31:25+00:00
If you haven't, give Cursor's Composer model a shot. It might not be quite as good as the top models, but in my experience it's almost as good, and the lightning fast feedback is more than worth the tradeoff. You can give it a task, wait ten seconds, and evaluate the results. It's quite common for it to not be good enough, but no worse than Sonnet, and if it doesn't work you just wasted 30 seconds instead of 10 minutes.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-11-19 18:31:48+00:00
> The only prediction that I think is robust is: Those who use AI as tool today will replace those that aren't tomorrow.

That's not a robust prediction. Many people who don't use AI today simply don't do so because they've tried it, and found it subtracts value. Those people will not be replaced tomorrow, they will merely reevaluate the tool and start using it if it has started to add value.
by everforward | 2025-11-19 18:32:07+00:00
I'm dubious of the privacy-preserving approaches and would rather we just quit with digital age verification. I'm specifically worried about unification of data sources identifying users.

The challenges presented to sites, and verifiers if the scheme uses those, would have to be non-identifiable in the sense that they can't tell that 2 of them came from the same key. Otherwise there's a risk users get unmasked, either by a single leak from a site that requires age verification and a real name (e.g. an online wine merchant) or by unifying data sources (timing attacks, or identifying users by the set of age-restricted sites they use).

Perhaps I just don't understand the underlying crypto. That wouldn't be super surprising, I'm far from an expert in understanding crypto implementations.
by zdragnar | 2025-11-19 18:32:15+00:00
Alas, my workshop didn't come with 240 already run, so that was an added expense to get my welder set up.

An electric tea kettle that didn't take an hour to warm up would be very nice.

My well pump runs on 120v, and when the motor kicks in the whole house knows.

240v has lower voltage drop over distances, puts off less heat due to lower amperage for the same wattage, and since we're dreaming, we could switch over to a sane plug design like Type F or G instead of A and B.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-19 18:32:18+00:00
For me, Awk is this awesome tool for quick and dirty 1-3 line scripts to transform textual information. I hardly use it, but when I do, it serves its purpose well. It's also relatively easy to read and understand.

I remember learning most of Awk from a long, single web page that appeared to come from one of the official authors.
by dinobones | 2025-11-19 18:32:49+00:00
I’ve felt the same. Also the AGI outcome for software engineers is:

A) In 5 years no real improvement, AI bubble pops, most of us are laid off. B) In 5 years near—AGI replaces most software engineers, most of us are laid off.

Woohoo. Lose-lose scenario! No matter how you imagine this AI bubble playing out, the musics going to stop eventually.
by jeswin | 2025-11-19 18:33:08+00:00
This has already been discussed so many times. No good discussion will come out of this - and it'll just be people moping.

There's much better content on Show HN, one of which won't hit the homepage because this has more votes. It's a problem that HN has to fix - people upvote because they agree, and that vote carries the same weight as another which required far more effort (trying a product, looking at code etc).
by al_borland | 2025-11-19 18:33:09+00:00
I’m only allowed to use Copilot at work. Within that, I’ve tried the various GPTs, Claude, and Gemini. So far, Gemini 2.5 Pro has worked best, but only on fairly limited scopes.

I’m mostly using Ansible currently, which Copilot doesn’t seem great at. On top of that, there is a lot of OpenStack and other enterprise software, where there isn’t a lot of public code for it to train from. And then on top of that I’m having to add a significant amount of business logic and infrastructure specific stuff, which won’t exist elsewhere for the LLM to learn from. If someone has done it before, it is likely in another enterprise and not public code.

Copilot has mostly been useful to write some json queries or regex, that’s about it.

I know Ansible Lightspeed exists. I’m not sure how well that would do, but I don’t think I’m allowed to use that currently. We have a lot of governance around the use of AI.
Show HN: Time Journey
by jumbotron737 | 2025-11-19 18:33:20+00:00
I have been working on a personal project for about 3 weeks now. You can go to anywhere using Street View and change a year which will then show what that place might have looked like in that year. Kind of like you traveled time to that place.

You can then generate a video, chat with a tour guide and generate a 3d world and even walk using VR (my personal favorite feature).

And here are some of my personal favorite if you guys want to just explore:

https://www.timejourney.ai/time/6903e39ac7a0142ce0ab4cc5 -- Golden Gate being constructed

https://www.timejourney.ai/time/690b76035362834122719553 -- Times Square in 1880

https://www.timejourney.ai/time/690dad930e74fc08393d9f15 -- Hiroshima in 1945

It's still a work in progress. Would appreciate it if anyone of you could check it out and give feedback. It works best on computer.
by marcosdumay | 2025-11-19 18:33:23+00:00
Eh... That's only worth anything if the new version of "you" is better than the original.

I'm certain Jobs thought there's no need to point that detail, because nobody still living¹ would be dumb enough not to understand it implicitly. Too bad that we have evidence otherwise.

1 - At the worst case, selection bias should make it true.
by buildbot | 2025-11-19 18:33:30+00:00
If I am not mistaken, the anarchist school of thought is okay with governance and even governments, but not with the concept of the state - an entity that exists to enforce governance with violence. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy,_State,_and_Utopia

I’m not 100% sure though.

edit - a (vs. the) school of thought is more accurate.
by jjnoakes | 2025-11-19 18:33:43+00:00
I view code in many contexts though - diffs in emails, code snippets on web pages, in github's web UI, there are countless ways in which I need to read a piece of code outside of my preferred editor. And it is nicer, in my opinion, to read languages that have visually distinct parts to them. I'm sure it is because I'm used to it, but it really makes it hard to switch to a language that looks so uniform and requires additional tools outside of my brain to take a look at it.
by closeparen | 2025-11-19 18:33:54+00:00
Modern internet company backends are very complex, even on a good day they're at the outer limits of their designers' and operators' understanding, & every day they're growing and changing (because of all the money and effort that's being spent on them!). It's often a short leap to a state that nobody thought of as a possibility or fully grasped the consequences of. It's not clear that it would be practical with any amount of money to test or rule out every such state in advance. Some exciting techniques are being developed in that area (Antithesis, formal verification, etc) but that stuff isn't standard of care for a working SWE yet. Unit tests and design reviews only get you so far.
by saxenaabhi | 2025-11-19 18:34:02+00:00
> You have the opportunity here to convince me, I want to believe there is some merit to this latest AI summer. But I am not seeing the evidence for it.

As I said the evidence is in companies not hiring anymore since they don't need as many developers as before. If you want rigorous controlled studies you'll get it in due time. In the meantime maybe just look into the workflows of how people are using

re AI skeptics: I started pushing AI in our company early this year, and one of the first questions I got was that "are we doing it to reduce costs". I fully understood and sympathize with the fact many engineers feel threatened and feel they are being replaced. So I clarified it's just to increase our feature velocity which was my honest intention since ofc I'm not a monster.

I then asked this engineer to develop a feature using bolt, and he partially managed to do it but in the worst way possible. His approach was to spend no time on planning/architecture and to just ask AI to do it in a few lines. When hit with bugs he would ask the AI "to fix the bug" without even describing the bug. His reasoning was that if he had to do this prep work then why would he use AI. Nonetheless he finished entire month's worth of credit in a single day.

I can't find the proper words, but there's a certain amount of dishonesty in this attitude that really turns me off. Like turbotax sabotaging tax reforms so they can rent seek.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-11-19 18:34:07+00:00
This article claims that Young's famous double-slit experiment — which for a century has been taken as textbook proof that light is both a wave and a particle — might actually be explainable using only particles. The researchers argue that the interference pattern (the bright and dark stripes) does not require waves canceling each other; instead, photons sometimes enter “dark states” where they can’t excite a detector, so it looks like no light is there even though photons passed through. If correct, this would mean wave-particle duality is not a fundamental feature of light, but an inference built from incomplete models. This does not overthrow quantum mechanics, but it challenges the idea that light must have a wave aspect at all — and it could reshape how we interpret measurement, interference, and maybe even the role of the observer in quantum physics.
by seanhunter | 2025-11-19 18:34:13+00:00
I didn't know that was a requirement. OK then

from itertools import cycle fizz = cycle(["","","fizz"]) buzz = cycle(["","","","","buzz"]) for idx, z in enumerate(zip(fizz,buzz)): print(f"{idx}: {z[0]}{z[1]}")

Happy now?
by bsimpson | 2025-11-19 18:34:21+00:00
I don't know if it's a changing of the audience or a change in how people behave generally, but this place has been insufferable lately whenever anything remotely related to Donald Trump's administration comes up.

One of the things that made this place special relative to other online communities is the ethos to interrogate through a lens of curiosity. Now, there's a lot of vitriol that's indistinguishable from any other comment section.
by kccqzy | 2025-11-19 18:34:24+00:00
I think Apple still has aspirations to include professional-level photography in their OS so a photographer could do advanced RAW edits with just the OS.

The article says:

> photographers can take full advantage of Apple’s fantastic RAW engine, even when Apple itself does not support a RAW file, which is, unfortunately, a common problem for photographers using macOS, of which there are many.

And I’m also curious about how this RAW engine is fantastic even when it doesn’t support a RAW file. I guess people who actually shoot RAW can answer that. (I shoot JPEG on my camera.)
by iyn | 2025-11-19 18:34:56+00:00
Looks like a great change! I'll take it for a spin in a moment.

I really like the "subagent" feature in Claude Code — it's super useful to manage context in complex codebases. Here are some examples of agents that can be useful: https://github.com/humanlayer/humanlayer/tree/main/.claude/a...

Would it make sense to have a similar feature in Codex CLI? I often do "spec-driven development", which is basically a loop of:

research -> implementation plan -> actual implementation (based on research + plan) -> validation

I have multiple subagents that I use for each phase that (based on subjective judgement) improve the output quality (vs keeping everything, every tool use etc. in the "main" context window).

Codex CLI is great and I use it often but I'd like to have more of these convenient features for managing context from CC. I'm super happy that compaction is now available, hopefully we'll get more features for managing context.
by danishSuri1994 | 2025-11-19 18:35:21+00:00
Really interesting direction. The node-based canvas feels like a more scalable abstraction for video automation than the usual chat-only interface. I’m curious how you’re handling long-form content where temporal context matters (e.g., emotional shifts, pacing, narrative cues).

Multimodal models are good at frame-level recognition, but editing requires understanding relationships between scenes, have you found any methods that work reliably there?
by sxzygz | 2025-11-19 18:35:26+00:00
The mathematicians I know wish the were introduced to more material when they were younger so they could spend more time internalizing different concepts before being forced to specialize by the demands of a PhD.

The more scientifically minded people I know wish they were introduced to more mathematical concepts when they were younger so they could feel more able applying more sophisticated models to their problem domain.

Having a pipeline of somewhat mathematically able citizens is crucial to having an advanced economy. I don’t think the preceding statement is remotely controversial.