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by ferguu_ | 2025-12-15 14:54:43+00:00
It is so irresponsible to call this a "glitch". This isn't something going wrong at any point, this is just technology that is not sufficient for what it is being asked to do, and only because we know the real truth and are able to fact check does that register.

Claiming it is a glitch gives the opportunity for AI companies to hide behind the excuse of "mistakes in the code", instead of recognizing the fundamental flaw of the technology in question.

At the same time, this article attempts to politicize a wider issue by relating the failings of AI to current events. In fact, this hallucination and failure is near constant, but it is no coincedence. It is the product of both technology being used before readiness, and the (hilarious) attempt by Elon to use AI as a propaganda machine to spread and legitimize his beliefs.
by nairboon | 2025-12-15 14:55:07+00:00
It really depends on what exactly you want to bet on and on what timeframe. More short term bet? Puts on the AI companies or an AI ETF. Do you assume that the rest of tech stays up even if AI pops? Then you could short some AI ETF and hedge with long QQQ. (=betting that the AI subset of Nasdaq will underperform relative to the Nasdaq.
by croon | 2025-12-15 14:55:23+00:00
1) I never claimed that the youth are more informed than (tax paying?) adults.

2) A trope is a trope regardless if it happens to be true or false.

What I was trying to convey is that you shouldn't dismiss a group on any basis other than the merit of a claim (usually by a member of a group and not representative of the entire group), which both assertions failed.

3) What should I rebut? One claim that the youth are idiots and one claim that they are uninformed because they have paid less tax yet? Ok, neither are logical conclusions to any premise.

4) You may be representative or you may be an outlier.

> I am yet to meet someone who would admit they were smarter as a teenager than they are

This is not a good basis to draw any conclusions from. Also it contradicts your initial assertion of your OP?
Ask HN: AI agents look great in demos, but how are people using it?
by deliass | 2025-12-15 14:56:18+00:00
I lead digital and brand at a major CPG company, and we recently used agentic automation across a product launch. Not for experiments or prototypes, but for actual consume facing products. We had agents helping with:

- Content gen + localization - Asset routing between design, legal, and marketing - SKU variant handling across channels - Post launch updates when claims or packaging changed

We tested a mix of tools and approaches. Some general purpose agentic frameworks (Auto GPT style setups), some workflow tools (n8n, Make + LLMs), and a few domain specific products like Jasper for content ops and punttaI for brand compliance review.

What surprised me wasn’t hallucinations or obvious failures. It was drift. The systems “worked,” but…..

Copy slowly diverged from approved claims or packaging variants stayed technically consistent but violated internal brand rules. Downstream updates didn’t propagate cleanly across every live asset. No single agent had ownership of correctness after launch.

Most advice online focuses on guardrails before publishing. However, in a real life launch scenario, that’s not sufficient. Once the product is live, changes keep happening.

For example: We have over 60 influencer and 500 + assets globally lined up for the Christmas launch, but by Jan 1, all that creative will be obsolete and need to be changed.

The only pattern that’s held up for us is treating agentic automation as a continuous system. Agents execute > Outputs are monitored post-publish > Deviations from brand, regulatory, or launch constraints are flagged > Humans step in only when something breaks tolerance.

We even introduced this agentic ai marketing compliance software called Punttai. Now don’t get me wrong. have workflows improved in certain areas like iteration and speed to approval? Or speed to generate ideas? Yeah.

But… this feels closer to observability than approval workflows.

Curious how others are handling this, especially outside pure SaaS:

- Are you letting agents touch live launch assets? - How are you validating compliance over time, not just at launch? - Are people building this monitoring themselves or relying on specialized tools? Would love to hear how this is working (or failing) in real production launches.
by mothballed | 2025-12-15 14:56:19+00:00
>. So strict that people are fined for not doing it properly.

Some parts of Oregon I lived in had high cost for general trash (almost every trash bin/dumpster I encountered was chained locked) and to use the city dump you needed an ID and maybe even required to live in the same county.

The result of these asinine policies to force people into 'recycling' things that aren't recyclable and making trash so onerous that all you can find is locked up dumpsters, is you would often see piles of trash and junk in the national forest or BLM land, the result of either extreme inconvenience or desperation.
by gitremote | 2025-12-15 14:56:23+00:00
Why would the Chinese government want to regularly launch cyber attacks against US infrastructure, except it's been happening for years? US security companies and governments have been defending against it for years and have even cataloged the state-sponsored attack groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat#Chi...

It's very easy to think other people are being paranoid when you're ignorant about the topic.
by rjdj377dhabsn | 2025-12-15 14:56:26+00:00
> If you take care of kids, we the planet, have resources for you.

That sounds nice, but who is going to decide exactly which behaviors to reward and by how much?

To avoid grift and corruption, we should probably have everyone vote on it in some kind of democratic process, right? Well that's basically what we have today with municipal elections, and looks like the consensus is we actually don't want to pay teachers all that much.
by JohnFen | 2025-12-15 14:56:53+00:00
I learned to dislike self-checkout years ago and so I generally avoid it. If I have one or two items, am in a big hurry, and there's no line at the self-checkout, then I used it, but in the last couple of years I've even stopped doing that exactly because of this kind of thing.

Why would I willingly put myself in a situation where I am under increased scrutiny and could easily be wrongly accused of theft?

> He said retailers are investing in improving those machines with AI.

This makes the whole self-checkout thing seem even riskier.
Show HN: Bookpace
by paperplaneflyr | 2025-12-15 14:57:00+00:00
It's essentially a book progress tracker. Many apps allow you to add the books that you are currently reading, but not at what pace. It's simple, no complicated stuff, no AI shenanigans. Created as I was overwhelmed by the number of books I wanted to read, and thought it would be helpful to plan ahead. You add a book name, the number of pages, and how many pages you want to read in a day. It calculates and gives you the number of days and on which date you will finish. It's also flexible to increase the number of pages so that it can recalculate. It's a PWA for now. Still working on notifications and stuff.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-15 14:57:11+00:00
The problem is, the referenced libraries can (and do) throw in practice... which means your own code needs to account for this. Most libraries in C# are written to throw errors, which means interactions will mostly need to account for these at some level, which is a pain. Not to mention, Task<Result<T>> is awkward in and of itself, because a task result is a success or fail, wrapping another type that is a success or fail. And such is the nature of async + result in C@, which is kind of redundant. Which, again, depending on the libraries in use, you have to account for and it is and will get messy.
by PopAlongKid | 2025-12-15 14:57:48+00:00
>the US has a law that erases the tax bill for dead people

That is true, but there is a theory, applied very weakly, that supports this. The idea is that a decedent's estate is subject to a wealth tax on its fair market value, therefore to also subject the unrealized gains within the estate to income tax would be double taxation, which is to be avoided. The flaw is that the exemption from the estate tax is relatively high (something like $13,000K), so there would not be any double taxation is most cases, but it's treated that way nonetheless.
by cubefox | 2025-12-15 14:57:56+00:00
> 1. Financial perspective. People are too focused on what "the best" is, rather than what is the most financially viable at scale, which is what really matters.

I don't think so: People flocked to ChatGPT because it was the best, even though there are far cheaper options. If you are 10% better than any competitor, you don't get just 10% more market share, you get far more. It's a winner-takes-most situation.
by ghostpepper | 2025-12-15 14:58:27+00:00
It's too bad because it's such a great project otherwise. He puts a ton of free labour into the system and I'm sure he's dealt with some entitled users but it's really a huge reason I don't recommend it to more people. Actively telling people they must learn to solder and making the only support channel on telegram are two big turn-offs for a lot of people.

This is absolutely his right and perhaps his intention to keep the project small, but in that case I wish there was another alternative vacuum firmware project.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-15 14:59:04+00:00
The privacy policy literally includes that they do?

> We provide some non-personal data to our advertisers and strategic partners that work with Apple to provide our products and services, help Apple market to customers, and sell ads on Apple’s behalf to display on the App Store and Apple News and Stocks. For example, we may share non-personal data about your transactions, viewing activity, and region, as well as aggregated user demographics such as age group and gender (which may be inferred from information such as your name and salutation in your Apple Account), to Apple TV strategic partners, such as content owners, so that they can measure the performance of their creative work, meet royalty and accounting requirements, and improve their associated products and services.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-tv-app/
by Aurornis | 2025-12-15 14:59:12+00:00
Arduino’s sweet spot was always in education and learning.

I think most people should graduate into PlatformIO or vendor tools if they’ve used Arduino to learn basics.

I think it’s great that the Arduino ecosystem became so large and capable, but it had the side effect of leading many beginners into thinking that Arduino was synonymous with microcontroller.

I even took a contract once updating a company’s internal tooling because their first contractor tried to do it all with Arduino. The same scenario happens with Raspberry Pi in the world of Linux embedded systems development.
by evilduck | 2025-12-15 14:59:19+00:00
Schools typically don't allow BYOD policies because of support costs and equitability between students. Assuming a school district even did allow this, they would only allow the student to use a managed Chrome profile and the school's device policy would lock out the Linux VM option and everything else that might become an in-class distraction.

If a kid wants to learn how to program, they're going to have to bring their own separate computer and it will be treated about the same as bringing their smartphone to class, i.e. not allowed except during very specific times, there would be concerns about liability of damage or theft from other students, and they probably wouldn't allow it on the school networks.
by benzible | 2025-12-15 14:59:41+00:00
The Bob Lee comparison doesn't really hold up. The "random street crime" narrative there was driven primarily by right-wing tech executives on social media - Musk, Sacks, etc. - not by news outlets making factual claims. Fox amplified the SF crime angle but wasn't naming suspects (and I put Fox in it own category anyway, based on its track record).

Meanwhile, actual newsrooms did reasonable work: the SF Standard put nine reporters on it and ultimately broke the real story. Other local outlets pushed back on whether SF crime was as "horrific" as tech execs claimed.

Most importantly: speculating about the type of crime (random vs. targeted) isn't defamation. Naming a specific living person as a killer is. That's a categorically different level of legal exposure, which is why outlets don't do it unless they're confident in their sourcing. If this kind of reckless misattribution happened as often as people here seem to imply, defamation lawyers would be a lot busier and these outlets would be out of business.
by neighborlynook | 2025-12-15 14:59:43+00:00
I'm actually building this exact thing right now. Using Gemini TTS with its multi-speaker capabilities. Soundtrack comes from a Suno Playlist which the tool will download the entire playlist at the start.

Plays 3-5 songs prior to a "break", where the logic will call out channel donators vs pick a random topic to discuss, then use an LLM to generate the script before sending to gemini.

In the end; its really just a wrapper around FFMPEG broadcasting to an SRT or RTMP stream. I can upload the latest branch when I get home to share
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-12-15 15:00:04+00:00
Depends what you ask the LLM to do!

If you're using it to write in programming language, you often actually get something that runs (provided your specifications are good - or your instructions for writing the specifications are specific enough!) .

If you're asking for natural language output ... yeah... you need to watch it like a hawk by hand - sure. It'd be nice if there was some way to test-suite natural language writing.
by bigfishrunning | 2025-12-15 15:00:18+00:00
I think an old PC would be more useful then a chromebook to a kid interested in learning to program; also it avoids dealing with a School District IT Department, which have to defend themselves from all kinds of attack from annoying kids and parents, so are probably more technologically conservative then the average IT worker.

So my advice would be: Don't bother trying to provision a chrome-book to connect to some school network. Use a school-issued chromebook for school stuff (if that's what they issue...), use a normal PC for extracurricular learning.

For the record: my kids are in elementary school, and are issued lenovo laptops running windows. They are locked down to the point where they might as well be chromebooks; kids have unprivileged accounts and are allowed to run very few programs. This is as it should be; those computers are for a very specific purpose, and are not general purpose toys.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-12-15 15:00:33+00:00
We have a ratio of roughly 7:1 (repos to engineers). It was probably closer to 12:1 at some point.

* Spikes/Demo project

* Smaller projects that might have gone live, but have since been migrated elsewhere

* Core services

* Forks of certain supply chain dependencies that we've made improvements to.
by rob74 | 2025-12-15 15:00:35+00:00
> After about a minute of flying the game checks your state and plays a little cutscene showing either a textbook landing or an expensive fireball. Either way, you get a “Mission Accomplished!” and go to the next level (after all, you don’t own that plane, the taxpayers do):

For realism's (and comedy's) sake, they could have shown a pixel ejecting from the five (I think) pixels that form the jet before it explodes into a fireball, then floating down on a tiny parachute and being rescued by a tiny boat.

...but seriously, you didn't even get your score reduced for crashing the plane on landing?
by Ajedi32 | 2025-12-15 15:01:15+00:00
I think it's fine to discuss solutions to hypothetical future problems as long as it's clear that these are hypothetical future problems you're talking about, not present reality.

In many of these discussions that line seems to get blurred and I start to get the impression people are using the specter of a vague, poorly understood hypothetical future problem to argue for concrete societal changes now.
Ask HN: How do you get comfortable with shipping code you haven't reviewed?
by fnimick | 2025-12-15 15:01:37+00:00
This is the advice I've gotten on how to adapt to AI driven development at breakneck speed - to the point of having AI tooling write and ship projects in languages the 'operator' doesn't even know. How do you get confidence in a workflow where e.g. a team of agents does development, another team of agents does code review and testing, and then it is shipped without a human ever verifying the implementation?

I hear stories of startup devs deploying 10-30k+ lines of code per day and that a single dev should now be able to build complete products that would ordinarily take engineer-years in under a month. Is this realistic? How do you learn to operate like this?
by cjohnsonpr | 2025-12-15 15:01:59+00:00
We open-sourced Rosetta, a lightweight protocol and CLI that helps AI coding agents build and retain institutional knowledge about a codebase across sessions.

The core idea is simple: instead of re-prompting agents with ad-hoc README excerpts or hoping they infer architecture from code alone, Rosetta introduces a standard file format (ROSETTA.md) that captures agent-relevant context explicitly: architecture, conventions, entry points, gotchas, and append-only agent learnings.

Key aspects:

A structured markdown protocol (ROSETTA.md) designed for machine parsing, not marketing

Append-only “Agent Notes” so agents can persist what they learn over time

Optional scoped modules (.rosetta/modules/*.md) for conditional context loading

A CLI for validation, scaffolding, and bootstrap prompts

A programmatic API for agent frameworks and IDE integrations

This is not another docs generator or LLM wrapper. It is closer to a memory boundary between humans, agents, and codebases.

Motivation: Most AI coding tools still treat every session as stateless. Humans accumulate institutional knowledge; agents currently do not. Rosetta is an attempt at a minimal, explicit standard for closing that gap.

Repository: https://github.com/metisos/Rosetta_Open_Source

Interested in feedback on:

Whether this should be a protocol vs just a convention

How agents should govern and curate learned notes

Failure modes you’ve seen with persistent agent context
by naasking | 2025-12-15 15:02:10+00:00
> Capabilities can simply hold a provenance that can be used to verify the source of the access. If that access is then revoked from that source, the capability doesn't need to change at all

This is basically using access control lists to mimic a capability system [1]. The capability folks did something similar in "Polaris", their layer atop Windows XP that enforced principle of least authority by default. If only MS had taken that and run with it.

[1] A Distributed Capability Computing System (DCCS), http://www.webstart.com/jed/papers/DCCS/

[2] Polaris: Virus-Safe Computing For Windows XP, https://cacm.acm.org/research/polaris-2/
by neighborlynook | 2025-12-15 15:02:11+00:00
Just wrapped up the latest build of Bedtime Hero - an application (React-Native, ios, android) for parents to build/generate bed time stories with their little one. Allows the parent to use pre-sets or set their own and then generate a story (complete with images).

This was a satisfying project mostly because I dog-food it every night with my little one.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-15 15:02:37+00:00
This could be OpenAI, or it could be another company using their header pattern.

It has long been common for scrapers to adopt the header patterns of search engine crawlers to hide in logs and bypass simple filters. The logical next step is for smaller AI players to present themselves as the largest players in the space.

Some search engines provide a list of their scraper IP ranges specifically so you can verify if scraper activity is really them or an imitator.

EDIT: Thanks to the comment below for looking this up and confirming this IP matches OpenAI’s range.
by srg0 | 2025-12-15 15:02:40+00:00
Are there good ESP32-based starter kits with manual books which a kid can learn from? I was looking for an Arduino-like kit as a Christmas gift, and it seems that Arduino kits are unbeatable. The starter kit is available in 10 languages and comes with a project booklet. All ESP32-based products seem to be better suited for more advanced users and seem to have a steeper learning curve.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-15 15:02:46+00:00
Yeah, this is the funny thing about it.

As an American, I'd much rather a Chinese company have data on me than an American one.

The American government and FBI and police don't have access to the Chinese company's data. But with a subpoena (and sometimes just with a friendly ask), they sure do have access to an American company's data.

Now if the US is at war with China and you're a politician or in the military, then of course get rid of every device in your home and workplace from China that could be used to spy. But if you're just a normal citizen worried about your government collecting information on you, it seems preferable to stick to foreign companies, like Chinese ones.
by mghackerlady | 2025-12-15 15:02:52+00:00
I didn't do any research beyond reading the article, but what exactly is Java about this? The gentleman wearing the ring (presumably the author) is using a sun machine, is that what's Java? I understand the Java hype of the time but were we really just calling everything Java? At least JavaScript was influenced by Java, and the JavaStation could remote into a machine running some Java program
by GeekyBear | 2025-12-15 15:02:56+00:00
The notion that the same individual could both father children as a male and bear children as a female was indeed trippy in the 70's.

Also the concept of being able to back up your mind and restore it into a clone of yourself (as an adult or a child), or even into the body of an animal as a sort of tourist experience.

Mind-computer interfaces that connected you to the AI that ran the planet, or could be used as a phone...

There were quite a few interesting ideas in his works that would change societies.
by otterley | 2025-12-15 15:03:16+00:00
One thing I forgot to mention is what the trust relationship looks like. Passphrases used for authentication are known by both parties and could be leaked by the other side or stolen from them, while private keys remain only available to you. With public key authentication, the other party only has your public key, which is freely shareable.

And yes, we all know that 2FA, passkeys, etc. are all better than passphrases, and that layer 3 wire encryption is important.

I’m merely responding to your blanket assertion that passphrases aren’t “secure enough,” but sometimes they are.
by infecto | 2025-12-15 15:04:09+00:00
We know over the long term it is exceptionally hard to beat the market, timing the market is near impossible. Everyone keeps talking about a bubble but we don’t know how big of one it is or when/if it will pop.

You are better off being in the market than betting on an idea that you don’t know will even happen or when.

I definitely think there is over enthusiasm in the space but at the same time I am not convinced that the demand for compute has let off yet.

My take is always you could build up some cash reserve in treasuries or somewhere like that and deploy it if a pop does happen. You will miss out on the potential growth but if you wanted to participate that is one way imo.
by bitwize | 2025-12-15 15:04:25+00:00
In the "bad ending" to Rocket Knight Adventures (complete the game on Easy or lower), you actually see Sparkster leave the Pig Star's crashing escape pod as a pixel, then there's a little sneezing sound as a tiny parachute deploys. It's kind of disappointing, but then to see a real ending you're supposed to beat the game on a higher difficulty.