MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ccozan | 2026-01-30 09:42:08+00:00
You have hit a huge point here: reading throught the posts above, the idea of a
"townplace" where the agents are gathering and discussing isn't the .... actual cyberspace a la Gibson ?

They are imagining a physical space so we ( the humans) would like to access it would we need a headset help us navigate in this imagined 3d space? Are we actually start living in the future?
by Oras | 2026-01-30 09:42:38+00:00
You still have the system design skills, and so far, LLMs are not that good in this field.

They can give plausible architecture but most of the time it’s not usable if you’re starting from scratch.

When you design the system, you’re an architect not a coder, so I see no difference between handing the design to agents or other developers, you’ve done the heavy lifting.

In that perspective, I find LLMs quite useful for learning. But instead of coding, I find myself in long sessions back and forth to ask questions, requesting examples, sequence diagrams .. etc to visualise the final product.
by moomoo11 | 2026-01-30 09:42:43+00:00
You should just bootstrap if you're so confident. Honestly I'm not sure this idea is that great, but hey I am happy to be wrong. It is all right though.

FWIW I'm also not the type of person who would get VC backing (not an Ivy grad, not some hot shot Kumon kid who also got a Olympics gold medal while doing heart surgery when I was 15, etc.), but I managed to save up 500k working in tech for 10 years. You can do a lot with 200k. You can do plenty with 500k.

Once you have traction, you can either take out a calculated loan or just grow organically if you're not able to get VC money. And with VC money comes a lot of obligations, so you may have to compromise and end up losing big in the end if things don't work out.

Honestly, people should just work in tech for like 5-10 years and get like 1M+ retirement fund and maybe 200-500k cash they can use for their business.

The best thing you could do in 2026 is to build your dream solo, and actually prove to VCs that it is possible for a single person to build a $1B business. And by prove, I mean that you would never need their money because you actually build something meaningful that solves problems for real people. Life is better when you mute all these FOMO-mongers and focus.

Ignore the noise, and don't hold grudges. Just be 100% selfish and feel zero remorse. You get one shot at life, so give it your best.

I live in a studio apartment and I'm earning 4% on my savings, 15% on my retirement, 170% on my meme stock portfolio, and 15-25% on my tech max stocks. Basically if you want to do something crazy, you have to take a risk and not give a fuck about other people and what they're doing. Optimize ONLY for YOURSELF.

Care only for the customer. Ignore everyone else, who gives a fuck. They can figure it out for themselves, not your problem.
by amanaplanacanal | 2026-01-30 09:42:45+00:00
The science around what fats are good or bad is so confusing I don't think we can say much about them with certainly, except that trans fats are probably bad. I lean towards "eat whole foods", but those can include anything from beef and coconut which are full of saturated fats, to fish and nuts which are full of polyunsaturated fats.
by vidarh | 2026-01-30 09:43:55+00:00
Thanks for this (and to Izkata for the suggestion). I now have about 100 (okay, minor exaggeration, but not as much as you'd like it to be) AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md files and agent descriptions I will want to systematically validate if shifting toward first person helps adherence for...

I'm realising I need to start setting up an automated test-suite for my prompts...
by falcor84 | 2026-01-30 09:44:32+00:00
That's exactly the thing. Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is already significantly better at essentially everything than a large percentage of devs I had the displeasure of working with, including learning when asked to retain a memory. It's still very far from the best devs, but this is the worse it'll ever be, and it already significantly raised the bar for hiring.
by gamesieve | 2026-01-30 09:45:14+00:00
Galaxy can be required for multiplayer aspects in games, but if what you say is true for the singleplayer part of the game, GOG will consider it a bug, and will get it fixed.

There's nothing in the Crime Cities GOG forum about this, nor in the various tracking threads in the main forum, and generally GOG users are extremely sensitive about anything which even reeks of forcing Galaxy, so I'd strongly expect any issue to be known.

I've seen cases where the developer implemented a bad online check, so that if you blocked the program from accessing the internet while the OS reported being online, the game would hang or crash, but being fully offline would work. Could it be that something like that was at play here? Oh, or that you simply picked the wrong installer for the game, and thus ran the Galaxy-installer rather than the offline installer?
by Buttons840 | 2026-01-30 09:45:45+00:00
I prefer soybeans. They have more fiber (including more soluble fiber), and they have more protein.

I realized this when tracking micronutrients with an app (tracking every gram I put into my body), and realized my 600 calorie steel-cut-oats breakfast was often outdone by soybeans I'd eat later in the day. The soybeans had more fiber.

And I think they're easier to eat. It's pretty boring, but I microwave a bowl of frozen soybeans and then just eat them plain. They're clean, you could eat them with your fingers without causing a mess (I use a spoon though), and their cleanliness means I'm comfortable having a bowl next to me at the computer or wherever; if they spill I would just pick them up with my fingers and that's it.
by zirak | 2026-01-30 09:45:51+00:00
The US uses them more pervasively it seems, but there's still remnants of it elsewhere.

The UK uses them for post-conviction monitoring in certain offenses: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-crime-sent...
...and there's more than one British polygraph group: BPA and BPS (https://www.britishpolygraphassociation.org/, https://polygraph.org.uk/)

Australia did indeed reject the polygraph for security clearance: https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2006/10/19/australian-securit...

Canada however does seem to use it as part of their intelligence screening: https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corpo...

> Do I have to go through the polygraph test to join CSIS?

> Yes. All CSIS employees must obtain a Top Secret security clearance and the polygraph is a mandatory part of the process.

Seems to be the same for CSE and to get "Enhanced Top Secret" clearance.

Back to the US, the Department of Labor says that private employers can't force people to undergo a polygraph test: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/polygraph
But of course this does not apply to public sector jobs, where it's used more pervasively.
by habinero | 2026-01-30 09:46:17+00:00
> The moon is very cold in surface shadows and below the surface. It is an enormous pre-chilled heat sink

Technically true, but not really. "Radiative cooling" is heat loss through thermal radiation and it's really ineffective. We use air cooling / water cooling for a reason.

Satellites and spacecraft are engineered to make sure they can shed enough heat and they use a fraction of the power a datacenter would. All that energy eventually gets turned into heat, and it has to go somewhere.

It's a ridiculous idea that's never going to make even a tiny bit of economic sense.
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-30 09:46:26+00:00
That's not entirely untrue. Triple A is the current day shovelware. It's just that the shovel is made of gold and expensive.

I find my enjoyment in select retro games and indies nowadays. When I find a game I really like that is not an indie, it is typically something that is explicitly not AAA (such as Octopath Traveler).

Hell, one of my all-time favorites is a indie I olayed a couple of years ago - Ender Lilies. It became the best Metroidvania ever for me, when I thought nothing would ever dethrone Castlevania Aria of Sorrow.

So yeah. If gaming has a future for me, it is with indies.
by KurSix | 2026-01-30 09:46:37+00:00
There's a hidden trade-off here: Latency vs Privacy

A local agent has zero ping to your smart home and files, but high latency to the outside world (especially with bad upload speeds). A cloud agent (Cloudflare) has a fat pipe to APIs (OpenAI/Anthropic) and the web, but can't see your local printer.

The ideal future architecture is hybrid. A dumb local executor running commands from a smart cloud brain via a secure tunnel (like Cloudflare Tunnel). Running the agent's brain locally is a bottleneck unless you're running Llama 3 locally
by dns_snek | 2026-01-30 09:48:07+00:00
Those "details and nuances of the situation he was called into" become completely irrelevant once one is presented with irrefutable evidence that their actions were completely legal. What matters is his conduct after that happened, which was blatant and persistent abuse of power.

Stop justifying and excusing abuse of power, he hurt innocent people, cost the taxpayers $600k in a single incident of abusive and wrongful conduct, and he's now enjoying taxpayer-funded retirement without facing any accountability.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/how-a...
by another-dave | 2026-01-30 09:48:17+00:00
I think there's different levels to look at it.

If you know that you need O(n) "contains" checks and O(1) retrieval for items, for a given order of magnitude, it feels like you've all the pieces of the puzzle needed to make sure you keep the LLM on the straight and narrow, even if you didn't know off the top of your head that you should choose ArrayList.

Or if you know that string manipulation might be memory intensive so you write automated tests around it for your order of magnitude, it probably doesn't really matter if you didn't know to choose StringBuilder.

That feels different to e.g. not knowing the difference between an array list and linked list (or the concept of time/space complexity) in the first place.
by lazide | 2026-01-30 09:49:31+00:00
That isn’t why nepotism exists.

Nepotism is because ‘what is the point of doing all this’ - aka passing things on to family.

It also enables a degree of aligned interests between what could otherwise be hard to align parties (trust, like you mention), but that not why someone gets a big name acting slot, or gets put on the board of a friends company.
by elsjaako | 2026-01-30 09:50:14+00:00
If we have DRM with some private key, then I guess your idea is I download the game files and some private key and that allows me to run the game.

If I can send you the private key and the game and it allows you to run the game with no further inputs, then the DRM is trivially broken (even without open source).

If it does some online check, then if the source is open we can easily make a version that bypasses the online check.

If there is some check on the local PC (e.g. the key only works if some hardware ID is set correctly), we can easily find out what it checks, capture that information, package it, and make a new version of the launcher that uses this packaged data instead of the real machine data.

If you use a private key to go online and retrieve more data, having it be open source makes it trivial to capture that data, package it, and write a new version of the launcher that uses that packaged data.

Basically, DRM requires that there is something that is not easy to copy, and it being open source makes it a lot easier to copy.
by Gumenchong | 2026-01-30 09:50:37+00:00
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by drysine | 2026-01-30 09:51:00+00:00
Here is yesterday's Euronews article[0] which quite clearly says who doesn't want to talk.

"Russian President Vladimir Putin should make tangible concessions before the European Union picks up the phone to re-establish direct communications, High Representative Kaja Kallas said on Thursday as more European leaders call for direct engagement with the Kremlin as part of the Russia-Ukraine peace process currently being brokered by the White House."

"Instead of focusing on who should talk to Putin, Kallas added, European countries should devote their energy to further crippling his war machine"

"The European Commission, a long-standing advocate of the strategy of diplomatic isolation, later admitted that direct talks will happen "at some point" but not yet."

[0] https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/01/29/putin-should-m...
by discreteevent | 2026-01-30 09:51:09+00:00
> Many people drive cars without being able to explain how cars work.

But the fundamentals all cars behave the same way all the time. Imagine running a courier company where sometimes the vehicles take a random left turn.

> Or interact with people who's thinking they can't explain

Sure but they trust those service providers because they are reliable . And the reason that they are reliable is that the service providers can explain their own thinking to themselves. Otherwise their business would be chaos and nobody would trust them.

How you approached your library was practical given the use case. But can you imagine writing a compiler like this? Or writing an industrial automation system? Not only would it be unreliable but it would be extremely slow. It's much faster to deal with something that has a consistent model that attempts to distill the essence of the problem, rather than patching on hack by hack in response to failed test after failed test.
by throw310822 | 2026-01-30 09:51:13+00:00
> things that have nothing to do with LLMs/AI

These are things that have to do with intelligence. Human or LLM doesn't matter.

> things that you should NOT use LLMs for / parroting existing code / not in their training data/cut-off window, it's non-public information, they don't have the computing abilities to produce meaningful results

Sorry, but I just get the picture that you have no clue of what you're talking about- though most probably you're just in denial. This is one on the most surprising things about the emergence of AI: the existence of a niche of people that is hell-bent on denying its existence.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-30 09:52:26+00:00
That is a terrible learning environment. Our profs always leave a box outside the laboratory with free expired textbooks, partial part lots, and damaged/old test equipment.

Some people get into Science, Software, and Electronics for the wrong reasons.. And end up miserable teaching after failing in the private sector.

A few 555 can teach people a lot, and burning out parts is part of the learning process. Most fold the DIP legs under like a "dead bug", as that is the tradition to prevent its accidental re-use.

In terms of component cost, ATTINY or PIC10 mcu have internal RC oscillators with configurable PWM pin hardware. Thus a single component is usually better than the accumulated precision error in discreet parts around a 555.

I usually recommend an RC car/truck build, https://eater.net/6502 , and or an LDOmotors Voron kit. Getting your Ham Radio technician license will also introduce you to an intuitive understanding of EE component model limits.

This covers a lot about discreet analog circuits, and I recommend trying to figure out how every circuit works on your own:

https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofelectroniccircuits...

Simulators are not perfect, but they are a lot cheaper when starting out. =3

Tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/@FesZElectronics/videos

Tools:

https://www.analog.com/en/resources/design-tools-and-calcula...

https://web.archive.org/web/20200218212700/http://spectrum-s...

This requires a GPU on Windows, but is a more advanced newer Spice simulator:

https://www.qorvo.com/design-hub/design-tools/interactive/qs...
by pjmlp | 2026-01-30 09:52:33+00:00
In Germany it used to be that in some places, not only you were expected to have a proper application folder with various sections for the various kinds of material (CV, application letter, recomendantions, certificates, photo), they would post it back if refused.

This stopped being a thing about 15 years ago though.

I still have some of those applications in a box somewhere.
by azuanrb | 2026-01-30 09:53:13+00:00
It’s interesting that many comments mention switching back to Claude. I’m on the opposite end, as I’ve been quite happy with ChatGPT recently. Anthropic clearly changed something after December last year. My Pro plan is barely usable now, even when using only Sonnet. I frequently hit the weekly limit, which never happened before. In contrast, ChatGPT has been very generous with usage on their plan.

Another pattern I’m noticing is strong advocacy for Opus, but that requires at least the 5x plan, which costs about $100 per month. I’m on the ChatGPT $20 plan, and I rarely hit any limits while using 5.2 on high in codex.
by YurgenJurgensen | 2026-01-30 09:54:34+00:00
1) Anyone who says Celeste’s music is better than Super Mario Bros’ is a liar, and I don’t even like Nintendo games.
2) Let’s look at some of those release dates, shall we? 2019, 2013, 2020, 2017, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2016, 2013, 2013, 2008(!), 2019, 2021, and 2016.

That’s a period of 15 years. For an American, the NES released in 1985 and the PS2 released in 2000, also a period of 15 years. The fact that your “games of today” list is kind-of competing with four console generations itself is an indication that quality isn’t higher now, even with a considerably higher volume of releases.

Also only two of those games came out in the last 5 years, so things really aren’t looking great for modern games.
by sneela | 2026-01-30 09:54:38+00:00
> For just over five weeks, from February 7 to March 14, visitors will be allowed to climb the towering 20-foot scaffold inside the castle’s Sala delle Asse to view conservators at work on Leonardo’s mural, after which it will be sealed off again for another 18 months, making this limited public access a rare opportunity to see it up close mid-restoration.

From the last sentence - it's a chance to see it mid-restoration. But will it be publicly accessible after 18 months?
by moomoo11 | 2026-01-30 09:55:11+00:00
Everything is ultimately an organizational challenge. Even something like Linux which is cool and Linus is a beast, but what is most impressive is how thousands of people can contribute to it. And there are so many flavors.

Knowing how to program has always been the lowest bar. And nobody cares about what programming languages you know because with experience and especially with AI, anyone decently good can pick up a new language or tool in days, if not hours.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-30 09:55:21+00:00
>I'd really like a rejection physical letter back saying thankyou for application but no thanks signed by a human

If you want personalized human rejection letters to come back to you, then the hiring process would have to be equally friction based: i.e. mailing in notarized documents and interviewing in person for it to scale and not overwhelm a company's resources.

>I put some effort in to applying

Yeah but so did hundreds of other people. This worked in the world of 20+ years ago, but it doesn't scale anymore in the era of online applications where every job posting gets hundreds of applications within a week.
by majkinetor | 2026-01-30 09:57:07+00:00
The quality of the coffee depends on the technique used (and who does it). Yes, most decaf coffees suck, but there are some very good you can find. For example, Arpeggio [1] is for me and few people I know the best of all Nespreso coffees. In specialized coffee bars you can get amazing decafs.

[1]: https://www.nespresso.com/us/en/order/capsules/original/arpe...
by bahmboo | 2026-01-30 09:57:07+00:00
Went to return some packages at the local Fresh store on Jackson. Huge long line to get in. Eventually wound up doing some shopping. Place was very full (within fire regulations of course). Some good security and organizing folk. A tip bowl at the return desk that said "help the employees get wasted". All the pricing is electronic and puterized so I'm expecting that at the last minute on the last day the last product will sell for within a cent.

Actually knowing Amazon they'll give the staff a huge gimme and nice bonuses. People crap on Amazon but they are a good employe for the little guy. They can't rewrite society so go for that take. Otherwise people are bummed they lost good jobs.
by renegade-otter | 2026-01-30 09:57:18+00:00
It requires discipline. I use LLMs for mind-numbing refactoring and things I don't care learning. If you want to learn something, you do it yourself. It's like the gym. No pain, no gain.

I am not saying you should be struggling performatively, like a person still proud in 2026 that they are still using Vim for large projects (good for you, eh), but sometimes you need to embrace the discomfort.