MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by XCSme | 2026-01-27 12:56:39+00:00
Yes, I know you can have both.

My point was that this is just a different way of creating specialised task solvers, the same as with MoE.

And, as you said, with MoE it's about the model itself, and it's done at training level so that's not something we can easily do ourselves.

But with agent swarm, isn't it simply splitting a task in multiple sub-tasks and sending each one in a different API call? So this can be done with any of the previous models too, only that the user has to manually define those tasks/contexts for each query.

Or is this at a much more granular level than this, which would not be feasible to be done by hand?

I was already doing this in n8n, creating different agents with different system prompts for different tasks. I am not sure if automating this (with swarm) would work well in my most cases, I don't see how this fully complements Tools or Skills
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-27 12:56:57+00:00
> I mean, git is just as "local-first" (a git repo is just a directory after all), and the standard git-toolchain includes a server, so...

It isn't though, Fossil integrates all the data around the code too in the "repository", so issues, wiki, documentation, notes and so on are all together, not like in git where most commonly you have those things on another platform, or you use something like `git notes` which has maybe 10% of the features of the respective Fossil feature.

It might be useful to scan through the list of features of Fossil and dig into it, because it does a lot more than you seem to think :) https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
by miningape | 2026-01-27 12:57:40+00:00
> You have a lot of control over what the LLM creates. The way you phrase your requirements, give it guidance over architecture, testing, ux, libraries to use. You can build your own set of skills to outline how you want the LLM to automate your software process

Except for the other 50% of the time where it goes off the rails and does what you explicitly asked it not to do.
Ask HN: Have you seen Claude Code answering its own questions today?
by sixhobbits | 2026-01-27 12:57:43+00:00
Twice today Claude Code stopped to ask me a question, then answered it as if I had, and then continued.

When I asked it why, it said it hadn't

Is this just random, or something that others are seeing recently? I don't think I've seen anything like this after months of pretty heavy use

https://x.com/sixhobbits/status/2016128163500151162?s=20
by rngacc | 2026-01-27 12:58:25+00:00
Hi HN. I built tfstate-audit (solo) to solve a recurring problem at work: during audits/key rotations we needed to answer "where did this credential/resource come from, and when did it first appear?" In practice, that info is often buried in Terraform state history, and digging through object versions manually is painful.

(Some teammates didn't even realize how much valuable information gets stored in Terraform state. It's basically a time machine for your infrastructure, if you can query it.)

tfstate-audit is local-first: it builds a local SQLite index and runs entirely on your machine. It's read-only (only lists/downloads historical versions) with redaction on by default, and no telemetry.

It lets you search across attributes/outputs/metadata, view a git-log-like timeline, diff two versions, and generate "advise" output + an optional Markdown evidence pack. It supports S3, GCS, Azure Blob Storage, HCP Terraform, and file://.

Quick start:

go install github.com/BetaFold3/tfstate-audit/cmd/tfstate-audit@latest
tfstate-audit index --source s3://bucket/path/to/state.tfstate --since 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z --limit-per-source 50
tfstate-audit search --query 'attr.value~=^AKIA OR attr.value~=^ASIA' --group-by source

Would love feedback: What's your current workflow for answering "when did this resource/secret first appear in state"? Curious if others hit this during audits or incident response.
by Bayart | 2026-01-27 12:59:08+00:00
They're going to the US for the VC funds and the capital markets, which is America's great competitive advantage globally. In the few industries I went through (PaaS, Health, Finance) what I got was that the regulatory environment in Europe was welcome for being stable and clear, or existing at all in a few cases. There's been one case where I've seen regulation being an issue and preventing business from being fully conducted in Europe, and that was related to banking (in that instance that company had to be set up in Dubai).
by sensanaty | 2026-01-27 12:59:27+00:00
I tried Win11 out for maybe a week before upgrading (I refuse to call it a downgrade) back to Win10. Explorer of all things being slow as molasses on my very beefy system was the straw that broke the camel's back for me, but also idiotic decisions like not letting my move the damn taskbar without hacky 3rd party software certainly didn't help me feeling frustrated with every minute of use.

I dunno what the fuck they're smoking at M$ HQ, it's truly baffling.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-27 13:00:43+00:00
the papers I've seen that tried just picked a group of developers at supposedly similar level and gave them tasks to do with or without being assisted by AI.

At the very least for programming the decline of improvement compared to difficulty of task and skill of programmer quickly got into "AI technically helps but time spent fudging with prompts is more than time saved".

However if your task is to write some SEO slop about your products for your company's webpage, or to make a bunch of business emails to customers, I can absolutely believe AI can double productivity there, there is nothing of value produced that requires skill, it's just a few bits of info filled with fluff around them
by sarchertech | 2026-01-27 13:01:28+00:00
The President's power to control the national guard comes from the constitution not acts of congress.

“The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States”

But ignoring all that, if a governor used the national guard against federal agents, that’s open civil war. The military gets deployed, and death and destruction follow.

The reform needed is that congress takes back constitutional powers they’ve delegated to the President, and removes a President who violates their will.

Congress has the power to control the President right now. If they aren’t willing to do exercise that authority, there’s nothing we can do.

Let’s say you got Congress to grant states the ability to make war on the federal government in order to provide an extra-congressional check on Presidential power (which I don’t think you can do, but just pretend you can). That’s only useful in a situation where the President has effectively captured Congress. Otherwise an extra-congressional check isn’t needed. But in the case Congress will just remove that power from the states.

This only works even a little bit as a Constitutional amendment—even if you could pass legislation to do it.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-01-27 13:01:39+00:00
<< shot in broad daylight for trying to help a woman who's just been maced.

Yes.. do I get to get between DEA and their intended target? No? If not, why not. If yes, why yes? The framing is silly.

The death may be tragic and very much avoidable, but it was avoidable on both ends of this interaction. There is no comparison to Kirk here at all. He came to talk to people. Pretti went there as part of a signal group coordinating to obstruct a federal enforcement agency..

Ngl.. how people choose their heroes is beyond me.
by AthenaWall | 2026-01-27 13:03:24+00:00
Most cybersecurity discussions focus on the 'how' of an exploit, but rarely on the 'why' of the human response. I believe we often misclassify it as 'user error' when it is actually a sophisticated bypass of the prefrontal cortex using established psychological triggers (like the Milgram effect).

I’ve written a deep dive into how social engineering deconstructs the Ego and why our biological 'operating system' is riddled with factory vulnerabilities that no software can patch.

I’m interested in the community's take: at what point does technical authority override individual judgment in a digital workflow? Is 'user error' just a lazy term for a successful cognitive hack?
by graemep | 2026-01-27 13:04:18+00:00
I like it but the problem is everyone else already knows git and everything integrates with git.

It is very easy to self host.

Not having staging is awkward at first but works well once you get used to it.

I prefer it for personal projects. In think its better for small teams if people are willing to adjust but have not had enough opportunities to try it.
by TonyStr | 2026-01-27 13:04:19+00:00
Interestingly, I looked at github insights and found that this repo had 49 clones, and 28 unique cloners, before I published this article. I definitely did not clone it 49 times, and certainly not with 28 unique users. It's unlikely that the handful of friends who follow me on github all cloned the repo. So I can only speculate that there are bots scraping new public github repos and training on everything.

Maybe that's obvious to most people, but it was a bit surprising to see it myself. It feels weird to think that LLMs are being trained on my code, especially when I'm painfully aware of every corner I'm cutting.

The article doesn't contain any LLM output. I use LLMs to ask for advice on coding conventions (especially in rust, since I'm bad at it), and sometimes as part of research (zstd was suggested by chatgpt along with comparisons to similar algorithms).
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-27 13:05:26+00:00
> It's a terrible long term lubricant (because it's designed to evaporate, it actually concentrates gunk and grime).

You're not supposed to use it (and similar products) like that tho. You're supposed to use it to flush out the gunk and grime by dissolving it, all it is supposed to do is to make stuff that doesn't move, move, enough to fix it now and maybe prepare a bit for putting proper lubricant.

Like, it's not fault of their formula that people are using it wrong
by ygra | 2026-01-27 13:05:43+00:00
Oh, that's something I also did in QBasic ages ago. I since lost the source code, but it basically worked by querying the screen from bottom to top, finding snow pixels (white) and moving them down, unless there was an obstacle. The initial snow on the ground (and the snowman) were using a different color that was almost white so it wouldn't detect as snow. It worked fairly well in 320×200 at the time.

I've tried the same approach in Turbo Pascal with BGI in the hopes of having a faster language and higher resolution available. It turned out to be quite a bit slower, likely because drawing and querying pixels was a bit more involved when using an adapter layer like BGI.

A few weeks ago I tried rewriting all that in TypeScript for fun and also trying to integrate it as an easter-egg with our graph drawing library (which renders with SVG) and first had to figure out how to efficiently support arbitrary obstacles that are initially SVG as well as a potentially changing viewport of the whole scene. I got sidetracked and didn't finish it, but proper collision handling was so easy back then (just look at the pixel color), but now with vector graphics and reading pixels being a very slow operation in many cases, it was surprisingly complicated.
by a2128 | 2026-01-27 13:05:50+00:00
You don't need to wait and see, Kimi K2 has the same hardware requirements and has several providers on OpenRouter:

https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking
https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2-0905
https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2-0905:exacto
https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2

Generally it seems to be in the neighborhood of $0.50/1M for input and $2.50/1M for output
by azan_ | 2026-01-27 13:06:04+00:00
Both. 1.5/3 T is standard, >3 T machines (such as 5 T from United Imaging) are becoming more popular (and affordable) and at the same time ultra low field ones keep improving and now they make some things that were impossible before now actually doable such as bed-side MRI (not in clinical practice of course, but there was nice engineering proof of concept with ultra low field MRI machine that could be powered by normal power outlet).
by alimbada | 2026-01-27 13:06:19+00:00
I would expect the M4 options to be cheaper than their M5 counterparts. Given how expensive Apple products are, I appreciate them offering both options at the same time. Just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean it doesn't make sense for anyone; you're obviously in the miniscule [nit-picking] minority since Apple will have done enough market research to offer the options that they do offer.
by harvey9 | 2026-01-27 13:06:25+00:00
NICE guidelines.
"Evidence on the specific eGFR equations or ethnicity adjustments seen by the committee was not from UK studies so may not be applicable to UK black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. None of the studies included children and young people. The committee was also concerned about the value of P30 as a measure of accuracy (P30 is the probability that the measured value is within 30% of the true value), the broad range of P30 values found across equations and the relative value or accuracy of ethnicity adjustments to eGFR equations in different ethnic groups. The committee agreed that adding an ethnicity adjustment to eGFR equations for different ethnicities may not be valid or accurate...."

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng203/chapter/rationale-and...
by lazide | 2026-01-27 13:07:02+00:00
In both cases, the real issue is when the oil (eventually all do) oxidizes and ‘gums’. Tight tolerances make it cause worse problems sooner of course, but it’s the same problem eventually.

Putting new fresh oil in it often temporarily fixes it because it dissolves some (or a lot) of the old varnish. Acetone can often do the same thing too, but can also wash the varnish deeper into the mechanism where it turns into really solid ‘plastic’ when the acetone dissolves.
by alias_neo | 2026-01-27 13:07:39+00:00
They seem to have pulled it, I can't find it on my Pixel.

I paid for it in 2014, and it hasn't been updated in about half of that time, they removed the cloud key backup at some point without notification so I lost all of the keys I had stored, and last time I used it, it didn't even recognise I had paid for it.

I moved to a different app a while back.
by zo1 | 2026-01-27 13:07:44+00:00
But you could say the same thing the other way, that's the point. I.e. you're not listening to what Republicans are actually saying but rather what "Democrats" are saying the republicans are saying.

Even your response is oblivious to the point, and you're doubling-down on "only the other side (Republicans) is liars, my side aren't liars" as a way to address the fundamentally different realities you and them seem to occupy.
by acdha | 2026-01-27 13:07:56+00:00
> It's about making people feel safe.

I think this is true but had to be seen in the bigger context: the Bush administration wanted people to feel that there were threats which required sacrificing things like civil liberties, balanced budgets, or not being at war because if you didn’t fight them “over there” the nebulous “they” come here in a never-ending swarm. Even at the time we knew that the threats weren’t serious but the people making those decisions saw it as part of a larger agenda.
by bonzog | 2026-01-27 13:08:12+00:00
It's not quite the same thing - the EMAS is the overrun surface itself, rather than the signs warning of it. However you are quite close to the money on another aspect of airfield design.

Lots of obstructions near the runway - signs, lights, aerial masts, meteorological equipment, fences - are supposed to be "frangible" [1]. They must break into pieces less likely to cause damage to an aircraft in a high-energy collision. There's a heck of a lot of GFRP used in lieu of metal around an airfield.

1. ICAO Doc 9157, particularly part 6.
by ellieparkerr | 2026-01-27 13:08:35+00:00
I added this piece without expecting much, just hoping it would feel right in the room. What surprised me was how easily it became part of the space. It does not stand out in an obvious way, but it adds a sense of familiarity that I have grown to appreciate.

This IBANI Neon Name Sign Personalized is a custom LED sign made with a name, and that personal detail is what makes it meaningful. I chose it for home decor, though it would work just as naturally for a birthday, a wedding, or in a bar or store where subtle personal touches matter. Knowing it comes with UL certified components and a 2 year warranty also gave me confidence in keeping it on display.

I am sharing it because it has quietly shaped the way my space feels, and those small choices often matter the most.
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-27 13:09:27+00:00
It should work fine for any Android phone with pKVM support. It runs Debian in a VM, with some kind of Wayland trick (using virgl for GPU acceleration) to get GUI support.

pKVM requires a) a compatible CPU (most CPUs will do, probably), b) compatible firmware/bootloader software, and c) a compatible Android build

The latter two parts are the most likely reason why not all phones have support for this.
by dannytatom | 2026-01-27 13:10:16+00:00
to clarify, i meant i don’t have the bandwidth to run this as a business and an open source project. not either, but both.

that said, i thought more on it last night, and i’ve decided to open source it. just going to be explicit in the README that i wont be offering support for anyone wanting to self host atm, just wasn’t built to be easy to self-host (external service dependencies and etc).
by nuuuwan | 2026-01-27 13:10:17+00:00
AAAI 2026: My Reflections

The 40th annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, #AAAI2026, recently concluded in Singapore, marking the first time this landmark event has been held in Asia.

Since its inception at Stanford in 1980, AAAI has served as a primary barometer for the field. Observing the conference from an industry perspective, having worked across both large-scale AI firms and startups, reveals a discipline at a crossroads, caught between profound technical shifts and a stagnant academic culture.

CONTINUE ON MEDIUM: https://medium.com/on-technology/aaai-2026-my-reflections-7d...

CONTINUE ON SUBSTACK: https://open.substack.com/pub/nuuuwan/p/aaai-2026-my-reflect...
by AkshatM | 2026-01-27 13:10:23+00:00
I asked Kenton Varda (the creator) this one after discovering all its cool capabilities, and it seems like promoting it just hasn't been a focus.

It is heavily used at Cloudflare, though, and is the basis for a lot of cool stuff we're doing: https://blog.cloudflare.com/capnweb-javascript-rpc-library/
by chaosbolt | 2026-01-27 13:10:30+00:00
7000$ have been sent to your bank account.

At least 700k people died in Gaza.

I doubt even 100 people died in those Iranian protests, and there are videos of Mossad agents shooting people before getting arrested by the Iranian police.

Like even the UN stopped pushing that lie after Iranian ambassadors showed them the videos.

The fact that this whole thread got so many upvotes to end up on the front page is the signal I finally needed to delete the account, this has become an echo chamber, the cypherpunk or whatever those smart people with critical thinking and strong moral values are called are not here anymore.
by xxs | 2026-01-27 13:13:29+00:00
>Whether they are allowed or not, probably depends on the place.

It's a EU thing, even though the Swiss are outside... and I was sure it was a directive until:

The recommendation allows for light knives and scissors with blades up to 6 cm (2.4 in) but some countries do not accept these either (e.g. nail care items)[citation needed]

I thought it was universal mostly since I had no issues at the airports.

Prior to the 6 cm rule, once I had to run to a post office at the airport and mail a parcel to myself with the pocket knife (which is also a memento)
Show HN: Analyzing Semantic Redundancy in LLM Retrieval (Google Gist Protocol)
by aggeeinn | 2026-01-27 13:13:48+00:00
Last week, Google research published details on GIST (Greedy Independent Set Thresholding), a new protocol presented at NeurIPS 2025. I was fascinated by the paper, so I built a tool to visualize the "No-Go Zones" (redundancy radius) it describes.

The Tool: https://websiteaiscore.com/gist-compliance-check

The Context (The Paper): To understand the tool, you have to understand the problem Google is solving with GIST: redundancy is expensive. When generating an AI answer , the model cannot feed 10k search results into the context window—it costs too much compute. If the top 5 results are semantically identical (consensus content), the model wastes tokens processing duplicates.

The GIST algorithm solves this via Max-Min Diversity:

Utility Score: It selects a high-value source.

The Radius: It draws a mathematical conflict radius around that content based on semantic similarity.

The Lockout: Any content inside that radius is rejected to save compute, regardless of domain authority.

How my implementation works: I wanted to see if we could programmatically detect if a piece of content falls inside this "redundancy radius." The tool uses an LLM to analyze the top ranking URLs for a specific query, calculates the vector embedding, and measures the Semantic Cosine Similarity against your input.

If the overlap is too high (simulating the GIST lockout), the tool flags the content as providing zero marginal utility to the model.

I’d love feedback on the accuracy of the similarity scoring.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-27 13:14:17+00:00
>Essex police haven't fired a single bullet in the last 10 years, and they are able to provide effective policing anyway.

Only if you misreport crime, ignore grooming gangs and arrest people for Tweets as "effective policing" in the UK.

>And I repeat, it's not an accident. If it was, they would have shot him once.

Police are trained to always fire multiple shots, as learned from firefight reports, people are left in capacity to fire back even when they have several rounds in them.
by willj | 2026-01-27 13:14:20+00:00
100%. This is what I posted about on Hacker News ([1] where it got no traction) and Reddit [2] (where it led to a discussion but then got deleted by a mod).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46705588

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1qj03gq/wh...
by oblio | 2026-01-27 13:14:35+00:00
FYI, you seem shaken by what you saw, but I do have to point out a few things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre

1. This massacre happened 107 years ago. None of the people involved are even alive any more. In some cases even their children or grand-children are no longer with us. Judging children by the sins of their parents leads nowhere.

2. Holding grudges for so long does not seem healthy for the person holding them.

3. Another commenter points out that India is looking for a trade agreement with the UK... I guess the government of India doesn't hold the same view point as you (as an outsider, your viewpoint seems very extreme).

Edit: found the trade agreement: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-india-trade-dea...