MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2026-01-26 15:06:14+00:00
From a NatSec perspective, TSMC isn't really a bottleneck - most weapon systems use SoCs and micronctors that can be dabbed on "legacy nodes" (ie. 28/40/60/90nm) or 14/20/22nm nodes, and compound semiconductors.

The ability to mass produce a Pascal comparable GPU or Apple A11 comparable SoC is all you need for more cutting edge systems.

Power Electronics and Compound Semiconductors (GaN, SiC) have historically been the biggest bottleneck.

The bigger risk for the TSMC-China aspect is TSMC's planned exit of GaN foundry production by 2027. Most Chinese manufacturers still depend on TSMC-produced GaNs wafers instead of domestically produced GaN vendors due to reliability concerns. China will probably end up matching TSMC's specs for compound semiconductors, but in 4-7 years, but that implies that the Sullivan Doctrine still holds and is a loss for China.

Every other country with compound semiconductor production capabilities at scale (US, Germany, France, South Korea, Japan, Israel, Russia, India) either limits their exports or cannot export them to China without facing sanctions from other buyers (primarily Russia as India does not allowing commingling for defense vendors to India and Pakistan/China, and Russian vendors are members of India's EW and DEW program).

If a US-China War was to arise, worst case we would probably see a mass reversion back to 2018-22 level technology, which isn't the end of the world.

Additonally, the China-Taiwan situation is orthogonal to semiconductor dependency.
Ask HN: How do you balance clarity vs speed in communication?
by simon-rebbins | 2026-01-26 15:06:22+00:00
I spend a big part of my workday writing messages. Explaining things to teammates, clarifying context, replying to emails and Slack.

Honestly, this feels harder for me than writing code.

I keep rephrasing messages to avoid ambiguity and make sure my point is clear. Recently I realized this takes up almost a third of my working time.

Do you experience something similar? How do you deal with this trade-off between being clear and being fast?
by mickdarling | 2026-01-26 15:07:05+00:00
I'm looking at it right now as a tool I can hollow out and stuff in my own MCP server that also has personas, skills, an agentic loop, memory, all those pieces. I may even go simpler than that and simply take a look at it's gateway and channels and drag those over and slap them onto the MCP server I have and turn it into an independent application.

It looks far too risky to use, even if I have it sequestered in its own VM. I'm not comfortable with its present state.
by manuhabitela | 2026-01-26 15:07:13+00:00
I used big blue button and jitsi a lot in the past and this is a really good contender. Using Meet basically every day at work and it's really great. And the project gets new useful features regularly.

(I'm obviously a tiny bit biased since a made a few commits to the project a while ago, but pinky promise, you should try it!)
by usrusr | 2026-01-26 15:07:18+00:00
The key info token you'll want to know as someone foreign to map topics is that maplibre is a licence continuity fork of the formerly open source Mapbox code.

Everything else pretty much derives from this, e.g. yeah, OSM did not suddenly go all in on former mapbox stuff only because the company started keeping updates behind a paywall, OSM continues to be as tool-agnostic as ever.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-26 15:07:40+00:00
Some boredom is good for everybody. "Chronic boredom" is bad for everybody. The two things are not the same.

The whole point of the "boredom is good" realization is that the opposite -- needing to be distracted and entertained every moment of your day -- is also a degenerate condition that is harmful.

Moderation in all things.
by weitendorf | 2026-01-26 15:07:42+00:00
> Cloud run and lambdas can not be incorporated with gcp service mesh, but only if it is managed through gcp as well

I'm not exactly sure what this means, a few different interpretations make sense to me. If this is purely a run <-> other gcp product in a vpc problem, I'm not sure how much info about that is considered proprietary and which I could share, or even if my understanding of it is even accurate anymore. If it's that cloud run can't run in your service mesh then it's just, these are both managed services. But yes, I do think it's possible to run into a situation/configuration that is impossible to express in run that doesn't seem like it should be inexpressible.

This is why designing around multitenancy is important. I think with hierarchical namespacing and a transparent resource model you could offer better escape hatches for integrating managed services/products that don't know how to talk to each other. Even though your project may be a single "tenant", because these managed services are probably implemented in different ways under the hood and have opaque resource models (ie run doesn't fully expose all underlying primitives), they end up basically being multitenant relative to each other.

That being said, I don't see why you couldn't use mTLS to talk to Cloud Run instances, you just might have to implement it differently from how you're doing it elsewhere? This almost just sounds like a shortcoming of your service mesh implementation that it doesn't bundle something exposing run-like semantics by default (which is basically what we're doing), because why would it know how to talk to a proprietary third party managed service?
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-01-26 15:07:44+00:00
This isn't a new thing. Jeep used "factory headers" on the last years of the 4.0. Ford did welded manifolds on the 5.0 Explorers. Subaru went to welded steel for the EJ series engine in the 90s. GM had them on the LT5 in the early 90s. Just about every application that has the catalytic converter right up at the manifold used a welded one.
by smith7018 | 2026-01-26 15:07:46+00:00
According the MacRumors, yes but they cant confirm if its only for the new AirTags yet:

"watchOS 26.2.1 is also coming, and it expands Precision Finding to the Apple Watch Series 9 and later, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later. We have not yet confirmed if this is for the new AirTag only or also works with the original model."
by bradley13 | 2026-01-26 15:07:50+00:00
"Delegate everything" - delegation is hugely important. But not everything, obviously, as a team lead your responsibility as "transparent umbrella" cannot be delegated.

It also sounds like he is talking mostly about external projects. For internal projects, you really do serve as a shield. One project, I spent my first months teaching the internal customers that they were not allowed to talk to my people. They had become accustomed to telling individual developers "I want feature X", which cause total chaos.

I stood between the customers and my developers - at the beginning, sometimes literally blocking the office door - and said: my team, my job, you talk to me.
by e12e | 2026-01-26 15:07:56+00:00
I also would like local LLMs - but that's hardly the biggest issue with these projects?

You point it at your email, and you've opened a vector for prompt injection and data exfiltration - all as an integral part of the features you want (read my emails, send some emails).

Your local LLM won't protect you there.

You could probably write some limited tools (whitelist where mail could be sent) - but it goes against the grain of "magically wonderful ai secretary".

Security is not a convenience.
by gramie | 2026-01-26 15:08:04+00:00
The BBC said (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4478wnjdpo) that in 30 years, private water and sewerage companies in England and Wales have extracted over 86 billion pounds (~USD $115 billion), while investing very little.

Meanwhile, consumer water rates in those areas increased by as much as 50% in the past year alone.
by pmfhunter | 2026-01-26 15:08:14+00:00
I ended up building a small tool for myself that takes PMF survey answers plus basic customer data, shows which segments care the most, and suggests a short list of priorities for the next 90 days (who to focus on and what to fix first).

I’ve just opened a waitlist and would love early feedback from founders wrestling with PMF: you can join here and try the free GTM planning canvas: https://pmfhunter.com.

If you’re up for it, I’d love to hear how you’re handling PMF & GTM today and what feels most painful.
by ecshafer | 2026-01-26 15:08:35+00:00
Why? Why is lengths and areas more important than angles? You have to choose one, its essentially arbitrary. Personally I find it more useful to know what is parallel to what and what is at which angles from what, than some size. We have globes, so we know what the "real size" of Greenland looks like... this has always been a silly argument from the overzealous online looking for right wrongs that don't exist.
by jrm4 | 2026-01-26 15:08:38+00:00
I like this analogy along with the idea that "it's not an autonomous robot, it's a mech suit."

Here's the thing -- I don't care about "getting stronger." I want to make things, and now I can make bigger things WAY faster because I have a mech suit.

edit: and to stretch the analogy, I don't believe much is lost "intellectually" by my use of a mech suit, as long as I observe carefully. Me doing things by hand is probably overrated.
by llm_nerd | 2026-01-26 15:08:57+00:00
Sounds like one of those "what if..." things someone made up.

AirTags are terrible for surreptitious tracking, alerting every iOS user nearby of a tracked product following them around.

I mean, years ago people, such as stalkers, would use it for this purpose, but Apple rightly gimped that. There are a lot of specialized, self-connected trackers that creeps and criminals use.
by Mashimo | 2026-01-26 15:08:58+00:00
Yes, I vibecoded small personal apps from start to finish with it. Planning mode, edit mode, mcp, tool calling, web searches. Can easily switch between Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok or Claude within the same conversation. I think multiple agents work, though not sure.

All under one subscription.

Does not support upload / reading of PDF files :(
by falseprofit | 2026-01-26 15:09:29+00:00
The U.S. itself has been engaging in similar behavior around the world for a long time. The specific relevance of Israel may only be a combination of recency and amount of U.S. attention.

But “scapegoat”?

“Israel did 9/11” is treating them as a scapegoat. “IDF often calls men they killed terrorists with no justification” is just stating a fact.
by raudette | 2026-01-26 15:09:32+00:00
The way Find My has been built, it doesn't really matter what they do with the tags, it's fairly straightforward to build your own tags, or modify tags, that bypass any stalking detection.

A phone's stalking detection just looks for a tag that's not yours that has been around you for a while.

But you can modify a tag such that it selectively powers up, or build a tag that changes identifiers, such that the stalking detection tools don't pick it up.

I've written a bit about this here:
https://www.hotelexistence.ca/further-thoughts-on-stealth-ai...
https://www.hotelexistence.ca/exploring-bluetooth-trackers-a...
by korenmiklos | 2026-01-26 15:09:57+00:00
Author here. We have the productvity-increasing effect of AI coding agents in the model (you're right, we're using "vibe coding" as a catch-all here). Our claim is that rewards to OSS developers (visibility and recognition in the dev community, future sponsorships, upsells to business users etc) fall faster than productivity increases. OSS devs lose the incentives to create software for others and respond to their needs.
by codingdave | 2026-01-26 15:10:00+00:00
"slow is smooth, smooth is fast"

Take the necessary time to communicate well, without guilt. Even if it does take extra hours out of your day, clarity in communication will speed up everything else. At the same time, understand which messages truly matter - a note to a peer asking a basic question should not take hours, but a message introducing new ideas to a group of senior leaders in order to change the company strategy should absolutely take a long time to write.
by rayiner | 2026-01-26 15:10:01+00:00
What is the number? It is a huge red flag if you see an article that cites a profits number without citing a number for capital invested. You literally cannot reach a conclusion either way without comparing the two numbers.

EDIT: The UK water regulator has the capital investment data here: https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/publication/long-term-data-series-o.... What does it say?
by fsiefken | 2026-01-26 15:10:07+00:00
I am curious how these models would perform and how much energy they'd take to semi-realtime detect objects:
SmolVLM2-500M - Moondream 0.5B/2B/2.5B - Qwen3-VL (3B)
https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen3-vl

I am sure this is already worked on in Russia, Ukraine and The Netherlands. A lot can go wrong with autonomous flying.
One could load the VLM on a high end android phone on the drone and have dual control.
by ralusek | 2026-01-26 15:10:08+00:00
Why would you want an LLM to identify plants and animals? Well, they're often better than bespoke image classification models at doing just that. Why would you want a language model to help diagnose a medical condition?

It would not surprise me at all if self-driving models are adopting a lot of the model architecture from LLMs/generative AI, and actually invoke actual LLMs in moments where they would've needed human intervention.

Imagine if there's a decision engine at the core of a self driving model, and it gets a classification result of what to do next. Suddenly it gets 3 options back with 33.33% weight attached to each of them and a very low confidence interval of which is the best choice. Maybe that's the kind of scenario that used to trigger self-driving to refuse to choose and defer to human intervention. If that can then first defer judgement to an LLM which could say "that's just a goat crossing the road, INVOKE: HONK_HORN," you could imagine how that might be useful. LLMs are clearly proving to be universal reasoning agents, and it's getting tiring to hear people continuously try to reduce them to "next word predictors."
by FrostViper8 | 2026-01-26 15:10:46+00:00
> It appears that you have not yet learned the lesson that perfect is the enemy of good. Just because a system doesn't meet your high expectations, doesn't mean it doesn't have value.

That isn't what you are proposing. What you are proposing is something which has no value. I've told you why it is pointless. Saying it "has value" repeatedly doesn't change the fact that it is pointless.

> I'm also having trouble squaring your keen interest in the economic woes of inflation combined with your desire to have a stock market crash. Perhaps you are unaware of your bias given your portfolio, wishing to enact misery upon millions for your own personal gain. The last big crash was a major contributer the second world war, so be careful for the "meaningful change" you wish for.

I love it when people accuse me of wishing harm on others. I would prefer not to have to buy gold/silver and rather just put cash in my savings.

I told you why a big crash might be preferable (in the long term). Sometimes a bit of a reset and a big disaster will bring long term positive change as things will actually be fixed properly.

> you should learn the etiquette round here, cos that ain't it. Either treat fellow commenters and their perspectives with a modicum of respect or go back to facebook. BTW, that was a swing and a miss, I lived through that period.

You obviously didn't understand what you are talking about. It such a basic mistake. I pointed it out and then you pretended to understand how it worked. So it was obvious you looked up it up after my reply. Whether or not you lived through the period is irrelevant.

So complaining about my supposed lack of etiquette is simply a deflection. You could have just admitted you were wrong.

> Don't misunderstand when I don't reply or even read your next response. Its because I don't want to talk to you anymore, because you're not interesting.

So when you throw insults at people (calling me boring) it is okay, because you are doing it. Gotcha :D. I love double standards.
by criddell | 2026-01-26 15:11:47+00:00
They don't always do the simple things well which is even more frustrating.

I do Windows development and GDI stuff still confuses me. I'm talking about memory DC, compatible DC, DIB, DDB, DIBSECTION, bitblt, setdibits, etc... AIs also suck at this stuff. I'll ask for help with a relatively straightforward task and it almost always produces code that when you ask it to defend the choices it made, it finds problems, apologizes, and goes in circles. One AI (I forget which) actually told me I should refer to Petzold's Windows Programming book because it was unable to help me further.
by sofixa | 2026-01-26 15:11:54+00:00
< The global cybersphere will split up, the west and other parties have shown they will use social media networks to organize regime change and take over legitimate protests.

It's interesting you focus on "the west" when we have solid proof about e.g. Russian interference in many an election and protest via social media. From paid propagandist (e.g. Tim Pool) to the Internet Research Agency. The only factual information we have about anything remotely similar from "the west" was that research about Facebook activity in the Central African Republic being roughly 40/40/20 split between Russians, French, and actual locals. And even that isn't comparable because the French online campaign was mostly combatting Russian disinformation propaganda, not trying to bring about a coup or stoking tensions to get to a civil war.

> Showing the result of the western sponsored genocide in Gaza

The genocide in Gaza is not "sponsored" by the "west". US, maybe.
by Zambyte | 2026-01-26 15:12:03+00:00
You can just visit https://repology.org/ and see that GNU Guix has the 5th largest repository, ahead of Fedora and Gentoo. This does not include any proprietary packages, which can be added using https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix (though gitlab seems to be dying for me right now?)

I've been running GNU Guix for five years now, after lots of distro hopping, including to and from NixOS. I left Nix because I found the documentation (particularly regarding the language) to be a struggle to work with (though I imagine it's improved since then).

GNU Guix + nonguix + flatpak is perfectly suitable for everyday use.
by wongarsu | 2026-01-26 15:12:05+00:00
At least in Germany you can still fairly easily get 20W incandescent lamps. Sold as lamps for fridges and ovens, but they are available with standard sockets.

If you look around a bit you can also get 60W or 100W lamps, sold as "industrial lamps" or "extreme temperature lamps", labeled as unsuitable for household use. But those are specialty lamps that you won't find in your local supermarket. Not sure if those are new old stock or imported
by mlhpdx | 2026-01-26 15:12:19+00:00
I monitor packet loss on both sides all day every day. It’s still a thing, but different than I’d imagined:

- Episodic most often. Something transient causes high loss for a short time. This happens locally and “in the cloud”.
- Persistent due to a back connection or very high network load. I only really ever see this locally.

But I can go days at a time and not lose even one of millions of probes and responses.

When connections are good, they’re excellent these days. When they’re bad, well that doesn’t seem to have changed.
by izacus | 2026-01-26 15:12:30+00:00
You seem to have some serious anger issue unrelated to the fact that you tried to use distance as the only proxy metric for relevance of experience of rail operators.

Distance isn't even remotely relevant to complexity of running safe operations.

Data like fatalities per 1 million kilometers driven is significantly more relelvant - all metrics at which Swiss railways significantly exceed any European rail despite operating at significantly larger density of traffic.

Spanish railways have lately killed a horrifying amount of passengers - perhaps instead of insulting more competent operators, it's time to look at what keep going wrong there? Any responsible person would call for experts and advice here - e.g. we commonly see thet in air safety where foreign safety experts are invited to investigate and provide their own reports and recommendations.

What you seem to be doing here is something directly opposed to it and very very toxic - nationallistically trying to insults others and save face, which is very contraproductive for future safety.
by chrisjj | 2026-01-26 15:13:24+00:00
> “a compelling basis for concluding that the claimant’s iPhones were hacked by Pegasus spyware, which resulted in the exfiltration of data from those mobile phones, and that this conduct was directed or authorised by the KSA [kingdom of Saudi Arabia] or agents acting on its behalf”

Here is a disgraceful breach of the privacy... of the Saudis, for which they will doubtless sue Pegasus.

/i
Show HN: I built a tool for automated failure analysis in GitHub Actions
by calebevans | 2026-01-26 15:13:49+00:00
I built a GitHub Action that analyzes workflow failures and correlates them with PR changes. It uses cordon (transformer-based semantic anomaly detection) to reduce massive logs to unusual patterns, then DSPy to orchestrate LLM analysis of failures. Then, it determines whether PR changes likely caused the issue and posts structured root cause reports.
by jdlyga | 2026-01-26 15:13:57+00:00
It's tough convincing people that Google AI overviews are often very wrong. People think that if it's displayed so prominently on Google, it must be factually accurate right?

"AI responses may include mistakes. Learn more"

It's not mistakes, half the time it's completely wrong and total bullshit information. Even comparing it to other AI, if you put the same question into GPT 5.2 or Gemini, you get much more accurate answers.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-26 15:14:13+00:00
> Generally though the best way to get good tests out of a coding agent is to make sure it's working in a project with an existing test suite that uses good patterns. Coding agents pick the existing patterns up without needing any extra prompting at all.

Yeah, this is where I too have seen better results. The worse ones have been in places where it was greenfield and I didn't have an amazing idea of how to write tests (a data person working on a django app).

Thanks for the information, that's super helpful!
by sofixa | 2026-01-26 15:14:47+00:00
Because if it did, we'd know about it. If we can get researches from Russia to expose their country's nefarious dealings, at the threat of death, we could easily get French, or German, or Canadian, or British, or American, or Czech researchers or whistleblowers exposing American propaganda campaigns.

Hell, look at Twitter/X. It got acquired by a mental guy who was screaming about government propaganda and censorship (while doing Nazi salutes). Do you really think that if there was any government mandate to do anything like what the Russians are doing, he wouldn't have exposed it as "SEE, I TOLD YOU BIG GUBIMNT BAD!!" ?
by raincole | 2026-01-26 15:15:02+00:00
I don't even know what it means. "even without an invasion"? The author think China will destroy TSMC just because? To slow down AI progress?

> if we got to a situation where only the U.S. had the sort of AI that would give us an unassailable advantage militarily, then the optimal strategy for China would change to taking TSMC off of the board.

Lmao it's not. The author doesn't know what they're talking about at all. Let's be realistic: the current TSMC technology will be accessible to China, likely via espionage. The question is just how soon. It has already happened before. China's 7nm process was developed with the help from one of the highest level ex-TSMC researcher[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang_Mong_Song