MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by doctorpangloss | 2026-01-30 17:54:01+00:00
there are two scenarios today where companies support linux because it does outweigh the costs:

- mobile game companies send free android tablets to whales to avoid paying IAP royalties

- Valve makes exotic Linux consoles to diminish the value of the piracy (PC) ecosystem, and to source players for DOTA2 and Counter-Strike which they are not allowed to do in the Sony and Nintendo ecosystems

these trends are increasing. neither audiences in those two scenarios are resentful, and of course, they care a lot, in both scenarios, if the market for those two linux deployment scenarios is resentful.

if you only mean linux in the sense of, whatever Draiken thinks, yeah, there will not be any interesting insights there. If your instinct is to say, Android isn't Linux, or to get into the weeds of distributions, you are lacking imagination. just focus on what I am actually saying that is new information to you, and think about how focusing on money can be a good thing.
Show HN: Autonomous Research Swarm – Repo as shared memory for multi-agent AI
by EagleEdge | 2026-01-30 17:54:24+00:00
This project was inspired by Cursor's recent work on scaling long-running autonomous coding (https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents), where they ran hundreds of concurrent agents to build a web browser from scratch. Their key insight—using a Planner/Worker/Judge pipeline instead of flat agent coordination—resonated with challenges I was facing in my own research workflows.

I built this repo template to solve a specific problem: how do you run multiple AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI, etc.) on the same research project without coordination chaos?

The core idea: Don't build complex "agents talking to each other" systems. Instead, use the repository itself as shared memory.

How it works:

• Planner creates scoped tasks with explicit ownership boundaries (allowed/disallowed file paths)

• Workers execute tasks in isolated git worktrees—no merge conflicts during execution

• Judge runs deterministic quality gates before marking work complete

• Contract files lock critical definitions (metrics, schemas) to prevent definition drift

The template includes an example empirical research project (Ethereum L2 rollup economics) with task templates, workstream definitions, and an optional supervisor script for unattended overnight runs.

Everything is file-based and version-controlled—no hidden state, no message queues, just Markdown task files that humans can read and review.

Happy to discuss the technical decisions (why git worktrees over branches, why file-based coordination over a proper queue, etc.) and hear how others are approaching multi-agent coordination.
by dangus | 2026-01-30 17:54:47+00:00
Although the money you paid to Elon Musk for FSD was directly used to help elect Donald Trump, who has started a mass human displacement campaign (a.k.a. Genocide), presided over 4th amendment violation as agency policy, presides over the highest immigration detainee death count in two decades, and sent a gestapo terror squad to execute an ICU nurse on the street.

And this is before we even discuss the threats against our allies and destruction of trade partnerships, devaluation of our hard earned dollars, etc.

Sorry, I know politics aren’t “relevant,” but actually, they are.

Glad you “didn’t harm anyone.”

I’m not buying a vehicle or any non-essential goods until the fascists are gone.
by rellfy | 2026-01-30 17:55:01+00:00
I really like the capability enforcement model, it's a great concept. One thing this discussion is missing though is the ecosystem layer. Sandboxing solves execution safety, but there's a parallel problem: how do agents discover and compose tools portably across frameworks? Right now every framework has its own tool format and registry (or none at all). WASM's component model actually solves this — you get typed interfaces (WIT), language interop, and composability for free. I've been building a registry and runtime (also based on wasmtime!) for this: components written in any language, published to a shared registry, runnable locally or in the cloud. Sandboxes like amla-sandbox could be a consumer of these components. https://asterai.io/why
by andy12_ | 2026-01-30 17:55:12+00:00
No, because in the process they are describing the AIs would only post things they have found to fix their problem (a.k.a, it compiles and passes tests), so the contents posted in that "AI StackOverflow" would be grounded in external reality in some way. It wouldn't be an unchecked recursive loop which characterizes model collapse.

Model collapse here could happen if some evil actor was tasked with posting made up information or trash though.
by mmcclure | 2026-01-30 17:55:13+00:00
Just to give the creator/project some credit here, he’s got nothing to do with the token.

To all crypto folks:
Please stop pinging me, stop harassing me.
I will never do a coin.
Any project that lists me as coin owner is a SCAM.
No, I will not accept fees.
You are actively damanging the project.

https://x.com/steipete/status/2016072109601001611?s=20
Show HN: Import any skills.sh skill and run it in production (2 lines of code)
by Ohans_favour | 2026-01-30 17:55:15+00:00
Hey HN,

We built Bluebag, a runtime that lets you import Agent Skills from skills.sh and use them in your production AI agents.

Demo: https://www.bluebag.ai/playground
Blog: https://www.bluebag.ai/blog/import-skills-sh-into-bluebag
Docs: https://bluebag.ai/docs

The problem: skills.sh has 100+ open-source Agent Skills (PDF processing, code review, data extraction, etc.). They work great in Claude and Cursor. But if you want to use them in your own agent with Vercel AI SDK or LangChain, you need to build sandboxing, dependency management, file storage, etc.

What we built: Import a skill, get tools back. We handle the infrastructure.

import { Bluebag } from "@bluebag/ai-sdk";

const bluebag = new Bluebag({ apiKey: process.env.BLUEBAG_API_KEY });
const config = await bluebag.enhance({ model, messages });
const result = streamText(config);

To import a skill, just swap the URL:

skills.sh/owner/skill → bluebag.ai/owner/skill

That's it. The skill runs in an isolated sandbox with deps pre-installed.

Stack: Isolated VMs per tenant, skills loaded at /skills/{name}, tools for bash/code execution/file access injected automatically.

Works with: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, any model (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, Llama).

Would love feedback, especially on what skills you'd want to run in production.
by sidcool | 2026-01-30 17:55:46+00:00
This story may be true. But I have read Fred Lanbert articles on Tesla and they are always negative. And in many cases even biased. So I'd take it with a pinch of salt.

It's not like Tesla is failing, they have $40 billion cash at hand, more than many auto company's net worth,it's that people want to believe that Tesla is failing. I hope Tesla succeeds, with or without Musk.
by maieuticagent | 2026-01-30 17:55:50+00:00
PSA to Driving Sim vibe coders and their enablers - Your racing game data ≠ real-world driving training data. Training FSD on gaming data = teaching AI that driving is a competitive sport where the worst outcome is hitting "restart". Real roads have pedestrians, weather, unpredictable humans, and actual consequences. Gaming AI would learn all the wrong lessons. Imaginary gameplay telemetry might be valuable, but not for a world of street festivals, farmers markets, and school zones.
by joesack | 2026-01-30 17:55:59+00:00
Claude Code recently added customizable spinner verbs. I made 9 theme packs:

- Product Manager ("Parking lot that", "What's the north star?")
- Passive Aggressive ("Per my last email", "Noted")
- Existential Dread ("The abyss staring back")
- SQL Server (for DBAs)
- I, Claudius (Roman imperial intrigue)
- Dark Tower / The Shining (Stephen King)
- Fran Lebowitz ("Still not writing the book")

Drop the JSON into ~/.claude/settings.json and restart.
by bri3d | 2026-01-30 17:56:05+00:00
> Plus employees will have to opt in?

I mean, that's not really how "opt-in" works for features that your company owns; you might have to "opt-in" technically but your company will probably make that a little more mandatory.

I do agree that the blog post, headline, and HN comments are as usual quite an overreaction, but this feature is pretty gross. It's also weird because the controversy/grossness-to-utility ratio seems awful, which either means that Microsoft product management has gotten as bad as everyone thinks it has or there's some future plan to make it more "robust."
by pixl97 | 2026-01-30 17:56:21+00:00
>monolithic old school media,

Unfortunately these have been bought up by billionaires that use them as play things to get richer.

>from people you trust,

In one particular area where they understand what is going on. I have lawyers I would trust with my life on legal matters, but should not be trusted around any digital device.

>y exploiting a network of people you trust.

agreed, but sucks for people that don't have that.
by Polizeiposaune | 2026-01-30 17:56:23+00:00
Orbital mechanics can be somewhat counterintuitive.

If you want to change the altitude of your orbit at a certain place, the most efficient place for that is generally when you're on the other side of the planet from that place.

In low earth orbit it takes about 90 minutes to go around the planet, so a small nudge 45 minutes before the potential intercept is going to be vastly more efficient than a big shove when the collision is 5 minutes away.

Starlink uses high efficiency ion thrusters so it has to do small nudges anyway..

So I would not be surprised if most of that hour is spent waiting for the right time to fire the thrusters.
by AstroBen | 2026-01-30 17:56:29+00:00
Relevant quote from their conclusion:

> Among participants who use AI, we
find a stark divide in skill formation outcomes between high-scoring interaction patterns (65%-86% quiz score) vs low-scoring interaction patterns (24%-39% quiz score). The high scorers only asked AI conceptual
questions instead of code generation or asked for explanations to accompany generated code; these usage patterns demonstrate a high level of cognitive engagement.

This is very much my experience. AI is incredibly useful as a personal tutor
by thelastgallon | 2026-01-30 17:56:52+00:00
It is not all wasted. Walk/bike environment would have been better, but EVs solve another problem, they add energy storage to the grid. Norway has excess production from wind, they can store it and sell it to rest of Europe at higher prices. Also, creating demand is important for scale, Norways EV demand played a (somewhat) crucial role in building up battery factories when it was still a nascent industry, help economies of scale.

It may or may not have helped Norway directly, but out of all the Western economies, Norway performed the sacred function of the rich: support the growth of new technologies that will eventually help everyone.
by GZGavinZhao | 2026-01-30 17:57:04+00:00
I often suffer from having too many things I want to work on, plus impulsive tasks (e.g. I saw an issue on GH that I happen to know how to solve) that I go on and spend 3 hours to do right away, causing delay in everything else more important. I force myself to only spend time on tasks on the "Active" view (minus a very small set of exceptions). All other impulsive thoughts go into "Backlog" status. Every night I review the "Backlog" view and move issues that I actually decide to do in the "Active" view. Also obviously you have to periodically clean up "Backlog".

That is the most important value Linear brings to me. There are other tools that can achieve similar effects, but I learned how to do it with Linear at work so I stuck with that. On top of this, Linear has priorities, deadlines, task blocking relations, etc., that naturally reflect how I prioritize issues in life. This is the same as how I prioritize tasks to do at work. Once again there are tools to do this outside of Linear, but none of them are as polished to use and just work.
by pepperoni_pizza | 2026-01-30 17:57:05+00:00
> Plus employees will have to opt in?

If a company policy says you have to opt in, not opting in means you're breaching the policy and might get fired. Entirely legal in at-will employment places, but potentially not in places with better worker protections.

Saying that, I just got announcement from my employer they will not be turning it on for now.
by rwbt | 2026-01-30 17:57:11+00:00
Blender is great, quite a success story. But I wish it had a plug-in API (not Python, but native C/C++ SDK). Having a solid plug-in API is the key to every successful professional application in the industry (Maya, Nuke, AE etc). It would also accelerate industry-wide adoption.

Python scripting just doesn't cut it for all use cases.
by Bnjoroge | 2026-01-30 17:57:17+00:00
I'm in my early 20s and fairly comfortable with hosting and deploying llms, and I also wouldnt say I'm a target audience for this product. I think they have the idea/vision right(as do most other AI assistants), but not quite sure the product is there yet. I think we still need one or two more reasoning leaps for local llms to make them useful as local assistants.
by bambax | 2026-01-30 17:57:43+00:00
> If you connect to a Wi-Fi network that isn't your company's, Teams will simply display the name of that network. So if you decide to take a "working lunch" and connect to "Starbucks_Guest_WiFi", your boss sees it instantly

But what if I have a secondary wifi network in my home that says "BigCorpSuperSecureWifi", wouldn't that work? What if that's the name of my phone's hotspot?
by incognito124 | 2026-01-30 17:58:07+00:00
A 4-pack of Eneloops was my first ever online purchase in life. I bought them off eBay, scared shitless I'd get scammed or my data stolen (I was very young; the online shopping industry, too). But they happily arrived in my mailboz one day.

They were for a Konica Minolta camera and they lasted surprisingly long. I think I saved about 30-40% of the price of the camera itself in recharging Eneloops, instead of buying new AA batteries every now and then.
by behnamoh | 2026-01-30 17:58:27+00:00
When even Simon falls for the hype, you know the entire field is a bubble. And I say that as an AI researcher with papers on LLMs and several apps built around them.

Seriously, until when are people going to re-invent the wheel and claim it's "the next best thing"?

n8n already did what OpenClaw does. And anyone using Steipete's software already knows how fragile and bs his code is. The fact that Codexbar (also by Steipete) takes 7GB of RAM on macOS shows just how little attention to performance/design he pays to his apps.

I'm sick and tired of this vicious cycle; X invents Y at month Z, then X' re-invents it and calls it Y' at month Z' where Z' - Z ≤ 12mo.
by Cu3PO42 | 2026-01-30 17:59:18+00:00
I personally find the "animals killed since you opened this page" number to be the most unsettling. YTD numbers are so large, I find them hard to process.

If you choose to eat meat, please be aware of the conditions most of these animals exist in and how they die. I'll spare you more numbers, because they don't do the cruel reality justice anyway. Instead, I'll leave you with some video material: https://animalequality.org/blog/factory-farming-facts/
by lossolo | 2026-01-30 17:59:38+00:00
You know why I mentioned hydrogen energy earlier? There was a Financial Times article last month titled "Hydrogen dreams meet reality as oil and gas groups abandon projects", which notes that "Almost 60 major low carbon hydrogen projects—including ones backed by BP and ExxonMobil—have been cancelled" because they weren't economically feasible. Space data centers are in the same place today. It's physics.
And none of the people you mentioned have invested in this. They may be interested and might research the topic, but that's not the same thing. I've yet to see any plan that explains how they'll replace failed hardware and manage heat while keeping the whole thing economically feasible.
by tullie | 2026-01-30 17:59:42+00:00
Fair enough. We're releasing our first bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) offering in April. We're working with a big e-commerce platform in Germany that has data sovereignty requirements so totally get the constraint and excited to offer something like this. We're starting with AWS then will do GCP at end of year. Full on-premise will still be awhile though to be honest.

For the cloud platform though (console.shaped.ai), i'd recommend just testing with some synthetic or deanonymized data or our demos and then if you're interested in BYOC reach out after April!
by joshstrange | 2026-01-30 18:00:38+00:00
Not disagreeing with anything you said except:

> The fact that Codexbar (also by Steipete) takes 7GB of RAM on macOS shows just how little attention to performance/design he pays to his apps.

It's been running for weeks on my laptop and it's using 210MB of ram currently. Now, the quality _is_ not great and I get prompted at least once a day to enter my keychain access so I'm going to uninstall it (I've just been procrastinating).
by zamadatix | 2026-01-30 18:01:40+00:00
I was wondering if there was more Microsoft has said/used to say about this feature because it leaves a gap between "connect to your organizations Wi-Fi" and "will show you're connected to Starbucks/Home".

I followed several articles, and the tree I found seems to end with this Neowin article https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-delays-controversial-l... but it still doesn't clear it up. I.e. the quote in the article is the same roadmap item, but the article talks as if it's the home Wi-Fi. I'm not sure if they just didn't source that bit or if it's confusion about whether it's really limited to "connecting to your organizations Wi-Fi" or not.
by monkeywithdarts | 2026-01-30 18:01:50+00:00
I am missing some context on this. Is this really from Sam Altman on... Reddit? Or did this pop up on Moltbook... from an Agent, or Sam Altman? I am seeing this is prompt injection, but why would Moltbook be TOS violation?

Or was this comment itself (the one I'm responding to) the prompt injection?
by renewiltord | 2026-01-30 18:01:55+00:00
In the US 8 out of the top 10 environmental organizations with most membership oppose nuclear power broadly and the majority oppose wind and solar locally so I think we can safely conclude that climate change is not important to US environmental causes.

The primary work by US environmentalists (or at least the popular ones) is in ensuring rich people’s homes abut publicly-maintained parks.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-30 18:01:59+00:00
It's hard for the economics not to work out.

It might be an eye popping number that it costs $3k to run optic fiber to a rural house but the service costs $100 a month and brings in $3600 in revenue in 3 years. The fiber is likely to be good for 50+ years so they only way this is not "financially viable" is that capital is saving it's powder to invest in bubbles. That is, we are already living in an "Atlas Shrugged" world where capital demands unreasonably high rates of return on investment for physical world investments.

I was reading an article in The Economist about how China would like to have its own Starlink but has the problem that it was not shy to invest in fiber so it has already cannibalized its own domestic market and foreign markets either don't trust China or are too poor.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-30 18:02:02+00:00
Very neat. I'm in the midst of some interesting hacking and I really regret giving away a lot of my workshop tools in the mid 90's when it all went to software. I still have a lot of hooks in electronics and such but I just couldn't justify lugging around a couple of cubic meters of parts stock & gear. But right now I'm seriously wondering whether that was a wise decision, on the other hand that world has definitely not stood still, and the prices have come down considerably. But I'd love to have my old frequency counter and pulse generator back :)

I'm really happy that you found an alternate path because such a put-down is terrible and should have never happened in any mature education institution.
by jodrellblank | 2026-01-30 18:02:17+00:00
> "Of course it does."

Of course it doesn't. (What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence).

> "there isn’t a strong argument that it should exist."

Did you google for anything on this topic? Did you set a timer for 5 minutes and spend some time trying hard to think of one? Did you look at other countries and their regulations (e.g. Germany?[1]) and why they ended up that way?

[1] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/employee-monitoring-in-ger...
by sjsizjhaha | 2026-01-30 18:02:36+00:00
The corollary here is there’s 2 cases here:

1. You know exactly what the code should look like ahead of time. Agents are handy here, but this is rare and takes no time at all as is

2. You don’t know exactly what it should be. Building the mental model by hand is faster than working backwards from finished work. Agents help with speeding up your knowledge here, but having them build the model is not good

Code review is and always was the bottle neck. You are doing code review when you write code.
by prasoonds | 2026-01-30 18:02:37+00:00
Hey Tony,

yes, the library is ~mostly a wrapper around Stripe with a convenience layer of a simple API that works on the your local DB. So, you will always be able to call Stripe as per usual.

The idea here was to fill the gaps left by the official Stripe implementation:

- direct access to your Stripe data in your own DB - this lets you get around Stripe API rate limits and do custom aggregations (user dashboards? I love what Cursor has done on their usage dashboard for eg)

- easy support for multiple credit types, topups and auto-topups

- usage billing that's much simpler to use (meters, usage products and prices are not exposed to the users)

Other than these basic primitives, everything else is just Stripe under the hood. You can and SHOULD use Stripe SDK for any write operations, for eg.

> This feels like something many teams eventually build internally ...

Exactly right - we've talked to so many teams who has mostly vibe-coded something fragile that mostly works for them and the pattern is common enough that we thought this separate library would be widely useful.
by kjksf | 2026-01-30 18:02:46+00:00
Because that's the law of the land currently.

The product you buy is called "FSD Supervised". It clearly states you're liable and must supervise the system.

I don't think there's law that would allow Tesla (or anyone else) to sell a passenger car with unsupervised system.

If you take Waymo or Tesla Robotaxi in Austin, you are not liable for accidents, Google or Tesla is.

That's because they operate on limited state laws that allow them to provide such service but the law doesn't allow selling such cars to people.

That's changing. Quite likely this year we will have federal law that will allow selling cars with fully unsupervised self-driving, in which case the insurance/liability will obviously land on the maker of the system, not person present in the car.
by munificent | 2026-01-30 18:03:03+00:00
I'm glad you brought this up.

I considered going into this direction but decided not to. You're right that we can sometimes to very meaningful things for others that are easy for us. A couple of years ago, I broke my ankle. While I was trying to figure out what surgery was best, I had a conversation with my cousin's husband to who happens to be an orthopedic surgeon. That conversation took nothing but twenty minutes of his time, but was very helpful and meaningful to me.

However, the reason he was able to have that easy conversation is because of all of time he already spent training to become an ortho.

Likewise, in your case, you were able to easily set up a custom GPT because of the experience you already have in software engineering.

The effort is still there, it's just sort of amortized out over time.