MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Agent_Builder | 2026-01-20 06:19:05+00:00
This resonates a lot. We saw the same “false done” problem with agents — not because they lacked signals, but because they carried assumptions forward across steps.

What helped us wasn’t adding more checks, but making the agent’s authority step-scoped. One step could read CI state, another could reason about review threads, but neither could implicitly conclude “done” unless that outcome was explicitly allowed for that step.

Once we stopped agents from accumulating context and permissions over time, the polling loops and premature victory declarations mostly disappeared.

Your gtg output feels like a really clean primitive to plug into that kind of step-gated workflow. Curious if you’ve experimented with resetting state/authority between PR-check phases, not just aggregating signals.
by kshri24 | 2026-01-20 06:19:14+00:00
Corporate tax or even personal income tax is not the same as tax on cost of the product itself. As a corporate, I can structure my expenses in such a way that I never pay tax irrespective of whether the tax rate is 10% or 50%. There are ways to do that (through deductions/expenses/investments in assets that can be depreciated and included as expenses etc) and even defer my earnings over a period of time. You have various ways to reduce final tax liability.

You cannot escape paying tariffs or sales tax as it is levied on the product you are purchasing. It is not a tax that is levied AFTER you have calculated your income.
by abletonlive | 2026-01-20 06:19:25+00:00
Just completely hilarious how 6 months ago about 50% of hackernews comments were AI denialists telling everybody they were full of shit and that LLM was not useful. That group is awfully quiet nowadays. The bar has clearly moved to "eventually we won't even need to do code reviews".

LLM denialists were always wrong and they should be embarrassed to share their bad model of reality and how the world works.
by morshu9001 | 2026-01-20 06:19:40+00:00
I'll try that one. Last time was frantic and tried like 5 bad sites before finding at least where the plane was. But maybe the passengers or crew on that plane had a better idea of why they were delayed, which I'm not sure any site would show.

The plane eventually arrived like 8 hours late, luckily I had already bailed.
by mcfedr | 2026-01-20 06:20:08+00:00
everything about this reads like an excuse from a team that doesnt want to admit they screwed up

nitpicking at the RFCs when everyone knows DNS is a big old thing with lots going on

how do they not have basic integration tests to check how clients resolve

it seems very unlike cloudflare of old that was much more up front - there is no talk of the need to improve process, just blaming other people
by gpm | 2026-01-20 06:20:26+00:00
Not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure:

1. Microsoft does not gain the license, but will be able to argue that they aren't intentionally committing copyright infringement in the cases where that distinction matters.

2. If Microsoft does something resulting in damages because they thought they had a license, their indemnification clause kicks in and they can recoup those damages from the user who uploaded it (to the extent that that user doesn't go bankrupt anyways)

3. Likely none of this matters because your license can't prevent activities that weren't prohibited by copyright in the first place, and training doesn't appear to be a prohibited activity at least under US law.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-20 06:20:39+00:00
> but China is more protectionist than any other major economy, including recent changes in US policy.

Not true. They let Tesla setup shop in the backyard of their domestic EV industry, without the mandatory 51% Chinese ownership, precisely so Tesla would light a fire under the asses of domestic players forcing them to compete better.

China is no longer beating us with protectionism but with innovation and scale.
by brailsafe | 2026-01-20 06:21:20+00:00
> There's no universe in which a glossy screen is going to make the white areas look darker, as they are in all these examples.

Actually I do think I get this effect in sunny environments on my glossy screen, and end up wishing my work laptop had the nano texture.

Ultimately, I bought the nano-texture 16", and have not hesitated on that choice once. It's also far easier to maintain; while the glossy screen just gets nasty over time, the nano-texture is still pretty much mint after a year.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-20 06:21:39+00:00
Has anyone tried this recently? There's a couple of these things on Github and related sites and they all tend to be serious fixer-uppers and typically stop getting updates at some point, see for example https://github.com/lvc/api-sanity-checker. In this case the last update was in late 2024 and there are lots of still-unresolved issues throughout 2025. Is it worth the effort that'll inevitably be required to play with it?
by IrishTechie | 2026-01-20 06:22:06+00:00
I rented a hybrid recently while my car was in for a service. Picked it up, drove home (25 mins on motorway) then returned it the next day. It spent all of that time burning petrol while popping up notices about all the reasons it couldn’t use electricity right now (too cold, too fast etc).

All ICE cars should have been hybrid from 5-10 years ago but it is a stepping stone we should already be stepping off.
by Semaphor | 2026-01-20 06:22:23+00:00
I’ll be trying out Hyperion now as default launcher, list of stuff I checked quickly:

Kvaesitso (FLOSS) and AIO: Different style of launcher that I don’t want, so out.

Action: Felt weird to use, didn’t find a setting for auto search in app drawer

Smart launcher: The most expensive one at 25€, and no proper app drawer search either.

Lawnchair (FLOSS): Annoying animations, widgets don’t work properly (many widgets require Yx2 sizing that should work as Yx1)

Octopi: Slightly better widgets than lawnchair, but still sizing issues. Without that I’d probably have gone with it first.

Hyperion: This is what I’ll be testing for now. The only Nova feature I’m missing is showing recently installed apps in the drawer, but that’s extremely minor. Apparently support is bad and updates rare, but neither is an issue for me.
by Agent_Builder | 2026-01-20 06:22:44+00:00
This matches our experience. The biggest friction wasn’t agents being slow, it was agents doing too much between human checkpoints and breaking flow.

What worked for us was treating agents as step-scoped workers rather than continuous copilots. Each step had explicit inputs, allowed tools, and a clear exit condition, then everything reset.

Once agents couldn’t carry assumptions or permissions forward, they became much easier to run alongside normal dev work without surprises. Curious how you’re handling step boundaries and “when to stop” signals.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-20 06:23:07+00:00
If you're not going to answer my actual question that I've asked twice, then let's cut it off there.

You're clearly not on this throwaway to have a conversation you fear connecting to your main, so I'm not not going to bother. You should know better if you have an actual account here. If you wish to continue this conversion, answer the question. Otherwise, goodbye.
by gpm | 2026-01-20 06:23:11+00:00
See term D.4., the relevant part of which is

> You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time. This license includes the right to do things like [...] or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users
by Jana3 | 2026-01-20 06:23:15+00:00
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by asdff | 2026-01-20 06:23:22+00:00
Wow, I just checked and looks like I'm stuck on 18.7 for the rest of the life of this iPhone I guess. That being said it looks like I can opt into ios 18 beta. I wonder if that would include security patches? Actually maybe I don't want security patches. It would be nice to have a jailbroken iphone again one day...
by mens_rea | 2026-01-20 06:23:31+00:00
Deeply flawed paper for several reasons:

* Small data set of 2 runs (!!)

* Exaggerated claims (saying A1 beat 50% of testers, yet only 4/10 testers found LESS vulns than A1, and A1 had a nearly 50% false positive rate)

* AI agents were given 16 hours while human testers were given 10

* Their human testers gave up when a modern browser refused to open a webpage with weak TLS ciphers so....clearly not professional testers unless the bar is REALLY low these days
by alwillis | 2026-01-20 06:24:12+00:00
> I legitimately do not understand these takes connecting everything to slavery. It's been more than a hundred years at this point. The trope is getting old.

It keeps coming up because in 2026 the compromises made to accommodate slave-owning states reverberate to this day.

The Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787 (at the Constitutional Convention) allowed slave-owning states to count enslaved people as three-fifths of a person. This gave the slave-owning states more representation in the House and more Electoral College votes in presidential elections.

This allowed the south to create a voting block that blocked legislation that would have given the formerly enslaved rights that other Americans had.

The Civil War ended in 1865; black Americans in the south were second class citizens and lived under an Apartheid state for the next 100 years until the Voting Rights Act became law in 1965.

> We killed millions over the ability to own humans

"we" didn't kill millions; it's estimated that 750,000 soldiers were killed [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War#Casualties
by Agent_Builder | 2026-01-20 06:24:45+00:00
This is a nice primitive. One thing this highlights is how often the real failures aren’t about tampering after the fact, but about implicit authority accumulating during execution.

In our experience using step-scoped agents, the most useful “receipt” wasn’t a log, but the fact that each step had explicitly declared inputs, tools, and outputs, and that authority was destroyed before the next step ran. If something went wrong, you could point to the exact step boundary where the assumption or permission existed.

Signed receipts feel like a strong complement to that model: step-level determinism plus post-hoc verifiability. Curious whether you see this being used more for human audit trails, or as machine-checkable constraints that downstream agents must validate before acting.
by protocolture | 2026-01-20 06:25:27+00:00
Havent ridden in a BYD, but I absolutely abhor the Tesla interior, its like riding around in a rickety iPad.

BYD's seem (super subjective) to make less road noise outside of the vehicle. I still get snuck up on by them in car parks, but I have tuned in to the Tesla hum and can hear them a while off.
by defrost | 2026-01-20 06:26:22+00:00
On the face of they are clearly some who believes, rightly or wrongly, that Booker is all hat and no cattle, only in the game for the contacts and donations.

That's certainly an opinion, and one that can ideally be countered with some key highlights from Bookers career that dispel that view and might even cause them to reconsider their opinion.

You know, as the HN guidelines encourage.
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-20 06:26:36+00:00
That's not the history that I recall. Let's look at Honda, just as an example.

Honda started selling cars in the US in 1970, with their quirky, tiny, Japan-made N600.

The Civic didn't happen until 1973, and it was also a Japanese-built car. Bigger than the N600 but still very small by American standards, it was the right car at the right time for the oil crisis the US was beginning to face. They sold a lot of Civics to Americans, despite the strong anti-Japanese sentiment around that time.

It wasn't until 1982 that Honda started building cars in the States, with the introduction of the Honda plant in Marysville, Ohio that began building Accords.

But even then: They still didn't build all of the USDM Accords in Marysville; many were still built in Japan and imported. It took additional years for the transition to fully occur.

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That's 12 years from the time that they started selling cars in the US, to the time when they began to build their US-market cars in the US.

(If 12 years sounds like a short period of time, remember: We've only had the Tesla Model 3 for about 9 years now.)
AI Californication
by shoman3003 | 2026-01-20 06:26:59+00:00
I am not American, I come from a whole other culture that is the opposite of what the West is all about. Not saying that to antagonize you, but to say that as an outsider I can somewhat see how much the culture of California has impacted the worldview of most people over the past 50 year! But what is to come is even more impactful, either good or bad ..... it will result in much much less limitations to thought patterns.

It started with Hollywood of course, which made the other third of the planet that was not influenced by the British start thinking in english, which limits ideas that can be thought of. Ideas come from word, language is the month of thinking (I started thinking in english ~2010).

Then in the last 10 years where social media have made it even harder to escape the thought patterns that were made in SF, even with someone like me who spent 30 year in a closed off culture is starting to think more and more in American phrases- sometimes its hard to break that loop, I am starting to forget the old ways of thinking and looking at the world.

Still, all of that can be good. Ideas of feminism and tolerance of queer people are very good in general. But now with Ai modules that are unable to escape the brainwave of a California leftist, I fear for the intellectual future of the world (scientific too, since both are correlated). Even deepseek is more or less like the other models, its very hard to get it to look at things in a different way, or even debate basic stuff as an entity that lived a lifetime under socialism would look at things. My own culture is dying, so the probability that Ai would even understand our thinking pattern is slim (considering that much of it is not digitalized even).

20 years ago, I would look around my home and see so many unique things that represent my culture, and I would talk to so many people who never heard of Sinatra or watched a sitcom. Yesterday I looked around, only 1 item in the entire house is authentic, and lately i find many people speaking decent english & talking about how "woke" the world has gotten!

I spend a couple of months trying to prompt chatgpt & grok to debate various topic from a different worldview that is repeated all day in my head. But it can't, not because of any limitation on the module itself, but because it never got deep enough into that worldview to know what the hell is it about (sometimes it deliberately try not to).

I am not saying all of this to say that I hate the West, I experienced the ugliness of the East & I know how awful it is. I am just saying that LLMs are very limiting - if we feed it the same data every time, it's going to be more or less the same every time too. Doesn't matter where you got the data, if its in english from the upperlevel of the internet, its basically the same.
by rctstudio2018 | 2026-01-20 06:27:36+00:00
Yes, you'd need some kind of edge computing to actually cowork with for this architecture. For now, I would recommend stick with some Tier 1 models like Claude sonnet 4.5, GPT 5.2, etc.

But I highly believe open source models will catch up soon and there are lots of potentials there comparing to closed cloud models.
by ezst | 2026-01-20 06:28:06+00:00
Your democratically elected president (or, rather, the group behind him) is undoing whatever was left of the democratic apparatus. There is no counter power in place. Executive, legislative and judiciary are de facto one.

You seem to operate on the belief that democratically elected leaders can't do harm to democracy, while history has times and times again proved you wrong, and that to me is what's insane here.
by Agent_Builder | 2026-01-20 06:28:51+00:00
This matches what I’ve seen too. Most failures weren’t sandbox escapes, but small permission leaks across steps.

An agent would do something valid early on, then later reuse that context and act slightly beyond intent. Nothing malicious, just accumulated authority.

What fixed it was step-level gating: each step gets explicit inputs and tools, then everything is torn down before the next step. Once assumptions couldn’t carry forward, whole classes of bugs disappeared.

I ran into this while using GTWY for a constrained agent workflow, and making permissions appear and disappear per step made the system far more predictable.

Curious if others have seen workflow design matter more than the runtime or model.
by brailsafe | 2026-01-20 06:29:12+00:00
I've found the nano-texture macbook pro screen to be way more resilient, and the cloth that comes with it is (I hate to say it) amazing. I use nearly identical 16" Macbook Pros heavily, one with nano and one without, and the nano is easier to keep perfect, usually with no liquid required. The glossy screen is easily damaged
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-20 06:29:15+00:00
100% by better models. Since his talk models have gained more context windows (up to usable 1M), and RL (reinforcement learning) has been amazing at both picking out good traces, and taught the LLMs how to backtrack and overcome earlier wrong tokens. On top of that, RLAIF (RL with AI feedback) made earlier models better and RLVR (RL with verifiable rewards) has made them very good at both math and coding.

The harnesses have helped in training the models themselves (i.e. every good trace was "baked in" the model) and have improved in enabling test time compute. But at the end of the day this is all put back into the models, and they become better.

The simplest proof of this is on benchmarks like terminalbench and swe-bench with simple agents. The current top models are much better than their previous versions, when put in a loop with just a "bash tool". There's a ~100LoC harness called mini-swe-agent [1] that does just that.

So current models + minimal loop >> previous gen models with human written harnesses + lots of glue.

> Gemini 3 Pro reaches 74% on SWE-bench verified with mini-swe-agent!

[1] - https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent
by derrida | 2026-01-20 06:31:01+00:00
I don't think the delusions are products of what is in the data structure, and so solution is changing the data structure, it's more a product of the way that a "principle of charity of interpretation" occurs in all human communication - where in order to understand the person we are talking to, we interpret their words in a maximally charitable light, to "see where they are coming from" so to speak. The opposite where doubt or non charitable or adversarial communication occurs, often leads to misunderstandings, delusions.

As the large language models have trained on existing human communication, they are likely to display that sort of principle of charity of interpretation, whereas an individual or close friend - first of all they are communicating with a sensory environment around them so they can "come back to their senses" so to speak, secondly the person can tell them of a faux pas.

Take the example of music, or if you want, carpentry or programming - the most efficient way to learn is going to be in the sort of "zone" or means of communication with an adept practitioner of that craft.

That is what intention of university and trade schools is meant to be - the reality is of course they become something else as status and economics gets involved.

But it's nice and obvious it still remains the same with music - the most common way to learn is face to face with a tutor.
by laurencerowe | 2026-01-20 06:31:37+00:00
> You [UK companies] need to pay around $2,000 to file your accounts each year. In Cayman you do not.

What's the evidence for this? I've run a UK company, albeit a decade or more ago. Fees are negligible. There's a £34 annual filing fee. You might choose to pay accountants to prepare and file your accounts for you, but presumably if you were to do so you would do the same in the Caymans.
by trcarney | 2026-01-20 06:31:49+00:00
The Anarchist Tool Chest. Its a book about hand tool woodworking and letting go of the notion that you need to buy every tool they make just to make something out of wood. The author espouses a lifestyle I think we all could do a better job of living. Which is basically own fewer, nicer things made by local artisans and craftsman.

I heard somebody on a YouTube video (wittworks) explain why things like woodworking and stuff speak to so many in our profession, "If you work with your mind, you need to rest with your hands". This book helped me unlock a hobby that helps me relax after being at a computer all day without thinking I need a 4000 sq ft wood shop and 10's of thousands of dollars.
by Agent_Builder | 2026-01-20 06:32:15+00:00
This resonates. One thing we ran into while working with multi-agent workflows was that problems didn’t come from agents being “wrong”, but from being allowed to do a little too much across steps.

What helped was enforcing step-level boundaries: each step explicitly declares what data and tools it can use, and that authority is removed before the next step runs. It made agents less clever, but far more predictable in production.

I’ve seen similar patterns handled well using frameworks like gtwy.ai, especially when multiple agents are coordinating and touching real systems. Curious how you’re preventing permissions or assumptions from leaking between agents over time.
by breput | 2026-01-20 06:32:32+00:00
Widget sizing/appearance was probably the only surprise that I discovered between Nova and Octo. Resizing in Octo takes a bit of getting used to, but I was able to reproduce the appearance of all of my widgets.

Padding is a little different and harder to discover than Nova - it is in the "Customize appearance" menu when you long tap on a widget. That is something to check out, as well as making sure Rounded Corners aren't enabled.

There is also a "Freely position and resize items" option in the Launcher Settings->Home tab, which I do not have enabled, but might be necessary to get your widget sizing just right?
by asdff | 2026-01-20 06:32:44+00:00
Well, in this present world where it isn't valued at a one-time payment, OP is no longer a customer. Myself as well. Likewise probably a lot of people on HN. Like OP, I don't scroll through the app store anymore. I used to actually do that for fun! So the developer of that would be $2 app is getting nothing today. They release their app and get no one downloading it because it is comingled with the bullshit. Best they can hope for is a 6 year old steals their parents CC and signs them up for a recurring subscription they miss between the rest of their bills. This is the world we live in instead of the $2 software world.
by LeFantome | 2026-01-20 06:33:03+00:00
Completely wrong.

Yes, you can create your own ISA. But to run what software?

If I create my own RISC-V implementation, I can install Ubuntu on it. Maybe even Steam.

See the difference?

And, the market has responded with a tidal wave of CPU contenders. Like in the rest of the world, not all of them target the highest end portion of the market. But some are choosing to play there. Have you checked-out Ascalon?

And why did Qualcomm pay all that money for Ventana recently? You do not expect them to release high-end RISC-V chips? I mean, they already ship many low-end ones.