MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-27 07:54:21+00:00
I parsed "reasonable" as in having reasonable speed to actually use this as intended (in agentic setups). In that case, it's a minimum of 70-100k for hardware (8x 6000 PRO + all the other pieces to make it work). The model comes with native INT4 quant, so ~600GB for the weights alone. An 8x 96GB setup would give you ~160GB for kv caching.

You can of course "run" this on cheaper hardware, but the speeds will not be suitable for actual use (i.e. minutes for a simple prompt, tens of minutes for high context sessions per turn).
by oblio | 2026-01-27 07:54:33+00:00
> It’s an opportunity for other companies to take over imo.

This is a feeling commonly shared here.

I'd like to point out that IBM still dominates the large, billion-dollars worth mainframe market, almost 70 years after it invented it, despite continuous mismanagement for probably 40 years.

Microsoft dominates the PC market 40 years after taking it over with MS-DOS, and despite multiple debacles (Windows Millennium, Windows Vista, now Win 11, probably others I'm forgetting).

Microsoft dominates the office suite market 30+ years after taking it over with MS Office, despite some huge controversies (the Ribbon still annoys nerds, to this day). More than that, Microsoft has leverage MS Office to become the close second cloud provider after AWS despite starting far behind it.

Google and Apple will probably dominate the smartphone and tablet markets for a long time, after taking over those markets 10+ years ago.

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent and a company with a massive moat can outlive most of us. I'd actually turn this on its head by saying that assuming a new comer will topple the incumbent "any day now" is the irrational approach to a market.
by mary-ext | 2026-01-27 07:54:43+00:00
I've noticed that there's a decent amount of people who had benefitted having access to computer and internet really early on that seemed to be pro on banning teen access to social media, is there a reason why? the social media of today don't seem all that much different from the internet forums of back in the day

if algorithmic amplification is the reason then I'm not sure why social media as a whole has to be banned over it.
by King-Aaron | 2026-01-27 07:54:47+00:00
I don't like the idea of centralised digital ID for the obvious surveillance/privacy arguments and think that side of the conversation needs to be focused on. BUT, I also think that the Social Media experiment has shown that social media in general really, really sucks. It sucks for adults but it's objectively damaging to kids.

So like, I am all for restricting kids from it, and honestly I'd happily see it regulated out of existence entirely.
by ChadNauseam | 2026-01-27 07:55:12+00:00
I’ve been working on this since approximately when claude code was first released: https://github.com/yaptown/yap

As hobby projects go it’s “in production” with maybe 50 active users, so nothing crazy. Definitely less ambitious than a sqlite successor. But it’s not trivial. (The repo history is truncated to save money on github LFS storage.)
by user34283 | 2026-01-27 07:55:21+00:00
With the agent running autonomously for a long time, I'd have feared it would break my build/verification tasks in an attempt to fix something.

My confidence in running an agent unsupervised for a long time is low, but to be fair that's not something I tried. I worked mostly with the agent in the foreground, at most I had two agents running at once in Antigravity.
by exodust | 2026-01-27 07:55:28+00:00
Perhaps oversimplified. The manager might not want you tethered to his/her in-box like a puppy on a leash.

"When things happen", sounds risky. You don't want to be drip-feeding emails about individual things as they happen. Perhaps this is obvious, but you'd keep your own notes and try to condense into a nice little list for discussion when you next catch-up.
by f1shy | 2026-01-27 07:55:32+00:00
This is a good point. Letting people learning to code to use AI, would be like letting 6 to 10 yo in school just use pocket calculators and not learn to do basic arithmetic manually. Yes IRL you will have a calculator at hand, yes, the calculator will make less mistakes, still, for you to learn und understand, you have to do it manually.
by krainboltgreene | 2026-01-27 07:56:04+00:00
> Oh how's moderating and legislating social media behemots going so far?

This feels like you intended to make it a gotcha question, but the answer is: America isn't really trying to do that at all. So we should just give up?

"Damn, handling biowaste is hard and dangerous, what we'll do is just prevent people from leaving their house."
by timpera | 2026-01-27 07:56:42+00:00
Please note that the Conseil d'État, the highest French court for administrative matters, has issued a very skeptical opinion on this bill, saying that only the EU can impose new obligations onto digital platforms.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/01/27/french-l...

> The amended and adopted text now states that "access to an online social network service provided by an online platform is prohibited for minors under the age of 15." This is a more ambiguous formulation, as it does not explicitly impose any requirements on social networks. However, as a consequence, "platforms will have to implement age verification measures to ensure the effectiveness of this measure," the government promised in the explanatory statement of the amendment. For major platforms like Instagram or Snapchat, sanctions would fall under the jurisdiction of the European Commission.

> This has raised eyebrows among several law experts specializing in European digital law, whom Le Monde interviewed. "The bill is legally fragile," warned Brunessen Bertrand, law professor at the University of Rennes-I. In her view, it is based on a "broad and highly questionable interpretation" of European rules.
by flohofwoe | 2026-01-27 07:57:21+00:00
> examples ... of the interface to the operating system being exposed differently than a library

Linux syscalls, MS-DOS 'software interrupts'...

But that's not the issue, operating system interfaces can be exposed via DLLs, those DLLs interfaces just must be guaranteed to be stable (like on Windows).

Tbh, I'm not sure why I can't simply tell the gcc linker some random old glibc version number from the late 1990s and the gcc linker checks whether I'm using any functions that haven't been available in that old version (and in that case errors out). That would be the most frictionless solution, and surely it can't be too hard to annotate glibc functions with a version number in the gcc system headers when that function first appeared.
by srj | 2026-01-27 07:58:02+00:00
Sure but in a less broken society thieves would be apprehended and theft risk would be low. Instead the police do nothing and honest people live like a school of fish trying not to stick out for fear of the nearly-authorized property theft rampant in SF.

In many parts of the world, including major cities, it would be okay to leave your belongings in a locked car.
by VerifiedReports | 2026-01-27 07:58:08+00:00
Good luck even finding Liquid Wrench now.

Home Depot is such a wasteland. One shit brand of every product, and that's it. Row upon row of worthless, crumbly Dap wood filler, for example. Project-ruining trash.

I went there and asked three employees, probably separated in age by a decade each, for household oil. It's as if they didn't even understand the words. We're talking about 20- to 40- or 50-year-old HD employees who don't know WTF 3-in-1 oil is. Incredible.
by bilekas | 2026-01-27 07:58:11+00:00
> Pestrikov found he was named in a red diffusion after he fled Russia in June 2022

It doesn't say how he found out, I would imagine he's regularly checking online, he was stopped at a control check somewhere?

Seems to me that most people wouldn't have a clue until they're being arrested. But again another scummy behaviour from the Russian government.

It might as well just be prudent to ignore their requests altogether. Boy who cried wolf.

Edit : it did indeed say how. I missed it.

> After he fled to France, he was worried that the Kremlin might try to target him there, so he contacted Interpol
by Propelloni | 2026-01-27 07:58:34+00:00
Maybe I'm not getting you right, but IMO it hasn't? I, as a customer/patient, just don't weekly converse with my MD about small issues, and frankly, they have better things to do, for example treating sick people.

Instead I use the health benefits programs of my health care insurer. My insurer has an interest in prevention, so I can get consulting for free (or very low fees), and even kickbacks if I regularly participate in fitness courses and maintain my yearly check-up routine. Now, I live in Germany and it probably is different in other countries, but it just makes economic sense from the insurer's point of view so that I would be surprised if it were very different elsewhere.
by alibarber | 2026-01-27 07:59:12+00:00
It's probably much more boring. The choice was likely between leaving the whole water bottle and its contents in a bin of forbidden/discarded items, going home and missing the flight, or chugging it, or arranging a courier for said bottle.

Probably the act of defiance of pouring the contents onto the floor where there was no drain was implied to be disruptive and would have lead to harsher sanction for no reasonable payoff.
by dotancohen | 2026-01-27 07:59:16+00:00
That's great. Just yesterday I spoke with a developer who refutes Rector on old codebases, instead having an LLM simply refactor his PHP 5.6 to 8.(3 I think). He doesn't even check in Rector anymore. These are all bespoke business scripts that his team have been nursing for two decades. He even updated the Codeigniter framework it's all running on.
by littlecranky67 | 2026-01-27 07:59:24+00:00
Not sure if they use dual-energy x-ray as in [0], but you don't need to if you take x-ray shot from different angles. Modern 3D reconstruction algorithms you can detect shape and volume of an object and estimate the material density through its absorption rate. A 100ml liquid explosive in a container will be distinguishable from water (or pepsi) by material density, which can be estimate from volume and absorption rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-energy_X-ray_absorptiomet...
by evercrestaimee | 2026-01-27 07:59:34+00:00
I got tired of endless swiping, so I built VoiceVibe — a voice-first dating app.
How it works: Record voice prompts for 4 days (no photos), AI matches you on values, then you meet within 72 hours.
No endless texting. No ghosting loops. Just real connection.
Would love feedback from the HN community.
by razodactyl | 2026-01-27 08:00:01+00:00
Updated Windows 11 on Parallels: Has been stable since 2021.

Boot loop: Can't system restore. Can't roll back updates. Can't reset PC. Can't even enter safe mode.

All options ran into unexpected errors and cancelled out. Only option left was to shut down or "restart".

Had to clean install and attach the old virtual drive to a new installation to copy files across then copy the new installation's disk back to the old system as a replacement to ensure it was able to activate.

Seriously considering if I even need Windows anymore.
by djtango | 2026-01-27 08:00:50+00:00
Just the other day the FT put out an article that the current generation of graduates are so serially online that they freeze or go silent when faced with basic small talk questions.

I have encountered this for myself.

A few months ago New York banned phones at lunch and was discussed on HN [1]

We live in times where parents and schools no longer have the authority to enforce behaviour and social media is peer pressure from the entire world.

These bans are obviously heavy handed but hopefully they are a reversion back to an equilibrium that gives our young a chance to properly develop...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822539
by SeanAnderson | 2026-01-27 08:01:00+00:00
...yes? Humans love their poisons even if it's not in their best interest to love them. It's all about giving people a fighting chance to make conscious decisions about how they want to live their life. If we crush a fledgling brain with social media before it's learned to fend for itself then we're removing true freedom of choice.

To me, it seems pretty analogous to alcohol, etc. You don't prohibit alcohol. You define an age in which you're willing to tolerate letting people make their own decisions.
by Grisu_FTP | 2026-01-27 08:01:10+00:00
Well, i also would rather use Windows 11 than ubuntu. (I probably would also rather pay for Windows than ubuntu)
Every time i tried to use ubuntu it was the worst OS/Linux experience i ever had. A friend wanted to try linux once, picked ubuntu because its a "noob friendly" distro, and i had a "critical system error" pop up before even booting up once.
And this is by far the most stable experience i had with ubuntu.

Also ubuntu is ugly and slow (In my experience, In my opinion).
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-27 08:01:27+00:00
> Without it, airplanes would be an extremely easy target for any nutjob to commit mass murder in.

They still are, but I'm not comfortable spelling out details. The 95% TSA failure rate should lead you to this conclusion naturally.

> They wouldn't even necessarily need a bomb, anything that can cause a big enough fire mid-flight could be potentially catastrophic.

People have plenty of such things with them as it currently stands. Plenty more can be trivially brought on board in a checked bag or even pocket. But again I'm not going to spell it out.

> I really don't want it to be easy for any random person to cause such fire.

Well that's unfortunate because it already is. I think the primary things protecting passengers are the cost of entry (the true nutjobs don't tend to be doing so well financially) and the passengers themselves. Regarding the latter, the shoe bomber was subdued by his fellow passengers.
by mungoman2 | 2026-01-27 08:02:05+00:00
Imo the difference is enormous between social media and forums.

Infinite feeds are designed to game you for attention, whereas the forums of yore were there to facilitate discussions.

I'm sure some forums would also have liked to game you if they could, but they didn't have the scale to always have something juicy to serve up.

To me it's super uncomfortable to expose my kids to a product designed by large teams with the goal of making it addictive.
by storystarling | 2026-01-27 08:02:59+00:00
Matches my experience with print-on-demand workflows. I tried using vision models to validate things like ICC profiles and total ink density, but they usually just hallucinate that the file is compliant. I ended up giving the agent access to ImageMagick to run analysis directly. It’s the only reliable way to catch issues before sending files to fulfillment, otherwise you end up eating the cost of failed prints.
by grey-area | 2026-01-27 08:04:31+00:00
Advertising, a push to incredibly short video content, dumb memes, AI slop, conspiracy theories, scams, algorithms that push more of all these bad things to generate ‘engagement’ and advertising revenue and punish real thoughtful ideas. The truth hasn’t even put its shoes in before misinformation is racing around the world on these platforms.

It’s hard to think of something genuinely positive about platforms like instagram YouTube and twitter nowadays.

Trying to share genuine joy in an activity is still possible but the platforms heavily push frequent users to think of themselves as ‘content creators’ and produce trivial yet popular video clips with all the negatives that brings.
by fragmede | 2026-01-27 08:04:38+00:00
The above link stopped working for some reason.

Here's a new one (to the exact same question):

https://chatgpt.com/share/69787156-022c-8009-ad26-8e3723c52b...

What's fascinating, is that this new link, gives a high level overview, then offers research directions. I swear the old link that no longer works now looks a lot more like the qwen response below.
by AngryData | 2026-01-27 08:04:48+00:00
Most concrete cracking you will see in residential construction and private driveways are either because the ground wasn't compacted well enough before the pour, or more often they didn't put a thick enough layer of stone to prevent the ground from moving. Cutting out depth from the base of crushed stone is often the easiest way to cut costs because it means less material brought in and less material to dig out.

Granted private driveways don't need to be absolutely perfect, but if you want it to last for a really long time you need deeper base layers.
by davedx | 2026-01-27 08:04:50+00:00
On one hand, I think it's a valid criticism to say it's security theatre, to a degree. After 9/11, something had to be done, fast!, and we're still living with the after effects of that.

On the other hand: defence in depth. No security screening is perfect. Plastic guns can get through metal detectors but we still use them. Pat downs at nightclubs won't catch a razor blade concealed in someone's bra. We try to catch more common dangerous items with the knowledge that there's a long tail of things that could get through. There's nothing really new there, I don't think?
by microtonal | 2026-01-27 08:05:15+00:00
I looked up to the US as a kid. Then I went to the US about 8-10 times in my teenage years (lost the count) due to my dad's work. We travelled through ~20 states. Only during those trips I realized in what poor life standards most Americans live. My wife lived in the US for a year and had the same experience. She also found that average Americans have real weird believes about the rest of the world (this was in the nineties), like they would ask her whether Hitler is still alive, whether Europe only has US radio stations, and some believed that Europeans don't have fridges.

Another thing that surprised me was the segregation. One time we went out to eat something while crossing some states. Apparently we drove into a black neighborhood, and we walked into a large place with a buffet. And suddenly almost everyone was looking at us completely stunned. Then the other shoe dropped, we were the only white people, and they were probably surprised that white people showed up. They were extremely nice to us, but for me it also uncovered how weird the US is.
by VBprogrammer | 2026-01-27 08:05:42+00:00
Yeah, I for one am getting pissed already about having legitimate parts of the internet cut off unless I'm willing to submit to ID verification.

For example, discussions about recent killings by ICE in the US. This example is one where I really don't want to tie my real life ID to my online presence for fear of retribution if I ever feel confident to travel to there again.
by littlecranky67 | 2026-01-27 08:06:31+00:00
Simlar (sad) story in Spain, very recent. Airtags and Find My are known by police by now. When my friends bag was stolen, he located it on the police station via Find My. It was located in a residential multi-story house nearby, which was known by the police. The place is known to house several members of organized petty crime. Police told him they cannot do anything as they can't enter the house without a warrant and won't get one just based on his testimony.
by epsteingpt | 2026-01-27 08:08:23+00:00
What's your concern?

The goal is not ensloppifying the Bible. Quantitative textual analysis is currently painstakingly done, and still has issues (e.g. weighing phrases that mean different things in Aramaic than greek - e.g. the 'eye of the needle'). People have undertaken this work but it is expensive and slow.

LLMs can do this.

The bigger reason to do this is that the translation can stay 'up to date' in any language ('vernacular') much faster.

There's a pretty big use case for that in my opinion.
by mrexroad | 2026-01-27 08:08:25+00:00
> the social media of today don't seem all that much different from the internet forums of back in the day

I’m not trying to be a jerk, but did you actually participate in “Internet forums back in the day?” I couldn’t think of anything more different than contemporary social media. Internet forums in late 90’s and early 00’s were something special. Hell, I had more “internet friends” from online forums attend my wedding than I did friends from high school or college… and for some it was the first time meeting in person.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-01-27 08:08:46+00:00
With 40M people, Canada is about half the size of Germany in terms of population and GDP. Also smaller than France. Canada is more similar in GDP to countries like Italy. The Spanish economy is a bit smaller but it has slightly more people (48M). The EU + UK is a bit over half a billion people.

The thing with Zoom, Meets, Teams, etc. is that these aren't that hard to replicate. There is not much of a technical moat. It doesn't take a very large startup to create your own version of that. And given what a basket case teams is, it's also not that hard to do much better. There have been plenty of alternatives over the years. Network effect is what drives the growth there, not technical quality.

So if the French want to use something else, all they have to do is pick something and they might get the network effect through mass adoption. That would work better if the whole of the EU does it of course. We'd still need a solution if we want to talk to people in the US. The reason why US drives the network effect traditionally is its trade relations. It's convenient for everyone to use the same tools and solutions.
by ChadNauseam | 2026-01-27 08:08:57+00:00
I haven't used the bug bot, but I like asking claude code to just review my PR in the command line. Yesterday it found a bug in a data structure I was implementing (it didn't support ZSTs properly). Of course, the fix it suggested was completely wrong, but what are ya gonna do. Still saved me from embarrassing myself before asking for a review
by ouyangwenli | 2026-01-27 08:09:13+00:00
Show HN: xAgent CLI (https://github.com/xAgent-AI/xagent)

Most AI coding tools (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Copilot) have the same limitation: they can only read/write files
and run shell commands. They can't actually interact with your desktop.

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What it can do:

GUI Automation
- Click buttons at precise coordinates
- Type text into any field
- Navigate websites automatically
- Control ANY desktop application

Example:
xagent gui --url https://twitter.com/login
> Click the username field at (400, 280)
> Type "myaccount"
> Press Tab
> Type "mypassword"
> Click the login button at (450, 420)

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Developer Features
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Why I built this:

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Tech stack:
- Node.js 20+, TypeScript 5.3
- Ink for terminal UI
- Puppeteer/Playwright for browser automation

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npm i -g @xagent-ai/cli
xagent start

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by port11 | 2026-01-27 08:09:24+00:00
I’m aware, which is why we don’t buy products with recycled synthetics fabrics for our baby. Ironic, since so many brands are hellbent on promoting the recycled fiber as more sustainable.

But: the AirTag is made of hard plastic (polypropylene?) through injection moulding. I’m not sure it leaks even a tenth of what fiber would. Just a thought :)