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by marcinzm | 2026-01-06 13:54:05+00:00
> Also in moderately big to big companies, is all about contacts and personal marketing, which could (and typically is) orthogonal to your actual work.

As you go up the levels that is exactly the job (for better or worse) so doing that is doing the work at the next level. You are organizational glue that connects people and ensures your team has proper visibility. If you didn't see it that way then that may explain your problems with promotions.
by nu11ptr | 2026-01-06 13:54:16+00:00
I am a pretty serious "Rustacean", but I like to think "for the right reasons". A rewrite in Rust of the main project would make very little sense, unless there is some objective the project wants that can't be met with C (see below). This person presents a well thought out case on why it makes little sense to rewrite, especially in the final section. Rust is great for many things, but when you have something old that is already so well tested and accessible on all sorts of obscure platforms, it makes little sense to rewrite, and the likely result would be more bugs, not less, at least in the short term.

All that said, some have found reasons to rewrite in Rust, and are currently working on that: https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite...
Show HN: Octopii – Turn any Rust struct into a replicated,fault-tolerant cluster
by ulrichbate | 2026-01-06 13:54:37+00:00
I've been working on Octopii for around a year now, a "batteries-included" library that aims to make building distributed systems in Rust as easy as writing a standard struct

Octopii acts like a "Distributed Systems Kernel." It handles the physics of the cluster (storage, networking, leader election) so you can focus entirely on your application logic.

It's effectively the infrastructure behind something like Cloudflare Durable Objects, but packaged as a crate you can run on your own hardware.
by jll29 | 2026-01-06 13:54:47+00:00
> Rust's philosophy, which is to find the best solution to the problems it's trying to solve, at any cost, including breaking compatibility, at least to some degree.

But the Rust team found a great way to avoid breaking
backward compatibility: old code gets automatically compiled by the old version of the compiler, whereas more recent code is treated with the latest version of the compiler.

That is much better IMHO than carrying that old baggage along in the language that e.g. the C++ folks struggle with, where every half-decade a pile of additive changes get piled on the previous version of the language, and nobody can clean up the old mess.
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by johnebgd | 2026-01-06 13:55:07+00:00
I bought a corded electric snow blower this year for my driveway. My neighbor has a gas powered one. I sold mine after two uses because it was so ineffective it mostly just clogged. It is a highly rated unit on Amazon. My neighbor has used his for years.

I hope this kind of environmentalism never comes for winter gear. At least not until we have fuel cell technology that far exceeds what batteries can offer.
Show HN: VoltCode Run multiple Claude/Gemini tasks in parallel
by stevensu | 2026-01-06 13:55:19+00:00
I built VoltCode to solve AI coding bottlenecks by running multiple AI agents simultaneously (tested on M1 Pro). Generate components with Claude while Gemini writes tests—all in one IDE.

Problem: Current AI coding is sequential. You wait for Claude to finish one component before starting the next. With complex apps, you're constantly blocked—generate navbar → wait → generate auth → wait → write tests → wait. Each task takes 10-30s, adding up to minutes of idle time.

How it works: VoltCode's parallel task engine runs up to multiple AI agents simultaneously. Chat with Claude Code to generate a dashboard while Gemini writes API routes and another Claude instance creates tests. All tasks execute in parallel with intelligent queue management.

Key insight: Modern apps need multiple components. Instead of sequential AI calls, batch them. The bottleneck isn't AI speed—it's waiting for one task to finish before starting the next.

Built with Tauri + React. Supports Claude Code, Gemini, Codex with MCP protocol. Live preview updates as each parallel task completes. Task panel shows all running jobs with progress.

The magic moment: Watch your app build itself as multiple AIs work simultaneously.
by nogajun | 2026-01-06 13:55:46+00:00
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* Excel-like UNO for LibreOffice Calc is now available as a beta release | Moonmile Solutions Blog(Japanese): https://www.moonmile.net/blog/archives/11916
by steer_dev | 2026-01-06 13:56:00+00:00
Doing post-mortems on my agent's failures over the holidays made me realize the problem isn't the model. It is the lack of a deterministic inference-time verification layer.

I spent the break reading the recent Stanford/Harvard paper on agentic adaptation [1]. Their research provides mathematical proof for what I experienced in Q4: supervising only final outputs is a dead end. Agents learn to "ignore tools and improve likelihood," meaning they learn to lie more convincingly to pass evaluations while the underlying logic rots.

I call this the Agent Lobotomy.

The agent I have in production today is significantly dumber than the one I demoed in December. I was forced to strip autonomy, remove context, and add human checkpoints because I could not trust the probabilistic output. We are stuck in an Autonomy Retreat, creating an Authority Bottleneck [2] where agents are relegated to assistive tasks because the tail risk of autonomous action is too high.

I built Steer (open source) to stop the bleed. In v0.4.0, I moved the architecture to an Agent Service Mesh pattern. Instead of decorating every function, you patch the framework (e.g. PydanticAI) at the entry point. It auto-discovers tools and enforces a reliability policy globally via deterministic Reality Locks.

The real unlock is the data. By capturing the delta between a Blocked Response and a Taught Fix, Steer acts as a synthetic data factory for DPO. It moves reliability from a runtime tax to a training asset, allowing you to eventually refactor your prompt monolith into fine-tuned model weights.

I've put together three cookbooks showing how this stops the lobotomy in SQL and RAG workflows:
1/ Framework Patching: https://github.com/imtt-dev/steer/blob/main/steer/cookbook/p...
2/ SQL Security Lock: https://github.com/imtt-dev/steer/blob/main/steer/cookbook/s...
3/ RAG Grounding Guard: https://github.com/imtt-dev/steer/blob/main/steer/cookbook/r...

References:
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16301
[2] https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-12...
by kardianos | 2026-01-06 13:56:39+00:00
> That's where Trump came from: a coalition of billionaires, white nationalists, Christian bigots, authoritarians, conspiratorialists, imperialists,

Uh, no.

I've been told my entire life it is good for me to ship jobs overseas and for the country I live in, to be a "service" industry. I thought it was crazy then, as I do now.

The Trump coalition is the ONLY administration who has meaningfully reversed policies that push jobs away from my own country.
by pie_flavor | 2026-01-06 13:56:48+00:00
It should not be strange that a tool which is better in every way and makes your code less buggy by default has its praises sung by most of the people who use it. It would be odd to go around saying 'electric drills are strangely and disproportionately pushed at Home Depot over the good old hand auger', and even if I don't work at your contracting company I'd be slightly unnerved about you working on my house.
by misnome | 2026-01-06 13:56:54+00:00
> strangely and disproportionately pushed on Hacker News

There is literally nothing strange or disproportionate. It's incredibly obvious that new languages, that were designed by people who found older languages lacking, are of interest to groups of people interested in new applications of technology and who want to use their new languages.

> then those from outside the project shouldn't really have any say on it. It's their project.

People outside the project are allowed to say whatever the hell they want, the project doesn't have to listen.
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by a-dub | 2026-01-06 13:57:14+00:00
i haven't seen any rust projects yet that maximize embeddability, portability, space and transparency. maybe an argument could be made for the linux kernel stuff, but nothing like a sqlite that gets compiled and included in a million things on a million platforms ranging from high level interpreter wrappers on general purpose computers to teeny microcontrollers where the operating system is a library or some jump targets in rom.

that said, just because c is best for sqlite today, doesn't mean c is best for you or what you're trying to do.
by gilbetron | 2026-01-06 13:57:19+00:00
I emphasize, somewhat, with them for some complaints. The thing I love about our EV is the greatly reduced maintenance. No oil changes, no transmission fluid changes, greatly less parts means less that can fail, etc. That's awesome, but it also means people in industries supporting those will see their industries reduce or go away. This is good for us overall, but is painful for those in the midst.

That's why there is a big backlash against EVs, and I get it. Long term progress means short/medium term pain for some people. Think about all the stress facing software developers with AI progress.

Some empathy and plan to handle these changes would go a long way.
by b-man | 2026-01-06 13:57:27+00:00
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by noodlesUK | 2026-01-06 13:57:51+00:00
Whilst I seriously doubt that this will be regularly or universally enforced, I think that gas powered gardening and construction equipment is incredibly loud and annoying, and that especially in built-up areas it's not really acceptable where good alternatives exist. Noise pollution is usually very avoidable, and it can be quite disruptive and sometimes damaging to health.

Further, where I live (in the UK), there needs to be a serious reckoning about modified cars and road noise. At least 5-10x daily people drive through the city centre near my home with cars modified with unbelievably loud pop and bang ECU tunes and exhaust noise (close to as loud as gunfire). This kind of deliberate noise pollution is exceptionally antisocial behaviour and should not be tolerated by society.
by mynameajeff | 2026-01-06 13:57:54+00:00
My last apartment had the basic unending sound of a leafblower from Spring to late Fall, nearly every morning, unending. Never once did I find myself thinking "wow I sure do hate sight of fall leaves" or "this grass really needs the mm of grass every meter removed", yet they were paid to come multiple times a week year round and blow things around for hours on end. Felt like such a waste in an otherwise neglected apartment complex as far as maintenance.

I get the use of leafblowers for some. I lived in the deep woods and we'd have to clear a pretty large swath of area every fall to not swim through shin-deep leaves for half the year, but if you already are in an area with light enough tree density to grow nice grass I just personally don't understand the utility of some 1000CFM gas leafblower. I got my parents a relatively cheap electric leafblower and it's been excellent for clearing their driveway and paths.

It's definitely a more personal gripe, but those obnoxious droning leafblowers are one of the worst sources of noise pollution in suburban areas by a large gap.
by phantasmish | 2026-01-06 13:57:58+00:00
Have you considered that your investment firm and other peers at the time were in an information bubble?

In fact outside of tech if the dotcom bubble wasn’t being discussed it’s because most folks—being not, or barely, online yet—weren’t paying any attention to it per se. The bubble they cared about was the broader stock market bubble, which was definitely widely perceived as a bubble.
by CodingJeebus | 2026-01-06 13:58:09+00:00
There's plenty of evidence that this is true.

According to Ed Zitron, Anthropic spent more than it's total revenue in the first 9 months of 2025 on AWS alone: $2.66 billion on AWS compute on an estimated $2.55 billion in revenue. That's just AWS, not payroll, not other software or hardware spend. He's regularly reporting concrete numbers that look horrible for the industry while hyperscalers and foundation model companies continue to make general statements while refusing to get specific or release real revenue figures. If you only listen to what the CEOs are saying, then sure it sounds great.

Anthropic also said that AI would be writing 95% of code in 3 months or something, however many months ago that was.
by ddltodata | 2026-01-06 13:58:57+00:00
Thanks! To clarify, the core engine isn't AI. It's deterministic pattern matching, so it runs in milliseconds with no token costs. There's an optional "Story Mode" that uses AI for narrative-coherent data (like "a churning SaaS with seasonal trends"), but the base product is just schema parsing + smart type inference.

The difference from Faker: you don't write any code. Paste your CREATE TABLE, get data back. Faker is a library you have to integrate, configure field-by-field, and maintain as your schema changes. Different use case — more like "I need a seeded database in 30 seconds" vs "I'm building a test suite."

Fair point on pricing though, still figuring that out. Appreciate the feedback.
by kllrnohj | 2026-01-06 13:59:37+00:00
> TSMC owns 60% of the foundry market. So if China decides to invade Taiwan, that would likely mean ~60% of CPU and GPU manufacturing capacity permanently destroyed at once.

While it would certainly be devastating, do note that TSMC has fabs in places that aren't Taiwan. So their entire production wouldn't immediately go offline, and presumably China would still want to keep selling those products and would have an interest in avoiding destroying those factories.

If China suddenly decides it doesn't want to export electronics, though, then we're all super fucked. After all, what percentage of those TSMC chips flow through China to get mounted onto PCBs or need major supporting components from one of the "Foxconn Cities" in China?
by asadotzler | 2026-01-06 13:59:46+00:00
"We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents 'join the workforce' and materially change the output of companies."

We know how to build it and it will be entering the workforce in 2025. Well, we're in 2026 now and we don't have it in the workforce or anywhere else because they haven't built it because they don't really know how to build it because they're hucksters selling vaporware built on dead end technologies they cannot admit to.
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by WhyNotHugo | 2026-01-06 14:00:20+00:00
> Nearly all systems have the ability to call libraries written in C. This is not true of other implementation languages.

This is no longer true. Rust, Zig and likely others satisfy this requirements.

> Safe languages usually want to abort if they encounter an out-of-memory (OOM) situation. SQLite is designed to recover gracefully from an OOM. It is unclear how this could be accomplished in the current crop of safe languages.

This is a major annoyance in the rust stdlib. Too many interfaces can panic (and not just in case of an OOM), and some of them don’t even document this.
by Ragnarork | 2026-01-06 14:00:26+00:00
> Libraries written in C++ or Java can generally only be used by applications written in the same language. It is difficult to get an application written in Haskell or Java to invoke a library written in C++. On the other hand, libraries written in C are callable from any programming language.

Not saying they should have picked C++ but that's a bit untrue. It's quite easy given some thought into the API to invoke C++ code in basically any language which can invoke C code, since you can wrap a C++ implementation in a C interface. I've done it multiple time throughout my career (that ended up being called from Python, Swift, Objective-C/C++, Swift, Java, and Kotlin).
by jacobgorm | 2026-01-06 14:00:42+00:00
Apparently Nordic Nano is a spin out from the University of Tampere, and the CEO of Donut Labs seems to have his own money. I happened to spend three weeks in Tampere by accident 15 years ago, and I have no reason to believe that people there don’t know what they are doing. It is where Nokia was originally founded, and where the first GSM phone call was made.
by yabones | 2026-01-06 14:01:14+00:00
This is a good thing. It might inconvenience some old suburban men that have no hobbies other than making their lawn look like astroturf, but those of us that breathe air regularly should be asking for this in their own jurisdiction.

Unlike your car, a four-stroke engine with a catalytic converter, a leaf blower is a two-stroke that burns oil by design. The amount of particulate emissions is hard to understate, and the amount of NOx these belch out is staggering. Asthma, cancer, heart disease, COPD, all are on the table with this type of system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-stroke_engine#Emissions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOx#Health_and_environment_eff...
by sqircles | 2026-01-06 14:01:21+00:00
There are a lot of factors that go into achieving success in the workplace. There are usually competing ideas of what success is to you, versus what it is to the one rating you or paying you. You have to, at some level, appear to be good at something they think is good to have around. Sometimes that aligns with what you think is good, sometimes it doesn’t.

Of course the advice in OP is going to be relative, but it’s not a bad rule of thumb to have a good sense of what your immediate does, how they think, what metrics they value, etc. If not for your own advancement- keeping immediate leadership off tilt can greatly increase QOL, or vice-versa.
by mikeryan | 2026-01-06 14:01:28+00:00
Without a doubt there are toxic work environments and bosses that think the way you’ve stated.

That said my point of view as a manager was to try to hire people who could take my job someday. Those were the people that would make me look good by having a great team. I don’t need to steal their thunder because the higher you go in a healthy organization the more it’s about having people that can execute your strategy then about your individual contributions.

The best analogy for this I see is in the NFL when new, young head coaches seem to be afraid to hire experienced coordinators who have been fired as head coaches because they’re afraid of hiring their replacement if they fail. The thing is those ex head coaches were undoubtedly successful in their previous coordinator roles which is why they got a head coach gig to begin with and are likely the best option for making the new head coach successful.

Long story short it’s up to you to determine which type of leader you’re working for and and take ownership of moving on when in a toxic situation as opposed to a healthy one.
by andy99 | 2026-01-06 14:01:44+00:00
I don’t think it’s environmentalism, I think that’s unfortunate just the pretense because it gets traction.

At least what I’ve found, now with more people working from home, there is more attention paid to intolerably noisy stuff that goes on when we used to be at work. I lived near a private school with a big grounds that had these idiots come and rev their leaf blowers for days every fall and spring, and it was basically impossible for me to work. I don’t especially care about the environmental impact and am sort of angry that people use the environment as a pretence when there are certainly more effective ways to be environmentally friendly. But the noise is intolerable, generally very supportive of the bans, though I think it should be about blanket norms on what noise levels are allowed and not about specific technologies.