MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cal_dent | 2026-01-27 05:51:21+00:00
One thing that I've not quite been able to sort of get my head around about the whole AI and future of work thing ss the view around work in the physical world being safe. I don't particularly buy the rationale and not from the position of robots are going to do the work. I don't know much about robots really but from what I've seen from the more viral stuff that breaks through to mainstream internet from time to time, it still feels that we're some way out.

But that feels like the least of the worries to me. There seems to be an implicit assumption that those physical lines of work don't get eroded by the higher proportion of able bodied people who are suddenly unemployable. Yes there is some training required etc. but the barriers to entry aren't so high that in the shortish to medium term you don’t see more people gravitating to those industries and competing wages further down to not make then sustainable employment long term. I'd even think that having LLMs that can recognise photos or understand fuzzily explain questions about some blue collar skills many have forgotten actually reduces the barrier even more
by STELLANOVA | 2026-01-27 05:52:10+00:00
France wants to replace Microsoft Teams and Google Meet with "Visio", a sovereign tool for video calls. Based on LiveKit.

https://presse.economie.gouv.fr/souverainete-numerique-letat...

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/visio

https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet
by otherme123 | 2026-01-27 05:53:55+00:00
You are misunderstanding everything:

1. The ISP ask a judge to ban some IPs, and the judge gives them the permission to do so, because they asked. A judge could ask every ISP to do so, but they don't. But the ISP must request permission to ban, that es the reason the ban is limited to some ISP.

2. It does not come from the judges, it comes from the ISP that request to do it. Some ISP don't care about football, so they don't ask, they don't ban, and they are not mandated nor allowed to ban.

3. Not true, please don't FUD. In Spain is extremely rare to be killed by the police, even resisting, unless you threat them with a gun for example. And there are more cases with guns or knifes that are peacefully defused, than "executions on the spot". I don't know what are your intentions lying like that, but they don't look good.
by ykhli | 2026-01-27 05:54:21+00:00
my unvalidated theory is that this comes down to the coding model’s training objective: Tetris is fundamentally an optimization problem with delayed rewards. Some models seem to aggressively over-optimize toward near term wins (clearing lines quickly), which looks good early but leads to brittle states and catastrophic failures later. Others appear to learn more stable heuristics like board smoothness, height control, long-term survivability even if that sacrifices short-term score

That difference in objective bias shows up very clearly in Tetris, but is much harder to notice in typical coding benchmarks. Just a theory though based on reviewing game results and logs
by enra | 2026-01-27 05:54:57+00:00
Consumer software can be good, but it's often also optimized for max engagement, not for the actual value or functionality.

Enterprise software can be because there isn't an incentive mismatch, good solution is more valuable for the customers, it will sell better and they're willing to pay for it.

But like you say, lot of enterprise software is bad because it's optimized for the payer, not the user, and it's often shoehorned to weird workflows of the particular enterprise.
by solatic | 2026-01-27 05:54:58+00:00
Well, all kinds. Alerting is a really great way to track things that need to change, tell people about that thing along established channels, and also tell them when it's been addressed satisfactorily. Alertmanager will already be configured with credentials and network access to PagerDuty, Slack, Jira, email, etc., and you can use something like Karma to give people interfaces to the different Alertmanagers and manage silences.

If you're deploying alerts, then yeah you want a progressive rollout just like anything else, or you run the risk of alert fatigue from false positives, which is Really Bad because it undermines faith in the alerting system.

For example, say you want to start to track, per team, how many code quality issues they have, and set thresholds above which they will get alerted. The alert will make a Jira ticket - getting code quality under control can be afforded to be scheduled into a sprint. You probably need different alert thresholds for different teams, and you want to test the waters before you start having Alertmanager make real Jira issues. So, yeah, progressive rollout.
by al_borland | 2026-01-27 05:54:59+00:00
It would be nice if there was an option to box it up and mail it back home or to a friend/family member for a fee. While a lot of people have throw away knives and wouldn’t care, many also have knives that are either expensive or have a lot of meaning.

Maybe they would encourage more people to risk it and hope they don’t get caught, but a vast majority of these people aren’t criminals. When I was a kid I would always take a Swiss Army knife with me on vacation. That was my favorite thing to back, and I could look like a hero when an opportunity came up where it was useful. No longer.
by fortran77 | 2026-01-27 05:55:29+00:00
Interesting. I bought a brand new Windows Arm machine the other day that was DOA: It booted with the UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME message. I brought it back to Microcenter and exchanged it and the replacement works fine. I wonder if that machine was just updated at the factory before it shipped...

I'm a longtime Microsoft fanboy, but even I wait a couple of weeks before updating anything, unless there's an actual problem I need the fix for.
by phillipseamore | 2026-01-27 05:55:46+00:00
Looks promising! I have a project in the summer that is collecting various data (lidar, drone images for photogrammetry etc) in a remote area and I will definetly try this out. The idea is to sync files up as soon as possible via 4/5G and Starlink using BondiX. Have you considered supporting multiple uplinks/bonding in Keryx?
by wyldfire | 2026-01-27 05:56:24+00:00
Here's an article that talks about Dual-energy CT [1]. And another one talking about material discrimination using DECT [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_imaging_(radiography)

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2719491/
by jandrewrogers | 2026-01-27 05:56:47+00:00
FWIW, sodium in water is such a pathetic explosion that it would mostly be an embarrassment for the would-be bomber. It wouldn’t do any meaningful damage.

An explosion with real gravitas is far more difficult to execute than people imagine. (see also: people that think ANFO is a viable explosive) This goes a long way in explaining why truly destructive bombings are rare.
by vintermann | 2026-01-27 05:57:44+00:00
Bad as the Iranian regime is, we know that foreign governments are actively working for regime change/collapse in Iran (Mossad boasted in public about being with the protesters on the ground in Iran, whether that's true or not it seems like a statement intended to make things worse). So maybe be extra careful where you source those death numbers claims.

UK is not, and will not be in the situation Iran is in for the foreseeable future. There will not be several powerful countries, some widely hated in UK and openly preferring a UK in smoking ruins to democratic government in the UK, calling for revolution there (although don't get me wrong, UK too could totally could use a revolution). UK has nuclear weapons. UK has a world-class surveillance apparatus, and doesn't have to contend with the cynical people running it getting regularly murdered or bought out by more powerful actors.

What all this means - and this has been the core message of just about all dissidents in western countries for decades - is that the people with control in the UK don't have to gun down hundreds (or tens of thousands, if you believe the colored reports) in the streets to cling to power. If it was their best option, they might.
by bulbar | 2026-01-27 05:58:30+00:00
So you have more data points? I am in fact interesting in them, I don't care too much who's in the right in this very discussion as this is all way too serious to be about who it being right.

But from what I have read with 'data' you mean your general impression from subreddits? Or do you have more robust data?
I can imagine a few affects that lead to the subreddit(s) evolve independent of the average opinion of R voters. It happens all the time with subreddits.

But then again, maybe you got more information about it?
by purpleidea | 2026-01-27 05:59:01+00:00
Heathrow is still a bullshit airport:

1) Bodyscanners: body scanners are a scam
2) They took away my 100ml contain that clearly had less than 1 cm of liquid in it because it wasn't clearly labelled as "100ml". Any idiot could know it was like 10ml full.
3) They used to do actual xray basically on people.
4) You have to re-security to transfer on connections! You already could have blown up the incoming plane, why does this even matter?

I don't go there anymore. Waste of time and all security theatre without common sense.
by al_borland | 2026-01-27 05:59:54+00:00
On my last trip I bought some different deodorant, because my usual brand was .2oz over the limit. Not sure why the brand wouldn’t just go with the TSA limit to make life easy for everyone. The new stuff ended up staining all my shirts. I largely blame the TSA for having to buy all new shirts. Next time I’m going to less of a stickler for the rules and hope for the best, as following the rules yields poor outcomes. Hopefully by that time the new rules will filter out to more airports.
by potsandpans | 2026-01-27 05:59:59+00:00
How many people's lives in third world countries were ruined making that train?

And I know, I know, the downvoterinos!

I don't actually care about this issue at all. The observation is: that moral grandstanding of "woman's lives to stolen bicycles" is somewhat amusing when the hardware is built on the backs of underpaid people in the global south. All so people can have little toys of convenience.

It's likely that Apple doesn't care about woman's lives either, for what it's worth. Just the negative PR associated with the problem at hand.
by Animats | 2026-01-27 06:00:08+00:00
Historically, oppression was attention-limited. The spies and goons couldn't monitor everybody. Now, they can.

So can companies. Amazon, Google and Visa can make someone an unperson by dropping them. Look what happened to the head of the International Criminal Court.

The "alignment" issue has been turned around. Grok is being given Musk's biases, on purpose.
by ankur_v | 2026-01-27 06:01:18+00:00
Have been following you guys and using Qordinate on and off, and I find it quite helpful. I use it for getting the daily summary of my notifications, emails, and news around my interests, and searching things across the apps now. Also, sometimes for maintaining expenses and reading lists. Waiting for proactive actions now, which I feel would move it more towards being an actual assistant that you guys have been pitching for
by tianqi | 2026-01-27 06:01:29+00:00
They are difficult. As I'm not a native English speaker, I didn't know many of the obscure words or usages, so I actually played these games from a purely computational perspective. I discovered early on that there were a lot of at least NPC problems in them. As my English improved (partially thanks to these games), intuitions began to help me take shortcuts, as if I had become a nondeterministic Turing machine.
by mikepurvis | 2026-01-27 06:01:42+00:00
I believe Google Maps adds a bit of a rng in which route it will recommend when two are basically the same. Obviously the traffic input also affects this, but that's a slower feedback mechanism; better to distribute the cars all leaving the airport for downtown across the 2-3 possible routes upfront rather than dumping them all onto route A until it's a jam and then all onto route B until it's a jam, etc.
by mrun1729 | 2026-01-27 06:02:11+00:00
Hi HN,

We built Lucy, a trace-debugging tool inside vLLora (our open-source LLM observability stack).

The problem: Debugging AI agents is painful. A single failure often hides inside a trace with 200+ spans—tool calls, retries, partial outputs, and silent failures. Even with tracing, finding the actual root cause (e.g. a tool schema mismatch or a contradictory system prompt) usually means manually scanning logs for 20+ minutes.

What Lucy does: Lucy lets you query your traces using natural language. You can ask things like “Why did this agent loop?” or “Which step was slow?” and it inspects the span tree to surface likely causes. For example, it can flag:

- Tool schema mismatches (e.g. hallucinated or invalid arguments)

- Prompt contradictions (e.g. system instruction conflicts with user intent)

- Silent failures (e.g. context truncation or max-token exits)

It’s early and still in beta.

We’d love to hear how you’re debugging agent failures today—logs, replay, evals, custom scripts, or something else.

Link to Repo: https://github.com/vllora/vllora
by jonway | 2026-01-27 06:02:25+00:00
I guess so, it’s certainly no secret that US soft power has been a HUGE part of foreign policy, but I do t really see the connection between cointelpro( which had a lot of moving parts, like infiltration of news rooms in the USA and following around black student on college campuses for example) and this soft power.

American soft power is good. It means we don’t need to use direct action aka bombs and missiles.

I just reject your claims on this. US soft power is, for the United States, good and desirable.
by inejge | 2026-01-27 06:02:49+00:00
> I would expect WD-40 to work fairly well because it cleans the chain and gets the filth out of the links

That it does, but it doesn't leave much lubricant behind, which you need for a properly functioning chain. As you know, you want something that will get between the pins and rollers and stay there, minus the grime that would turn it into grinding paste. Which is probably why some people swear by wax, but that sounds like a giant hassle.
by hackingonempty | 2026-01-27 06:05:33+00:00
> The motivation behind the liquid limits is that there are extremely powerful explosives that are stable water-like liquids.

The limits were instituted after discovering a plot to smuggle acetone and hydrogen peroxide (and ice presumably) on board to make acetone peroxide in the lavatory. TATP is not a liquid and it is not stable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_pl...
by jonway | 2026-01-27 06:05:49+00:00
Fun fact: WD-40 is not a penetrating lube/oil!

Iirc WD-40 = Water Displacement, formula #40

It was originally designed to displace water for corrosion resistance and cleaning. You probably will never need a single can of WD-40 in your life. Try PB Blaster or Liquid Wrench!
by tamimio | 2026-01-27 06:07:05+00:00
Yeah, except Canada really sucks for innovation and startups. Canada's [[[insert any sector here]]] is basically controlled by 2-3 companies that will either kill your idea before it happens, or you must get their “blessing” to penetrate the market. The government doesn't help either. I remember seeing some programs that require 3 years of profit and at least 5 full-time employees to get support of, say, $100k Canadian dollars, which is even less than the US one. The only time you can do something in the Canadian market is when you are already a very well-established company with big capital; only then can you survive there. I have seen government contracts mostly always given to corporations rather than promising startups simply because the conditions required only apply to large corporations.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-27 06:07:25+00:00
Earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772809

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46771213

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723068

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46773242
by taftster | 2026-01-27 06:07:29+00:00
And honestly, that person deserves the same pay grade as a "normal" engineer. But sadly, most QA staff are underpaid and somewhat even an inferior class.

Instead, if the QA role was the dominant and better paid title, you'd immediately see an improvement in that partnership. I don't think that you need subordinate staff in the QA role at all.

And for what its worth, I'm that guy. I am a strong technical software developer, but I would much rather test and poke at code bases, finding problems, working with a "lead" developer, and showing them all their quality mistakes. If I could have that role at my pay grade, I'd be there.

Quality testers are so extremely valuable.
Show HN: Jiss – A community-powered LLM API I built for open models
by almans | 2026-01-27 06:08:20+00:00
I’ve been working on Jiss, a project to make open-source LLMs accessible without the massive cloud bills or the headache of managing your own 24/7 infrastructure.
It’s a distributed network that routes inference requests to a pool of volunteer-run workers. If you have an app already using OpenAI, you can just swap the base_url and start running models like Llama 3 or Qwen3.
The idea:
Instead of relying on big providers, Jiss is powered by people donating idle compute. Whether you’re running Ollama on a Mac, a home server, or a workstation, you can connect your local setup to the network and help serve requests. I built this to see if we could create a useful, shared resource for the open-source AI community.
The highlights:
• Drop-in replacement: Use the standard OpenAI SDK—just change the base URL.
• Streaming: Supports real-time token streaming (SSE).
• Open: Anyone can join as a worker using a single script.
It’s still early so I’d love to get your feedback or have you try running a worker!
by smj-edison | 2026-01-27 06:08:49+00:00
I think it's fair for the projects, since when you first write code you're learning to think like a computer. Their AI policy is it's fine to ask it questions and have it explain concepts, but the project assignments need to be done without AI.

The one requirement I think is dumb though is we're not allowed to use the language's documentation for the final project, which makes no sense. Especially since my python is rusty.

Since you mentioned failure to figure out what better teaching methods are, I feel it's my sworn duty to put a plug for https://dynamicland.org and https://folk.computer, if you haven't heard about them :)
by thewhitetulip | 2026-01-27 06:09:12+00:00
On a contrary note: if LLMs really are that helpful why are QA teams needed? Wouldn't the LLM magically write the best code?

Since LLMs have been shoved down everyone's work schedule, we're seeing more frequent outages. In 2025 2 azure outage. Then aws outage. Last week 2 snowflake outages.

Either LLMs are not the panacea that they're marketed to be or something is deeply wrong in the industry
by secalex | 2026-01-27 06:10:07+00:00
My friend/colleague had her phone stolen while she was napping in the hospital room of her terminally ill husband. Fortunately it had MDM. Called Palo Alto PD, I sat with them and tracked it from the hotel and it was already in San Jose. They worked with SJPD live and walked them into the guy who happened to be in a parking garage peering into cars. Caught him with a backpack full of stolen phones.

The stereotype of US cops not caring isn't always true.

Unfortunate fact for the perp was the ill husband was a US Attorney and stealing his phone made it a big boy federal felony that was not looked kindly upon by the colleagues of a dying AUSA in the Northern District. I wonder if he's still in FCI Lompoc.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-27 06:10:39+00:00
Lubricant: terrible. Use something like an oil that remains rather than evaporates away.

Rust prevention: marginal. Use proper coatings or a flash rust prevention compound that sticks around.

Penetrating oil: terrible. Use 1:1 acetone:ATF instead.

Toxicity: terrible. It's petroleum distillates.

It's popular only because of missile hype and marketing, but that doesn't mean it's any good.
by jumploops | 2026-01-27 06:10:47+00:00
> For complex tasks, Kimi K2.5 can self-direct an agent swarm with up to 100 sub-agents, executing parallel workflows across up to 1,500 tool calls.

> K2.5 Agent Swarm improves performance on complex tasks through parallel, specialized execution [..] leads to an 80% reduction in end-to-end runtime

Not just RL on tool calling, but RL on agent orchestration, neat!
by jandrewrogers | 2026-01-27 06:10:54+00:00
Yes, peroxide chemistries famously don’t show up on a lot of explosive scans. TATP is an example but not the only one and far from the best one. They are largely missing from common literature because they are too chemically reactive to be practical e.g. they will readily chemically interact with their environment, including most metal casings you might put them in, such that they become non-explosive.

That aside, TATP is a terrible explosive. Weak, unstable, and ineffective. The ridicule is well-deserved.
by bruce511 | 2026-01-27 06:11:00+00:00
You gotta love the TSA. They serve no real purpose, but its a monster too big to kill, staffed by people who desperately cling to the notion they're doing something important.

They don't stop hijackings (locking the cockpit door does that), they don't stop bombings (there are much better targets for that, which don't involve killing the bomber), they don't stop weapons (lots of airports outside the US have simple metal detectors for that.)

They do however cost the govt a lot of money, keep a lot of expensive-machine-makers, and in business, improve shampoo sales at destinations, waste a lot of passenger time and so on.

So... what's not to love?
by tombert | 2026-01-27 06:11:08+00:00
Yeah, I'm someone who uses Codex, but I still use n8n and node-red for some automation stuff in my house.

n8n allows you to work at a higher level, and working at this level allows you to do things in a way that's more likely to be "correct". While it's not necessarily "difficult" to do integrations with Home Assistant or Discord or any of the million integrations that n8n has, it can still be error-prone, even for experienced developers.

With n8n, I'm pretty sure I could even have my parents set up and more importantly debug pipelines to control their thermostat or something. Even if I could get them to prompt Codex or Claude or something, I think it would be hard for them to debug the output if they had to.
by ExoticPearTree | 2026-01-27 06:12:02+00:00
The State Department issues warnings for US citizens. It does not care if othet nationalities go there.

And speaking of it is safe to
return there, I am not familiar with what happens when the TPS status is removed, but I think it only means they’re no longer welcome in the US, not necessarily being deported to Somalia the next day. So I don’t see any contradiction.
by lern_too_spel | 2026-01-27 06:12:42+00:00
The reason UnitedHealth has such a low profit margin is that their profit margin is capped by the ACA's Medical Loss Ratio provision. They fraudulently get diagnoses for their insured patients to upcode and incur more charges to Medicare Advantage that they can collect their profit from. Any doctor could have told you this has been going on for years.
https://www.google.com/search?q=UnitedHealthmedicare+advanta...

If the government were the insurer, it would not have the same incentives to commit this fraud.
by irjustin | 2026-01-27 06:14:30+00:00
Yeah I guess I just don't see eye-to-eye on this.

I 100% understand those frustrations. That the "detectors" should've been more accurate, or the fears, battery of tests, and costs associated of time and money. But, if you have the means to find out something that could have been extremely concerning is actually "nothing wrong" - isn't that worth it?

My friend is 45, had bloody stool -> colonoscopy -> polyps removed -> benign. Isn't that way better than colon cancer?

Maybe it's a glass half-empty-full thing.