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by leosanchez | 2026-01-07 07:25:20+00:00
> So are you claiming that Manusmriti is not valid?

Another bad faith argument. The topic in question is Bhagwat Gita not Manusmriti. Filling 3/4 of your comment with quotes from Manusmriti makes you disingenuous to say the least. And yes, Manusmriti is indeed irrelevant for most Hindus.

> I have already given specific quotes from the Bhagwad Gita about Dharma being tied to caste.

Which I have replied to and don't support your initial claim, even with bad faith interpretation.

> sankaracharya from Govardhan Mutt

I don't know who this person is, But the articles I linked in my previous comment interpret Varna tied to abilities not based on birth.

Is there a source of truth which states which jati belongs to which Varna?

There are many of castes which do not cleanly belong one Varna including my own.

> Just saying that I am saying this in "bad faith" doesn't make it so.

To remind you of your initial claim

> that it is actually a sin to perform the duties (dharma) of a caste that you aren't born into

> which is the crux of the argument that Krishna made to Arjuna in the Bhagwat Gita.

To justify your claims, you had to refer to quotes from Manusmriti. That is why I called you bad faith.
by TMWNN | 2026-01-07 07:25:35+00:00
Calling him an engineer would be a stretch. As others aid, he was a hardware technician on an assembly line.

That said, that experience, and this article, that Jobs had an understanding of computers and electronics when founding Apple beyond the "Woz = engineer, Jobs = sales guy" oversimplification. It's just that compared to Woz—one of the century's greatest engineering minds—anyone would look third-rate.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-07 07:25:40+00:00
Bostrom / Ilya are agreeing with the GPs argument AFAICT: it's not that AGI can create a dictatorship-of-the-first-AGI-owner, it's that only having one serious funded lab going at it creates a knowledge gap of N years that could give said lab escape velocity*

* imagine if Google alone had LLMs. For an innocuous example, the only provider in my LLM client that regularly fails unit tests verifying they actually cache tokens and utilize them on a subsequent request is Gemini. I used to work at Google and it'd be horrible for that too-big-for-its-own-good institution regressing to the corporate mean to own LLMs all by itself
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-07 07:26:27+00:00
There is no rampant abuse or fraud or nepotistic hiring. These are just the latest talking points from supremacists on Twitter / X, that they repeat without any evidence, to rage bait the gullible. I’ve not seen nepotistic hiring from my immigrant coworkers, just merit based hiring. Do you really think all these well run and successful companies are leaning into allegedly low skill workers and nepotism because it is good for their business? No - they’re leaning into merit because that’s what is making them great.

If you disagree, share your evidence. Oh and also, high tech unemployment is not a reason to stop the H1B or other programs. If you’re unemployed in one industry, go find another one - don’t steal from me for your protectionism.
by ahmadyan | 2026-01-07 07:26:35+00:00
I had this ShowHN yesterday, which didn't grab much attention, so i'm using this opportunity as it seems relevant (it is a solution for running CC in parallel)

if you folks like to run parallel claude-code sessions, and like native terminal like Ghostty, i have a solution for using Git Worktree natively with Ghostty, it is called agentastic.dev, and it has a built-in Worktree/IDE/Diff/Codereview around Ghostty (macos only for now).

Would be happy to answer any questions

ShowHN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501758
by copperx | 2026-01-07 07:27:38+00:00
I'm afraid to ask, but because I've been very happy with Codex 5.2 CLI and I can't imagine Claude Code doing better, why is it Claude so loved around here?

Sure, I can spend $20 and figure it out, but I already pay $40/mo for two ChatGPT subs and that's enough to get me through a month.

Should I spend $20 to see for myself?
by hulitu | 2026-01-07 07:28:18+00:00
> So it seems the issue is "OnDemand" was turned on which is supposed to keep the files in the cloud only, but presumably some users didn't realise that?

Have you seen the wonderful, extensive Microsoft help system ? Neither do I. /s

OneDrive gets installed with some default settings (which might change with every update) and starts syphoning user files to Microsoft servers.
by cj | 2026-01-07 07:28:21+00:00
I'm curious, what types of prompts are you running that benefit from 10+ minutes of think time?

Whats the quality difference between default ChatGPT and Thinking? Is it an extra 20% quality boost or is the difference night/day?

I've often imagined it would be great to have some kind of chrome extension or 3rd party tool to always run prompts in multiple thinking tiers so you can get an immediate response to read while you wait for the thinking models to think.
by gkanai | 2026-01-07 07:28:27+00:00
The famous case I always bring up is the accident with the USS John McCain. The US Navy tried screens but due to this accident and other reasons has gone back to mechanical controls. Cars can have some screens but key controls (HVAC, car safety, windows, etc.) should be mechanical.

https://www.naval-technology.com/news/us-navy-to-replace-tou...
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-07 07:28:49+00:00
Are they harming the STEM industry, or are they a key reason why these industries are successful? Maybe those workers are just better than you and deserving of those jobs? If you don’t want competition, what you’re asking for is a tariff basically. In other words, you are pro inflation and pro passing on YOUR costs to the rest of us. No thanks.
by mock-possum | 2026-01-07 07:29:21+00:00
Wow, what a cool article!! This post alone makes me want to read the rest of the blog.

One of the things that seems like it ought to be obvious, but nonetheless strikes me about this stuff is - you really do have to be a good artist, period, to make headway even in incredibly limited (by today’s standards) mediums like early ANSI. You have to be good at the composition aspect and the execution aspect, and aside from teaming up with someone who has a complementary speciality, there’s almost no way around that (so far.)
by eru | 2026-01-07 07:29:22+00:00
Well, that's about as valid as listening to sovereign citizens' interpretation of the US constitution. (At least from the Catholic point of view as far as I can tell.)

> Nowhere in the Bible for example it is written that one can pay off sins by giving money to some authority.

I'm no expert but doesn't James 2:26 says "Faith without works is dead."?

Surely giving some money (that you had to work hard for!) to the greatest charity in the world (the Catholic church) should count as a good work?

(But I'm just playing devil's advocate here. I don't know what their official reasoning is.)
by ahmadyan | 2026-01-07 07:29:38+00:00
it is your script, so you can do whatever you want; i just provide some env variables specific to the branch, e.g.

$AGENTASTIC_BRANCH
$AGENTASTIC_BASE_BRANCH
$AGENTASTIC_WORKTREE_PATH
$AGENTASTIC_MAIN_REPO_PATH
$AGENTASTIC_COMMIT
$AGENTASTIC_REPO_NAME

if you give me some examples, i see i can also add that.
by TMWNN | 2026-01-07 07:29:42+00:00
> It looks like the next Andrej Karpathy (born in Czechoslovakia, educated in Canada) will be taking their talents somewhere besides the US in the future.

Karpathy, with a Stanford PhD, would not have received or needed an H-1B.

This, like the new $100K fee, is about shutting down the Indian body shops that consume the vast majority of "tech" H-1Bs.
by bonesss | 2026-01-07 07:29:45+00:00
However many years later: the broad sentiment that MS needed to be broken up into separate Office, Windows, and Dev/Tools organizations was pretty on the money.

Document exchange, formats, and user editing experience have suffered due to their mixed goals and market control, this has real social cost. And with the current ‘copilot everywhere’ push we’re seeing pretty disruptive tech being hammered down a lot of throats. Mature Visual Studio features are being deprecated for subscription based off-site code gen… (which at a distance sounds like MS is struggling and needs extra development help to maintain its flagship development software, if only they had some kind of AI that could help them keep up…)

I dare say we’d be oodles better off with similar crippling fears in the board rooms of some media, energy, and tech conglomerates. The judge was right, and we missed a key chance to set a guiding example.
by badestrand | 2026-01-07 07:30:23+00:00
For me it's their speed, yes. I only run 0-3 at a time, and often the problem at hand is very much not complex. For example "Take this component out of the file into its own file, including its styles." The agent may take 5 minutes for that and what do I do in the meantime? I can start another agent for the next task at hand.

Could also be a bug hunt "Sometimes we get an error message about XYZ, please investigate how that might happen." or "Please move setting XY from localstorage to cookies".
by delaminator | 2026-01-07 07:30:37+00:00
The oil was sanctioned under the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014.

And then

President Obama today issued a new Executive Order (E.O.) declaring a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela. The targeted sanctions in the E.O. implement the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014, which the President signed on December 18, 2014, and also go beyond the requirements of this legislation.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/0...
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-07 07:31:38+00:00
Make sure they actually have GUA addresses, not just link-locals.

If you're on a Linux machine, check `ip -c addr show` for an address that's "scope global" and doesn't start with "f". Those are the ones you need. If you have one of those, check `getent ahosts google.com` to see if v6 is being sorted before v4 in DNS lookups, and then `wget google.com` to see if wget prints any errors connecting to the v6 address.

If you have GUA addresses and nothing is outright broken, devices and software that support v6 will prefer it over v6.
by RealityVoid | 2026-01-07 07:32:57+00:00
Because of the salaries. They are much higher in the US. Also, the SV bay area has an absurd concentration of talent that you probably can't find anywhere else. Having a head start from anyone else helps. But don't worry, I'm sure that in the current climate Europe will be able to gather and retain talent. I personally would be much more happy to work for lower pay than contributing to the prosperity of such a predatory country.

Funny thing, I considered working in the US a couple of years ago but 2 reasons made me give up. The emigration felt hard and confusing as if they didn't want people there. And second, my wife was afraid of the gun violence in the US.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-07 07:33:16+00:00
Who are you to claim the talent isn’t skilled at all? Maybe you’re the unskilled, unemployed one who is now asking the rest of us for a protectionist tariff to save your employability. The business owners who are hiring these people are making the choices that are the best for their business, and they’re judging the quality. It’s their money, and they’re betting with it - and confidently too.

But let’s assume you’re right. Even if 90% of them were unskilled, the other 10% is still incredibly valuable for the American economy and taxpayers. And it’s not even a difficult decision. That “loss” is tiny compared to the extreme benefit we receive, that literally NO other country on the planet can replicate. Unless we give it away, like you’re proposing to do.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-07 07:33:39+00:00
I use Beads which makes it more easy to grasp since its "tickets" for the agent, and I tell it what I want, it creates a bead (or "ticket") and then I ask it to do research, brain dump on it, and even ask it to ask me clarifying questions, and it updates the tasks, by the end once I have a few tasks with essentially a well defined prompt, I tell Claude to run x tasks in parallel, sometimes I dump a bunch of different tasks and ask it to research them all in parallel, and it fills them in, and I review. When it's all over, I test the code, look at the code, and mention any follow ups.

I guess it comes down to, how much do you trust the agent? If you don't trust it fully you want to inspect everything, which you still can, but you can choose to do it after it runs wild instead of every second it works.
by mattlondon | 2026-01-07 07:33:56+00:00
I too would very happily do just the bits of my job that I like, when and how I want, and have any requests or comments or complaints I make get immediate attention and responses.

All in the knowledge that no one is going to be time-tracking me or doing performance reviews, and I can just not do work at any moment I don't feel like it or have something better to do that day, like go to my private island or take my private jet to burning man etc (or as it turns out do a talk at Stanford). All while you have so much money that the price of anything from clothes to cars to houses is just some arbitrary number that has no meaning to you it is so absolutely tiny number... not that you actually buy anything yourself any more, mainly your team of personal staff deal with that grubby reality.

As for the rest of us, well we need to pay the bills while playing "the game" and politics and cowtowing to keep the money coming.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-07 07:34:05+00:00
Ah you read that the singer, e.g., was canto-op trained? (For one them I was expecting a Morricone theme https://youtu.be/R4xWbRBLj2I:)

Re koku:

You bring the point that politics goes back to an older mode where one does not have to account for solidarity (so, not even morality)?

(Headspace is crowded. Might have to take things slowly.)
by echelon | 2026-01-07 07:34:14+00:00
The only two domains where I've felt inheritance is useful are video games and windowing systems.

Inheritance is actually useful for Widget > Input > TextBox since methods and behaviors do follow parent-child and even sibling relationships.

But there aren't many domains like this.

Rust and other languages choosing traits and type classes instead of strict species-oriented class inheritance seems like the much more modern and more widely applicable approach.

Classes feel clinical and dated.
by IlikeKitties | 2026-01-07 07:34:35+00:00
>Why do you make it sound as if it is a bad thing?

Because german politicians are incapable of implementing an immigration strategy that isn't absolutely, undeniably retarded.

>if you take every tom dick and harry from india, you are obviously going to run into issues. why not set a high bar for it

See Germany during the 2015 European migrant crisis.
by coldtea | 2026-01-07 07:37:04+00:00
>2) Claude Code has been around for almost a year and is being built by an entire team, yet doesn't seem to have benefited from this approach. The program is becoming buggier and less reliable over time, and development speed seems indistinguishable from anything else.

Not my experience at all (macOS Tahoe).

Speaking of either Claude Code as a tool, or Claude 4.5 as an LLM used with coding.
Ask HN: Transition away from embedded SWE due to AI?
by thawawaycold | 2026-01-07 07:37:19+00:00
Hi all,

as the title suggests, I've been increasingly worried about the current trends in replacing all sorts of SWE with agentic coding, and would like to shield myself (as I'm sure everyone would...) from the upcoming changes in my career field.

I do mainly embedded work, so microcontrollers and -processors with RTOSes and baremetal. I've always been very passionate about this field, so much so that my main hobbies revolve around making PCBs for myself and tinker with new technologies. In the past I've also had positions in which I did mainly 3D design, though that was at a "junior" level, so to speak. Right now I'm considered a halfway senior in my role, both in terms of IC skills and managerial skills, though I'd personally like to learn much more stuff before hailing myself as a senior dev.

I think I'm gonna be replaced in the near future, whether AI can actually perform my job or not, because that's the trend all companies are pursuing; so I wouldn't mind just changing careers, since I could still pursue embedded work in my own free time, though I really wouldn't mind working in something adjacent to that field (hardware/firmware).

What do you personally recommend doing in my position? I realize we're all in the same pot and that I have no right asking guidance to other people that may be struggling even worse than I am, nevertheless if you feel like sharing a suggestion (in any direction) I'll be very thankful for that.
by patates | 2026-01-07 07:37:46+00:00
It seems to me these days, any code I want to write tries to solve problems that LLMs already excel at. Thankfully my job is perhaps just 10% about coding, and I hope people like you still have some coding tasks that cannot be easily solved by LLMs.

We should not exeggarate the capabilities of LLMs, sure, but let's also not play "don't look up".
by deanc | 2026-01-07 07:37:53+00:00
People are completely missing the points about agentic development. The model is obviously a huge factor in the quality of the output, but the real magic lies in how the tools are managing and injecting context in to them, as well as the tooling. I switched from Copilot to Cursor at the end of 2025, and it was absolute night and day in terms of how the agents behaved.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-07 07:38:20+00:00
> manually fixing crap it produces

> it tends to produce so many errors

I get some of the skepticism in this thread, but I don't get takes like this. How are you using cc that the output you look at is "full of errors"? By the time I look at the output of a session the agent has already ran linting, formatting, testing and so on. The things I look at are adherence to the conventions, files touched, libraries used, and so on. And the "error rate" on those has been steadily coming down. Especially if you also use a review loop (w/ codex since it has been the best at review lately).

You have to set these things up for success. You need loops with clear feedback. You need a project that has lots of clear things to adhere to. You need tight integrations. But once you have these things, if you're looking at "errors", you're doing something wrong IMO.
by llmslave2 | 2026-01-07 07:38:44+00:00
Anything where you have literal "instances" of something with common state/behaviour is prime for inheritance, but that's different from trying to model a domain as a set of hierarchal objects.

But I do like classes - you can use them without inheritance, and the other stuff that comes with them (encapsulation, polymorphism, etc) fits my mental model. [0] Classes are just syntactic sugar over closures at the end of the day.

But inheritance is best when it's limited and shallow.

0:

The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping
to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have
heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked
pityingly at his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are
merely a poor man's closures."

Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his
cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire
"Lambda: The Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and
implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object
system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of
his progress.

On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by
saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now
understand that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na
responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you
learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became
enlightened.
by enraged_camel | 2026-01-07 07:39:22+00:00
>> Maybe they are struggling to convince others because they are unable to produce evidence that is able to convince people?

Simon has produced plenty of evidence over the past year. You can check their submission history and their blog: https://simonwillison.net/

The problem with people asking for evidence is that there's no level of evidence that will convince them. They will say things like "that's great but this is not a novel problem so obviously the AI did well" or "the AI worked only because this is a greenfield project, it fails miserably in large codebases".
by ngcazz | 2026-01-07 07:39:56+00:00
Okay? I'm not making a point about how long individuals should want to spend working (although this being 2026 I believe it should be less not more)

Alphabet has effectively monetized the world economy and gained outsized influence on policy, and Brin has about 25% of voting shares on the company

His money is on advocating that people widely forfeit a right acquired by labor movements in the early 20th century, and through his ex, on public-sector scientific research becoming unviable

This amounts nakedly (if fortuitously) a further consolidation of power and capital in the hands of a powerful few
by CalRobert | 2026-01-07 07:40:39+00:00
When I was a kid in the US people told me "you can do anything! Anyone can be president! Just set your mind to it!"

Now as someone raising kids in Europe the general sentiment is "The system is rigged, don't even try, anyone with nice things got it through avarice or corruption, nothing ever changes" (to be fair, I've lived in only two European countries, but this seems to be a common sentiment that varies primarily in scale - it was utterly atrocious in Ireland)

As smarmy and unrealistic as the first one is, I'll take it over the latter.
by RealityVoid | 2026-01-07 07:41:08+00:00
I would be incredibly curious if the mods could look into the stats of these political threads. I personally feel they are being manipulated at least through the voting system if not through active bot influence campaigns.

It might be me being emotional about this and about seeing a country I looked up to becoming what it's becoming, but I just can't comprehend how some of the people in this otherwise great community can look at this and think it's the direction they want for their country.
by cj | 2026-01-07 07:41:32+00:00
And just so we're attacking the problem from both sides: the dark pattern on the advertisers side is the inability to easily opt out of in-app ads when advertising on Google's display network. For the reasons you listed, in-app ads generate an incredible amount of low quality clicks, yet Google makes it very hard to exclude yourself from that ad inventory.

The only way I've found to do it so far is to manually exclude yourself from every individual app category. IIRC there are over a hundred categories and you need to manually go through and select every category to exclude your ads from mobile apps.
by mips_avatar | 2026-01-07 07:41:37+00:00
One thing that’s helped me is creating a bake-off. I’ll do it between Claude and codex. Same prompt but separate environments. They’ll both do their thing and then I’ll score them at the end. I find it helps me because frequently only one of them makes a mistake, or one of them finds an interesting solution. Then once I declare a winner I have scripts to reset the bake-off environments.