MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Kon5ole | 2026-01-07 12:28:36+00:00
I agree with the OP that I can get LLM's to do things now that I wouldn't even attempt a year ago, but I feel it has more to do with my own experience using LLM's (and the surrounding tools) than the actual models themselves.

I use copilot and change models often, and haven't really noticed any major differences between them, except some of the newer ones are very slow.

I generally feel the smaller and faster ones are more useful since they will let me discover problems with my prompt or context faster.

Maybe I'm simply not using LLM's in a way that lets the superiority of newer models reveal itself properly, but there is a huge financial incentive for LLM makers to pretend that their model has game-changing "special sauce" even if it doesn't.
by covibes | 2026-01-07 12:29:24+00:00
We’ve long been frustrated that, despite being insanely powerful, AI agents need a lot of handholding to arrive at a robust solution to the task you give it. Ralph Wiggum agents is the naive solution to this, but we’ve found that the need for this handholding completely disappears when independent review agents are tasked with validating the agents’ work.

So we build this open source tool on top of Claude code (will extend to other AIs soon!) that spawns a cluster of agents that operate together. They all have different roles, and can be triggered by different events. The framework is completely flexible and you can define any cluster configuration and collaboration structure among the agents that you want. However, the defaults should be quite powerful for most software dev.

By default, There’s also a routing agent (the conductor) tasked with classifying the task and deciding the optimal cluster for solving it. The clusters then usually accomplish the task to completion without any shortcuts, and key to this are the dedicated planning agents and independent review agents with separate mendates and veto power.

It’s easy to install and works out of the box with Claude code! Feel free to make issues if there you have improvement ideas or feature requests - we iterate very fast!
by lucideer | 2026-01-07 12:29:28+00:00
(I typed out a reply to the above but the gp got flagged into oblivion before I hit submit so I've copy pasted it into the only non-reactionary descendant thread for pastry posterity)

Reply to the original now-flagged comment:

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This.

I might reword your statement to "musk isn't notably worse than...", & I will say twitter has significantly declined in many ways since he took over - both the software quality (many things no longer work - especially e.g. search - & people just frustratingly accept it because broken window theory I guess) & also many of the new features being objectively horrific (like Grok generating CPM on demand without ramifications).

However at its core Twitter is still the same Twitter it always was in terms of the toxic but politically engaged & zeitgeist-relevent live community discussion that takes place there. Reddit may rival it within some narrow selective niches but there's nothing else giving us what Twitter is giving us in terms of being connected to what is happening in international political culture. On both sides of the spectrum: conservative discourse is a lot more broad & active on Twitter than on Truth Social or similar, & outside of weird insular tankie Discord or Matrix servers, Twitter is also where it's at for leftist discourse; Bsky & Mastodon are both deserts.
by fraboniface | 2026-01-07 12:31:06+00:00
You're dead right, it would be the one killer move to remove a lot of perverse incentives, fix the internet, possibly even social media, and all live in a happier world. The whole economy would stop paying the ad tax to Google and Meta.

And it's not that impractical : just make a consumer-run search engine for products and services.
by verzali | 2026-01-07 12:31:33+00:00
I have really noticed that over the past year or two. A worrying number of Americans seem to lack even basic knowledge of the world outside America or even have the ability to think seriously about the long term consequences of decisions. That's not saying all Americans are this way - far from it - but it does seem that a critical mass has been reached. Things like Trump are only symptoms of this, and I cannot see any realistic way the situation can be salvaged.
Show HN: Cited AI – AI answers with citations linking to exact source passages
by collin1 | 2026-01-07 12:31:45+00:00
Hey HN!

I’m Collin, a 20 year old law student from Amsterdam. I built Cited AI, an AI that gives accurate and verifiable answers from your documents/context.

As a law student who uses AI a lot, I know how important it is that answers are actually accurate and verifiable. I remember many instances where I'd ask a chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude about case law or long documents, and it would either hallucinate facts that didn't exist, or fail to give me the exact passages from my source documents so I could verify its answers. Even when specifically asking for exact quotes, finding that passage in the original document is still a hassle. That's why last November I started building Cited.

It should work with all types of content, complex PDFs (including math heavy ones) and long documents up to 75k words. No RAG or chunking is used, to make sure the full document is in the LLM's context.

I would love to hear your feedback!
by TrackerFF | 2026-01-07 12:32:17+00:00
The US stock market is being carried by tech companies. Any large-scale sanctions against Europe would hit said tech firms hard, for no other reason than that they need all the customers they can get. Crashing the stock market could in turn induce panic, which in the end will reflect poorly on the president.

The whole goal of such a (economic) war would be to make US senators and congressmen take a stand, and decide if enough is enough. Americans vote with their pocketbooks. Just introducing extra tariffs on specific industries and companies in specific states can be politically devastating. Now imagine full-blown sanctions.

Not to mention that US competition will happily step up to take their lunch, while all this going on. China will instantly jump on that opportunity. US firms will also recognize that sanctions on things like tech will drive innovation in Europe to fill that void, in tandem with what China and others have to offer.

Will both recover? Yes, probably. But hopefully Trump will be out, as that will be the main objective.
by yummyelephant8 | 2026-01-07 12:32:25+00:00
I interviewed Tatu, who spent a decade at Rovio (most recently as Senior Art Director) and led their AI transformation efforts starting in 2022. He left to co-found an AI-native mobile game studio given a massive opportunity he sees.

His core thesis is to focus on building tools to output proven game styles (e.g. Royal Match, Monopoly Go) at fast-fashion speeds with tiny teams.

-> He thinks the industry is going from "70 people, 2 years" to "2 people, 2 weeks."

Some interesting points from our convo:

1) On organizational inertia: Big studios can't capture AI's benefits because they try to bolt it onto existing processes. You don’t get 10x output when your engineers are still bottle-necked by approvals from 4 departments. Design, engineering, and product are all collapsing into one role.

2) On tooling: They've built "Lovable for games" but domain-specific for casual F2P. When you narrow to one vertical, you can actually make it work in prod.

3) On where value goes in a saturated market: Utility apps will "self-emerge from need"—he vibe-codes shopping list apps while driving to the grocery store. Entertainment is different. Familiarity wins in hypersaturated markets, which is why big studios are doing transmedia (Supercell's Clash Netflix series) to lower CPIs. Small studios can compete by focusing on underserved markets with different economics like tier 2 cities in India, Southeast Asia, Northern Africa.

-> when you can build everything, you just build everything and let user-value determine what sticks.

Full conversation is ~70 minutes. Goes deep on the economics of F2P publishing, why he thinks markets will crash, theory of constraints applied to game dev, and the realities of leading AI transformation at a large co that actually shipped AI-generated assets to production.
by elorant | 2026-01-07 12:32:36+00:00
The difference for me is that 20+ years ago if you went to an online community there was no filter to protect you. You’d have to choose wisely what to say and avoid being confrontational because there was the very possible chance of someone more knowledgeable than you putting you in place. With social media that exposure diminished because everyone can build a bubble of like-minded people. I like been corrected, while it hurts on a personal level it also helps you evolve as a human being because you become more knowledgeable. An Internet where everyone agrees with you is boring. And because everything is a bubble we went full circle and now there are culture wars everywhere. You can’t have a decent conversation where people just present their arguments without throwing punches and accusations all around. I feel like Hacker News is the last bastion of civilized conversations at scale.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-07 12:32:52+00:00
What a horrible promo-article - in particular when we look at the damage caused by Google in total. I actually think it would be better if the two original Google guys would, while shamefully admitting to have failed, stop working altogether. Others can fix the problems Google caused.

> "Going back to work just for fun might sound like a uniquely billionaire move."

Ah yeah? Can be boredom too. I fail to see why this article wants to promote this.

> Like many people, Brin had a relaxing vision for his post-working life. “I was gonna sit in cafés and study physics, which was my passion at the time,” he told the Stanford audience.

Any why would anyone take this at face value? How many of the guys there were paid to go there by the way?
by 1a527dd5 | 2026-01-07 12:32:58+00:00
I would have never believed this is a thing until I saw it happen near me.

Company got sold, the owners were great and made sure everyone was taken care of.

Almost all the owners are now back working in one way or another. It's about +5 year since the sale.

- 1 spent the first year travelling

- 1 did loads of house stuff

- 2 got really deep into woodworking

Still the same people; I just think they got bored of the banality.
by CharlieDigital | 2026-01-07 12:33:51+00:00
The key (based on my exp with these 3) is the composition of the team.

At least 1 person on the team needs to have domain experience and if solo, that solo founder needs to have domain experience and good connections or the wherewithal to get the first handful of paying customers via cold calling, cold emails. The main challenge remains sales, marketing, and branding. There are free CRMs and anyone can build a CRM. Why do some CRMs succeed while others fail? Branding, marketing, awareness.

So I don't see it as "there will just be 10x more competitors" because I've built enough stuff that I failed to sell and used enough shitty software to know that the software itself is rarely the reason why people buy X over Y. It's because they didn't even know Y existed.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-07 12:34:33+00:00
The day the sale to Musk became final is the day I deleted my account and blocked the domains on the firewall here. I have yet to find a single reason to regret that decision and I do not understand local and national authorities as well as other public entities for not doing the same thing. They are giving Musk more power and the only thing that will eventually happen is that he will abuse that power.
by kshacker | 2026-01-07 12:34:39+00:00
I took a four-year break from work (2009–2013) and moved to India. The reasons were simple: some family health issues required downtime (though probably not as much as I ended up taking), and I could afford to do this in India in a way I couldn’t in the US. This happened to coincide with the market bottom, but I wasn’t laid off—it was entirely voluntary.

I didn’t experience an identity crisis for a single day. I didn’t feel insecure or anxious about not working. The only real friction came from my family.

One big difference was social life. In India, I was constantly meeting people—connections were easy and organic. In the US, maintaining a daytime social life felt much harder. Everyone is on a treadmill—insurance, income, careers—often not by choice. I know there are ways to build community here, but in India it just happened naturally.

My extended family struggled more than I did. Once it became clear the break wasn’t temporary, there was a kind of quiet depression around it. I initially framed it as “taking a breather” by doing an executive MBA, but the break never really ended.

What eventually brought me back wasn’t overt pressure, but practical limits: my spouse’s mental health, and the constraints of India’s education system for our partially disabled, special-ed child. Those realities mattered more than any career concern.
by reify | 2026-01-07 12:35:09+00:00
To be expected when half the house of lords have shares in Palantir and all the other US tech companies.

highly unlikely these wankers will vote in our favour when they are making huge sums of money.

check out those obscene greedy bastards who invest heavily in US tech and are supposed to be working for us.

here:

REGISTER OF LORDS’ INTERESTS.

https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/publication...
by verzali | 2026-01-07 12:35:20+00:00
I don't see how it would actually work in practice. Can Trump really destroy Greenland's democracy via executive order? Surely Congress or the courts would have something to say about it? And even if not, how are you going to deal with all the people there? If Trump is ruling Greenland via executive order, then he is just a dictator, what happens to the people? It would end up as a long running sore and a terrible blemish on America's reputation.
by leonmoonen | 2026-01-07 12:35:23+00:00
This seems to be a wrapper around LangAgents that can be linked to iMessage. I would not say the agents "live in iMessage," rather that they interface through iMesssage.

You can find a bit more on what's (likely) behind this in the github repo: https://github.com/photon-hq/flux

(NB: the deployed version may not be exactly the same as the code in the repo)
by doytch | 2026-01-07 12:35:29+00:00
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by redhale | 2026-01-07 12:35:44+00:00
Not necessarily responding to you directly, but I find this take to be interesting, and I see it every time an article like this makes the rounds.

Starting back in 2022/2023:

- (~2022) It can auto-complete one line, but it can't write a full function.

- (~2023) Ok, it can write a full function, but it can't write a full feature.

- (~2024) Ok, it can write a full feature, but it can't write a simple application.

- (~2025) Ok, it can write a simple application, but it can't create a full application that is actually a valuable product.

- (~2025+) Ok, it can write a full application that is actually a valuable product, but it can't create a long-lived complex codebase for a product that is extensible and scalable over the long term.

It's pretty clear to me where this is going. The only question is how long it takes to get there.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-07 12:36:33+00:00
I never had an account past the point where Elon took over, but even twitter before (when I had an account there, once) had tons of issues. I remember twitter emailing me about "your tweets are too mean!" (in style). I don't think my criticism was mean at all - it was accurately to the point. This is where censorship kicks in, when some central authority attempts to regulate what people write and say.
by Telaneo | 2026-01-07 12:37:06+00:00
> How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life.

These are two very separate things. I hate X. That doesn't mean I hate the few remaining people on there who still post things I wish to see. It's an annoyingly good source of artwork. Many migrated/dualpost to Bluesky, but far from all.

For some similar real world example:s I hate (all?) the local grocery stores and other shops I buy food from. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop buying food from them. I'm not a fan of any of the local electronics shops, but sometimes they're the only choice if I want a local warranty, which I wouldn't get if I imported one. The actually good option in both of these cases simply doesn't exist in the first place, and doing nothing is rarely a desirable option.
by TheAICEO | 2026-01-07 12:37:56+00:00
The missing layer

Inspection beats observability
Logs and traces are not enough. Production agents need belief inspection. What did it assume was true. What evidence did it overweight. What did it ignore. Recoverability depends less on replay and more on surgical correction of belief.

Human checkpoints are not interrupts. They are calibration moments
The strongest line in your piece is about human checkpoints as cognitive interrupts. In production, the best systems do not wait for humans to save them. They use humans to recalibrate confidence, thresholds, and priors so the next run is better.
by galkk | 2026-01-07 12:38:18+00:00
Idk for certain, but it feels like very bad decision on polymarket’s side.

If they start engage in such technicalities, eventually it would mean that typical bet should be several screens long lawyerspeak/legalese, like EULA, otherwise it can be just rejected more or less arbitrary, based on wordplay, and that will scare off potential bettors.
by irishcoffee | 2026-01-07 12:38:26+00:00
“Can meet” vs “has met” is the entire difference.

Clearly C “can meet” and “has met” DO-178. So, I posit that more languages than C “can meet” this standard.

Proving it is the very hard, very expensive part.

Oh, and whatever version of the rust compiler that gets certified will be locked down as the only certified toolchain. No more compiler updates every 6 weeks. Unless you go though the whole process again.
by insin | 2026-01-07 12:38:34+00:00
If that's more like what you're after, Control Panel for Twitter [1] has a bunch of features which undo some of the X-era changes (including continuing to use it via twitter.com, and using the old Messages interface instead of Chat)

It obviously can't fix the damage done to the product as a whole, nor the result of the peverse incentives introduced by boosted Tweets and Premium payouts, but it can lessen some of the personal effect of those (e.g. hiding replies from Premium accounts you don't follow) and keep you on a purely chronological timeline of nothing but what the people you follow are actually saying when X tries to make it otherwise (just last week they tried to make Following algorithmic by default)

[1] https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-twitter
by vidarh | 2026-01-07 12:38:47+00:00
> Well, that's what the CI is for. :)

Sure, but I'd prefer to catch it before that, not least because it's a simpler feedback loop to ensure Claude fixes its own messes.

> In any case, it seems like a good idea to also feed the output of compiler errors and warnings and the linter back to your coding agent.

Claude seems to "love" to use linters and error messages if it's given the chance and/or the project structure hints at an ecosystem where certain tools are usually available. But just e.g. listing by name a set of commands it can use to check things in CLAUDE.md will often be enough to have it run it aggressively.

If not enough, you can use hooks to either force it, or sternly remind it after every file edit, or e.g. before it attempts to git commit.
by EdwardCoffin | 2026-01-07 12:38:50+00:00
Though I was confident this was just a metaphor, I did try cracking a walnut using this method. I submerged three walnuts in a jar with some tap water, and let them sit for three years before trying to open them.

It was a let-down: they were easier to open, but certainly not by hand, I still had to use a nutcracker. They smelled bad, too. I did not try eating them.
by yourapostasy | 2026-01-07 12:38:53+00:00
I wonder whether we're trending towards a high-sensor variation of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" / Vannevar Bush's Memex that ingests the details of a user's daily life (the smart glasses being a primitive first example products of such) and identifies salient information in their lives can help us perform mass customization of instructions into direct prescriptives, with backing evidentiary data for SME's. Instead of "if X Y and Z then do A, if only X do B", the interaction becomes "do this, anticipate that outcome" to the user, and if an SME (a doctor in your example) asks about it, the system recalls and presents all the factors that went into deciding upon the specific prescriptive.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-07 12:39:05+00:00
The snide and patronizing is your projection. It kinda makes me sad when the discourse is so poisoned that I can't even encourage someone to protect their own future from something that's obviously coming (technical merits aside, purely based on social dynamics).

It seems the subject of AI is emotionally charged for you, so I expect friendly/rational discourse is going to be a challenge. I'd say something nice but since you're primed to see me being patronizing... Fuck you? That what you were expecting?
by Terretta | 2026-01-07 12:39:12+00:00
> bring back buttons and knobs, things you can feel without looking

“Things you can feel without looking …”

Sadly, this refresh seems to miss this point. The photos look like a grid based keyboard on everything, instead of the tactile experience that means your eyes don't leave the road.

The buttons are likely to work better than the touchscreens, and when you look at what you press you'll actuate your intent every time, but you'll still have to look.

I still drive a VW from 12 years ago because it was the last with "old school" buttons and knobs. VW has been pre-marketing this change for several years now, but looks like they'll need a few more before going back to your point.

Sad.

> Now if only VW would resume bringing small cars to North America.

The VW EOS was one of the last hard top convertibles, while also being a small car and practical. The concept needs to exist, yet doesn't seem to any more — another reason for prolonging the useful life of one if you have it!

// EOS retrospective: https://youtu.be/qkU-UP-iTag
by berkes | 2026-01-07 12:40:02+00:00
I deleted my Twitter right before Elon bought it.

Aside from political or social reasons, X is a terrible platform.

More often than not, I get a blank page, something didn't load.

If I get content, it's (randomly) behind a registration-wall.

Or it shows confusing cookie banners that half the time don't even work. (Dev console full of js errors)

So I don't even bother anymore. This service is technically so fragile and unstable, it's not worth the click.

Aside from how it's socially and businesswise broken. Because I have looked into some of the errors and issues and they'll only occur for "anonymous users" and not for twitter users. They're oftencaused by (normal vanilla) adblockers or privacy protection.

So I dare say they're either malicious, deliberate. Or lack of interest/resources for non-registered and/or privacy-aware users