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Show HN: InsAIts V2 – Real-time monitoring for multi-agent AI communication
by MrSteaddy | 2026-01-26 03:57:42+00:00
Hi HN,
I'm Cristian, an indie developer from Italy working on tools to make multi-agent AI safer and more debuggable.
When agents talk to each other (CrewAI, LangGraph, AutoGen, custom setups), they quickly develop shorthand, lose context, invent jargon, and propagate hallucinations — all invisible to us.
InsAIts is a lightweight Python SDK that adds observability in ~3 lines of code.
V2 just shipped with:

Anchor-aware detection (set the user's original query as context to reduce false positives)
Forensic root-cause tracing + ASCII chain visualization
Built-in domain dictionaries (finance, healthcare, kubernetes, ML, devops, quantum)
Local (Ollama) decipher mode — translates agent jargon to human-readable (Cloud soon)
Integrations: Slack alerts, Notion/Airtable export, LangGraph/CrewAI wrappers

Privacy-first: local embeddings by default, nothing leaves your machine unless you opt into cloud decipher.
Free tier works without an API key (local only). Also running limited lifetime deals for early supporters.
Quick install:
Bashpip install insa-its[full]
Demos included:

Live terminal dashboard
Marketing team agent simulation (watch shorthand emerge in real time)

GitHub: https://github.com/Nomadu27/InsAIts
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/insa-its/
Docs: https://insaitsapi-production.up.railway.app/docs
Would love feedback — especially from anyone building agent crews or running multi-LLM systems in production. What’s your biggest pain point with agent observability?
Thanks for checking it out!

Cristian
by codyb | 2026-01-26 03:58:35+00:00
Sure. I participate quite frequently through calls, donations, and voting.

But I'm not sure if you've looked at the news lately... we're pretty far into "too late".

Non-violent protest movements have a great record of creating real, and sustained change. Whether that's in India, or the civil rights and gay rights and suffrage and abolition movements here, peaceful protest is a powerful way to send a message to the people in your governments what you and the rest of the people there support and expect of them.

It's a great way to meet folk, to get good energy, to get a message out, to get a little exercise and fresh air, and to support your causes in an effective and, relatively light time commitment manner.
by mystraline | 2026-01-26 03:59:13+00:00
So, how far does the human electric field extend outside the body? May be only picovolts or in that range... But can we measure that? Does the field exist past our skin?

Can things like meditation modify that? Or how about stuff like OOBE's like what some folks call astral projection? What do those practices to to the body's electric field?
by bdcravens | 2026-01-26 03:59:28+00:00
I switched to Macs almost completely for personal and devlopment use about 13 or 14 years ago. However, last year I started a 3d printing side hustle, and got an HP laptop for running the print studio since the amount of hardware I could get for less than $1000 was hard to ignore. However, things like this, and other weird issues (my fonts have gone all wonky a couple of times after random updates) make me want to switch it over to a Linux distro (even though the software support for what I need is much better in the Windows world, and in some cases, better than even on the Mac)
by Braxton1980 | 2026-01-26 04:00:01+00:00
>For him, state is a sacred authority that transcends individual will.

State authority exists in democracys therefore that's not an argument for dictatorships

>they champion extreme forms of altruism and its only logical expression: statism

Why is statism the only logical expression of extreme altruism. Jesus Christ was the ultimate altruist and is not a state.
by themafia | 2026-01-26 04:00:20+00:00
> My understanding is that getting LLMs to regurgitate anything significant requires very specific prompting, in general.

Then you have been mislead:

https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/06/study-metas-llama-3...

> I would very much like someone to give me the magic reproduction triple

Here's how I saw it directly. Searched for "node http server example." Google's AI spit out an "answer." The first link was a Digital Ocean article with an example. Google's AI completely reproduced the DO example down to the content of the comments themselves.

So.. don't know what to tell you. How hard have you been looking yourself? Or are you just trying to maintain distance with the "show me" rubrick? If you rely on these tools for commercial purposes then the onus was always on you.

> So the ground-truth exists

And you expect a civil trial to be the most reliable oracle of it? I think you know what I know but would rather _not_ know it.
by goranmoomin | 2026-01-26 04:01:34+00:00
I feel like declarative container-like dev environments (e.g. nix shell or guix shell, and so on) will become much more popular in the following years with the rise of LLM agentic tools. It seems that the aformentioned tools provide much more value when they can get full access to the dev environment.

Sprites[0], exe.dev[1], and more services seem to be focusing on providing instant VMs for these use cases, but for me it seems like it's a waste for users to have to ssh into a separate cloud server (and feel the latency) just to get a clean dev environment. I feel that a similar tool where you can get a clean slate dev environment from a declarative description locally, without all of the overhead and the weight of Docker or VMs would be very welcomed.

(Note: I am not trying to inject AI-hype on a Guix-related post, I do realize that the audience of LLM tools and Guix would be quite different, this is just an observation)

[0]: https://sprites.dev

[1]: https://exe.dev
by hahahahalolhw | 2026-01-26 04:02:22+00:00
How adorable, what a self-own.

First - Completely different sentiments. One is a feature built into the product in question the other is a hodgepodge of shit.

Second, and most importantly, Dropbox may as well not exist anymore. It’s a dead end product without direction. Because, and this is true, it was barely better than the hodgepodge of shit AND they ruined that. Literally everything can do what Dropbox does and do it better now.

But keep posting that; it’s your one hit wonder.
by codyb | 2026-01-26 04:02:58+00:00
Yea, Apple's decision to have its CEO embrace fascism has really destroyed a ton of my goodwill towards the company and I'm actively looking for alternatives, delaying further purchases, and encouraging others to do the same.

Doesn't help that they appear to have shot all of their UX designers into the sun judging by the most recent iOS and MacOS upgrades.
by wging | 2026-01-26 04:03:30+00:00
There is some prior work on mitigating the performance cost of immutability that you might be interested in. For example, Clojure's persistent vectors allow fast modifications without destroying the original vector, because internally they're wide trees rather than just linear arrays of memory. This allows for assignments to be implemented without a copy of the full vector. https://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector...
by dkbrk | 2026-01-26 04:03:35+00:00
You can look at the Wikipedia page on railway defect dectectors [0].

Under "rail break monitors" it mentions both electrical continuity and time-domain reflectometry can be used, and are most frequently used on high-speed tracks.

In addition, there are vast array of other detectors using acoustic sensors, strain gauges, accelerometers, cameras in the visible and infrared spectrum or laser measurement, that potentially could have detected an anomaly (i.e. damage to the wheels of other trains before the incident).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Defect_detector
by mikeyouse | 2026-01-26 04:04:59+00:00
I’m sure that’s what Bezos tells himself. Which is both wrong and absolutely ignominious.

And if Elon’s X feed contains his real thoughts, his brain has turned to pudding and he earnestly believes a bunch of really vile racist garbage, so I guess it makes sense he’s hanging out with the rest of the deplorables in this administration.
by rustystump | 2026-01-26 04:06:39+00:00
Reality is that once the next group is in power they keep all the same infra in place so they themselves can use it oft expanding it further. Then when they are kicked out, the next one comes in and does the same.

I dont like any of it but patriot act, covid vaccine tracking, flock, etc are all arms of the same hydra. This is just one more expanding arm of power and control in a long history of gov attempts to control populations.
by mmooss | 2026-01-26 04:07:09+00:00
That's a great response; thanks. I would guess you are right that Gwern particularly appeals to the HN crowd, though that might be saying the obvious. Personally - and I don't think my perception is somehow superior to anyone else's - I think Gwern's writing has a clear voice.

> I just finished this response to a sibling comment of yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760312

I didn't write the parent comment there.

> the entire page took approximately 13 seconds to to yield almost 12MB of data

13 seconds doesn't seem like much to me compared to the time required to read those pages. I think that objectively, it doesn't have any economic impact. But that is relativley slow.
by 800xl | 2026-01-26 04:09:00+00:00
I paid a little more and waited a couple weeks to receive a Delta single handle faucet for my kitchen back in 2020, rather than just buying what was available on the shelf at Lowe's. Model: #400LF-WF. The reviews at the time said it was basically the same faucet made back in the 60s. I'm glad I did - it has been an excellent faucet.
by rus20376 | 2026-01-26 04:10:16+00:00
I am not opposed to enforcement of immigration laws. After all, every single country on the planet has such enforcement, and the United States isn’t even the most particularly aggressive about it.

If you aren’t in support of completely open borders and infinity immigration what is the proposed solution for reasonable immigration law enforcement? What does that look like? And is using an analysis of the government’s own data (in this case by Palantir) really all that crazy?
by instagraham | 2026-01-26 04:11:06+00:00
I find it odd that Americans aren't angrier about Russia running disinfo bot networks for over a decade now, building up to almost everything in the current cultural moment.

Also odd that the tech behind this isn't more talked about. I lost the source but there was something about bot networks that could argue both sides of a topic to feign the illusion of a real debate - and this predated ChatGPT by many years.

Big platforms like Google or X have only mildly experimented with heavenbanning and discourse manipulation at scale. These Russian networks have had at least a decades' worth of experience with it.

Somehow, in reducing all political opponents to bots, the discourse does seem to forget that there's often someone behind the bots, a tangible nation-state of a target.
by light_hue_1 | 2026-01-26 04:11:24+00:00
Yup. That's the brainwashing for you.

That having a bit more money matters when your employer can fire you for any reason. When college costs are astronomical. When you can lose your healthcare for any reason. When getting cancer might mean losing your house. When housing costs mean that anyone who rents could well be thrown out into the street.

But your tv is bigger than three average tv in Germany. For sure!

That's not quality of life. That's trinkets to hide the horrors. All good as long as you don't think about it and get lucky.

Wealthy America is great though.
by iJohnDoe | 2026-01-26 04:13:59+00:00
Arguably, there is a major contingency that will support Trump no matter what. We know this already. They are not shy about it.

So yes, there certainly would be some level of civil war.

It would be wishful thinking it would only be the people rising up against the government. If we had any level of that type unification then we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-26 04:14:20+00:00
> Presumably, it's because a lot of them are getting Medicaid despite not being eligible to

Why are you presuming this? There is no evidence this is happening in any widespread fashion.

> Isn't the point of every audit, investigation, etc. to find things that aren't being done correctly?

If it is being honest about it's intention, yes. I think we have seen an absolute mountain of evidence that this administration does "audits" as massive data collection waves to suit any and every purpose they want, though.

If this was about fixing things being done incorrectly, DHHS should be doing the audit, not DHS. Perhaps the latter doesn't understand the difference between the two, though, not noticing they're missing an H in their abbreviation.
by garbawarb | 2026-01-26 04:14:52+00:00
The European Union is strictly meant for European countries. CANZUK is a hypothetical agreement that would only include the above. I'd also say that one challenge the EU has is the free movement of citizens of poorer EU countries to richer ones. It might work well for the EU but Canadians are very concerned about immigration and the idea of newcomers undercutting domestic wages. The CANZUK countries all have similar levels of wealth and cultural similarities so that would be much less of a concern. Also, none of the CANZUK countries are in a common market as large as the European or American unions so they would all stand to benefit from that.
by sarchertech | 2026-01-26 04:15:29+00:00
> Give Trump time.

Andrew Jackson did it 1 year into has fist term. Trump is already in his 2nd.

> it's comparable and beyond to the worst things any president has done in the history of the country

It’s horrible to be clear. But ending assistance to other countries is in no way morally worse than genocide, slavery, and war.

>detention camps

The last year of the Biden administration, there were about 40k people in ICE detention facilities. The number has gone up under Trump, but it has less than doubled.

Any preventable deaths of people in ICE custody are unacceptable, but the number of deaths are a little higher proportionally than under Biden.

This is all horrible and condemnable. But detaining undocumented immigrants temporarily is something every administration does (even if this administration is ramping it up) and is in no way comparable to rounding up 100k innocent US citizens for a 4 year term.

Trump is an awful, greedy, morally corrupt human being, and a terrible President. But we’ve seen and survived much worse.
by rossant | 2026-01-26 04:16:03+00:00
Fifteen years ago, I ran a YouTube channel with hundreds of obscure French videos about pediatrics and parenting. One of them suddenly attracted massive attention worldwide, especially from Pakistan and Indonesia. According to the stats, 99% of the viewers were male. Millions and millions of views. For months, it sat in the top five French videos on YouTube. Ad revenue went through the roof, like three figures per day, for months, from that single video. None of the others on the channel saw anything remotely similar. It was baffling.

Then I understood why. The automatic thumbnail generator had picked a frame from the exact middle of the two-minute video. It showed a close-up of a newborn heel prick test: a nurse firmly holding the baby’s heel and pricking it to collect a drop of blood for routine postnatal genetic screening. The thumbnail frame looked like a skin-colored cylinder grasped by a woman’s hand.

Thankfully, the flood of comments, expressing disgust and horror at a medical procedure on a newborn after viewers had expected something entirely different, did not prevent the algorithm from enthusiastically recommending that thumbnail to a significant fraction of humanity.
by tolerance | 2026-01-26 04:16:16+00:00
We seem to be of like mind on this matter then. I look forward to us reconvening the next time Gwern hits the front page and we each feel compelled to voice some kind of informed dissent on the subject. Dissent probably isn’t the right word here because I don’t think either of us actually disagree with what he’s saying.

How fun is a conversation once it’s established that both parties are in agreement about something in principle? Does one probe to be provocative?

I place high expectations on writing that 1) I feel is right up my alley because I think I’m already familiar with the topic and 2) I’m unfamiliar with but am eager to learn about—it sparks my curiosity. Not all writing meets these expectations and this is probably why I’m disgusted by the though of using LLMs for information about subjects I have a genuine enthusiasm for and can care less about doing so for others, at least until I can figure out whether I want to know more about it. Then the subject becomes forbidden to prompt about.

> For me, it is the way he presents and develops ideas that prevents me from reading, it reminds me of reading a tutorial on how to reach his conclusion.

My assumption is that this kind of writing exists somewhere along the same strand of writing that lends itself to what’s expected from some writing in public school (‘Good writing is what shows the reader/teacher that you correctly grasped the material that was taught to you’); writing that is received well by ’The Masses™’ or some in-group (‘Good writing is what shows the reader/audience that you’re beliefs are in correct alignment with theirs’); something like a mathematical proof (a more literal representation of how to reach a conclusion if I correctly understand what a mathematical proof is); and a well-formed atomic note written for private consideration.
by Braxton1980 | 2026-01-26 04:16:18+00:00
So I was going to reply to mention that all VWs sold in the US at least for the last 10 years use an iron block. I wanted to know if the EA888 (VWs go to 4 cylinder engine) was cast so I asked chatgpt.

"No — the VW EA888 Gen 3 engine block is not cast iron in the latest versions. engines.... use an aluminum alloy block, not traditional cast iron."

So I know for sure it's iron so I said "Are you sure it's an aluminum block on the gen 3"

"No — the VW/Audi EA888 Gen 3 engine does not have an aluminum block"
by treetalker | 2026-01-26 04:16:31+00:00
The old FS stuff is still decent for reference, but little of substance appears anymore as it has inevitably marched from superior site to a parlay into bro-fluencer podcast fare.

Brain Food newsletter is still worth a scan, but I suggest minimizing incoming email by moving Brain Food and any other newsletters to RSS.

Given that FS does not offer a feed (boo!) I recommend using

https://kill-the-newsletter.com.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-26 04:19:11+00:00
How is that supposed to fix anything if I don't trust the hypervisor?

It's funny, GP framed it as "work" vs "play" but for me it's "untrusted software that spies on me that I'm forced to use" vs "software stack that I mostly trust (except the firmware) but BigCorp doesn't approve of".
by Aryannnmm | 2026-01-26 04:19:20+00:00
I’ve been building a small side project called FoundrLink.

The idea came from my own frustration: founders post their startups on multiple platforms, but meaningful investor conversations still happen via cold emails or LinkedIn DMs.

This is a simple global marketplace where founders can list their startup with real metrics (MRR, ARR, revenue, problem, solution, website), and investors can message founders directly inside the platform — no email scraping, no LinkedIn spam.

It’s early and intentionally minimal:
– Global startup listings
– Full startup profiles (traction, revenue, stage)
– In-app 1:1 messaging between investors and founders

I’m not charging right now. I mainly want feedback from founders and investors:
– Is this useful?
– What feels missing?
– What would make you trust listings more?

Link: azion.lovable.app

Happy to answer questions and take criticism.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-26 04:19:20+00:00
I think people commenting need to qualify what they consider a pancake in their posts. Baking powder is definitely new to me, I'm used to { flour, eggs, milk }. With baking powder you'd get a sort of... flabby dough thing? And... pancakes for breakfast? I'm guessing its something US-specific.

And if it is a US thing, I'll just mention the pancake soup here.
by shlant | 2026-01-26 04:20:34+00:00
> I don't really think LLMs have done that much to change the actual situation around ability/outcomes

from my own experiences and many others I have seen on this site and elsewhere, I'm not sure how anyone could conclude this.

> it doesn't seem to me like it's actually leveling up mediocre programmers to "very good" ones

Oh well then if this is your metric then maybe your take is correct, but not relevant? From the top level comment I thought we were talking about the bar being lowered for building something thanks to AI and you don't need to become any better at being a programmer to do so.
by botacode | 2026-01-26 04:20:36+00:00
Yes, this. I got 50k and will never be made whole for my acute or lifelong pain.

I had an ace attorney who told me there were no assets to recover beyond the insurance settlement at the minimum limit provided.

My health insurer at the time later tried to take the settlement from me via predatory collections tactics, and I was only able to keep it due to California state laws that protected me if I wasn't made whole (I wasn't hit there but am a citizen of the state).

Most accidents are caused by folks on the lower end of the SES spectrum so a very large number of victims end up like me.

You also don't hear that much of our stories because the dead and the maimed often tell no tales / it's unpleasant to hear. Many settlements also require silence.
by xtagon | 2026-01-26 04:21:19+00:00
You're talking about if a box is compromised, but to clarify, this is hard coded into the source in the repo, not an end-user's credentials (and it's a `client_id` and `client_secret`, not a token): https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot/blob/7187c3d06765c9d3a7...
by wodenokoto | 2026-01-26 04:21:25+00:00
Hotdog stands and mobile fish mongers selling fresh fish outside supermarkets are all hooked up to main power in Denmark.

I’m surprised that a wagon that sits in the same place every day in New York can’t get a line of power. Surely the food vendors must be paying rent and permits for the spot, so it’s not like anybody is surprised that a power outlet is needed.