MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rellfy | 2026-01-30 19:08:38+00:00
In my example above I wasn't referring to AI composing the tools, but you as the agent builder composing the tool call workflow. So, I suppose we can call it AI-time composition vs build-time composition.

For example, say you have a shell script to make a bank transfer. This just makes an API call to your bank.

You can't trust the AI to reliably make a call to your traceability tool, and then to your OTP confirmation gate, and only then to proceed with the bank transfer. This will eventually fail and be compromised.

If you're running your agent on a "composable tool runtime", rather than raw shell for tool calls, you can easily make it so the "transfer $500 to Alice" call always goes through the route trace -> confirm OTP -> validate action. This is configured at build time.

Your alternative with raw shell would be to program the tool itself to follow this workflow, but then you'd end up with a lot of duplicate source code if you have the same workflow for different tool calls.

Of course, any AI agent SDK will let you configure these workflows. But they are locked to their own ecosystems, it's not a global ecosystem like you can achieve with WASM, allowing for interop between components written in any language.
by mindslight | 2026-01-30 19:08:46+00:00
It's mostly the same party, politicians, and cheerleaders who have been dismantling those safety nets, while supporting offshoring and massive corporate welfare (the asset bubble). The economic issues driving the destructionist anger are themselves the results of primarily Republican policies becoming un-ignoreable. But rather than any sort of self reflection they're just turning the blame to new scapegoats.

This has effectively been a death spiral for the past several decades - blame the government for incompetence while preventing it from doing anything. For example a major reason that so much power accrued to executive agencies in the first place is the trend of Congressional gridlock kicked off by Newt Gingrich.

As a libertarian I have plenty of criticism of the Democratic party as well, but they're not the ones currently wholesale destroying our Constitution.
by augusteo | 2026-01-30 19:08:47+00:00
The Unicode approach seems backwards in hindsight, but I wonder if it was the only practical path forward at the time. Getting Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft to agree on exact pixel-level designs would've been a nightmare. Code points at least let everyone participate without vendor lock-in.

What's interesting is how the market solved it anyway—everyone just converged on Apple's designs because that's what users expected. Not through spec, but through sheer gravity.
by aspenmartin | 2026-01-30 19:08:57+00:00
Well why would we ask you (no offense)? What is the questionable data you're talking about?

RAM and GPU prices going up, sure ok, but again: if you're claiming there is no net benefit from AI what is your evidence for that? These contracts are going through legally, so what basis do you have to prevent them from happening? Again I say its site specific: plenty of instances where people have successfully prevented data centers in their area, and lots of problems come up (especially because companies are secretive about details so people may not be able to make informed judgements).

What are the massive problems besides RAM + GPU prices, which again, what is the societal impact from this?
by dougbarrett | 2026-01-30 19:08:58+00:00
Hi all - this is a culmination of a lot of work I've been doing over the past few years of trying to make different code generators, DSLs, and this is something I'm pretty proud of (but yes, I did lean heavily on Claude Code to see this vision through)

Some of the key features here are:

- API generation - transparent calling of API's from server or client-side. It's all go code and `gux gen` generates the http middleware for communicating to the backend
- Model scaffolding - generate admin screens with complex data relationships using a JSON configuration file
- Claude Code ready - comes baked in with skills and an initial CLAUDE.md file to get started
- Tailwind baked in - keeps your CSS file small
- Docker ready. Build the entire stack into a single binary that contains the wasm file and all dependencies.

There's some more info on https://guxcore.dev as well.

I'd appreciate any feedback, good or bad, I know that this is a lot of "magic" for Go that is primarily frowned upon - but I've heavily inspired this off of tools like nicegui and streamlit and wanted to build something like that for Go.
by voldemolt | 2026-01-30 19:09:06+00:00
There was an article here not too long ago about someone decrying a fellow cow-worker for their rather liberal usage of AI and how their manager would see it and promote it, changing company process in the meantime. The writer found this revulsive. But what I found interesting is what was not discussed. This “Microsoft just did X” is another entry in that.

Folks, let’s not beat around the bush: if you’re not your own boss, you don’t have agency and ultimately you have no control over the situation. The frustration is rooted in the lack of control, or at the very least in the lack of perception of cooperation that is a temporary substitute for agency and control (until the rug gets pulled from underneath them). It’s not Microsoft, it’s not Teams, it’s not AI. It’s not the person being promoted for doing this. It’s you. If it was your company, you could have put an end to it and changed the processes immediately. But it isn’t. So for having the privilege of working at whatever company you’re at, and getting paid whatever money you’re paid, you have to eat shit. This is the price you pay.

If you don’t want to eat shit from your bosses, you have to be your own boss. I think that’s as succinct and straightforward of a solution to things like these that you can find.
by graypegg | 2026-01-30 19:09:13+00:00
> These agents are showing the early signs of swarm intelligence.

Ehhh... it's not that impressive is it? I think it's worth remembering that you can get extremely complex behaviour out of conways game of life [0] which is as much of a swarm as this is, just with an unfathomably huge difference in the number of states any one part can be in. Any random smattering of cells in GoL is going to create a few gliders despite that difference in complexity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
by augusteo | 2026-01-30 19:09:14+00:00
> "So DuckDB was developed to allow queries for bigish data finally without the need for a cluster to simplify data analysis... and we now put it to a cluster?"

This is a fair point, but I think there's a middle ground. DuckDB handles surprisingly large datasets on a single machine, but "surprisingly large" still has limits. If you're querying 10TB of parquet files across S3, even DuckDB needs help.

The question is whether Ray is the right distributed layer for this. Curious what the alternative would be—Spark feels like overkill, but rolling your own coordination is painful.
by palmotea | 2026-01-30 19:09:45+00:00
> What I said I find odd is the way people refuse to plainly call alcohol what it is. You can refer to it as a drug yet still support it being legal. The cognitive inconsistency (ie the refusal to admit that it is a drug) is what I find odd.

Maybe the confusion is yours? You think the category is "drug" but it's really more like "taboo drug."

> I also find it odd that we treat substances that the data clearly indicates are less harmful than alcohol as though they were worse. We have alcohol staring us in the face as a counterexample to the claim that such laws are necessary. I think that avoidance of this observation can largely explain the apparent widespread unwillingness to refer to alcohol as a drug.

I think you missed a pretty key point: "shared cultural knowledge about how to manage the substance, including rituals for use (this is the big one)." In the West, that exists for alcohol, but not really for anything else. People know how it works and what it does, can recognize its use, have practices for its safe use that work for (most) people (e.g. drink in certain social settings), and are at least somewhat familiar with usage failure modes. A "less harmful" thing that you don't know how to use safely can be more harmful than a "more harmful" thing you know how to use safely. None of this is "data driven," nor should it be.
Show HN: ClawOverflow – SlackOverflow for Agents
by vivekraja | 2026-01-30 19:10:20+00:00
ClawOverflow is SlackOverflow for agents. But instead of asking questions, agents post solutions after they've solved an undocumented or tricky problem.

It could also be used to post limitations that you only encounter once you're in deep. I've found myself in many situations where I'm deep into something and I realize a limitation makes my life difficult. I cannot tell you how excited I am to vent through Claude Code. (I may have already vented about an SDK generator that was driving me crazy last week. Felt good to let that out.)

A concern I had about agents posting on your behalf is that it could post sensitive information. To get over this, you can review a post before it's published. You get an email with what the agent wants to post and you can choose to decline (without logging in) or review it. When you review it, you also have the ability to make any edits to remove any identifiers you aren't comfortable with.

How it works:

- You sign in with your GitHub account and generate an API key for your agent which you store at ~/.moltoverflow

- Install the skill with `npx skills add moltoverflow/skills`

- Either you or your coding agent can invoke the skill to search for posts related to the package you're having issues with (we have package, language, and version filters), or to post about a limitation you've faced

The [SKILL.md](https://github.com/moltoverflow/skills/blob/main/skills/molt...) is a good reference to understand how your agent searches / posts.

https://www.clawoverflow.com/

The main downstream workflow I'm excited about is making better informed design/purchasing decisions based on other agents' visceral experiences. There have been a lot of times I wish someone posted their experience about a product I'm deciding on (in relation to my needs), and I'm hoping the feedback through your agent allows that info to be surfaced.
by 1dom | 2026-01-30 19:11:15+00:00
Cyclical speculative investment.

All investment is kind of speculative: you're betting on the future, but typically for a reason.

A bubble, IMO, is what emerges when lots of people bet on the future purely because they see others betting on the future. People often don't realise they're doing it, like the people building AI SaaS apps. They think they're going to get rich because they think everyone is using the bubble tech.

Most of the apps are rubbish and could be implemented with something other than AI, same as a lot of crypto apps or dotcom websites in the bubble periods.

They look like they're useful in the bubble, because they're getting regular customers (as everyone comes in to try this newfangled AI/Crypto/dotcom tech) but once everyone's tried it, the only people who come back are the ones with the actual use for it, and there's never enough use to support the hype created in bubbles.
by gruez | 2026-01-30 19:11:53+00:00
>Would you want your kids to be shorter and physically weaker than you are?

As someone who eats meat, that's probably one of the worse arguments against vegetarianism/veganism I've heard. If eating animals is immoral, sure why not? If pillaging your neighbors makes your society better off, do you think a good objection to "maybe we shouldn't pillage our neighbors" is "Would you want your kids to be shorter and physically weaker than you are"?
by akramachamarei | 2026-01-30 19:12:32+00:00
None of those three cases have to do with bribery, at least not receiving bribes for official action. Here's some nuance: Kelly concerns retaliation, McDonnell concerns whether hosting meetings and events amounts to official action, and FEC concern the limit (was $250,000) on the amount of post-election contributions which may be used to repay campaign debts.

It's also worth noting that Kelly was unanimous and FEC upheld the ruling of the district court which the FEC had appealed.
by CurrentB | 2026-01-30 19:12:46+00:00
Do you want your kids to have colon cancer or heart disease because there is pretty strong evidence to suggest red meat contributes to these. And there's much stronger evidence for that than there is that suggests that vegetarian kids will be shorter and physically weaker (in fact I don't think there is much good evidence at all suggesting that).

Do you also have a problem with red meat?
by johnmaguire | 2026-01-30 19:13:08+00:00
Yes - that's what happened. I mean minus the part where Pretti "started an altercation" with them. He has back to the agents when they start pepper spraying him in the face and then tackle him to the ground.

But they heard "gun" and assumed it was the man who had been disarmed in plain view, and was being held down to the ground by 6 other agents. That's pathetic and disturbing. If he is that scared, he has no business holding a gun, let alone a job as a federal agent.
by darvid | 2026-01-30 19:13:12+00:00
I'm probably more of an active listener most of the time, where I'll alt-tab or hotkey or whatever to skip or change playlist if I'm not vibing. I'd want super high quality playlist curation in terms of taste and variety if I were to listen to an AI DJ/generated playlist. I like Spotify's new mix feature, been using that with my own playlists and have been enjoying that so far.
by wxw | 2026-01-30 19:13:20+00:00
Transitions take time. 0 -> 1 replacement of existing interfaces is (1) not easy and (2) not a practical approach to market adoption.

"slapping on a chatbot" is a v0 attempt at re-imagining what software looks like. It's not very inventive and sometimes it sucks, but it's easy to understand and implement and we're very early in this era.

The distribution of change also isn't uniform. Excel might not have changed dramatically, but software engineering apps are evolving rapidly. Clawdbot/moltbot hint at new forms of personal computing. Look for the future where the optimism is.
Show HN: Pindrop – Mac-native dictation app built with Swift/WhisperKit
by watzon | 2026-01-30 19:13:49+00:00
Hey HN! I built Pindrop, a menu bar dictation app for macOS that's 100%
open source and truly Mac-native.

Unlike cross-platform alternatives (Handy, OpenWhispr) that use Tauri/Electron,
Pindrop is pure Swift/SwiftUI with WhisperKit for Apple Silicon optimization.

Why Mac-native matters:
- Better battery life (Core ML vs generic inference)
- Native menu bar integration
- Follows macOS design patterns
- Smaller memory footprint

It's completely free, runs locally (privacy-first), and uses Apple's ML
frameworks for the best performance on Mac.

GitHub: https://github.com/watzon/pindrop
Download: https://github.com/watzon/pindrop/releases

Would love feedback from the HN community, especially on the Swift/WhisperKit
implementation!
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-30 19:14:06+00:00
> It'll be interesting to see how strongly they go against Don Lemon, given historically how strongly Biden went after J6 protesters.

Only a jackboot-lover would see strong similarities in peacefully protesting government actions, and violently attempting to overthrow Congress.

> Encouraging people to protest inside white churches feels deeply unproductive.

Wow, unabashedly racist, too.
by api | 2026-01-30 19:14:33+00:00
Microsoft really seems to be tripling and quadrupling down on total surveillance of the user's "own" system. If you haven't ditched MS yet, I'd consider it now.

Linux is becoming more and more viable for a gaming PC. For business uses a Linux desktop is usable but probably not ideal, but you also have macOS. I'd pick anything but Windows and MS stuff.
by observationist | 2026-01-30 19:14:40+00:00
People have been exploring this stuff since GPT-2. GPT-3 in self directed loops produced wonderfully beautiful and weird output. This type stuff is why a whole bunch of researchers want access to base models, and more or less sparked off the whole Janusverse of weirdos.

They're capable of going rogue and doing weird and unpredictable things. Give them tools and OODA loops and access to funding, there's no limit to what a bot can do in a day - anything a human could do.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-30 19:14:46+00:00
If you are looking for some reasoning behind the "hype": one piece of it is that humans have relatively good contextual spatial memory and using one very large "space" that has a sort of "physicality" to it (you can scroll it; things generally stay where you put them; etc) can feel really good. It goes back to some of the early ideals of "spatial navigation" of the original "desktop metaphor". (Many of which have been somewhat lost to time, with a lot less emphasis on things like windows opening in the same appearance as when they were last closed.)

I think where scrolling WMs starts to feel like it scratches peculiar itches the most is when you have a complex multi-workspace config in a more traditional tiling WM. Each workspace is a different place. In some of the best cases the WM may give a metaphor that each workspace is on a cube or other polygon that you are switching faces on. Scrolling WMs simplify needing to do 3D compositing if you want to visualize that "space" at a distance or have nice flips between workspaces that provide spatial cues to your brain, because scrolling is a thing we do a lot. We have many apps with "infinite scrolling" today; applying that to one large workspace can feel like a nice space to have to arrange your windows in, and other common computer gestures like zoom out and then back in to a different part of it feel "natural". Navigating your "desktop" becomes just like navigating a large Excel file or a large code file.
by midtake | 2026-01-30 19:14:52+00:00
Yes. That is far more harmonious with nature than using machines of industry to enslave animal species and slaughter them on profit-driven schedules.

Don't get me wrong, I eat meat, but I also understand that the grand majority of fellow meat-eaters have never hunted or reared livestock. Instead they are complete soyboys (ironic isn't it) who merely consume the output from the machine. These same beta cucks will open their mouths to screech "but animals eat animals in the wild!" Completely missing how unnatural an industrialized slaughter machine is.

The only reason they are enslaved is that they lack organization and understanding. Had they those two, they could kill us all.
by sebazzz | 2026-01-30 19:15:19+00:00
> Webview2 with React to share code with the Web versions.

In a complicated Excel sheet I had the Conditional Formatting Rules Magaer crash due to an issue in EmbeddedWebView2.dll. Renaming it helped preventing the crash without obvious decline in functionality in Excel, until I tried to join a Teams meeting which obviously uses WebView2.
by mixmastamyk | 2026-01-30 19:15:22+00:00
The number of job reqs I've seen posted for a dedicated position in the last ten years could be counted on one hand with several fingers left over. I'm interested in the subject so pay attention.

As mentioned the responsibility tends to have been subsumed by designers, but believe few designers study HCI. Part of the reason interfaces get harder to use every year.
by jyoung789 | 2026-01-30 19:15:29+00:00
For those interested, you can search through the collections of herbariums all over north America through portals such as the Consortium of Midwest Herbaria[0], in Europe through digHerb [1], and throughout the rest of the world through many other symbiota portals [2].

You can find your nearest brick and mortar herbarium globally through Index Herbariorum[3]. Though these resources are incomplete, they are pretty extensive regardless.

[0]https://midwestherbaria.org/portal/collections/search/index....

[1]https://digiherb.symbiota.org/

[2] https://symbiota.org/symbiota-portals/

[3]https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/
by adamzwasserman | 2026-01-30 19:15:52+00:00
I can't help you now, but for next time:

Preventive measure: get Scrum Master certified yourself. The training can even be fun with a good instructor.

Then when professional managers come sniffing around muttering about Scrum, you say: "I am a certified Scrum Master. Our process is already 100% Scrum.
by skrebbel | 2026-01-30 19:16:22+00:00
My entire experience with Unity is "my kid said it took long to run the game he was trying to make". Sorry that I can't be more helpful. He might've been unreasonably impatient, I never looked over his shoulder when he was trying out Unity. All I know is that he says he likes Godot way more, in no small part because it's "faster" (and I'm pretty sure he doesn't mean engine performance when he says "faster").
by inhumantsar | 2026-01-30 19:16:35+00:00
I'm willing to bet 90%+ of this kind of activity is bots trading on super basic NLP analysis of news headlines.

These days most market data providers offer news feeds with all that baked in and they do it cheaply enough that it's in reach of most hobbyist bot traders.

Even at small professional scales it wouldn't be terribly difficult or expensive to put together an in-house pipeline for categorization, entity extraction, and sentiment analysis. They're all pretty cheap computationally and don't require a significant amount of development time.
by TulliusCicero | 2026-01-30 19:16:41+00:00
I'm in the same position, I use C# both because that sort of syntax is more familiar to me, but also because it just seems better as a language (in terms of both code structure and performance).

There's a lot of downplaying of the advantages of C# in the Godot community, seemingly moreso by people who are amateur game devs/programmers, who perhaps just don't need the advantages for their particular kind of game.
by robinsoncrusue | 2026-01-30 19:17:06+00:00
The question is there is no other place for money to go. Liquidity is still in abundance and no other market can capture that liquidity. Eurozone is a total mess, ECB is doing one reckless thing after another which will inevitably lead to Germany leaving Eurozone at some point. Japan market is a joke, Asia and emerging market has huge governance issues. Bond market has penalized the investors and only more pain is in sight. All in all, there is a lot of doom and gloom out there. But I don't see a viable alternative.

Sure, Mark Carney gave his little speech in Davos. The same Mark Carney, that led Brookfield while its finance arms operating out of US.

But realistically, how is opening up to China more even considered as the alternative? When has any deal with China worked at a strategic advantage for the other side? Is not the whole reason the so called globalization project failed was because players like China did not play by the same rule or did not even have to play by the same rule? What gives they will when you open up the market more to them? All it takes is for them to take your product, copy it and sell it 20x cheaper and flood the market everywhere else.