MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-25 00:29:38+00:00
Personally I'm careful about multitasking. If you had two agents working on things in parallel you are going to have more problems stomping on each other's work even if they are working in two different checkouts of the same code. Also in terms of your effort supervising them if you are going back from one to the other you're more likely to get confused.

I wouldn't say "never multitask" but I think you should think carefully about a portfolio of things you can work on that don't conflict with each other.

One possibility to to race analysis of situations with an LLM. For instance punch in a prompt asking if it can figure out the cause of a bug and go off and try figuring it out yourself in the debugger. Or read or write documentation when it is off on a mission.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-25 00:30:18+00:00
The potential here with High-Bandwidth Flash is super cool. Effectively trying to go from 8 or a dozen flash channels to having a hundred or hundreds of channels would be amazing:

> The KAIST professor discussed an HBF unit having a capacity of 512 GB and a 1.638 TBps bandwidth.

One weird thing about this would be that it's still NAND flash and NAND flash still has limited read/write cycles, often measured in the thousands (Drive-Writes-a-Day across 5 years). If you can load a model & just keep querying it, that's not a problem. Maybe it's small enough to not be so bad, but my gut is that writing context here too might present difficulty.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-25 00:30:36+00:00
This is one of the things where the nature of the modern United States makes it hard. I routinely go around telling people that the current regime in Washington is illegitimate, nobody should obey them or listen to their lies, and that I look forward to the day they're ripped from their thrones and tossed in prison. In most places and times saying that would make me a revolutionary, but in the US it's not even arguably a crime.
by junto | 2026-01-25 00:31:38+00:00
Microsoft originally bought CitusData and rebadged it as Azure CosmosDb for Postgres Cluster. Microsoft have been recommending partners to now avoid that product. It does not and will not support Entra federated workload identities (passwordless).

The replacement will be Azure Database for Postgres with Elastic Clusters. I think it is still in preview.

Again it’s Citus based, but without the CosmosDb badge and it will support federated workload identities.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/pos...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/postgresql/elastic-c...
by alephnerd | 2026-01-25 00:31:39+00:00
It's comments like this that make those of us who are of immigrant origins or the children of immigrants indifferent to losses even if we are impacted as well.

Employers abusing the H1B process like WITCH is a known problem and everyone wants it resolved, but going back and implicitly implying that immigrants are subpar pisses people off.

If a cabinet member trashes a semiconductor launch [0] that would have made 9k jobs in GOP-leaning upstate NY, the CEO of that company (who also invented the entire field of flash memory) may as well hedge and shift abroad [1] helping other countries move up the value chain [2]. And even the Trump admin is giving a helping hand [3].

If you can't respect our community, why shouldn't we geopolitically hedge as well?

[0] - https://www.syracuse.com/micron/2026/01/trump-cabinet-member...

[1] - https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260123VL207/micron-commerc...

[2] - https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZAICbxB0kT0

[3] - https://youtube.com/watch?v=uDtm-k6JvI8
by ActorNightly | 2026-01-25 00:32:10+00:00
Waymo basically prioritizes accuracy of surroundings. This is why they started to operate only in certain areas after mappings have been completed. Then within those surroundings they do a mix of things including ML reinforcement learning for behavior as well as optimizations in terms of route planning.

Tesla on the other hand basically went on Musk infinite wisdom and said "humans only need eyes to drive, so we are going to do cameras only". Their methodology is essentially end to end - i.e take a sequence of frames, and train a model to predict where the car is going to go based on human driving data.

Comma Ai basically followed Tesla, except they did so with a much more hacked together approach. Their final product is good, but there is a reason Waymo is winning.

Geohot, holding the title for being #1 simp for Musk, of course subscribed to that philosophy.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-25 00:32:13+00:00
>If you walk down the streets of Paris or Berlin does it look like it’s wartime,

Like what exactly would you want them to do? Run around screaming because there's a war 2000 km away from them?

No, people just go on with their lives, doing their jobs, taking care of family and friends, paying their taxes, so that specialized workers in the ministry of defence can take care of the war stuff for them. That's how modern society works.

It's even similar in Kiev, when you walk down the streets you see people living their lives. Gyms, bars, cafes, are full. People don't stop living and enjoying their daily lives just because there's a war somewhere else.
Show HN: AI agent that searches the Cursor forum
by jellyotsiro | 2026-01-25 00:32:17+00:00
I built an AI agent that searches the entire Cursor community forum (http://forum.cursor.com/) and answers questions grounded in real forum discussions.

The problem: Cursor's forum has tons of valuable content - feature discussions, troubleshooting threads, tips from power users - but it's hard to search. Traditional forum search is keyword-based and misses a lot of context.

The solution: I indexed the entire forum using Nia (a knowledge indexing service) and connected it to an AI agent with multiple search tools:

- Semantic search - finds relevant posts even when wording differs
- Pattern search (grep) - exact matching for error messages, usernames, specific terms
- Full thread reading - AI can dive deep into specific discussions
- Web search fallback - for questions the forum doesn't cover

GitHub: https://github.com/nozomio-labs/nia-cursor-forum-search

Would love feedback on the approach!
by zahirbmirza | 2026-01-25 00:32:45+00:00
From their page

"Built for better conversations
Reach people with their email, not their phone number. Designed for focused, meaningful exchanges between managers, builders, and collaborators."

Is it using email protocols to send messages or is it using email addresses as a proxy for usernames?

The claim of a drive for better conversations is not really that accurate because better conversations rely on a more universally used app/system than presently exists. Ie, a replacement that would have to grow internationally extraordinarily quickly.

Apple figured that out... iMessage was basically a cheat code to a vast userbase almost instantly. What Apple didn't figure, however, was that iMessage's green/blue thingy that went on for so long didn't really give android/sms users fomo, but really, it just created an unneeded communication barrier. Such barriers are the exact opposite of what is needed for a communication platform to be excellent. Unfortunately, decisions counter to what may be perceived as income generating are difficult to reverse.

These sorts of apps may not be revolutionary enough I fear. I would love to adopt something like this, but Meta continue to make too many billions to let their monopoly on human communication management to be taken away that easily.
by akiselev | 2026-01-25 00:32:51+00:00
(Shamless plug) I've been using my debugger-cli [1] to enable agents to debug code using debuggers that support the Debug Adaptor Protocol. It looks like cuda-gdb supports DAP so I'd love to add support. I just need help from someone who can test it adequately.

[1] https://github.com/akiselev/debugger-cli
Show HN: Reel Rogue – A browser roguelike (idler) about manipulating the odds
by qq-niklas | 2026-01-25 00:33:06+00:00
About a month ago, I shared the Day 1 prototype of this project (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448670). It has since evolved into a somewhat more polished "Slot-Machine Deckbuilder."

I also recently moved the project from qq-pwn.com to alt-qq.com. I did this mid-development specifically to see if I could migrate a live player base and session states without losing people.

The Design Challenge:
The core of the game is a "One-Armed Bandit" dungeon crawler. The challenge is balancing the "house always wins" nature of slots with the player agency required for a good roguelike.

What I’d love your feedback on:
The First 30 Seconds: Is it immediately obvious how to play? I’ve tried to keep the onboarding "invisible," but I worry the manipulation mechanics might be buried.

Skill vs. Luck: Does the game feel like a mindless gamble, or do you feel like you have agency over the outcome?

The "Cursed Seed" UX: I’ve added a way to share specific runs via a URL. Does the transition from "clicking a friend's link" to "playing the game" feel seamless?

Mobile/PWA Performance: It’s built to be a PWA. Does it feel like a "web page" or does it feel like a native app on your device?

I'm especially interested when and where exactly did you feel like quitting?

Technology:
The project is built with React and Vite, hosted on a Cloudflare edge stack. The code is 100% augmented by AI, which allowed me to focus more on the architecture of the project and the design of the mechanics rather than implementation syntax.

Reel Rogue: The Bandit's Tale is playable here: https://alt-qq.com
by Alasater | 2026-01-25 00:35:22+00:00
First - they never want to use someone else software framework again (an early SW architect decided that would accelerate things but we ended up re-writing almost all of it) and it was all C++ on the satellite. We ran linux with preempt_rt.

We wrote everything from low level drivers to the top level application and the corresponding ground software for commanding and planning as well. Going forward, we're writing everything top to bottom, just to simplify and have total ownership since we're basically there already.

For testing we hit it at multiple levels: unit test, hardware in the loop, a custom "flight software in test" we called "FIT" which executed a few different simulated mission scenarios, and we tried to hit as many fault cases as we could too. It was pretty stressful for the team tbh but they were super stoked to see how well it worked on orbit.

A big one for us in a super high resolution mission like this is the timing determinism (low latency/low jitter) of the guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) thread. Basically it needs execute on time, every cycle, for us to achieve the mission. Getting enough timing instrumentation was tough with the framework we had selected and we eventually got there, but making sure the "hot loop" didn't miss deadlines was more a function of working with that framework than any limitation of linux operating well enough in a RTOS fashion for us.
by keeda | 2026-01-25 00:35:51+00:00
This is not a conspiracy theory, even though what I'm about to say will sound like it. If you can talk to someone from the exec class in confidence (which unfortunately may require a close personal relationship or high trust), they'll tell you there was a clear -- if somewhat tacit -- understanding that the job market had gotten too hot during Covid and something "had to be done" about it after ZIRP ended.

Elon's layoffs at Twitter were basically the signal for the rest of the industry that it's time to reverse the trend.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-25 00:38:19+00:00
Look, I'm just telling you the reality of what's happening where I live. Obviously, not everything can be outsourced 1:1 with massive savings and get same quality, but businesses don't care and more and more work is offshored now, whether you want it or not, especially in times of economic downturn when labor cost becomes more pressing and execs can show savings so they're taking their chances whether it pays off in the future or not.

Nobody would risk disrupting smooth running operations by introducing offshoring to save a few pennies, when free money was raining from the sky, but now that money is getting tighter and covid opened the doors to accepting more work done remotely and less face to face collaboration, offshoring is now a lot less risky and off-putting than in the past.

Plus, unlike the Indian offshoring scare of ~20 years ago, besides the remote work thing, offshore labor is a lot more skilled at IT task now. There isn't that massive gap anymore, where only Americans or Germans new how to write SW, and the eastern world only knew to make sneakers and do call support. Thanks to STEM universities, access to good education sources, FOSS and self learning, people outside the west can code just as good but at a lower cost when you keep the same hiring bar and don't just pay some offshore middleman consultancy for the cheapest labor.

And the proof is in the pudding as most big tech companies have large pools of workers in India at this point. You can say all you want, that offshoring isn't gonna work because of quality or culture or whatever, but it sure seems like it is working for them, and I don't think this genie is going back in the bottle.
by Morromist | 2026-01-25 00:38:51+00:00
I agree. If it wasn't written with an AI I would be shocked. Its got the classic "VLEO isn’t just a better orbit for imaging — it’s the next productive orbital layer." mdash and all. That style sends strong signals of lazyness, scammyness and unprofessionalism.

Why would I take a company seriously when they can't be bothered to write their own press statements and blog posts?
by mogili1 | 2026-01-25 00:40:31+00:00
Not the OP, but this is how I manage my coding agent loops:

I built a drag and drop UI tool that sets up a sequence of agent steps (Claude code or codex) and have created different workflows based on the task. I'll kick them off and monitor.

Here's the tool I built for myself for this: https://github.com/smogili1/circuit
by lubujackson | 2026-01-25 00:40:48+00:00
I understand the hand-wringing in the humanities, but even if LLMs can output wonderful stories they can't really ever get past pulp fiction levels.

Question: why do people write and buy new books? There are millenia of amazing works, but people prefer to read new things. Some gems persist, but even my kids read entirely different YA novels then I did as a kid.

Art is communication. A big part of why we like new art is because it reflects the culture and mores of the now. LLMs can only give you the most like next token prediction - it is antithetical to what we want when we interact with art.

Not to say it can't spit out reasonable plots for shows or be a valuable aid to writers, but I think it will continue to serve best as an aid to humans, even more so than in coding. Maybe artists will turn into LLM wranglers like software engineers are starting to, but a human-in-the-loop is going to remain valuable.
by weitendorf | 2026-01-25 00:40:50+00:00
I have found mostly the opposite but partly the same. With the right tooling LLMs are IMO much better in microservice architectures. If you're regularly needing to do multi-repo PRs or share code between repos as they work, to me that is a sign that you weren't really "doing microservices" before adding LLMs to your project, because there should be some kind of API surface that you can share with LLMs in other repos, and cross-service changes should generally probably not be done by the same agent

Even if the same dev is driving the work, it's like having a junior engineer do a cross-service staggered release and letting them skip the well-defined existing API surfaces. The entire point of microservices is that you are making that hard/introducing friction to that stuff on purpose so things can be released and developed separately. IMO it has an easy solution too, just direct one agent per repo/service the way you would if you really did need to make that kind of change anyway and wanted to do it through junior developers.

> hey push the integration work onto another team so that developers can make it Not Their Problem

I mean yes and no, this is oftentimes completely intended from the perspective of the people making the decision to do microservices. It's a way to constrain the way people develop and coordinate with each other precisely because you don't want all 50 of your developers running amok on the entire codebase (especially when they don't know how or why that code was structured some way originally, and they aren't very skilled or conscientious in integrating things maintainably or testing existing behavior).

> so that developers can make it Not Their Problem

IMO this is partially orthogonal to the problem. Microservices doesn't necessarily mean you can't modify another team's code. IMO that is a generally pretty counter productive mindset for engineering teams where codebase is jealously guarded like that. It just means you might need to send another team a PR or coordinate with them first rather than making the change unilaterally. Or maybe you just want to release the things separately; lately I find myself wanting that more and more because past a certain size agents just turn repos into balls of mud or start re implementing things.
by plqbfbv | 2026-01-25 00:41:12+00:00
> testing the CI/CD script on gitlab. It doesn't exist, and it's hell.

Did you try the pipeline editor? It's at <project_url>/-/ci/editor

You can see how GitLab expands the code, validate it (syntax), validate it against a branch (i.e. what happens when I get a push on main), and visualize the full YAML spec of what you have in the editor.

I have that problem with GitHub at the moment because we're switching from self-hosted GL to GH due to company policies, and for me it's much less readable (but I also know I've been playing with it ~1 month so far instead of the 7+ years I spent on GitLab, so need to learn tools etc).
by xienze | 2026-01-25 00:41:22+00:00
They have been offshoring for decades. We go in cycles of execs asking “why the hell are we paying these entitled Americans so much when Indian will do just as good for peanuts?”, then offshoring, then realizing it doesn’t work that well. The next guy comes in and the cycle repeats.

However, the second an IT union gets established they’re just going to say the hell with it, India ain’t so bad.
by eduardogarza | 2026-01-25 00:42:13+00:00
Why do you sound so petty? Do you understand every single layer of the stack below you? Do you understand how your code gets translated down to C, assembly, machine code? How all that becomes electrical signals on a PCB? How the material properties work at the physical level and how its manufactured? Because if you don't, aren't you, myself and basically everyone relying on the 'magic' words of others?

If you're trying to accomplish X, how much does all this matter directly related to X? There's always infinite number of things to learn about and depth in every dimension. We explore depth where we are each personally curious or where its necessary.

I liked the post. It was short and concise and presents a unique way to view this new coding paradigm.

"If I have seen further than others, it is only because I was standing on the shoulders of giants,"
Isaac Newton
by ninkendo | 2026-01-25 00:42:52+00:00
The whole thread here started with “why do we continue to ignore this”, to which I replied “who’s ignoring this”, and the answer is “anyone who’s flagging this post.”

The conversation in this particular thread has gone off the rails, in large part because I am very angry about what’s happening, and I tend to get heated in replies. So I apologize for letting my anger get the best of me in this particular instance.

My only point was to say “I flagged this, but not because I’m ignoring it.”

I flagged it because I truly believe to my core that anonymous online discussion about emotional political topics is causing this country’s descent into fascism. Whipping people into a frenzy against one another, causes hatred to amplify past where it would be if it were just about the story itself. The discussions are where people go to out-signal each other, even if nobody’s there to argue the other point. Then if someone does end up saying something like “hmm, looks like the protester was actually carrying a gun” (or something equally not-wrong but clearly not the expected expression of ICE-hatred we all expect), they’re now the target of everyone’s anger. All that brewing hatred is now pointed at that one person, because they’re the closest thing on the site to someone who is actually pro-ICE. Then we have people like you casually saying things about this site being full of tech bros who are just fine with executions… I just feel like we need to tone everything way down. We need to be calm, to be honest. I know it’s hard. I don’t really know what else to say… it’s hard to formulate thoughts clearly in times like these.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-25 00:43:53+00:00
Ok, good luck with that, that's a tough environment for such sensitive stuff. Unfortunately your application seems to be so advanced that you can't get away from having high speed and super integrated stuff on board there otherwise you'd be more intrinsically safe against such issues. The fact that it worked well initially and then degraded until it failed is a strong indicator of the kind of process that caused the failure but unfortunately that still leaves a whole slew of options on the table.

Much good luck with this, those are hard problems to solve but you guys got so much right on the first try that you're probably ahead on your schedule now so you may have the time and the budget to get this right. I've visited the ESA open day a while ago and have seen the guts of what goes into satellite manufacture (not the most recent stuff, just what they had on display) and what struck me is that the degree of rigor that goes into designing stuff that is in the most literal sense out of reach for fixes or diagnostics requires simulating the environment the device will operate in to the best of their ability. This results in autoclaves that you can walk around in and various radiation sources to be able to test how the devices respond to space conditions.

Your manufacturer/supplier will probably come away from this effort with as much knowledge and improvement items as you do. Given the short time to failure I'm not so sure redundancy alone would have been a sufficient fix, but that's obviously bystander perspective, you know far more than I do. But it certainly is an amazing and interesting project.
by pastage | 2026-01-25 00:44:02+00:00
Fascism is a slippery slope, maybe a political maelstorm everyone can be made to love it. The "first they came" poem is also a reminder that this are easier to see in hindsight. I think the strange turn the US took on human rights after 9/11, the media started to not only paint other groups as bad guys that you should overcome with force. The idea that any means necessary was allowed for a small win by torture, hacking or control. This idea that your power can be used against anyone just with a small connection to one bad person

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
by junto | 2026-01-25 00:44:16+00:00
At a guess CosmosDb NoSql was a good choice for dumping user contexts sharded rather than use Postgres schema or JSONB. Citus is the obvious choice for this with Postgres but Azure had poor support until recently 2024 they have preview Azure Database for Postgres with Elastic Clusters, which is basically Azure Database for Postgres Flexible Server with Citus extension installed. In the end they aren’t paying Microsoft what usual customer are, so even though CosmosDb NoSql is expensive (RU based) and the SDK is horrible, it probably served as a good stopgap until elastic clusters is fully out of preview. That’s my guess anyway.