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by rvnx | 2026-01-26 23:57:03+00:00
I had prepared a long post for you, but at the end I prefer not to take the risk.

You may believe or not believe that such exist, even about very very recent historical facts, but even if you don't. Keep in mind that US is a very rare animal where freedom of speech is incredibly high compared to other countries.

The best link I can point you to without taking risk: https://www.cima.ned.org/publication/chilling-legislation/
by dmmartins | 2026-01-26 23:58:19+00:00
why? the code output is the important thing, not how people get to it.
you may need help understanding what the code does, or you may question why they didn't do it some other way you think is better, but if the code does what it's supposed to do, doesn't matter if the person dreamed about the solution, copy the answer from a google search or some AI did it.
Ask HN: How do you do multi-agent workflows with web apps?
by ativzzz | 2026-01-26 23:58:20+00:00
I'd like to try out multi agent workflows - sometimes I get a good flow where I can get one agent to be pretty independent for work where I know what needs to be done but needs a lot of code. It spins for a while, then I need to verify in the browser that it actually works and iterate/debug from there. Or I have 3 different approaches I want to try, and I can have the AI just do 1 and see if it works well with the front end and quickly roll back if not.

I'd like to be able to work on another agent while it's spinning, otherwise I just sit there and wait.

The issue is our env doesn't really allow multiple instances of our app to run simultaneously - our front end is heavy and takes a ton of memory so even if we figure out how to run multiple backends, RAM would be an issue.

It seems a lot of multi agent workflows use CLI tools - which makes sense. Anyone find success with web? Maybe some browser automation too?
by danpalmer | 2026-01-26 23:58:24+00:00
> joined the industry circa 2013, and discovered that most of the big tech jobs were essentially glorified plumbers

Most tech jobs are glorified plumbers. I've worked in big tech and in small startups, and most of the code everywhere is unglamorous, boring, just needs to be written.

Satisfaction with the job also depends on what you want out of it. I know people who love building big data pipelines, and people who love building fancy UIs. Those two groups would find the other's job incredibly tedious.
by navigate8310 | 2026-01-26 23:58:25+00:00
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by asveikau | 2026-01-26 23:58:26+00:00
Gang enhancements are mostly a falsehood that cops and prosecutors use to get heavier prison sentences for racial minorities.

Also, you seem to have mixed up prison gangs with street gangs in this latest comment. The former are pretty different from the latter.

The idea that gangs are fighting for turf is very outdated. Even 30 years ago it was exaggerated. But today, after 30 years of falling crime rates, it's especially ridiculous.
by jacobgadek | 2026-01-26 23:58:29+00:00
The browser sandbox is incredible for isolated code execution, but I've found it tricky for "local agent" workflows where you actually want the LLM to use the host CLI or filesystem, just safely.

I built a process supervisor (Vallignus) for that specific "OS-level" use case. It wraps the agent to enforce egress filtering and loop detection so it can use local tools without running wild.

Code is here if you're curious: https://github.com/jacobgadek/vallignus
by simonw | 2026-01-26 23:58:41+00:00
It's one of the tools that are available to ChatGPT - they're not MCP tools because ChatGPT's implementation of tools pre-dates MCP, but they work effectively the same way.

Here's a full list which looks accurate to me: https://chatgpt.com/share/6977ffa0-df14-8006-9647-2b8c90ccbb...
by nosuchthing | 2026-01-26 23:58:49+00:00
Claude is a database with some software, it has no gender. Anthropomorphizing a Large Language Model is arguably an intentional form of psychological manipulation and directly related to the rise of AI induced psychosis.

"Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions" https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=67750

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-to-know-about-ai-psyc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqC4nb7fLpY

> The rapid rise of generative AI systems, particularly conversational chatbots such as ChatGPT and Character.AI, has sparked new concerns regarding their psychological impact on users. While these tools offer unprecedented access to information and companionship, a growing body of evidence suggests they may also induce or exacerbate psychiatric symptoms, particularly in vulnerable individuals. This paper conducts a narrative literature review of peer-reviewed studies, credible media reports, and case analyses to explore emerging mental health concerns associated with AI-human interactions. Three major themes are identified: psychological dependency and attachment formation, crisis incidents and harmful outcomes, and heightened vulnerability among specific populations including adolescents, elderly adults, and individuals with mental illness. Notably, the paper discusses high-profile cases, including the suicide of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III, which highlight the severe consequences of unregulated AI relationships. Findings indicate that users often anthropomorphize AI systems, forming parasocial attachments that can lead to delusional thinking, emotional dysregulation, and social withdrawal. Additionally, preliminary neuroscientific data suggest cognitive impairment and addictive behaviors linked to prolonged AI use. Despite the limitations of available data, primarily anecdotal and early-stage research, the evidence points to a growing public health concern. The paper emphasizes the urgent need for validated diagnostic criteria, clinician training, ethical oversight, and regulatory protections to address the risks posed by increasingly human-like AI systems. Without proactive intervention, society may face a mental health crisis driven by widespread, emotionally charged human-AI relationships.

https://www.mentalhealthjournal.org/articles/minds-in-crisis...
by accounting2026 | 2026-01-26 23:59:00+00:00
> The image is not stored at any point.

Just wanted to add one thing, not as a correction but just because I learned it recently and find it fascinating. PAL televisions (the color TV standard in Europe) actually do store one full horizontal scanline at a time, before any of it is drawn on the screen. This is due to a clever encoding used in this format where the TV actually needs to average two successive scan lines (phase-shifted compared to each other) to draw them. Supposedly this cancels out some forms of distortion. It is quite fascinating this was even possible with analogue technology. The line is stored in a delay line for 64 microseconds.
See e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsk4WWtRx6M
by tzs | 2026-01-26 23:59:40+00:00
It's also hard to be sure if early memories are actually memories from the actual event or are memories your brain constructed from later hearing people describe the event.

There was one experiment where researchers got a man's family at a holiday gathering of the extended family to start talking about funny things that had happened to family members when they were children. In particular the man's parents and siblings told about a funny incident that happened to the man during his 3rd grade school play.

The man had earlier agreed to participate in some upcoming psychological research but did not yet know the details or been told when the research would start.

Later he was contacted and told the research would be starting soon, and asked to come in an answer some background questions. They asked about early non-academic school activities and he told them about his 3rd grade play and the funny incident that happened, including details that his family had not mentioned.

Unbeknownst to the man the research had actually started earlier and the man's family had agreed to help out. That story about the 3rd grade play that his family told was actually given to them by the researchers. None of his elementary school classes had put on any plays.

This sort of thing can be a real problem. People being questioned about crimes (as witnesses or suspects) can get false memories of the crime if the person questioning them is not careful. Or worse, a questioner could intentionally get them to form false memories that they will later recall on the witness stand.
by pnw | 2026-01-27 00:00:19+00:00
It sends alerts to the thief's iPhone or Android (if you have Apple's Tracker Detect Android app) that they are being tracked. It also enables the beeping so the thief can find and remove the Airtag. If the Airtag can't reach the thief's phone, it starts chirping by itself within an 8-24 hour window.
by imadethis | 2026-01-27 00:00:19+00:00
The same reason we give beginner math students addition and subtraction problems, not Fermat’s last theorem?

There has to be a base of knowledge available before the student can even comprehend many/most open research questions, let alone begin to solve them. And if they were understandable to a beginner, then I’d posit the LLM models available today would also be capable of doing meaningful work.
by windexh8er | 2026-01-27 00:01:04+00:00
The class of the Ioniq 5 isn't lighter than it's ICE competitors. It may be lighter than a larger SUV, but the tire changes drastically as the GVWR increases.

An Ioniq 5 can weigh over 1000lbs more than a Honda CR-V, for example (depending on trim & battery).
by brandonb | 2026-01-27 00:01:14+00:00
We trained a foundation model specifically for wearable data:
https://www.empirical.health/blog/wearable-foundation-model-...

The basic idea was to adapt JEPA (Yann LeCun's Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture) to multivariate time series, in order to learn a latent space of human health from purely unlabeled data. Then, we tested the model using supervised fine tuning and evaluation on on a bunch of downstream tasks, such as predicting a diagnosis of hypertension (~87% accuracy). In theory, this model could be also aligned to the latent space of an LLM--similar to how CLIP aligns a vision model to an LLM.

IMO, this shows that accuracy in consumer health will require specialized models alongside standard LLMs.
by tensor | 2026-01-27 00:01:26+00:00
This is great. With more users alterantives will improve. The one place I would LOVE to see more effort at an international standard is in operating systems.

And no just adopting Linux is not enough. It needs to ecompass the full breadth of Windows and MacOS and be as turn-key and good at integration as MacOS. The Linux ecosystem is just too fragmented and still caters too strongly to developers. A full stack international standard, including being able to deploy packaged priorietary software and drivers, would provide potentially real competition to Microsoft and Apple.
by dleslie | 2026-01-27 00:01:29+00:00
I think every American needs to understand this quote:

"We will never fucking trust you again."[0]

It doesn't matter that Trump will eventually no longer be President, and it doesn't matter that there are still members of the American political establishment that support the old way of doing things. Trump does not act alone, and there is rapid attrition of those older bureaucrats who valued the USA's allies. Trump's allies in the GOP will continue to be in power, and perhaps worse, the partisan appointees that have inundated the public service will remain.

It's over. The USA has burned its bridges. There is no more trust to be found.

0: https://www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-we-will-never-fucki...
by ggm | 2026-01-27 00:01:33+00:00
I work with seniors, who use W11. Aspects of change from W10 confused them, but their primary requests are two quite different things

1) please stop making dark patterns preference onedrive backup and let us run a local file backup cleanly without needing to de-install software

2) please make the charming folded complex flower-like shape an alpha channel overlay so we can make it lie over a background colour of our own choosing, not the one(s) you pre-package

one of them is "stop innovating" and the other is "innovate more" -I think the union over them both is "be nicer"
by legitster | 2026-01-27 00:01:50+00:00
Sure, but the difference between one particular formulation of mineral oils and another cannot possibly be that important to the formula.

And even if it were, the recipe was supposedly created by a guy in his shed after only 40 attempts with the technology available 70 years ago. The idea that an R&D team with an entire lab of equipment couldn't recreate or improve the formula if they wanted to in that time seems a bit far fetched.
by Humphrey | 2026-01-27 00:01:55+00:00
Have used pmtiles to self-host a “find your nearest store” map, which only needed to cover Australia. Created two sources: (1) a low-detail worldwide map to fill out the view (about 50 MB), and (2) a medium-to-high detail source for Australia only, up to zoom level 15 (about 900 MB). In this case, there’s no need for up-to-date maps, so we were able to upload these two files to S3 and forget about them. Works great!
by user34283 | 2026-01-27 00:02:17+00:00
It just works.

I can't point to a single thing that Windows 11 does particularly well.

With my Mac mini M2 Pro, there's just too many bugs. It needs an annoying turn-off-turn-on workaround for it to even output to the second monitor. The liquid glass update initially made things even less stable.

Linux I swore off years ago, no distro ever survived either their system updates or my dissatisfaction after a year or so.

So here I am using Windows 11, and thanks to the more powerful hardware, it's pretty fast and smooth, outputting at 240 Hz.

The Xbox app is bad and I don't like the Microsoft store, but other than that I have no major complaints.
by xp84 | 2026-01-27 00:02:29+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

Every official or aligned pundit in the GOP is obliged by Trump's universally-known vanity to make a show of supporting literally every dumbass thing he does, knowing he'll purge them if they even question things. So I will say we can't actually get a read on what they truly think until Trump is gone, preferably by passing away peacefully of old age rather than hanging around live-tweeting his takes on the next administration's actions. Of course this means I'm speculating as well, and I admit that.

I just think that I've never seen anyone approaching the Trump levels of pettiness, vanity, and most of all, what looks to me like pure foolishness. Including even his inner circle. Most of them are single-issue extremists.

I actually agree that re-orienting foreign policy and military toward China is just plain smart. But it's idiotic to do that by picking fights with allies, and anyone less dumb than Trump can accomplish a pivot to China while at minimum not causing hostility across the Atlantic. Ideally the West should instead be firming up our alliance and working together to counter Chinese influence, plus, it'll be better to have NATO intact leading up to a potential hostilities with China when they invade Taiwan. Of course, China is working hard on amplifying and promoting division inside the US to destroy NATO in the hopes that Europe will run to their arms economically and thus be unable to oppose China. Kind of like how much of Europe has/had dependencies on Russian petroleum which complicated their ability to respond to Crimea and the rest of Ukraine invasion.

> leaders of the Democratic Party ... looking more at which of Trump's policies they should adopt

I haven't witnessed any adaptation at all from the DNC. It seems that all their beliefs are still summed up as "We ran a perfect candidate and she ran a perfect campaign. It's the voters who are the problem!"

I can't emphasize enough how collossal the DNC's screwup in 2024 was. We have a system that has been running for hundreds of years where the idea is a primary election gets you two candidates who are at least spitting distance from electable, and then we have to pick one of those two in the general election. It's wildly imperfect in that it entrenches exactly two parties at a time. But the DNC in 2024 took this system and operated it with utter incompetence by just installing the biggest loser of the 2020 primaries as the only alternative to Trump. Many people were so disgusted they stayed home. If they've admitted this, it hasn't been publicly.
by thebiglabowski | 2026-01-27 00:02:55+00:00
Occasionally, I read these types of essays and get awfully depressed. As someone just starting out in the technology field (and I guess white-collar work in general), it feels as if I suddenly have no hope of ever living a fruitful and meaningful life. The means by which I could ever potentially earn a living are slowly destroyed.

I do wonder if others in my age group ever feel the same, if basically everyone under 30 has a general anxiety regarding the future.
Show HN: Open-source tool for finding VPNs in your traffic
by tlop | 2026-01-27 00:03:17+00:00
Howdy! I've built a tool for identifying VPNs and other anonymous traffic along with querying AbuseIPDB during threat hunts and security investigations. ipcheq2 takes a minute or so to setup and works much faster than online SaaS (and free!) for this sort of data. This tool was built for Security Operation Centers, but is useful for checking out where your website's traffic is coming from as well. Happy hacking!
by ljsprague | 2026-01-27 00:03:21+00:00
>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has backed down from a fight to unmask the owners of Instagram and Facebook accounts monitoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in Pennsylvania.

It seems they aren't going after "critics" but people who are posting about their "activity" which I take to mean alerting the public about ICE presence. It's a bit different than mere "criticism."
by phatfish | 2026-01-27 00:03:23+00:00
Ukraine is "the whole of the west", interesting? Even the Russian propaganda can't magic up a serious intervention on Ukraine's behalf by western countries. Europeans have been scared to do anything significant, and Trump cut off any real support from the US.

Russia somehow fucked up the initial invasion involving driving a load of preprepared amour across an open border, and have been shredded by FPV drones ever since.
by brandonb | 2026-01-27 00:03:32+00:00
FWIW, Apple has published validation data showing the Apple Watch's estimate is within 1.2 ml/kg/min of a lab-measured Vo2Max.

Behind the scenes, it's using a pretty cool algorithm that combines deep learning with physiological ODEs:
https://www.empirical.health/blog/how-apple-watch-cardio-fit...
by cal_dent | 2026-01-27 00:03:41+00:00
This is a really interesting observation to me because it touches at something that I think is at risk of getting lost as the world leans further and further towards optimisation as a core goal. Get to the point, no deviations, transmit the information to me and on to the next.

I can objectively/rationally, see the appeal but I feel the world is a lesser place for it. There's a lack of something I can't quite articulate, maybe personality (not quite but something like that), that makes for a less fulfilling.

It's sort like Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, which is one of the finest texts humanity has imo. And the best bit for me is, the turtle crossing the road. Yes, there's some symbolism, but its largely a pointless interlude; in the sense that in another version of the universe, there's an editor out there who would have cut that bit, and it wouldn't have affected the story too significantly. Yet something incredible would have been lost.
by Telaneo | 2026-01-27 00:03:46+00:00
I'm a people and I hate it. Loathe it, even. Ergo, people hate it.

Together with what I hear from people who use Windows 11, it sure looks like a lot of people are unhappy with what's on offer. I doubt Microslop are willing to publish the relevant numbers or make surveys to figure it out, since that's not going to tell them what they want.

Macworld published some estimates regarding Liquid Ass, and they look very red indeed.[1] I doubt Apple are in a hurry to publish anything about that either.

[1] https://www.macworld.com/article/3028428/ios-26-is-a-massive...
by giantrobot | 2026-01-27 00:04:11+00:00
Unfortunately management is the audience for AI fluff stories. Management then fires a huge percentage of their staff on the promise AI will write everything.

It doesn't matter to the people that were fired that the AI isn't as capable as promised. They're still job hunting in a shitty job market. When management does eventually figure out the AI underperforms they'll hire back staff at a fraction of the salary.

So executives and management look great no matter what and everyone else gets screwed.
by NoPicklez | 2026-01-27 00:04:22+00:00
I don't see how they are considered a health fad, they're extremely useful and accurate enough. There are plenty of studies and real world data showing Garmin VO2Max readings being accurate to 1-2 points different to a real world test.

There is this constant debate about how accurately VO2max is measured and its highly dependent on actually doing exercise to determine your VO2max using your watch. But yes if you want a lab/medically precise measure you need to do it a test that measures your actual oxygen uptake.
by sthuck | 2026-01-27 00:04:34+00:00
Very very strictly speaking relying on models in it's essence is not the problem I think. There is enough "meat" there you can build a nice small profitable company.

Those tools are better than vanilla agents by dedicating expensive human time on evaluating and fine tuning models. You can also build various integration, management and reporting features to add value. If you freeze model progress today, or 12 months ago when most of those companies started, it's a viable business I think.

But any gains you make on the first part will be lost to newer models, and the 2nd part is not as valuable when llms allow people to build fairly complicated features quickly.

I don't if worthless but all those companies have very limited time to gather customers and at least make themselves valuable for an acquisition
by netsharc | 2026-01-27 00:04:35+00:00
Cool, almost a "build your own ecosystem" Siri/voice assistant...

The 2 line explanation is sort of vague, but from the code I surmise the Python "app" watches a webpage (configured as https://www.doubao.com/chat/624642496948226) and every time the DOM there is modified, it sees that new prompt, looks for the word "note", and if so, creates an Obsidian note with the transcription of the prompt.

CHAT_URL: str = "https://www.doubao.com/chat/624642496948226"
[...]
await page.goto(CHAT_URL, timeout=120000, wait_until="domcontentloaded")

Alexa has "build your own app", this seems less convoluted.

Google Gemini also records my prompts (under My Activity), I guess with an always-listening Gemini Assistant and a similar Python script that monitors https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini (I'm guessing this page needs a hard reload to update), it's possible to build something similar.

I don't have my phone to respond to "Hey Google", but I have an alarm clock that has that (not Gemini, but Google Assistant), and I often tell it to "Remind me about [...] in x hours". I just tested the phrase "Add a note about...", and it added a note in Google Keep. But with an analog Python script one could trigger many more things.