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by chasil | 2026-01-29 13:13:15+00:00
Every time I have a yearly physical, my GP will ask if I have feelings of depression.

I know this road leads to SSRIs at the very least, so I always reply in the negative.

The parent comment hints to me that this might be a mistake. I do not want to become accustomed to an antidepressant, so perhaps my course of action was correct.

I was measured low on Vitamin D, which I've hopefully corrected, and I haven't always eaten fish regularly. Perhaps I should pay more attention to that.
by mrexcess | 2026-01-29 13:13:17+00:00
>Self-driving isn't a sensor problem. It always was, is, and always will be an AI problem.

AI + cameras have relevant limitations that LIDAR augmented suites don't. You can paint a photorealistic roadway onto a brick wall and AI + cameras will try to drive right through it, dubbed the "Wile E. Coyote" problem.
by gadflyinyoureye | 2026-01-29 13:14:19+00:00
If it is AGI and you have access to it, pivot from code now. You will make millions or billions on pharmaceutical products in as little as one month. Start making cures for non small cell cancers; those are untapped markets. Reverse aging. Even at $1mill a treatment over ten treatments, you would be sought after. Go! Get off HN! Rule the world.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-01-29 13:14:53+00:00
> What if, instead of having to reach out to the big players, the economics of having a software developer or 2 on staff make it such that you could build custom-tailored, bespoke software to work "with" your company and not against?

The behemoths exist especially, but not exclusively, in that space because regulations (correctly) are steep. In the case of hospital systems you're talking both the management and protection of both employee and patient data. That's not to say of course that the behemoth's are particularly good at that, it's merely that if the hospital rolls it's own solution, as you suggest, they then take on the liability should that system go wrong. On the other side, if Epic has a data breach, every hospital shrugs it's shoulders. It isn't their problem. And, even more fundamentally, if Epic as a product sucks ass... well. The employees didn't choose it, neither did the patients, leadership did.

You see these relationships (or lack thereof) all over the place in our modern world, where the people doing the work with these absurdly terrible tools are not given any decision-making power with regard to which tools to use. Hell, at my workplace, we actually have some in that leadership asks if we're happy with our various HR softwares and things, but fundamentally, they all pretty much suck and we're currently sitting at the least shitty one we could find, which is far from a solid fit for our smaller company. But it's the best we can do because none of these suites are designed to be good for people to use, they're designed to check a set of legal and feature checkboxes for the companies they sell to.

Honestly I don't know how you fix this, short of barring B2B SAAS as an entire industry. Time was, when you wanted to run a sales company, you had to run your own solution to keeping track of internal data. Salesforce didn't exist. You had rows upon rows of file cabinets, if there was a fire data was a lost, if a disgruntled worker stole your sales list and sold it to a competitor, that was it's own issue to deal with. Now crooks can crack the locks off of NetSuite and steal your whole fucking business without even knowing where the hell your HQ even is or caring for that matter, and our business universe if you will is bifurcated all to hell as a result. Companies are engaged in constant games of "pin the legal responsibility on someone else" because to compete, they need internet and software based sales and data management systems, but building those systems is a pain in the ass, and then you're responsible if they go wrong.
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-29 13:14:55+00:00
You or Claude? Have you verified/reason the claims made in README? For starters ZIP doesn't use LZW. Initially used an LZW-derived method with reset mechanism but v2 (early 90s) introduced DEFLATE, combining dict-based LZ77 & Huffman coding (which has become the de-facto ZIP compression). And even this, superior to LZW method, is not considered state-of-the-art nowadays.
by linuxftw | 2026-01-29 13:14:59+00:00
It's really only in the last year the LLM's have gotten great and can output massive blocks of code that are functional.

LLM's are at least a 10x speed up on the 'producing code' portion of the job, but that's often only a fraction of the overall job. There's lots of time spent planning and in meetings, doing research, corporate red tape, etc.

For writing code and unit tests, generating deployment yaml and terraform, for me it's easily a 30x speed up. I can do in 1 or 2 hours what would have previously taken a week.
by luxuryballs | 2026-01-29 13:15:11+00:00
I experienced this but ended up getting off of them after developing some back/hip issues but I didn’t think it was related, it wasn’t until I quit the citalopram that my shoulders were suddenly relaxed and the hip “looseness” or constant need to be adjusted back into place went away, like everything tightened back up, it is really strange, then I looked up how SSRIs can impact this and even bone healing, decided I couldn’t risk my body falling apart.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-29 13:15:21+00:00
That's pretty much the conclusion the EU came to and why they introduced the notion of gatekeepers in the DMA.

It doesn't matter if you are not technically in a dominant position if your special role in a large ecosystem basically allows you to act like one in your own purview.

You could say this kind of move invites more scrutiny but the regulators are already there watching every Apple's move with a microscope and their patience with Apple attempts at thwarting compliance is apparently wearing thin at least in the EU if you look at preliminary findings.
by citrin_ru | 2026-01-29 13:15:31+00:00
If you view a world at a certain angle there is always something to worry about: 1. World in not perfect, it doesn't confirm to how we want it to be (and could not even in theory given that different people want it to be different) 2. The future cannot be predicted with 100% accuracy so even if all is perfect today you can worry that it will turn bad in the future.

When looking at the same reality one persons sees the situation as OK and another as a an endless and hopeless disaster it is hard to tell who is right. A depressed person would tell that most people around him are wrong and are optimistic only because they don't understand how bad all is.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-29 13:16:10+00:00
Indeed. It's not impossible to lay off people in Europe but they can't just say "you're fired!". There's a process and it costs time and perhaps 3 to 6 months of salary and you have to prove the layoff is needed. The business is incentivized to reduce hiring and find other work for the employee to do, instead.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-29 13:16:37+00:00
Their own custom framework built on top of Win32, nowadays they also use React Native, and Webview2 with React to share code with the Web versions.

The Web versions also consume C++ via WebAssembly, the mobile versions are a mix of the platform languages + C++.

There are some CppCon talks about how they use C++ in Office.
by staticassertion | 2026-01-29 13:16:55+00:00
> I know this road leads to SSRIs at the very least, so I always reply in the negative.

Seems odd. Your doctor can't force you to take anything. If they say "do you want to try X?" just say "No". Not giving your doctor full medical context seems like a mistake - for example, maybe depression would be indicative of another issue, or maybe people who are depressed really shouldn't take a specific medication.

To each their own, and perhaps you have other reasons, but this seems like a less than ideal solution to a very trivial problem if the goal is just to not take an SSRI.
by gspr | 2026-01-29 13:17:33+00:00
> This is the problem with this report. It doesn't mean that the cars break down more often, it means that they are so rarely at the shop that the drivers don't notice the used brake pads, tires etc.

The average European drives about 12,000 km (~7500 miles) per year [1]. The maximum inspection period allowed by the EU for most personal cars is 2 years [2].

The average person in the US drives about 13,400 miles (~ 21,500 km) per year [3].

So, roughly, the average European vehicle is inspected after a driving distance which is about the same as that which the average US vehicle puts behind it in a year.

I thus doubt that the Tesla numbers from the article are greatly affected by a lack of inspections.

[1] https://www.acea.auto/fact/fact-sheet-cars/

[2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/45/oj/eng (chapter III, article 5, point 1).

[3] https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm
by xyzsparetimexyz | 2026-01-29 13:18:12+00:00
If inference is A) expensive and B) has enough predicted demand to build a ton of datacenters, why is AI stuff being shoved everywhere, without an obvious profit motive, in a way that people hate? AI results in search boxes, apple mail summaries, that sora video app, AI image gen that very few people would use if it wasnt free.
by Bayramovanar | 2026-01-29 13:18:15+00:00
I generally agree with you, but if you look deeper, cars, buildings, and the underlying know-how didn’t appear in a day either.

Those were also iterative processes: first tires and mud houses, then horse carriages and brick houses, and eventually cars and buildings.

In that sense, it’s not fundamentally different from engineering today. Working on core engineering functionality of a company is essentially the same kind of process.

The difference lies in whether you’re working on core functionality, or on some iterative experiment that nobody knows will succeed.
by paulnpace | 2026-01-29 13:18:27+00:00
I've never worked in tech, but I've worked at manufacturers of various different sizes and places in the manufacturing supply chain, including finished goods.

Manufacturers can't hire beyond the places in production that someone can stand and do something. There needs to be some kind of equipment or process for worker to contribute in some meaningful way, even if it is merely for a projection of increased production (e.g., hiring a second shift for a facility currently running one shift).

What I wonder is if in tech, the "equipment" is a computer that supports everything a developer needs. From there, new things can be added to the existing product.

Manufacturing equipment is generally substantially more expensive than a computer and supporting software, though not always. Might this contribute to the differences, especially for manufacturing that normally runs 24-hour shifts?
by Lerc | 2026-01-29 13:18:30+00:00
Experience sharing has an information component, the thing that distinguishes it from a written report containing the same facts is not.

What you call content is just low effort content. Slop is a more evocative term that probably captures the concept of low effort, unfortunately it has already been poisoned by people declaring anything AI assisted to be slop regardless of how much effort went into the work.

There are a lot of people who work tirelessly on things that have a massive time and effort commitment for each thing they produce. Yet they identify as content creators. Dismissing their work seems disrespectful to me.

Sturgeon's Law is a warning to not overlook the good because of the preponderance of the bad.
by billy99k | 2026-01-29 13:18:53+00:00
"Consulting/contractor becomes default - Full-time employment becomes rare; most devs work project-to-project like other creative industries"

I'm in the tech industry and have been doing this for 12+ years now. In the beginning, it was because I wanted to live overseas for a few years, without a break in my career.

Now, it's about survival. I buy my own health insurance (me and my family) in the marketplace every year (so I'm not tied to an employer), work with multiple clients (I never really have to worry about getting laid off), and make much more than a FTE.

While all my friends in tech are getting laid off or constantly in fear of getting laid off, I don't have to worry.

I also find that because I touch so many different technologies, I have to turn down work. I turned down a company last year, that wanted me in-house and one this year that would have been too demanding on my schedule.

It's also flexible and always remote.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-29 13:19:01+00:00
> Tactics PDF from one of the vigilante groups

That's not a PDF file from a Signal group, it's a video in a tweet. Do you have an actual PDF and can you point to where that PDF instructs people to commit crimes?

> Comment above mentions laws.

Yes, and a list of laws is a non sequitur. I was asking for evidence of your claims, which you've yet to provide. Does it even exist? Perhaps. Does it contain instructions to, er, bite off fingers? Doubtful.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-01-29 13:19:24+00:00
You can find scientific papers on a lot of search engines, not only Google.

The problem with that is, that you still need to know how to interpret any results and statements within the supposedly scientific papers. If you are not a statistician, you might overlook methodology mistakes. If you are not an expert in the matter of the paper, you might not realize some side condition, that makes some statement or result of the paper irrelevant for your individual situation.
by sh3ll3x3c | 2026-01-29 13:20:02+00:00
Hi HN, I built *native-devtools-mcp*, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with native desktop applications UIs. Right now it supports MacOS and Windows, but I intend on adding more platforms in the future.

Motivation: Most MCP servers today target specific environments (the Chrome DevTools MCP server for browser automation is a good example) but there’s no general MCP bridge for native desktop GUIs. native-devtools-mcp gives AI agents the ability to:

- capture screenshots and extract text (OCR) from the screen
- simulate user input (mouse clicks, typing, scrolling) with hight precision by using OS local OCR
- manage windows and focus
- optionally connect to deeper UI trees for instrumented apps

It runs locally, does not upload any data externally (except for the LLM integration), and supports both macOS and Windows for now. The goal is to enable AI-driven workflows for GUI testing, automation, and desktop tool interaction.

Tech stack/highlights:
- MCP JSON-RPC interface for tool clients
- Visual feedback (images + OCR) plus input simulation
- Dual interaction modes: universal visual relying on OCR/screenshots + debug-kit structural where available (MacOS)

Limitations / roadmap:
- Early stage; improvements to accuracy and reliability planned
- Expanding deeper support for more app platforms (Android is next!)
- Integration with more AI tools - right now it's tested with Claude Code and Claude Desktop (and Cowork); it should work with other AI platforms too, but I haven't had the time to test it yet...
- Better documentation and tooling around agent integration

Feedback I’m looking for:
- Practical use cases where this changed your automation or testing workflow
- Ideas to make MCP server integration with existing AI agent stacks easier

Happy to answer questions.
by vidarh | 2026-01-29 13:20:29+00:00
There's an 8k license for "recommended" (not "core", which is free under CC-BY-4.0 for all purposes) data if you are a service provider or broadcaster:

https://user.eumetsat.int/resources/user-guides/data-registr...

There are also fees in some other circumstances, but not for "personal, educational, research" use.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-29 13:21:00+00:00
There is churn in the work being done. An automation solution for one company shouldn't be expected to work for the next company. Every company has different processes, and developing software to fit the exact needs of one company will continue to be useful.

Some software is finished, like Microsoft Office 2003, and requires no additional work except to force ads on people. Those jobs may end.
by HWR_14 | 2026-01-29 13:22:12+00:00
> What if, instead of having to reach out to the big players, the economics of having a software developer or 2 on staff make it such that you could build custom-tailored, bespoke software to work "with" your company and not against?

It's probably risk and liability and not development costs that keep things from moving in house. Not things AI is great at mitigating.
by xmcqdpt2 | 2026-01-29 13:22:41+00:00
I think most of this trial and error "You are an experienced engineer" stuff probably hurts model performance. No one ever does comprehensive testing so eh, yolo.

https://github.com/agoodway/.claude/blob/main/skills/elixir-...

There are papers showing that models follow instructions less the more instructions they have. Now you think about how many instructions are embedded in that MD + the system prompt + likely a local AGENTS.md and at the end there is probably very little here that matters.
by kyleblarson | 2026-01-29 13:22:50+00:00
I had disk issues in my lumbar spine that caused nearly unbearable pain and terrible quality of life. Tried everything: PT, OTC painkillers, epidurals, massage, nothing worked. Was prescribed pragabalin and duloxotine. Duloxotine is an SNRI that also treats nerve pain. That combination helped some but I was sleeping 11+ hours per day and generally felt like my head was in a complete fog, was pretty much useless with work. I had been trying to avoid surgery but finally had 2 procedures in 2024 that helped immensely. Weaning off those 2 drugs was no fun: sweating constantly, anxious, headaches for about 2 weeks. Extremely happy I went the surgery route and stopped those meds. I can't imagine living day to day feeling like that.
by estearum | 2026-01-29 13:22:53+00:00
Nope. While there was a large increase in immigrant inflows, there is no evidence their enforcement decisions were significantly different than e.g. Trump 1.

What the statistics actually show is that the United States was a far more attractive destination for immigrants, but that enforcement policies were largely the same. That makes sense since enforcement policy is mostly set by Congress and not by POTUS.

The significant reduction in immigrants towards the tail end of Biden is not because they suddenly decided to "follow the law" and "close the border." It's that they decided NOT to follow the law anymore and to unilaterally ignore the asylum laws that Congress actually sets.

This was later struck down in court: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/district-court-strikes-d...

So really what you're seeing is the difference between the US being a desirable place to come to versus an undesirable one. I'm sympathetic to the argument that there's moral hazard involved in making the US appear to be highly desirable to people who we don't want to accept, but I'm not sympathetic at all to the view that that means the executive can simply ignore whatever laws they want, or they can turn the US into such a dystopian hellhole that only the most desperate immigrants around would bother attempting entry.

Some additional sources:

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-deportation-re...

https://www.cato.org/blog/data-show-trump-wouldve-released-m...
by kakacik | 2026-01-29 13:22:54+00:00
Regardless, owner is a nazi and utter POS to be polite, basically same material as trump. Nothing in the world is going to change that, not now not in 40 years. He keeps insulting whole Europe (meaning all of fucking us living here) and our leaders almost daily, looking down on us very publicly.

Why the heck would I buy such car, even if it costed 1 euro? Have some self-respect and morality ffs, do you also go to restaurant where you know they will spit on you and insult you, just because they have cca same stuff as all other places, often worse while more expensive? [1]

[1] https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tuev-report-2026-tesla-mo...
by mnky9800n | 2026-01-29 13:23:00+00:00
> So to conclude this article, I just want to point out that Anthropic kind of came up with Clawdbot first in the form of their mcp integration into Claude desktop as well as with Claude Cowork, but this tiny open source project called Clawdbot got to critical mass first, and it’s because it felt more dangerous and exiting, and wasn’t held back by the need to be careful and not ruin people’s lives by getting hacked.

i mean yes but also no. moltbot(clawdbot) has a very nice onboarding where it makes it super simple to install, connect to your existing claude account, and setup integrations like telegram, slack, etc. I think this is why it is popular. not because its an MCP server.
by Izkata | 2026-01-29 13:23:59+00:00
According to the Bugzilla case it links to (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825394):

> It is now indeed the case that any background processes that were still running are killed automatically when the user logs out of a session, whether it was a desktop session, a VT session, or when you SSHed into a machine.

And the reddit comments include a link to a tmux issue where the suggested solution is for tmux to add systemd as a dependency (https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/428). Includes some back-and-forth about how all sorts of software would have to change in similar ways to accommodate systemd, instead of systemd just playing nicely with decades of established practice.
by rollulus | 2026-01-29 13:24:22+00:00
Anecdotal, and even meta-anecdotal, but hey: four months ago I started to supplement omega 3 thanks to this hyperbolic HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169875

Unlike the commenter, I didn’t suddenly turn into a chess grandmaster, but I did notice that my winter blues didn’t show up this year, the first time in a decade!
by DoctorOetker | 2026-01-29 13:24:23+00:00
It very sad there is so much gaming of metrics with LLMs.

If we wish to avoid everyone creating benchmarks for themselves, then instead of predetermined benchmarks (public ones allow gaming, while publicly scored private ones require blind trust) we could use gradient descent on sentences to find disagreements between models, and then present them to human domain experts.

At least it could be public without possibility of leaking (since the model creators don't yet know of all possible disagreements between LLM's, which ones will be selected for review by human experts)
by Hamuko | 2026-01-29 13:24:25+00:00
>The maximum inspection period allowed by the EU for most personal cars is 2 years

Your source clearly says that the first inspection needs to be at least four years after registration, so if you now buy a Tesla Model 3, you won't need to have it inspected until 2030. It's how Finland does it, so 4 years to first inspection, then every 2 years until the car is 10 years old, and then every year (4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12…).
by zelphirkalt | 2026-01-29 13:24:29+00:00
I would like to, but I cannot, since it is a region-local newspaper that comes as actual paper, that only has a paid online offer, to which I have no access, nor could I post a link to that. If I went through recent paper form newspaper, I could get a photo of the text in German, but then I would (A) need to spend that time, and (B) need a place to upload pictures, without having to make an account, and only then get back to you with a link. To be honest, I am too lazy to do that, just to justify a comment on HN.
by Bayramovanar | 2026-01-29 13:24:51+00:00
I will avoid getting into a “who understands economics better” debate.

But factory workers usually require specialized machinery, tooling, and physical capacity, which makes overhiring slower, harder and more constrained.
Those investments force more deliberate planning.

By contrast, engineers mostly require a laptop and company hoodie...
That low marginal cost makes it far easier to hire aggressively on expectations and unwind just as aggressively when those expectations change.