MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by czmilo | 2026-01-04 03:17:20+00:00
A2UI is an open-source protocol from Google that enables AI agents to generate UIs through declarative JSON instead of executable code. Unlike HTML/JavaScript approaches that require sandboxing, A2UI uses a trusted component catalog model where agents can only request pre-approved UI elements (Button, Form, Card, etc.). The client renders these JSON descriptions using native widgets (React, Flutter, etc.), maintaining full control over styling and branding.

Key innovation: separates "what to display" (agent's responsibility) from "how to display" (client's control), solving security issues in multi-agent systems. The protocol uses JSONL for streaming, making it LLM-friendly for incremental generation. Same JSON can render natively across web, mobile, and desktop platforms.

Addresses the "Chat Wall" problem where text-only interactions fail for structured input. Instead of back-and-forth text exchanges, agents can dynamically generate action surfaces (forms, date pickers) at the moment they're needed.

Includes comparison with HTML/iFrames, implementation guidance, and real-world examples. The protocol is complementary to existing frameworks (React, Flutter) rather than replacing them.
by culebron21 | 2026-01-04 03:17:35+00:00
Some commenters suggest it's not the moderation. I think it is the key problem, and the alternative communities were the accumulated effect. Bad questions and tough answer competition is part of it, but moderation was more important, I think. Because in the end what kept SO relevant was that people made their own questions on up to date topics.

Up until mid-2010s you could make a seriously vague question, and it would be answered, satisfactory or not. (2018 was when I made the last such question. YMMV) After that, almost everything, that hadn't snap-on code answer, was labelled as offtopic or duplicate, and closed, no matter what. (Couple of times I got very rude moderators' comments on the tickets.)

I think this lead some communities to avoid this moderator hell and start their own forums, where you could afford civilized discussion. Discourse is actually very handy for this (Ironically, it was made by the same devs that created SO). Forums of the earlier generation, have too many bells and whistles, and outdated UI. Discourse has much less friction.

Then, as more quality material was accumulated elsewhere, newbies stopped seeing SO on top of search, and gradually language/library communities churned off one by one. (AI and other summaries, probably did contribute, but I don't think they were the primary cause.)
by filoeleven | 2026-01-04 03:18:24+00:00
These things happened today subsequent to Venezuela:

North Korea ‘has fired ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/north-korea-ha...

UK and France carry out strikes against Isis target in Syria
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/politics/uk-france-s...
by isodev | 2026-01-04 03:18:31+00:00
It's always been unpleasant but you could find a balance to make it work. Since Swift 6 it's just headache as a service. If only we weren't forced to use it..

Also picture this. Every time you run swift build, you get a mental image of Cook dining with Trump. It's very hard to stay focused and creative in that ecosystem rn.
by Xmd5a | 2026-01-04 03:18:44+00:00
Epstein @ Chomsky

> happy chanukah. has anyone in the past made a linguistic model that used fields instead of definitions. similar to a magnet field. to some degree. there is no one vector that describes the word but a field of them. home surrounded by a field of definitions. not based on 3 d space but based on context one could integrate over the field. see smoothness. strength, change.. not sure it is useful. but having fun

https://www.jmail.world/thread/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030328?view=p...
by thundergolfer | 2026-01-04 03:18:50+00:00
This article ends up seeming like an ad for some dubious derivations of the original novel.

- "Take, for instance, Michael Farris Smith's new novel, Nick. The title refers, of course, to Nick Carraway, the narrator of Gatsby, who here gets his own fully formed backstory."

- "Jane Crowther's newly published novel, Gatsby, updates the plot to the 21st Century, and flips
the genders to feature a female Jay Gatsby and a male Danny Buchanan."

- "And Claire Anderson-Wheeler's The Gatsby Gambit is a murder mystery which invents a younger sister for Fitzgerald's eponymous anti-hero: Greta Gatsby – get it?"
by topspin | 2026-01-04 03:19:25+00:00
> it surprises me that this hasn't been perfected

It shouldn't. It's never really been perfected across native GUI APIs after 40+ years: just various degrees of "good enough," plus fobbing it off to web stacks.

Anyhow, I've been playing with gioui, which is golang rendering in a lightweight <canvas>-like. Really nice: fast, small, cross platform GUI with just Go. Scale expectations appropriately.
by viccis | 2026-01-04 03:19:51+00:00
"I always draw and paint by hand and sometimes incorporate standard digital tools" would apply if I were to make a 30 second scribble in MS Paint and then upload it to ChatGPT or similar tools and ask them to make a version of it in whatever style I wanted.

Most likely, he did exactly that. Made a rough sketch and then achieved the final product either by just handing it to a model (which I'm guessing based on the maze) or he used gen AI tooling in his digital painting software to polish it into a finished painting.

It's not an accident that he's being so cagey and using exactly that verbiage.
by MisterMower | 2026-01-04 03:20:37+00:00
I will reiterate my original point more clearly: international law does not affect how superpowers behave.

When convenient they will use international law and norms as justification for actions they would take regardless. When inconvenient, they will just ignore them.

To the extent that superpowers do “follow” international law, it is only because those laws were written by the superpowers themselves or align with their interests at any given time.

Appeals to scholars or analysts is meaningless in this context. You should post why those people think they matter, or what their reasoning is, not, “hey, guys that I think are smart say this matters.”

My priors before this were that international law mattered a little, but this event has convinced me it’s all a farce. Exhibit A: the UN’s increasing irrelevance as we move toward a multipolar world.

Why do you think international law constrains nation states, despite much evidence to the contrary, including today’s events?
by jayelem | 2026-01-04 03:21:30+00:00
This is not my experience in Canada. It is not the experience of anyone I know.
There are often long wait times in ERs for things that are non urgent. I waited 5 or 6 hours my last visit after initial assessment.
I’ve known a few people that had life threatening cancers here: they were treated quickly, and compassionately by the health care system.
There are bad wait times for some things: a hearing assessment took 6 months (there are private options for this but many people would rather wait - they trust the system more). There is a shortage of family doctors. Medications are not fully covered.
But I promise you we have no death pods in our hospitals. If you get hit by a car, diagnosed with cancer, need an X-ray, a breathing test, etc. You get that care.
It’s nowhere near perfect, but I’m thankful for it and most people I know feel similarly.
by safety1st | 2026-01-04 03:21:48+00:00
Thing is, from a commercial standpoint, who cares? It's an image used to promote a TV show on a social media account. There will be a tiny, loud community of AI haters who make a stink on social media, but the vast majority of people will be oblivious, and the quality issues with the image will have zero bearing on whether anyone watches the show; whereas the fact that the post exists probably WILL drive a few to watch who wouldn't have otherwise.

The fact is we're in a world where algorithms consume more attention than ever. There's more content than ever. We're more sedentary and glued to useless shit on a screen than ever. We consume content like we're pigs, and what do you feed pigs? Slop. I don't like this, and I try to keep my diet as healthy as I can, but it's probably still worse than it was 20 years ago, and most people don't care at all. It's all consumption for the sake of mindless distraction. The slop exists because the demand exists. People will watch the show anyway.
by satvikpendem | 2026-01-04 03:21:53+00:00
> And for what it's worth, the image pretty consistently trips gen AI image detectors (e.g., https://hivemoderation.com/ai-generated-content-detection).

Notwithstanding your previous points, these sorts of AI detectors flag many false positives, they're not worth relying on. The only one that could actually work is specific watermarking in the images themselves, such as what Google does with SynthID in their generated images.
by beepbooptheory | 2026-01-04 03:22:18+00:00
I just think you could save a lot of money and energy doing all this but skipping the LLM part? Like what is supposed to be gained? The moment/act of actual generation of lines of code or ideas, whether human or not, is a much smaller piece of the pie relative to ongoing correction, curation, etc (like you indicate). Focusing on it and saying it intrinsically must/should come from the LLM mistakes the intrinsically ephemeral utility of the LLMs and the arguably eternal nature of the wiki at the same time. As sibling says, it turns it into work vs the healthy sharing of ideas.

The whole pitch here just feels like putting gold flakes on your pizza: expensive and would not be missed if it wasn't there.

Just to say, I'm maybe not as experienced and wise I guess but this definitely sounds terrible to me. But whatever floats your boat I guess!
by cubefox | 2026-01-04 03:22:54+00:00
There was, obviously, only one main reason: LLMs. Anything else makes no sense. Even if the moderation was "horrible" (which sounds to me like a horrible exaggeration), there was nothing which came close to being as good as SO. There was no replacement. People will use the best available platform, even if you insist in describing it as "horrible". It's was not horrible compared to the alternatives, web forums like Reddit and HN, which are poorly optimized for answering questions.
by unyttigfjelltol | 2026-01-04 03:23:10+00:00
This attitude reminds of a particular 1850s-ish building in my area chock full of intricately hand-carved half-size wooden figurines. These were generated by true masters of their crafts. It’s obvious— work that only could be produced by a lifetime of devotion to a craft.

And the industry is gone. No one could produce figurines like that at any worldly price, probably for the last 100 years. The world is less for it, but it doesn’t matter, art follows different more efficient technologies and methods.

I sympathize with these artisans of the written word. But they’re all wrong, they’re dinosaurs who don’t know it. I myself was one, churning on high-value bespoke written work. The economic model is wrong, we’re the expert 1850s figurine crafters, adapt or … burn out I guess.
by satvikpendem | 2026-01-04 03:23:33+00:00
> There will be a tiny, loud community of AI haters who make a stink on social media, but the vast majority of people will be oblivious

Not only oblivious but actively for it; I know many people who even watch fully AI generated content on TikTok or Instagram Reels. In fact, they know it's AI yet still like it, probably because some can look pretty cool or funny.
by rkuykendall-com | 2026-01-04 03:23:49+00:00
I don't think people didn't "pick up" on it, I just don't think anyone thinks it matters. There is no smoke-and-mirrors back-room strategizing here. It looked cool on Fox News. Then the president went onto Fox News and talked about how cool it looked on Fox News. The text is text. The subtext is nonexistent.
by mitchelllisle | 2026-01-04 03:24:05+00:00
Bushfires are an intrinsic part of the Australian landscape, but their scale and intensity have reached unprecedented levels in recent decades. Since 1970, NSW has recorded over 18,814 fire events, burning more than 15M hectares. The 2019-2020 Black Summer marked a catastrophic turning point: the Gospers Mountain fire, started by a single lightning strike, ultimately burned 512,626 hectares (including significant area from escaped backburning operations), generating fire-generated thunderstorms and merging with five other fires into a megablaze exceeding one million hectares.

This dashboard is a look at the data that shows how dangerous and devastating bushfires can be.
by thundergolfer | 2026-01-04 03:24:05+00:00
Unironically dril's tweets[1].

Part of the problem of our time is that shared culture has significantly receded. There's little capacity to maintain "classics" as we understand them today. Take any massive artistic output (film, book, TV show) and it's nowadays either not seen/read/heard by more than 20% of the population or it's a flash in the pan hit which will be forgotten in another year or so (e.g. Barbenheimer).

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/dril/comments/cqde0e/pound_for_poun...
by jinfeng79 | 2026-01-04 03:25:37+00:00
Author here.

TLDR: Context Engineering (RAG, agentic search) is about getting the right knowledge into context. That's mostly solved now. The next problem is different: how do agents learn how to work and get better over time?

Skills are the mechanism. Once a task becomes a Skill, you don't do it anymore—the agent does. You move up. When your new work becomes a Skill, cycle repeats. Both you and the agent keep compounding.

Curious what others are seeing.
by rileymat2 | 2026-01-04 03:26:05+00:00
It's funny, because I had a similar question but wanted to be able to materialize a view in Microsoft SQL Server, and ChatGPT went around in circles suggesting invalid solutions.

There were about 4 possibilities that I had tried before going to ChatGPT, it went through all 4, then when the fourth one failed it gave me the first one again.
by SirSavary | 2026-01-04 03:26:10+00:00
Crazy huh? If an author wrote something as a child and lived over a hundred, you could hit even two hundred :)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author, died in December 1940. Given the rules around copyright I would have expected things to expire in 2010 (death of author, roll to next calendar year, +70 years) so I'm unsure what happened here.
by connivingbear | 2026-01-04 03:26:21+00:00
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by Drupon | 2026-01-04 03:26:30+00:00
Not that bad? I gave it a random name and random net ID and it basically screamed at me to HANG UP RIGHT NOW AND FIGURE OUT THE CORRECT NET ID. Hahaha

That does not resemble any good professor I've ever heard. It's very aggressive and stern, which is not generally how oral exams are conducted. Feels much more like I'm being cross examined in court.
by vivzkestrel | 2026-01-04 03:26:54+00:00
Been out of android stuff for a while, can someone kindly elaborate here

- best way of making apps last i checked was swift for ios and java for android

- i read somewhere java got replaced with something called kotlin

- then i heard they added something called flutter that works on both android and ios

- react native / "web browser based" was already a form of dev i think which was considered the most non performant solution out there

Is this swift on android another layer like the above ones? the most performant layer is always native right?
by saltymimir | 2026-01-04 03:27:01+00:00
The obvious culprit here are the LLMs, but I do wonder whether Github's social features, despite its flaws, have given developers fewer reasons to ask questions on SO?

Speaking from experience, every time I hit a wall with my projects, I would instinctively visit the project's repo first, and check on the issues / discussions page. More often than not, I was able to find someone with an adjacent problem and get close enough to a solution just by looking at the resolution. If it all failed, I would fall back to asking questions on the discussion forum first before even considering to visit SO.
by k1w1 | 2026-01-04 03:27:23+00:00
I am surprised at the amount of hate for Stack Overflow here. As a developer I can't think of a single website that has helped me as much over the last ten years.

It has had a huge benefit for the development community, and I for one will mourn its loss.

I do wonder where answers will come from in the future. As others have noted in this thread, documentation is often missing, or incorrect. SO collected the experiences of actual users solving real problems. Will AI share experiences in a similar way? In principle it could, and in practice I think it will need to. The shared knowledge of SO made all developers more productive. In an AI coded future there will need to be a way for new knowledge to be shared.
by komali2 | 2026-01-04 03:27:49+00:00
Oh, yes I agree for the most part none other than perhaps the USA military is about to be distracted by South America.

Xi himself probably already had war gamed what it would look like to kidnap the president here in Taiwan from the presidential palace or whatever. The main difference is, now we're all talking about it - if it was that easy to snatch a president, will the PRC try it against us? Will the KMT throw Lai under the bus so the PLA can do a targeted kidnapping or assassination, perhaps alongside his US-friendly VP?
by abigail95 | 2026-01-04 03:27:55+00:00
He has delegated authority, from congress, to do this. Rephrase please. This is not abdication. Are you a Chevron deference die hard too? Yes the executive and legislature didn't turn out exactly as the framers intended - deal with it in healthier ways than calling him a dictator.

You misunderstand unitary executive theory. It's not completely settled law but most of it is and requires your own interpretation of Vesting - but that has nothing to do with what happened in Venezuela so I'm not sure why you bring this up.

Unitary executive is about executive power. Go read some opinions about it, even the 5-4 opinions don't have much daylight between them. If you can cite AUMF you can read judicial review of the executive. It is so annoying to have taken the time to read these things and then come across some nitwit saying unitary executive is a softer way of saying dictator. Go say that in a law school.
by casey2 | 2026-01-04 03:28:06+00:00
How is it much different than trading say a bar for livestream? For any org if you can remove the human meatware you should otherwise you are just making a bunch of busywork to exlude people from using your service.

Just through the act of existing meatware prevents other humans from joining. The reasons may be shallow or well thought out. 95+% of answers on stack overflow are written by men so for most women stack overflow is already a hellscape.

If companies did more work on bias (or at least not be so offensive to various identities) that benefit, of distributing knowledge/advice/RTFM, could be even greater.
by api | 2026-01-04 03:28:20+00:00
This effect is why pseudoprofound bullshit works so well, like pretty much all of the “new age.”

It strikes me as a broken heuristic. We use elegance as a proxy for intelligence and education and thus likelihood of something being true, but being a proxy means it can be cheated and gamed. You can invest effort in just getting good at language and then use that skill to fool people into thinking you know something.
by viccis | 2026-01-04 03:30:06+00:00
Not the person you're replying to, but I've had some courses in which you received your graded exams and had an opportunity to regain some points by choosing some number of incorrect responses and redoing the work to obtain a correct answer.

This was pre-LLM, but you could cheat back then too. LLMs make it a bit easier by showing you the work to "show" on your corrections.
by dworks | 2026-01-04 03:30:47+00:00
Probably the opposite. It might save Starbucks in China. McDonald's China was once sold off to Chinese operators, which expanded the chain significantly, and then sold it back. The problem is probably that Starbucks HQ does not understand the China market, yet wants to control China strategy. Having outside operators implement their strategy is probably good learning for Starbucks.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-01-04 03:30:49+00:00
> This is because Marco Rubio and a cadre of wealthy elite immigrants who fled communism in the last half century have this grand vision of revenge

Maybe. Combating communism in south america is certainly a noble goal. Maduro is one of many communists that plague this region and his fall will undoubtedly contribute to significant power shifts in south american politics.

But it's not Marco Rubio who holds the power, it's Donald Trump. And Trump absolutely will deal with communists if it's profitable for him and/or the USA. His dealings with Brazil prove it. He embarrassed not only Rubio but various other staff and arguably his entire administration by leveraging tariffs and Magnitsky sanctions into some kind of deal with the communist brazilian president.

Trump could not care less about communism in south america. His past discourse on the matter of Venezuela is entirely focused on oil. He's been talking about seizing the resources for years. It's also easy to see how doing so benefits him and his country greatly.

I was hoping that he'd also end up unwittingly fighting the communists and drug gangs over the course of his war so that south america as a whole might at least reap some benefit but now it looks like even that was too much to hope for.
by gnanagurusrgs | 2026-01-04 03:32:05+00:00
Great thought process. Would love to have you contribute to the project.

For a start, now have llms.txt to aid models while developing nerd programs.

https://www.nerd-lang.org/llms.txt

Eg:

Write a function that adds two numbers and returns the result Use https://nerd-lang.org/llms.txt for syntax.
by emodendroket | 2026-01-04 03:32:29+00:00
If we're going to diagnose pre-AI Stack Overflow problems I see two obvious ones:

1. The attempt to cut back on the harshness of moderation meant letting through more low-quality questions.

2. More importantly, a lot of the content is just stale. Like you go to some question and the accepted answer with the most votes is for a ten-year-old version of the technology.
by tekknik | 2026-01-04 03:32:41+00:00
I think you and your parent think that people have more of a concern of others than actual reality. Most americans walk past homeless people and think nothing of it. Most americans, and certainly those in wealthy cities, care about others at a superficial level. For instance you and your parent complain, and that’s where it ends. You will not sacrifice yourself or your life for others, asking others to is just negligent.