MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vessenes | 2026-01-27 09:27:47+00:00
You can read about this basically everywhere - the term of art is agent orchestration. Gas town, Claude’s secret swarm mode, or people who like to use phrases like “Wiggum loop” will get you there.

If you’re really lazy - the quick summary is that you can benefit from the sweet spot of context length and reduce instruction overload while getting some parallelism benefits from farming tasks out to LLMs with different instructions. The way this is generally implemented today is through tool calling, although Claude also has a skills interface it has been trained against.

So the idea would be for software development, why not have a project/product manager spin out tasks to a bunch of agents that are primed to be good at different things? E.g. an architect, a designer, and so on. Then you just need something that can rectify GitHub PRs and bob’s your uncle.

Gas town takes a different approach and parallelizes on coding tasks of any sort at the base layer, and uses the orchestration infrastructure to keep those coders working constantly, optimizing for minimal human input.
by agent013 | 2026-01-27 09:27:49+00:00
Low-code tools have guardrails that keep things predictable - you know what a Retool app can and can't do. AI-generated internal tools are just... code. Code that will need updating when APIs change, when requirements shift, when the person who prompted it leaves.
"We migrated everything in a couple of sprints" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Check back in 18 months when half those tools have drifted into unmaintained states and someone has to figure out what handleEdgeCase_v3_final_FIXED.js was supposed to do.
by roryirvine | 2026-01-27 09:28:02+00:00
Yeah, even small airports like Belfast City have had it for the past couple of years. Other London area airports (Luton, City, and Gatwick - not sure about Stansted) have had it for about as long, too.

Heathrow's definitely a straggler - I'm assuming it was a more difficult project for them due to their sheer size.
by ljm | 2026-01-27 09:28:16+00:00
I've only managed to use it as a linter-but-on-steroids because, where I'd normally page through the Ruby docs about enumerators to find the exact method that does what someone has implemented in a PR (because there's almost always something in there that can help out), I can instead prompt to look up a more idiomatic version of the implementation for the ruby version being used. It's easy to cross-check and it saves me some time.

It's not very good with the rest, because there's an intuition that needs to be developed over time that takes all the weirdness into account. The dead code, the tech debt, the stuff that looks fundamentally broken but is depended on because of unintended side effects, etc. The code itself is not enough to explain that, it's not a holistic documentation of the system.

The AI is no different to a person here: something doesn't 'feel' right, you go and fix it, it breaks, so you have to put it back again because it's actually harder than you think to change it.
by opello | 2026-01-27 09:28:28+00:00
> One way or the other, local culture is to do this. Yes, I agree it’s a negative sum choice. But they like it. It’s the same school of thought where a prison abolitionist didn’t report her gang rape: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/why-i-didnt-report...

How are gangs of thieves reasonably justified as part of culture? Surely civil society frowns on theft?

I read that article and I can (somehow) appreciate an ideal of prison reform so strong that it precluded reporting a crime--I think anyway--however, I did not see an explanation of what sort of remedy or justice this practitioner of a belief "in the abolition of police and prisons" would prefer. What is the appropriate punishment for such a crime? This is missing in the perspective presented. There is a description of a want for the perpetrator to change but no mechanism described for forcing the person to begin to change, just a reconciliation that every situation is different enough to avoid prescribing a template solution.

In the theft context, tolerating people that steal seems to enable theft. Humans can reason and are a product of the choices they've made. One ideal of the courts is exposure to alternatives, in the case of your deadlocked murder case, there are annoying factors from my arm chair: perhaps first-degree was too high a bar, the use of IQ in a legal setting in 2023 is annoying because without knowing how it was measured it should be assumed culturally biased and pointless, what levels of decision making abrogate personal responsibility--in managing a disease or making choices that lead to finding oneself in a particular setting. The resulting life in prison without parole sentence is probably just, but as with the Las Vegas story, I think that's up to those most affected by the crime to decide.
by nephihaha | 2026-01-27 09:28:45+00:00
Harari has very specific ideas. He is a transhumanist for one, seeing humans blending with machines as an inevitability, even necessity. He does not see religion from the inside and possibly misunderstands how people operate within it. He has controversial views regarding free will (that we don't really have any), and that the human mind and genome should be hacked.
by storystarling | 2026-01-27 09:28:53+00:00
I'm not sure I agree about the lack of a technical moat. While spinning up a basic WebRTC wrapper is trivial, the real challenge is the global distributed systems engineering required for low latency and reliability at scale. You need a massive edge network to handle routing, jitter buffering, and packet loss effectively across continents. It seems like the hard part isn't the client, but ensuring it actually works reliably when you have millions of concurrent streams on flaky connections.
by vidarh | 2026-01-27 09:29:32+00:00
There are even restaurants in London you can't get to without going through a scanner. E.g. half the restaurants at The Shard.

But to give an idea of how idiotic it is: Those are on the 32nd and 33rd floor. Next door is the Shangri La hotel of The Shard, where you can walk straight in and take the lift to the 31st (no scanners), and change to a lift for the 52nd floor (no scanners).
by ericnie8 | 2026-01-27 09:29:41+00:00
The Kimi-K2-Thinking API provides access to Moonshot AI’s latest open-source thinking agent, designed for exceptional long-horizon reasoning. It combines step-by-step thought processes with dynamic tool use, maintaining stable performance across 200–300 sequential calls and achieving state-of-the-art results on benchmarks such as HLE and BrowseComp.

Built on a trillion-parameter MoE architecture with a 256k context window, the Kimi-K2-Thinking API leverages native INT4 quantization for a 2× inference speedup—delivering powerful deep-reasoning capabilities with high efficiency.
by baroudi | 2026-01-27 09:30:26+00:00
> But there are serious limits. [Your coding agent] will lie to you, they don't really understand things, and they often generate bad code.

As for lies and bad code, it didn't appear with AI. Humans lied and produced bad code before AI.

How does the author empirically know AI does not understand? And if it does not understand right now, is a machine fundamentally unable to understand? Is understanding an exclusive human ability? Is it because machines lack a soul? It sounds quite dualistic (Descartes'view that mind and body and fundamentally different).

Don't get me know, I think right now, AI is less a good at understanding humans than other humans (or even dogs) in many contexts because it has no access to non verbal signals. But in the context of building software, it is good enough and I don't see why a machine should not be able to understand humans.
by unscaled | 2026-01-27 09:30:58+00:00
Oh, Yes. Windows 10 had big issues on arrival. But this is also selective Amnesia. The Windows 8 UI was nearly unusable on release. Windows Vista was so legendarily broken on release, that even after it became stable, the majority of technical users refused to give up Windows XP went straight to Windows 7. And even Windows XP that everybody fondly remembers was quite a mess when it came out. Most home users migrated from the Windows 9x line of Windows, so they probably didn't notice the instability so much, but a lot of power users who were already on Windows 2000 held up until SP2 came out. And let's not even talk about Windows ME.

The only major Windows version release that wasn't just a point upgrade that was stable in the last century was Window 7 and even then some people would argue this was just a point upgrade for Windows Vista.

I'm sure that Microsoft greatly reducing their dedicated QA engineers in 2014 had at least some lasting impact on quality, but I don't think we can blame it on bad releases or bungled Patch Tuesdays without better evidence. Windows 10 is not a good proof for, consider Vista had 10 times as many issues with fully staffed QA teams in the building.
by arghwhat | 2026-01-27 09:31:21+00:00
Nothing related to the attachment point.

I don't know of any third-party AirTag-compatible trackers that have UWB right now, but this applies equally to tags that are much larger than the AirTag. The rest is identical - good battery life, range, loud speaker, ...

I have a few theories on the lacking UWB:

1. Given that UWB is also super slow to roll out to Google Find, with only the Moto Tag available, there might be a technical/regulatory hurdle that manufacturers don't think is worth it

2. Apple/Google might make it a pain to be allowed to integrate with their UWB stuff

3. Cost - maybe the UWB stack is comparatively expensive, with third-party tags aiming for price brackets as low as 1/0th the cost of an AirTag

As a note, I don't know if this is because of regional differences in spectrum limits, but at least with AirTag and Moto Tag v1 EU versions, I could never get UWB to give any meaningful directions until I was already staring at the thing. Once you were in range to even consider UWB, playing a sound would be way more effective.
by dingdongditchme | 2026-01-27 09:31:30+00:00
it has been such a godsend flying out of Frankfurt where they have the new scanners and you don't have to empty out your bag anymore. So much smoother. Then I fly back and get all annoyed at the other airports. I was told Oslo airport is holding out until it becomes regulation to use the new scanners. Security-Theater is still what it is. It is super weak imho, despite never having seriously attempted a heist or trying to get contraband on a plane. I miss the good old days where you handed your luggage to a guy just before boarding the plane.
by csomar | 2026-01-27 09:31:39+00:00
I think it's just nostalgia for a simpler, less complicated past. We do lots of things today that would've been impossible with Access and that we now take for granted. For example, most people today expect to access their system from anywhere via the internet; pulling up a specific invoice on their phone, for instance. That just wasn't possible with Access 2000. And if you tried building a web-accessible system on top of its database, you'd essentially be starting from scratch anyway.
The reality is that the web is complicated because we want endless possibilities while staying fully connected.
by tgma | 2026-01-27 09:31:53+00:00
President Nixon was an outspoken friend of the Shah. It was Carter administration that stabbed him in the back and negotiated with Khomeini in the first place. The hostage crisis happened about 9-10 months after Khomeini was in power and only towards the end of that crisis you could argue Reagan was in the picture at all. The love for Islamists by the Democrats in power never ended and Clinton, Obama, and Biden all were desperate in appeasing the Mullah regime. It's the ousting of the Shah and appeasing the Mullahs that garners the hate.
by HK-NC | 2026-01-27 09:32:27+00:00
When my daughter was young, maybe 8, she had access to a laptop. She wasnt glued to it, but it was her little computer for fooling around on. One day my PC died and I had important things to do, so I used her laptop. As I typed into the address bar some prior history popped up and I had a moment where I wondered if I should respect her privacy or make sure shes being safe. By the time Id done my emails I decided to take a peek. I regretted it as soon as I saw her search for "funny memes" or something followed minutes later by "funny memes for kids".
To this day she complains that nobody in her age group knows how to use a search engine without writing a full sentence in the form of a question, instead of using key words.

The govt is a shit parent.
by netdevphoenix | 2026-01-27 09:32:56+00:00
Your point doesn't really change what I said. There are many languages in the world but English is the most common one. Those two facts are true at the same time. This is the same, there are many types of software engineering out there but the most common software engineering job relates to building web applications. If you don't believe me, hit your regular job board and count.
by william1872 | 2026-01-27 09:33:11+00:00
Good observation! The shift is intentional - safety-critical code typically doesn't "output" in the printf sense. Instead it returns status codes and modifies state that the caller inspects.

The pulse monitor example returns PULSE_OK/PULSE_ERR_* codes, and the caller queries state via pulse_status(). In a real system, that status feeds into a larger state machine or triggers hardware responses - not console output.

That said, the c-from-scratch repo (https://github.com/SpeyTech/c-from-scratch) does include demo programs with actual output for learning purposes.

The article focuses on the methodology shift rather than a complete runnable example.

Fair point though - I could add a note about where to find working demos.
by gizajob | 2026-01-27 09:34:04+00:00
Yes. They have paid sneaks standing around and the second you do something like that they radio to the people who control the barriers so you can’t get out without paying it. Just completely f*cked state of affairs.

https://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/terms-and-conditions/dro...

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1.3 Breach of these terms and conditions may result in Parking Charges up to £100. An additional fee of up to £70 may be applied for the costs of debt recovery.

9.1 Drop-off only: The Drop Off Zone may only be used to drop-off passengers and not for pick-up. There are separate designated areas for the pick-up of passengers. Use of the Drop Off Zone for any other purpose will result in the issuance of a Parking Charge.
by account42 | 2026-01-27 09:34:31+00:00
While not entirely thematically unrelated, being electric puts it distinctly outside of steampunk and even dieselpunk. I don't think anyone would call The Matrix steampunk but CRTs are at the center of its aesthetic. Cassette Futurism is the correct term I believe though it also overlaps with some sub-genres of cyberpunk.
by jiggawatts | 2026-01-27 09:34:48+00:00
Define “external”?

External to the planet?

The hemisphere?

The continent?

The lands previously a part of a former empire?

The lands that a country lost to a war?

A country border drawn arbitrarily (straight!) by an English Lord hundreds of years ago?

A country border not everybody agrees about?

A country border defined to keep out intervention more than to protect?

A country border that is porous and is walked across daily by people that aren’t even sure where it is?

Etc…

At some point you may release that humans live on both sides of lines that often exist only on maps, and serve only to keep people servile to autocrats.

Autocrats whom make sure that their schools teach the importance of borders.
by therealhelperz | 2026-01-27 09:35:38+00:00
If you are looking for ways to streamline your relationship and reduce friction, there are a few tools that handle different aspects of the "partnership stack." Depending on whether you need deep emotional work or just better day-to-day coordination, here are five services worth looking into:

Gottman Card Decks: This is a digital version of the famous research-based conversation starters. It is great for date nights when you want to move past "house talk" and get back to deeper connection.

Paired: This app focuses on daily quizzes and exercises. It is highly structured and requires both partners to log in and answer a specific prompt every day to unlock their partner’s answer.

Cozi: While not strictly for "romance," Cozi is a gold standard for shared family logistics. If most of your arguments are about who is picking up the kids or what’s for dinner, this is the tool to fix that.

Lasting: This is essentially a marriage counseling program in an app format. It follows a more traditional, module-based approach to learning psychological concepts about attachment and conflict.

Each of these serves a slightly different purpose, but they all help move the "work" of a relationship into a digital space where it's easier to track and improve.
by louispog | 2026-01-27 09:36:28+00:00
Some interesting analytics that you can see right now on the 'insights' page. Which may interest the fellow rustaceans out there:

1. Tech stack: I expected the most common tech stack pairing to be Rust and C++ (systems programming), but the live data actually shows a massive amount of Rust + TypeScript/Python. I'd be interested to hear if that matches what others have been seeing on their job hunts?

2. Sectors: Cloud and infrastructure seems to be the place where Rust is being adopted most, with Web, AI and Systems being the runners up. I'd say this is a positive sign that rust is being adopted on the wide scale, by companies like Microsoft, Mozilla and Discord.

3. Junior vs Senior: The Rust roles on offer right now seem to align with the modern idea that Junior dev's are being made redundant by AI. Unfortunately only a very small portion of these companies are looking for graduate or junior developers.

There's loads more data that could be pulled back from these insights, and you'll notice links to an email newsletter on the website, which I plan to run every Thursday, showing off the most interesting jobs and analytics of the week.
by cheschire | 2026-01-27 09:36:59+00:00
What you just described is a sample size of one. I spent ten years supporting a 30k+ person company and never saw Access used in reasonable ways. It was always on a network share, data always stored in the local file instead of SQL, “engineering” done entirely by a power user that got a book on MS Access at the bookstore instead of by anyone with actual engineering experience.

There’s a reason people in IT hate Access. It’s not because the technology. It’s because of what organizational bad habits the technology enabled.
by vinhnx | 2026-01-27 09:37:32+00:00
One thing caught my eyes is that besides K2.5 model, Moonshot AI also launched Kimi Code (https://www.kimi.com/code), evolved from Kimi CLI. It is a terminal coding agent, I've been used it last month with Kimi subscription, it is capable agent with stable harness.

GitHub: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-cli
by teiferer | 2026-01-27 09:39:03+00:00
> Do you think they find a white guy flying out of China to be a likely terrorist?

What does skin color have to do with this? And yes, oppressed groups in China, like the Uigurs, have support in the west. Among white people.

Maybe the winning strategy is comprehensive mass surveillance which flags you in a database long before even showing up at the airport and then the security theater just provides a suitable pretense for an arrest.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-27 09:39:41+00:00
It's not contortions, it's the truth, since these points have nothing to do with this US administration specifically.

Contortions is trying to blame EU's multi decade political faults on Trump.

Germany: Ties its economy to Russia despite warnings from the US

Russia: Invades Ukraine

Germany: Destroys its manufacturing economy after energy prices spike from decoupling from Russian gas

Germany and libs/dems: This is all Trump's fault
by trhway | 2026-01-27 09:39:59+00:00
The point here isn't whether this guy clean or not. The point is that you can't trust allegations made by Russia. Any allegations made by Russia are what is called "fruit of the poisoned tree".

And just for example, Navalny was put in prison for alleged and proven in a so called "Russian court of law" financial/commercial crimes.

>He was perfectly fine living in Putin's Russia until 2022

That suggests that Russia was fine with whatever financial crimes this guy committed, and is really using these crimes to get him now for political motives.

>and prosecutors also found that the privatization in the 90s was illegal

there has been whole wave of such findings recently (and Supreme Court specifically removed statute of limitations here). As result the privatization is usually nullified, the property gets confiscated by the government, and later it ends up in the hands of Putin's friends, family, loyalists. It is a huge redistribution of assets under the guise of "Russian law"
by perching_aix | 2026-01-27 09:40:55+00:00
> The shame is not that much that he was so imbecile to not have appropriate backups

These comments vehemently disagree:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726570

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46777039

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46777123

> ... (the rest) ...

It's not that I don't see or even agree with the misuse and defrauding angle to this, it's that it's blatantly clear to me that's not why the many snarky comments are so snarky. It's also not as if I was magically immune to such behavioral reflexes either, it's really just regrettable.

Though I will say, it's also pretty clear to me that many taking issue with the misuse angle do not seem to think that any amount or manner of AI use can be responsible or acceptable, rendering all use of it misuse - that is not something agree with.
by sfn42 | 2026-01-27 09:41:32+00:00
It's not about statistics. It's about control and knowledge. I know if a car I'm in is driving safely. I can ask the driver to calm down or let me off. In a plane I have nothing. I'm just sitting in a tin can, no idea whether the pilot is flying responsibly or not. No idea whether the landing is routine as hell or kinda sketch. Even if i could talk to the pilot the only thing we can do is land.

And have you thought about airplane landing? It's insane. This big clunky metal bird full of literal jet fuel coming in at like 400kmh or whatever, bouncing around on the tarmac as it's desperately trying to regain control and slow down.

Honestly I don't see how a rational person could not be stressed out in that situation. Yes we all know it usually works out, but we also know if it doesn't work out we're very likely going up in a ball of fire. And no matter what the stats say it doesn't feel like a safe situation. It feels like a near death experience. Seriously. Every time I fly I mentally come to terms with the fact that I might die. Every time we take off and land I'm feeling the bumps and jerks, listening to the sounds and wondering whether this is normal.

I fly at least a few times a year, and I don't take any drugs for it, but I fucking hate it.
by prmoustache | 2026-01-27 09:41:35+00:00
In a job interview last, year a CEO told me he was personally a fan of Linux at home but hated Linux and MacOS as workstation in a corporate env because it was a pain in the ass to manage compliance.

Not sure if it is really the case or just lack of knowledge, I think you can do a long way with tools such as puppet and chief.
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by mda_damico | 2026-01-27 09:41:55+00:00
A compact, local browser tool designed as a Chrome extension to remove background noise from videos. It includes a UI page, scripts, a WASM module, and a pre-trained model.

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