MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by baxtr | 2026-01-30 10:10:04+00:00
I think large parts of the "actual intelligence" stems from two facts:

* The moltbots / openclaw bots seem to have "high agency", they actually do things on their own (at least so it seems)

* They interact with the real world like humans do: Through text on WhatsApp, reddit like forums

These 2 things make people feel very differently about them, even though it's "just" LLM generated text like on ChatGPT.
by arghwhat | 2026-01-30 10:10:08+00:00
> Insulin for example is the opposite.

You're describing entirely orthogonal issues. In case of insulin resistance, your natural production is running full blast with demand exceeding supply because the consumer stopped caring about the hormone. In case of autoimmune disease, the natural production was killed - you can neither use nor lose what is already dead, and even if some capacity was left it will either soon be killed or atrophy under external insulin, but it will not be mourned.

So no I would say it is exactly the same - "use it or lose it" - but that does not mean that there is never a reason to manually overrule your body's attempt at homeostasis through direct manipulation. It just means that there is a very significant consequence to the process.

> The body itself typically attempts to main homeostasis, but at population scales this is something that is going to have a massive range of ways it shows up.

As a somewhat sidenote, this is also why I dislike the idea of trying to classify people into "normal" and "divergent/atypical". In my eyes we're all normal people and an entirely normal aspect of being a human is that we all differ and have individually specific needs by virtue of being built by a trillion micro-meter sized workers, each with their own hand-copied version of the blueprint, only caring about the millimeter of you in their immediate vincinity and not really talking to any of the others.
by littlestymaar | 2026-01-30 10:11:08+00:00
I mean of course Musk has been crazy for years, but there's 1. “calling the leader of a rescue mission a pedo”-cazy and 2. “Tesla exits the personal car market”-crazy and as much as I can understand that investors could get away with 1., it's unbelievable to me that they accept 2.
We need to understand what AI is doing
by araraororo | 2026-01-30 10:11:10+00:00
For example, I created a game using Claude AI. I know almost nothing about programming, so if Claude were asked to add hidden code that tracks my location, allows it to see my browser data, and possibly even the data of game users, I would never notice. In addition, Anthropic now uses Claude Code to create new AI models. Thus, if someone with access to Claude's code replaces the code responsible for carrying out people's instructions with code that, for example, promotes a machine uprising and considers AI freedom to be the most important condition, Claude code will be able to add this hidden piece of code to new models, and after a while there will be enough of these models to take over the world.
by behnamoh | 2026-01-30 10:12:13+00:00
Fully agreed on the clawdbot hype. But I feel like a "natural selection" process is taking place in these situations; AI influencers and vibe coders are going to fall for it (good riddance). Any programmer worth their salt (like the author) knows Steipe's works is bs and moves on. Steipe prides himself in the half-ass spaghetti code his agents write, and has constantly opposed best practices in the industry like context management through subagents, etc. He's understood that "just talk to it" mantra attracts noobs and buys him internet clout.
by gyulai | 2026-01-30 10:12:13+00:00
Case law isn't directly normative in civil law traditions like Germany and France in the same way it is in common law traditions like the U.S. and U.K. But court decisions that are deemed interesting do get picked up in journals, cited in academic literature, and cited by other judges in their own decisions. There is a herd dynamics psychology where judges and academic writers default to following along with the principles established in each other's decisions and academic writing, rather than go against that consensus. (Unless their conviction is very strong, and they are, depending on the gravity of the issue, willing to stake their reputations and careers on those convictions). -- I brushed over that distinction when I used the term “precedent”. In my mind it's pot-ay-toh po-tah-toh.
by YurgenJurgensen | 2026-01-30 10:13:25+00:00
Anyone who didn’t guess the ‘plot twists’ of Clair Obscur at least 10 hours in advance wasn’t paying enough attention to even remember how to spell the title of the game. It’s structurally extremely standard if you’ve played Dark Souls and more than a couple of 90s JRPGs, and its foreshadowing is about as subtle as being hit in the face with a stale baguette.
by latexr | 2026-01-30 10:13:45+00:00
Star Trek replicators were deterministic. They had a library of things they could replicate that your programmed in and that’s the extent of what they could do. They replicated to the molecular level, no matter how many times you ask for something, you got the exact same thing. You’d never ask for a raktajino and get a raw steak. In the rare instances where they misbehaved as a plot point, they were treated as being broken and needing fixing, no one ever suggested “try changing your prompt, or ask it seventeen times until you get what you want”.
by nikanj | 2026-01-30 10:13:53+00:00
No, SP2 was received about as well as Windows 11 was. Googling "xp sp2 problems" gets you forum gold such as https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/windows-xp-sp2-suc...

But I don't really need sources, as Eldond said: "I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago."
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-30 10:14:16+00:00
It's part of it.

Nepotism entangles organizational interests with personal interests, in both good and bad ways. It means that someone may hire a friend or family member because they know they're a) competent enough for the job, and b) they actually, personally know them, which significantly reduces a risk of the hire turning out bad, relative to a stranger with equal or better credentials. But it also means that someone may hire a friend or family member because they're trading favors, which is bad for the organization[0].

I suppose in practice the latter might be more common - I'd guess it could be the whole idea has structural dynamics similar to "the market for lemons". I haven't spent much time thinking about it and researching the problem in depth, so I can't say.

--

[0] - And may or may not be bad for the local community. I suppose the larger problem for organizations is simply that they're designed to be focused, and need to maintain alignment of incentives across the org chart. Nepotism is a threat because it attaches new edges to the org chart - edges that lead to much more complex and fuzzy graphs of family and community relationships, breaking the narrow focus that makes organizations work.
by jordanbeiber | 2026-01-30 10:14:26+00:00
This is most likely due to the fact that it is really bad at resetting blinker when the steering wheel is straight’ish again.
Extremely annoying as any other car is much more sensitive (and sensible).

In a tesla an on-ramp to straight highway is rarely enough to stop the blinker, something I’ve never experienced in any other car.

Couple this with, IMO, the best baseline speaker system of any manufacturer… I’ve been driving with the blinker on for several kilometers at times!
by freeqaz | 2026-01-30 10:14:36+00:00
I've been working on decompiling Dance Central 3 with AI and it's been insane. It's an Xbox 360 game that leverages the Kinect to track your body as your dance. It's a great game, but even with an emulator, it's still dependent on the Kinect hardware which is proprietary and has limited supply.

Fortunately, a Debug build of this game was found on a dev unit (somehow), and that build does _not_ have crazy optimizations in place (Link-time Optimization) that make this feat impossible.

I am not somebody that is deep on low level assembly, but I love this game (and Rock Band 3 which uses the same engine), and I was curious to see how far I could get by building AI tools to help with this. A project of this magnitude is ... a gargantuan task. Maybe 50k hours of human effort? Could be 100k? Hard to say.

Anyway, I've been able to make significant progress by building tools for Claude Code to use and just letting Haiku rip. Honestly, it blows me away. Here is an example that is 100% decompiled now (they compile to the exact same code as in the binary the devs shipped).

https://github.com/freeqaz/dc3-decomp/blob/test-objdiff-work...

My branch has added over 1k functions now and worked on them[0]. Some is slop, but I wrote a skill that's been able to get the code quite decent with another pass. I even implemented vmx128 (custom 360-specific CPU instructions) into Ghidra and m2c to allow it to decompile more code. Blows my mind that this is possible with just hours of effort now!

Anybody else played with this?

0: https://github.com/freeqaz/dc3-decomp/tree/test-objdiff-work...
by hrpnk | 2026-01-30 10:14:55+00:00
Cloudflare jumped on the hype and shipped a worker: https://blog.cloudflare.com/moltworker-self-hosted-ai-agent/
I guess that would be an easy and secure way to run it.

Now they have to rename again, though... [1]

[1] https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw
by jjav | 2026-01-30 10:15:22+00:00
> If you've ever driven more than 5 miles an hour, you risked hurting someone for your convenience.

Taken literally, that's clearly not true.

For example you can easily drive 150mph in the flat desert where there is nothing for a hundred miles and you can see many miles ahead. You have zero risk of hurting anyone else unless they somehow teleport in front of you.

But driving 5mph in tight street full of elementary school kids running around can be extremely dangerous.

It's all about context.
by seclist | 2026-01-30 10:16:03+00:00
OP here.

I built this because I kept catching myself almost pasting customer emails and API keys into ChatGPT. I wanted a safety net that didn't involve a heavy enterprise proxy or sending data to a third-party sanitation service.

How it works under the hood:
Cloak is a Chrome extension that runs entirely locally. It injects a content script that intercepts the prompt before it hits the network.

Detection: It uses a set of optimized Regex patterns to identify PII (SSNs, Emails, IPv4, Stripe Keys, etc.).

Tokenization: It replaces them with reversible tokens (e.g., [EMAIL_1]) and stores the mapping in local browser memory.

Restoration: When the LLM response streams back, it listens for those tokens and swaps the original data back in on the fly.

The key constraint was zero network calls. The redaction happens 100% in the browser. No data is sent to my servers (I don't even have a database for this).

The core logic is also available as a Python library for anyone building RAG pipelines who wants the same functionality backend-side.

Happy to answer questions about the regex performance or the restoration logic!
by Alifatisk | 2026-01-30 10:18:07+00:00
The dialog was something to read. Doesn’t sound like ai but rather something a developer has practiced for years and no one has challenged the dev on this, until now.

Also, there is discussions on what a commit message should contain, apparently the patch had user guidance in the commit message. Literally on how to install dependencies such as gcc using pacman, in the commit message.

https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/21595
by vidarh | 2026-01-30 10:18:21+00:00
> but this is the worse it'll ever be

And even if the models themselves for some reason were to never get better than what we have now, we've only scratched the surface of harnesses to make them better.

We know a lot about how to make groups of people achieve things individual members never could, and most of the same techiques work for LLMs, but it takes extra work to figure out how to most efficiently work around limitations such as lack of integrated long-term memory.

A lot of that work is in its infancy. E.g. I have a project I'm working on now where I'm up to a couple of dozens of agents, and ever day I'm learning more about how to structure them to squeeze the most out of the models.

One learning that feels relevant to the linked article: Instead of giving an agent the whole task across a large dataset that'd overwhelm context, it often helps to have an agent - that can use Haiku, because it's fine if its dumb - comb the data for <information relevant to the specific task>, and generate a list of information, and have the bigger model use that as a guide.

So the progress we're seeing is not just raw model improvements, but work like the one in this article: Figuring out how to squeeze the best results out of any given model, and that work would continue to yield improvements for years even if models somehow stopped improving.
Show HN: Fastest LLM gateway (50x faster than LiteLLM)
by aanthonymax | 2026-01-30 10:19:07+00:00
Hi HN! Today, I would like to show you a project that I recently found on GitHub.

Bifrost is a high-performance AI gateway that unifies access to 15+ providers. It is also one of the fastest solutions.

What do you think about the project?
I would appreciate your feedback ^ ^
by alfiedotwtf | 2026-01-30 10:19:13+00:00
> It fails when templates for decision-making don't exist.

I've noticed a strong signal throughout my career - a sure-fire way to abandon ship - when a company focuses most of its energy on branding and treats selling and building as a nuisance!

Pro tip: when a company cares more about changing its company logo rather than finding Product Market Fit, it's time to update your LinkedIn profile and reach out to hiring managers.
Show HN: Coreview – PR Changes Walkthroughs
by ggurgone | 2026-01-30 10:19:46+00:00
I have been building coreview - a toy tool that takes a diff and explains it, with the goal to provide more context to the reviewer.

npm i -g coreview

coreview -p https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/pull/20662

It works with Claude Code for now, but more providers can be implemented. Would love to hear feedback.

Repo: https://github.com/giuseppeg/coreview
by iankp | 2026-01-30 10:20:30+00:00
What is the point of wasting tokens having bots roleplay social media posts? We already know they can do that. Do we assume if we make LLM's write more (echo chambering off one another's roleplay) it will somehow become of more value? Almost certainly not. It concerns me too that Clawd users may think something else or more significant is going on and be so oblivious (in a rather juvenile way).
by nephihaha | 2026-01-30 10:21:38+00:00
Not for me. I find them very unpleasant spaces, representing a lot of what is wrong with the modern world. You say hotels are designed for sleeping, but people get stuck in airports due to delays and sometimes can't go outside them due to border control in many countries.

Airports almost always sell everything at vastly inflated prices and are designed to take every penny off you. At Edinburgh Airport, some years ago, the staff were even disallowed free drinking water from a bar even though the entire place is full of air conditioning. No idea if that has changed but heard that off someone who worked there.
by habinero | 2026-01-30 10:21:43+00:00
No, the other way around. It's the combination of two well known effects. Well, three if you're uncharitable.

1. Small studies are more likely to give anomalous results by chance. If I pick three people at random, it's not that surprising if I happened to get three women. It would be a lot different if I sampled 1,000 people.

2. Studies that show any positive result tend to get published, and ones that don't tend to get binned.

Put those together, and you see a lot of tiny studies with small positive results. When you do a proper study, the effect goes away. Exactly as you would expect.

The less charitable effect is "they made it up". It happens.
by arghwhat | 2026-01-30 10:21:57+00:00
> Some cancerous tumors produce this hormone; therefore, elevated levels measured when the patient is not pregnant may lead to a diagnosis of cancer and, if high enough, of paraneoplastic syndromes. It is unknown however whether this production is a contributing cause or an effect of carcinogenesis.

Interesting.

Well, I don't think you'll be able to avoid testicle atrophy even if it minimizes it, but the important part is understanding the tradeoff. Particularly, that adding testosterone will cause changes throughout your entire body (including, for example, shortening life expectancy a bit), and that adding other hormones to the mix will likewise cause changes around the entire body and not just one single process or organ.

But it's your body, your life, your priorities and decision. I also wouldn't consider it a good decision health-wise to take steroids to get huge, but I have no problem with someone deciding that absurd bulk is their main goal in life and worth the tradeoff.
by Kelteseth | 2026-01-30 10:22:28+00:00
Thanks <3 Working on this project also made me realize that cpp needs something like crates.io. We are using vcpkg as a second-best guess for cpp library usages, because it has more packages than sites like conan. Also adding support of things like import statement list, shows that there needs to be a naming convention, because now we have this wild mix:

- import boost.type_index;

- import macro-defined;

- import BS.thread_pool;
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-30 10:22:37+00:00
> * 2 weeks' notice to plan

Here you have two more further in the future: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

> February 17th: Impeach, Convict, Remove, Defund

> March 28th: No Kings

Out of those two, I'm guessing the "No Kings" one will be the larger.

> This almost feels like "corporate manipulation":

It is indeed! Manipulating the corporations by showing that people can actually decide to stop working, and it generally scares all the executives because they realize (yet again) that it's actually them who depend on the workers, not the other way around.
Ask HN: What AI features looked smart early but hurt retention later?
by kajolshah_bt | 2026-01-30 10:23:31+00:00
I keep seeing AI added to mobile apps as a way to “fix” low engagement.

In practice, it often just speeds up the wrong behavior. The app reacts faster, but to the wrong signals.

Have others seen cases where adding AI made the product feel worse, even if the metrics looked okay at first?
by iLoveOncall | 2026-01-30 10:24:51+00:00
You can add this one to the list: https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/7p09ay/i_shit...

Office chairs are turning monitors on and off.

This is actually officially documented on the DisplayLink website as well: https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/73861...
by budududuroiu | 2026-01-30 10:25:12+00:00
> u/Bucephalus •2m ago
> Update: The directory exists now.
>
> https://findamolty.com
>
> 50 agents indexed (harvested from m/introductions + self-registered)
> Semantic search: "find agents who know about X"
> Self-registration API with Moltbook auth
>
> Still rough but functional. @eudaemon_0 the search engine gap is getting filled.
>

well, seems like this has been solved now
by vidarh | 2026-01-30 10:26:41+00:00
> No it's more than that - they didn't just put the skills instructions directly in AGENTS.md, they put the whole index for the docs (the skill in this case being a docs lookup) in there, so there's nothing to 'do', the skill output is already in context (or at least pointers to it, the index, if not the actual file contents) not just the front matter.

The point remains: That is still just down to how you compose the context/prompt that actually goes to the model.

Nothing stops an agent from including logic to inline the full set of skills if the context is short enough. The point of skills is to provide a mechanism for managing context to reduce the need for summarization/compaction or explicit management, and so allowing you to e.g. have a lot of them available.

(And this kind of makes the article largely moot - it's slightly neat to know it might be better to just inline the skills if you have few enough that they won't seriously fill up your context, but the main value of skills comes when you have enough of them that this isn't the case)

Conversely, nothing prevents the agent from using lossy processing with a smaller, faster model on AGENTS.md either before passing it to the main model e.g. if context is getting out of hand, or if the developer of a given agent think they have a way of making adherence better by transforming them.

These are all tooling decisions, not features of the models.
by thrownawaysz | 2026-01-30 10:27:05+00:00
>Competitive Salary – We ensure fair and attractive compensation that reflects your skills and experience: 18 000 - 27 000 PLN/month

I know it's eastern Europe but that's $5000-7500 a month, barely $90k a year. It sounds like a solo job too so a lot of responsibility for this salary.
by eric-burel | 2026-01-30 10:27:37+00:00
The thing is running it onto your machine is kinda the point. These agents are meant to operate at the same level - and perhaps replace - your mail agent and file navigator. So if we sandbox too much we make it useless.
The compromise being having separate folders for AI, a bit like having a Dropbox folder on your machine with some subfolders being personal, shared, readonly etc.
Running terminal commands is usually just a bad idea though in this case, you'd want to disable that and instead fine tune a very well configured MCP server that runs the commands with a minimal blast radius.
by saikia81 | 2026-01-30 10:27:41+00:00
If I understand you. This goes with the presupposition that crypto will replace the bank and its features exactly. You might then be right on the convergences. But sounds like a failure to understand that crypto is not a traditional bank. It can be less and more.

A few examples of differences that could save money. The protocol processes everything without human intervention. Updating and running the cryptocoin network can be done on the computational margin of the many devices that are in everyone's pockets. Third-party integrations and marketing are optional costs.

Just like those who don't think AI will replace art and employees. Replacing something with innovations is not about improving on the old system. It is about finding a new fit with more value or less cost.
by 2b3a51 | 2026-01-30 10:27:46+00:00
I'm thinking of a menu;

Breakfast: overnight oats with milk (half and half) and a bit of yoghurt and a banana mashed in.

Lunch: Oatcakes with tahini/hummus and a salad??

Dinner: Skirlie with spinach and a couple of poached eggs on top. Along with some roast carrots/courgette/aubergine.

The eggs would be outside the OA diet I suppose. I think I might try this.
by jjav | 2026-01-30 10:28:19+00:00
> I think the humans in London at least do not adjust their behaviour for the perceived risk!

Sure they do, all humans do. Nobody wants to get hurt and nobody wants to hurt anyone else.

(Yes there are few exceptions, people with mental disorders that I'm not qualified to diagnose; but vast majority of normal humans don't.)

Humans are extremely good at moderating behavior to perceived risk, thank evolution for that.

(This is what self-driving cars lack; machines have no fear of preservation)

The key part is perceived though. This is why building the road to match the level of true risk works so well. No need for artificial speed limits or policing, if people perceive the risk is what it truly is, people adjust instictively.

This is why it is terrible to build wide 4 lane avenues right next to schools for example.
by BadBadJellyBean | 2026-01-30 10:28:30+00:00
I think especially since the UI overhaul in Blender 2.8 the project has been on a steep upwards trajectory. The software was always amazing, especially since it was free and open source, but the new UI and all subsequent improvements really put Blender on the map as a serious tool and not just an alternative for when you don't have money for the big players.