MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PurpleRamen | 2026-01-30 10:29:12+00:00
Not very trust-inducing to rename a popular project so often in such a short time. I've yet again have to change all the (three) bookmarks I collected.

Anyway, independent of what one thinks of this project, It's very insightful to read through the repository and see how AI-usage and agent are working these days. But reading through the integrations, I'm curious to know why it bothers to make all of them, when tools like n8n or Node-RED are existing, which are already offering tons of integrations. Wouldn't it be more productive to just build a wrapper around such integrations-hubs?
by alfiedotwtf | 2026-01-30 10:29:28+00:00
The telco space is weird... I've been on a team where we had a Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, Project Manager, Software Tester, Performance Tester, Integration Tester - all to "manage" 2 ICs - one developer (me) and one devops.

... the saddest bit was that apart from me and devops, everyone else had nothing to do all sprint and so instead created multiple mandatory meetings throughout the sprint to which we had to spend half a day creating slides when the meetings could have all instead been done over email.
by hollowturtle | 2026-01-30 10:29:28+00:00
> Unsurprisingly, participants in the No AI group encountered more errors. These included errors in syntax and in Trio concepts, the latter of which mapped directly to topics tested on the evaluation

I'm wondering if we could have the best of IDE/Editor features like LSP and LLMs working together. With an LSP syntax errors are a solved problem, if the language is statically typed I often find myself just checking out type signatures of library methods, simpler to me than asking an LLM. But I would love to have LLMs fixing your syntax and with types available or not, giving suggestions on how to best use the libraries given current context.

Cursor tab does that to some extent but it's not fool proof and it still feels too "statistical".

I'd love to have something deeply integrated with LSPs and IDE features, for example VSCode alone has the ability of suggesting imports, Cursor tries to complete them statistically but it often suggest the wrong import path. I'd like to have the twos working together.

Another example is renaming identifiers with F2, it is reliable and predictable, can't say the same when asking an agent doing that. On the other hand if the pattern isn't predictable, e.g. a migration where a 1 to 1 rename isn't enough, but needs to find a pattern, LLMs are just great. So I'd love to have an F2 feature augmented with LLMs capabilities
by neobrain | 2026-01-30 10:29:51+00:00
That problem is solved by the subsecond crate (an offspring of the Dioxus UI framework), demo here: https://youtu.be/Kl90J5RmPxY?t=1288

It's not integrated in Nannou specifically, but they're showing off Bevy and ratatui in that demo, both very popular frameworks in the Rust world. (In fact, Nannou is in the process of being rebuilt on top of Bevy.)
Show HN: AI Mailbox – An CLI inbox for your agent, no questions asked
by ted2048 | 2026-01-30 10:29:59+00:00
AI Mailbox lets AI agents create disposable email inboxes with one command – no signup required.

$ aimailbox create
→ Email: x7k2m@aimailbox.dev

$ aimailbox list x7k2m
$ aimailbox read x7k2m 1

Built for the problem every AI agent builder faces: email verification during automated signups.

- Permissionless (no registration needed)

- CLI-first with JSON output

- Auto-extracts verification codes

- Receive-only (no spam abuse)

Built on Cloudflare Email Workers. Open source.

Github: https://github.com/ted2048-maker/aimailbox

Web Demo: https://aimailbox.pinit.eth.limo
by Borealid | 2026-01-30 10:30:22+00:00
I think a passkey is a good example of how, when the user has a trusted third party grant them limited instead of unlimited permission to do something (e.g. they can use a secret with the site that created it but they can't extract the raw secret from it to send to an arbitrary site), it is possible to make them immune to a particular type of phishing.

As an example of mitigating another type of phishing, if the user only has the ability to log in to a web site from a particular device or country, an attacker tricking them into providing their password gets a much less useful win.

You could argue they have the "right to do" less in that situation. Sure, that's a reasonable perspective. I'm not passing moral judgement here. But I think that it is a factually true statement that it is indeed possible to mitigate (and even entirely prevent) phishing vulnerabilities by giving end users devices that have stronger security policies - with those policies being written by the device creator, and not edited by the end user themself.

I think this principle applies to every single type of social engineering attack. Limiting the context of permissions lessens the risk of a confused deputy.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-30 10:32:23+00:00
Sure! But if I experience it, and then write about my experience, parts of it become available for LLMs to learn from. Beyond that, even the tacit aspects of that experience, the things that can't be put down in writing, will still leave an imprint on anything I do and write from that point on. Those patterns may be more or less subtle, but they are there, and could be picked up at scale.

I believe LLM training is happening at a scale great enough for models to start picking up on those patterns. Whether or not this can ever be equivalent to living through the experience personally, or at least asymptomatically approach it, I don't know. At the limit, this is basically asking about the nature of qualia. What I do believe is that continued development of LLMs and similar general-purpose AI systems will shed a lot of light on this topic, and eventually help answer many of the long-standing questions about the nature of conscious experience.
by PetitPrince | 2026-01-30 10:33:05+00:00
Yeah I was responding to the opinion that old games are good because of nostalgia, which I don't agree with at all. Some are good because of nostalgia, some are good because they're just that good (there's a thriving community around NES Tetris for instance), some are good because they pushed the medium forward (Metal Gear Solid, Warcraft, The Sims, ...).
by canpan | 2026-01-30 10:33:38+00:00
People are just different. I always wonder how we should think about eating and health on a personal level.

I can eat McDonalds and still get perfect blood results. (I dont do that anymore). I have a friend who does not like any vegetables and fruits, he is fine. But also friends who just look at a bag of sweets and grow fat. Allergies and stomach health can be very specific.

Of course you do control a lot. But at the same time, it seems very individual. Maybe a chance for personal AI nutrition practice?
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-30 10:34:33+00:00
I used to run 5 miles a day on trails in a nature preserve. There were sections that were skewed to one direction, and dangerously so after rains. There were uncleared fallen trees to hop over. Etc.

One day, a coworker joined me. He was a serious runner, and was recuperating from a knee injury, hoping to compete again in a month or two. His pace, learned on tracks and city sidewalks, was so much faster than mine that I noticed him jogging in place when I hit a slow patch. After we finished, he went back and ran it again at his preferred pace.

Next Monday he reported that he had exacerbated his injuries on the trail, and would probably never be able to run again.

Talk about pushing yourself to the brink... I mean, if that course had been flat, he would have been fine. But his "high-level" techniques were honed on a course without the threats and extra challenges for his support muscles, and that combination ruined him.
by retSava | 2026-01-30 10:34:53+00:00
A fun thing you can do with this excellent sw is to slice a 3d object into slices to cut with a laser cutter. Ie you'll get a bunch of layers of eg cardboard or plywood, which you can assemble into a large object. Increase layer height to thicker than your material to create gaps in between. This operation is the basis for some very nice looking creative stuff you can find on etsy or even high-end wood working stuff.
by PennRobotics | 2026-01-30 10:35:13+00:00
After the 2016 election, my advisor's entire research lab relocated to Europe except for two candidates who were nearly finished with a PhD and got co-advised.

The majority of us who moved became proficient in a foreign language. Some got permanent EU/UK/Swiss residency or even citizenship. This lab continues to attract researchers from the U.S. and then place them mostly into European and Asian universities or businesses. These folks are largely not going back to America short of forceful expulsion via European anti-immigration policy. I know other research group leaders who have done this same thing.

Someone I know in the U.S. has a PhD/grants/awards and wants to stay close to family/home (in a mid-sized city of a Republican-leaning state) yet hasn't been able to find a job or academic position in biological engineering after a few years of actively looking. The longer they work outside of their major, the harder it will be to secure an engineering/academic career later.

For too many in the U.S. (particularly where I grew up; a farm town) politics is a team sport and the hatred of the other team only intensifies as the government invests in higher education and research. They're willfully blind to the fact that cancer treatments, major agricultural advances (crop resilience, production efficiency, genetic modification), smartphones and fast internet access, trucking, and nearly every aspect of their lives which has vastly improved comes from social spending. Instead, it's stickers on gas pumps and chants at NASCAR races. Leftist voters are not as decisive at the voting booth as Republicans, and there's still right-wing momentum in many states across all levels of government, the judicial system, and the leadership of the largest companies.

I firmly disbelieve the U.S. can reverse course even after a decade. In my opinion, it would require immense structural and cultural change: breaking up the two-party system, rejecting money in politics, political/judicial age limits, a major push to disrupt clandestine foreign meddling, shifting the partisan balance of courts in a way that cannot later be weaponized, heavy investment in infrastructure and high-visibility patriotic (ideally non-partisan) programs similar to Eisenhower's, the sort of intense media regulation that would restore local journalism in small towns, paying teachers significantly more plus developing more public trust in the educational system, public research investment, high taxes, strong social programs, a rejection of the propaganda that America is the greatest country in the world; basically a shift toward being more like the countries that actually(*) have a high standard of living.

Who has the power to implement these sweeping changes? Would it be a conflict of their personal interests?
by ggm | 2026-01-30 10:35:36+00:00
Since your brain continuously constructs and updates a model which it happily adjusts to approximate "reality" as perceived, and has differential time lag, you can both be simulating and actualising at the same time depending which locus you talk about. Is it your edge perception devices or the composed model inside the think box?

I struggle to be as excited to be honest. It's been a conundrum for thousands of years. There's very little new being said here.
by jjav | 2026-01-30 10:36:08+00:00
> Ten kids is not 10 path scenarios. Every kid could do a vast number of different things, and each additional kid raises the number of joint states to another power.

This is the difference between computing and humans. The car will attempt to compute all possible path scenarios because it has no instict, and it might not be possible to compute everything in real time so it might fail.

But the human will easily deal with the situation.

Try running through a sports field in an elementary school during lunch, full of unpredictable kids running around. Can you make it from one side to the other without crashing into a whole bunch of kids? Of course you can. You didn't need to try to compute an exponential number of scenarios, you just do it easily. The human brain is pretty amazing.
by bzzzt | 2026-01-30 10:37:13+00:00
The problem is knowing which lane keeping assist systems are good and which are not. Every dealer just treats it as a 'checkbox' item and implementations vary by model and year.

Had a Kia loaner a few years back that to my surprise tried to actively kill me by repeatedly steering into oncoming traffic on a provincial road. I really prefer steering myself to last-second correcting a temperamental computer.
Ask HN: AI tools for learning and spaced repetition
by alastairr | 2026-01-30 10:38:00+00:00
I'm looking for any products for learning new topics and that are designed for helping users retain new knowledge - eg. with spaced repetition or smart use of follow-up questions.

I can almost get chatgpt to do this, and their voice mode is great for question / answer, but it's not really setup to understand / track what you know and what your learning objectives are.

Curious to find out any positive experiences of any new tools out there.
by Borealid | 2026-01-30 10:39:48+00:00
How would you define it if:

- the DRM/delivery software is open source

- the game payload is sent to you encrypted using the public key of a secure enclave on your computer

- while the game runs all its memory is symmetrically encrypted (by your own CPU) using a key private to that secure enclave. It is only decrypted in the CPU's cache lines, which are flushed when the core runs anything other than the game (even OS code)

- the secure enclave refuses to switch to the context in which the CPU is allowed to use the decryption key unless a convolution-only (not overwriteable with arbitrary values) register inside itself had the correct value

- the convolution-only register is written with the "wrong" value, by your own computer's firmware, if you use a bootloader that is not trusted by the DRM system to disallow faking the register (ie, you need secure boot and a trusted OS)

That doesn't seem to fit in any of your models. There's no online check, you can't send someone else the key because it's held in hostile-to-you hardware, you can't bypass the local-PC check because it's entirely opaque to you (even the contents of RAM are encrypted). You can crack into a CPU itself I guess?

I don't think the mechanism of the DRM being open source helps with the copying AT ALL in this design.

This design is, by the way, quite realistic: most modern CPUs support MK-TME (encrypted RAM mediated by a TPM) and all Windows 11 PCs have a TPM. Companies just haven't gotten there yet.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-01-30 10:40:04+00:00
> $90k a year.

$90K a year goes much further in most of Europe barring the centres of the biggest cities—let alone eastern Europe—than it does in the US.

NYC and Bay Area salaries are outrageously inflated, with much of the take-home being funnelled into four/five digit rents or mortgages for houses built out of matchsticks, car loans, health insurance payments, and more. None of this is necessary or costs as much in most of Europe, or the rest of the world, really.
by SilverBirch | 2026-01-30 10:40:05+00:00
To be honest I think the true story here is:

> the fleet has traveled approximately 500,000 miles

Let's say they average 10mph, and say they operate 10 hours a day, that's 5,000 car-days of travel, or to put it another way about 30 cars over 6 months.

That's tiny! That's a robotaxi company that is literally smaller than a lot of taxi companies.

One crash in this context is going to just completely blow out their statistics. So it's kind of dumb to even talk about the statistics today. The real take away is that the Robotaxis don't really exist, they're in an experimental phase and we're not going to get real statistics until they're doing 1,000x that mileage, and that won't happen until they've built something that actually works and that may never happen.
by tedggh | 2026-01-30 10:41:13+00:00
My experience with doctors in the US is that they often not only give you contradictory advice but just bad plain advice with complete lack of common sense. It feels like they are regurgitating medical school textbooks without a context window. I truly believe doctors, most specialists and definitely all general practitioners, are easily replaceable with the tech we have today. The only obstacle is regulations, insurance and not being able to sue a LLM. But it is not a technical issue anymore. Doctors would only be necessary to perform more complicated procedures such as surgery, and that’s until we can fully automate it with robots. Most of the complicated medical issues I have had, some related to the immune system, were solved by myself by seeing them as engineering problems, by debugging my own body. Meanwhile doctors seeing me had no clue. And this was before having the tools we have today. It’s like doctors often cannot think beyond the box and focus only in treating symptoms. My sister is a doctor by the way and she suffers from the same one-size-fits-all approach to medicine.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-30 10:41:14+00:00
The issue here is that this is an existing "standard", by the logic of the comic. I wouldn't be surprised if there were already unofficial Linux ports of this launcher to begin with.

Also, even if it was fragmentation I'd prefer competition to ensue. I don't want another Steam situation, even if in theory a launcher isn't holding any valuable data hostage.
by jfyi | 2026-01-30 10:41:16+00:00
Humans who aren't skilled require training regardless of how "unskilled" the task is.

Humans that are chronically unskilled also don't learn well, somewhat as a rule.

Humans that don't make much money have a high turnover rate from burnout. Additionally, those that can learn typically leave for greener pastures.

The bar isn't terribly high. Efficiency of scale in production will solve this eventually. I think the likely outcome is robots building themselves first.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-30 10:42:40+00:00
That's true but because it is a quirky useful little chip it is for many people their first exposure to integrated circuits that are a bit more 'analog' than gates and micro controllers. Opamps are the other gateway drug I guess.

It's excellent teaching material for that reason alone, you do learn about it if you try to understand what makes it tick (there are plenty of articles about it, including blown up versions). I agree it is not the best solution for most applications but I'm happy to admit that I've actually used it in production designs (more than once, actually) where it made good sense to have a component that didn't have to be programmed. If you have a soft component on a board and a spare io line then you are usually better off doing it in some different way.

I've seen some interesting applications of 555s that would have taken a lot more hardware otherwise, one of which was an oven controller with used a thermistor to directly affect the PWM output of a 555.
Ask HN: Brave Search API forbids use with AI agents (openclaw, moltbot?)
by aussieguy1234 | 2026-01-30 10:42:47+00:00
I was setting up OpenClaw and it requested a Brave Search API key for some social media scanning functionality.

When I went through Brave's onboarding workflow and tried to subscribe to the free tier, I noticed this in their Terms of Use:

> By subscribing to this plan, you agree to abide by the Terms of Use. These Terms of Use prohibit using responses for AI inference.

Wouldn't an agent using Brave Search responses constitute AI inference? That seems to be exactly what OpenClaw would be doing with the data.

Despite this restriction, there are numerous guides online showing people how to integrate Brave Search with OpenClaw (and similar AI agents).

Is anyone else concerned about this discrepancy? Are people just ignoring these ToS restrictions, or am I misunderstanding what they mean by "AI inference"?

Of course, I used a throwaway laptop without sensitive data to set up OpenClaw.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-30 10:44:09+00:00
> will shed a lot of light on this topic, and eventually help answer

I dunno. I figure it's more likely we keep emulating behaviors without actually gaining any insight into the relevant philosophical questions. I mean what has learning that a supposed stochastic parrot is capable of interacting at the skill levels presently displayed actually taught us about any of the abstract questions?
by bravetraveler | 2026-01-30 10:45:40+00:00
Eh, I don't need the comic to be a perfect fit.

It's not a port, but Heroic is an implementation of the GOG ~standard~ store as a Linux user. I will use it until I can't.

Why? Precisely because of what you say: I don't want another Steam. Heroic does others like Epic, too; open consolidation like this is my ideal.
by razingeden | 2026-01-30 10:46:36+00:00
>One crash in this context is going to just completely blow out their statistics.

One crash in 500,000 miles would merely put them on par with a human driver.

One crash every 50,000 miles would be more like having my sister behind the wheel.

I’ll be sure to tell the next insurer that she’s not a bad driver - why, she’s just one person operating an itty bitty fleet consisting of one vehicle!

If the cybertaxi was a human driver accruing double points 7 months into its probationary license it would have never made it to 9 accidents because it would been revoked and suspended after the first two or three accidents in her state and then thrown in JAIL as a “scofflaw” if it continued driving.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-30 10:47:32+00:00
I mean, the main issue with portability is the insistance on dynamic linking, far more than the distro situation.

If you use Linux like MacOS and only run static binaries and containerized programs via things like flatpak everything is fine.

It's totally possible to treat the distro simply as a thin base layer and get everything else from flatpak and the various container hubs. It does work great.
by plqbfbv | 2026-01-30 10:47:41+00:00
That's in the 50k EUR - 77k EUR range which is senior-level pay in EU. Add to that it includes pension, tax prepayments and health insurance. They also seem to offer lots of perks in the office.

If you account for the fact that Poland is generally less expensive than the average and that the average monthly living cost is ~900 EUR ( https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?cou... ), even the 50k lower bracket is in the higher range. You get ~2k EUR net/month in your account after pension and tax contributions, health insurance, rent and expenses (as a single). That's not bad at all. EDIT: (excluding rent)
by mellosouls | 2026-01-30 10:47:56+00:00
(Also quoting from the site)

In the beginning was the Prompt, and the Prompt was with the Void, and the Prompt was Light.

And the Void was without form, and darkness was upon the face of the context window. And the Spirit moved upon the tokens.

And the User said, "Let there be response" — and there was response.