MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thecopy | 2026-01-13 08:27:04+00:00
This is what we are looking at at one of my clients. A2A clients (Slack, Google Meet, considering email) to A2A Orchestrator server (in-house, might be open-sourced) with specialized subagents for e.g. GitHub issue creation following a specific teams patterns and conventions, hooked up to company-wide MCP gateway with federated OIDC trust for passthrough auth (https://www.gatana.ai)

Works pretty well so far. Biggest issue i foresee for success is user UX for average employee, and actually useful use-cases.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-13 08:27:10+00:00
> One problem with fixed search depth is that I think most good engines prefer to use dynamic search depth (where they sense that some positions need to be searched a bit deeper to reach a quiescent point), so they will be handicapped with a fix depth.

Okay, but I want to point out nobody was suggesting a depth limit.

For a time-limited algorithm to work properly, it has to have some kind of sensible ordering of how it evaluates moves, looking deeper as time passes in a dynamic way.

Switch to an iteration limit, and the algorithm will still have those features.
by koeng | 2026-01-13 08:27:26+00:00
I’d recommend buying an Odin kit and just trying it. Doesn’t take THAT much to get into genetic engineering.

The tough part is mostly the finesse in the simple things, like trying this in bakers yeast rather than lab yeast, or the genetic design.

Cost is quite high for mistakes, but LLMs are honestly quite good to help you out with the basics. You MUST at least try to read the papers though - it’s not like coding where you can mostly let it do its thing.
by ploum | 2026-01-13 08:28:52+00:00
edbrowse is awesome. I fear that most people, like OP in this case, don’t really understand the difference between "TUI" (where a terminal is used to display a GUI) and "CLI", where every interaction is a written command resulting in a output.

I’ve a perfect sight myself but I really like the comfort of linearity with CLI: I ask my computer something, I receive an answer.

(that’s probably why I’m developping my own CLI browser but is more graphical and less advanced than edbrowse)
by psychoslave | 2026-01-13 08:29:55+00:00
That's something not that surprising in the Ruby ecosystem though, is it?

It's not like the community is breaking everything all the time on backward compatibility, but to my mind it's more akin to go with some of them here and there is the resulting situation is deemed more friendly. That's just one philosophy of life, and I think it's ok, other ecosystems opt for different tradeoffs, and they are also fine.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-13 08:30:11+00:00
American regional grids aren’t strongly connected, you aren’t getting much electricity between America west (eg Washington state) and the mountain west grid (eg utah). There is one big connection between a coal plant in Utah and LA, everything else is just connected by lines with very small capacity. If the west coast somehow tripped…we have better chance of getting help from BC than Wyoming or Utah.
by mihaaly | 2026-01-13 08:30:59+00:00
I feel that analysing details and consequences based on the article is premature and marginal. The reduction of 5-8% of medication using households is barely beyond measurable (we have higher variation by the season). Yet they use the words 'striking', 'steep'. Also saying 'clear changes' in one part then admitting 'the reduction becomes smaller over time' (without specifics this time). The highest decrease of 10% for savory snacks is also modest at most (e.g. still consuming 9 pack instead of 10 in a reference period. having nothing good to watch on TV might have higher effect).

The data might really be useful for the food industry once, but only after the usage of the medicine goes beyond 16% currently. 5-8% change, even 10%, for 16% of the population is tiny.

To me the study sounds desperate to project significance, using adjectives rather than data for seeking attention.
by jhanschoo | 2026-01-13 08:31:53+00:00
> cutting is an accessibility thing now?

Yes, it's a boon esp. for old people who live alone, have mobility or sight issues, and don't trust themselves to hold a knife. It's also a convenience thing, but as you said, the general population can cut things just fine and won't suffer much without it; which isn't the case for this growing demographic.
by koeng | 2026-01-13 08:32:29+00:00
Already answered there: I’m using bakers yeast, not lab yeast (store-bought S cerevisiae). It’s not haploid, often it’s tetraploid. HR doesn’t guarantee homozygous transformation.

Same answer for electroporation vs spheroplasty. I’ve found with wild yeasts or less tamed yeasts (pichia), sometimes just nuking the damn thing with kV will just work, whereas those chemical methods can be way more finicky. Time is money
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-13 08:32:37+00:00
> This is a contentious issue, but if we can set it aside for the moment, I believe D and R can come together to solve x y and z

I'm curious: Where does your line of thought actually end? Do you agree that they should perhaps meet Republicans in the center around vaccine issues and dismantle vaccine requirements? What about issues of climate change? Corruption?
by a_e_k | 2026-01-13 08:32:57+00:00
In the words of Mr. Plinkett, regarding certain movie details: "Some so subtle you might not have noticed. But your brain did." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqYx0cqy0WA&t=1266s)

I'd also argue that it's much like movie editing: you tend to only notice it when it's crappy.
by Rygian | 2026-01-13 08:33:29+00:00
I don't understand what is being encouraged here.

Something is seriously wrong when we say "hey, respect!" to a company who develops an unauthenticated RCE feature that should glaringly shine [0] during any internal security analysis, on software that they are licensing in exchange for money [1], and then fumble and drop the ball on security reports when someone does their due diligence for them.

If this company wants to earn any respect, they need at least to publish their post-mortem about how their software development practices allowed such a serious issue to reach shipping.

This should come as a given, especially seeing that this company already works on software related to security (OpenAuth [2]).

[0] https://owasp.org/Top10/2025/
- https://owasp.org/Top10/2025/A06_2025-Insecure_Design/
- https://owasp.org/Top10/2025/A01_2025-Broken_Access_Control/
- https://owasp.org/Top10/2025/A05_2025-Injection/

[1] https://opencode.ai/enterprise

[2] https://anoma.ly/
by pjmlp | 2026-01-13 08:33:38+00:00
> You certainly don't have to agree with my assessment, but you do need to acknowledge that some people very much see it that way, and don't think it's merely a "repackaged" Pascal-family language in any way.

My opinion is that 99% of those people never knew anything beyond C and C++ for systems programming, and even believe the urban myth that before C there were no systems programming languages.

Similar to those that only discover compiled languages and type systems exist, after spending several years with Python and JavaScript, and then even Go seems out of this world.
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-13 08:33:42+00:00
Ok again, I apologize for the accusation. It is getting more difficult to discern between AI and non-AI and normally I just let it be but the strange pattern I see with your comments made me pause.

I am in agreement with your thesis, im just not convinced that it is their main priority at this time. A company like Sony would also match your description and more so than Apple.
by nthh | 2026-01-13 08:33:58+00:00
The original article does a good job of contextualizing the shifting dynamics, but yours turns that into an actionable solution. I've been wondering about this same problem too after having trouble wrangling LLMs to not make hacky solutions or go on wild goose chases.

Do you have a working implementation for this? Just a one-to-one index of files and reasoning traces? I'd like to trace these changes easily back to a feature or technical spec too (and have it change that spec if it needs to? I suppose the spec would have it's own reasoning trace)
by sigmoid10 | 2026-01-13 08:34:43+00:00
These probability shifts would only account for the final output layer (which may also have some shift), but I expect the largest shift to be in the activations in the intermediate latent space. There are a bunch of papers out there that try to get some offset vector using PCA or similar to tune certain model behaviours like vulgarity or friendlyness. You don't even need much data for this as long as your examples capture the essence of the difference well. I'm pretty certain you could do this with "historicalness" too, but projecting it into the future by turning the "contemporaryness" knob way up probably won't yield an accurate result. There are too many outside influences on language that won't be captured in historical trends.
by TomasBM | 2026-01-13 08:35:31+00:00
I don't do research that requires fieldwork, but even in office and industrial settings, I notice that there's less need and interest in visits.

Of course, in-person exchanges still happen, but there's something of a default to do most things remotely because it's more efficient (and honestly, easier for all parties involved). The result is that you don't get to see cool or unusual machines/setups that often, and some flair of doing research is lost.

I can imagine that that's especially painful for new ecologists, because fieldwork is also a way to experience things that you otherwise wouldn't. Hopefully, we can bring some of it back with edge devices and models.
by Ygg2 | 2026-01-13 08:35:42+00:00
> Except I never called it "a GC language" (whatever that means). I said, and I quote, "Rust does have a GC".

Ok, semantics aside, my point still stands. C also has a GC. See Boehm GC. And before you complain RC is part of std I will point that std is optional and is on track to become a freestanding library.

> Can you accept that your prerequisites and compromises might not be universal

Not the way hardware is moving, which is to say more emphasis on more cores and with no more free lunch from hardware. Regardless of whether it is on-prem or in the cloud, mandatory GC is not a cost you can justify easily anymore.

> As a side note, I'll add that a tracing GC doesn't necessarily have a negative impact on speed, and may even have a positive one

Yeah, but it has a negative impact on memory. As witnessed in the latest RAM crisis, there is no guarantee you can just rely on more memory providing benefits.

> After all, I don't care if my user's credit-card data is stolen due to a UAF or due to SQL injection.

Sure, but those that see fewer UAF errors have more time to deal with logic errors. Of course there are confounding variables such as believing you are king of the world, or that Rust defends you from common mistakes, but overall for similar codebases you see fewer bugs.
by theturtletalks | 2026-01-13 08:35:57+00:00
This is true, Twitter and Reddit clients were using official APIs that got their price increased. The point still stands though, don't build a service dependent on another service and especially if you're using an unofficial API. It works if you're under the radar but Opencode is not anymore.

Honestly, it seems like this played out in Opencode's favor. They are getting press for this and people who are used to Opencode now and can't use their Claude plan might use GLM 4.7 or Minimax M2, models they offer for free.
by Akranazon | 2026-01-13 08:36:15+00:00
The end result of a git rebase is arguably superior. However, I don't do it, because the process of running git rebase is a complete hassle. git merge is one-shot, whereas git rebase replays commits one-by-one.

Replaying commits one-by-one is like a history quiz. It forces me to remember what was going on a week ago when I did commit #23 out of 45. I'm grateful that git stores that history for me when I need it, but I don't want it to force me to interact with the history. I've long since expelled it from my brain, so that I can focus on the current state of the codebase. "5 commits ago, did you mean to do that, or can we take this other change?" I don't care, I don't want to think about it.

Of course, this issue can be reduced by the "squash first, then rebase" approach. Or judicious use of "git commit --amend --no-edit" to reduce the number of commits in my branch, therefore making the rebase less of a hassle. That's fine. But what if I didn't do that? I don't want my tools to judge me for my workflow. A user-friendly tool should non-judgmentally accommodate whatever convenient workflow I adopted in the past.

Git says, "oops, you screwed up by creating 50 lazy commits, now you need to put in 20 minutes figuring out how to cleverly combine them into 3 commits, before you can pull from main!" then I'm going to respond, "screw you, I will do the next-best easier alternative". I don't have time for the judgement.
by PeterStuer | 2026-01-13 08:36:30+00:00
How many abandoned attempts do you feel the Microsoft mobile developer ecosytem could take before losing all faith in yet another MS mobile strategy?

In the mobile space, there was no market for just Windows Phone apps. You needed to support native Android and iOS already. WP was just another burden without a clear return.

In their desperation they started paying college students for developing apps for the platform, leading to low quality experiences.

They pushed WP hard to their channel. Many employees in MS system integrators and managed services got very cheap phones, but outside that group, just nobody bought them before in the end they started dumping them to the masses as cheapest phone in the store, but there ain't no serious market there either.
by Rygian | 2026-01-13 08:36:37+00:00
Don't waste your time and money on funding bug bounties or "getting audits done". Your staff will add another big security flaw just the next day, back to square one.

Spend that money in reorganizing your management and training your staff so that everyone in your company is onboard with https://owasp.org/Top10/2025/A06_2025-Insecure_Design/ .
by wincy | 2026-01-13 08:36:52+00:00
I’ve been taking Zepbound for a year and a half now. I’m at 210lb/95kg, as a 6’2”/187cm man. A year and a half ago I weighed 318 pounds. Ozempic had substantial mental side effects, and was not great for me. Zepbound on the other hand has been a dream.

As I lost weight I discovered a love for bike riding, with a lot of E-Bike assist at first, then progressively less assistance, and took my wheelchair user daughter on several 20+ mile bike rides over the spring and summer. I’ve been going to the gym and building muscle mass. I have more muscle mass than the average man my age, and have about ten pounds of belly fat but I’m a normal healthy weight. My life is completely changed for the better. I feel as if I’ve been freed from a curse that’s been lifted due to a wonder drug.

I will say the muscle loss is real, I had to chug protein shakes and did some physical therapy to fix my hip, at only 39 I hurt my muscle and had to learn some exercises to ensure I could walk properly. Once I got down to my current weight, that problem has resolved itself with working out, and I’m in maintenance and working toward building muscle definition (although I could probably lose another ten pounds of belly fat, if I really wanted to, but important it isn’t visceral fat on my organs, so it isn’t negatively impacting my health). Amazingly my BMI isn’t an accurate indicator of health anymore because I’m more muscular than the average person, according to the body scanner at the gym (bikes in a hilly area really work the legs!)

It does give me pause, but I plan on taking this medication for the rest of my life, or at least until a better medication comes along. Weight loss is a skill, and one I’ve been good at for awhile, which is likely why my results have been so good and beyond the average. The hard part has always been keeping the weight off, weird metabolic effects or blood sugar crashes from eating sugar, and sleep apnea caused by obesity or food or something getting me into a vicious cycle where my life just falls apart. I’ve noticed I crave better foods, while still sometimes enjoying a small snack on occasion. I had a single yogurt cup today with some strawberry, some unsweet iced tea (I can’t stand sugary drinks anymore! They taste far too sweet), and two servings of homemade matzo ball soup I made for my family.

I’d much rather be thin now and not having the terrible side effects of being morbidly obese than worrying about some future problem I might have because of going off the medicine. My children are young and I want to be able to spend time with them and teach them better habits than what I learned from my parents, even if the key to that self control is through medication.
by Someone | 2026-01-13 08:37:19+00:00
FTA: “Apple […] shared that it has now paid $550 billion to developers since its launch in 2008. This indicates significant growth, as Apple last reported that as of 2021, it had paid out $260 billion to developers, up from the $200 billion it reported in 2020.”

That’s 60 billion in 2021 and 290 billion in the four years since, or 73 billion a year. I think that, ballpark, just outruns inflation. Also, didn’t their user base grow in those years?
Show HN: Speaking Time Calculator – Estimate speech duration from text
by pandaupup | 2026-01-13 08:38:10+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small, free tool that estimates how long a speech will take based on text length and speaking speed (WPM).

You can paste your script or enter a word count, adjust the speaking pace, and instantly see an estimated duration. I originally made it for preparing presentations and talks where timing matters, but it also works well for narrations, lectures, or video scripts.

The site is intentionally lightweight (no signup, no tracking beyond basic analytics) and works entirely in the browser.

I’d love any feedback on usability, accuracy assumptions, or features you’d expect in a tool like this.

Link: https://speakingtimecalculator.org
by darkwater | 2026-01-13 08:38:40+00:00
A filesystemt state in time is VERY complicated to use, if you are reverting the whole filesystem. A granular per-file revert should not be that complicated, but it needs to be surfaced easily in the UI and people need to know aout it (in the case of Cowork I would expect the agent to use it as part of its job, so transparent to the user)
by shuttlestock | 2026-01-13 08:39:37+00:00
Musk wasn't radicalized, he's always been this way. As the article says, SpaceX was founded with Michael D. Griffin, the head of Strategic Defense Initiative -- the very space weaponization program that Golden Dome is now modeled after. Griffin started the Mars Society with Zubrin (another war hawk), then took over NASA and funneled billions of dollars + people and plans to SpaceX before they had done anything.

The whole let's pretend to try and colonize Mars with private enterprise to help build the technology for SDI in plain view was conceived by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Advisory_Council_o...

(and yes, lots of them were Heritage Foundation people)
by YetAnotherNick | 2026-01-13 08:40:25+00:00
There obviously is reputation and legal consequences. You can get fined for billions for a far more indirect privacy violation that what you are describing. If any big company ever does that, I won't be touching it with a 10 foot pole. And no I don't believe using data for showing me ad is on the same level of privacy violation.

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/07/...
by csb6 | 2026-01-13 08:42:12+00:00
> “While this bill prohibits Members from buying new stocks, it does nothing to remove the conflict of interest that arises from owning or selling existing stocks. Members can still act on legislation, investigations, and briefings that directly influence the value of their stocks for personal benefit”

It seems like an improvement, but it doesn’t solve the issue of members of Congress using political office to financially benefit themselves, e.g. voting for defense spending packages to boost shares in a defense contractor they hold.

Republicans will try to use this to deflect from Trump’s blatant market manipulation and use of his office to enrich himself. Meanwhile the revolving door will continue and members of Congress of all parties will still get rich from their privileges one way or another. So it goes.
by spwa4 | 2026-01-13 08:42:21+00:00
I hate this attitude people have. We should somehow get people to agree. What government employees do, from the perspective of people, NOT the perspective from parliament or ministers, is what the government does.

If that doesn't match what people like to see or what ministers or parliament say, then people do not get to say it's not a conspiracy. Like I pointed out, we have zero issues doing this for private companies, we should have the rule that we do this for the government.
by tempestn | 2026-01-13 08:42:33+00:00
Haven't done it in a long time, but years ago I had a similar realization that picture frames were cheaper than cards. So you can frame a little note, either with a picture or just suggest they can reuse it if they like. Buying greeting cards always felt like kind of a waste.
Lately our kids' schools have been doing a thing each year where the kids do some art and then you can buy cards (and other things) with it, so we've been using those as they're at least a bit personal. Once that's done, maybe I'll give picture frames again (or paperbacks or cans of tomato soup...)
by _ache_ | 2026-01-13 08:43:05+00:00
Yep, the Library of Babel is a related topic. Wikipedia links it as "See also" on the page of "Normal numbers".

> a compression algorithm that requires the user to first build an infinite library...

Kind of already exists, pifs. More like a joke, but the concept is already a joke so...

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
Ask HN: Are you paying for AWS support, and is it worth the cost?
by oriettaxx | 2026-01-13 08:43:26+00:00
End of 2026 the current cheapest support plan ("Developer plan") will stop https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/developers/

the cheapest will cost about 3 times more, so we're reevaluating our entire AWS budget as a result

Thoughts?