MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by conartist6 | 2026-01-07 16:16:36+00:00
Really? I see H1B as the tiniest drop in the bucket compared to AI, at least in software. It's not that AI is filling 1 human role with 1 AI, it's that everyone who has a job knows that they need to keep it because the market is insanely cutthroat right now. Everyone has an AI-polished resume, and employers no longer see the value in having talented employees. Even if they did have talented employees they don't trust them enough to know how to do the work. If your employer says "I need you to start using AI" they may as well be saying "I don't trust you to know what's worth is worth your time." I see even a lot of people who have jobs as acting in a way that's consistent with on the verge of being fired, which I think is most of the real "value" of AI so far.
by slogansand | 2026-01-07 16:16:42+00:00
Author here. Quick context on the benchmarks:

We used RARV (Retrieve, Analyze, Reason, Validate) pattern with multi-agent collaboration. Each problem gets worked by specialized agents, reviewed by 3 parallel reviewers (code, business logic, security), and only merged after consensus.

The 99.67% isn't cherry-picked. Full run against standard SWE-Bench dataset. Happy to share methodology if anyone wants to reproduce.
by scosman | 2026-01-07 16:16:47+00:00
> It’s a bit strange how anecdotes have become acceptable fuel for 1000 comment technical debates.

Progress is so fast right now anecdotes are sometimes more interesting than proper benchmarks. "Wow it can do impressive thing X" is more interesting to me than a 4% gain on SWE Verified Bench.

In early days of a startup "this one user is spending 50 hours/week in our tool" is sometimes more interesting than global metrics like average time in app. In the early/fast days, the potential is more interesting than the current state. There's work to be done to make that one user's experience apply to everyone, but knowing that it can work is still a huge milestone.
by slogansand | 2026-01-07 16:16:51+00:00
On the swarm architecture for those curious:

Engineering (8 types): frontend, backend, database, mobile, API, QA, perf, infra
Operations (8 types): devops, SRE, security, monitoring, incident, release, cost, compliance
Business (8 types): marketing, sales, finance, legal, support, HR, investor, partnerships
Data (3 types): ML, data eng, analytics
Product (3 types): PM, design, tech writer
Growth (4 types): growth hacker, community, success, lifecycle
Review (3 types): code, business, security

Agents don't step on each other. Frontend agent never thinks about database schemas. QA agent never writes deployment scripts. Domain isolation is key.
by slogansand | 2026-01-07 16:17:04+00:00
For the skeptics (fair): FireLater repo has full git history. You can see the commits. No human intervention in the implementation phase.

I reviewed outputs and approved deployments. But architecture decisions, code, tests, docs - all Loki Mode.

It's not perfect. Some rough edges. But it works and enterprises can self-host it today.
by broalkvam | 2026-01-07 16:17:05+00:00
Seeing this mesmerizing video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdKcDPBQ-Lw&t=1s) about using Rapid Serial Visual Presentation to enhance reading speed sent me down a rabbit hole. Is this practical for everyday use? Can I read everything like this? Will my brain synthesize any content read in this manner?

So I had to try, and I immediately understood that I needed some control over both design and speed. Borrowing from the video's creator, I made a page to test out this fun technique using different content pieces.

Did I learn more from reading this way? Probably not, but I learned to always scan for the third letter, and that speaking the words out loud in my head is unnecessary.

Copy the code if you'd like; I've made it easy.
by vjerancrnjak | 2026-01-07 16:17:05+00:00
I find it interesting how meditation eventually becomes an anxiety reduction method, or general emotion management.

What should it be if there is no burden of stress or negative impression of any emotion? Why rid of stress? It comes and goes, it is as fleeting as relaxation.

I guess meditation is a insight into there being no problem to solve, once that insight is clear, there is no need for meditation.
by slogansand | 2026-01-07 16:17:13+00:00
vs single-agent coding assistants: They tap out around 50% on SWE-Bench. No specialization. No parallel review. No self-healing.

vs other multi-agent frameworks: Most focus on chat or simple task delegation. Loki Mode runs full SDLC - from PRD to deployed product with monitoring and business ops.

vs hiring a team: Obviously humans are better for ambiguous problems. But for well-defined PRDs, this removes the "I'll get to it this weekend" bottleneck.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-07 16:17:30+00:00
China is less communist than America these days. And even if they were bonafide communists, that has no real relation to conservative values.

When you give American conservatives actual numbers on the economy, weather, healthcare, they assert that they would much rather go with what they think is true vs what actually is true. They simply don’t believe in data and math, you aren’t going to advance much in tech that way.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-07 16:17:36+00:00
> OK, if you squint enough that by "block of code" you mean closure, or function object,

But we aren't squinting here; those closures can't perform a return where your `new-if` function is being used, they can't perform a `return` like a proper `if` can, you can't goto, or break or continue.

It's just a function taking functions, with all the restrictions that that entails.
by Haaargio | 2026-01-07 16:17:57+00:00
The Venezuela topic and the greenland thing made me really rethink my attitude against US based companies (USA became a shithole before that, will not travel to USA for a while... fu!) and I thought today what it would mean to move away from google & android etc.

People have to revisit their strategies on a global scale. Its potentially easier and also nicer to do deals with China especially if you have the feeling that USA will have economic crisis ahead anyway (40 Trillion in debt, Trump, DOGE, ...)
by rbanffy | 2026-01-07 16:18:01+00:00
I have been in similar meetings a couple times, when the client didn't really understand the long-term ramifications of they game plan - and we did. Of course, we weren't as fortunate as Microsoft, but on one instance I remember clearly - and where I made remarks privately as we left the building - the client was more or less forced to acquire, for a unreasoinably high amount, the tiny vendor a couple years down the line.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-01-07 16:18:15+00:00
I'm not discounting your experience, but purely from experiment design, you don't have any sort of pre/post AI control. You've spent 3 years becoming a subject-matter expert who's building software in your domain; I'm not surprised AI in it's current form is helpful. A more valuable comparison would be something like If you kept going without AI, how long would it take someone with similar domain experience who's just starting their solution to catch using AI?
by ramses0 | 2026-01-07 16:18:42+00:00
1000% yes! An 8.5x11" paper is effectively a 12" ruler accurate to 2 decimal places.

Fold an 8.5" into a square (right triangle) and the long edge is exactly 12.02"

Fold that in half and you can measure 6.01", and 3.005" (exactly). You get 1.5" for free, and can fairly accurately get exactly 1" by rolling the other 3" side into thirds.

If you want to get an exact 1", you can technically get there via 11"-8.5"-1.5", and that gives you the full imperial (fractional) measurement basis, all from folding a (presumably accurate) 8.5x11" piece of paper.
by forgotaccount3 | 2026-01-07 16:19:01+00:00
> down time is supposed to be down time.

Life doesn't have down time. Should we avoid learning new things because no one is paying us to learn?

One of my favorite uses of AI is to quickly make some simple 'hello world' level application that I can run using a given technology.

Don't know what an MCP server is? Boot up Kiro and tell it you want to make a sample MCP server and ask it for suggestions on what the MCP server should do. A relatively short while later, with a lot of that time being spent letting AI do it's thing, and you can have an MCP server running on your computer. You have an AI waiting for you to ask questions about why the MCP server does x y or z or how can you get the server to do a, b or c etc

As someone who learns a lot better from doing or seeing vs reading specs, this has been monumentally more efficient than searching the web for a good blog post explaining the concept.

And when I'm doing these learning exercises, I naturally lean towards the domain my company is in because it's easier to visualize how a concept could be implemented into a workflow when I understand the current pain points of that workflow.

I'm not going home and pulling in story's from my board and working on them (generally), I'm teaching myself new concepts in a way that also positions be to contribute better to my employer.
by jethro_tell | 2026-01-07 16:19:13+00:00
If you do regulate. We currently have full regulatory capture in most industries and regulators that are doing their jobs are either hamstrung or the laws are so far behind the industries that they can’t or won’t work.

The key to proper regulation is to keep money and influence from pooling at the top, making it difficult for any single person to buy enough influence.

As it is, we have a dozen monopolies that should be broken up that are making a small section of the population so rich they are essentially above laws.

But, proper regulation can exist if people want it, and more specifically in the case of the USA, legislators want it. Unfortunately, Dems actively prevent it, and republicans are ripping it down, so the rest of us are kinda fucked.
by mrweasel | 2026-01-07 16:19:20+00:00
An absolute enjoyable read. It also raises a good point, regarding the Turing test. I have a family member who teaches adults and as she pointed out: You won't believe how stupid some people are.

As critical as I might be of LLMs, I fear that they already outpaced a good portion of the population "intellectually". There's a lower level, which modern LLMs won't cross, in terms of lack of general knowledge or outright stupidity.

We may have reached a point where we can tell that we're talking to a human, because there's no way a computer would lack such basic knowledge or display similar levels of helplessness.
by weatherlite | 2026-01-07 16:19:28+00:00
> If we get effective humanoid robots

That's still an if and also a when; could be 2 decades from now or more till this reliably replaces a nurse.

> Retraining to what exactly?

I wish I had a good solution for all of us and you raise good points , even if you retrain to become say a therapist or a personal trainer the economy could become too broken and fragmented for you to be able to making a living. Governments that can will have to step in.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 16:19:33+00:00
You’re exactly right: This one incident did not shape the entire body of scientific research.

There is a common trick used in contrarian argumentation where a single flaw is used to “debunk” an entire side of the debate. The next step, often implied rather than explicit, is to push the reader into assuming that the opposite position must therefore be the correct one. They don’t want you to apply the same level of rigor and introspection to the opposite side, though.

In the sugar versus saturated fat debate, this incident is used as the lure to get people to blame sugar as the root cause. There is a push to make saturated fat viewed as not only neutral, but healthy and good for you. Yet if you apply the same standards of rigor and inspection of the evidence, excess sugar and excess saturated fat are both not good for you.

There is another fallacy in play where people pushing these debates want you to think that there is only one single cause of CVD or health issues: Either sugar, carbs, fat, or something else. The game they play is to point the finger at one thing and imply that it gets the other thing off the hook. Don’t fall for this game.
by eru | 2026-01-07 16:19:37+00:00
> Except in practice it always fail to materialize, neoliberalism has repeatedly been tried everywhere in the western world, resulting in decline instead of prosperity.

Are we living in the same world?

All over the place, we see that more neoliberal places are richer than less neoliberal places. For example, Ireland is richer than Germany which is richer than Greece.

> As if the only difference was regulations, and not the fact that Canada was at that point part of the British Empire

You are right that there were more differences between them. Other people have done more extensive work on this, and I'm not doing it justice. The US had and has really asinine and heavy-handed financial regulation.

Their bans on branch banking are really something, too.
by redohmy | 2026-01-07 16:19:43+00:00
Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 marks a major shift in AI PC design. Built on Intel’s new 18A process, Panther Lake combines CPU, Arc graphics, and dedicated AI acceleration to deliver longer battery life, stronger integrated gaming, and scalable AI performance across PCs and edge systems. This launch highlights how efficiency, local AI, and unified SoC architectures are redefining the next phase of computing.
“With Series 3, we are laser-focused on improving power efficiency, adding more CPU performance, a bigger GPU in a class of its own, more AI compute and app compatibility you can count on with x86.”
by Groxx | 2026-01-07 16:19:44+00:00
Fully agreed with your reason for leaving, but I'll throw in: it's absolutely terrible at showing time relevant information, seemingly on the theory that someone will dedup and edit every question and answer as it becomes history rather than helpful.

That became more and more clear as the site and content aged, and afaict they have done absolutely nothing to address it. So after a few years the site had good information... but often only if you had accidentally time traveled.

I had FAR too many cases where the correct answer now was much further down the page, and the highest rated (and correct at the time) answer was causing damage, and editing it to fix that would often be undone unless it was super obvious (if I even could). It shifted the site from "the most useful" to "everything still needs to be double checked off-site" and at that point any web search is roughly equivalent. And when it's not a destination for answers, it's not a destination for questions (or moderation) either.
by libraryofbabel | 2026-01-07 16:20:00+00:00
This is weirdly beautiful, like the maps of undersea internet cables that frequently come up here as well.

You can clearly see:

1) oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf from the Middle East to China

2) ships waiting to get through the Panama and Suez Canals

3) why people talk about “shipping lanes”. There are some obvious tracks everyone follows, because it’s the cheapest way from A to B (e.g. cape of good hope to straight of malacca).

4) why Singapore got to be such an important global hub.

5) why the houthis and the Somali pirates could cause such havoc

6) nobody goes in the southern ocean! (Why would they? Unless you’re bringing supplies to Antarctica…) a few ships drop down to go around Cape Horn but that’s it.

and so much more. I wish it included more up-to-date data…
by luma | 2026-01-07 16:20:39+00:00
I had the same experience, eBay suggests that I'll have a Jabra speakerphone in my mailbox tomorrow to try moving everything to a better audio setup. The software seems good but the audio performance is miserable on the preview device, you essentially have to be talking directly at the microphone from not more than a few feet away for anything to recognize.

Sadly, the Jabra (or any USB) audio device means I'll need to shift over to an rPi which comes with it's own lifecycle challenges.
by Normal_gaussian | 2026-01-07 16:20:41+00:00
I've not had any issues with the audio picking up, but its in the living room rather than the kitchen. I have Alexa's in most rooms. I don't play music through it, which I do from the Alexa. Tbh I think the mic and the speakers will be fine when the rest of the 'product' is sorted.

I failed to mention I have Claude connected to it rather than their default assistant. To us, this just beats Alexa hands down. I have the default assistant another wake word and mistral on the last, they're about as good as Alexa but I rarely use them.
by jayd16 | 2026-01-07 16:20:55+00:00
So without blowing up the traditional shader pipeline, why is it not trivial to add a path stage as an alternative to the vertex stage? It seems like GPUs and shader language could implement a standard way to turn vector paths into fragments and keep the rest of the pipeline.

In fact, you could likely use the geometry stage to create arbitrarily dense vertices based on path data passed to the shader without needing any new GPU features.

Why is this not done? Is the CPU render still faster than these options?
by kstrauser | 2026-01-07 16:20:58+00:00
Not OP but I think it’s the same problem. Mods got a pat on the back for “curating” (i.e. quickly closing) incoming questions, so they leaned far too far toward closing them ASAP for specious reasons because it rewarded themselves.

Sure, there was a whole appeals process you could go through if you had infinite time and patience to beg the same cohort for permission, pretty please, to ask the question on the ask-the-question website, but the graph of people willing to do so over time looks a lot like their traffic graph.
by einpoklum | 2026-01-07 16:21:06+00:00
Well, if "great" agrees with sharing all your data with the US government, then maybe.

This happens as part of the PRISM program, whose existence was leaked by Edward Snowden last decade:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

as part of that program, online communications and storage of all users of large US tech companies, including Microsoft, is made accessible to the NSA.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-07 16:21:16+00:00
Users of creative apps are rarely also programmers capable of creating the extensions you mention. If the goal is getting people to switch to your application, open source or not, you need to provide a level of minimal functionality. What is minimal functionality varies from person to person and may include the way you interact with said functionality.

While Gimp and Krita are very useful and even usable for a lot of people... that doesn't mean it's a suitable replacement for the Adobe products. Some will get Affinity running with Wine... frankly it would be nice if there was an "easy gutton" to doing a lot of this. I'm not sure about the legalities of copying actual MS dll's from Windows for use with Wine even... even if yoou have a license, as I'm not a lawyer, which can impact the ability to make it easier to do/use.

It would be nice if more software at least got tested to run on Wine/Proton with closer to first party support. Bridging the gap between a full Linux version, and something that can at least run in Linux.
by eddieroger | 2026-01-07 16:21:41+00:00
I've been playing with a toy app that dabbles in the Cal/CardDAV space, and it blows my mind that for all the power latest generation languages have, the thing I keep coming back to is PHP-based Sabre/DAV. That's not to say PHP isn't modern now, but instead a reflection of my surprise that there doesn't appear to be any other library out there that does as good or nearly as good a job at DAV as that one, and that one is pretty darn old.

On a different point, I don't think the author's point about having to "also" inspect the headers is a fair critique of DAV - HTTP headers are to indicate a certain portion of the request/response, and the body a different one. I wish it was simpler, but I think it's an acceptable round peg in a round hole use of the tools.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-07 16:21:43+00:00
Unfortunately, that makes a great deal of sense to me.

This explanation kind of implies the whole planet winds up sunk into the banana republic attractor?

(might Fahd have had more to do with the final collapse than Reagan? By opening his spigots to keep the nomenklatura from earning much hard currency with their principal export, could he have pulled a classic "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" trillionaires' poker move?)
by falcor84 | 2026-01-07 16:22:01+00:00
It's not an entirely different problem because the main method through which moderators are mean is in closing new questions as dupes. A more positive q&a community might "steel-man" the question and try to find what's different about it, but SO's culture leaned heavily towards essentially telling people "go away, you don't have anything new and worthwhile for us".
by ryandrake | 2026-01-07 16:22:09+00:00
You can often politely dodge probing questions about your employment. When someone, for the purpose of small talk, asks me what I do for a living I just say I'm an exotic dancer or a runway model. It's funny and breaks the ice a little. Then I'll ask them about their watch or something. If they insist "no, really, what do you do for a living??" I'll politely say I work with computers and again try to move on. Very rarely I'll get someone who won't drop it "come on, WHAT COMPANY???" and at that point I know they're really not interested in talking--they just want to stack rank me in terms of importance or salary or whatever and I politely dip.
by qsera | 2026-01-07 16:22:26+00:00
>I find it more productive to search for and financially support such businesses, rather than adopt the doomer pessimistic anticapitalism take...

But sadly, many order of magnitude more people would like to just make more money when invest. Which is why..

>Unfortunately a lot of these honest businesses are one generation away from potentially selling out everything the founders built,

> rather than adopt the doomer pessimistic anticapitalism take...

Capitalism does not imply public trading. Capitalism can work even when companies re-invest parts of their profits.

Oh no, that would be too slow. We want Speeeed...even if that means a quick descent into certain doom.
by ko_07 | 2026-01-07 16:22:51+00:00
I’ve been using this app for a long time.
When I have random ideas, they often don’t feel important enough to write properly in a notebook, and I used to struggle with where to put them. That’s when I found this app.

I can simply write things down the moment they come to mind, add tags, and easily find them later, which is incredibly convenient.
Being able to sync seamlessly between my Mac and iPhone is also a huge help.

I really appreciate how smoothly it scrolls without freezing — that makes a big difference for daily use.
by rich_sasha | 2026-01-07 16:23:07+00:00
The total tax intake is fairly unambiguous. Personal tax bill for the vast majority of people is also quite clear. But when you get to the top 0.1% or whatever it is, things like "income" and "tax" get ambiguous. I suppose a lot of the ultra rich don't have much earnings, at best cap gains, and even that can be offset, boxed and off-shored ad nauseam.

Maybe instead of looking at the ultra rich we could look at what GDP fraction the "bottom 95%" contribute to the tax burden - is that more or less than before. Not sure where to look for this data but sounds like a nice little exercise.
by weatherlite | 2026-01-07 16:23:08+00:00
Totally agree; these are all in need of bodies plus they are always understaffed (why the hell does a nurse need to oversee 15 patients in people have to rot in ICU for hours? We accept this because it's cost effective not because it's a decent or even safe practice).
Governments could and should make conditions in those professions more tolerable, and use money from A.I to retrain people into them.
If a teacher oversaw 10 kids instead of 35 maybe we'll have less burnout and maybe children get better education.
If had more police there would be less crime and less burnout.
Etc etc.
The thing is what happens untill (and if) we get into this utopia.