MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by b40d-48b2-979e | 2026-01-23 20:26:01+00:00
It checks out with all the other awful software changes they're making like whatever "curvature assist" is that randomly brakes where it doesn't need to, or when it gets confused about what road I'm on while on the freeway and suddenly drops my 75mph cruise control to 55mph and slams the brakes.

I miss having a dumb cruise control.
by nehal3m | 2026-01-23 20:26:14+00:00
I drive one on Dutch roads, and a lot of the back roads (60km/h) are one lane with dotted lines on the side like here: [1]

If you turn on TACC, it will constantly whine that you're hugging the side of 'your lane'. But it's one lane for both directions, you're supposed to hug your side!

In my SAAB I used cruise control anywhere I expected to maintain speed for any amount of time. In the Y I don't bother on this type of road because it bitches at me constantly and sometimes even jerks me to the middle of the lane. That's never happened with oncoming traffic but I'm not risking it.

[1]https://shorturl.at/jSQhP (shortened, Maps links are huge)
by tuhgdetzhh | 2026-01-23 20:26:16+00:00
I think that the current test suite is far too small. For the Claude Code codebase, a sensible next step would be to generate thousands of tests. Without that kind of coverage, regressions are likely, and the existing checks and review process do not appear sufficient to reliably prevent them.
My request is that an entirely LLM-written feature should only be eligible for merge once all of those generated tests pass, so we have objective evidence that the change preserves existing behavior.
by wredcoll | 2026-01-23 20:26:37+00:00
This is a popular opinion and I think it speaks to a certain truth (bravery isn't not feeling fear, its doing the thing despite the fear, etc) but I think it misses something important.

Superman may not be physically injured if he fails to catch the crashing plane, but he's sure going go be emotionally hurt if someone he's trying to save dies.

Saitama is a bit of a subversion of superman. Superman could do literally anything and instead chooses to save lives. Saitama is basically bored and saves lives sort of by accident.

It's hard to write good superman stories because there's only so many times you can have lois lane tied to some railroad tracks or kryptonite show up again, but the good stories have superman struggling with moral choices and unknown consequences.

Now that I type this out, it seems like most superman movies are pretty constrained by their budget from being able to focus on smaller scale stuff. Basically, if you're making a superman movie, you've gotta have skyscrapers falling over at somepoint.

Anyways, in conclusion: everyone should watch Superman: The Animated Series (and related spinoffs). It's just has a lot of quite good superman stories.
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-23 20:26:53+00:00
There are probably elements of that but my read of the post I replied to was "why on earth would you expect manufacturers of equipment to accept liability for misuse?" (I actually agree about misuse, but malfunction is not the same.)

And "in the context of something that is designed to save lives"... well, absolutely, many manufacturers do and will and even "have to".
by estimator7292 | 2026-01-23 20:27:15+00:00
After a hypothetical AI crash, the cost of hardware will plummet. It will suddenly become quite affordable to spin up a GPU or five on-prem to host a couple of models for internal use.

The only reason hardware is so expensive now is to scalp the hyperscalers. Once that demand crashes, the supply will skyrocket and prices will crash.
by qayxc | 2026-01-23 20:27:50+00:00
The people already doing this work today already do exactly that.

There's no goalpost shifting here - it's l'art pour l'art at its finest.
It'd be introducing an agent where no additional agent agent is required in the first place, i.e. telling a farmer how to do their job, when they already now how to and do it in the first place.

No one needs an LLM if you can just lease some land and then tell some person to tend to it, (i.e. doing the actual work). It's baffling to me how out of touch with reality some people are.

Want to grow corn? Take some corn, put it in the ground in your backyard and harvest when it's ready. Been there, done that, not a challenge at all. Want to do it at scale? Lease some land, buy some corn, contract a farmer to till the land, sow the corn, and eventually harvest it. Done. No LLM required. No further knowledge required. Want to know when the best time for each step is? Just look at when other farmers in the area are doing it. Done.
by programd | 2026-01-23 20:27:51+00:00
See also: Clarkson's Farm [0], for some of the messy reality of running an actual modern farm in England (though edited for entertainment value). I suspect the current AIs are not quite up to doing this - but I firmly beleive it's only a matter of time.

[0]https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10541088/
by quicksilver03 | 2026-01-23 20:28:15+00:00
I've been able to submit new entries to

https://eucloud.tech/

https://buy-european.net/

I've also found other problematic ones:

https://euro-stack.com/ (I couldn't understand how to submit a new entry)

https://www.goeuropean.org/ (all submissions fail with an AirTable error [sic] that the workspace is at the record limit)
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-23 20:29:11+00:00
Or: Put all of Windows inside of a VM, within a host that uses disk encryption -- and let it run amok inside of its sandbox.

I did this myself for about 8 years, from 2016-2024. During that time my desktop system at home was running Linux with ZFS and libvirt, with Windows in a VM. That Windows VM was my usual day-to-day interface for the entire system. It was rocky at first, but things did get substantially better as time moved on. I'll do it again if I have a compelling reason to.
by rahimnathwani | 2026-01-23 20:29:21+00:00
Thanks! Simon's example uses the custom voice model (creating a voice from instructions). But that comment led me eventually to this page, which shows how to use mlx-audio for custom voices:

https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Bas...

uv tool install --force git+https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-audio.git --prerelease=allow

python -m mlx_audio.tts.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base-bf16 --text "Hello, this is a test." --ref_audio path_to_audio.wav --ref_text "Transcript of the reference audio." --play
by pixl97 | 2026-01-23 20:29:35+00:00
>A guy is paying farmers to farm for him

Family of farmers here.

My family raises hundreds of thousands of chickens a year. They feed, water, and manage the healthcare and building maintenance for the birds. That is it. Baby birds show up in boxes at the start of a season, and trucks show up and take the grown birds once they reach weight.

There is a large faceless company that sends out contracts for a particular value and farmers can decide to take or leave it. There is zero need for human contact on the management side of the process.

At the end of the day there is little difference between a company assigning the work and having a bank account versus an AI following all the correct steps.
by ofalkaed | 2026-01-23 20:30:08+00:00
Up until a few years ago my Slackware install was broken up over 4 flash drives, as Slackware grew I never bothered to buy a new flash drive big enough for it. It was a lot like the old floppy install. Eventually I realized I could just put all the packages on an external drive and greatly simplify things and then I snapped out of the old habit and just bought a few new flash drives.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-23 20:30:48+00:00
I couldn't speak to separate physical machines, but I run several "servers" as part of my dev environment.

You'd have to ensure that their ports and data directories don't collide, but I don't think you'll have a problem having "process-compose up" start multiple separate mysql, postgres, or webserver instances.

I just dedicate a terminal pane to it so I can arrow around and see the logs and health status of my databases (plus things like Prometheus and Grafana, I like to be able to nuke the cluster and have everything flatline, rather than having telemetry itself die when k8s goes away).

Both mysql and postgres are included in https://github.com/juspay/services-flake which you might find interesting.
by thorum | 2026-01-23 20:31:07+00:00
Am I wrong that this entire approach to agent design patterns is based on the assumption that agents are slow? Which yeah, is very true in January 2026, but we’ve seen that inference gets faster over time. When an agent can complete most tasks in 1 minute, or 1 second, parallel agents seem like the wrong direction. It’s not clear how this would be any better than a single Claude Code session (as “orchestrator”) running subagents (which already exist) one at a time.
by invokestatic | 2026-01-23 20:31:43+00:00
Calling it a “kill switch” buries the lede here. What these politicians call a kill switch is technology to passively detect drunk driving. In 2021, Congress passed a law (HALT Drunk Driving Act) requiring NHTSA to eventually require auto makers to install passive drunk driver detection systems. NHTSA missed their statutory November 2024 deadline to finalize the regulations on this so it’s not like this amendment failing has a substantial impact. This technology is still many model years (maybe 2029? 2030?) away. I make no claims to the merits of this technology, I just feel the need to clarify the current situation.
by estimator7292 | 2026-01-23 20:32:12+00:00
If you have a linux machine, you can just install ollama, ollama-cuda, or ollama-rocm. That's it. It runs out of the box. If your GPU is supported, that Just Works, too. Usually, anyway.

I have an old dual Xeon server from about 2015. 32 2.4GHz cores and 128GB of RAM. It runs models painfully slow (and loud) but they run just fine. My modern Ryzen system from last year works out of the box with full AMD GPU support.

I have yet to find a situation where ollama doesn't work at all out of the box. It literally just turns on and goes. Maybe slow, maybe without GPU, but by god you'll have an LLM running
by Alupis | 2026-01-23 20:32:21+00:00
I can't be the only person seriously questioning the "Budget" page the AI created?[1]

The estimate seems to leave out a lot of factors, including irrigation, machinery, the literal seeds, and more. $800 for a "custom operator" for 7 months - I don't believe it. Leasing 5 acres of farmable land (for presumably a year) for less than $1400... I don't believe it.

The humans behind this experiment are going to get very tired of reading "Oh, you're right..." over and over - and likely end up deeply underwater.

[1] https://proofofcorn.com/budget
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-23 20:32:28+00:00
My favorite with ChatGPT is:

"Tell me how to do X" (where X was, for one recent example, creating a Salt stanza to install and configure a service).

I do as it tells me, which seems reasonable on the face of it. But it generates an error.

"When creating X as you described, I get error: Z. Why?"

"You're absolutely correct and you should expect this error because X won't work this way. Do Y instead."

Gah... "I told you to do X, and then I'm going to act like it's not a surprise that X doesn't work and you should do something else."
by ericmay | 2026-01-23 20:32:54+00:00
> Is this just a dangerous experiment on the public? Or has it actually improved in some way?

Who is to say anyway? I don't trust Chinese company claims any more than I do Tesla's. Probably less because in America so many folks dislike Elon that even sometimes the negatives are blown out of proportion and are much more widely reported on.

Waymo's claims I trust a little bit more because they're often operated in extremely limited circumstances (why not just take a bus or walk or something), with supervision, and because I've heard of a number of bizarre incidents.

All of these tools and technologies are of moderate utility - if you're going to drive it's probably eventually going to be safer for most people (most of whom are exceptionally poor drivers) to just let the car drive. But if you remove the need for hopping in a car to go to Costco to get a jug of milk and instead allow people to just walk down the street a little ways you realize that these are just additive technologies.

If we built cities properly we wouldn't need to spend $50,000 on a car, plus maintenance and insurance, and now a $99.99 starting subscription which, will probably become mandatory at some point for insurance purposes, just to participate in daily life. That's not to say there's anything wrong with cars, I have one, a Tesla in fact, but requiring a car for existence leaves us all poorer and worse off.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-23 20:32:59+00:00
As in the ranking/mental model increasingly being used by management in upper market organizations.

A Coding copilot subscription paired with a competent developer dramatically speeds up product and feature delivery, and also significantly upskills less competent developers.

That said, truly competent developers are few and far between, and the fact that developers in (eg.) Durham or remote are demanding a SF circa 2023 base makes the math to offshore more cost effective - even if the delivered quality is subpar (which isn't neccesarily true), it's good enough to release, and can be refactored at a later date.

What differentiates a "competent" developer from an "average" developer is the learning mindset. Plenty of people on HN kvetch about being forced to learn K8s, Golang, Cloud Primitives, Prompt Engineering, etc or not working in a hub, and then bemoan the job market.

If we are paying you IB Associate level salaries with a fraction of the pedigree and vetting needed to get those roles, upskilling is the least you can do.

We aren't paying mid 6 figure TC for a code monkey - at that point we may as well entirely use AI and an associate at Infosys - we are paying for critical and abstract thinking.

As such, AI in the hands of a truly competent engineer is legitimately transformative.

Tl;dr - Mo' money, Mo' expectations
by htrp | 2026-01-23 20:33:11+00:00
>"As AI models get better at writing code, more and more people are asking the age-old question: where, and how, do I run my applications?" said Jake Cooper, Railway's 28-year-old founder and chief executive, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. "The last generation of cloud primitives were slow and outdated, and now with AI moving everything faster, teams simply can't keep up."

What exactly is an ai native cloud primitive?
by pixl97 | 2026-01-23 20:33:21+00:00
>until you can feed people

So if I grow biomass for fuel or feedstock for plastics that's not farming? I'm sure there are a number of people that would argue with you on that.

I'm from the part of the country where there large chunks of land dedicated to experimental grain growing, which is research, and other than labels at the end of crop rows you'd have a difficult time telling it from any other farm.

TL:DR, why are you gatekeeping this so hard?
by Retric | 2026-01-23 20:33:42+00:00
“basically” is doing some heavy lifting here as they aren’t good enough to let you ignore the road without taking serious risks. So you’re stuck in the drivers seat paying attention to traffic, but you get to mostly avoid turning the steering wheel, yay what an awesome improvement definitely worth 8k or 100$/month

IMO adaptive crude control that works down to 0MPH is still the sweet spot.
by decafninja | 2026-01-23 20:33:50+00:00
So far yes. But hasn’t it been the trend that the not-so-sane factions been getting closer and closer every election, to the point that they’re realistically on the cusp of siezing victory?

I remember the last election Macron’s coalition had to use some kind of creative trickery to keep National Rally and their friends from winning; after which the latter called foul.

Edit: digging deeper, said “trickery” appears to be a tactic that has been used in the past like you said. But it also seems like it’s never been this close down to the wire too.
by criddell | 2026-01-23 20:33:57+00:00
> When I go buy a beer at the gas station, all I do is show my ID to the cashier. They look at it to verify DOB and then that's it. No information is stored permanently in some database that's going to get hacked and leaked.

Beer, sure. But if you buy certain decongestants, they do log your ID. At least that's the case in Texas.
by ddingus | 2026-01-23 20:34:35+00:00
Same feels here too. Cassette was kindnof magical and kind of crappy. Well, depending on your machine, potentially very crappy.

One of the better cassette loaders can be found in the 6809 based Tandy CoCo machines. When in the cassette times, I would stress test various machines.

My Atari was bog slow, reading a block at a time, with a pause between... And it was picky and really wanted the dedicated cassette drive. Not recommended at all..

Apples were pretty OK, along with the Tandy machines. The Tandy reader software, whoever wrote it, took full advantage of the nice CPU and 6 bit DAC. I could rest a finger on the tape, slowing it down, then listening to the wow, flutter and speed changes all over the place while the machine recovered. Almost always loaded correctly.

The Apples were not that robust, but worked well enough to not be a big bother.

Both Apple and Tandy machines had good commands for loading and saving right to regions of RAM.

On the Apple, with the spiffy Mini-assembler, it was possible to develop big programs a piece at a time, saving off stuff that worked.

Every so often, it made sense to read a bunch in and save off a nice chunk! Always felt good doing that.

Eventually, you load it all, patch it up, linker style, maybe moving bits around some, and then save it as a completed assembly program.

No source, just the data on the tape and what the mini-assembler would show you when you list memory.

Good times!
by PrimalPower | 2026-01-23 20:34:39+00:00
Garbage in garbage out as they say. I will be the first to admit that Claude enables me to do certain things that I simply could not do before without investing a significant amount of time and energy.

At the same time, the amount of anti-patterns the LLM generates is higher than I am able to manage. No Claude.md and Skills.md have not fixed the issue.

Building a production grade system using Claude has been a fools errand for me. Whatever time/energy i save by not writing code - I end up paying back when I read code that I did not write and fixing anti-patterns left and right.

I rationalized by a bit - deflecting by saying this is AI's code not mine. But no - this is my code and it's bad.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-01-23 20:34:41+00:00
I was in your shoes a few years ago. Just move already. Don't worry about it. Get your own domain and point the MX records at literally any email service out there. If you don't like it you can just switch later. Just start using your own domain as soon as possible.

It really is life changing. When you have your own domain switching email services is risk free since your addresses don't change. You can literally try out all the email services out there.

For the record I'm a happy Proton customer. They seem to be the only ones who still care about PGP. I even interacted with them here on HN a few times.
by martin-t | 2026-01-23 20:34:43+00:00
Anybody here read Coding machines?

There's this implied trust we all have in the AI companies that the models are either not sufficiently powerful to form a working takeover plan or that they're sufficiently aligned to not try. And maybe they genuinely try but my experience is that in the real world, nothing is certain. If it's not impossible, it will happen given enough time.

If the safety margin for preventing takeover is "we're 99.99999999 percent sure per 1M tokens", how long before it happens? I made up these numbers but any guess what they are really?

Because we're giving the models so much unsupervised compute...
by MarkusWandel | 2026-01-23 20:34:45+00:00
To my knowledge it is completely offline. The fanciest version of it (Honda Civic) has wifi and will connect to your house wifi when in range (and also do wireless Android Auto) but mine doesn't have it. This one has no cloud features and if there's a SIM card lurking deeply in there somehwere, it certainly isn't going to facilitate reaching down to monitor me in the car (the hardware isn't there, aside from the microphone for bluetooth) or change features on me.
by bmurphy1976 | 2026-01-23 20:34:45+00:00
You do it the same way you fix every other disaster of a code-base. You add a ton of tests and start breaking it up into modules. You then rewrite each module/component/service/etc. one at a time using good practices. That's how every project gets out of the muck.

That's a big, slow, and expensive process though.

Will Anthropic actually do that or will they keep throwing AI at it and hope the AI figures this approach out? We shall see...
by Ethee | 2026-01-23 20:34:56+00:00
It's likely then that you are thinking too small. Sure for one off tasks and small implementations, a single prompt might save you 20-30 mins. But when you're building an entire library/service/software in 3 days that normally would have taken you by hand 30 days. Then the real limitation comes down to how fast you can get your design into a structured format. As this article describes.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-23 20:35:09+00:00
Behind the scenes, there's a lot of procedure in place to ensure that arbitrary government agencies don't have arbitrary access to arbitrary things that "the government" knows. The DVLA has a legitimate basis for collecting information about vehicle registration, and there are often legitimate reasons to pass this information on to law enforcement; but that doesn't generalise to arbitrary information about the occupants of a vehicle. Collecting arbitrary information just in case the police need it is one, seemingly-benign route to a police state.
by bluGill | 2026-01-23 20:35:16+00:00
Bill gates is one of the largest farmland owners in the world (or at least was - I last checked about 10 years ago...) He hires people to work on his farm, and managers to manage it. Food is the most important thing for modern society and the reports I have suggest he is trying to raise food in the most sustainable fashion possible (organic is often not sustainable)
by neomantra | 2026-01-23 20:35:32+00:00
I think my comment was misconstrued as siding either way. I didn't communicate it well. It's that it frames questions -- like you were exploring.

Because of course we all buy prepared foods of all sorts from street vendors to fast food to local restaurants to chains to Michelin Stars. While there are many reasons one will cook for themselves, there are many reasons one will buy from someone else too.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-23 20:36:29+00:00
Yeah but how legitimate is the Constitution really? Nobody alive has given their consent to it!

The average American sees the system producing bad results, at some level people still worship the Constitution like a god when it says something they agree with, on an other level the system can feel like an exhausting and dispiriting legalistic hellscape.

How bad the results we are getting is open to debate. People today seem to be really angry about inflation and cost of living issues although the official numbers don't look too terrible. There's the explanation that the numbers are wrong and the explanation that the perception is wrong. There's probably some truth in both, but more fundamentally people don't find centrist politics of any kind emotionally satisfying anywhere anymore but when you get emotionally satisfying politics you wake up with a hangover the next day.

I think a lack of meaning is a part of it. If you're not really sure your citizenship is worth something or that you're part of something you're proud of, it's easy to get worked up about illegal immigration. If you don't have a sense of purpose, what is there to be concerned about than the price of eggs? Purposelessness turns the slightest irritation into an existential threat.