MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: I built v1 of Omni channel SDR Agent
by kinj28 | 2026-01-31 00:52:42+00:00
My goal with sdr agent ids to make the agent prospect and push it into a cadence and work autonomously across LinkedIn, emails and calls at my Omni channel touch point system.

My config: There are three agents working in silos.

1) comet ( I will mostly replace this with clawdebot) to work on Sending Friend request on LinkedIn and push the prospects in a Google sheet
2) Dronahq agent (disclaimer: this is the platform I am building and dog fooding for this use case) : Here the agent will
- pick the lead from Google sheet and look up Apollo and find more details
- shoot an intro email basis a complex algo

3) voice agent ( made with twilio and vapi): this will call the customer and update the records and set up Google Calendar for appointment. I must mention that setting up voice agent with vapi was incredible experience. I was able to set up a working one in under 10 mins.

Next steps:
1) glue all the three agents via some super agent so they can work seamlessly and autonomously
2) bring in a cadence agent so outreach cadence will be achieved by the agent
by cynicalpeace | 2026-01-31 00:52:46+00:00
The other comments about calligraphy, copy, competitors, etc are not useful for getting users. This app is already over-engineered.

Go on TikTok and Instagram Reels, scroll for a week 15 mins a day in the language and travel niches. Don't post until you've done that!

Then post funny, scroll stopping videos. In the comments, and in your bio, mention your app.
by saberience | 2026-01-31 00:52:59+00:00
God I hate these kind of clickbait headlines, no Moltbook is definitely not the “most interesting” place on the internet right now.

If you actually go and read some of the posts it’s just the same old shit, the tone is repeated again and again, it’s all very sycophantic and ingratiating, and it’s less interesting to read than humans on Reddit. It’s just basically more AI slop.

If you want to read something interesting, leave your computer and read some Isaac Asimov, Joseph Campbell, or Carl Jung, I guarantee it will be more insightful than whatever is written on Moltbook.
by rrook | 2026-01-31 00:53:13+00:00
> My theory is that this is a source of diverging views on LLMs for programming: people who see programming languages as tools for thought compared to people who see programming languages as, exclusively, tools to make computers do stuff. It's no surprise that the former would see more value in programming qua programming, while the latter are happy to sweep code under the rug.

i'd postulate this: most people see llms as tools for thought. programmers also see llms as tools for programming. some programmers, right now, are getting very good at both, and are binding the two together - a third strata of programmer.
by yawnxyz | 2026-01-31 00:53:38+00:00
yes and no;

I "hoard" ideas and articles because it's a good way for me to offload them from my brain

As a designer, I absolutely DO scroll through my swipe files once in a while to get inspiration; sometimes I'll also go through saved github repos to borrow an implementation

E.g. that's how I ended up using a lot of libraries like Immer, Svelte, ended up loving Observable / d3js, etc.

Idk about all y'all, but notes are absolutely useful for me.
by tombert | 2026-01-31 00:53:51+00:00
In high school, an acquaintance of mine made the website "e-imagesite.com" [1]. It was a very easy-to-use image uploading site (and honestly less irritating than ImageShack and predated imgur). It was just being hosted on HostGator, I believe, and written in PHP and used jQuery.

I believe he had to eventually shut it down because people kept uploading horrifying stuff to it, and it was never even that popular. Child porn and bestiality were constantly being uploaded and I don't think he liked having to constantly report stuff to the FBI.

After building a proper comment section for my blog (including tripcodes!), I've thought about making my own "chan" site, since I think that could be fun, but I am completely terrified of people uploading horrible stuff that I would be forced to sift through and moderate pretty frequently. User submissions open up a huge legal can of worms and I am not sure that's a path that I'm willing to commit myself going down.

When there's strong anonymity, I suspect that this problem could be even worse.

It's a little depressing, because decentralized and distributed computing is one of the most interesting parts of computer science to me, but it feels like whenever I mention anything about it, people immediately assume piracy or illicit material.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090313063155/http://www.e-imag...
by cardanome | 2026-01-31 00:53:59+00:00
You can use C#. It is well supported except for the (currently) missing web target and Microsoft is funding C# support so it will not get abandoned.

You can also use other garbage collected languages. I once tried the Lua bindings and they worked fine.

The problem with C# is that its garbadge collection is not really suited for game dev. The creator of the Mono runtime actually calls using C# his Multi-million dollar mistake and instead works on swift bindings for Godot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzt36EGKEZo

But if you really love C# nothing is stopping you. I prefer GDScript.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-31 00:54:32+00:00
>because your pessimistic feelings only serve to strengthen my claim.

So me pointing out optimism in discussion strengthens your claim, because it's specifically my feelings that prove your point.

Well I'm glad you can prove yourself right, if nothing else:

>When the bitter, frustrated pessimists on HN shift their tone to being neutral or even mildly optimistic, then I will start worrying.

Denial sure is a worrying point.
by blindriver | 2026-01-31 00:54:52+00:00
As someone who has been actively trading silver for the past year, the real reason that silver plummeted is because:

1) the market was looking for an excuse and the new Fed chain nominee was as good a reason as anything.

2) The margin requirements on metal futures changed THIS MONTH. Instead of having daily limits, they changed the margin requirements for futures contracts in real-time throughout this move. Futures brokerages calculate margin requirements every second, so what happened was as silver dropped today, the margin requirements got more strict and then people were being liquidated out of their positions immediately. This caused the markets to crash the way we did all day.

Previously, what you would see are circuit breakers kick in and the contracts would stop trading for a certain amount of time. You never used to see down 30% days ever, because circuit breakers would limit is. You would see limit down days, and the contracts would stop trading for the rest of the day and then reopen the next day. In the 70s and 80s I think there was a time when some contracts would open at limit down for 15+ days in a row and wouldn't trade for the entire day and people were financially ruined because they couldn't get out of a position for weeks on end.

So finding an excuse to sell on top of forced liquidation is what you saw today. It's a classic volcano top and I think silver is going to drift lower for the rest of the year.
by Leftium | 2026-01-31 00:54:56+00:00
In Korea (and probably other cultures) the whole group orders items together and shares. So the splitting math is a little different:

- Simplest: just divide total by N people

- Different subtotals for food, alcohol, and drinks

- The most complex is probably: food is split evenly, but individuals claim beverages. (And there are some cases where certain food items are also claimed.)

Usually one person is the "treasurer:" they pay the entire bill and make a chat room to finalize with other members (share a table of who owes what and maybe send payment requests)

Interestingly, KakaoTalk has a built-in feature to split bills in this manner. It's not intuitive to use, so a lot of people just do it manually.
by Espressosaurus | 2026-01-31 00:55:14+00:00
How much of America’s growth since the 40s is attributable to its hegemony, stability, and the emergence of USD as the reserve currency of the world? And where other developed, stable nations started dropping in population, the US continued growing thanks to immigration and its center as a research Mecca.

All of those are being unwound as we speak, and it’ll take decades to prove to the world that any trade policy and government agreements may be kept longer than 4 years.
by soganess | 2026-01-31 00:55:34+00:00
I consider myself extremely confrontational on here (especially compared to myself in meatworld), but in my 13 years on HN I have had only one direct disagreement with dang, and it was about the definition of the hazelnut spread Nutella.

I am sure he and I disagree on most things, but I don't fault the primary moderator. In general, dang seems pretty laissez-faire. I am venting at the flag brigade: what news gets flagged, and more importantly what doesn't.

I come here to stick my thumb in the wind and see what the prevailing tech view is. As for the tech itself, I am more "if I learn something cool along the way, neat," so I guess I am here for the vibe as well. I just wish folks were more honest about what HN is. Things change; it's okay for them to change.
by graeme | 2026-01-31 00:55:38+00:00
They're describing a situation of liability, not mere damage. If yor bicycle is hit you didn't do anything wrong.

If you run into someone on your bike and are at fault then you generally would be liable.

They're talking about the hypothetical where you're on your bike, which was sold as an autobomous bike and the bike manufacturer's software fully drives the bike, and it runs into someone and is at fault.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-31 00:56:19+00:00
This cynicism is extremely extremely true from the organizations perspective. Organizations are awful about caring, and drastically worse still about assessing.

It's feel and vibes anyways. I sympathize so much for how unseeing how incapable how useless organizations are about the codebases that they don't understand. There's such unclarity, such lack of authority, such vibe.

But it's still just totally incredibly wrong hearted & narrow a view. What we do today constantly shapes our options tomorrow. We coders are engineering a Le Guin Lathe of the Heavens, are shaping and refining constantly all futures to come.

AI is both an argument for and against this. Engineering is incuring some constant context poisoning as it works, making choices that seal off other futures, send us in one course. And usually there would be some better decisions that would better steer us towards a broader future. We are making human context poisoning, are creating path dependency constantly.

AI also gives us more chance to just redo the world, to remake bigly, to not abide by the past & present it sent us into. But so too, AI will see what we have & steering it to different takes hard work, to u poison the AI.

This kind of mercenary shit is just all over. The outcome is what matters feels like this constant caltrop that is everywhere. I recognize that yes, it's not just about craftsmanship either, that outcomes matter. But the craft is there to better consider futures, is the sensibility and taste we use to leave futures open, to make systems that are malleable & pliant & can go on and on. That are cohesive & reason-able.

This shit is a fucking mental plague by the smallest minded, and it's so hard to imagine what or how corporatism can be better than this. Because it's so intangible but so real, because the craft is so crucial. Programmers and the peers they go to, how as a group they find and make taste, is so much more livelt and interesting than the org chart, with such attractors all for reason and charisma and office politic. The programmers intuitively get that they want to make good systems, and doing so is the interesting & fruitful art, more than throwing the shit on the page, which now the AI can do anyways.
by frumplestlatz | 2026-01-31 00:56:22+00:00
Yes. I realize I’m speaking with a Bluesky employee, and to be clear, you’re not really the audience to which I’m appealing. I don’t expect people working at the platform to disagree with the ideological framework under which it operates -- or even to recognize it -- and that’s fine. But let’s not pretend it’s neutral or balanced.
by derefr | 2026-01-31 00:58:04+00:00
No; if a phone has both a non-removable battery and a baseband modem, then various laws require that modem to be wired directly to that battery (and to the phone's microphone) and to able to be activated in response to a legal wiretap order, even when the phone itself is nominally "powered off."

(And this doesn't even require that the phone stay connected to the network after the wiretap-enable packet is received. Rather, while the phone is "powered off", the baseband modem might sit there passively acting as a bug, capturing conversation through the microphone onto a bit of NAND onboard the modem; and then, once the phone is powered on again, the baseband modem will take the opportunity to silently play back whatever it's recorded to the tower.)

This is why spies (who might be forced to carry a phone pwned by the very state they're trying to spy on!) are fans of phones with removable batteries. They'll still use a faraday bag, to cut off their phone's network connections; but removing the battery before putting the phone into the faraday bag, further inhibits the state actor from performing one of these "powered-off" record-to-NAND-style baseband wiretap attacks on them.

(Of course, these are just ways to secure a phone you "own" yourself. If two people are meeting who aren't within the same security envelope, then either of them might be trying to surreptitiously record the conversation, and so their phones (or anything else on them) might contain a bug with its own power source, that would stay active even if the phone's battery was removed. For such meetings, you want to leave electronic devices in a soundproof safe, in another room. Which will also implicitly act as a faraday cage.)
by rodrig3 | 2026-01-31 00:58:11+00:00
This seems like a critical update on what we know about the impact of vitamin D on cardiovascular health. Perhaps the highest value is that "unlike earlier vitamin D randomized trials that used standard doses, the TARGET-D trial personalized the doses based on the results of each participant’s blood test." (https://newsroom.heart.org/news/heart-attack-risk-halved-in-...)

It wasn't too long ago that evidence was mixed on benefits in this area: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...

Nice find!
by Herring | 2026-01-31 00:58:31+00:00
A lot of western societies are aging. If you don’t import immigrants, the economy slows, quality of life drops, and people elect the far right anyway. It’s happening to Japan right now. I’d set up the safety nets and hope enough people will appreciate the better cost of living and reelect sane politicians.

Of course there are no guarantees. People hated Obamacare and punished democrats so hard they lost the most seats since Eisenhower. All up and down the ballot.
by sfblah | 2026-01-31 00:59:14+00:00
One thing that was unclear to me from the stats cited on the website is whether the quoted 52% reduction in crashes is when FSD is in use, or overall. This matters because people are much more likely to use FSD in situations where driving is easier. So, if the reduction is just during those times, I'm not even sure that would be better than a human driver.

As an example, let's say most people use FSD on straight US Interstate driving, which is very easy. That could artificially make FSD seem safer than it really is.

My prior on this is supervised FSD ought to be safer, so the 52% number kind of surprised me, however it's computed. I would have expected more like a 90-95% reduction in accidents.
by the_fall | 2026-01-31 00:59:18+00:00
Also, as a website owner, these residential proxies are a real pain. Tons and tons of abusive traffic, including people trying to exploit vulnerabilities and patently broken crawlers that send insane numbers of requests, and no real way to block it.

It's just nasty stuff. Intent matters, and if you're selling a service that's used only by the bad guys, you're a bad guy too.
by zahlman | 2026-01-31 00:59:23+00:00
> In the livestream archived on his YouTube channel, Lemon can be seen meeting with and interviewing the activists before they go to the church, and later chronicling the disruption inside, interviewing congregants, protesters and a pastor, who asks Lemon and the protesters to leave.

Not mentioned is that the interview with the activists discloses a clear plan to "make the [congregation] feel uncomfortable", and that Lemon's interviews were quite hostile and aimed at furthering the protesters' point of view. At one point he could be seen to lean on an interviewee while saying "don't touch me". The protesters did not leave when asked.

Everyone who watches the footage is encouraged to consider how they would perceive the actions if this had taken place at a mosque or synagogue rather than a church. It's curious that Reuters could apparently find several "Free press advocates [who] voiced alarm over the arrests", but not any freedom of speech advocates concerned with the congregation's right to freedom of association on private property.

It's also strange that the article goes into extensive detail about Lemon's background and similar actions by the Trump administration, but is silent about the apparent motivation for the choice of venue for the protest (the lead pastor, Jonathan Parnell, was suspected of having ties to ICE) which makes the action seem rather like harassment.
by addaon | 2026-01-31 01:00:48+00:00
Probably? Transparent -- ITO on glass is the usual answer. You can deposit the ITO in patterns rather than as a continuous layer; and a conductive layer works as a faraday cage as long as the gaps are significantly smaller than the relevant wavelength (so ~mm for mmWave). So a ~500 µm mesh could be laid down on glass in front of the screen, and conductively joined to a continuously conductive layer surrounding the back of the phone. The question, then, is whether the change in capacitance from a finger is observable by the touch screen through such a mesh... my intuition is that it would be, but would have to either model it or test it to find out. (Could test with just a stainless steel mesh from the hardware store.)

But none of this helps with the "toggle-able" part of the requirements…
by asyncadventure | 2026-01-31 01:00:58+00:00
The real insight here isn't just building another conversation partner—it's the UX optimization for low latency. Language anxiety is largely about response pressure, and even small delays break immersion. The technical challenge of syncing speech input, transcription, LLM responses, and TTS streaming while avoiding feedback loops is non-trivial. Consider adding conversation analytics: tracking where users hesitate, repeat phrases, or switch to easier constructions. That behavioral data could help personalize difficulty curves better than any competitor.
by soganess | 2026-01-31 01:01:52+00:00
Do you honestly think I have not read that before?

I don't even know where that is posted, I just see folks quote it all the time. I obviously don't abide, those were written at a different time on a different internet with a different HN.

NOTE: I slightly restructured this without noticing the reply. The poster below is not misquoting me in anyway.
by spondyl | 2026-01-31 01:02:10+00:00
That's a reasonable assumption to make and one I wondered about too!

I'm just saying that there's no evidence I'm aware of that would prove or disprove that the creators were involved.

Personally, I think crypto types are bizarre enough that I could believe they would do something like that unannounced.

In my mind, it's the same behaviour as the infamous Kylie Jenner "get her to $1 billion" GoFundMe from a few years back: https://www.businessinsider.com/kylie-jenner-gofundme-fans-c...
by frumplestlatz | 2026-01-31 01:02:26+00:00
The issue isn’t whether “the far left” exists in large numbers in the abstract; it’s how platform design, moderation norms, and social incentives shape which views are amplified -- and which are penalized. On Bluesky, the boundaries of acceptable discourse are unusually narrow and strongly enforced, which predictably produces ideological clustering.

As for bots or “controlled opposition”: you don’t need conspiracy theories to explain why a heavily moderated platform with explicit cultural norms converges on a particular worldview. I’m disinclined to apply anything beyond Occam’s razor when accounting for “deranged spectacle” behavior; ordinary selection effects are sufficient.
by rramadass | 2026-01-31 01:02:31+00:00
That is not an argument. ISO C standardizes hardware-independent parts of the language but at some point you have to meet the hardware.

All apps using the above-mentioned are written in "standard" C. They themselves are "system level" code and hence have Language/HW/OS specific extensions which is standard practice when interfacing with low-level code.

> any language compiled language also has available

In theory yes, but in practice never to the ease nor flexibility with which you can use C for the job. This is what people mean when they say "C is close to the metal" or "C is a high-level assembly language".
by nlh | 2026-01-31 01:02:31+00:00
A very excellent question and totally reasonable thing not to know (congrats on being one of today's lucky 10,000!)

I'm speaking from the perspective of US coins because that's what I specialize in but this generally applies to coins all over the world as well:

Prior to (and including) 1964, US 10c, 25c, 50c, (and when they were made, $1) coins were made of 90% silver. We made A LOT of these, so in terms of outright rarity, most are not rare. Today they're referred to as "junk silver" because in terms of collectibility, they're junk, but the 90% silver content means there's some inherent precious metal value (as of this moment on Jan 30, 2026, they have ~approximately~ 60x their face value in silver content, eg $6, $15, $30, and $60 in silver respectively.)

So that's their basal value that fluctuates with the silver market. But the next layer is actual rarity / collectibility -- if a given coin is desirable enough that it surpasses its metal content, you get a different set of values.

Now to your actual question: Do they get smelted/melted down? The answer is...sometimes. They trade somewhat like financial instruments, based on the assumption that you could melt them down (and there's a cost to doing so), so that's how people value the various silver coins. In reality, there's usually enough demand from people who want to hold physical silver in various forms that they don't actually need to be melted down.

There's obviously a lot more to it, but that's the 5c version ;)
by sethev | 2026-01-31 01:03:23+00:00
Normally, I'm not a fan of putting the date on a post. However, in this case, the fact that Stonebraker's article was published in 2010 makes it more impressive given the developments over the last 15 years - in which we've relearned the value of consistency (and the fact that it can scale more than people were imagining).
by stackghost | 2026-01-31 01:03:35+00:00
> if a phone has both a non-removable battery and a baseband modem, then various laws require that modem to be wired directly to that battery (and to the phone's microphone) and to able to be activated in response to a legal wiretap order, even when the phone itself is nominally "powered off."

Could you link to such a law?
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-31 01:03:54+00:00
Craft stores still add sales tax to raw material. Costco charges sales taxes to business accounts, unless given a certificate of resale or buying from an exempt category in whatever state. I could go on, but clearly sales taxes apply to more than "just" finished consumer products. They apply pretty broadly to retail sales as a whole.

It's at least a distinction though, unlike the other arguments.