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by protocolture | 2026-01-28 10:26:00+00:00
>Being Disingenuous

Crying disingenuous when I disagree with you isn't an argument.

>but it won't change anything about what the FBI should and shouldn't do.

What does that have to do with the price of wheat.

>And neither does crying "Nazi" whenever someone does something you don't like.

Why do you suddenly cry "Crying Nazi". Do you have sins to confess?
by _the_inflator | 2026-01-28 10:26:15+00:00
I rose from Dev to Senior Management in a 100k+ global banking enterprise.

I don't want to trash anyone. Having said that, I always kept my engineering approach as opposed to being a manager in the sense that what I did became an end in itself.

I was more of a renegade within corporate, and used this unique position to achieve fun and results way above everyone else. I got proof, this ain't no bragging. It was easy mode, I used the top notch devs I could hire and automated everything, build a platform, that became internally the de facto standard, which caused 600+ Mio EUR cost savings within 4 years and counting with a headcount of 8.

Long story short: I was a bit Googly, knowing them a bit and having been there.

Here is the gist: To this day I could never grasp what my manager collegues or their peers and directs were doing. I asked many and many times of any rank, because I wanted to learn.

Most things were related to administrativ stuff like vacations permissions, performance reviews, budget "planing" - and of course meetings, meetings, meetings.

95% of what the HIPPOS with high 6figure and 7figure incomes in the room were doing could easily been done by an intern, except for the people affais.

Only requirement is discipline to sometimes just sit still in a chair and jumping via Zoom from meeting to meeting every 30 minutes from 8:00/9:00 to 19:00. Monday to Thursday.

All you have to do is rely on these phrases: "What are the next steps?", "I will delegate this to...", "Now start the reports please."

These people were IT managers - of course no one except me had any (!) Computer Science background.

Google taught me, that it is totally easy to train a computer scientist business skills, but impossible to train any non-IT person Computer Science. This holds true.

So yes, I can totally relate to these news here, however I feel sorry for the people anyway. Good faith in most cases has to be used. That they do everything to appear irreplaceable and therefore cause havoc along their "career" is only the flipside of human behavior and dysfunctional settings.

Take care of your craft and be proud, if you are in need.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-01-28 10:26:42+00:00
OK well, it's been my experience that even well informed people from around the world do not understand a lot of American news, so cutting down on it probably doesn't help the nuance building. Aside from that there are a lot of Americans on HN, it's reasonable that they expect to be able to discuss what effects them.

I haven't really noticed politics of other countries get flagged that much, does it? Other than stuff that looks like propaganda from one country against another, that seems to get quickly flagged.

Finally I don't know what makes you think that HN is an unrelated to American politics forum, given that the guidelines of what the forum is for is quite lax.
by bjackman | 2026-01-28 10:26:46+00:00
There's more to it than just coding Vs building though.

For a long time in my career now I've been in a situation where I'd be able to build more if I was willing to abstract myself and become a slide-merchant/coalition-builder. I don't want to do this though.

Yet, I'm still quite an enthusiastic vibe-coder.

I think it's less about coding Vs building and more about tolerance for abstraction and politics. And I don't think there are that many people who are so intolerant of abstraction that they won't let agents write a bunch of code for them.
by lynx97 | 2026-01-28 10:27:20+00:00
And still, when it comes to built-in accessibility, Jobs is pretty much famous for his "fuck ROI" statement. He set precedence around 2007, which eventually forced other players like Google and Microsoft to follow. These days, Talkback and Narrator are builtin for both OSes, which is mostly because Apple went there first. This move changed the lifes of a a few million people.
by sam_goody | 2026-01-28 10:28:07+00:00
Do we know if these were formed intentionally or just happened to be in such a form and were used by those that found them?

Do we know if these were used more than once, or if they were in a convenient shape that was grabbed by a local for one time use?

How do we know that these were actually used as tools and not just pieces of wood that coincidentally in the site?

Do we have any reason to think these were used by (precursor to) humans more than ravens, beavers or any other number of animals that use tools?

Because of the paywall I could not read the whole article, but the pictures and intro leave a lot unanswered.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-28 10:28:11+00:00
> If someone meant to engineer a codebase to hide subtle bugs which might be remotely exploitable, leak state, behave unexpectedly at runtime, or all of the above, the code would look like this.

I'd wager if someone did that the codebase would look better than OpenSSLs

The codebase designed to hide bug would look just good enough that rewriting it doesn't seem worth it.

OpenSSL is so bad that looking at it there is just desire to rip parts straight out and replace them, and frankly only fear-mongering around writing security code kept people from doing just that and only after heartbleed the forks started to try. And that would also get rid of any hidden exploit.
by zwaps | 2026-01-28 10:28:18+00:00
A weakness of European companies is that with very few exceptions, there is no equivalent IC role to managerial roles beyond maybe junior management.

There are companies that promise this, but it is rarely done. For whatever reason, management is universally convinced that ICs have lower value and are more replacable than managers.

It's also a distinctly European trait that European executives can look at US tech companies, who have IC roles on all levels, see that they are the most successful and innovative companies in the world, and conclude that yes, maybe capping IC benefits and adding another level of management is the way to go!
by hwj | 2026-01-28 10:29:04+00:00
I can tell you that Deutsche Telekom has much much more aggressive sales reps than 1&1. (I've been with GMX/1&1 for ~15 years and with DT for ~2 years).

DT called me on phone over and over again, so much that I had to block them on my FritzBox. Several times they even knocked at my door.
by kakacik | 2026-01-28 10:29:20+00:00
> Here's one of these camps, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_East_Montana

Thats a textbook concentration camp. You are correct in your descriptions and distinction from extermination camps, concentration camps are not that rare even these days around the world in troubled places.

They are as name suggests just to herd bunch of people behind the fence, not much more. Of course, the reasons are usually far from nice and thus due to at most OKish treatment even there some sad things happen due to amount of people crammed together for a long time.

In Europe during WWII we had tons of concentration camps all over conquered Europe but only few were actual extermination ones, usually converted/expanded from concentration ones. When allies were coming nazis often turned concentration -> extermination due to orders given from above.
by storystarling | 2026-01-28 10:29:22+00:00
I ran into similar issues with context rot on a larger backend project recently. I ended up writing a tool that parses the AST to strip out function bodies and only feeds the relevant signatures and type definitions into the prompt.

It cuts down the input tokens significantly which is nice for the monthly bill, but I found the main benefit is that it actually stops the model from getting distracted by existing implementation details. It feels a bit like overengineering but it makes reasoning about the system architecture much more reliable when you don't have to dump the whole codebase into the context window.
by gregjor | 2026-01-28 10:29:31+00:00
I don't understand why anyone finds it interesting that a machine, or chatbot, never tires or gets demoralized. You have to anthromorphize the LLM before you can even think of those possibilities. A tractor never tires or gets demoralized either, because it can't. Chatbots don't "dive into a rabbit hole ... and then keep digging" because they have superhuman tenacity, they do it because that's what software does. If I ask my laptop to compute the millionth Fibonacci number it doesn't sigh and complain, and I don't think it shows any special qualities unless I compare it to a person given the same job.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2026-01-28 10:29:33+00:00
Do any of you deliberately integrate the golden ratio into anything you create or do? For me it always seems more like an intellectual curiosity rather than an item in my regular toolkit for design, creative exploration, or problem solving. If I end up with a golden ratio in something I create it's more likely to be by accident or instinct rather than a deliberate choice. I keep thinking I must be missing out.

The closest thing I do related to the golden ratio is using the harmonic armature as a grid for my paintings.
by jaapz | 2026-01-28 10:29:45+00:00
You can still be a proponent of change and discuss these changes with local politicians and what not without being on a 24 hour news IV.

However, looking at the current political climate in my own country, I too have lost faith in them solving local and global issues. When the people I can vote for don't actually solve pressing societal problems, then what's the point? Now factor in the influence of people in large countries that are in power that I can't even vote for...

There is a glimmer of hope that the EU now seems to have finally found some balls somewhere though, with their response to the Greenland situation. Maybe they've finally learned that a strategy of appeasement does not work for strongmen in power (hey, that sounds familiar...)
by withinboredom | 2026-01-28 10:30:09+00:00
I beg to differ. I started with C in the 90s, then C# in '05, then PHP in '12, then Go in '21. The things I learned in C still apply to Go, C#, and PHP. And I even started contributing to open source C projects in '24 ... all my skills and knowledge were still relevant. This sounds exactly like ageism to me, but I clearly have a different perspective than you.
by GeneralMaximus | 2026-01-28 10:30:10+00:00
If you use `uv`, you can declare your dependencies at the top of a script: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#declaring-script-d...

I've started using Python for many more tasks after I discovered this feature. I'm primarily a JS/TS developer, but the ability to write a "standalone" script that can pull in third-party dependencies without affecting your current project is a massive productivity boost.
by zahlman | 2026-01-28 10:30:14+00:00
> then backed away when an officer approached him.

The video shows him physically interposing himself between the officer and a woman, and appearing to resist physically.

> You're taking a pretty broad interpretation of "interference."

It is not broad, as explained by the one sentence you omitted from that paragraph.

> Walz is a weak Democrat who can't even condemn the organization

He has very clearly done this on multiple occasions. As I said, he has even been making public speeches claiming that ICE aren't even LEO, which is false.

> abducting his State's citizens

This has not occurred. Arrest is not abduction.

> If you mean to imply that Democrat officials are organizing the resistance then that's laughable.

I do mean to say that Cam Higby asserts exactly that, and appears to believe he has considerable evidence to substantiate the claim.

> You do realize that almost all undocumented people living in the US are on overstayed visas, right? We let them in after checking they weren't dangerous, then they started working and living here.

I don't understand why you think they should be permitted to stay under those conditions.

> Clearly our immigration system is broken if it leaves this many residents undocumented. And your proposed solution is strict enforcement?

Yes; if you have a time-limited visa, you should be expected to leave the country when it expires, and you should expect for there to be strict enforcement of that rule. Otherwise the time stamped on the visa is meaningless.

> Imagine, if you will, applying this standard to, say, speeding.

I see no reason why this is comparable.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-28 10:30:55+00:00
>well, you chose the one "good" example, where weapons are actually used for defense against a different Imperialist.

It's interesting that in the conflict you have the greatest familiarity with, you support greater US involvement. In other conflicts, you appear to fall back on simple thinking like "dropping bombs is bad, therefore the US is bad".

I would suggest that many Americans have internalized the simple message Europeans have been sending for years: "dropping bombs is bad, therefore the US is bad". And that's why we lack enthusiasm to help Ukraine. We know helping Ukraine will be added to our rap sheet as supposed warmongers.

Personally I am quite envious of the Swiss, and think a Swiss foreign policy would be very good for the US. We have to stop trying to take responsibility for what is going on in other continents. Dropping bombs is bad, therefore the US is bad -- in Ukraine, Israel, everywhere really.

>even so, do you think a one-time 5% wealth tax is enough to be called very left-wing?

By US standards, yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793420
Show HN: Early Research Preview of a Rust-Based Agentic OS Runtime [video]
by saivishwak | 2026-01-28 10:30:56+00:00
Hi HN,

We’ve been working on an project called Liquidos — Odessey, and wanted to share an early research preview to get feedback from the community.

Odessey is a Rust-first agent orchestration runtime focused on local-first execution and privacy. It came out of frustration with cloud-heavy agent frameworks that are difficult to reason about, secure, or run reliably on the edge. We wanted something closer to a runtime layer for agents rather than just another workflow abstraction.

Under the hood, Odessey is built on top of our open-source Rust agent framework, AutoAgents, and explores ideas like composing and orchestrating agents locally, skill execution, plugins, and sandboxed runtimes. The long-term direction is toward what we loosely call an agentic operating system — though we’re still pressure-testing whether that framing actually makes sense.

This demo is intentionally limited. It’s a preview of direction rather than a feature-complete product, and we’re sharing it early to learn before open-sourcing the full platform.

We’d really appreciate thoughts on:

Whether you’d consider using something like this, and for what use cases

What would need to exist for real-world adoption

Whether the framing makes sense, or if it should be positioned differently

If you’re interested in agent orchestration, local-first AI tooling, Rust-based runtimes, or alternatives to cloud-centric LLM frameworks, we’d love to hear your perspective.

Open-source agent framework (Rust): https://github.com/liquidos-ai/AutoAgents

If this direction resonates, we’re also keeping a small waitlist at https://liquidos.ai to share updates as the platform evolves.

Happy to answer questions and take critiques.
by poszlem | 2026-01-28 10:32:13+00:00
I keep thinking about the TechnoCore from Dan Simmons' Hyperion, where the AIs were serving humans but secretly that was a parasitic relation, where they've been secretly using human brains as distributed processing nodes, essentially harvesting humanity's neural activity for their own computational needs without anyone's knowledge.

I know this is SF, but to me working with those LLMs feels more and more like that, and the atrophy part is real. Not that the model is literally using our brains as compute, but the relationship can become lopsided.
by abm53 | 2026-01-28 10:32:35+00:00
My advice: keep it on a tight leash.

In the happy case where I have a good idea of the changes necessary, I will ask it to do small things, step by step, and examine what it does and commit.

In the unhappy case where one is faced with a massive codebase and no idea where to start, I find asking it to just “do the thing” generates slop, but enough for me to use as inspiration for the above.
by cmiles8 | 2026-01-28 10:34:02+00:00
I’m generally supportive of the tech industry’s move to rid itself of too many mangers.

Most managers are no longer technical, and just create bloated middle layers that slow everyone else down.

The only managers that are decent are the ones that have kept their technical skills sharp. Most others just seem to be able to say “my team will follow-up” and “my team will look into this” and are beyond useless. Few are shedding a tear at cleaning that up.
by asdefghyk | 2026-01-28 10:34:09+00:00
RE "....Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II...."

Suggest to look at some of the archives of old Apple Magazines from around the Apple I era , cira late 70s and early 80s.

Some of them would have had assembly language programming columns.
I recall one Named Softtalk , but there where many.
There are other Sites than Archive.org. Some archive sites solely devoted to early apple computers like Apple 2
by Freak_NL | 2026-01-28 10:35:23+00:00
> Unemployment benefits are unconditional until you find a new job.

They are quite conditional: you must be applying for a new job while receiving them, and after the first six months any job you can do is eligible (not just the jobs you would want to do). You must report your job applications to the unemployment agency, and you can get called in and cut off from benefits for not earnestly seeking a job.
by phito | 2026-01-28 10:35:49+00:00
What kind of software are you writing? Are you just a "code monkey" implementing perfectly described Jira tickets (no offense meant)? I cannot imagine feeling this way with what I'm working on, writing code is just a small part of it, most of the time is spent trying to figure out how to integrate the various (undocumented and actively evolving) external services together in a coherent, maintainable and resilient way. LLMs absolutely cannot figure this out themselves, I have to figure it out myself and then write it all in its context, and even then it mostly comes up with sub-par, unmaintainable solutions if I wasn't being precise engouh.

They are amazing for side projects but not for serious code with real world impact where most of the context is in multiple people's head.
by ozlikethewizard | 2026-01-28 10:35:52+00:00
Do you think maybe people from around the world dont necessarily care? The USA is not the center of the universe. If its tech related cool, otherwise let people find it somewhere else if they want it? Personally as a brit it does impact me quite a lot, so I try to keep up to date, but expecting the world to care about US news is kind of egomaniacal.
by swiftcoder | 2026-01-28 10:35:53+00:00
> there are prices for locals and foreigners. one will pay 2x for coffee, rent, parking, all... does not know hidden language of locals? wait in all queues 2x longer. so social security medcine is something one never sees.

Mate, I made this exact move ~5 years ago, it's really not that hard to learn a foreign language and navigate a bit of bureaucracy (although I will admit, Spain may be better than most in this regard)
by drw85 | 2026-01-28 10:36:19+00:00
> Is it maintainable? Well it's AI that's going to maintain it.

That's what's currently not possible, it might work in a small webapp or similar.
But in a large system, it absolutely falls apart when having to maintain it.
Sure, it can fix a bug, but it doesn't understand the side effects it creates with the fix, yet.

Maybe in the future that will also be possible. I do agree with you about business/management not caring about long term impacts if short term gains are possible.
by zahlman | 2026-01-28 10:36:39+00:00
> She was filmed turning away, slowly and carefully.

No, the SUV did not begin to move until much later. Hence Ross being able to circle it, film the license plate and have an extended verbal exchange with Good's partner. It does not move until she initiates the two-point turn, which is a response to the order to get out of the car.

> Stop trying to lie about this. The video is clear, and far too many people have seen it by now.

It is counter to HN guidelines to make accusations like this. I agree that there are multiple videos of the incident which clearly show what happened. I have spent far too much time watching it. I disagree that it shows what you claim.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-28 10:36:41+00:00
It is. There are other related issues like at some point RedHat patched back options removed/changed in openSSH 7.0 because

* they upgraded a major release (6.x to 7.x) in "stable" channel of their distro
* their customers ran some ancient stuff that required those options.

We've failed a security audit because our checks just compared OpenSSH version ("if version is above this it doesn't need any change in config") while Red Hat's OpenSSH version was downgraded to earlier version settings/security issues
by 72deluxe | 2026-01-28 10:36:59+00:00
I have set up ntfy on a Pi at home, and use it to send me Android notifications of headlines every morning.

This is by a bash script in a cron job that reads RSS feeds and grabs the headlines and links to articles, so I can get a flurry of tech news and general news headlines without having to go into detail on each topic (which in news terms is typically slanted with some sort of bias).

So I can stay up to date on general happenings, speedily. It is fairly simple to set up - a LLM will write a suitable bash script to parse RSS XML and grab links and headlines in moments.
by defrost | 2026-01-28 10:37:07+00:00
> a certain class of protestors

Yes, a proportionally large and significant number of local Minnesota community members of long and good standing.

> are intentionally provoking a response from the government

are reacting to excessive over reach by outsiders, directed by the Federal government to act in a punative manner.

> Inevitably someone is arrested, hurt, or killed,

This has already happened. Multiple times. As was obvious from the outset given the unprofessional behaviour and attitudes of the not-police sent in wearing masks.

> [the people aren't] exercising a "fundamental human right"

they are exercising their Constitutional rights. Including their right to free speech, to bear arms, to protest the Federal government, etc.

> the correct answer is to vote, talk to your neighbors and friends, and peaceably protest,

Which they have done and they continue to do.

See: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/the-neighbors-defe...

for more about the local community of neighbour loving US citizens acting in defence of their community.
by alias_neo | 2026-01-28 10:37:19+00:00
It's certainly been interesting to watch over the span of my career so far.

It's really quite interesting thinking back to that time for me in University, every few years something happens that sparks a memory; right now, it's that roughly 2007-2008 my professor was telling me about this "rollable" screen technology that was going to enable rolling/folding phones at some point in the future; a little earlier he'd been telling me about this funky new thing called 'Organic LED' that was going to enable "printing" flexible circuits

He's an FREng (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering) and was one of the people involved in the invention of the silicon chip.

Had a Gandalf look to him and was a real fountain of knowledge, I lucked out to get the guy as my professor.