MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mike_hearn | 2026-02-01 15:16:15+00:00
I'm writing my own agent too as a side project at work. This is a good article but simultaneously kinda disappointing. The entire agent space has disappeared down the same hole, with exactly the same core design used everywhere and everyone making the same mistakes. The focus on TUIs I find especially odd. We're at the dawn of the AI age and people are trying to optimize the framerate of Teletext? If you care about framerates use a proper GUI framework!

The agent I'm writing shares some ideas with Pi but otherwise departs quite drastically from the core design used by Claude Code, Codex, Pi etc, and it seems to have yielded some nice benefits:

• No early stopping ("shall I continue?", "5 tests failed -> all tests passed, I'm done" etc).

• No permission prompts but also no YOLO mode or broken Seatbelt sandboxes. Everything is executed in a customized container designed specifically for the model and adapted to its needs. The agent does a lot of container management to make this work well.

• Agent can manage its own context window, and does. I never needed to add compaction because I never yet saw it run out of context.

• Seems to be fast compared to other agents, at least in any environment where there's heavy load on the inferencing servers.

• Eliminates "slop-isms" like excessive error swallowing, narrative commenting, dropping fully qualified class names into the middle of source files etc.

• No fancy TUI. I don't want to spend any time fixing flickering bugs when I could be improving its skill at the core tasks I actually need it for.

It's got downsides too, it's very overfit to the exact things I've needed and the corporate environment it runs in. It's not a full replacement for CC or Codex. But I use it all the time and it writes nearly all my code now.

The agent is owned by the company and they're starting to ask about whether it could be productized so I suppose I can't really go into the techniques used to achieve this, sorry. Suffice it to say that the agent design space is far wider and deeper than you'd initially intuit from reading articles like this. None of the ideas in my agent are hard to come up with so explore!
by mpyne | 2026-02-01 15:16:44+00:00
This is a great website for learning this type of puzzle. Certainly better than what people had available to them before.

Once you have learned and want to keep playing, this site has tens of thousands of good nonograms, in both black-and-white and color: https://www.nonograms.org/

There are also "Picross" games for Nintendo consoles (and recently Squeakross for Steam).
by malvads | 2026-02-01 15:17:28+00:00
After running into only paid tools or overly complicated setups for turning web pages into structured data for LLMs, I was pretty much tired of this, wanted free open source solution to convert websites to MD format so built Mojo (for NotebookLM, or any RAG-like solution)

Mojo it's extremly fast, supports proxy rotation and it's MIT licensed -> https://github.com/malvads/mojo
by 9rx | 2026-02-01 15:17:49+00:00
> The agile idea in itself is quite simple: Inspect and Adapt.

Ish. Agile is, ultimately, about removing managers.

- Individuals over processes
- Working software over documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan

Developers on a team coming together to inspect and adapt, as you say, is a necessary function when you don't have a manager to do it for you. Hence why it is included in the Twelve Principles. Each of the twelve principles present a function that needs to be considered when you don't have a manager to do the work for you.

Of course, this point from the Twelve Principles is always Agile's sticking point: "Build projects around motivated individuals." In the real world, businesses don't want to hire motivated individuals that will drive projects, they want to hire many cheap, replaceable commodities along with just one motivated manager to whip them into shape. That is what that Jira stuff mentioned in the earlier comment is all about.
by traceroute66 | 2026-02-01 15:18:02+00:00
> From what I heard and read, I understood that as a well-meant idea but still a misconception on the consumer part due to lack of enforcement by Apple.

I'm not familiar with the detail so I cannot comment directly on what you are saying. I don't have the time to go read up on it right now.

But what I would say is that many aspects will be indirectly enforced by Apple (and can be audited/enforced by the user) through the privacy controls (location services, microphone, camera etc.). Clearly that does not cover everything, but it covers a large chunk.

Apple have also made it impossible to for example get a device-level ID, you can only get an app-level pseudo-device-id. So there are various code-level enforcements too.
by AtlasBarfed | 2026-02-01 15:18:19+00:00
OMG what a comprehensive stress test. Why, it's perfect, according to random interneter "daly".

The ultimate arbiter of truth, quality, hm, verily an omniscient source of universal truth.

.... Doesn't fsd require you to touch the wheel, pay attention? Did you drive complex routes and surface streets? Bad weather? Did you encounter bicycles, deer, construction, broken down semis, heavy traffic?

And would you fall asleep and let it drive?
by CPLX | 2026-02-01 15:19:49+00:00
Curious what the point you're making here is. I don't know anything at all about Bob Park and whether he is a crank. But if you make your career doing the admirable work of debunking pseudo-science and nonsense theories, you would necessarily be linked to in discussions of those theories very, very frequently.

So maybe that's not a good description of him. But the link you posted is hardly dispositive.
by cjonas | 2026-02-01 15:20:26+00:00
Same. For actual productions app I'm typically reviewing the thinking messages and code changes as they happen to ensure it stays on the rails. I heavily use the "revert" to previous state so I can update the prompt with more accurate info that might have come out of the agents trial and error. I find that if I don't do this, the agent makes a mess that often doesn't get cleaned up on its way to the actually solution. Maybe a similar workflow is possible with Claude Code...
by class3shock | 2026-02-01 15:20:40+00:00
His logic for staying "out of the way" is:

"The work was going to be successful without me; he’s a Wolf."

This is the biggest pile of crap I have ever heard. Projects and ideas being thought up by "wolves" that are incredible so often die because of lack of support from management. If I talked to a senior leader about an idea and they thought it was jaw droppingly good, and their only resulting action was to tell my boss, "oh yeah, that thing x is working is interesting", during a prescheduled meeting, I would never have faith in that person again.

Good work does not speak for itself, it needs a shitload of people to speak for it. The most capable "1000x" engineer in the world can never achieve anything if someone better at talking has the mic.

edit: spelling
by EliRivers | 2026-02-01 15:21:26+00:00
About 15 years ago, I worked on code that delivered working versions to customers, repeatedly, who used it an reported zero bugs. It simply did what it was meant to, what had been agreed, from the moment they started using it.

The key was this: "the requirements are polished and any questions answered by stakeholders"

We simply knew precisely what we were meant to be creating before we started creating it. I wonder to what degree the magic of "spec driven development" as you call it is just that, and using Claude code or some other similar is actually just the expression of being forced to understand and express clearly just what you actually want to create (compared to the much more prevalent model of just making things in the general direction and seeing how it goes).
by Bender | 2026-02-01 15:21:32+00:00
Nobody will like this answer but I have never worn one of those devices and likely never would. That would just induce some form of psychosis and paranoia about ones health and could likely trigger someone to go to a medical facility wasting their resources and spending money. According to the BMJ and other studies medical facilities are the 3rd leading cause of mortality. I just eat healthy, get some exercise and keep stress levels low. It is not clear to me that these devices were made for anything other than sending people to doctors. I have yet to meet a doctor that will pursue root causes vs. treating someone with tinker toy rebound drugs. In my view it's just a circle of wasted money and resources trapping people in an endless loop of doctor visits without them doing any real diagnosis.
by EliRivers | 2026-02-01 15:22:20+00:00
"Waterfall is never great."

The only software I ever worked on that delivered on time, under budget, and with users reporting zero bugs over multiple deliveries, was done with heavy waterfall. The key was knowing in advance what we were meant to be making, before we made it. This did demand high-quality customers; most customers are just not good enough.
by geerlingguy | 2026-02-01 15:22:22+00:00
25 Gbps isn't all that much. It would be good, but would be below the 40+ Gbps I was getting on the TB5 ring network.

I think where it would show more significant speed
up is on the AMD Strix Halo cluster.

Except I haven't been able to get RDMA over Thunderbolt on there to work, so it'd be apples to oranges comparing ConnectX to Thunderbolt on Linux.
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Show HN: Ziframe – generate AI assets directly on the After Effects timeline
by seblavoie | 2026-02-01 15:23:22+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Ziframe because I was tired of bouncing between After Effects and AI websites.

Ziframe is an AE extension that lets you generate AI images and short video assets directly inside After Effects. You prompt from the panel, and the results come back as layers in your comp, so you can iterate the same way you already do with normal AE work.

This solves many issues:

- Constant context switching between Ae and the browser

- The very tedious flow of Generating an image with ai → downloading file → moving file to project folder → importing file to Ae → moving it to the timeline → making adjustments with After → Exporting the image → Opening a video generation tool to make it move → etc.

- Juggling between so many tools and subscriptiongs

Under the hood it’s multi-model. I’m using fal.ai as the backend, which lets me route requests to different models while having a dynamically generated UI in the AE extension. The goal was to only have json files for each model and keep the rest dynamic.

It’s credit-based (no BYO API keys) so this will allow me to eventually build more automation and routing features. Similar to what photoai.com does. This is something I’m already using in real client work daily.

Happy to answer questions about After Effects integration, fal.ai, or the tradeoffs of putting AI inside legacy creative software.
by jfreds | 2026-02-01 15:23:32+00:00
> good work speaks for itself

I disagree. Ideas don’t speak, and work doesn’t speak. People do. Being a 10x engineer isn’t just about having great ideas, it’s about having great impact.

Sometimes I hear ICs say with some pride that “I’m not interested in playing office politics”. I promise you they will lose out to the engineers who are able to self advocate, and coalition-build.
by nostrademons | 2026-02-01 15:23:36+00:00
This strikes me as a skunworks project to investigate a technology that could be used for autonomous vehicles someday, as well as score some points with Sundar and the Alphabet board who've decreed the company is all-in on Gemini.

Production Waymos use a mix of machine-learning and computer vision (particularly on the perception side) and conventional algorithmic planning. They're not E2E machine-learning at all, they use it as a tool when appropriate. I know because I have a number of friends that have gone to work for Waymo, and some that did compiler/build infrastructure for the cars, and I've browsed through their internal Alphabet job postings as well.
Feedback on evolutionary multi-agent architecture for nonstationary environments
by robintseng | 2026-02-01 15:23:42+00:00
Hi HN,
I’m experimenting with a systems architecture rather than a finished product, and I’d really appreciate technical feedback from people working on ML systems, agents, or complex adaptive systems.
The core idea is to treat strategies/agents as evolving “species” instead of static models. Each species is composed of modular “organs” (signal processors, risk controllers, execution logic, etc.), and mutations are constrained to compatible organ classes so components can recombine safely. Survival is determined by real-world performance under nonstationary environments rather than offline benchmarks.
Instead of using LLMs to directly generate actions, I’m using them as an environment interpreter. A RAG layer ingests recent news headlines and other signals to classify the current “regime” or world-state, and species decide whether and how to act based on alignment with their intrinsic traits rather than explicit causal reasoning.
This is very early-stage:
– No production agents yet
– Still wiring the architecture and data pipelines
– Focused mainly on evolutionary dynamics and interface contracts
I’m mainly looking for critique: similar systems you’ve seen, likely failure modes, scaling issues, or better abstractions. Happy to share diagrams or pseudocode if helpful.
Thanks!
Show HN: Bellwether – MCP Server Testing and Drift Detection for CI/CD
by dotsetgreg | 2026-02-01 15:23:48+00:00
What it does:

bellwether check snapshots your MCP server's schema and compares it against a baseline. If anything changed — tools added/removed, parameters modified, types changed — it fails your CI build before you deploy. No LLM calls, no API costs, runs in seconds.

Key features:

• Zero-cost for CI: The check command is completely free and deterministic. No API keys, no LLM calls.

• Granular exit codes: Returns 0-5 depending on severity (no drift → info → warning → breaking changes → errors → low confidence). Configure your pipeline to fail only on breaking changes, or be stricter.

• Documentation as a side effect: Generates CONTRACT.md and AGENTS.md documenting your server's tools, parameters, and behavior.

• Optional deep testing: bellwether explore uses LLMs to test from multiple personas (security tester, QA engineer, novice user) and catches edge cases that structural checks miss.

npm install -g @dotsetlabs/bellwether
bellwether init npx @mcp/your-server
bellwether check
bellwether baseline save
# Later: bellwether check --fail-on-drift

GitHub Action:

- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- run: npx @dotsetlabs/bellwether check --fail-on-drift

Why this matters:

If you're building AI agents that depend on MCP servers, you need to know when those dependencies change. This is like having API contract tests, but for AI tool schemas.

Docs: https://docs.bellwether.sh

NPM: @dotsetlabs/bellwether

GitHub: https://github.com/dotsetlabs/bellwether

Questions welcome. Curious if others are hitting similar MCP drift issues or if there's a better approach I'm missing.
by Trasmatta | 2026-02-01 15:24:38+00:00
If you have that many pictures, it might not be the best choice for you. I'm paying $60 a year, but maybe I have way less than most people.

For me $60 is worth not having the hassle of self hosting, but if you'd have to pay $240 then maybe a self hosted Immich instance is the better option.
by dabedee | 2026-02-01 15:25:22+00:00
Again, it's completely possible that OP and you are the wonderful exceptions (untouched and uninspired by coding agents) that have been using these patterns for as long as you can remember. My comment revolved around the psychological phenomenon, not whether dry-run is a clever/novel idea. It's about how we might tell ourselves stories about the origin of our ideas when working with those tools.
by maccard | 2026-02-01 15:25:52+00:00
I’ve had the pleasure of managing a wolf.

Respectfully, if that’s your mindset then I think the problem lies with you and not with the manager.

> good work does not speak for itself, it needs a shitload of people to speak for it

The absolute best way to get a shitload of people to speak for it is to get a shitload of people to use it. The best way to get them to use it is to make it _so good_ they use it naturally. Using the test framework from the article as an example - a period of time passed between the meeting and the work actually being recognised. The manager clearly gave the right feedback to keep working on it rather than “I’m not sure - your other thing is quite important too”. The sign of a good wolf is someone who can tell the difference between “this isn’t a good idea” and “there’s a process to be followed to find out if there’s a good idea”. Ignoring the first one is suicide, but ignoring the second one is what makes you succeed.
by orbital-decay | 2026-02-01 15:26:14+00:00
Wait, what did just happen here?

1. Some guys did a trivial prompt injection attack, said "imagine if a driverless vehicle used this model", and published it.

2. The Register runs this under the clickbait title pretending real autonomous cars are vulnerable to this, with the content pretending this study isn't trivial and is relevant to real life in any way.

I knew The Register is a low quality ragebait tabloid (I flag most of their articles I bother to read), but this is garbage even for them.
by shmeeed | 2026-02-01 15:26:27+00:00
To me that sounds a bit like summaries made on the base of written movie scripts. A long time ago, I read a few scripts to movies I had never watched, and that's exactly the outcome: You get a rough idea what it's about and even get to recognise some memorable quotes, but there's little cohesion to it, for lack of all the important visual aspects and clues that tie it all together.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-01 15:26:48+00:00
> And how do you predict with certainty your "highest expected load"? And if you're in a space like ecommerce, where you have 1 week out of the year with x10 or x50 the load, I doubt it would actually be cheaper than using autoscaling.

If you know when that week is, where's the problem in spinning up extra capacity just for that period, a week in advance?

Retailers, whether online or not, know with a very high confidence what their expected load is going to be a week from now.
by throwaway150 | 2026-02-01 15:27:12+00:00
I come to HN to read thoughtful posts written by humans. Why are we upvoting LLM slop to the front page?

It is frustrating that the awesome article about Nonograms currently has less than 70 upvotes. But this pure LLM slop has 100+ upvotes and counting! What would it take to stop this LLM slop infestation?
by Spooky23 | 2026-02-01 15:27:20+00:00
Pretty easy. The only limits are your imagination and depravity. You launch the rocket, drop an orbital vehicle behind, and land. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

That vehicle could deorbit and drop a tungsten penetrator, smallpox, a nuclear device or any number of things.

All funded by a combination of government spending and defrauding the public via the Tesla Ponzi scheme.
by jryb | 2026-02-01 15:28:20+00:00
LLMs may be enabling, but OP explicitly stated "I wanted to dig deeper into the subject, but not by reading a boring textbook", which, of course, would have eliminated the issues in this tool, or at least made it clear to them that they needed to dive deeper before publishing. I feel like there might be some analogy with blaming cars for drunk driving - by definition, not possible without cars, but you can drive responsibly if you choose to.
Show HN: Mailient – AI email assistant for founders (built by 14yo)
by mailient | 2026-02-01 15:28:38+00:00
I'm 14 and I built Mailient after spending 3+ hours/day triaging emails.

It uses AI to:
- Auto-categorize emails (Opportunities/Urgent/Follow-ups)
- Draft replies in your voice
- Flag revenue-critical conversations

500+ founders using it. Saves 10+ hrs/week.

Try it: https://mailient.xyz

Looking for feedback from HN founders who struggle with email overwhelm.
by seblavoie | 2026-02-01 15:28:58+00:00
One thing that was complex to figure out was that many models have different pricing structures, so defining request costs is not easy. Neither fal nor replicate return accurate pricing in the response body.

So I have a script running every hour through my fal requests and compares the prices I paid to the ones I've charged and alerts me if there are discrepancies. I'd appreciate suggestions on how to improve this part though
by ben_w | 2026-02-01 15:29:15+00:00
When the USA ceases to be a superpower is different from when it ceases to be a powerful threat. Russia is a powerful threat, despite being only a mid-tier power.

IMO, the USA probably is still a superpower. But the UK and France didn't realise they'd stopped being superpowers until the Suez Crisis, and I suspect the USA will only discover the loss of superpower status in a similar way. Though not exactly the same, given what happened in Vietnam and Afghanistan, let alone TACOing out of using force to take Greenland.
by isleyaardvark | 2026-02-01 15:29:38+00:00
There is a use case for grid lane and pinterest is a good example: random images where a user isn't looking for a particular image but is just browsing. That's also why the example looks bad, is because it prominently includes text, which isn't part of the use case. Scannability is terrible, this layout has a very limited use case. It really is only for browsing random images, not even searching for a specific image and definitely not concerned with text.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-01 15:29:55+00:00
He was in the news so much that everybody knows about him being a dishonest dealer.

This is Gizmodo's take which may or may not be better than most.

But it's just one of the recent articles in their regular Cryptocurrency category, now maybe looking like they have more of a bearish outlook than bullish. About crypto in general.

This could reverse but if most of the news in any category is somewhat unfortunate, what other vibe is it going to give off?

Edit: not my downvote, I can certainly agree with you to an extent, but I myself wouldn't be flagging articles unless the same old information keeps showing up. I think it's normal to have a different preference for tech- or business-adjacent content at different times for different people.
by Balgair | 2026-02-01 15:30:57+00:00
https://www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/top-25-drugs-by-sales-20...

Obesity drugs are in the top 25 for 2025, but don't make up the largest plurality. That goes to oncology drugs at ~1/3rd. Obesity drugs are at ~14%.

I want to mention here that these oncology drugs are mostly antibody methods. Which, what the hell? We're making antibody drugs at scale now?! And that's like some of the highest selling drugs out there?

For comparison, though not in the linked article here, Acetaminophen (Tylenol) only comes in at ~$4.3B, which would put it way down in 13th place, out of the top 10.

Granted, this is sales numbers, and in the US, that's practically taking the savings of very sick people and turning it into stocks. Something that elicits no small reaction here on HN or just about anywhere.

Still, to the point of the main article, yes, we live in an age of medical miracles, and it arrived quite suddenly, only in the last 7 years or so, and we have a lot of gas in this tank.