MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cstever | 2026-02-10 23:47:45+00:00
Yes! I am not advocating for the 2 hours and the "vision" of managers and CEOs. Quite the contrary. But it is the world we live in for now. It's messy and chaotic and many people may (will?) be hurt. I don't like it. But I'm trying to be one of the "smart people". What does that look like? I hope I find out.
by palata | 2026-02-10 23:47:50+00:00
That's how I must sound when I talk about something I really care about, but that people generally haven't heard about, like ever. And if they had, they wouldn't care.

I guess I am not the target for the post, but it picked my curiosity. So "Open Banking" is... what? The hope that some banks would offer an open API to log in and... read data? So that one could write an app that pulls your banking data and does stuff with it? I guess a bank would never take the risk to offer an API that would be able to "write", as in initiate transactions, right?

But even offering an open API to read the banking data in a third-party app... isn't that super risky? If someone told me "I found this great app, I just need to let it log itself into my bank" I would interrupt them and start screaming before the end of the sentence, I think...

Or am I completely missing the point of the article?
by prradox | 2026-02-10 23:48:07+00:00
I run several Claude Code and OpenCode sessions at once, often across 2+ devboxes and my local machine. I wanted a way to talk to my Claude Code session without having to be in the window/terminal. I wanted a way to see all my tmux sessions across machines from a single interface. So, I built agentwire-dev.

AgentWire is a self-hosted web portal and CLI that sits on top of tmux. It gives you a single dashboard where you can see, manage, and talk to all your coding agent sessions — local or remote. You push-to-talk from your browser (phone, tablet, laptop), it transcribes and routes to whichever session you pick, and the agent talks back via TTS. Think of it as a walkie-talkie for your AI coding setup.

What it does:

- *Push-to-talk from any device* — browser-based portal, works on your phone across your local network
- *Multi-session management* — create, switch between, and monitor tmux sessions running Claude Code, OpenCode, or any CLI agent
- *Worker pane orchestration* — spawn worker panes inside a session, send them tasks, get summaries back
- *TTS/STT* — agents speak their responses, you speak your prompts (Whisper for STT, Chatterbox or Qwen3-TTS for voices)
- *Git worktrees* — parallel workers can commit to separate branches without conflicts
- *Safety hooks* — pre/post hooks on tool calls for guardrails
- *Multi-machine* — SSH into remote boxes and manage sessions there too

It's `pip install agentwire-dev` and self-hosted. No cloud, no accounts. Your voice audio stays on your machine.

I use this every day. It's rough — the portal UI needs work, error handling is spotty in places, and the docs are thin. But the core workflow (talk to agents, they talk back, orchestrate multiple sessions) is solid for my setup.

Looking for feedback on:

- *Voice UX* — Is push-to-talk the right interaction model? Or would wake-word / continuous listening be better for coding workflows?
- *Multi-agent orchestration* — If you run multiple AI coding sessions, what would you actually want from a coordination layer?
- *What's missing* — What would make this useful for your workflow?

Built with Python, tmux, MCP protocol. Works with Claude Code and OpenCode out of the box, but anything that runs in a terminal can be a session.
by handedness | 2026-02-10 23:48:10+00:00
The history of colonization is far more complicated than that.

For example, the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines was a relative cakewalk where there was little to no cooperation (most of the island chain), but to this day the Muslims in the south still retain an autonomous region despite centuries of foreign occupation and interference by a host of nations, due in large part to their higher degree of cooperation.
by catlikesshrimp | 2026-02-10 23:49:19+00:00
Super interesting take you mentiom.

Tourists can drive in the US on their foreign license. Can that be used as a loophole for a call center?

Also, maybe it is a gray area where they are not asking what they don't want to hear. Those offshore subcontractors already break any US law they want because they aren't hiring humans inside the US, they are providing a service from abroad.

Specifically, how do you know the operator can drive?, as you ask. But also, how do you know your operator won't steal your PII / bank account details out of your law enforcement physical jurisdiction?
by tliltocatl | 2026-02-10 23:49:31+00:00
As a non-mathematican, I found that trying to introduce C as a closure of R (i. e. analytically in author's terms) invariably triggers confusion and "hey, why do mathematicians keep changing rules on the fly, they just told me square of minus one doesn't exist". And in terms of practical applications it doesn't seem particularly useful on the first glance (who cares about solving cubics algebraically? The formula is too unwieldy anyway.) Most applications tends to start in the coordinate view and go from there. And it does introduce a nasty sharp edge to cut oneself on (i vs -i), but then for instance physics is full of such edges: direction of pseudo-vectors, sign of voltage on loads sources, holes in dimensional analysis (VA vs W, Ohm/square), the list could go on. And nobody really care.
by prmph | 2026-02-10 23:49:39+00:00
I used to feel the same way. I now consider complex numbers just as real as any other number.

The key to seeing the light is not to try convincing yourself that complex number are "real", but to truly understand how ALL numbers are abstractions. This has indeed been a perspective that has broadened my understanding of math as a whole.

Reflect on the fact that negative numbers, fractions, even zero, were once controversial and non-intuitive, the same as complex are to some now.

Even the "natural" numbers are only abstractions: they allow us to categorize by quantity. No one ever saw "two", for example.

Another thing to think about is the very nature of mathematical existence. In a certain perspective, no objects cannot exist in math. If you can think if an object with certain rules constraining it, voila, it exists, independent of whether a certain rule system prohibit its. All that matters is that we adhere to the rule system we have imagined into being. It does not exist in a certain mathematical axiomatic system, but then again axioms are by their very nature chosen.

Now in that vein here is a deep thought: I think free will exists just because we can imagine a math object into being that is neither caused nor random. No need to know how it exists, the important thing is, assuming it exists, what are its properties?
by danpalmer | 2026-02-10 23:50:05+00:00
Sure, but my point is that 450m requests is just not a lot. Humans are bad at big numbers, and this number sounds like a scary amount of traffic, my point is that it is a very boring amount of traffic even on modest hardware.

I personally wouldn't stick it on a single VPS because we can do way better than that in terms of reliability, but the point stands that you don't need very much in terms of resources to serve this.
by dangus | 2026-02-10 23:50:14+00:00
I’ll buy your argument for the sake of it. We are killing two orders of magnitude of cost.

$14 per kg to get something to space.

Well, right now a gallon of gasoline after refinement and transportation and taxes retails for $3-4 in the US.

So that gallon of gasoline isn’t worth transporting to and from space. That gasoline would cost $38 just to import it from space (2.7kg).

Okay, fine, we’re just doing space mining to get stuff like precious metals: platinum, gold, etc. not sure what societal problems that solved but hey, here we are.

Here’s where I stop buying your argument for the sake of it: you’re telling me we are chopping 2 orders of magnitude off the price, but then you’d have to explain to me how sending material to space is going to be cheaper than UPS Ground Saver retail rates.
by amiga386 | 2026-02-10 23:50:35+00:00
They are being exploited. They live in a lower cost-of-living country than where their services are rendered, and so neither demand nor receive the same wages as someone in the USA. The contracting company profits - quite intentionally! - from labour arbitrage.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Outsourc...
by creata | 2026-02-10 23:50:43+00:00
> The idea is we can't actually prove a non-computable real number exists without purposefully having axioms that allow for deriving non-computable things.

Sorry, what do you mean?

The real numbers are uncountable. (If you're talking about constructivism, I guess it's more complicated. There's some discussion at https://mathoverflow.net/questions/30643/are-real-numbers-co... . But that is very niche.)

The set of things we can compute is, for any reasonable definition of computability, countable.
by gjm11 | 2026-02-10 23:50:53+00:00
It seems possible that people in the Philippines providing advice to Waymo vehicles in the US get some training on US road signage, traffic regulations, etc. (I can't see how it would make any sense for Waymo to pay people to do this and not give them the information they need to do it reasonably well, since the whole point is for them to handle difficult cases.)
by SR2Z | 2026-02-10 23:51:04+00:00
No, this take is crazy. If ads were able to brainwash people Coca-Cola would still be the most popular drink in America.

The problem with "meaningfully influenced" is that a 1% bump in sales is massive for a company, but normally only represents a very minor shift in customer behavior.

US spending on advertising is, in total, about $1200/person-year. If you believe that advertisers are rapacious capitalists who will take as much as they possibly can, then they only believe that they can capture about that much extra per person by advertising to them.

That's not nothing, but it's not very much either. Ads are extremely overblown as a threat to society; you only need to lol as far as eye-tracking studies of web browsers and the prevalence of ad blockers to see pretty good proof that people do just ignore them most of the time.
by vitovito | 2026-02-10 23:51:18+00:00
I used to tell founders that if they can't figure out how to find the right people to get feedback from early, they're also not going to be able to find the right people to sell to later.

The logistics are the same at either end of the process.

If they expect to hire a salesperson once they have a product, why not hire a research panel vendor or a firm like GLG to get validation?

If they want to own their sales and customer acquisition channels once they have a product, they have to figure out how to build an audience to get validation.

Is it a dark art of hustle and luck, or is it just marketing, and most founders don't want to do that?

The only difference is what you're selling, but the process is equivalent.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-10 23:51:23+00:00
I'd have a way easier time buying the idea that there's genuine concern for the quality of this work if say, few Americans old enough to do so were licensed to drive. But er, actually it's estimated at almost 90% because the standards are extremely lax.

What "potentially life-saving situations" are you envisioning?

Here's a Waymo article so you have some idea what we're actually talking about: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/

Edited: Clarify by removing negation
by neilpointer | 2026-02-10 23:52:36+00:00
We don't know and that's why the next few years are not looking bright. This is going to massively accelerate existing income inequality until it breaks our economy. Some have suggested universal basic income as the relief, but good luck getting the United States Congress to deliver that for its people. We're talking something much bigger than The New Deal and that only happened because the fucking Great Depression happened first.
by catlikesshrimp | 2026-02-10 23:53:00+00:00
Nobody had mentioned any evaluation of anything. The Grandparent mentioned that xenophobia makes the headline more spicy. "Remote operator" phrase is not as attractive as "Remote operators from Phillipines" or even "Pinoys" can be.

Edit: "They finally issued a correction in the linked article that makes it clear they're not remote controlling the cars, but the headline is still really slanted and a frustrating framing"
Show HN: Txtweb – serve a website from your domain's DNS TXT record
by lefelys | 2026-02-10 23:53:09+00:00
The decentralized web at its purest...

This is a fun toy project, but with some real-world use cases: simple domain parking, business card page, temporary maintenance page (but not suggested)

It operates as a proxy — a truly decentralized, DNS-like experience would require broad adoption or formal standardization
by sneak | 2026-02-10 23:53:19+00:00
No they do not. Apple intentionally preserves backdoors in the e2ee of iMessage (via iCloud Backup) to aid the FBI.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-apple-droppe...

(the opt-in e2ee for iCloud Backups is irrelevant - approximately nobody turns it on, so everyone you talk to is leaking all of your chats.)
by linkregister | 2026-02-10 23:54:08+00:00
I understand your threat model is centered around the risk of a government persecuting you. This will naturally conflict with incentives of people whose threat model centers around a lower severity but higher frequency event of systematic violence performed by criminal enterprises, with a necessary condition being ease of moving money. Both representative and totalitarian governments seek to aid investigation of criminal activity by following the movement of money.

I'm unsure about your reference to extrajudicial punishment, is it referring to de-banking associated with AML and KYC regimes in the US? If so, I agree that unjust things are unjust. I believe we should seek to fix those injustices directly through lobbying lawmakers, rather than rejecting an entire system that has significant security benefits.

I am sympathetic to people who have a fatalistic attitude when it comes to political reforms. Having other financial instruments as a backup is a good practice.
by tuetuopay | 2026-02-10 23:55:15+00:00
Yeah that's pretty much the only reason people use Wero: transferring money faster than a snail between people. This was filled by the likes of Lydia before, but their shenanigans trying to become a bank pushed people to Wero (which is indeed a rename of something else I don't remember, but I used for less than a year).

The real deal is the card payment networks that your plastic thing can use at a merchant's point of sale. All the rest is moot as we already have SEPA for e.g. online payments (it does have its issue for sure, but it's something).
by awesome_dude | 2026-02-10 23:55:22+00:00
> Bitcoin is actually kind of useful for some niche use cases - namely illegal transactions, like buying drugs online (Silk Road, for example),

For the record - the illegal transactions were thought to be advantaged by crypto like BTC because it was assumed to be impossible to trace the people engaged in the transaction, however the opposite is true, public blockchains register every transaction a given wallet has made, which has been used by Law Enforcement Agencies(LEA) to prosecute people (and made it easier in some cases).

> and occasionally for international money transfers - my French father once paid an Argentinian architect in Bitcoin, because it was the easiest way to transfer the money due to details about money transfer between those countries which I am completely unaware of.

There are remittance companies that deal in local currencies that tend to make this "easier" - crypto works for this WHEN you can exchange the crypto for the currencies you have and want, which is, in effect, the same.
by avaer | 2026-02-10 23:55:43+00:00
Since I didn't see it in the Readme, how does this compare to something like Google's A2UI? Seems like it's doing more, but could e.g. Tambo work on top of A2UI protocol or is it a different beast?

My agents need a UI and I'm in the market for a good framework to land on, but as is always the case in these kinds of interfaces I strongly suspect there will be a standard inter-compatible protocol underlying it that can connect many kinds of agents to many kinds of frontends. What is your take on that?
by sfink | 2026-02-10 23:56:32+00:00
> What were they doing when they were killed?

One was returning from dropping off her 6 year old child at school.

The other was videotaping ICE activity with one hand while holding out the other hand to show he was no was no threat.

What is your point, exactly? Neither was doing anything illegal, neither was directly trying to interfere with ICE actions. (The first wasn't trying to interfere at all.)

Although normally I'd say wait for the full evidence to be revealed, in this case (1) there's already a wealth of evidence from bystanders, and (2) the investigations are actively being interfered with so official evidence is not forthcoming.

Those are the 2 citizens killed. CBP and ICE killed at least 25 other people in the field and at least 30 died in custody (one source cites 30-32, another 44).

Apparently, the violence is necessary to deport at (checks notes) a lower rate than Biden's. It might make sense if the current enforcement was aimed at serious criminals, but only the rhetoric is. The current enforcement is much less selective. More damage, less gain.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-10 23:56:40+00:00
For pen and paper you can hold tracing paper at an angle. Use a protractor to measure the angle. That's easier than any calculation. Or get a transparent coordinate grid, literally rotate the coordinate system and read off your new coordinates.

For computers, you could use a complex number since it's effectively a cache of sin(a) and cos(a), but you often want general affine transformations and not just rotations, so you use a matrix instead.
by petya415 | 2026-02-10 23:56:49+00:00
qwen3-coder-next 80B (128k ctx) local benchmark on RTX 5090 + Ryzen 9 9950x3d

ran 10 real coding workloads via ollama, kv cache q8.

below is claude-generated report from raw numbers:

Hardware: Corsair Vengeance a7500 AIR -- RTX 5090 32GB, Ryzen 9 9950X3D, 192GB DDR5, Fedora 43 (kernel 6.17.6)

Workload TTFT Time Prompt Gen P tok/s G tok/s
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Short Code Gen (Dijkstra) 5.9s 68s 74 754 93.8 12.2
Code Comprehension (100L hash) 3.7s 271s 1,131 3,202 319.3 12.0
Bug Fixing (connection pool) 2.9s 478s 876 5,629 308.7 11.9
Security Review (Flask app) 2.7s 329s 758 3,905 285.6 12.0
System Design (persistent BST) 1.0s 407s 141 4,857 156.1 12.0
Code Refactoring 2.8s 242s 823 2,862 309.1 12.0
Tool Calling (single turn) 3.6s 9s 1,093 66 309.7 12.2
Tool Calling (multi-turn, 3T) 11.2s 43s 2,746 326 407.8 11.8
Needle in Haystack (~15k ctx) 29.4s 210s 10,576 1,962 361.2 10.9
Long Generation (mini-Celery) 1.1s 1,001s 238 11,342 242.3 11.4
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL ~51min 18,456 34,905 11.4 avg

Key observations:

- Model is 51GB, runs 53% CPU / 47% GPU split since it exceeds the 5090's 32GB VRAM.

- Generation throughput is a dead-flat 12 tok/s regardless of task complexity. The CPU is the bottleneck (53% of layers offloaded to RAM), not the GPU -- GPU utilization sits at 3-4%.

- Prompt processing is fast: 280-410 tok/s. The 5090 helps here.

- TTFT scales linearly with context: 1-6s for small prompts, 29s for the 10k+ token needle-in-haystack test.

- Sustained generation holds steady -- the 16-minute long generation test (11,342 tokens, full distributed task queue implementation) showed no throughput degradation.

- Quality was solid: correctly identified a buried bug report comment in 3000 lines of code (JIRA ticket number, proposed fix), found the N+1 query in the multi-turn agent test, caught all major OWASP vulns in the security review, generated correct tool calls with proper parameters.

- Thinking mode was not enabled (/nothink). Would be interesting to compare with /think.

The 12 tok/s ceiling is purely the CPU/RAM bandwidth wall from the offload split. If you have 48GB+ VRAM (dual GPU or a future card) this model would fly. On this setup it's usable but you feel the wait on anything over ~1000 tokens.
by to11mtm | 2026-02-10 23:57:03+00:00
I want to give a huge shout out to the UK magazine PC Format for the most absolute banger 90s magazine CD that I ever encountered.

It didn't just have Demos of new games, if you poked around you'd find that it had "this cool program called Scream Tracker 3" and a whole bunch of these ".MOD files" that played music that sounded like a CD![0]

[0] - Well, it was the 90s, and typical bundled multimedia speakers were so bad you couldn't tell the difference...
by wtallis | 2026-02-10 23:57:12+00:00
Things started to go downhill when it stopped being a .exe in System32 and started being distributed through the MS Store. They've escalated from spell check and tabs to full rich text formatting (remember WordPad?) and Copilot. But this vulnerability stems from links in Markdown documents, so I guess they're well on their way to embedded most of a web browser as they rediscover all the security implications.
by lotyrin | 2026-02-10 23:57:13+00:00
Ontological version is even more interesting, especially if we're talking about a singularity (which may be in the past rather than future if you believe in simulation argument).

Crude form: winning is metaphysically guaranteed because it probably happened or probably will

Refined: It's metaphysically impossible to tell whether or not it has or will have happened, so the distinction is meaningless, it has happened.

So... I guess Weir's Egg falls out of that particular line of thought?
by albumen | 2026-02-10 23:57:24+00:00
Two options, not two choices. (Unless you have a proportional representation voting system like ireland, in which case you can vote for as many candidates as you like in descending order of preference)

Anyway, there’s a third option: spoil your vote. In the recent Irish presidential election, 13% of those polled afterwards said they spoiled their votes, due to a poor selection of candidates from which to choose.

https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/1101/15415...
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-10 23:57:24+00:00
Here it's more normal to save up for something and then buy it. Rather than buying on credit and then paying it off.

It makes much more sense too.

The financial system is built to stimulate that. For example if you'd buy a house you need to pay about 30% in cash and you can't loan that money somewhere else. This way you get people that know how to deal with money. And also the bank doesn't run a big risk if there's a market slump.
by reliabilityguy | 2026-02-10 23:58:00+00:00
I am not familiar with the first one, but the second one is not a clear cut and not “everyone”.

Regardless, there is a huge gap between “literally everyone” and individuals who are a bit slum dunk citizens.

Regardless, I think this kind of sensationalism desensitizes the public to the point when no one cares.
by naniwaduni | 2026-02-10 23:58:04+00:00
> and the people worried about this aren't the ones bringing the real revenue.

It's this one. If you're in a position to refund a "cost accident", then clearly you don't have to enforce cost controls in real time, and the problem becomes much easier to achieve at billing cycle granularity; the user setting a cost limit is generally doesn't care if you're a bit late to best-effort throttle them.