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Wild Moose just made a blog post[0] about this. They found that putting things into foundation models wasn't cutting it, that you had to have small finely-tuned models along with deterministic processes to use AI for RCA.
[0] https://www.wildmoose.ai/post/micro-agents-ai-powered-invest...
> Good for the bottom line, bad for the worker
Bad for most workers. Good for a cabal. The Jones Act directly lead to the failure of American shipbuilding.
They’ve gotten largely more repairable since then, including adhesives you can electrically debond.
You don't want to give the agent a raw key, so you give it a dummy one which will automatically be converted into the real key in the proxy.
So how does that help exactly? The agent can still do exactly what it could have done if it had the real key.
"This post is the first in a series. We are extending this analysis to more realistic workloads beyond artificial SWE benchmarks. Follow the account and stay tuned.---"
Did something get cut off at the end?
... and really weird hallucinations if you stay awake instead of using as directed although the usual response to the weirdness is "go to bed"
I read through the thing and don't quite understand what this adds that the dozens of LLM coding wrappers don't already do.
You write a markdown spec.
The script takes it and feeds it to an LLM API.
The API generates code.
Okay? Where is this "next-generation programming language" they talk about?
Correct. The story isn’t correct even in the original formulation. US population increased by 50% from 1980 to 2010, and the economy became far more financialized. But the number of bank teller jobs barely grew during that period, even before the iPhone.
Yamaha Motor Corporation
https://global.yamaha-motor.com/news/2026/0226/subsidiary.ht...
Cost cutting measure in an unfavorable market environment, including lack of growth, they expect to persist:
> Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is undertaking structural reforms aimed at improving the profitability of its U.S. operations in response to cost increases resulting from U.S. tariffs and changes in the market environment. In addition to implementing cross-business cost reduction initiatives, the Company seeks over the medium to long term to build a profit structure that is not solely dependent on top-line growth, thereby transforming itself into a more resilient and robust organization capable of adapting to change.
https://connectder.com/ avoids needing a new panel or line side tap if your authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) allows meter socket adapters. No affiliation, have one on hand as a demo unit to show people. Any electrician is going to verify your panel from a load calculation perspective in person for free as part of a free estimate.
If there are any incentives available, recommend load center upgrades when funds permit for future proofing and capturing incentives while they're available to offset personal cost outlay.
I pay for https://karakeep.app/ (also open at https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/), create a list per friend, and then share that list to the friend (who can also subscribe using an RSS feed). Items to share are added to the respective lists. URLs added via Karakeep are automatically captured and archived in my instance.
This model also enables federation between Karakeep instances, if so desired. Mobile apps are available.
" maintained by people that nobody technically employs"
In my opinion, it is similar to Parkinson's Law [1] about work filling into the time given to it, but replace work with bureaucracy filling the aggregate enterprise revenue on offer. Atlassian's work, one might argue, is "done" but has such cashflow from business customers that they can continue to spend above and beyond what is needed to maintain what has been built to service their customer base. They could be 37signals/Basecamp, but they are enabled beyond that (from the business customer cashflows mentioned), and so these actions occur until an innovator comes along to replace them (and potentially, the cycle repeats due to enterprise sales cycle durations, inertia, etc).
You see this with all manner of large enterprise in my experience, where what they continue to do is "good enough" to allow for these inefficiencies and actions because they are, on some spectrum, "money printers" due to their moat and inertia. Creative destruction is not a forgone conclusion, nor fast. Is the incumbent exploring the problem spaces adjacent to their core business(es) to increase their TAM to increase shareholder value? Are they innovating? Or are they just churning and burning up revenue on meaningless work?
All of these companies doing layoffs to invest in AI is not about AI specifically, it is about reaching for profits and yield in a challenging business landscape and macro post zero interest rate policy ("ZIRP") imho. They are desperate for productivity growth, whether that is doing more with less people, AI, offshoring, whatever because money now has a cost.
You can quickly find historical availability & consumption data and I don't think it supports any trivially obvious hypotheses like these. You'll find headlines saying things like that we're at a low point in vegetable consumption going back to 1988, but I'm reading an NIH paper charting '70-'2010 and the patterns look stable, except for increases in total calories, in dairy, and in added dairy fats and oils.
Whatever's going on, it's probably going to end up being complicated and multifactorial.
(I do love me a crucifer, though).
They may be, but if there are no elections, there is no United States. Constitutionally, its government is predicated on having elected representatives.
I could see Trump trying this, but I also can see dozens of other people or groups, some richer, more powerful, more competent, and more ruthless than Trump, just waiting in the wings for the guardrails to come off to make a play to rule the territory of the former United States. If he tries and succeeds at this it's open-season. It's not a Trump dictatorship, it's a civil war, akin to the Chinese Civil War after the emperor fell or the Syrian civil war after the Arab Spring.
It's got to be a major struggle maintaining motivation in the face of aggressive and ungrateful users. It's bad enough when they're giving you money, it must be much worse when they're not.
It’s not just an AI generated title —- it’s an AI generated video!
Optimizing performance management and labor cost controls is more important to those making these decisions than climate change. Misaligned incentives.
An interesting aspect of this, especially their blog post (https://malus.sh/blog.html ), is that it acknowledges a strain in our legal system I've been observing for decades, but don't think the legal system or people in general have dealt with, which is that generally costs matter.
A favorite example of mine is speed limits. There is a difference between "putting up a sign that says 55 mph and walking away", "putting up a sign that says 55 mph and occasionally enforcing it with expensive humans when they get around to it", and "putting up a sign that says 55 mph and rigidly enforcing it to the exact mph through a robot". Nominally, the law is "don't go faster than 55 mph". Realistically, those are three completely different policies in every way that matters.
We are all making a continual and ongoing grave error thinking that taking what were previously de jure policies that were de facto quite different in the real world, and thoughtlessly "upgrading" the de jure policies directly into de facto policies without realizing that that is in fact a huge change in policy. One that nobody voted for, one that no regulator even really thought about, one that we are just thoughtlessly putting into place because "well, the law is, 55 mph" without realizing that, no, in fact that never was the law before. That's what the law said, not what it was. In the past those could never really be the same thing. Now, more and more, they can.
This is a big change!
Cost of enforcement matters. The exact same nominal law that is very costly to enforce has completely different costs and benefits then that same law becoming all but free to rigidly enforce.
And without very many people consciously realizing it, we have centuries of laws that were written with the subconscious realization that enforcement is difficult and expensive, and that the discretion of that enforcement is part of the power of the government. Blindly translating those centuries of laws into rigid, free enforcement is a terrible idea for everyone.
Yet we still have almost no recognition that that is an issue. This could, perhaps surprisingly, be one of the first places we directly grapple with this in a legal case someday soon, that the legality of something may be at least partially influenced by the expense of the operation.
Underwater drones, not drones in general.
... and you have to sign into Medium to read it.
A week ago we saw Iranian and Greek vessels plying the Strait [1]. I guess Tehran is now establishing its monopoly.
[1] https://gcaptain.com/iranian-shadow-fleet-and-greek-affiliat...
> no matter how the war ends ukraine has lost
This is nonsense. Lviv is by all accounts a thriving city. And Ukraine's defence-industrial base is now among Europe's finest.
20 years left if health plays along, and I feel the same pain as the author.
I think they're the best status reports I've seen anywhere.
First hand reports are brutal. MDM compromised and widespread wipes of endpoints across the enterprise.
https://old.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1rqopq0/stry...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/iran-backed-hackers-clai...
> Banks are lending to private equity firms to fund purchases of businesses
Not quite. Private credit is to debt what private equity is to equity. (Technically, any non-bank originated debt that isn't publicly traded is private credit. Conventionally, it's restricted to corporate borrowers.)
So bank exposure to private credit generally means banks lending to non-banks who then lend to corporate borrowers.
Official banking apps are harder to phish than websites. They also tend to keep you signed in for longer, especially once you enable something like FaceID.
One key line about ATMs is buried deep in the article:
> the number of tellers per branch fell by more than a third between 1988 and 2004, but the number of urban bank branches (also encouraged by a wave of bank deregulation allowing more branches) rose by more than 40 percent
So, ATMs did impact bank teller jobs by a significant amount. A third of them were made redundant. It's just that the decrease at individual bank branches was offset by the increase in the total number of branches, because of deregulation and a booming economy and whatever else.
A lot of AI predictions are based on the same premise. That AI will impact the economy in certain sectors, but the productivity gains will create new jobs and grow the size of the pie and we will all benefit.
But will it?
> Honestly? Probably
Why do you think specialist knowledge about crop and livestock management is that fungible? Particularly as it interfaces with the federal bureaucracy?
The thing they're trying to combat is people claiming residency in a better school district. We had a case here where the parents were driving their kid to grandma's so the kid could go to school there instead of in a bad local school.
The cover of war is a great use for targeting fossil fuel infrastructure Russia relies on for exports. Sufficiently inhibiting their ability to export will force them to shut in wells (as we're seeing with major Middle Eastern oil exporters as shore storage reaches capacity), which will potentially take years to restart.
I think stuff like Langflow and n8n are more likely to be adopted, alongside with some more formal specifications.
"The purpose of a system is what it does." The purpose is not to create an absolute paradise for its citizens and residents, unfortunately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
> I do believe President Trump stated it was an Iranian Tomahawk missile.
If Trump said that, it is propaganda aimed at the amazingly ignorant; Tomahawks are US-made and only used by the US, UK, and Australia, with the Netherlands and Japan having recently entered into agreements to deploy them.
Accessibility APIs have long been the royal road to automation. If scrapers were well-written they'd be using this already, but of course if scrapers were well-written they would scrape your site and you'd never notice.
The AI part yes. But they also use quite inefficient rendering on the cli.
If we have a $7 trillion national government, we should spread out the jobs instead of concentrating them in DC. It’s becoming The Capitol from Hunger Games. There’s no reason USDA of all agencies should have thousands of employees in DC.
I want to see her about as much I want to see Brad Pitt fight Tom Cruise.
The top comment in this thread calls this "wild" and expresses amazement that this is possible; clearly it's not what "everyone expects and knows".
The nitty-gritty details are what the article is for, not the title.
> To think you had to put in effort.
But that's the whole point...
When things that previously took hundreds of hours of effort to learn now become available with just a few minutes, they become available to all -- even those without all that extra time, which is most people who have a lot of other competing priorities in their lives.
That's democratization.
I don't understand why you're trying to argue against that. It's a dictionary definition. It's just a meaning of the word.
Whatever you seem to be upset about is something else, I don't know what.
"The insight wasn't new math — the result is identical to standard attention."
Can't you just post an article with a link like people who actually use Hacker News instead of posting a link inside the text that nobody can click on?
Here's his problem: "I need Docker Desktop to run my apps"
That's a way to take a top-of-the-line x86 machine with 512MB of RAM and a huge number of cores and get performance like an IBM 360/20. You want some punched cards with that?
This time it took ~35 blows with a sledgehammer. You have to be impressed with the degree of resilience here, even a chaos monkey like Trump has a hard time completely destroying the US economy even when all checks & balances utterly fail.
Call your building's insurance company. That will get you a very precise response pronto because they're going to use this as an excuse not to pay out if anything should happen to the building.
Cue a longish article titled 'Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time'
For the TPC-DS results it would also have been nice to show how the macbook neo compares to the AWS instances.
Or am I missing something?
>to zap your butthole to collect your semen
Jokes on them, I don't think semen is stored in the butthole (except in some cases temporarily after sex)
In the old Windows NT days, the scheduler still wasn't that clever, so in multiple core servers it would throw processes around thrashing the whole cache and CPU context.
By pinning the processes to specific CPUs, the performance gains were quite visible.
A lot of the hate for hydrogen is for a vehicle fuel where it's strictly inferior to batteries, partly because it's such a pain to handle, and partly because it's a "submarine" for natural gas derived H2.
Evolving hydrogen from electrolysis and then immediately turning it into ammonia is a much better idea; ammonia is easier to handle than H2 gas and already has a market.
a bit less capable but ~comparable to qwen 3.5 122b
~ 2x faster inference than qwen 3.5 122b
~ 7x faster inference than gpt-oss 120b
probably most important: training datasets and training recipe available (!)
in other words this is an open source llm release (not just open weights!)
It puts 'glad you could make it' in a completely different light.
So, a heartfelt: Glad you could make it!
Why did the author have to do all this hacking around with screenshots? Back in the day, you could query any window for its title/text/buttons and send events to the buttons directly. Is this not the case in Windows any more?
GDPR doesn't apply in the states, but hopefully it provides for some punishment for the poor security here for EU customers. Of course, then some Americans will get mad that a US company has to follow EU law.
I wouldn't say I ignored it, I mentioned that in the opening paragraph.
This chapter is meant to be a tool you can send employers to encourage them to be smarter about this.
It's annoying, but it's also grossly irresponsible to let dev machines get compromised. Regardless of which OS they are running.
Yes, people do build anything with Lisp, that is why there are at least two commercial Common Lisp systems around, LispWorks and Allegro Common Lisp.
Google Flights is an acquisition of a company using Lisp, ITA Software, they even have a Lisp guide.
https://google.github.io/styleguide/lispguide.xml
In Portugal, Siscog used to be a Lisp shop, no idea nowadays.
Then you have the Clojure based companies, where Datomic and Nubank are two well known ones, even if not a proper Lisp, still belongs to the same linage.
Eh, history has shown me that that's incorrect, though. In my culture, we're direct and just say what we want to say, whereas in US culture you have to be very circumspect or you get a bunch of downvotes. I've used an LLM to give me feedback so I can "anglicize" my comments, otherwise I get downvoted to hell.
Even in this comment, I initially wrote the start as "you're wrong", but then had to catch myself and go back and soften it to "that's incorrect", even though the meaning is the exact same. The constant impedance mismatch is tiring.
I'm trying to imagine the kind of response the USA would inflict on a country that wiped a girls school stateside.
Depends on how much one likes the Smalltalk, SELF or Lisp development experience, regarding types.
>You need to understand, there was good period of peace between Israel & Palestine until Oct 7.
Yes, in the year before Oct 7. alone Israel army had only killed about 40 Palestinian children (34 alone between Jan and Nov 2022).
Not to mention Iran has been a target since 2001: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNt7s_Wed_4 - if not since 1953 (their 1979 changes being a response to the 1950s western invervention that installed a dictatorship), if not since forever:
>But that's really what you're now enforcing: writing in an easily detectable LLM prose and voice.
That's a good start already. Don't let the impossibility of the perfect prevent implementing the good.
>I want my comments judged by the contributions they make and do not make to the discussion. If the LLM makes the comment better, it is good. If it makes it worse, it is bad.
Nope, it's all bad. If I wanted the comments of an LLM, I'd ask an LLM.
>I am 100% not interested in participating in a community that seeks to profile and police the technological infrastructure that its members use.
Well, don't let the door hit you on your way out.
You could get away with 8GB 5 years ago and you still can do it now, but Macs are expected to last longer than that, and starting now with 8GB might become limiting 5 years from now. Here we retire them at about 10 years, or when the last OS they can run is EOL’ed.
It definitly had to do everything with Web, it was the agreement between Mozila going with asm.js, Chrome pushing for PNaCL, Adobe with CrossBridge, Sun with Java, Microsoft with ActiveX,....
Then some folks rediscovered UNCOL from 1958, all the systems influenced by it, and started to sell the dream of the bytecode that was going to save the world.
I haven't said that, I said that I am a firm beliver that Itanium would have prevailed without AMD being able to push their AMD64 alternative.
Maybe compilers would get better, maybe Itanium would have needed some redesign, after all it isn't as if a Raptor Lake Refresh execution units are the same as an Xeon Nocona, yet both execute x64 instructions.
I assert there is no reason to rewrite LLVM in Rust.
And I also assert that the speech that Rust is going to take over the C++, misses on that as long as Rust depends on LLVM for its existence.
Or ignoring that for the time being NVidia, Intel, AMD, XBox, PlayStation, Nintendo, CERN, Argonne National Laboratory and similar, hardly bother with Rust based software for what they do day to day.
They have employees on WG14, WG21, contribute to GCC/clang upstream, and so far have shown no interest in having Rust around on their SDKs or research papers.
That’s what you should do when proven wrong.
The same site has an article on that: https://goughlui.com/2024/07/28/tech-flashback-intel-optane-...
Retention issues are a bit worrying.
Next, the monarchy?[1]
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/30/charle...
This is almost true, but not quite. WireGuard is a protocol, but it's also the Linux kernel implementation of that protocol; there are design decisions in the protocol that specifically support software security goals of the kernel implementation. For instance, it's designed to be possible to implement WireGuard without demand dynamic allocation.
Saw a Chevron station in Silicon Valley today with a price above $7/gallon. That's not typical, but it's real.
A lot of problems (I’d say the majority in tech) can be solved faster and better by 100 people than 1600.
> Wouldn't a "deal" theoretically benefit both sides? That one doesn't offer the hereditary peers anything they don't already have.
They don't have any expectation against losing their seats entirely when hereditary peers are ejected from the House, and, even with a sufficient number of life peers voting with them, they couldn't actually prevent such a bill from passing, only delay it. Securing a commitment of life seats is getting something they didn't have.
In Washington State we get mailed ballots, which we fill in and mail in.
But the ballots are not even printed on security paper. They don't have a serial number on them, either.
> Agile itself is predicated on software being difficult to ship/expensive.
No, the opposite; it is predicated on software being cheap and easy to ship, but hard to correctly anticipate the needs for.
> It might not make sense to continue (waterfall might be better actually)
Waterfall, not agile, is predicated on software being difficult to ship/expensive.
Well, first, that's two overgeneralizations.
But, second, often precisely because they think we’re the bad guys.
If you see the world as dominated by an evil, overwhelmingly powerful empire that uses violence in a way that shows no concern for the continuation or quality of human life outside of the metropole then, even if it is bigoted, repressive, and unjust within the metropole, you still want to be in the metropole rather rhan peripheries.
Kind of wish you'd written this as a top comment.
If you went up and down Machu Picchu every day for years, I bet you'd perform like the porter.
Resources on the topic you would recommend?
It seems like that it is all contracts managed by the the Office of Industry Partnerships, within DHS's Science and Technology Directorate, which exists, per its website, to "engage industry and facilitate partnerships with private sector innovators to advance commercial technology solutions that address homeland security challenges."
This is consistent with the explorer having a drop down filter for "Program" with options exactly matching three of the four programs listed as OIP programs o their webpage, excluding "Targeted Broad Agency Announcements”, which from the description OIP participates in but are specifically for some other particular DHS component (which, might handles the actual contracting, which would explain why the data wasn't in the OIP leak, OTOH, the list of current opportunities in that category on the web is empty, so its possible that it is a category that exists in theory but is not actively being used currently.)
This is very much not all DHS contracts, and even the claim that it is "ICE/DHS" contracts seems mostly misleading clickbait trading on the degree of attention to and awareness of ICE even though these contracts are through and for a non-ICE component of DHS.
Hopefully everyone on this site notices the significance of that number.
You can interpret it as: We'd rather you be snarky, rude, and tone-deaf, than bland and unhuman. Your work may rather you act like a soulless corporate drone.
I can dig them up and make high res pictures of the covers if you want. Elysium is really good, agreed.
Part of the ethos of HN is that we don't do content/subject silos; it's a way in which HN is very distinct from Reddit. I don't think this will happen and I think if it does it's a bad idea (not least because I don't think a site dominated by software developers is going to separate itself from AI, any more than it will separate itself from programming language discussions), but I understand the impulse. They're not the funnest stories to comment on.
Has anyone seen any hints as to the role make up of those 1,600 jobs?
Would be interesting to know if they are majority engineering, or if that's a lot of sales and marketing and support and other roles in there.
FTA: Many of these companies operate regional offices, cloud infrastructure, or data-center operations across the Gulf [...]
I feel there might be a little self-interest at play there, to the extent that LLMs may privately believe themselves to have consciousness.
To the extent that data centers are being used for military as well as civilian purposes, they become legitimate targets, though. Think about any war in history, if one side knew where the other maintained its intelligence headquarters, wouldn't it be natural to target it?
Flags are a signal to the moderation system. What does it mean to "flag" something as "factuality" or "satire"?
If we'd liked that high levels of abstraction, we'd want to be PMs, not programmers.
For what it's worth I thought the modal dialog on the original was worse than the pop-over ad on the copy.