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My 8 ChatGPT Agent tests produced only 1 near-perfect result - and a lot of alternative facts

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2026-01-12 18:24:02

ZDNET Last week, OpenAI unveiled Agent, its new tool that combines the capabilities of Deep Research and Operator. Operator was OpenAI's first attempt at a computer-using model, a model that actually can open windows and click on user interface elements. ChatGPT Agent can do that and more. Right now, ChatGPT Agent is only available for $200/mo Pro tier subscribers and provides for 400 agent interactions per month. When the $20/mo Plus tier gains access to Agent, which should be today, those us

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Ryanair may increase commission to staff identifying oversized cabin bags

news.ycombinator.com Aengus Cox 2026-01-12 18:20:36

Ryanair has said that in a bid to "eliminate the scourge" of passengers bringing oversized baggage to the boarding gate, the airline is considering increasing the commission it pays staff for identifying them. Currently Ryanair employees are paid around €1.50 for every oversized cabin bag that they identify, and passengers are charged additional fees if their bag is deemed to be too large to bring on-board the plane. According to the airline's policy, passengers who bring cabin luggage - measu

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The best SSDs for PS5 in 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-13 03:00:36

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . If you know you'll need more storage eventually, these are your best options for the PS5. If your PlayStation 5’s internal storage is starting to feel a little cramped, you’re not alone. With game installs regularly taking up over 100GB, expanding your storage is one of the easiest wa

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Simulating hand-drawn motion with SVG filters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 14:12:26

Published on July 09, 2025 Ever wondered how cartoons create that hand-drawn “jitter” effect? I recently watched an ARTE documentary about Neapolitan pizza and was fascinated by the animated illustrations (drawn in simple shapes and plain colors) that accompanied the segment where the recipe and its ingredients were presented. The illustrations were static, but they had a subtle animation effect that made them look like they were moving slightly. See for example in this short clip, where you c

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Java was not underhyped in 1997 (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 15:37:50

Java Criminally Underhyped? Not Back in 1997. Earlier today, a fun little moment of Twitter serendipity alerted me to an article by Jackson Roberts, a computer science student at the University of Colorado, entitled “Java is criminally underhyped”. It’s a really interesting article, and Jackson’s observations correlate with a lot of my own thinking about languages and platforms, although I am squarely in the .NET / CLR camp on that particular front. But Jackson ends his article: I am curious

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Simulating Hand-Drawn Motion with SVG Filters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 20:12:26

Published on July 09, 2025 Ever wondered how cartoons create that hand-drawn “jitter” effect? I recently watched an ARTE documentary about Neapolitan pizza and was fascinated by the animated illustrations (drawn in simple shapes and plain colors) that accompanied the segment where the recipe and its ingredients were presented. The illustrations were static, but they had a subtle animation effect that made them look like they were moving slightly. See for example in this short clip, where you c

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OpenAI's New AI Agent Takes One Hour to Order Food and Recommends Visiting a Baseball Stadium in the Middle of the Ocean

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-12 21:00:09

OpenAI is releasing a new AI agent, creatively dubbed ChatGPT Agent — which is not to be confused with the two other AI agents it's already released (did we mention that OpenAI has a bit of a branding problem?) In an announcement, the Sam-Altman-led company says the tool uses its own "virtual computer" to perform tasks on your behalf, like using your calendar to brief you on upcoming meetings, buying the ingredients to make breakfast, and creating a slide deck analysis of business competitors.

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I'm betting against AI agents, despite building them

news.ycombinator.com Utkarsh Kanwat 2026-01-12 15:59:19

Everyone says 2025 is the year of AI agents. The headlines are everywhere: "Autonomous AI will transform work," "Agents are the next frontier," "The future is agentic." Meanwhile, I've spent the last year building many different agent systems that actually work in production. And that's exactly why I'm betting against the current hype. I'm not some AI skeptic writing from the sidelines. Over the past year, I've built more than a dozen production agent systems across the entire software developm

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Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)

news.ycombinator.com Utkarsh Kanwat 2026-01-12 21:59:19

Everyone says 2025 is the year of AI agents. The headlines are everywhere: "Autonomous AI will transform work," "Agents are the next frontier," "The future is agentic." Meanwhile, I've spent the last year building many different agent systems that actually work in production. And that's exactly why I'm betting against the current hype. I'm not some AI skeptic writing from the sidelines. Over the past year, I've built more than a dozen production agent systems across the entire software developm

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Best Portable Projector for Movies and Gaming Anywhere in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 15:00:00

How portable do you really need? Pretty much every projector is "portable" to some degree. Many of the projectors on the best projector list, for example, are small enough to fit in a backpack. They might fill that backpack, but that's their size. If you just want something for the occasional movie night, one of those would be significantly brighter and create a better image. Generally speaking, the smaller the projector, the dimmer it is. How much battery do you need? Most portable projectors

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Anker Nebula X1 review: a terrific home theater that goes anywhere

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2026-01-12 18:19:35

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. I seldom sleep in the same place for more than a couple of weeks at a time, so I’m a big fan of portable all-in-one projectors. They’re small and set up quickly, making them ideal for vanlife, gaming parties, outdoor movie nights, or an evening in on the couch — but they usually sacrifice quality for convenience. Anker’s new Nebula X1 p

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Psychiatric Researchers Warn of Grim Psychological Risks for AI Users

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-12 16:15:54

Without even looking at medical data, it's pretty clear that "artificial intelligence" — a vast umbrella term for various technologies over the years, but currently dominated by the data-hungry neural networks powering chatbots and image generators — can have life-altering effects on the human brain. We're not even three years out from the release of the first commercially-available LLM, and AI users have already been driven to paranoid breaks from reality, religious mania, and even suicide. A

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How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression

news.ycombinator.com Nayef Ghattas 2026-01-10 09:02:41

When Go 1.24 was released in early 2025, we were eager to roll it out across our services. The headline feature—the new Swiss Tables map implementation—promised reduced CPU and memory overhead. Our story begins while the new version was being rolled out internally. Shortly after deploying it to one of our data-processing services, we noticed an unexpected memory usage increase: We observed the same pattern, a ~20% increase in memory usage, across multiple environments before pausing the rollou

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Show HN: Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environments

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 14:07:41

Detect agentic coding environments and AI assistant tools. This library allows CLI tools and Node apps to detect when they're being executed by AI agents. This enables them to adapt by, for example, providing different output formats or logs. Installation Install as library: npm install am-i-vibing Run as CLI tool: npx am-i-vibing import { detectAgenticEnvironment } from "am-i-vibing" ; const result = detectAgenticEnvironment ( ) ; console . log ( `Detected: ${ result . name } ( ${ result

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Trigon: Exploiting coprocessors for fun and for profit (part 2)

news.ycombinator.com Alfie Cg 2026-01-12 18:15:26

A few months ago, I released a kernel exploit called Trigon. It was significant in that it was deterministic - that is, it cannot fail. However, at the time of release, only A10 devices on iOS 13 - 15 were supported. Since then, support has been implemented for A9(X) and A11 devices. In this blog post, I am going to dive into what it took to support these new devices - I made use of some pretty interesting techniques, which I believe are worthy of a second part to the original writeup. If you h

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Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Guariglia 2026-01-12 21:25:09

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices. This is a bad, bad step for Ring an

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Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 14:58:42

We need to augment our command line tools and design APIs so they can be better used by LLM Agents. The designs are inadequate for LLMs as they are now – especially if you're constrained by the tiny context windows available with local models. Agent APIs Like many developers, I’ve been dipping my toes into LLM agents. I’ve done my fair share of vibe coding, but also I’ve been playing around with using LLMs to automate reverse engineering tasks mostly using mrexodia’s IDA Pro MCP , including ex

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Astronomer CEO resigns following Coldplay concert scandal

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-01-12 18:22:56

Andy Byron, the startup executive at the center of an extraordinary social media furor, has resigned as CEO of data operations startup Astronomer. Byron, who is married, was captured on a Coldplay concert “kiss cam” with his arms around the company’s chief people officer Kristin Cabot. After Byron and Cabot quickly tried to hide from the camera, Coldplay singer Chris Martin joked, “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.” Video of the awkward incident soon went spectacularly

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Angry Callers Accusing Real Customer Support Staff of Being AI

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-12 15:15:38

A penny for the thoughts of our thankless call center workers. Long have they had to endure indignant customers fuming at them for problems beyond their control. And now they must suffer accusations that call their very humanity in question, Bloomberg reports, as the proliferation of AI tech has many callers suspecting that the human they're speaking to is actually a chatbot. If these customer support personnel weren't treated like robots before, in other words, they are now — in a distressing

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A CarFax for Used PCs: Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

news.ycombinator.com Abu Baker 2026-01-08 03:02:37

The United Nations’ Global E-waste Monitor estimates that the world generates over 60 million tonnes of e-waste annually. Furthermore, this number is rising five times as fast as e-waste recycling. Much of this waste comes from prematurely discarded electronic devices. Many enterprises follow a standard three-year replacement cycle, assuming older computers are inefficient. However, many of these devices are still functional and could perform well with minor upgrades or maintenance. The issue i

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Known Bad Email Clients

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 18:58:52

This is a list of known bad email clients, which you should avoid using if you wish to avoid tracking. Special thanks go to Andrew Klapper of the GNOME project for incentivising me to create this page; I have been meaning to create one for some time. If you wish to keep track of updates on this page, you can follow my blog via my RSS feed or alternatively Mastodon / Bluesky . If you wish to submit more bad clients, contact me . Projects will always be given the opportunity to fix their security

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Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

news.ycombinator.com Italo Vignoli 2026-01-12 11:22:45

Thank you for visiting our website and your interest in our services and products. As the protection of your personal data is an important concern for us, please click on the "More information" link to access our Privacy Policy page - which will open in a separate browser tab - where we explain what information we collect during your visit to our website, how it is processed, and whether or how it may be used. Once you have carefully read our Privacy Policy page, close the browser tab to return

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Debcraft – Easiest way to modify and build Debian packages

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 18:04:31

Debian packaging is notoriously hard. Far too many new contributors give up while trying, and many long-time contributors leave due to burnout from having to do too many thankless maintenance tasks. Some just skip testing their changes properly because it feels like too much toil. Debcraft is my attempt to solve this by automating all the boring stuff, and making it easier to learn the correct practices and helping new and old packagers better track changes in both source code and build artifac

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How OpenAI’s red team made ChatGPT agent into an AI fortress

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2026-01-12 22:13:52

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now In case you missed it, OpenAI yesterday debuted a powerful new feature for ChatGPT and with it, a host of new security risks and ramifications. Called the “ChatGPT agent,” this new feature is an optional mode that ChatGPT paying subscribers can engage by clicking “Tools” in the prompt entry box and selecting “agent mode,” at which point, t

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Ccusage: A CLI tool for analyzing Claude Code usage from local JSONL files

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 23:22:49

ccusage Analyze your Claude Code token usage and costs from local JSONL files — incredibly fast and informative! Installation Quick Start (Recommended) Thanks to ccusage's incredibly small bundle size ( ), you can run it directly without installation: # Using bunx (recommended for speed) bunx ccusage # Using npx npx ccusage@latest # Using deno (with security flags) deno run -E -R= $HOME /.claude/projects/ -S=homedir -N= ' raw.githubusercontent.com:443 ' npm:ccusage@latest 💡 Tip: We recomme

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Why AI is moving from chatbots to the browser

theverge.com Alex Heath 2026-01-12 23:04:08

Happy Friday. I’m back from vacation and still getting caught up on everything I missed. AI researchers moving jobs is getting covered like NBA trades now, apparently. Before I get into this week’s issue, I want to make sure you check out my interview with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on Decoder this week. It’s a good deep dive on the main topic of today’s newsletter. Keep reading for a scoop on Substack and more from this week in AI news. From chatbots to browsers So far, when most people

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Sage: An atomic bomb kicked off the biggest computing project in history

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-09 06:21:59

In addition to being vital for national security, SAGE was a proving ground for the US Department of Defense. It demonstrated the government’s ability to coordinate large-scale, diversified and highly sophisticated computer research and development. From his earliest conversations with MIT, IBM vice president of engineering John McPherson, who would become the company’s point person on SAGE, quickly recognized the magnitude of the data processing opportunity — the largest for IBM since it was c

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Arch Linux pulls AUR packages that installed Chaos RAT malware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-13 09:12:39

Arch Linux has pulled three malicious packages uploaded to the Arch User Repository (AUR) were used to install the CHAOS remote access trojan (RAT) on Linux devices. The packages were named "librewolf-fix-bin", "firefox-patch-bin", and "zen-browser-patched-bin," and were uploaded by the same user, "danikpapas," on July 16. The packages were removed two days later by the Arch Linux team after being flagged as malicious by the community. "On the 16th of July, at around 8pm UTC+2, a malicious AU

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Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 12:29:52

📢 Overview As of August 28th, 2025, the Bitnami public catalog will undergo the following changes: Community catalog Disable images generation for Debian-based images and gradually move existing ones to a Bitnami Legacy repository. A focused set of more hardened, more secure images. These free images are intended for development and are only available on the “latest” tag. You can find them at https://hub.docker.com/u/bitnamisecure. Helm charts and container images' open-source code will contin

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The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002)

news.ycombinator.com Christopher Ketcham 2026-01-13 16:55:40

In January 2001, the security branch of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency began to receive a number of peculiar reports from DEA field offices across the country. According to the reports, young Israelis claiming to be art students and offering artwork for sale had been attempting to penetrate DEA offices for over a year. The Israelis had also attempted to penetrate the offices of other law enforcement and Department of Defense agencies. Strangest of all, the “students” had visited the homes of n

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