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Ryanair may increase commission to staff identifying oversized cabin bags

news.ycombinator.com Aengus Cox 2026-01-16 00:20:36

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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It’s “frighteningly likely” many US courts will overlook AI errors, expert says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-15 23:00:02

Order in the court! Order in the court! Judges are facing outcry over a suspected AI-generated order in a court. Fueling nightmares that AI may soon decide legal battles, a Georgia court of appeals judge, Jeff Watkins, explained why a three-judge panel vacated an order last month that appears to be the first known ruling in which a judge sided with someone seemingly relying on fake AI-generated case citations to win a legal fight. Now, experts are warning that judges overlooking AI hallucinati

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Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX confirms $44 million stolen during hack

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2026-01-16 00:50:33

India’s largest crypto exchange CoinDCX has confirmed that one of its internal operational accounts was compromised in a recent security breach, allowing the hackers to make off with millions in crypto. On Saturday, CoinDCX co-founder and CEO Sumit Gupta disclosed in a post on X that an internal account “used only for liquidity provisioning on a partner exchange” was compromised during the hack. The executive assured that the incident did not affect customer funds and that all its customer asse

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The best SSDs for PS5 in 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-16 09:00:36

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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Perl Versioning Scheme and Gentoo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-14 14:44:30

The Gentoo Perl Versioning Scheme A common observation/confusion people have is that the versions used on Perl related things in Gentoo don't directly correspond to upstream versions. This is because Upstream uses 2 different schemes, and one of those schemes is fundamentally incompatible with Gentoos. The Problem In most people's mind, this is how version numbers sort: 1.0 1.1 1.5 1.10 1.15 1.20 1.45 This is because you read . as a delimiter for multiple integers. However, in Perl, those

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Meta snubs the EU’s voluntary AI guidelines

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-01-16 11:13:49

Meta says it won’t sign the European Union’s artificial intelligence code of practice agreement, warning that “Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI.” The code published by the EU on July 10th is a voluntary set of guidelines to help companies follow the AI Act’s rules around general-purpose AI before they come into effect in a few weeks. “We have carefully reviewed the European Commission’s Code of Practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models and Meta won’t be signing it,” Meta’s global

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Simulating hand-drawn motion with SVG filters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 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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Agents built from alloys

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 04:33:04

This spring, we had a simple and, to my knowledge, novel idea that turned out to dramatically boost the performance of our vulnerability detection agents at XBOW. On fixed benchmarks and with a constrained number of iterations, we saw success rates rise from 25% to 40%, and then soon after to 55%. The principles behind this idea are not limited to cybersecurity. They apply to a large class of agentic AI setups. Let me share. XBOW’s Challenge XBOW is an autonomous pentester. You point it at yo

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Java was not underhyped in 1997 (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 21:37:50

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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Master Foo and the Script Kiddie (1996)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 02:13:58

...and the Script Kiddie A stranger from the land of Woot came to Master Foo as he was eating the morning meal with his students. “I hear y00 are very l33t,” he said. “Pl33z teach m3 all y00 know.” Master Foo's students looked at each other, confused by the stranger's barbarous language. Master Foo just smiled and replied: “You wish to learn the Way of Unix?” “I want to b3 a wizard hax0r,” the stranger replied, “and 0wn ever3one's b0xen.” “I do not teach that Way,” replied Master Foo. The

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“The Bitter Lesson” is wrong. Well sort of

news.ycombinator.com Assaf Pinhasi 2026-01-16 00:33:46

“The Bitter Lesson” is wrong. Well… sort of. Assaf Pinhasi 3 min read · 1 hour ago 1 hour ago -- Listen Share TL;DR There is no dichotomy between domain knowledge vs. “general purpose methods that leverage data+compute”. They are both powerful tools that compensate for each other and need to be balanced and traded off during the model building process. “The bitter lesson” in 30 seconds “The bitter lesson” is one of the most popular opinion pieces about AI research and it’s future. In his w

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Simulating Hand-Drawn Motion with SVG Filters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 02:12:26

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 2026-01-16 03:00:09

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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These are the 6 Android widgets I simply can’t live without

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-16 00:00:41

Megan Ellis / Android Authority From calendars to reminder apps, everyone has their own list of the best Android widgets. For me, widgets help me get overviews of various things without needing to open up the app that they’re linked to. I recently switched to a new smartphone, and while there are certain things I do whenever I set up a new phone, I also realized that I needed to refresh some of my widget setups. As a result, these ones have become indispensable to my daily routine. 1. TickTic

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Behind the ballistics of the 'explosive' squirting cucumber

news.ycombinator.com Society For Experimental Biology 2026-01-12 21:20:58

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium). Credit: Helen Gorges New research into the biomechanics of explosive seed dispersal in squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium) reveals how these plants have adapted a suite of unique traits that help propel their high-speed seeds far and wide. Seed dispersal comes in many

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Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 15:43:04

Conductor uses Claude Code however you're already logged in. If you’re logged into Claude Code with an API key, Conductor will use that too. If you’re logged in with the Claude Pro or Max plan, Conductor will use that.

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I'm betting against AI agents, despite building them

news.ycombinator.com Utkarsh Kanwat 2026-01-15 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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LLM architecture comparison

news.ycombinator.com Sebastian Raschka 2026-01-15 18:56:01

It has been seven years since the original GPT architecture was developed. At first glance, looking back at GPT-2 (2019) and forward to DeepSeek-V3 and Llama 4 (2024-2025), one might be surprised at how structurally similar these models still are. Sure, positional embeddings have evolved from absolute to rotational (RoPE), Multi-Head Attention has largely given way to Grouped-Query Attention, and the more efficient SwiGLU has replaced activation functions like GELU. But beneath these minor refi

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How to Limit Galaxy AI to On-Device Processing—or Turn It Off Altogether

wired.com David Nield 2026-01-16 00:30:00

Artificial intelligence is now more pervasive than ever in the apps and gadgets we use day to day, and that of course extends to smartphones: Google Gemini on Pixels and other Android handsets, Apple Intelligence (currently still rolling out) on iPhones, and Galaxy AI on Samsung smartphones. These tools can help you refine text, generate images, and summarize documents, among other tricks, and you don't have to go far through your apps to find an AI feature ready and willing to help you with so

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A Treatise for One Network – Anonymous National Deliberation [pdf]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 15:21:20

Authoritarian regimes thrive by systematically dividing their opposition and silencing the populace, creating a crisis where citizens feel isolated and powerless. This paper proposes a technological solution: a new, secure feature within Telegram to bridge these divisions and forge a genuine national consensus. Executive Summary "The protocol is remarkably efficient, capable of distilling the views of a population of 100 million participants down to a core group of 100 in as few as six weeks.

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The Big LLM Architecture Comparison

news.ycombinator.com Sebastian Raschka 2026-01-16 00:56:01

It has been seven years since the original GPT architecture was developed. At first glance, looking back at GPT-2 (2019) and forward to DeepSeek-V3 and Llama 4 (2024-2025), one might be surprised at how structurally similar these models still are. Sure, positional embeddings have evolved from absolute to rotational (RoPE), Multi-Head Attention has largely given way to Grouped-Query Attention, and the more efficient SwiGLU has replaced activation functions like GELU. But beneath these minor refi

Topics: attention deepseek figure gemma model

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

news.ycombinator.com Utkarsh Kanwat 2026-01-16 03:59:19

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 2026-01-15 21:00:00

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 2026-01-16 00:19:35

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 2026-01-15 22:15:54

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 2026-01-13 15:02:41

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 2026-01-15 20:07:41

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 2026-01-16 00:15:26

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 2026-01-16 03:25:09

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 2026-01-15 20:58:42

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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