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The broadcaster was known for his eclectic taste and for helping champion world music on BBC Radio 1.
The broadcaster was known for his eclectic taste and for helping champion world music on BBC Radio 1.
AI agents fail in ways that logs don't capture. The agent called the right function, got a valid response, then produced the wrong output. By the time you notice, the trace is gone. OpenTelemetry fixes this. Here's the full setup for a Claude-based agent. The Problem With Console.log D...
In 2018 I wrote a master's thesis called I, Designer. Fifty-odd pages asking whether design jobs would survive the rise of machine intelligence. I was in my twenties, finishing a degree, trying to take seriously something most people around me were still treating as sci-fi at best, paranoia at worst...
Everyone reaches for Pinecone or Weaviate when they need a vector database. For most production workloads at under a million documents, you already have everything you need: Postgres + pgvector. Here's the full RAG setup in Next.js with zero new infrastructure. What pgvector Gives You...
When it comes to Linux observability and security, traditional tools like top, ps, and standard audit daemons have a fundamental flaw: they lie. Or more accurately, they only tell you what the system wants you to see. Advanced rootkits, fleeting container processes, and malicious scripts can easily...
Jest has been the default JavaScript testing framework for years. I used it without thinking. Then I migrated my AI SaaS to Vitest and the difference was immediate. Here's what actually changed. The Setup My project: a Next.js 15 app with Claude API integration, Drizzle ORM, and a te...
AI agent APIs bill by the step. You dispatch a job and pay for however many tool calls, reasoning steps, or browser actions the model decides to take. Before dispatch, you don't know the final bill — and neither does your user. That's a problem if you're building a product on top of one of these AP...
⚠️ Heads up before we start: Everything in this post is very experimental. HTML-in-Canvas is a proposal sitting behind a Chrome Canary flag (chrome://flags/#canvas-draw-element). My background is more related to frontend work and I've spent more time than I'd like to admit wrestling with <c...
A response to Thoughtworks Technology Radar Vol. 34, Blip 18: Code Intelligence as Agentic Tooling Blip 18 of the April 2026 Thoughtworks Radar names a real problem: AI coding agents are effectively blind to the meaning of the code they operate on. The Radar's answer is richer tooling — LSP inte...
Article URL: https://hex.ooo/library/last_question.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804965 Points: 58 # Comments: 12
Critics warn smaller and immigrant-run restaurants risk being overlooked as city-funded deal shapes dining mapWhen Michelin announced that it was expanding its world-renowned restaurant guide into the Great Lakes region of the United States, including Minneapolis, one prominent city was left off the...
These are our favorite portable speakers of all shapes and sizes, from clip-ons to a massive boom box.
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Exclusive: Adrian Fulford will also examine wider national security vetting system after Foreign Office controversyUK politics live – latest updatesA retired high court judge is expected to review Peter Mandelson’s vetting process and the wider national security vetting system.The review, commission...
Nine-day search for two-year-old Neukgu gripped nation and sparked safety concerns for animal and publicThe internet in South Korea erupted in celebration as a two-year-old wolf that escaped from a zoo was captured safely after a nine-day search that had gripped the nation and made the animal a nati...
Drivers have seen weeks of increases as the US-Israeli war with Iran pushed up wholesale oil prices.
Marie-Thérèse Ross was arrested on 1 April and held in a Louisiana facility by immigration officials A French woman in her eighties who was arrested and placed in a US immigration detention centre has flown home.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Marie-Thérèse Ross in Alabama on 1 A...
MagSafe accessories make your phone feel uniquely yours. These are our favorites, including Android-friendly Qi2 picks.
This weekend's scheduled Blue Origin rocket launch is rather momentous. Success would signal an end to SpaceX's monopoly on reusable orbital launch vehicles, and set up a three-way race to make that "No Service" indicator on your phone disappear forever. On Sunday morning, Jeff Bezos' massive New Gl...
Article URL: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ai-silicon-valley-andreesen-thiel-stem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804708 Points: 47 # Comments: 24
Departing PM Viktor Orbán admits ‘political era has ended’ as EU says ‘clock is ticking’ to resolve important issuesEU officials have arrived in Budapest for high-stakes talks aimed at reshaping the bloc’s strained relationship with Hungary, weeks before the new government takes office, as the count...
Police say officers found discarded items in area after group claimed to have targeted embassy with dronesPolice have said they are investigating a security incident near the Israeli embassy in London after officers found a number of discarded items in the area.A statement said Counter Terrorism Pol...
This is DEE, I grew up in a Chinese apparel family. My parents founded MEACHEAL, a mid-tier Chinese women's apparel brand, over two decades ago. Pattern cutting, supplier negotiations, distribution deals — I used to think software had almost nothing to do with this world. Until last year, when I sp...