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Article URL: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273478 Points: 73 # Comments: 18

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OpenAI has introduced Presence, an enterprise product for deploying voice and chat agents across workflows such as billing support, insurance claims and employee IT requests. The notable part is less the underlying model and more the operational layer. Each agent is scoped to a specific job and receives only the knowledge and system access required for it. Organizations define approved actions, policies and escalation conditions, while simulations and evaluations test behavior before deploymen...

Samsung’s Ballie is an AI-powered home robot designed to move around a house, follow users and help manage connected smart-home devices. The compact robot features cameras, a built-in projector and smart-home controls, allowing it to interact with its surroundings and connected devices. Samsung has also planned Google Gemini integration for Ballie, with the goal of making interactions more natural and useful for everyday tasks. Rather than functioning only as a smart-home hub, Ballie is...

SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent service designed to behave like independent "AI teammates" that can do your work for you. The bots share their own cloud-based computer environment, and can sign into apps, tools, and websites you already use to complete multi-step workplace tasks, only coming back when their assigned work […]

Reservoir has built an ultra-efficient water heater that can predict hot water demand, store energy, and detect plumbing leaks throughout a home.

Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.

You have a Google Sheets file full of IP addresses. Maybe they came from server access logs, a list of login attempts, ad-click exports, or a fraud review queue. You need to know where those IPs are, what network they belong to, and whether any of them are running through a VPN or proxy. You could paste them into an online lookup tool one by one. Or you could turn your Google Sheet into a geo-enrichment pipeline that resolves hundreds of IPs with a formula. This guide covers the setup (abo...

When I started building ATLOCK, I initially thought about file protection as an encryption problem. Then I realized something: Encryption and access control solve different problems. So for ATLOCK's File Guard, I went in a different direction. Instead of encrypting every protected file, ATLOCK uses Windows NTFS Access Control Lists (ACLs) to control which identities are allowed to access protected files and directories. That sounds simple. The implementation isn't. 🔒 Why NTF...

A month ago I disabled a GitHub Actions workflow. It was the right call and I made it in about ninety seconds. The workflow pre-rendered static HTML for a site I run — read the JSON sources, generate the pages, commit the output back to the repo. It had started corrupting content. I reverted the damaged files by hand, went into the Actions tab, and switched it off. Then I got on with the day. Last week I went looking for why it was off. Not because anything broke. Because I wanted to pu...

The demo works. ChatGPT lists three tools, calls one, and returns a tidy summary from your staging tenant. The product manager asks when it ships. Engineering asks what happens when the model calls delete_site on the wrong organisation. Legal asks where prompts, tool arguments, and responses are logged. Nobody has a shared checklist yet. That gap is why AIUC-1 matters even if you never pursue formal certification. The Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company published a readable standard...

If you're new to Azure Data Factory (ADF), pipelines can initially feel complicated. You may see triggers, linked services, datasets, integration runtimes, copy activities, staging tables, transformations, Airflow, dbt, and several other components working together. The easiest way to understand ADF is to stop thinking of it as just a tool that "moves data" and instead think of it as part of a data journey . A typical enterprise data flow might look like this: Source System |...

You paste a snippet from a tutorial. Half your app's buttons change color. The snippet had .btn in it, and so does your codebase. Nothing logged the collision — CSS resolves duplicates silently, by source order, and whichever selector loaded last just won. Every dev who's copy-pasted CSS has hit some version of this. It's the most common way styles regress in a codebase and the least often called out. I ship 2,768 CSS demos across 138 collections on codefronts.com , all hand-written. Ev...

Every model benchmark I read ranks the same two things: how good the output was, and sometimes how many tokens it took. Almost none of them print the number you actually get charged for. That gap matters, because the two rankings are not the same list. A model can win on quality, lose on tokens, and still be the cheapest way to finish your task — or the opposite. You cannot tell which without doing the multiplication yourself. Here is the multiplication. The formula co...

How to keep table identity, evidence coverage, and release intent separate in a data investigation report. A schema-change report contains four lines: Previous state: Delta version 41 Current state: Delta version 42 Schema changes: Verified Fields added: 1 The feature request expected one new nullable double field named score . Can version 42 go to production? Not from those four lines. The report established an observed change between two table states. It did no...

A code comment is useful when it adds context that cannot be understood from the code alone. Simply repeating what the code does creates noise without helping the next person make a change safely. The most valuable comments explain why a particular decision was made. The Code Already Shows What Happens A comment such as // retry the request three times adds little value when the code clearly contains a loop with three attempts. It duplicates information that can become outdated...

The first two parts of this series covered why production RAG systems fail and how the quality of the data foundation directly affects everything that comes after it. We looked at document ingestion, parsing, chunking, and metadata design—the layers responsible for turning raw information into something a retrieval system can actually work with. But even perfectly processed documents are useless if retrieval cannot find the right information. In this third part, we'll move into the retriev...

Most RAG tutorials explain the concept. This one shows the code — a complete working pipeline using LangChain, ChromaDB, and a local LLM via LM Studio. No OpenAI API key. No cloud costs. The business problem: A company has hundreds of pages of HR documentation. Employees ask questions. An AI answers accurately from the actual documents in seconds. Stack: Python, LangChain, ChromaDB, nomic-embed-text, Qwen 9B via LM Studio pip install langchain langchain-community langchain-ch...

A production-grade toolkit for Next.js backends, and the architectural thinking behind it. After years of building internal tools and SaaS products with Next.js, I kept copying the same five things across every project. Not because they were hard to write, but because no one had packaged them together in a way that was coherent, composable, and genuinely production-ready. So I built nx-safe-suite : a monorepo of five independently installable TypeScript packages that handle the found...

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I've been building a tool that tries to give founders a daily view of what they should pay attention to: competitors, customer conversations, opportunities, content ideas, etc. I'm realizing there's a huge difference between “more information” and “actually useful information.” What would you genuinely want to see every morning?

Someone asked me a very great question about my product, here is his question , “If someone fixes one of the red flags your product finds, how do you decide it’s actually been addressed versus just explained away? Feels like knowing the difference between real proof and founder optimism is the hard part.” I tried to answer in this way. This is my answer , “There are many problems that in my opinion, you can explain clearly but you cannot necessarily solve, right? You keep seeing t...

I’ve built a SaaS tool and I’m planning to charge customers. My target users are small‑business owners in the US. I’m an individual developer based in China, and I don’t have a passport . That rules out many common platforms. Are there any workable payment platforms I can use in this situation? I’m looking for something that can handle subscriptions, work for B2B small‑business clients, and doesn’t require me to hold a passport or set up an overseas company. Would love to hear your real...

I created a SAAS TOOL set to replace a LinkedIn Content Creators. I tested the ideation and workflows (on the document if they would invest in a product like this) on my 100+ client base and built it with a team I partnered with. I launched it 48 hours before, got more than 240+ signups (through my LinkedIn Community), and upon seeing this, the 'tech partner' who built the tech stack bulldozed all over me. Demanded more than what was promised when signed off initially. I had to let him go (so...

I think I made the classic developer mistake. I spent months building instead of selling. The product is actually live now. Multi-tenant, payments, auth, the whole thing. It works, and I'm at the point where I can confidently say I don't really have much left to build. Except there's one problem. I have basically no users. I don't have an audience. I don't have an email list. I don't have a marketing background. And every time I search for how to get the first customers, I get th...

That was genuinely most of my afternoon. I am building a product that needs to remember what happened between lessons. Easy enough until one bit of data could be a note, memory, observation, or feedback. Every name looked stupid after ten minutes. I picked observation. I will hate it by Friday. What tiny decision wasted your day?