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Article URL: https://elements.ratherthanpaper.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888626

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I see a similar thread here occasionally but not for a while. It's almost midway through the mid-year of this decade, so seems a good time. Plus, it's May the 4th, so: search out with your feelings - and what do you see?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888457

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Article URL: https://thegreatrace.substack.com/p/rule-1-reality-is-always-more-complicated

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888437

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Article URL: https://austinhenley.com/blog/firstswiftproject.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888399

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Article URL: https://www.coop.co.uk/cyber-incident

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888381

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Article URL: https://www.barrons.com/news/they-sold-their-likeness-to-ai-and-regretted-it-10c63a4a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888365

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Article URL: https://www.bobhoffmanswebsite.com/copy-of-bookshop-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888355

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Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/maga-soft-eugenics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888339

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/world/europe/pope-francis-tomb-lettering.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888337

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Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/doj-confirms-it-wants-to-break-up-googles-ad-business/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888316

Points: 6

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Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/regrets-actors-who-sold-ai-avatars-stuck-in-black-mirror-esque-dystopia/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888314

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Hi HN,

I'm founder of VoltAgent, a new open-source TypeScript-based framework for building AI agents.

We know there are many frameworks out there. Our short story of why we built VoltAgent goes like this:

We were developing an AI application ourselves. Initially, we tried existing frameworks. We also explored different flows using no-code tools.

We noticed something interesting: the visual approach of tools like n8n made AI workflows much clearer and easier to understand. Building flows visually was neat and provided great visibility.

However, we quickly ran into problems with no-code tools: we felt locked in by their limitations, particularly the inability to customize deeply or integrate custom code the way we wanted. So, we returned to framework solutions.

While frameworks gave us code control, we missed the clear visibility that visual tools provided. To achieve observability, we integrated standard AIOps tools (like LangFuse and LangSmith), but they didn't quite replicate the step-by-step execution clarity we'd seen in tools like n8n for understanding the flow itself.

This gap led us to build VoltAgent for our own use. We shared it with developers in our network, received positive feedback, and decided to release it open-source.

What VoltAgent Offers:

- Core Building Blocks: It provides essential components for agents like tools, memory management, and state handling out-of-the-box. It's also LLM agnostic and supports multi-agent setups.

- Visual Debugging Console: This is a key feature we built to address the visibility problem. You can connect it locally to your running agent (your data stays on your machine) to visually trace how the agent thinks step-by-step. You can inspect messages and see the execution flow, similar to how visual tools like n8n show workflows, but designed specifically for debugging agent execution written in code.

You can find the code and documentation here: https://github.com/voltagent/voltagent

We're actively developing VoltAgent, and our public roadmap is available here: https://github.com/orgs/VoltAgent/projects/1

We'd love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or any questions you might have.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888290

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Article URL: https://theloveguru.ai/about

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888286

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Article URL: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/05/best-practices-for-user-authentication-and-authorization-in-web-applications-a-comprehensive-security-framework/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888274

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Article URL: https://github.com/byrantech/laptop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888268

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Now that plenty of time has passed, I'm wondering if someone here had an inside track and is willing to share their insights.

Rough summary of the available public information:

- They had an accident in 2023 injuring, by not stopping instantly, a passerby who was hit by another car.

- They were investigated and then California temporarily suspended their license to drive around.

- By the end of 2023 there was a massive layoff, including top executives leaving. There were claims that the operation was too human-dependent / required too much human interventions.

- In 2024 there were some news that they were starting up again (outside CA maybe).

- In Dec 2024, GM dropped their funding altogether and gave up on self-driving / robotaxi, refocusing on driver assistance instead. Some analysts claimed that was in part (in addition to finances) due to politics and them not wanting to face off with Tesla under the new administration.

It always seemed to me that something was missing from the overall picture:

- While second to Waymo, they still seemed already far ahead from others; maybe they were, say, 90% there.

- Others, like Tesla, had many accidents, including fatal ones. But for those the gauntlet was not thrown that quickly. It is expected that self-driving cars will have accidents as they continue to improve; why would one such incident, that wasn't even fatal, have such a dramatic response?

- Sure it's possible that Cruise was just a row in a spreadsheet to some finance higher-ups at GM, and it was dropped like that because it wasn't making them money yet. But to drop such a multi-year investment has to have been something else, a deeper problem:

- E.g. Did they realize/decide that the technical architecture was somehow flawed and there was an unbreakable barrier that prevents them from achieving that remaining 10%?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888265

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Article URL: https://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science/strengthening-passwords-from-three-perspectives-learning-from-the-experts/article

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888264

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/dwlz/status/1918719619407196262

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888257

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Article URL: https://medium.com/extra-extra/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888253

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Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/toki-pona-smallest-language/398363/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888249

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