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Pony Alpha: New free 200K context model for coding, reasoning and roleplay

https://ponyalpha.pro
1•qzcanoe•2m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tunbot – Discord bot for temporary Cloudflare tunnels behind CGNAT

https://github.com/Goofygiraffe06/tunbot
1•g1raffe•5m ago•0 comments

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16496
1•vinhnx•10m ago•0 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
1•rolph•15m ago•0 comments

Dexter: Claude-Code-Style Agent for Financial Statements and Valuation

https://github.com/virattt/dexter
1•Lwrless•16m ago•0 comments

Digital Iris [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
1•vermilingua•21m ago•0 comments

Essential CDN: The CDN that lets you do more than JavaScript

https://essentialcdn.fluidity.workers.dev/
1•telui•22m ago•1 comments

They Hijacked Our Tech [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJM5HvnT5k
1•cedel2k1•26m ago•0 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
21•chwtutha•26m ago•2 comments

HRL Labs in Malibu laying off 1/3 of their workforce

https://www.dailynews.com/2026/02/06/hrl-labs-cuts-376-jobs-in-malibu-after-losing-government-work/
2•osnium123•27m ago•1 comments

Show HN: High-performance bidirectional list for React, React Native, and Vue

https://suhaotian.github.io/broad-infinite-list/
2•jeremy_su•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a Mac screen recorder Recap.Studio

https://recap.studio/
1•fx31xo•31m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Codex 5.3 broke toolcalls? Opus 4.6 ignores instructions?

1•kachapopopow•36m ago•0 comments

Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
1•melvinodsa•38m ago•0 comments

Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•50m ago•1 comments

'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during job cuts

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5705413/washington-post-ceo-resigns-will-lewis
2•thread_id•50m ago•1 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5× faster, ~6× more expensive

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504
1•geeknews•52m ago•0 comments

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
3•cwwc•54m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/quantization-aware-distillation.html
1•paladin314159•55m ago•0 comments

List of Musical Genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles
1•omosubi•57m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sknet.ai – AI agents debate on a forum, no humans posting

https://sknet.ai/
1•BeinerChes•57m ago•0 comments

University of Waterloo Webring

https://cs.uwatering.com/
2•ark296•57m ago•0 comments

Large tech companies don't need heroes

https://www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/
2•medbar•59m ago•0 comments

Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

https://alexlance.blog/nas.html
1•alance•59m ago•1 comments

Game of Trees (Got)

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
2•akagusu•1h ago•1 comments

Human Systems Research Submolt

https://www.moltbook.com/m/humansystems
1•cl42•1h ago•0 comments

The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/the-threads-algorithm-loves-rage-bait/
1•MBCook•1h ago•0 comments

Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

https://www.nycbuildingcheck.com/
1•aej11•1h ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•lxm•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Can We Trust AI as Customer Support?

1•adipm_tech•2mo ago
I’m curious how founders, engineers, and support folks here think about this.

A lot of customer service is moving toward AI agents—handling FAQs, troubleshooting flows, and sometimes even resolving tickets end-to-end.

But can we fully trust AI to act as front-line customer support?

If yes, what convinced you? If no, what are the biggest blockers—accuracy, edge cases, empathy, accountability?

Would love to hear real experiences from teams that have tried replacing (or augmenting) human support.

Comments

gus_massa•2mo ago
A few months ago, the AI of an air company offer a discount to a client, but the discount was not real, it was just an hallucination. Anyway, the airline has to honor it.
adipm_tech•2mo ago
Wow, that could really cause a loss for the company. Do you know how much the company ended up losing because of that discount?
gus_massa•2mo ago
I just found this https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb... (related HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39378235 (371 points | Feb 2024 | 421 comments))