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Comment #48873373
It's absolutely wrong. We also have: Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey & Ernst Chain who contributed significantly to antibiotics. You could even add politicians. How much wealth di…
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Comment #48863142
It sounds like they gave you a feature for free you didn't want, and now are trying to charge for it. Very much a dark pattern.
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Comment #48862147
Have you tried creating skills for your agents to follow your patterns?
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Comment #48852330
Will organizations want to control their own proxy or use OpenRouter?
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Show HN: Moo, Git versions code, moo versions machines
I'm Evan, CTO of Ito (ito.ai). We do code review that actually runs your code. When we're developing locally, we run lots of coding agents in parallel against the same repo, and we…
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Comment #48530655
I'm working on Ito.ai : https://www.ito.ai/ It's Agentic QA + auto-provisioning sandboxes. Makes it plug and play to do code reviews that actually run your code instead of looking …
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Comment #47619946
If the question is storage, bitcoin itself provides a perfectly good mechanism. idk the exact costs but it'd be in the range of ~$0.45 to store a commitment. That's cheap enough to…
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Comment #47616911
I don't think you're understanding how cryptography works. A commitment is basically a hash that is both binding and hiding. In this example it's probably easiest to think of it as…
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Comment #45838924
It's an electron app but latency sensitive bits are written in rust: https://github.com/heyito/ito/tree/dev/native/audio-recorder
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Show HN: Ito AI, open source smart dictation
Hey HN, I’m Evan, cofounder and CTO of Ito AI. Ito is a voice to intent app that turns what you say into structured text: notes, messages, code, or any text field you’re working in…
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Comment #45048661
Corporations will require everything going through an LLM to meet company standards.
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Comment #44967977
It's definitely a middle ground, but PR reviews, are not perfect. So it's easy to miss a lot of things and to have a lot of extra baggage. From reviewing code it's not always easy …
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Comment #38405336
The difference between a government and a corporation is the ability to use violence. A government is just a corporation with a monopoly on violence (police, military, jails...). T…
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Comment #37158123
I'm not sure. Somewhere around 10^12 kg of initial mass would be evaporating today (1). So perhaps there is no meaningful minimum, only a minimum initial mass. If it's just about t…
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Comment #37152393
It's not a practical possibility. The black hole wouldn't last long and would be too small to actually absorb anything. It's the equivalent of asking if a nuke would set the atmosp…
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Comment #35984606
Best analysis I've seen: "Balwani might have been perceived as someone “a little bit older and wiser” who should’ve known better." https://qz.com/theranos-sunny-balwani-jail-time-e…
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Comment #34948786
Programmers just move up the stack with some staying behind to manage the edge cases and optimizations in the underlying tech. Same thing happened with the move to cloud. It's uncl…
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Comment #34916049
Many other places have solved this problem. San Francisco has relatively low population density compared even when only looking at US cities. NYC is very livable. It's in CA best l…
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Comment #34792223
I think cryptographic AI will become a reality. The use-case I was thinking is more of immortality/digitizing human consciousness. If you could be uploaded (like the show Upload), …
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Comment #34470398
This is already doable with most wallets today. Most wallets enable you to create 2^64 addresses from the same seed phrase. These are hardened and can't be linked together by just …
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Comment #34086773
College education is ~30x more expensive (1). Home prices (2) & Health care (3) are ~22x more expensive. Farm land is up 20x (4) > The main[1] answer to your riddle is that the eco…
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Comment #34086361
I agree that the Fed was right in letting these crypto scams fail. The problem inherent to the system is inflation. As the Fed expands its powers, it can avoid significant recessio…
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Comment #34086184
Monero & Zcash are the best examples right now but like bitcoin, they are volatile and not practical for actual commerce outside of use-cases (like crime) where it's worth the cost…