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"The law in America relies on intentionality, notes Rune Kvist, head of Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which insures AI firms. If no human intended to hack anyone, n…

But if you told an embodied AI to do a home cleaning task, and it decided to pick up a gun and start spraying bullets, you might not want to be held liable for that.

Out of curiosity, what exactly is a "fully mechanical scissor switch"? And is this the first such switch on the market? If I search for other such products I can only find "metal s…

"Visual graph editor for AI workflows" seems like an extremely saturated market (Langflow, n8n). Consolidation seems natural as the agent engineering industry matures.

Multiple levels of disappointment here. This is about Hilbert curves, not physical lawn mowing. The participant interviews provide self-reported strategy, but the phrasing "why som…

I feel obligated to warn future readers that this post contains decaying corpse imagery and is therefore not suitable for breakfast. I find it interesting that they gave the father…

I feel this way about gpt-5-nano (EOL December 2026). It seems like the open weight models have progressed a long way since these old models were released though. Deepseek V4 Flash…

Starlink is also satellite internet, right?

Denver has this... nominally. 3 machines (2 in circulation, one is a "Display"). 4 week checkout period. 103 current holds. 103*4/2/12 ≈ 17 year wait time.

crowfly is a single-html-file golf round GPS tracker. Hit your shot, tap "log shot", walk to your ball, repeat. Shots and rounds are stored in localStorage. Distance markers. CSV e…

Oh, didn't read that part of the news. That's great. Ability to run x64 docker images seminatively was one of the big reasons I jumped to the M1 platform when it came out and I was…

Not for long!

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Plaid wants you to enter your bank username-password into their form. If it was just routing+account it would be truly no different than other bank connection methods.

Try clicking "Stumble" a few times...

After reading this and remembering an old hobby project, I decided to switch the deploy from a systemd service to PM2, which apparently has rolling deployments without needing Dock…

Porque no los dos. Force a platform. Deploy non containerized. Build a dockerized version of the forced platform for cross-platform local dev.

>I read the Fogbank story and recognized it immediately. Not the nuclear material. The pattern. Build capability over decades. Find a cheaper substitute. Let the human pipeline atr…

Interfertility is not an equivalence relation, does not form equivalence classes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

For real work I'm already on Opus full time (plan+execute). I think there's a different space for cheap-but-good-enough options for small-to-med repo hobby projects. (Not enough us…

I get good, cheap, fast feature coding success with grok-4.1-fast for planning and grok-code-fast-1 for execution. But according to the Openrouter usage stats, grok-code-fast-1 is …

What feedback did your pitch analyzer product give to this pitch about itself?

Do you have evals for this claim? I don't really experience this

Meanwhile on the HN main page right now: "Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637757