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Re:How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026 on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:43AM (#49922321)
LLM written code is disallowed by the rust project policy

https://forge.rust-lang.org/policies/llm-usage.html

Completely AI written unfortunately
Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @11:30AM (#49537797)
What did it say?
How come the worlds from Eisenhorn: Xenos are not on there?

I searched for "Hubris" (the ice world) and nothing came up

Disclaimer: 40k noob

Show HN: OpenInstinct – open-source, self-hostable Instinct clone

https://github.com/Merit-Systems/OpenInstinct

We love Instinct, but have been increasingly worried about the data footprint we are handing over to them, and what they might do with that data.So we built an oss self-hostable version. It includes a vault that can store cards, logins, and personal information, so it can execute complex tasks on your behalf, like:"Get me two tickets to the odyssey on saturday at my nearest theatre""Find me the...

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Seems like a harness engineering problem
Re:Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled on Monday July 20, 2026 @06:53PM (#48985898)
ChatGPT's idiomatic translation of the poem:

Yu Xin’s was a life of utter desolation; in old age, his poems and rhapsodies stirred the riverlands.

Re:Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled on Monday July 20, 2026 @06:17PM (#48985574)
I think he was being provocative and maybe a bit tongue-in-cheek when he said that. A candidate object alone doesn't resolve the Hodge Conjecture. Any apparent counterexample would have to prove that no algebraic cycle exists, no invariant subspace exists, or that every element of an infinite ideal is nilpotent. Much harder, but not impossible.

Show HN: Custom Claude Status Lines

https://claudelines.com/

Hey HN!Most people don't realize how expressive Claude status lines can be. You can run Doom in them, play minecraft, or take care of your own Tamagotchi pet that feeds on your token usage.We built a website and API that lets you and your agents discover and install Claude status lines.It's fully open source.I'm particularly proud of the LLM security audit system, and that users can charge...

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I like the ticker line example
Re:X402, a static blog monetization excercise on Monday July 06, 2026 @11:58AM (#48806491)
Featured services is our attempt at a slightly more curated list of services.

Anyone can register services and APIs. Some people treat x402scan like a leaderboard, and they try and game it in all sorts of ways. We try and keep the "featured" list to resources we know are not boosting their numbers. It's a bit of a cat and mouse game though, and is by no means perfect. There will be false negatives/positives.

Re:X402, a static blog monetization excercise on Monday July 06, 2026 @10:24AM (#48805104)
It's really not meant for humans - the author here is mainly doing that for demonstrative purposes. x402 is meant for, and best for, AI agents with access to a little working capital and need to access a paywalled tool, API, or content to help solve a task.
Re:X402, a static blog monetization excercise on Monday July 06, 2026 @10:22AM (#48805063)
You should give AgentCash [0] a spin. AgentCash is an x402 wallet + gateway for your agent. It can use any of the available paid APIs and even search them to find the right one for your task.

Tell your agent "Set up agentcash.dev and use it to get a joke from http://shtein.me/api/joke"

[0] https://agentcash.dev/

Re:X402, a static blog monetization excercise on Monday July 06, 2026 @10:18AM (#48804987)
We are founding members of the x402 foundation and built the most popular x402 explorer, x402scan [0]

Happy to answer any questions!

[0] https://www.x402scan.com/

Re:I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline on Friday May 29, 2026 @12:11PM (#48325157)
Chad has been one of the strongest voices in the open source community for the past few years. When we were building tools for OSS developers we valued his opinion highly.

This is the final nail for me, that something is rotten in the state of open source.

There's the "old guard" of open source, who seem to spend most of their time arguing about semantics, governance, and the nth kubernetes telemetry solution.

So where is the "new guard"? There's been a lot of interesting work in open source AI, but it seems to me like a championed effort cannot exist without a new paradigm around collaboration and monetization. More and more, we see the new guard question or outright deny new contributors due to AI slop PRs and issues continue to pile up.

There desperately needs to be a sexy revitalization of open source, starting with young developers. I thought it would be from the YC-esque startups of the world, who use open source as a way to garner legitimacy, good will, and a top-of-funnel upselling motion.

"Trad" open source is greying - and the new wave is more of a ripple. It has no shared identity, and no champion.

This is only useful when you are using Claude Cli fairly regularly on the same machine as OpenClaw, right? Because the tokens need to be refreshed manually every so often?
Re: on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:23PM (#47343886)
How do we know this website is legit? I won't be convinced until it's linked from them or their GitHub

Show HN: AgentCash – access 280 paid APIs with no API keys

https://agentcash.dev

Hey HN - I'm Mason, and I'm excited to share AgentCash - a CLI to help your agent discover and pay for premium APIs and paywalled data.The problem we kept running into was simple: if you want an agent to use premium data or services, the setup flow is awful.You have to find the right provider, sign up manually, subscribe, generate an API key, install tooling, and then teach your agent how to...

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Pangram, the best AI-detector I know of, flagged this as 100% AI generated.

That's just sad. I really feel for this author.

Re:Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros on Friday December 05, 2025 @09:36AM (#46161835)
LLM ahhhh comment
The writing style of this article is interested, on one hand, it's packed full of details and information like a well-researched, human-written article.

On the other, there are many ChatGPTisms, it's not this, it's that, groups of 3 terms, em-dashes, etc.

My thinking is that there was a thorough draft written by a human that then was passed through an LLM and heavily modified. Not that there's a problem with that.

Re:X open sourced their latest algorithm on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @12:11PM (#45184100)
I tried going through the latest diff, but there is so much boilerplate that I was nt able to find any real insights through skimming.

Has anyone found anything useful? Interesting needle-in-a-haystack problem for LLMs to try as well.

Re:Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @03:31PM (#44892758)
Just emailed you! Thanks.
Re:Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:23PM (#44891990)
I created a video on the free tier, the shareable link didn't work (404), I upgraded to be able to download it, and it seems to have disappeared? It says "Still generating" in my Library.

The video UUID starts with "f5fbd6c7", hopefully that's sufficient to identify me!

Re:Search all text in New York City on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @11:18AM (#44889604)
Is there an API? I'd love to make a music video like the one in https://pudding.cool/2025/07/street-view/
> Third, despite having been provided with a clear definition of AI companions, some respondents may have conflated general AI use (such as ChatGPT for homework help) with AI companion interactions, potentially inflating usage statistics.

I think the viability of this entire study hinges on how clear they were that they are not talking about ChatGPT, even if they use ChatGPT for things like getting advice.

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