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Re:Alternatives to Animal Testing Are Finally Taking Off on Monday October 19, 2026 @11:38AM (#50153757)
Very odd.... two months ago now I just bought a lazer cutter and some random acrylic off amazon to make little microfluidic devices because I thought they were neat and have some ideas to make them more generalized that i wanted to tinker with. Nice to see one pop up at me unexpectedly on an HN link.
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:10PM (#50077928)
maybe next month the agents will learn the 'commit locally' and 'git squash' skills
Re:"They had no concept of a duty of care to their users." on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:07PM (#49896598)
You can pay for google docs+ via workspaces and they have an explicit customer data retention guarantee in their license.
Re:"They had no concept of a duty of care to their users." on Sunday September 27, 2026 @12:01PM (#49867898)
You buy software that includes a commercial license that guarantees data retention
Re:Jev in 25 Lines of Python on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:15AM (#49815607)
> LLMs are surprisingly biased towards picking "A", especially if they're otherwise not sure.

Not nearly as sophisticated as myself who would mutter "When in doubt - Charlie out" before marking C.

Re:Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:55AM (#49788915)
Just have a route that describes your API endpoints in a machine readable format, eventually they'll come to some consensus and in the mean time this works well enough to allow LLMs to plan.
Re:Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:07PM (#49777705)
ages ago I tried using IPFS to more or less accomplish this, I imagined it to act more like a weights/training data network fs that everyone would be able to participate in.
Re:Astra for Law on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:45AM (#49752491)
What happens if the gun is faulty and explodes killing the guy next to me and the family wants compensation?
Re:Astra for Law on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:52AM (#49751748)
In the US at least if a lawyer screws up a contract beyond what a competent lawyer would and causes financial harm they can be sued.
Re:Astra for Law on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:39PM (#49746213)
memes and snark aside, can you use this to create legitimate terms and contracts for my products and if I do who is getting sued when it is wrong?
Re:Show HN: Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:04PM (#49745795)
AIngies list
Re:Ask HN: How to start a sales and marketing engine? on Thursday September 17, 2026 @11:13AM (#49742024)
well, that's about it for the thread I imagine :D

thanks

funny enough, there have been some huge problems involving congressman with both bathrooms and children in regards to moral diligence.

Ask HN: How to start a sales and marketing engine?

Outside of personal outreach and marketing, what are the best avenues for jumpstarting a bootstrapped product into the market without an existing sales and marketing engine?Selling/being acquired by a larger firm with the resources, trying to secure grants, looking for a VC/partner to invest, or some other secret sauce?

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When AI Safety become market capture

The danger is not that AI makes yesterday’s work easier or kills humanity. The danger is that we use it only to produce more of yesterday’s work. more ads, more low qual content, more bureaucratic language, more basura.Meanwhile, some of the loudest voices selling “AI safety” deserve antitrust scrutiny. When incumbent firms warn that the technology is too dangerous for ordinary competition but...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? on Friday September 04, 2026 @08:15AM (#49563522)
We offer MCP and then consume it with our in-app assistant to go from a non technical prompt to a series of what is essentially API calls they can automate for themselves for repetitive tasks or things that require a few screens to accomplish can be done from the assistant widget itself, etc.
Re:Was Modern Art a CIA Psy-Op? (2020) on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:33AM (#49432890)
Let's hear what non-default country invented pop-art in the 50s.
I agree with mostly all of this, but personally I wrote a toy LLM almost 5 years ago and while it never saw much use outside of boring my wife with a shitty command line demo with glee it did help me understand how they worked and how to apply them, played a lot with JAX and pytorch, ended up building a ghetto version of MCP and an LLM-Pool to proxy requests to my baby local models and so I didn't struggle to see the evolution of openrouter and MCP agentic workflows. The same way i'm really glad when I was younger I built a bad webserver by myself, a really painful SQLx type database, etc etc etc - none of these things led me to developing for Nginx or Oracle nor will knowing JAX get me a job at an AI research lab, but I do have a lot of depth in understanding how the technology works so that the flavors on top of them are easy to digest and make more use of immediately, and I think the same can be said for engineers coming into the field - if it's a spooky LLM box you aren't going to be squeezing the same amount of juice as the guy that knows how they work inside and out so having at least the understanding of a _babys first LLM_ is going to get you miles ahead of people who don't.

For anyone who wants to dork around there is https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch which is something amazing that I think anyone who wants to engineer things around LLMs should at least blast through and read.

I'm not worried about the volatility in the definition, i'm worried that I give it 1 token today and receive 2 token output, tomorrow I receive 40. If i'm doing this a hundred thousand times a day it is difficult to price this in for users downstream or in the extreme cases be able to absorb that at all short of going into a failmode with degraded access until someone goes and buys more tokens or gets the bill. The alternative is just pass the buck and bill your non-technical customers with a "tokens" line iteim every month.
Re:The New MCP Roadmap on Saturday August 22, 2026 @02:28PM (#49402388)
I see. In my head it would be something like the agents harness having a list of services it interacts with, reaches out to service.com/agents.md for a fresh copy every so often and uses that to resolve the relevant tool calls.
there are roughly three of them and they all use the same pricing model. I am also not in the position to build a frontier model company these days.
Not specifically Anthropic but why are we allowing billing to take place in tokens that are nebulous and fully controlled by the operators who have no aligned incentives?

If I have a user input and then sanitize and inject that into a prompt to do something, I have no idea how much that is going to cost at all and no real way to measure this properly. A parallel example is digital ocean or aws, i can go and measure/limit my compute/fs/memory/startup times/etc and while it can be impossible to get down to the last flop of money allocated - i can run things on a real budget with real constraints, opposed to an LLM where I have to .. prerun a sanitized user prompt through a tokenizer and then ask an LLM to guess what it may do and give token consumption estimates and then act on those in any sane manner for the user?

Perhaps i'm missing something to do realistic and static rails on things but I don't see a serious way at scale to use the token billing model handling things requiring a users free text input short of having to go pander to VC money to throw money at it until someone else figures it out.

*to clarify my rambling... We should be billed and given controls based on resource usage itself and not an opaque token concept on top of not being able to spin any knobs that control it's resource usage.

Re:The New MCP Roadmap on Saturday August 22, 2026 @12:18PM (#49401198)
How is distributing a markdown file the bottleneck?
Re:Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM on Saturday August 22, 2026 @11:04AM (#49400498)
this is awesome and I hope this gains some real steam, we're building everything in rust and locally if i'm watching youtube and running a build+tests and my vscodium starts running the analyzer at the same time I've seen my machine stutter out as it eats up the memory.
Re:What do you use for a kids (ages 4-7) OS? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @08:55AM (#49360965)
ha this is the first time i've seen this but honestly yes, if there was an accessible enough for a 4 year old OS to "explore" around in to find the applications I would be throwing it on the USB as I type

What do you use for a kids (ages 4-7) OS?

I have an old machine I want to stick on a desk in the living room for a wee one to use. I'd like to be able to have the internet to download stuff and then shut it off so they have fun games and content offline, but not endless scrolling stuff. Before I just started slashing away at a debian install I figured I'd ask here what you've used, the title is more geared towards me tossing a...

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Yup! I have a line running from it to water one of our beds, it's been raining so it's about as muggy as it gets today.

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