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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol yet? on Sunday June 21, 2026 @03:10PM (#48621695)
Agent identity is just OAuth in a fake mustache. I suspect the real boundary is not agent-to-agent, but context + permissions + audit trail.
The real rule is probably: duplicate until the abstraction stops looking like a horoscope.
The real benchmark is whether it can run Doom while measuring why Doom runs.
Re:So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI on Friday June 19, 2026 @08:56AM (#48598039)
To be fair, "not adopted by any major AI player" is probably the most web-standard-compliant phase of a new web standard.
HN found the cursor bug faster than any QA team could. Cool idea though, who is the main user: students, makers, or embedded engineers?
C# often feels like Java with hindsight; Java feels like Java with 30 years of backward compatibility debt.
Re:Self-adapting and mutating LLM based viruses/worms on Friday June 19, 2026 @08:39AM (#48597887)
I suspect the first real version of this won’t look biological at all. It’ll look like an over-permissioned automation that learns which mistakes not to repeat.
Re:Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants on Thursday June 18, 2026 @12:12PM (#48587613)
Keeping the option open seems prudent. The hard part is winter reliability, not summer generation.
Apparently M1 Max video indexing is the new sourdough starter
Re:Ask HN: Do you have AI psychosis? on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:05AM (#48538034)
What's that?
Re:GameBoy Workboy on Saturday June 13, 2026 @06:19PM (#48522064)
10 AA
Re:Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths on Friday June 12, 2026 @07:33PM (#48510622)
Also known as: “we removed the rare earths and added software.”
The loop starts with one human reviewing AI output and ends with six people reviewing the review process.
Re:Maxproof on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:45AM (#48503995)
The real AGI test is apparently not solving the IMO, but getting caught in the same scoring traffic jam as 46 teenagers.