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Re:Show HN: Aulico, my free tradingview alternative on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:18AM (#50339087)
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=aulico

Based on the headlines alone, it looks like it's had several pivots over the last year. Aulico used to be for on chain trading? or an AI for trading?

They could at least show the prompt?
Re:Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:34AM (#50101295)
Really cool. The first bird I hit was from someone in Pakistan:

> I went outside for the first time since suffering a panic attack last time I went out.

… from Pakistan. A good reminder that some folks have it harder than others.

Re:Creating a Garmin "MCP" on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:31AM (#50101276)
The approach is more agent skills + a CLI that hits publicly available APIs than an MCP, but still cool! I would love to see the code?
Re:LG strongly denies TV spying claims on Saturday September 12, 2026 @12:33PM (#49674152)
Agreed. I leave my tv disconnected from the internet, and connect my Apple TV instead… the default UX on most tvs is so much slower and add-riddled than Apple’s
Re:How to organize Claude Code for product work on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @03:57PM (#49263613)
> I didn’t design this system. I arrived at it, mostly by getting it wrong first.

"It's not this, it's that" is a classic AI generated framing tool. If it's not written by AI, it certainly appears to have been influenced by AI-based writing

*Antigravity CLI, not “Anti”
Couldn’t this effect be classic cause vs correlation?

Perhaps someone who has a consistent schedule is hypothetically more likely to make healthier choices on average?

Anthropic released their PPTX skill[0] a while ago, the relies a bit on python and pptxgenjs, depending on the usecase:

> Read/analyze content....python -m markitdown presentation.pptx > Edit or create from template....Read editing.md > Create from scratch...Read pptxgenjs.md

[0] https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/pptx/S...

Re:Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books? on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @07:50AM (#48569050)
Agreed. There’s also something about “time under consideration.” The relatively slow pace of reading the book opens the door to personal insight that a summary hides. The words themselves might be important, but I’ve found the additional minutes of a book is critical for me to fully apply the concepts to my life.
> what's the desired outcome here?

I know agencies get paid to manage other business's instagram accounts, and want ways to post/comment/engage/etc with multiple business's accounts at once. You'd still have a human driving/scheduling/approving the activity, but you wouldn't have to jump between so many hoops to do so.

Can someone help me understand how its "confidential" if they blog about it? Perhaps they simply mean the details of the S-1 are confidential for now?
Re:I’ve joined Anthropic on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @11:18AM (#48194502)
Agreed! OpenAI even bought TBPN [1], who many have equated to ESPN for business. I think that even if Karpathy didn't add any new ideas to Anthropic (unlikely), adding him to the team is an interesting message to give to the market

[1] https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-tbpn/

Honestly at $500 I still want one. I’d love to see the design open sourced!
Why? What do you mean by “bunk?” Do you have any examples you can point to?
Re:Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better on Friday May 15, 2026 @02:13PM (#48151892)
Looks like the top downloaded book yesterday[0] was Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs by Gillette and Hill.[1] Beat out Moby Dick, Count of Monte Cristo, Frankenstien, Romeo and Juliet, and others.

> 23644 downloads in the last 30 days.

I wonder if this is bot behavior? 23k downloads feels like a lot?

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top [1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24855

Yeah I totally agree with this list. In contrast, Coros had a pretty nonchalant response to their security issues last year. Attackers could:

> Hijacking the vicitim’s COROS account and accessing all data

> – Eavesdropping sensitive data, e.g. notifications

> – Manipulating the device configuration

> – Factory resetting the device

> – Crashing the device

> – Interrupting a running activity and forcing the recorded data to be lost [0]

The security firm disclosed the vulnerability to Coros in Mar 2025. They planned to fix it by the end of 2025, and didn’t address it until the security firm publicly released the finding.

[0]:https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/06/coros-confirms-substanti...

Hey OP, would love to know more about your thoughts on Garmin you reference at the bottom? Why would they be any better/worse than Coros?

> *= I do not like Garmin, I think they're a fraudulent company systematically breaching consumer rights and I'm looking for alternatives. Already converted multiple people to Coros.

I was using the term as you used in your comment. I believe the official term is "Activation" however:

> Activation: When a task matches a skill’s description, the agent reads the full SKILL.md instructions into context.[1]

> Full instructions load only when a task calls for them, so agents can keep many skills on hand with only a small context footprint.

[1]: https://agentskills.io/home#how-do-agent-skills-work

The metadata is loaded by the harness, but the LLM still needs to choose to load the rest of the skill, no?
The example model in the documentation is 4o-mini, you might want to update that to a more recent model.

As an aside, 4o-mini came out months before agent skills were released… I’m curious how it performs with choosing to load skills in the first place?

Re:AI Product Graveyard on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @11:01AM (#48023475)
I recently tried to sign up for a new domain with a .ai namespace. I tried around 50 names. All of them were not only taken, but seemingly have a landing page with varying degrees of functionality described.

Try it - type a word into your browser with .ai and you’ll see

Re:How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @09:07AM (#48022054)
For those unfamiliar with WebRTC, the Pion FAQ page has a good description:

> WebRTC is a standardized protocol for P2P communication. It allows two peers to exchange media and data. It is encrypted by default, and handles connectivity establishment in many different network conditions. It is supported in browsers, and has multiple out of browser implementations.[0]

[0]: https://github.com/pion/webrtc/wiki/FAQ#what-is-webrtc

Re:Agent Skills on Monday May 04, 2026 @10:54PM (#48017569)
This is like creating a React framework called ReactJS to compete with NextJS
I’m be been using the publishing year on Spotify to determine whether or not a song is AI generated, or not.

Anything before 2023 is most certainly from a human

Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @04:29PM (#47940248)
So true! This quote from the blog post really hit me:

> Since then, I've opened GitHub every single day. Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years. Over half my life. A handful of exceptions in there (I'd love to see the data), but I can't imagine more than a week per year

How could you not feel this way about a tool you willingly use this much? Perhaps if your employer is forcing you to use it, its different. But maintaining OSS? that's a labor of love. How could you not get emotional?

Re:I'm Coding by Hand on Friday April 17, 2026 @08:18PM (#47811997)
Whoa, I didn’t know such an thing existed. What emulator do you use?

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