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OG_BME··on Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal
Thank you for sharing this!
OG_BME··on How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
LLM written code is disallowed by the rust project policy

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

OG_BME··on Prisma's pgbouncer=true on Supabase made every query 4 round-trips (postmortem)
Completely AI written unfortunately
OG_BME··on Gemini 3.8 Flash
What did it say?
OG_BME··on Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map
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

OG_BME··on A new study of a bot running a store finds it is friendly but not very smart
Seems like a harness engineering problem
OG_BME··on Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
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.

OG_BME··on Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
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.
OG_BME··on Show HN: Share and explore custom Claude Code status lines
I like the ticker line example
OG_BME··on X402, a static blog monetization excercise
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.

OG_BME··on X402, a static blog monetization excercise
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.
OG_BME··on X402, a static blog monetization excercise
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/

OG_BME··on X402, a static blog monetization excercise
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/

OG_BME··on I am retiring from tech to live offline
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.

OG_BME··on Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
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?
OG_BME··on [dead]
How do we know this website is legit? I won't be convinced until it's linked from them or their GitHub
OG_BME··on I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me
Pangram, the best AI-detector I know of, flagged this as 100% AI generated.

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

OG_BME··on A $6B Nuclear U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier 'Sunk' by $100M Diesel 'AIP' Sub
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.

OG_BME··on Source code for the X recommendation algorithm
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.

OG_BME··on Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos
Just emailed you! Thanks.
OG_BME··on Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos
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!

OG_BME··on Search all text in New York City
Is there an API? I'd love to make a music video like the one in https://pudding.cool/2025/07/street-view/
OG_BME··on More Than Half of Teens Surveyed Use AI for Companionship
> 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.

OG_BME··on I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
I recently migrated to Linkwarden [0] from Pocket, and have been fairly happy with the decision. I haven't tried Wallabag, which is mentioned in the article.

Linkwarden is open source and self-hostable.

I wrote a python package [1] to ease the migration of Pocket exports to Linkwarden.

[0] https://linkwarden.app/

[1] https://github.com/fmhall/pocket2linkwarden

OG_BME··on Getting Started Strudel
Just as they were getting really popular on Twitter and X - it's such a shame. I like the idea of these alternative platforms, I'm saddened that this will likely make any kind of grassroots developer efforts DOA
OG_BME··on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
I recently migrated to Linkwarden [0] from Pocket, and have been happy with the decision.

Linkwarden is open source and self-hostable.

I wrote a python package [1] to ease the migration of Pocket exports to Linkwarden.

[0] https://linkwarden.app/

[1] https://github.com/fmhall/pocket2linkwarden

OG_BME··on Chess is taking over the online video game streaming world and it will change
Chess-related software is certainly booming as well. My favorite recent addition is OpeningTree[0], a platform that lets you input anyone's Lichess or chess.com username and load a tree of their opening moves. I play in the Lichess4545[1] league and its an incredible tool.

My contributions to the chess community are much smaller. I wrote u/relevant_post_bot[2] for /r/anarchychess and stylochess[3] in an attempt to solve the identity of mysterious super grandmasters[4].

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

[1] https://www.lichess4545.com/team4545/

[2] https://github.com/fmhall/relevant-post-bot

[3] https://github.com/fmhall/stylochess

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/gqlqlz/the_identity_...

OG_BME··on Did fish sauce in Vietnam come from ancient Rome via the Silk Road?
The legion was lost in Teutoburg Forest

Quintili Vare, legiones redde! (Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!)

OG_BME··on Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-19 data
I, and I imagine many others, immediately jumped to the conclusion that the data in question was more concrete, like confirmed cases or ICU counts. It goes to show how easily twists can be put on any story to serve a larger purpose
OG_BME··on New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics
Well said, I'm a biomedical engineer and even the cutting edge of research in this field is crushingly far from finding the capital T Truth of biology.
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