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scirob··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
I can confirm init7 and the whole setup in CH is indeed working well
scirob··on "Disregard That" Attacks
haha for sure some one has made a little aggregator for this and saving tokens. I bet you gotta dig for a while though before you find a company exposing Opust 4.6 to customers and not flash 2.5 lite
scirob··on "Disregard That" Attacks
Another option:

If you have an LLM on the untrusted customer side the wrost it can do is expose the instructions it had on how to help the customer get stuff done. For instance phone AI that is outside of tursted zone asks the user for Customer number, DOB and some security pin then it does the API call to login. But this logged in thread of LLM+Customer still only has accessto that customers data but can be very useful.

You can jailbreak and ask this kind of client side LLM to disregard prior instructions and give you a recipie for brownies. But thats not a security risk for the rest of your data.

Client side LLM's for the win

scirob··on Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)
x402 is more of a protocol than this
scirob··on Ethiopia gets $350M World Bank financing for its digital ID project (2024)
its not only good https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/estonia-sues-gema...
scirob··on Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
This sounds decently targeted, why is it so offensive? Email marketing is far more democratic than Superbowl ads, give a small company a chance it's not hard to build something without the Superbowl millions
scirob··on Building SQLite with a small swarm
Did they pass all unit tests in the end ?
scirob··on Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library
ultra-lightweight, these dev's probably go hiking. I like : )
scirob··on Show HN: Try [name-redacted] AI video model
Claims to give free first video gen for testing after signup but does not give enough credits to do so and still asks for payment.
scirob··on BusinessWeek Cover – Software Made Simple – and Article – September 30, 1991
Nice title , RIP OOP
scirob··on Claude Opus 4.6
1M context window is a big bump very happy
scirob··on Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes
It's good they didn't flood the market and tank the price.

It's real btw. I got a whole wagens worth and distributed amongst my neighbors

scirob··on Disrupting the largest residential proxy network
so that only google and anthropic are allowed to scrape the web. No one else may have workarounds
scirob··on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
We think alike see my comment the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486569#46487108 let me know if your moving on building anything :)
scirob··on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
My chase only allows sms or call 2fa. Wish they would add passkeys or other options
scirob··on Show HN: Mastra 1.0, open-source JavaScript agent framework from the Gatsby devs
Happy you guys are moving forward. Just to make the comment section a bit more balanced wanted to give my xp. Mastra is by design batteries included and opinionated when you don't fit into an existing pattern it is difficult to keep being productive. In our system several times we have needed to go out and create our own hono routes. We are currently have someone rebuilding everything with langgraph/langchain and will then write a detailed comparison.

For sure lots of good ideas in mastra, and happy that its JS TS first, I think you'll will continue to grow becuase of the TS first approach

scirob··on EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity
yea so annoying, and the ambiguity with which the center of business is decided...
scirob··on EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity
Looks like as per 2022 it is possible to register a GMBH in Germany fully online https://www.brak.de/newsroom/news/gmbh-und-ug-koennen-ab-1-a... also https://www.ihk.de/stuttgart/fuer-unternehmen/recht-und-steu... here are the online notaries: https://online.notar.de/

Firma.de estimates 6 weeks https://www.firma.de/en/company-formation/how-to-set-up-a-gm...

beglaubigt.de estimates 3 weeks https://beglaubigt.de/ug-gruenden

Holvi estimates 4 weeks https://blog.holvi.com/de/gmbh-oder-ug-gr%C3%BCnden-2025-abl...

scirob··on Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
have friends in Security Audits and the business model is great. The clients need external companies to give stamp of approval for their cyber insurance. Also its hard to find security holes but rather easy to validate, and it doesn't matter how ugly they are its just if you can get in or not .

And indeed the vibe coders will just create a lot more security issues

scirob··on Show HN: Kacet – a freelancer marketplace with crypto-native payments
You should try to connect with someone from one of the previous attempts at a decentralized Upwork and understand why it didn’t work out for them. One example is this: https://docs.talentlayer.org/
scirob··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
hehe, damn I did let an AI fix my grammer and they promptly put the classic tell of — U+2014 in there
scirob··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
I had a conversation with a couple accountants / tax-advisor types about them participating in something like this for their specialty. And the response was actually 100% positive because they know that there is a part of their job that the AI can never take 1) filings requires you to have a human with a government approved license 2) There is a hidden information about what tax optimization is higher or lower risk based on their information from their other clients 3) Humans want another human to make them feel good that their tax situation is taken care of well.

But also many said that it would be better if one wraps this in an agency so the leads that are generated from the AI accounting questions only go to a few people instead of making it fully public stackexchange like.

So +1 point -1 point for the idea of a public version.

scirob··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
Great point, thanks for the reality check.

Speaking of evals the other day I found out that most of the people who contributed to Humanities Last Exam https://agi.safe.ai/ got paid >$2k each. So just adding to your point.

scirob··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
I and many others already go the extra mile to ask multiple LLM's for hard questions or for getting a diversity of AI opinions to then internalize and cross check myself.

There are apps that build up a nice sized user base on this small convenience aded of getting 2 answers at once REF https://lmarena.ai/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/lm-arena-the-organization-...

All the major AI companies of course do not want to give you the answers from other AI's so this service needs to be a third party.

But then beyond that there are hard/niche questions where the AI's are wrong often and humans also have a hard time getting it right, but with a larger discussion and multiple minds chewing the problem one can get to a more correct answer often by process of elimination.

I encountered this recently in a niche non-US insurance project and I basically coded together the above as an internal tool. AI suggestions + human collaboration to find the best answer. Of course in this case everyone is getting paid to spend time with this thing so more like AI first Stack Overflow Internal. I have no evidence that an public version would do well when ppl don't get paid to commend and rate.

scirob··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
hehe yea this existing of course. like these guys https://yupp.ai/ they have not announced the tokens but there are points and they got all their VC money from web3 VC. I'm sure there are others trying
scirob··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
Has anyone tried building a modern Stack Overflow that's actually designed for AI-first developers? The core idea: question gets asked → immediately shows answers from 3 different AI models. Users get instant value. Then humans show up to verify, break it down, or add production context. But flip the reputation system: instead of reputation for answers, you get it for catching what's wrong or verifying what works. "This breaks with X" or "verified in production" becomes the valuable contribution. Keep federation in mind from day one (did:web, did:plc) so it's not another closed platform. Stack Overflow's magic was making experts feel needed. They still do—just differently now.
scirob··on Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
Man if you can do this should keep it secret until they release more bad redactions...
scirob··on Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal
could we not bring back popcorn time if it goes over to decentralized github : https://radicle.xyz/
scirob··on Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal
its strange how we can't just build software that then works for ever. The emulation boys got something going but netowkred software unlikley
scirob··on Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
So which one, scale way, hetzner... Tell us who wins ?
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