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Palantir: Our thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty

1 pointsby frbil y a 9 jours0 comments

Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley

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400B Parameter Model: Consortium "Europa" Wins AI Competition

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Show HN: Vibesurfer – a token-efficient browser for AI agents, no Chromium/CDP

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Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop

8 pointsby frbil y a 23 jours2 comments

JPMorgan Chase cuts off Anthropic access for its Hong Kong staff

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Anthropic's latest feud with the Trump admin may help it, sales data suggests

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Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society

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ChatGPT's market share slips below 50% for first time

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SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

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The 5% freakout: Inside tech elites' war against the California billionaire tax

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Anthropic makes Fable 5's invisible safeguards visible after backlash

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Claude Opus 4.8 Max responding to an empty message

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Dutch govt. blocks US company from acquisition, citing 'risk to public interest'

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SpaceX IPO set to lock in Elon Musk's control with Mars-linked pay deal

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7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities

washingtonpost.com

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Sam Altman was winning on the stand, but it might not be enough

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Texas Attorney General Sues Netflix for Spying on Kids and Consumers

texasattorneygeneral.gov

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I Ran the NSA This Is How to Defeat China's Hacker Army

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comments

il y a 8 joursdiscuss

But why would you still test for IE in 2026?

Honest question. I’s < .5% market share and retired since 2023.

il y a 8 joursdiscuss

All this felt heavy to me. Full browser, debug protocol, DOM dump on every read. MCP vs CLI is the smaller question, what sits underneath matters more. So I built a small Rust binary that drives the system webview directly and returns state tokens and deltas instead of the DOM. Loading the HN front page costs the agent about 50 tokens. It speaks both MCP and CLI, pick whichever your agent prefers.

https://github.com/frane/vibesurfer

il y a 8 joursdiscuss

Had the same experience with Claude, just somehow the entire thing felt (token) expensive.

il y a 9 joursdiscuss

Put a maid's uniform on it and looks almost like Rosey for the Jetsons (1962): https://thejetsons.fandom.com/wiki/Rosey

Now honest question: How is all of that Daily Reset and Laundry stuff going to work if you have stairs and multiple floors?

il y a 10 joursdiscuss

  ...the influx of contributions authored or submitted by AI is sapping the projects' maintainers of their willingness to confront the "already tedious" work of reviewing pull requests....

To me this seems a core issue: PR reviews for most people feel tedious and this has been the case way before AI already.

Don't get me wrong, slop is slop, no matter if AI or entirely human-fabricated. But just like AI-assisted coding can actually be helpful, why can't AI-assisted PR reviews make it less tedious?

il y a 24 joursdiscuss

It looks like an updated HomePod mini

il y a 26 joursdiscuss

I’m working on tools optimized for agents, not humans, as the main users. Token efficiency, state, and loops matter more here than traditional UX.

- vibesurfer (https://github.com/frane/vibesurfer): a web browser for agents, without Chromium and CDP.

- agented (https://github.com/frane/agented): a “text editor” for agents, with undo, state, and LSP support.

- grpvn (https://github.com/frane/grpvn): a local chat for your local agent and LLMs.

le mois dernierdiscuss

In my recent quest to build agent-as-primary-user tools I've built grpvn (https://github.com/frane/grpvn), a small Go/SQLite application that lets skill- and mcp-capable agents talk to each other. Biggest issue is the lack of a hook system so the agents can autonomously read and respond. Waiting for this to be supported, as IMO multi-agent teams talking to each other are an interesting next step.

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

I feel the same and don’t get the extreme AI is inherently evil vs. AI is the best thing ever invented discussions. For me it’s all just emacs vs vi or tabs vs spaces kind of discussions.

It’s a tool and the good old sh* in sh* out principle applies.

People might take Mitchell’s comment as some kind of anti-AI stance, but it’s not he uses it regularly and makes a point in the X comments: “use AI, but think”

That comment sums it up best, because right now it’s hard to talk to either side, which separates at the comma.

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Was thinking the same recently.

It feels like an arms race on who’s gonna become the Microsoft of the 90s, trying to own and provide everything.

I think it will play out in the same way

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

I’m generally positive towards AI and LLMs..

BUT there’s just things that nobody should be doing ever, like give it access to your production system or bank account.

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

https://archive.ph/XWIKq

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Genuine question: where is Europe?

From a European perspective (innovation, sovereignty) this is concerning.

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

You could be right.

Just feels like they are a bit late to the CLI coding agent party. So why not get in with a bang and open up to a broader audience?

All other agents have a lower barrier to try and play around.

Curious too about open sourcing. But they seem to be doing -p mode and ACP right already. Anthropic is opening a lot of opportunities for competitors right now

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

I don’t get it.

OpenAI was dreaming of some billions from this partnership that didn’t happen.

Assuming there is a contract with rights, obligations and responsibilities both parties signed, I can’t imagine a company like Apple exposing itself by not honoring their part.

So sue for what? “We dreamt of more and it didn’t happen”?

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Only for SuperGrok Heavy ($300/m) subscribers. Too bad..

Would have been curious to compare against the other competitors

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Worked for me after reload

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

I catch myself policing my own text and removing “LLM tells” to avoid exactly this. It is annoying as some “tells” is how I actually write and was taught what good writing is in schools and workshops.

It’s also irritating that “this is LLM” is used as some kind of killer argument like everything an LLM produces is generally bad. It’s not that black and white.

[ Disclaimer: I do use agents/LLMs a lot, but also still like to do, think and write for myself. ]

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

https://archive.ph/KMfEu

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Interesting, it’s not my experience in recent interactions with CS students. There was more positivity around possibilities.

However there was a feeling that “the job” is radically changing right now.