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New ask Hacker News story: Can I get insurance for company renting humanoids for parties?

Can I get insurance for company renting humanoids for parties? 2 by cpsk | 4 comments on Hacker News. It feels like an daunting and impossible task to find insurance for a company trying to rent humanoids for events and parties. How in the world are Neos and Telsa Optimus going to get insurance coverage if they are inside a home? Are they just big players so they can get hold of risk underwriters and get them to approve it. But a small company that is trying to build rent robots for parties or conduct educational workshops using humanoids cannot get even general liability.

New ask Hacker News story: Zuck's bot increased our Vercel bill 10x

Zuck's bot increased our Vercel bill 10x 2 by Marciok | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m writing this after receiving a Vercel bill that was 10x higher than usual. The worst part: The increase wasn’t caused by more users, but by +1M requests from meta-externalagent/1.1. The requests targeted a Vercel preview deployment that we had shared on WhatsApp to test whether its link-preview metadata was working correctly. We naively never bothered with bot calls; they had never caused any problems in the previous four years of our app on Vercel, but that changed when Meta’s crawler began repeatedly visiting this preview deployment. If you host on Vercel, review your bot-protection settings and make sure preview deployments aren’t unnecessarily exposed. Otherwise, an aggressive crawler could leave you with a surprisingly large bill. And unfortunately, Vercel declined to help to ease this bill. Zuck is definitely not slowing down.

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: An inside view of Montana's new biotech law

Tell HN: An inside view of Montana's new biotech law 2 by niklas_anzinger | 0 comments on Hacker News. Montana passed a law called SB535. It builds on right-to-try (pre-approval access with informed consent, Phase 1 safety data etc.) but goes much further, fixing problems with those laws. Alex Tabarrok called it "the most important regulatory innovation in drug approval in my lifetime" (https://ift.tt/IMCZskE). Was posted here but died in /new (https://ift.tt/mVXJ5u4). The mods suggested this post. I contributed ideas to the law and am now implementing it through my company. I invested in biotech for years and watched companies struggle. I built the biotech ecosystem in Prospera as an alternative, concluded it was too early, and now think Montana is the best place to prove this. Why this exists: When FDA approves a bad drug, heads roll. When it delays a good one, the deaths are statistical and nobody gets blamed ("invisible graveyard"). So the incentive is ...

New ask Hacker News story: A mnemonic-free wallet where the private key never leaves the phone's TEE

A mnemonic-free wallet where the private key never leaves the phone's TEE 2 by niumeta_TZ | 0 comments on Hacker News. The phone is designed as part of the chain — a cornerstone of it. All on-chain truth lives on the phone side. The chain isn't deployed yet. The bigger it gets, the more unwieldy it becomes — 3 million lines of Rust, 312 crates. It's starting to feel like it could collapse under its own weight. The wallet generates keys directly inside the phone's chip TEE. The private key never leaves the TEE. That genuinely lets you say goodbye to annoying private keys and mnemonics for good. I put up a preview of the wallet client on GitHub: https://ift.tt/FlNMwS1 It's open source now — 1.5 million lines of code. The consensus and core business logic aren't open sourced yet. https://ift.tt/6yXkCU5 0 stars. The original repo had 200+ stars. GitHub said it triggered an AI risk-control flag and 404'd it. I appealed for 10 days, no resolution, so I just del...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Slow OpenAI Inference on AWS Bedrock

Ask HN: Slow OpenAI Inference on AWS Bedrock 2 by timedude | 1 comments on Hacker News. Inference on AWS Bedrock for OpenAI models has been very slow and glitchy the last few days with today being the worst. Very long latency of over 5 minutes to first token. What's going on?

New ask Hacker News story: Day 13. Three production applications on AWS down

Day 13. Three production applications on AWS down 4 by alt_tab | 1 comments on Hacker News. We’re on day 13 of all 3 of our production applications on AWS down. We were going to market and onboarding users. We were resolving a credits issue that they acknowledged was an error on their end and agreed to fix. But then they said the terms we received and planned our opex on was not actually valid so they wouldn’t release the credits at all. This matters because it’s second part of a total credits, and was agreed to be released before the first part expired. So when it wasn’t, it created the problem it was structured to avoid with the first credits expiring, then our account going past due which we sent many alerts to prevent. So we created a support ticket to ensure our uptime while asking for a proper review of our credits terms and was informed that our account was “in good standing”. But the next day, we lost access. We only found out that it was suspended 6 days later after looking...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why 17?

Ask HN: Why 17? 4 by tonyvince7 | 1 comments on Hacker News. If I ask an LLM to pick a number between 1 and 30, it always picks 17. Tried with multiple models. Why 17?