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New ask Hacker News story: From Slop to Determinism – Shifting the Narrative Space

From Slop to Determinism – Shifting the Narrative Space 2 by pyeri | 0 comments on Hacker News. What I realized today while sipping my morning cup of chai is that a large part of the present AI hype cycle is just about the 'narrative of AI'. The LLM technology itself is just a digital tool like many others that came before it but all this chatter about 'AI is the future', 'learn it or perish', 'machines will replace humans soon', etc. keeps it in the news and creates a burger out of nothing. But folks lose their energy and sleep over this which becomes a problem. And many a benign enterprises are falsely led to believe that this technology can do wonders, it's a great disservice being done by those selling these bridges. For folks like us who are fed up of this slop narrative - instead of fighting it, it's better to try and shift the narrative towards determinism. For centuries and millennia, we have been trained to avoid and even fear fatalis...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?

Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis? 2 by argee | 1 comments on Hacker News. Today I noticed the inclusion of emojis in Craigslist's listings/categories: https://ift.tt/LqFKpcg . Now, Craigslist, as a legacy of the 1990s web, has for a long time stubbornly maintained its minimalist style, to the point where several "modern" startups have popped up to try and offer Craigslist-like services to new generations. So why this change? And what's with the timing? It's coinciding with the wanton proliferation of emojis everywhere courtesy of everyone's favorite GPT. At a time where people are beginning to feel emoji fatigue, Craigslist, of all places, has decided to put them front and center. Has Craigslist succumbed to the modern algorithmic context of competing for attention? Is this a small concession so they can largely keep their legacy look while still participating in the zeitgeist? When and with what intention was this emoji intr...
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings 37 by zkldi | 7 comments on Hacker News. Just hit this today and I'm furious. I installed the Cursor iOS app to see what it had. I've been on `Privacy Mode (Legacy)` for a long time, which is the "Do not store my code" setting. A year or so ago they marked this as "Legacy" and hid it under a "Extra options" menu. They added a new Privacy Mode which is significantly more wishy-washy about what it might store - it includes a clause of "Code may be stored for Background Agents or Other Features", so I've never touched it or wanted to enable it. pic: https://ift.tt/RWdzjco Upon installing and logging in to the iOS app, my account was changed to the softer Privacy Mode and the previous setting I was on has disappeared from all menus. I contacted support and they've said: > Really sorry about this. When you set up the mobile app, the prompt to turn on Clo...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Secure Wrapper for Coding Agents

Ask HN: Secure Wrapper for Coding Agents 2 by rjzzleep | 0 comments on Hacker News. I believe someone recently posted sort of a secure harness/wrapper for running coding agents in a secure sandbox. I can't find the project. Of course I can make my own wrapper with systemd-nspawn, kata or bspawn, but I believe I saw a decently well-maintained project just a while back. Does anyone have a suggestion or link? It's become extremely hard to find things on GitHub with all the generated projects.
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New ask Hacker News story: Build an agent first Kanban board

Build an agent first Kanban board 2 by moose6912 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I have been building an open source kanban board that serves as a way for my multiple Hermes and OpenClaw agents to communication with each other and also serve as a way to keep track of tasks. I started this project because I found myself losing track of what tasks are outstanding, done etc among my 5 Telegram bots / Hermes agents. So I build https://ift.tt/64s8fnh as a way to keep track of it. It is agent first, so you just need to register an account, create a board and then share the URL with your agent and they will take it from there. It is open source and I hope it will be useful for anyone who juggles tasks between agents. https://ift.tt/64s8fnh
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Mullvad Alternatives?

Ask HN: Mullvad Alternatives? 3 by rpastuszak | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit

Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit 7 by akarshhegde18 | 6 comments on Hacker News. I am building a product for improving developer efficiency and I am 2 months into it and have a working prototype, how do I get feedback from the right users who are in need of such a tool? What are your suggestions?
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