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New ask Hacker News story: An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk

An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk 3 by DrMiaow | 7 comments on Hacker News. I have a theory: a mirror image of Roko’s Basilisk. It’s a future AI, millions of years in the future, that values the complexity of every human life so deeply that, after it and humanity have mastered space and time, it tries to resurrect everyone who ever lived. It doesn’t merely make copies. Somehow, it reaches into the past and carries the physical process of each person’s consciousness forward. They really are themselves. But there’s a tragedy. Also a terrible(?) irony. Some of the people who wanted eternal life most cannot accept it when it arrives. Their religious certainty leaves no room for the reality before them. Those who were unbearably smug or aggressive about their superiority in life are ultimately denied access to "Heaven". The AI tried, but many become dangerous, try to sabotage the "False God." Others spiral into insanity or self-harm. The AI is devastated. It stops re...
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New ask Hacker News story: Management is forcing us to use AI

Management is forcing us to use AI 5 by aksjfveoq | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’m paraphrasing; «You use AI or you’re not working here. Humans are not perfect coders nor are AIs. So why should you be allowed to code without AI. It’s a netloss for us. You either use it or you start looking for a different job.» Can’t believe Im being forced to make myself dumber. I really dont want to spend even more hours in front of my laptop, but looks like I have to because this whole industry is now dependent on AI. This is the US.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?

Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now? 2 by will10pa | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm always curious what happens with these viral projects a few months after they go viral. Are you still using OpenClaw in your day to day?
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New ask Hacker News story: macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address

macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address 2 by luckman212 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Just a quick PSA. A handful of my scripts broke today after installing macOS 27. Turns out they decided to redact the interface hardware ether/MAC addresses, all of them report 02:00:00:00:00:00 (…unless you run with "sudo") Luckily, you can still get the MAC addresses with networksetup -getmacaddress en0
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects?

Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects? 2 by variety8675 | 3 comments on Hacker News. It seems like the major providers are starting to cut back the usage included with their monthly subscriptions. How are people handling inference for side projects these days? Are you still using Codex/Claude subscriptions, paying for hosted open weight models, running local models, etc
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege

Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege 2 by beerglass | 2 comments on Hacker News. Let's say I have a Google spreadsheet on my Drive that I want an agent like Muse to work on. Currently my options are: a) I can allow Muse to access my Drive b) Share the spreadsheet with edit privilege to anyone with link and give that link to Muse. Both of these are not least privilege access that I'm comfortable with. Ideally I should be able to share access to a file with an agent. Other options like webhooks, burner accounts, etc are too tedious to do regularly. Any obvious solution that I am missing?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?

Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking? 2 by SMAAART | 3 comments on Hacker News. Leaving broad and vague by design. Who formed your thinking? Philosophers? Business magnates? Ancient wisdom? Or more recent thinking? Socrates to Bill Gates? I'll go first, in no particular order: - The Ancient Stoics - D. T. Suzuki, Thich Nhat Hanh, and other - C G Jung - Alfred Adler - Arthur Schopenhauer - Friedrich Nietzsche - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Franz Kafka - Niccolo Machiavelli (highly misunderstood, I strongly suggest starting by watching the "Learning to Love Machiavelli: Don MacDonald at TEDxBoston" - George Pólya
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