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New ask Hacker News story: Is Trusttunnel easy for people to use?

Is Trusttunnel easy for people to use? 2 by AnonyMD | 0 comments on Hacker News. I tried setting up Trusttunnel and thought it worked fine as a VPN. However, I'd like to know what other people think.

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Russians may soon lose access to the global internet

Tell HN: Russians may soon lose access to the global internet 8 by taminka | 3 comments on Hacker News. internet censorship has been going on for a while here and most people have adopted xray and other vpn solutions in response however, ISPs have begun rolling out white list (essentially an allow list of like a hundred websites) blocks, with mobile internet being essentially completely gone in many places, next step is white list blocks on home broadband ISPs, which has already started happening these are extremely difficult if not impossible to bypass, with currently working solutions relying on being deployed to domestic cloud providers' whitelisted subnets however, authorities have already been started cracking down on this, and with KYC requirements for those VPSs, these solutions are likely to soon vanish too (running a VPN service carries jail time with it) there are some other fringe solutions, like encoding TCP traffic into a video signal, and streaming it over a call v...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is using AI tooling for a PhD literature review dishonest?

Ask HN: Is using AI tooling for a PhD literature review dishonest? 5 by latand6 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm a PhD student in structural engineering. My dissertation topic is about using LLM agents in automating FEA calculations on common Ukrainian software that companies use. I'm writing my literature review now and I've vibecoded a personal local dashboard that helps me manage the literature review process. I use LLM agents to fill up the LaTeX template (to automate formatting, also you can use IDE to view diffs) in github repo. Then I run ChatGPT Pro to collect all relevant papers (and how) to my topic. Then I collect the ones available online, where the PDFs are available. I have a special structure of folders with plain files like markdown and JSON. The idea of the dashboard is the following: I run the Codex through a web chat to identify the relevant quotes — relevant for my dissertation topic — and how they are relevant, it combines them into a number of claim...

New ask Hacker News story: LLMs learn what programmers create, not how programmers work

LLMs learn what programmers create, not how programmers work 3 by noemit | 0 comments on Hacker News. I ran an experiment to see if CLI actually was the most intuitive format for tool calling. (As claimed by a ex-Manus AI Backend Engineer) I gave my model random scenarios and a single tool "run" - i told it that it worked like a CLI. I told it to guess commands. it guessed great commands, but it formatted it always with a colon up front, like :help :browser :search :curl It was trained on how terminals look, not what you actually type (you don't type the ":") I have since updated my code in my agent tool to stop fighting against this intuition. LLMs they learn what commands look like in documentation/artifacts, not what the human actually typed on the keyboard. Seems so obvious. This is why you have to test your LLM and see how it naturally works, so you don't have to fight it with your system prompt. This is Kimi K2.5 Btw.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy?

Ask HN: Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy? 5 by jawerty | 2 comments on Hacker News. I read on Reddit about a podcast where Karpathy described how he went from writing 80% of his own code to 0%, being in a constant state of “AI psychosis” because the possibilities feel infinite. I’ve personally found that my workflow has become very “opportunistic”—I feel like I can do anything with AI, so I try everything. That might be good…or bad. I’d be curious to see what HN has to say, or whether anyone else has experienced something similar. Here’s the Reddit post for context: https://ift.tt/ja9qVoZ Anyone also feeling this way?? If not psychosis which may be an exaggeration then feeling more stressed, frazzled, whatever.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How much are you spending on AI coding at work?

Ask HN: How much are you spending on AI coding at work? 3 by habosa | 1 comments on Hacker News. Jensen Huang recently said that he thinks an engineer who makes $500k should spend at least $250k a year on “tokens” which is an astounding figure. I personally don’t know how I could spend that much if I tried. Obviously he has a huge financial incentive to convince people that $250k per engineer is reasonable, but it got me thinking that it’s time for a survey. How much are you and your coworkers spending on AI coding tools at work? I’m talking about Cursor, Claude Code, etc. Not all AI-powered SaaS, just the stuff that’s metered by token.