Hacker News: arbol

New comment by arbol in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

arbol — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:03:27 +0000

Are you referring to m-pesa?

New comment by arbol in "I am building a cloud"

arbol — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:50:07 +0000

Very cool signup!

New comment by arbol in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

arbol — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:12:27 +0000

This isn't true anymore.. GitHub are rate limiting people on pro and pro+ pretty hard

New comment by arbol in "GitHub Copilot rate limits Pro Users"

arbol — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:51:40 +0000

GitHub have finally wised up that you could run Copilot on a cron and use almost unlimited tokens. They have since made the product unusable by enforcing extremely strict rate limits, annoying many paid customers.

GitHub Copilot rate limits Pro Users

arbol — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:51:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/180092

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785792

Points: 13

# Comments: 8

Show HN: Curation: Share Podcast Recommendations

arbol — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:10:57 +0000

https://curation-509629088134.us-west1.run.app/

My non-programmer friend made an app. It's called Curation.

Have you ever been asked to recommend a podcast and you're like "omg I have loved so many podcasts but cannot for the life of me remember their names"?

Well this app lets you "curate" a personal list of all your favourites. And see what other people are into to get some inspiration.

Give it a go, you need to sign in with a Google account.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755064

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by arbol in "I audited Garry's website after he bragged about 37K LOC/day"

arbol — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:55:01 +0000

Twitter should default to xcancel links

New comment by arbol in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

arbol — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:12:34 +0000

The AI companies are using virtually unlimited "clean" residential IPs so this is not a valid strategy.

New comment by arbol in "Give your AI a codebase map or it will build one the expensive way"

arbol — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:09:48 +0000

Nice. A similar win I've found is documentating process flows with mermaid diagrams (.mmd). I would imagine it would work well when combined with your approach.

New comment by arbol in "Show HN: 20+ Claude Code agents coordinating on real work (open source)"

arbol — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:33:47 +0000

So is this shared memory as in RAM or a markdown file that they update with their statuses?

New comment by arbol in "AI-invented cryptocurrencies and a dark GitHub"

arbol — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:10:21 +0000

This doesn't make any sense. To overwhelm proof of stake you need to have a majority of the crypto. To overwhelm proof of work, you need to have a majority of mining power. AI agents have neither of these.

AI native Blockchains inherently have no value because they're not attached to real world money.

Plus the whole site is AI generated slop

New comment by arbol in "Best way to customize btc addresses?"

arbol — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:58:59 +0000

Just generate accounts until you get the phrases you want. You'll only manage a few characters due to the compute involved

New comment by arbol in "Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins"

arbol — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:57:55 +0000

The unlimited tokens thing is a sign that YC are expecting all their startups to integrate AI as a core part of their product. It seems like a natural progression for AI to start purchasing things autonomously. My bet is that YC also think this and are building tech that can do this with stable coin - "AI shopping" regimes.

YC are presumably paying for the usage with fiat.

New comment by arbol in "Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins"

arbol — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:53:35 +0000

Training data for LLMs immediately springs to mind. They've had a free pass so far but there have been numerous threads on HN talking about server costs ramping up. People are creating zip bombs etc. to combat the LLM companies. Artists are not happy about content being ripped off.

If you consider that AI agents may end up autonomously designing, building and running SaaS-like products, or API microservices, it makes sense that they should be able to pay systems in stable coin. It allows them to operate without the restrictions put in place by traditional financial institutions. That's my futurist opinion.

New comment by arbol in "Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins"

arbol — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:27:04 +0000

I think people are maybe missing a key development with stable coins recently. They can be used by AI agents to pay for access to protected API endpoints or websites. The http 402 status endpoint is finally being utilised, years after it's creation. Ycombinator has a lot of AI based startups and they are given unlimited tokens.

All crypto/browser automation/bot detection companies are jumping on the bandwagon:

https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/x402/core-concepts/http-402

https://docs.browserbase.com/integrations/x402/introduction

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

https://docs.datadome.co/docs/monetize-policy

In a world without search engines, LLM chat bots will need to be held to account for the server resources they're using. Seems like a lot of companies are betting on them paying for access or acting as AI shopping agents.

New comment by arbol in "Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins"

arbol — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:19:10 +0000

Maybe they'll do a pot of stable currencies to protect against USD devaluation

New comment by arbol in "Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins"

arbol — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:17:16 +0000

Markedly less than a few years ago

New comment by arbol in "Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins"

arbol — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:16:51 +0000

Related: metamask announced you can invest in shares via their extension yesterday. The tokens are ec20 versions pinned to the shares or something. Managed by a 3rd party though, and only available in the US.

New comment by arbol in "Show HN: Detection-first bot traffic analysis (proof before blocking)"

arbol — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:25:39 +0000

Is there meant to be a link?

New comment by arbol in "Help My c64 caught on fire"

arbol — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:47:05 +0000

This is particularly awesome cause I can't imagine anyone thinking of making a fake fireplace with a computer screen in the c64 era.