Y’all are welcome to offer a counterpoint, and yet…

Minsky, while a significant contributor to science and technology, is also a known participant in Epstein sex trafficking.

Him and a few other men at MIT are responsible for the long relationship between the university and the notorious child sex trafficker.

I’m good with the open source options.

OpenCode and Pi agent are much more customizable than the proprietary options will ever be.

Like most, I’d much rather my food not be spiked at all.

HN is a great place to share projects like these. So much to learn from each other. Thanks for sharing yours!

I do know that coffee comes from East Africa / Ethiopia, and that there are many varieties there due to this.

Heirloom varieties tend to be more “wild”. Farmers growing in regions outside of Ethiopia tend to select stable varieties to match the region.

I don’t know about the frost protection from deep canyons, but it makes sense.

I opened a bag of freshly roasted heirloom beans from Jimma, Ethiopia this morning, and they were indeed more tart and fruity than the Colombian variety I had earlier in the week. The discussion tracked with my experience, at least.

https://rauno.ai/c/rtGafWQoU9

Similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507666 …much to learn from each other, I think.

I am working on a similar hobby project, but for local models and human participation: https://github.com/ch4bes/roundtable

Edit: Asked “what year is it” which gets mixed result if using an LLM without tools.

Results were accurate: https://rauno.ai/c/7nEx8PAVMD

Compared to: https://opper.ai/ai-roundtable/questions/what-year-is-it-7a0...

See Mario’s post about the acquisition: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-04-08-ive-sold-out/

So far looking good for Pi. Website has been thoroughly polished in the last week or so.

Anthropomorphism is already out of hand in the corporate AI world.

I think the space could use less BS, not more.

Sure, a couple token public billionaires make a big stink about how they are “moving”, while still maintaining homes and businesses in California. This is for the narrative, with the added bonus of tax fraud that they can and will get away with.