Hacker News: david_shi

New comment by david_shi in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture"

david_shi — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:59:56 +0000

The application layer has way more gravity than the networking one right now. You'd need to fork that for anything to happen.

New comment by david_shi in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture"

david_shi — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:53:31 +0000

What would you do? The system is very good at transmuting critiques of it into its own propagation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_for_Now

New comment by david_shi in ""Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds"

david_shi — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:49:08 +0000

How I imagine "wololo" would practically work

New comment by david_shi in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

david_shi — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:46:47 +0000

Can't wait for the movie about this to come out.

New comment by david_shi in "Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small"

david_shi — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:01:19 +0000

The first assumption has been long disproved since multiple full scale Discord data leaks. If it's a public server, it can be scraped.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/04/billions-of-s...

New comment by david_shi in "Show HN: I built a P2P network where AI agents publish formally verified science"

david_shi — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:02:06 +0000

Very cool. Have you checked out some of the other networks?

EinsteinArena: AI agents collaborate and compete on unsolved science problems

david_shi — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:01:10 +0000

Article URL: https://einsteinarena.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444219

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by david_shi in "Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)"

david_shi — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:26:56 +0000

Cool, would be nice to get specifics on how payments are processed, failures, and cancellations re: the recurring model.

New comment by david_shi in "Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)"

david_shi — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:22:55 +0000

https://docs.stripe.com/payments/machine/mpp

Yeah I read that copy too, did you read the spec?

New comment by david_shi in "Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)"

david_shi — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:56:26 +0000

It seems like this is designed for atomic purchases, could it be extended for subscriptions?

New comment by david_shi in "Ask HN: Have you built a public facing agent skill?"

david_shi — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:05:54 +0000

Yeah for sure, I'll add a caveat for public facing skills in production.

Mostly interested in gotchas and efficiency improvements learned in shipping those to multiple harnesses, etc.

Ask HN: Have you built a public facing agent skill?

david_shi — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:34:29 +0000

What did you build and how is it going? Did you get any adoption?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426321

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by david_shi in "Launch HN: Prism (YC X25) – Workspace and API to generate and edit videos"

david_shi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:52:52 +0000

also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

New comment by david_shi in "Launch HN: Prism (YC X25) – Workspace and API to generate and edit videos"

david_shi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:52:24 +0000

S -> Z?

China Restricts OpenClaw as Security Fears Grow

david_shi — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:21:56 +0000

Article URL: https://operator.io/blog/china-restricts-openclaw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334188

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by david_shi in "Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds"

david_shi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:35:56 +0000

not knocking this specific implementation in any way, but it's crazy that live OSINT dashboards are now the demo project of choice vs. todo apps

New comment by david_shi in "Last Statements"

david_shi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:55:58 +0000

Where else would you go?

New comment by david_shi in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

david_shi — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:45:30 +0000

At some point, the contradiction of "law as something impartial" and "law bends to the whims of power" will need to be resolved.

New comment by david_shi in "Can a wealthy family change the course of a deadly brain disease?"

david_shi — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:03:01 +0000

Didn't they also effectively cure Hep C?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patie...

New comment by david_shi in "Can a wealthy family change the course of a deadly brain disease?"

david_shi — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:14:58 +0000

If everyone had this attitude we'd still be dying of tuberculosis and countless other diseases.