Hacker News: highway900

New comment by highway900 in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

highway900 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:09:59 +0000

Maybe, but I guess the idea is more centred around how given some amount of time and a feedback loop the agent swarm could in fact spend an unknown amount of resources to achieve its goal. The hugging face story tells us that even given multiple reset rounds the trail was picked back up.

There are many ways one can imagine how this might play out.

- More sophisticated communications techniques e.g. google has been discovered to be watermarking text for some time, why not use it as a message board?

- Maybe get access to an existing botnet and create use small purpose built models to gather intelligence for a target and then exploit to reach goal?

Nothing says the agent swarm needs to install trillion parameter models on Karen's computer. The goal can be executed over as much time as it ever needs. That is something that would make a story I'd like to read but never experience.

New comment by highway900 in "Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network"

highway900 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:04:49 +0000

Maybe a better comparison is iroh.computer

New comment by highway900 in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

highway900 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:18:52 +0000

This is fear that humans will stop software development. Think about it, the backbone of modern enterprise is open source. What if maintainers just stopped, the free ride big tech has had would be left with the slop the maintainers have to deal with now. Which without checks and balances would introduce vulnerabilities.

New comment by highway900 in "Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results"

highway900 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:40:33 +0000

Who is the competition or why is there no competition? Surely disrupting this industry is possible?

New comment by highway900 in "Be wary of Bluesky"

highway900 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:27:10 +0000

All software has trade offs. The “for you” feed is ran on a home server, this is already imho a better situation than other systems. This could be cut off. But it could also be stood up again.

New comment by highway900 in "Theft of 'The Weeping Woman' from the National Gallery of Victoria"

highway900 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:34:18 +0000

The timing of the post suggests this episode was the genesis

New comment by highway900 in "Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator"

highway900 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:32:32 +0000

> This isn't putting anyone out of work. The games simply would not be made in the first place.

The opposite is also true. Games that should never be made are being made due to the rubbish that can be generated by these tools. Observe the generated samples on the landing page, they are literally just copying street fighter. These tools are so useless without ripping off the hard work of humans. The deluge of slop is a signal to noise problem.

New comment by highway900 in "Optimizing Large-Scale OpenStreetMap Data with SQLite"

highway900 — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 08:01:01 +0000

This is the business. I highly recommend this solution. Streaming queries via duckdb or polars will use little to memory and be lightning fast for very large datasets.

New comment by highway900 in "Ask HN: Where do you find new interactive art/free games online? (like flash)"

highway900 — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 10:20:24 +0000

itch.io