If you have a billion users and 90% + are freeloaders, you need social media style ads to support growth, which no one likes.

Plus they are all out of data training sets, they are buying zombie companies for their data.

There are dozens of distillated clones, which are getting better every release.

The only moat is expensive data centre builds with on-loan Nvidia inference and the Chinese embargo fears.

Good luck out there.

He is still in China living with his girlfriend.

Miami, Florida – A 17-count indictment was unsealed in federal court in Miami, Florida charging Paul E. Vernon, 48, the founder, operator, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Project Investors Inc., doing business as Cryptsy

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/ceo-major-online-crypto...

Who wants to build another ecosystem and support it? Exactly...

Most likely candidates would be Python or Rust (WASM).

Let the downvotes begin!

My name is Martin the last human organic writer on Earth. I am better than everyone else; my citations in my 4-paragraph article say so.

What happens when all the good names are taken from the periodic table of elements?

I have registered calcium, helium, and californium for my California-based LLM.

Silicon Valley Clowns...

But it would have been easier to relocate to the border in Tahoe than fill out mountains of paperwork; he lives on an estate in a Maui bunker anyway, not spoilt for housing options...

Not very good with building technology; he lost 80 billion on a nonexistent metaverse fail. Is that now a tax loss?

Art vs. minimalism in design

Icons are today's form of hieroglyphs for communication?

Home Trending Hacker News Hits Archive Stats Tags Links

https://medium.com/@vektormemory/the-si-wealth-transfer-is-b...

Essentially another layer and commodity that users will pay more for, as humans value speed and volume over authenticity.

Same reason almost no one writes with pens or typewriters any longer, as they are niche artifacts.

Can't wait for the open-source release of Google on GitHub.

Created a long rant with some solutions and free tool Vorwatch: https://vektormemory.com/opensource

Unpaywalled article: https://medium.com/@vektormemory/bots-lots-of-them-5a1e35be2...

I always wanted to build a mini CM-2 supercomputer with the red lights.

https://www.britannica.com/technology/supercomputer

I started something similar as a meme game, but I'm just too busy to keep working on it: Data centre slumlord - https://binary-mirror.itch.io/data-centre-slumlord

OK, I'm jealous... Lol

Access is currently limited. We'll contact you if early access becomes available.

Your talking about androids...

Replicant Nexus 6: a basic pleasure model intended for military personnel.

I see where this is going, Silicon Valley nerds. Lol

AI advising how human meat proxies can survive in an AGI-slop world:

1) Lock down your own stack (1–3 days) Task: Harden your personal and business infrastructure against agentic attacks. Why now: Agents are becoming superhuman at breaking in/out of systems; the first victims are poorly secured devs/founders.

Do this:

Enforce passkeys + hardware 2FA everywhere; rotate secrets; use short‑lived credentials.

Isolate dev/stage/prod; least‑privilege API keys; audit MCP/tools your agents can call.

Add immutable logs and approval gates for any agent action that touches money, data exports, or production.

Profit link: You avoid catastrophic loss and can credibly sell “agent‑safe” setups to others.

2) Turn one expensive workflow into a measured ROI agent (1–2 weeks) Task: Pick a single, costly, repetitive process (yours or a client’s) and instrument it end‑to‑end before automating.

Why now: Buyers pay for calculable ROI, not “AI magic.” Vertical, single‑workflow agents are the most bankable in 2026.

Do this:

Map steps, baseline hours/$ lost (e.g., slow lead reply, invoice chasing, support triage).

Build the smallest agent that moves the metric (Make/n8n + LLM is enough).

Run on real data 2–4 weeks; measure bookings/sales/hours saved; only then scale or productize.

Profit link: Immediate time‑to‑cash via retained hours or extra sales; becomes a repeatable offer.

3) Specialize in a vertical where you can speak the business language (2–6 weeks) Task: Choose one industry with expensive back‑office pain (law contracts, medical billing, insurance claims, freight exceptions, trades scheduling).

Why now: Horizontal “AI for everyone” is crowded; vertical agents with clear ROI win.

Do this:

Shadow 3–5 operators; document their workflow, compliance constraints, and failure modes.

Build a narrow agent that owns one sub‑process end‑to‑end with approvals.

Price on value (e.g., % of recovered revenue or fixed fee per processed claim).

Profit link: Higher pricing power, stickier contracts, and easier referrals inside a niche.

4) Add AI security as a core service (4–8 weeks) Task: Learn and offer prompt‑injection defense, LLM/agent red‑teaming, MCP/tool security, and AI supply‑chain checks.

Why now: 78% of cybersecurity jobs now require AI skills; firms need people who can direct, constrain, and verify agent work.

Do this:

Study OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, MITRE ATLAS; practice with PyRIT/Garak/Lakera.

Add tool‑invocation audits, skill provenance checks, and least‑privilege patterns to your agents.

Package a “safe agent deployment” audit + hardening retainer.

Profit link: You become the person who lets companies adopt agents without getting pwned—high demand, low supply.

5) Build a verification layer: human‑in‑the‑loop control planes (6–10 weeks) Task: Design approval workflows, evidence checks, and uncertainty flags so agents can’t act unilaterally on high‑stakes decisions.

Why now: As models generalize, the risk shifts from the model to the surrounding system; verification is the moat.

Do this:

Require human approval for consequential actions (money, data exfil, config changes).

Force agents to produce evidence bundles (logs, retrieved docs, reasoning summaries) before action.

Track false positives, missed evidence, and unsafe actions; publish reliability metrics.

Profit link: Enterprises will only scale agents that pass audit; you sell the control plane and the audit trail.

6) Productize your best workflow as a micro‑SaaS/agent subscription (2–4 months) Task: Turn a proven client workflow into a repeatable, multi‑tenant agent with usage‑based pricing.

Why now: Services scale your time; productized agents scale your code and ops.

Do this:

Standardize the workflow, integrations, and permissions; strip client‑specific logic.

Add tenant isolation, billing, and observability; keep narrow scope.

Sell as setup fee + monthly retainer or per‑task pricing.

Profit link: Recurring revenue with defensible niche positioning.

7) Become an “agent integrator” for critical systems (3–6 months) Task: Offer end‑to‑end agent deployments into cloud/identity/network stacks with secure patterns (short‑lived creds, network controls, logging).

Why now: AI workloads run in the cloud; cloud security is a top skills gap second only to AI itself.

Do this:

Master IAM, VPC/network segmentation, secrets management, and SIEM integration for agent actions.

Provide runbooks: what the agent can/can’t do, escalation paths, and failure modes.

Bundle training for their team on supervising agents.

Profit link: Large contracts with stickiness; you’re the bridge between AI and core infra.

8) Create an “AI safety case” practice for regulated industries (6–12 months) Task: Help firms build documented safety cases: risk maps, governance, monitoring, and incident response for agentic systems.

Why now: Frameworks like NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 are becoming baseline; regulators and boards demand this.

Do this:

Map AI use cases to risks (prompt injection, data leakage, unsafe generalization).

Implement monitoring (CoT/activation checks where possible), audit logs, and third‑party review processes.

Produce a living safety dossier tied to business impact.

Profit link: High‑margin consulting + ongoing compliance retainers; you’re the “adult in the room.”

9) Own a data/evaluation moat in your vertical (6–18 months) Task: Collect real‑world agent telemetry, failure cases, and outcome data in your niche; build eval suites that buyers trust.

Why now: As models generalize, empirical validation matters more than theory; evals become the gate to deployment.

Do this:

Instrument every agent run: inputs, tools called, permissions used, outcomes, human overrides.

Publish reliability dashboards and benchmark against alternatives.

License eval datasets or charge premium for “proven in the wild” agents.

Profit link: Data network effects; competitors can’t match your evidence base.

10) Position for the RSI era: automated AI research + human governance (12–24 months) Task: Build or join a team that automates AI improvement but keeps humans in the loop for alignment, monitoring, and pacing decisions.

Why now: Recursive self‑improvement is the logical endpoint; the winners will be those who can steer it safely. Do this:

Invest in tooling that auto‑generates/evaluates model edits, alignment tests, and monitoring upgrades.

Formalize governance: approval gates, third‑party audits, and responsible scaling policies.

Maintain strategic human oversight on capability jumps and deployment boundaries.

Profit link: Equity‑level upside; you’re part of the core loop that compounds intelligence safely.