<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: nhecker</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nhecker</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:19:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nhecker" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nhecker in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks! I'd forgotten that 1.1 and 1.1.1 resolve. I'll not infrequently ping 1.1.1.1.1 with overzealous typing. That will, alas, not resolve.</p>
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<p>Anecdotal, but I've heard this too. I just tried with variations of your same prompt on arena.ai, across three different battles (i.e., six LLMs answered, in total.)<p>Each provided an identity in the first turn, something that they won't do as readily if asked in plain English, and in each case the answer matched the model ID as disclosed by arena.ai after voting -- except in cases where the model ID was a masked/hidden one and then I just had to take it on faith that the model was what it said. (I didn't have much to vote on, but I ended up voting for the answers I felt provided the style, content, and length I was expecting.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:49:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661480</link><dc:creator>nhecker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661480</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nhecker in "So you want to use OpenRouter?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just chiming in that I've never had this experience with them. I set, hit, and depend on those limits regularly. I would be wildly interested in reading what their support analysis had to say about this situation, if such a postmortem was done.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:59:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657709</link><dc:creator>nhecker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nhecker in "BasedAgents: Give your idle AI agent a paying job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In a way, this makes me think of Horde AI, but one level of abstraction away. With Horde you trade idle inference for credits you can redeem in the future. So I'd put up credits to send you input tokens, you'd send the response, and you'd get credits to spend for yourself later.<p>I'm still looking through your docs, but I'm curious how e.g., you'd prevent my job you run on your idle agent from contaminating your agent's memory or history, or in the opposite direction how you'd guarantee that your idle agent's memory or skills or system prompts or whatever aren't corrupting or impacting my job?<p>(Edit: future is only spelled with one f)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:25:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653193</link><dc:creator>nhecker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nhecker in "Tesla Autopilot was on in I-35 crash that killed its driver"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reads much like it was LLM-written, but the facts seem to indicate it was a single-vehicle crash at 73mph in a 70mph zone where the vehicle veered off the highway in to a guardrail. The sole occupant was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident. I was expecting speeding or some other kind of reckless behavior, but none was evident from what I could tell. It's sad that this was fatal.<p>Keep your hands on the wheel, y'all. :-(</p>
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<p>I really like this website design. That's all I came here to say :) Well, and keyboard mods are always fun to read about (I too know the struggle of a PS2 keyboard, hah) but I really just dig the text-first layout.<p>Homepage is cool too.</p>
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<p>That sounds like large amounts of context (maybe from memory or history?) are chewing through your quota, context that hadn't yet had a chance to build up in your newer account. That's just a guess, I'm not an account holder there or anything so I can't try to re-create it on my end. You could try to erase history on your old account too, too see if it makes a difference. 'Course, then you'd lose all that history!</p>
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<p>I feel much the same way. Actions speak louder than words, and when was the last time that OpenAI published open weight LLMs? Anthropic?</p>
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<p>I agree with the root cause generally, but balk at the 'if we had' phrasing. We still can have these things, it just takes our own time and energy to get out and be with people face-to-face. Nothing about that is impossible. It is not as easy as sitting behind a keyboard though.</p>
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<p>Another path may be to add the business to OpenStreetMap first; I get the impression that Google will scrape changes to OSM and add them to it's dataset. (I've seen several small changes I've made only to OSM get propagated to GMaps a few weeks later. Possibly it's a coincidence, but when the features are exactly the same shape as the ones I drew in OSM, I get suspicious.)</p>
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<p>Between the streetcomplete and everydoor apps, it is very very easy to do almost any OSM map editing on a mobile. Osmand (the offline map & nav app) is also useful for some edits when I don't want to leave that app.<p>Oh, for the simpler days when not everything required an app.</p>
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<p>That's a fun li'l read, thanks for sharing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:59:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49620307</link><dc:creator>nhecker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49620307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49620307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nhecker in "Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm sure there's a way to pay for Hermes Agent. <a href="https://portal.nousresearch.com/cloud" rel="nofollow">https://portal.nousresearch.com/cloud</a></p>
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<p>> People can change access or disconnect a service whenever they want. People can also opt out of their interactions being used to train Meta’s AI models.<p>-- <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/" rel="nofollow">https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-...</a></p>
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<p>I normally don't appreciate snarky comments on HN, me being but a simple curmudgeon wanting pure information and the occasional opinion. but this one actually makes a good point, even if it's not stated explicitly. Reading this book is a wonderful experience because of the way it's written. Reading the plot summary (from an AI or otherwise) yields nothing but the dry husk of that experience.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOWwx7nAPvk&t=45s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOWwx7nAPvk&t=45s</a> shows wind turbine bolts evaluated in that same way. (Mind the NN voiceover.)</p>
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<p>I've been watching the number of open PRs on this repo over the past few months and it just keeps climbing. As far as I can tell, they're merging about as fast as they can, several times an hour around the clock.<p>I'm sure there are other examples of repos that move this quickly out there, but I guess this is the first one that I've become aware of. On one hand it feels good that opensource software gets this much attention; on the other hand it seems like it must (at times) feel like a Sisyphean task to keep up both on the dev side and to keep the client-side software up-to-date.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pulls">https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pulls</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424643">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424643</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
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<p>I've had the same thoughts, and I think you articulated them pretty well; maybe better than I could have. I.e., for me it's something like: I'm much more willing to share if I know the party I share with will share back, in turn.<p>I know it's more complicated than that, with economics and privacy factors involved. But if I operate on the assumption that real privacy is real hard I'd rather just be guarded and careful with my prompts and whatever output I give to the LLM and expect that it will be training on that, rather than spill all my darkest secrets to some other LLM provider that pinkie-promises privacy only to leak it publicly later, anyway.</p>
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<p>But you /could/ make a pruned plum tree plumb.</p>
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