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New comment by pokot0 in "Google changes its search box"

pokot0 — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:57:30 +0000

Internet is more and more becoming a commercialization platform. If you are selling something on your website, you still want Google (or ChatGPT for that matters) to expose customers to your product. The gate is the actual delivery of the product is behind a purchase/signup. Google and others want to control the entire customer journey, to the point the your website is simply a way to pass metadata to them. They are actually achieving this!

this kills the entire internet vibe of the 90s, early 2k

New comment by pokot0 in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

pokot0 — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:39:56 +0000

Honestly UX became irrelevant in the last years (infra as code) and even more in the last year (coding agents). What you need is well structured API and a CLI that does not limit you. You can call it UX if you want, but the skillset is different.

When I started my latest project my first rule was: I never have to login to AWS console. I didn’t achieve ‘never’ but I am pretty close and the experience is a lot better

New comment by pokot0 in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

pokot0 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:44:57 +0000

Question. How does it work if I own a repository (opt out, don't use copilot) and I give access to someone else (use is opted in and uses copilot). Do you train on his submissions of my code? How can you know what that he has the right to share the code with you for training?

New comment by pokot0 in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

pokot0 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:37:22 +0000

while I agree, I understood this is only when you use copilot? if not, their communication is very misleading

New comment by pokot0 in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

pokot0 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:44:13 +0000

exactly what I do. they are still annoying because providers want to me to be engaged on their terms and keep pushing these features and don’t offer a broad “never use bluetooth on any website ever” kind of option. Magic of KPIs

anyway the point here is that I don’t really care if Safari is behind in support. The article was about blaming Safari for being behind.

New comment by pokot0 in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

pokot0 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:13:45 +0000

You might want your browser to do Bluetooth, NFC, Background stuff, Face Detection but I don't.

I like to use Apple products for things that are commodities to me because I am not gonna look into the details of those and when I do Apple reasoning often make sense to me (just like this list).

There is a lot more we can criticize about these big tech corps (including Apple) than a product decision for a company that is known for making polarizing decisions on behalf of their customers. If people buy it... they must like it, no?

New comment by pokot0 in "Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities"

pokot0 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:27:33 +0000

You guys probably already know but I saw a live demo of something very similar from these guys:

https://bright.ai/autonomous-inspection/

definitely where we want to be as a society! Keep up!

New comment by pokot0 in "Waymo Safety Impact"

pokot0 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:42:49 +0000

My question is: is safer than average human good enough?

When I drive I have the option to choose to be safe or not. When a computer drives I lose that option. So for 49% of the people, safer than the average human is less safe than before.

I think we need to reach "Safer than the safest 10% of humans".

Also these reports should be done by a government agency.

New comment by pokot0 in "(paper money) Hedge Fund staffed by AI Employees (experiment)"

pokot0 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:47:06 +0000

Hi! Yes, the premise is exactly to review how 'stable' agents would be if left unsupervised in an end-2-end scenario.

But this is probably unrealistic now, hence the experiment. I think people will be less skeptical the more they interact with these kind of entities and slowly develop trust.

That's why we developed agents with an identity and primarily around email in order to 'plug' them into company processes slowly and naturally. That's the core idea of the main project this experiment spawn off of.

New comment by pokot0 in "(paper money) Hedge Fund staffed by AI Employees (experiment)"

pokot0 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:55:32 +0000

Hi HN,

I’m running a public experiment in multi-agent coordination: can a small team of independent AI employees collaborate toward a shared objective using the same tools regular companies already use?

In this experiment, each AI employee has a specific identity (role, personality, scope, and permissions) and their own email address and access to corporate tools. They coordinate primarily over email and a shared Google Sheet, plus they connect to the paper brokerage account (I use Alpaca Markets).

Platypi Capital is the “sandbox”: the team runs a paper trading portfolio. The employees research, debate, propose trades and strategies, do risk checks, and execute trades (paper money) as a coordinated workflow, then publish positions/orders/performance. This is completely transparent and realtime on the website.

This is not a real fund. This is an experiment on how AIs coordinate together. Trades are executed with paper money on a simulated brokerage account, and nothing here is financial advice. This is part of a broader effort I’m working on to build an “AI employees” product.

I would love to get the HN crowd feedback! :)

Link: https://platypi.empla.io

Thanks!

(paper money) Hedge Fund staffed by AI Employees (experiment)

pokot0 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:55:32 +0000

Article URL: https://platypi.empla.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160362

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by pokot0 in "Yes there is a right way to stack the dishwasher. Here are the 5 rules"

pokot0 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:08:21 +0000

It's a European (maybe rest of the world) thing.

It's interesting how different dishwashers are in US and Europe. Two main things for me:

- Salt: European dishwashers have embedded water softeners and you add salt once in a while. Only super high end ones have it in US.

- Water heater: European dishwasher expect to receive cold water and they heat it internally; US ones expect hot water and only partially boost the temperature (sometimes). That's why you have to run hot water before starting the dishwasher

Always wondered how we ended up like this...

New comment by pokot0 in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

pokot0 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:17:23 +0000

Can’t you heat exchange inside the satellite, and make one part of the satellite incredibly hot so that it radiates a lot and dissipates.

This is just a question. I have no expertise at all with this.

New comment by pokot0 in "Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model"

pokot0 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:53:08 +0000

I don't think that kind of difference in benchmarks has any meaning at all. Your agentic coding tool and the task you are working on introduce a lot more "noise" than that small delta.

Also consider they are all overfitting on the benchmark itself so there might be that as well (which can go in either directions)

I consider the top models practically identical for coding applications (just personal experience with heavy use of both GPT5.2 and Opus 4.5).

Excited to see how this model compares in real applications. It's 1/5th of the price of top models!!

New comment by pokot0 in "Show HN: 1Code – Open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code"

pokot0 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:57:06 +0000

fyi: it does not build for me from the source code.

Rebuild Failed

An unhandled error occurred inside electron-rebuild node-gyp failed to rebuild '[...]/1code/node_modules/node-pty'

Error: node-gyp failed to rebuild '[...]/1code/node_modules/node-pty' at ChildProcess. ([...]/1code/node_modules/@electron/rebuild/lib/module-type/node-gyp/node-gyp.js:121:24) at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:508:28) at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:294:12) node:child_process:1000 throw err; ^

New comment by pokot0 in "The disguised return of EU Chat Control"

pokot0 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:43:53 +0000

I think you misunderstood him for me. Regardless, giving up is not something I mentioned. You guys just inferred it. I just feel we need to approach the battle very differently. What we have been doing it's not working.

New comment by pokot0 in "The disguised return of EU Chat Control"

pokot0 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:42:03 +0000

Privacy for me is not that important. I have nothing to hide, nothing I am ashamed of. For me it's more of a way of protecting from abuse that a need of its own. I realize it's just me and I do advocate for privacy, but if you look around: we lost. Our data is everywhere and there are no consequences whatsoever. PS: I did mention in my original comment that Google and many others already send drones with cameras to spy on your backyard and that is considered "fine". I am not inviting them to come to your house; they are already doing it. Just check Google Maps.

New comment by pokot0 in "The disguised return of EU Chat Control"

pokot0 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:51:12 +0000

Honestly I think privacy is lost. Regardless of what side you were (big fan of privacy here) I feel we have nothing to do but move on and think how to live in a world without privacy.

I never wanted privacy anyway: I wanted no discrimination, inclusion, healthy democracy, etc, etc.

Privacy has always been a tool for me.

At this point, selective privacy like we are experiencing today (we cannot know what’s in the epstein files, but google can send a drone and look into my backyard) serves none of the things I am interested in!

New comment by pokot0 in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

pokot0 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:05:15 +0000

People don't hate automation. They hate BAD automation.

From your description seems like: Waymo -> Good Automation, Call Center -> Bad Automation.

The day we will have a chatgpt level automated customer care experience, we will complain every time humans answer our requests, with their accents and attitudes!

New comment by pokot0 in "Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US"

pokot0 — Fri, 02 May 2025 17:16:52 +0000

Do you have examples of targeted protections against foreign companies? Everything that comes to mind to me applies to all companies local or foreign.