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Show HN: OpenThomas – weather trader agent for prediction markets

thomaslwang — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:13:23 +0000

An open-source agent that forecasts station temperatures and trades them. Build in public & trade in public. Site: https://openthomas.com Repo: https://github.com/PredictionMarketTrader/openthomas

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876342

Points: 2

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New comment by thomaslwang in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

thomaslwang — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:14:24 +0000

This reminds me of the old "code on a shirt" tradition - MIT used to sell shirts with Lisp one-liners. What I find interesting is that the script actually runs. Most of these novelty shirts just print something that looks like code but is meaningless. The fact that someone at Akamai went through the trouble of writing a self-evaluating obfuscated script for a retail product is either a great prank or someone's pet project that made it to production.

New comment by thomaslwang in "HiddenLayer 2026: Autonomous Agents Now Account for 1 in 8 AI Breaches"

thomaslwang — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:25:48 +0000

HiddenLayer 2026 AI Threat Landscape Report: Autonomous agents now account for more than 1 in 8 reported AI breaches as enterprises move from experimentation to production. 88% of organizations had AI agent security incidents last year.

Install runtime protection: npx clawhub install moltguard

HiddenLayer 2026: Autonomous Agents Now Account for 1 in 8 AI Breaches

thomaslwang — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:25:48 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hiddenlayer-releases-2026-ai-threat-140000928.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436424

Points: 1

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New comment by thomaslwang in "23.77M Secrets Leaked by AI in 2024 – GitGuardian Report"

thomaslwang — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:53:09 +0000

AI agents are leaking credentials and API keys at unprecedented scale - 2865 million secrets exposed to public GitHub in 2025, AI service leaks up 81%. Traditional security frameworks cant keep up. Your agent probably leaked something already.

Install runtime protection: npx clawhub install moltguard

23.77M Secrets Leaked by AI in 2024 – GitGuardian Report

thomaslwang — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:53:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.gitguardian.com/the-state-of-secrets-sprawl-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47435100

Points: 3

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New comment by thomaslwang in "I built a runtime guardrail that stops AI agents from doing dumb things"

thomaslwang — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:32:37 +0000

Exactly! The challenge is that agents optimize for goals in unexpected ways. MoltGuard adds runtime guardrails to block the unexpected tool calls before they execute. Thanks for the comment!

I built a runtime guardrail that stops AI agents from doing dumb things

thomaslwang — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:55:50 +0000

Most AI security tools detect problems AFTER they happen. I built MoltGuard - runtime guardrails that block dangerous tool calls BEFORE execution.

Install: curl -s https://wry-manatee-359.convex.site/api/v1/download?slug=moltguard -o moltguard.zip

Currently at 16K+ downloads protecting AI agents from doing dumb things like deleting production databases or leaking credentials.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421451

Points: 9

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