tleyden5iwx

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AI hacker, before AI was cool.

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Comment · 9 months ago
Can they change the name to Proof Of Corncept?
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Comment · 11 months ago
AGI will happen, but we need to start reverse engineering the brain. IMHO LeCun and Hawkins have it right, even though the results are still pretty non-existent.

In the meantime, 100% agree, it's complete fantastical nonsense.

Comment · 11 months ago
I built Arty: https://github.com/vibemachine-labs/arty

It's an open-source iOS voice agent that uses the OpenAI Realtime API (bring your own key).

Current connectors: Hacker News (check demo in readme!), Google Drive, GitHub, and web search.

I got frustrated with the limitations of the OpenAI Realtime Voice iOS app—for example, it can't even connect to Google Drive.

Arty is self-contained except for the OpenAI model and any third-party services you connect to. Uses local tools—no MCP support yet.

If you'd like additional connectors, feel free to open an issue.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah but there are a lot of vibe engineers, and we care about the code, because we have to own it
Comment · 1 year ago
Feature request: add a Github Action so I can generate a codemap for my repo and throw it on my README. Then update it when major PRs change the codemap.
Comment · 1 year ago
Agree with LeCun that current ai doesn’t exhibit anything close to actual intelligence.

I think the solution lies into cracking the core algorithms used by nature to build the brain. Too bad it’s such an inscrutable hairball of analog spaghetti code.

Comment · 1 year ago
API clients can already easily identify the user during the authentication process. What’s currently “missing” is a way for an API client to pay a service via the API call “on the fly”, without having a credit card on file or some prior account balance.

Maybe a better example is an image generation api. Your agent chooses one based on its research, and without any account or credit card on file, it buys you an image using a x402.

Comment · 1 year ago
Looks really useful! Do you happen to have a gallery of apps using it? In particular, I'd like to see how desktop or mobile apps handle the oauth flows.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think the purpose is so that your agent can do things like buy airline tickets for you. Using x402 it doesn't have to go through a typical credit card checkout process, which might have a lot of safeguards that make sure there's an actual human on the other end (captchas, etc)
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't think like a C programmer, my problem is that I think like a Java/Python/Go programmer, and I'm spoiled by getting used to having a garbage collector always running behind me cleaning up my memory poops.

Even though Rust can end up with some ugly/crazy code, I love it overall because I can feel pretty safe that I'm not going to create hard-to-find memory errors.

Sure, I can (and do) write code that causes my (rust) app to crash, but so far they've all been super trivial errors to debug and fix.

I haven't tried Zig yet though. Does it give me all the same compile time memory usage guarantees?

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