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Hating AI in 2026

Hacker News - Tue, 07/14/2026 - 10:13am
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Show HN: I digitized 275 vintage citrus crate labels from my familys farm

Hacker News - Tue, 07/14/2026 - 10:12am

This collection of California citrus crate labels was assembled over many years by my grandfather David Gerald Kelley (1928–2025), a lifelong citrus rancher and advocate for California agriculture. After his passing, the collection was entrusted to his son, Ken Kelley (my father), who later passed it down to me. This website was created to preserve and share the archive more broadly, and to make these pieces of California history accessible for others to study and enjoy.

Some random notes:

- Site is built with Next.js, fully hosted on AWS - All artwork is from my grandfathers collection and scanned by me - The essay was from a lost art exhibit in 1986 by the director of the Riverside Art Museum - The shop section is novel, using Three.js to show canvas prints, and leveraging a print-on-demand service with super high resolution images

This felt like somewhat of a calling for me to build as I'm _not_ a rancher, I'm a SWE. It has made my family proud. Enjoy, HN family!

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Show HN: MCP-Billing – self-hosted auth and usage billing for MCP servers

Hacker News - Tue, 07/14/2026 - 10:10am

Self-hosted Next.js 15 boilerplate: OAuth 2.1 + PKCE, API key management, Stripe usage-based billing with explicit metering decisions, Redis rate limiting. 300 tests. No revenue share.

https://mcp-billing.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48907181

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Thoughts

Hacker News - Tue, 07/14/2026 - 10:09am

When we believe in something beyond our immediate experience, and in turn, perceive it as “knowledge,” what truly matters isn’t the “understanding” but rather the “working out” towards articulating it.

It seems that our minds are inherently encrypted when subjected to knowledge, and language too, seems to function like passwords on a computer. It propels us forward, but once we grasp it; more on the act than the linguistic aspect, the very act of articulation itself loses its meaning (overthrown to the back of our minds). The point is that it “opens” or serves as a “point of access” to a realm where both the articulation of knowledge as reasons or the judgment of forms is possible, where contradictions can arise.

In terms of replicating(the experience, not just the "thing/object"), but not copying, the craftsman’s present knowledge is necessary but not decisive in making the end product distinguishable from similar products. When building something new, the knowledge that articulates it is precisely zero, so what’s here is intuiting and logic. This intuiting, assumptions lead to problems, similar to those mentioned in paragraph 1, but intuition doesn’t work. So, there’s something that works, however, that comes from other directly, past experiences which is still the "other", learned from others…. What I’m suggesting here is that to do things differently, one must first characterize them differently. Therefore, repeatedly doing this creates some kind of encryption of how it’s made, and it becomes articulated as knowledge as well.

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Fractional Freezing

Hacker News - Tue, 07/14/2026 - 10:05am
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Ask HN: Any objective research on which languages are best for AI agents?

Hacker News - Tue, 07/14/2026 - 9:10am

I keep reading articles that suggest that Rust or Go or some other language is optimal for AI development because of feature X or lack of issue Y.

Has there been any actual head to head comparison of this using frontier models? Any benchmarks that purport to measure this?

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