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Article URL: https://bryce.co/missing-images/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747727

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Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/16/ai-tech-regulation-government-action-yoshua-bengio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747716

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Article URL: https://www.minid.net/2026/9/18/three-plus-ones-and-a-prayer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747705

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Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-reimagines-the-getting-started-experience/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747692

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Article URL: https://technode.com/2026/09/17/huawei-unveils-ascend-960-superpod-with-npo-technology-to-power-next-generation-ai-infrastructure/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747675

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Article URL: https://maximepeabody.substack.com/p/why-i-built-my-own-language-app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747655

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Article URL: https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-669

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747648

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Article URL: https://blog.bayleaf.dev/p/human-agency-coding-agents-and-transagentic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747644

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Article URL: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/09/17/new-docs-in-a-i-copyright-suit-reveal-startling-admission-by-microsoft-exec-over-astonishing-theft/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747643

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Article URL: https://weaviate.io/blog/4-bit-rotational-quantization

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743523

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Article URL: https://www.repodify.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743515

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Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/17/ai-safety-palantir-karp.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743506

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Article URL: https://github.com/markbgilbert/aegis-zero-gc-benchmark

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743498

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I'm a technologist and have experience in academia, private, and now public sector work. I had an idea stewing in the back of my mind for about a year and it became 'fully-formed' enough to be a proof-of-concept such that I filed a provisional patent a few months ago. At this point, I don't want to quit my day job (federal agency, GS11, but have an in to be GS15 within 3 years). But I really want my idea to succeed (or at the very least, see the light of day). I have some savings piled up, but I'm hesitant to spend it on 'grown-up' patent papers yet. I also already have 3 other 'side gigs' (not to mention 4 kids and a blushing bride) that take up more than most of my time. How would I even find someone that I could trust enough to help me take my idea and hit a home run with it?

I don't want to talk about the details of my invention. I did talk to a patent attorney that's done a couple dozen startups through their firm though. He said I could probably get $20k-$50k in seed money for it. It's not a "better mousetrap", it's more a "new thing" that's never existed before (but also never really 'needed to' before).

Do I NEED a co-founder, or can I 'slow-walk' launching a business based solely on a new gizmo? I'm not very good at social media/marketing, which is where I think my gizmo would thrive the most (but that's purely a guess). I feel like if I could find the perfect person, it really could explode, but I have literally not even the faintest clue where/how to start that. Am I an employer all-of-a-sudden even though I have no revenue to pay salaries?

Somebody heard that I had invented this thing and they asked me, "So, I hear you're an inventor?" And I kind of stammered and said "well.... it was an accident. I didn't mean to, I promise." This was mostly to be funny/silly, not that I don't believe in the idea. But I know this sort of 'startup/founder(s)/seed-money' thing is HN's bread-and-butter, so I at least thought I'd ask.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743493

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Article URL: https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/from-stonemasons-to-carpenters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743490

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Article URL: https://louisxu3.substack.com/p/i-made-turn-based-combat-into-a-database

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743487

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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18842

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743483

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I needed a public demo to show pappice usage, and I just wanted to bypass the public shared contents problem (periodic resets, features disabling, contents restrictions, ecc). The solution was to compile all the server, SQLite included, to WASM and run it entirely in browser, so every user has his own instance now and can mess freely. That's just a 8/9 gzipped MBs download. I'm very proud of the achievement; that demonstrates a lot of how lightweight pappice is.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743479

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I wanted to manage long horizon agentic workstreams via voice, then put my phone down, and have a harness manage completion - extending into full computer use.

I was trying to build a personal Jarvis, so I benchmarked AutoBot to see how close I could get:

- OSWorld: 32.41% (moved Sol Max from 4th to 1st, beating Opus 5)

- AssistantBench: 50.70%

Hermes and OpenClaw, but without needing a weekend and VMs. And with the ability to manage deep personalization AND keep strict privacy rules, storing data on encrypted disk.

AutoBot is a passion project that grew out of trying to make this all work for myself.

I’m sharing it here because I suspect other here have the same frustration. And I’m curious what else everyone is doing for this.

It’s an MIT-licensed harness that lives within a project.

Native voice lets me discuss tasks, check progress, and steer work; a local ledger tracks unfinished outputs and the evidence needed to call them done. Memory drives more autonomy over time, and “defrags and locks in learning nightly” while a heartbeat system persists execution.

I’m not selling anything. If you’re building something similar for yourself, I’d love to compare notes.

GitHub: https://github.com/demeyer1/Autobot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743478

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hey, i'm nick (@skeptrune on X). i have been using ai for a lot of things i'm not an expert in and thought it would be nice to try and buy paid skills for helping it accomplish those tasks more efficiently.

for example, redlining contracts, creating ai generated videos, different website designs, and more.

curious to see if this resonates with folks here. i figure a more engineering'y audience that's ai coding-agent forward would have similar problems to what inspired me to make this

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743459

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