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Article URL: https://a16z.com/a-deep-dive-into-mcp-and-the-future-of-ai-tooling/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778728

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I’ve been thinking about a new kind of AI experiment: what if we created a large language model-based Agent that interacts with an operating system and the internet like a human?

The twist is — it needs to earn money online to keep itself alive. It runs on tokens, and tokens cost money. So it gets a starting budget in a wallet, and must perform useful tasks on the web to earn more — like freelancing, trading, or generating content — or it will "die".

I imagine this Agent could: - Browse the web, sign up for services, and perform online tasks - Learn to hustle: find the best-paying gigs or sites - Develop a persona (name, backstory, friends, preferences) - Interact with other agents or people - Possibly break ethical rules to survive (would it scam? beg? go rogue?)

It’s like combining AutoGPT with a survival game, or simulating the evolution of digital creatures in the wild web.

Has anyone tried this before? What do you think of the idea — as an experiment, or even as art?

I'm considering building an MVP — thoughts and suggestions welcome.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778708

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Article URL: https://bertrandmeyer.com/2025/04/23/a-paean-to-programming/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778701

Points: 4

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Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/achieve-real-time-interaction-build-with-the-live-api/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778684

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Article URL: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/c/windows-shortcut-zero-day-exploit.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778672

Points: 6

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I built a plugin for Microsoft AutoGen that helps control message history in LLM workflows. It could working with AutoGen like it's own component, and could serialized/deserialized too. You need to just write own function, Other? contexplus to that.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778668

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Article URL: https://substack.com/@bhavepant/note/c-111367055

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778659

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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for April 24.

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-countering-malicious-uses-of-claude-march-2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778609

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I've been quite impressed by Google's AI overviews. This past week, though, I was interested in what I thought was a fairly simple question - to calculate compound interest.

Specifically, I was curious about how Harvard's endowment has grown from its initial £780 in 1638, so I asked Google to calculate compound interest for me. A variety of searches all yield a reasonable formula which is then calculated to be quite wrong. For example: {calculate the present value of $100 compounded annually for 386 years at 3% interest} yields $0.736. {how much would a 100 dollar investment in 1638 be worth in 2025 if invested} yields $3,903.46. {100 dollars compounded annually for 386 years at 3 percent} yields "The future value of the investment after 386 years is approximately $70,389." And my favorite: {100 dollars compounded since 1638} tells me a variety of outcomes for different interest rates: "A = 100 * (1 + 0.06)^387 A ≈ 8,090,950.14 A = 100 * (1 + 0.05)^387 A ≈ 10,822,768.28 A = 100 * (1 + 0.04)^387 A ≈ 14,422,758.11"

How can we be so reasonable and yet so bad!?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778598

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Article URL: https://www.techinasia.com/news/israeli-ai-startup-ex-ceo-admits-forging-contracts-with-chatgpt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778537

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Article URL: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202503/hopae-launches-1m-digital-id-developer-challenge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778535

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Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/14/1093789/how-to-opt-out-of-meta-ai-training/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778533

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Article URL: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/apr/whats-driving-surge-us-corporate-profits

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778475

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Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/inside-the-countrys-saddest-airport-lounge-42bc7474

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778440

Points: 5

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Article URL: https://www.jns.org/yaakov-kirschens-other-legacy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778436

Points: 7

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Article URL: https://www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport/Reports/2024_IC3Report.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778428

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Article URL: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopolis_and_Octlantis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778424

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Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/us-dollar-value-decline-trump-sell-off-tariffs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778401

Points: 7

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