The Code Optimization Flywheel Won’t Spin ItselfJatin Ganhotra is a Senior Software engineer in the AI for Code group at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, where he leads work on autonomous software-engineering ...
Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Is Missing Some Key Names: OpenAI and AnthropicThis week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open- vs. closed-source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search-engine results. This ...
Ask HN: How can you trust your hardware?There's a widespread idea in the technical community that TPMs don't provide any security:- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37435450- https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/50/getting-started?search=tpm#getting-started (see advice on tpm)- NSA encourages we use it https://media.defense.gov/2024/Nov/06/2003579882/-1/-1/0/CSI-TPM-USE-CASES.PDFBut, TPMs have real use cases: - It theoretically prevents kernel level exploits extracting secrets.- Projects like Qubes suggest using it to prevent evil maid attacks: https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/user/hardware/system-requirements.html#recommendedBUT...- It provides a weak level of device attestation from the manufacturer: https://blog.cloudflare.com/anchoring-trust-a-hardware-secure-boot-story/#uefi-attacks- That cloudflare article suggests using AMD PSP which is equivalent to Intel ME that the NSA is know to request the disabling of https://stateofsurveillance.org/articles/technical/intel-management-engine-deep-dive/So it seems l
Show HN: Clod.ai – A Literal Wayback in Time Machine in Figuratively No TimeI discovered a free online Pomodoro timer in 2018. [1] I'd been a frequent user of it from then until it was decommissioned in early '25. I found it super helpful for timeboxing stuff within easy-to-commit-to intervals.About a month ago, I started having really intense hunger pangs for it.A few pages of the original implementation are archived on the Wayback Machine. A couple weeks ago, I got the idea to reverse-engineer it using those pages as a reference.That's when I started researching what the Claude Code fuss was about. I wasn't then and am still not ready to spend money on AI. So, when I stumbled on the free Claud.ai, I figured I'd test it out on my reverse-engineering idea.I used Copilot, Sourcegraph's Cody Visual Studio Code agent and ChatGPT a decent amount last year. More recently I've been using Gemini Code Assist. But this project was my first time ever using Claud.ai.I guess Claude.ai in the browser uses React and Tailwind CSS for building web apps. I'm not a frontend dev
Show HN: CoThou – Control what AI search engines say about your businessI built CoThou after seeing search and AI answer engines give completely incorrect information about my company. Turns out, they prioritize structured, citable content, so I reverse-engineered how they choose sources and built CoThou to become the source of truth.How it works For businesses: Create a company profile. When search and AI answer engines are asked about your company, they’ll cite your company profile and its content, not Wikipedia or outdated info.For publishers and knowledge workers: Publish at your personal profile with proper citations (300M+ academic papers indexed). When someone asks search and AI answer engines about your topic, it will cite your work linking to your profile and allowing citation tracking.Try it now (unlimited during beta): → https://cothou.comIt’s v0.01 and rough around the edges. Try it and let me know what breaks.What’s next: Currently training a custom 32B MoE (Mixture of Experts) LLM with 3B active parameters scheduled to go live in Q1/2026. The
Ask HN: Why hasn't anyone fixed product search yet?Every solution I've seen either:1. Replicates Google's ad-driven model (but worse)2. Claims 'AI' but acts as a black boxYet we all waste hours daily on:- Decoding fake reviews - Reverse-engineering SEO-optimized 'best of' lists - Cross-referencing Reddit threads from 2018Serious question: What would it take to build a truly user-aligned product search engine?Technical constraints? Business model dilemmas? Or is it just a hard problem nobody wants to solve right?
How are these people in Reddit getting textbooks for free?So I did a sting operation in reddit. Just google "textbook piracy reddit" and see all the subreddits where people are requesting ebooks.I used to think they download from libgen and sell here for cheap. So I created a fake request and tried to trap some. Turns out THEY HAD THE BOOK THAT I ASKED FOR.Even more surprising thing was the book I was asking them was indian books.1) Even if their university had access to ebooks, having indian ebooks is the least likely thing. (Indian I mean written by Indians not in hindi, related to engineering and cs).2) I then tried IRC chats, to check if the book they got was from there. NOPE.3) It wasn't ofc from libgen/b-ookzz or whatever it is.4) Not from google search obviously.https://www.amazon.com/System-Simulation-D-S-Hira-ebook/dp/B00QUYL022https://www.kopykitab.com/System-Simulation-Modelling-And-Languages-by-R-Panneerselvam-P-Senthilkumarthey had these 2 ebooks but not this onehttps://www.amazon.in/Modeling-Simulation-Electrical-Engineering-Ele