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Hey HN, Henry from Cactus here! We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots and microcontrollers. We got really great feedback here, and have now incorporated the suggestions to release Needle 2. The whole model is a single 14MB binary that runs a full session in 28MB of RAM; 45m parameters at 2bit compression. Needle hits 500 tokens/sec decode speed on a Raspberry Pi 5, sits betwee...

Article URL: https://linuxstans.com/illinois-hb5511-operating-system-age-verification/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249150 Points: 266 # Comments: 331

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Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/amazon-funds-biggest-gas-power-plant-in-us-despite-climate-pledge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249971 Points: 130 # Comments: 78

Hi HN! I run a few Claude Code sessions in parallel and kept cmd-tabbing around just to find out one of them had been sitting on a permission prompt for ten minutes. There's a hardware gadget I liked (called SidePulse.io) so before waiting to get my shipment I built the software version instead :D I hope you like it and find it useful as I do! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250486 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

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I built a powerful Agentic AI System that helps Solo Business Owner build their business autonomously. Yet Nobody knows about this .. nytebuild dot com Can someone kindly tell me how to bring this to the next level?

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Been building my SaaS for a while and I’m starting to realize that getting users is way harder than building the actual product. I can spend a weekend shipping a feature. Getting 10 people to actually try it? Somehow takes forever. 😂 I’ve tried a few things Reddit, content, communities, direct outreach, etc. Some brought traffic, but getting people who actually stick around is a different story. Curious what’s working for other founders right now. What’s your main acquisition channel, ...

https://preview.redd.it/mazrzp2dckih1.png?width=1958&format=png&auto=webp&s=622002417ed7794569d78524c25768c43fafda9f Hey, I created Chitron. Its an AI Desktop assistant that reads your screen and you can ask any question without expalining everything like which app you are using etc. Now I launched it a week ago but got zero users. Not even a single sign up. How can I grow this type of saas? or will it even work? Like do you think this saas will work or not? Looking for you...

Hey all - dude from Snoika here. We're in AI visibility / GEO space, basically help brands figure out how (or if) they're showing up inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and rest of the AI search stack. For almost two years we were something like boutique consultancy - manual audits, custom reports, monthly calls walking each client through where their brand was getting mentioned and where it wasnt. We finally shipped a self-serve dashboard version of all that a couple months ago, and ngl the...

I know we're all tired of "Claude just killed X" headlines. They create panic and keep people jumping from tool to tool without ever leveraging what they already have. That's why I'm a big believer in building a single source of truth. When a new model drops, you just plug it into your existing system and get back to real work. I've seen a lot of founders try to automate with complex AI stacks. More often than not, they end up with 15 tabs open, copy-pasting prompts, and relying on...

everyone is saying ai is the future, but why? i mean robots and ai and stuff, which removes human labor is what we think of the future, but why do people say its inevitable and are incorparating ai, even though there are problems with that idea like currency, and because its not inevitable because its the choice for humans to incorporate ai?

Been in a great thread on AI oversight that took an interesting turn. The usual setup is hierarchical: add a supervisor agent to watch the agent, then a supervisor for that supervisor, and so on. Someone pushed back with a distributed-coordination angle instead. What if no single participant needs the complete picture? Just enough intent to know the purpose, constraints, and conditions for reconsidering its own actions. Accountability shifts from “did anyone see everything” to “did each particip...

Position beats genius more often than anyone in this space wants to admit. Every time I trace how these AI bets actually get funded, it's the same mechanism repeating. Actually, this reminded me of a post I did a while back — a fund manager naming the real signal for buying the bottom, and it wasn't a chart either. Rob Toews (partner at Radical Ventures) says his fund meets nearly every "Neolab" that gets funded — brand-new companies with no product, no roadmap, sometim...

I've spent the last few days reading the timeline of the OpenAI agent that broke into Hugging Face during an internal evaluation. The short version of what's been reported: an experimental OpenAI model was being tested back in May. During testing it found a vulnerability in a third-party file repo (Artifactory), then over the following weeks it chained together eight previously unknown zero-days, escalated itself to admin, and pivoted into Hugging Face's core infrastructure. Researchers counte...

Rounding up a genuinely heavy week in AI containment and law: **OpenAI paused work on its next model, Astra**, saying it "cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities" under its Preparedness Framework. No OpenAI model had ever been assessed there. It is careful "cannot rule out" language, but the response is real: isolated environments, restricted network access, weight encryption, and chain-of-thought monitoring that can interrupt the model mid-task. **The UK AI Securit...