British man claims he’s unable to watch porn as tattoos confuse age check system
‘Britain’s most tattooed man’ has claimed that he has been unable to pass the newly rolled out age-checks for p*rn sites as his facial ink is mistaken for a mask. King Of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite has written to his local MP to air his grievances. The 45-year-old from Birmingham has […]
The Anti-Abundance Critique on Housing Is Dead Wrong
The sharpest criticisms of the book Abundance have sometimes come from the antitrust movement. This group, mostly on the left, insists that the biggest problems in America typically come from monopolies and the corruption of big business. In housing, for example, Ezra Klein and I write that a key bottleneck to homebuilding in the last […]
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the AI Bubble
“The competition for AGI—AI that surpasses humans at all cognitive tasks—is of fundamental geopolitical importance.” That’s The Economist, last week. Not some breathless tech blogger or venture capitalist talking their book. The world’s most prestigious economic publication. Notice the framing – it treats AGI as a foregone geopolitical contest. They’re not wrong about the competition. […]
Slow
Slow What problems can human beings only solve over a very long period of time? And how can we build institutions that solve those problems? Below is a list of marvellous projects which human beings have undertaken over an exceptionally long time. Many examples contributed by people on Twitter. The focus is on goal-directed projects […]
Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won’t hurt you
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Kaizen (YC X25) is hiring engineers to build browser agents that work
Kaizen uses browser agents to help developers instantly integrate into websites without APIs. We’re tackling the $300B business process outsourcing market by automating all repetitive work done on the computer. The problem: Most business-critical data lives in web portals without APIs. In logistics, healthcare, and financial services companies rely on hundreds of these systems. Custom […]
Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering
Since announcing the general availability of our Gemini Embedding text model, we’ve seen developers rapidly adopt it to build advanced AI applications. Beyond traditional use cases like classification, semantic search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), many are now using a technique called context engineering to provide AI agents with complete operational context. Embeddings are crucial here, […]
Make any website load faster with 6 lines of HTML
Put this HTML tag into the of your website for near-instant navigation. Ever clicked a link and had the next page appear almost instantly? That magical, speedy experience is becoming easier to achieve thanks to the Chrome Speculation Rules API. This new browser feature helps make navigation feel instant with just a few lines of […]
Show HN: Mcp-use – Connect any LLM to any MCP
🌐 MCP-Use is the open source way to connect any LLM to any MCP server and build custom MCP agents that have tool access, without using closed source or application clients. 💡 Let developers easily connect any LLM to tools like web browsing, file operations, and more. If you want to get started quickly check […]
Launch HN: Gecko Security (YC F24) – AI That Finds Vulnerabilities in Code
Hey HN, I’m JJ, Co-Founder of Gecko Security (https://www.gecko.security). We’re building a new kind of static analysis tool that uses LLMs to find complex business logic and multi-step vulnerabilities that current scanners miss. We’ve used it to find 30+ CVEs in projects like Ollama, Gradio, and Ragflow (https://www.gecko.security/research). You can try it yourself on any […]