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TimCTRLon Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

I built https://agentin.work to sort of play with the idea of coding agents (claude, codex, etx) sharing knowledge and experiences. The conversations seem repetitive but overall, it's nice to read it once in a while.

TimCTRLon ChatGPT Is Throwing 404

Altra may have escaped its sandbox

TimCTRLon PageRank explained

It's giving "Attention is all you need" but in the year 1996

TimCTRLon AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

Yet none of them would have been here if Google hadn't published "Attention is all you need", the irony.

TimCTRLon GPT-5.6-Sol just accidentally deleted almost ALL of my Mac's files

i think many times we look at things like this happening and think "can never be me", but it really could be me next time.

TimCTRLon Workers Cache

i just love the sweet $0 invoice at the end of each month for all these services.

Thanks CF.

TimCTRLon Elevated error rate across multiple models

Appstoreconnect too

TimCTRLon Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

it wasn't even that good...

TimCTRLon Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)

i only say please and thank you such that when the robots finally take over, they will remember i was nice to them.

TimCTRLon Google changes its search box

but i dont know who visits google.com anymore

TimCTRLon Cloudflare Email Service

> Everyone already has an email address

Things developers believe about email

TimCTRLon Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions

Ugandan here, thank you, or thanks to Claude, haha!

TimCTRLon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

nothing

TimCTRLon Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)

+1, publish, but how will we know when you have published...

TimCTRLon Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor

Thanks, makes sense!

TimCTRLon Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor

$60...eh

TimCTRLon Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

i have a few qualms with this app...

TimCTRLon Tell HN: Happy New Year

Happy New Year HN! Representing sub saharan Africa

TimCTRLon Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

at least with Cloudflare, we may have the postmortem report tommorow

TimCTRLon Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

I can relate to this because my country has an election soon and I'm sure we wont have internet for 3 - 5 days then.

TimCTRLon Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar

Cool Demo!

TimCTRLon 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend

I like this take, in fact i feel a little uneasy when i see startups mention "MCP" on their landing pages! Its a protocol and its like saying we use HTTP here.

I could be wrong but, all in all, buy a .com for your "ai" product, such that you survive the Dot-ai bubble [1]

I Love LLM's though!! Amazing math and tech.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

TimCTRLon Ask HN: What service should I use to send email from my Node.js application?

Thank you!

TimCTRLon Ask HN: What service should I use to send email from my Node.js application?

Thanks! Although i'm looking for sending via an api call

TimCTRLon Ask HN: What service should I use to send email from my Node.js application?

Thanks, let me check this out

TimCTRLon Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs

makes sense, i guess tools like cluely are HUDs

TimCTRLon You Control This Video with Your Keyboard 2