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canadiantimon Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills

ah that's fair, that makes a lot more sense.

I thought it was all from "clawdbot" being renamed to "moltbot" to "openclaw". Thought everyone stuck with the lobster meme simply because of the claude code origins of clawdbot.

canadiantimon Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills

Very nice.

Though, I am looking forward to the next generation of AI agents that aren't named after a lobster

canadiantimon IronClaw: a Rust-based clawd that runs tools in isolated WASM sandboxes

Reminds me of the LocalGPT that was posted recently too (but which hasnt been updated in 7 months), so nice to see a newer rust-based implementation!

canadiantimon Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed

agent skills, or use claude code to iteratively condense an MCP you want to use into only its most essential tools for your workflow

canadiantimon Everyone’s building “async agents,” but almost no one can define them

Thanks for sharing, that distinction is very helpful.

canadiantimon Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models

It's literally part of the definition. Qualia is a well recognized term in neuroscience.

I suspect maybe you haven't done much research into this area? Qualia is pretty well established and has been for a long time.

Animals may have qualia, that's true. Though we can only be sure of our own qualia, because that's all we have access to. Qualia is the constituent parts that make up our subjective conscious experience, the atomized subjective experience, like the color red or the taste of sour.

canadiantimon Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models

Actually consciousness has been well studied and many papers already exist describing the elementary mechanics of consciousness. Look up neuroscience papers on qualia, for example and you’ll find your answers as to why consciousness is a privileged access not available to AI or any machine. Eg humans have qualia, which are fundamentally irreducible, while AI does not and cannot.

canadiantimon Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models

You're wrong about this: "People need to let go of this strange and erroneous idea that humans somehow have this privileged access to the 'real world'. You don't."

People do have a privileged access to the 'real world' compared to, for example, LLMs and any future AI. It's called: Consciousness and it is how we experience and come to know and understand the world. Consciousness is the privileged access that AI will never have.

canadiantimon Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)

I like the use of happends in this context, a good mixture of tenses

canadiantimon You Are Here

Depends if I can bundle the technical debt, get a triple AAA rating on it and then sell it

canadiantimon Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite

What do you think of the approach that pg_roll takes?

Seems like the top contenders, at least for Postgres, are:

sqldef: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845239

pgschema: https://github.com/pgschema/pgschema

pg_roll: https://github.com/xataio/pgroll

atlas: https://github.com/ariga/atlas

grate (minimal SQL-based migrations): https://grate-devs.github.io/grate/

pg-schema-diff: https://github.com/stripe/pg-schema-diff

results: https://github.com/djrobstep/results

https://david.rothlis.net/declarative-schema-migration-for-s...

canadiantimon Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite

pg_roll from xata also a worthy consideration

canadiantimon Claude Opus 4.6

You’ve been sitting on that pun just waiting for it to take flight

canadiantimon Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite

Looks great! Could this work with duckdb?

canadiantimon The Physics of Ideas: Reality as a Coordination Problem

If placebo’s didn’t have clinical effects we wouldn’t be controlling for them in every scientific study

canadiantimon xAI joins SpaceX

Plus I suspect the sun is already sentient no need to reinvent the sun

canadiantimon Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model

https://github.com/code-yeongyu/oh-my-opencode

canadiantimon Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending

Reminds me of claude-trace: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/2/claude-trace/

canadiantimon UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M

in every democracy or other system of government, it's the same.

canadiantimon Show HN: I Built a Sandbox for Agents

This relies on the agent requesting a sandbox... which seems like the fox guarding the hen house, no?

canadiantimon A History of Haggis (2019)

Actually so delicious, with peeves

canadiantimon Show HN: Dotenv Mask Editor: No more embarrassing screen leaks of your .env

A selfie tripod

canadiantimon 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos

Arguably we don’t actually vote for leaders in Canada as much as we vote against leaders.

canadiantimon 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos

Which he had a supply and confidence agreement with because they were indistinguishable during Trudeau’s reign.

canadiantimon 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos

It’s an allusion to him previously working as a Goldman sachs banker, Goldman sachs is lovingly referred to as a vampire squid, its tentacles are everywhere.

canadiantimon 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos

He only won because trump said he wanted to make Canada the 51st state and the opposition party didn’t pivot or adjust their campaign to Trump’s rhetoric.

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Isn't the Occam's Razor solution to MH370 that an artificially-created gravitational portal disappeared the plane?