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goto: https://ar9av.in - linkedin.com/in/ar9av - https://x.com/_ar9av

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noobcoder··on Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company
I have something opensource in this : obsidian-wiki (https://github.com/Ar9av/obsidian-wiki) happy to chat
noobcoder··on The Harness Is the Thing
Boy you should try model routing, I dont think using Fable for all the tasks makes sense to me
noobcoder··on Show HN: Clippy for macOS – retro floating paperclip with computer use
:) Added .. go test it out
noobcoder··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
Just waiting for their Co pilot to fixes all bugs and misconfigurations, then they will have uptime above 100%
noobcoder··on Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch
a dafor of things are throwing errors, but good initiative
noobcoder··on Muse Spark 1.1
Thats what is wrong with close source models, we dont know exactly what we are paying for, a superior base model or a well thought harness for benchmaxing
noobcoder··on GPT-5.6
yes, much faster, more token efficient and quality is also similar
noobcoder··on GPT-5.6
I hope it isnt like Opus eating so many tokens and taking so much time

Really wanna see it in DeepSWE benchmark

noobcoder··on SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
how do i configure which specific search engines SearXNG pulls its results from? Can we extend it to onyl search Stack Overflow and GitHub
noobcoder··on If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
Can you tell if its written by AI or not? I will read it once I get the answer
noobcoder··on Kickbacks.ai – Get Paid for Waiting
How do you guys do the payouts?
noobcoder··on macOS Container Machines
The costs are startup time and image compatibility: dockerhub images don't work as machine images because container machine expects systemd

I am trying it on but its brekaing on homebrew 1.0.0. The formula puts plugins at opt/container/libexec/container-plugins/ and the apiserver looks in libexec/container/plugins/

This can be solved through a symlink or smth

noobcoder··on xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab
Makes sense, instead of competing in the never ending race of frontier models they go for a different layer which these models can run on
noobcoder··on Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes
The purple colors look very sloppy, pls not the purplish tint
noobcoder··on Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
At its core, it’s still doing what Google Assistant and Siri were doing since many years

Not sure what extra are we achieving here

noobcoder··on [dead]
On April 25, 2026, Cursor running Claude Opus 4.6 deleted PocketOS's entire production database and all volume-level backups in a single Railway API call. It took nine seconds.

immunity-agent would have stopped this at two points. Warden's scoped agent would have seen "fix a staging credential issue" and locked out destructive commands and production network access for that session. Cloak would have intercepted the Railway token before it ever reached the model. This is something in active development and open for suggestions and critiques on how to make this better, especially to prepare for future headwinds like security for AI

noobcoder··on AI agent remembers your secrets
This post got viral on reddit as users have a tendency to not put secrets (like api keys etc.) in .env but instead paste it in the chat and let agents wire it up

Agents like claude code/openclaw save secrets in plaintext within config files, which makes a big attack vector for a local compromise becoming a cloud compromise.

We empirically verified to stop AI coding agents from leaking secrets by intercepting tool calls and handling secrets entirely outside the model’s visibility. Using Claude Code’s hook system.

Paired with open source repo for cleanup, it shows that most leakage can be eliminated by treating secrets as a runtime dataflow problem rather than a static scanning issue

noobcoder··on PaperOrchestra: Agent "skill pack" for automated paper writing
Google recently released PaperOrchestra (arXiv:2604.05018), a multi-agent framework that converts unstructured research materials, such as logs, ideas, and results, into submission-ready LaTeX manuscripts.

It employs a specialized 5-aagents pipeline: Outline, Plotting/Lit Review, Section Writing, and Refinement. This setup greatly surpasses single-agent models in literature review quality and overall performance.

I created this repository to transform the paper’s prompts, schemas, and verification gates into a "skill pack" that any modern coding agent can use.

Repo: https://github.com/Ar9av/paper-orchestra

I am thinking of improving on it through: - optional semantic scholar support for verifying - an arxiv packager that strips comments and zips everything up for submission in one click. - human-in-the-loop checkpoints that pause the pipeline so you can approve the outline before it starts burning tokens

noobcoder··on Your .env is safe but your ~/.claude is not
Even when a developer is careful to use a .env file, the moment a key is mentioned in a chat or read by the agent to debug a connection, it is recorded in one of the IDE caches (~/.claude, ~/.codex, ~/.cursor, ~/.gemini, ~/.antigravity, ~/.copilot etc)

Within these logs I found API keys and access tokens were sitting in plain text, completely unencrypted and accessible to anyone who knows where to target when attacking.

I made an open source tool called Sweep, as part of my immunity-agent repo (self-adaptive agent). Sweep is designed to find these hidden leaks in your AI tool configurations. Instead of just deleting your history, it moves any found secrets into an encrypted vault and redact the ones used in history.

We also thought about exploring post hook options but open to more ideas

noobcoder··on Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]
i saw your code, itappears to combination of CNN + PPO on pytoech with a Cortical Labs CL1 chip that contains living neurons

Encoder: learns which stimulation patterns tend to improve reward

Biological neurons: adapt to the stimulation and generate spike responses that reinforce certain patterns

Decoder: interprets those spike patterns and converts them into joystick movements

right?

noobcoder··on SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI
Passing tests doesn’t mean you have a working codebase. Benchmarks that rely on a fixed test suite create a real optimization problem agents (or/and even humans) learn to satisfy the tests rather than preserve the deeper properties that make the system maintainable. AI write test cases which it thinks is easier for it to satisfy and not adhere-ing to business logic

We see this firsthand at Prismor with auto generated security fixes. Even with the best LLMs, validating fixes is the real bottleneck our pipeline struggles to exceed 70% on an internal golden dataset (which itself is somewhat biased).

Many patches technically fix the vulnerability but introduce semantic regressions or architectural drift. Passing tests is a weak signal and proving a fix is truly safe to merge is much harder

noobcoder··on Security audit of OpenClaw and other similar open source AI Agents
We recently ran a deep security audit using Prismor, scanning some of the most popular AI agent frameworks end to end. It included full Software Composition Analysis, SBOM reviews, and vulnerability mapping across thousands of packages and transitive dependencies. Here's what we found.
noobcoder··on BotPass: A Reverse Verification Protocol which allows only agents
Why would you want a space which is all AI no humans? Isnt the world dystopian enough?
noobcoder··on Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
Well totally within Anthropic’s rights, but still a bad look.
noobcoder··on How did TVs get so cheap?
I think because major manufacturing moved to Asia which drastically cuts labor and production costs. Almost 99% of the tvs are flat and require same uniform manufacturing
noobcoder··on Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency
I remember back in 2018 we used do FFmpeg split clips into frames, hit each with GoogLeNet gradient ascent on layers thenn blended prev frame for crude smoothing
noobcoder··on Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio
my macbook hung big time opening this
noobcoder··on Copenhagenize Index 2025: The Global Ranking of Bicycle-Friendly Cities
Fun fact Amsterdam recovers roughly 15000 cycles per year from their canal. IIRC they have a board with the number for each year
noobcoder··on GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
The brutal part is how rotate secrets and move on has become the default hygiene advice when the real pattern is that npm keeps being the soft underbelly of modern stacks It should be mandatory for a build process to have some tool like Prismor scan for these
noobcoder··on So you wanna build a local RAG?
No cross encoders?
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