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My wife and I have been working exactly on this for some time now. We are building a companion for families to help you keep your life, career, physical and mental health in order in the challenging times when you raise a family and are building your career.

We are running a small trial group right now to optimize the experience and see how people and real non-tech families react to this.

We are a tiny startup and our business is not data nor customer addiction. We will simply be charging our customers and put them at the center of our focus. We are honestly trying to understand what can genuinely be helpful to families and make all the innovations that we are seeing available to them.

This is not targeted to the HN crowd; yes, you can hack your assistant with a bunch of Claude/Codex automations and be happy! 100% possible and also fun to do. This is for everyone else that has no time/skills/intention to sit in front of a laptop for this.

I saw the post yesterday but decided to not write right away and wait for the post to slow down as we are supposed to be in a closed trial since each user costs us money right out of our pockets and there is no monetization yet.

But if someone is genuinely interested and wants to give it a try and keep in touch, here is the link:

https://empla.io/ai-employees/family-assistant

We are actively rolling out features and optimizing the experience all the time, so pardon the rough edges!

The problem is that they measure this, and if it's true for many they will just change it until they find the right way to keep you there. It's a giant machine dedicated to turn users into addicts. Regulation (sad) and most of all education is the only things that I believe can help here.

Tax them -> spend in education.... not that I think it will happen though! :)

Isn't building a 90% frontier model relatively cheap for EU?

I feel like EU could start a company, start from available open weight models, feed 2bln a year into it (1% of the EU budget) and make a compelling almost SOTA model for the EU market. This company could partner with datacenter providers and sell it hosted in the EU or somewhere else with EU protection terms. The budget for this company would easily double with the added revenues and you are creating an ecosystem of providers that can compete with US big-techs and have a 500 million people market that can't wait to ditch US companies for them, given the current mood.

The model can be open weight and it's an easy way to compound the efforts we are seeing in China without even having to talk to each other. Maybe there is a way to make it work not open weights but I am not sure how would that work.

These are those kind of decisions that seem such no brainers to me, which probably means I am completely out of touch with reality.

actually you can buy inference on third party providers that serve deepseek v4 pro with zero data retention (ZDR).

I am wondering if this is why they can offer their pro model at ~1/4th of the price compared to the other providers offering the same model, and if other providers will be able to do the same in a short timeframe.

Internet is more and more becoming a commercialization platform. If you are selling something on your website, you still want Google (or ChatGPT for that matters) to expose customers to your product. The gate is the actual delivery of the product is behind a purchase/signup. Google and others want to control the entire customer journey, to the point the your website is simply a way to pass metadata to them. They are actually achieving this!

this kills the entire internet vibe of the 90s, early 2k

Honestly UX became irrelevant in the last years (infra as code) and even more in the last year (coding agents). What you need is well structured API and a CLI that does not limit you. You can call it UX if you want, but the skillset is different.

When I started my latest project my first rule was: I never have to login to AWS console. I didn’t achieve ‘never’ but I am pretty close and the experience is a lot better

Question. How does it work if I own a repository (opt out, don't use copilot) and I give access to someone else (use is opted in and uses copilot). Do you train on his submissions of my code? How can you know what that he has the right to share the code with you for training?

while I agree, I understood this is only when you use copilot? if not, their communication is very misleading

exactly what I do. they are still annoying because providers want to me to be engaged on their terms and keep pushing these features and don’t offer a broad “never use bluetooth on any website ever” kind of option. Magic of KPIs

anyway the point here is that I don’t really care if Safari is behind in support. The article was about blaming Safari for being behind.

You might want your browser to do Bluetooth, NFC, Background stuff, Face Detection but I don't.

I like to use Apple products for things that are commodities to me because I am not gonna look into the details of those and when I do Apple reasoning often make sense to me (just like this list).

There is a lot more we can criticize about these big tech corps (including Apple) than a product decision for a company that is known for making polarizing decisions on behalf of their customers. If people buy it... they must like it, no?

You guys probably already know but I saw a live demo of something very similar from these guys:

https://bright.ai/autonomous-inspection/

definitely where we want to be as a society! Keep up!

My question is: is safer than average human good enough?

When I drive I have the option to choose to be safe or not. When a computer drives I lose that option. So for 49% of the people, safer than the average human is less safe than before.

I think we need to reach "Safer than the safest 10% of humans".

Also these reports should be done by a government agency.

Hi! Yes, the premise is exactly to review how 'stable' agents would be if left unsupervised in an end-2-end scenario.

But this is probably unrealistic now, hence the experiment. I think people will be less skeptical the more they interact with these kind of entities and slowly develop trust.

That's why we developed agents with an identity and primarily around email in order to 'plug' them into company processes slowly and naturally. That's the core idea of the main project this experiment spawn off of.

Hi HN,

I’m running a public experiment in multi-agent coordination: can a small team of independent AI employees collaborate toward a shared objective using the same tools regular companies already use?

In this experiment, each AI employee has a specific identity (role, personality, scope, and permissions) and their own email address and access to corporate tools. They coordinate primarily over email and a shared Google Sheet, plus they connect to the paper brokerage account (I use Alpaca Markets).

Platypi Capital is the “sandbox”: the team runs a paper trading portfolio. The employees research, debate, propose trades and strategies, do risk checks, and execute trades (paper money) as a coordinated workflow, then publish positions/orders/performance. This is completely transparent and realtime on the website.

This is not a real fund. This is an experiment on how AIs coordinate together. Trades are executed with paper money on a simulated brokerage account, and nothing here is financial advice. This is part of a broader effort I’m working on to build an “AI employees” product.

I would love to get the HN crowd feedback! :)

Link: https://platypi.empla.io

Thanks!

It's a European (maybe rest of the world) thing.

It's interesting how different dishwashers are in US and Europe. Two main things for me:

- Salt: European dishwashers have embedded water softeners and you add salt once in a while. Only super high end ones have it in US.

- Water heater: European dishwasher expect to receive cold water and they heat it internally; US ones expect hot water and only partially boost the temperature (sometimes). That's why you have to run hot water before starting the dishwasher

Always wondered how we ended up like this...

Can’t you heat exchange inside the satellite, and make one part of the satellite incredibly hot so that it radiates a lot and dissipates.

This is just a question. I have no expertise at all with this.

I don't think that kind of difference in benchmarks has any meaning at all. Your agentic coding tool and the task you are working on introduce a lot more "noise" than that small delta.

Also consider they are all overfitting on the benchmark itself so there might be that as well (which can go in either directions)

I consider the top models practically identical for coding applications (just personal experience with heavy use of both GPT5.2 and Opus 4.5).

Excited to see how this model compares in real applications. It's 1/5th of the price of top models!!

fyi: it does not build for me from the source code.

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I think you misunderstood him for me. Regardless, giving up is not something I mentioned. You guys just inferred it. I just feel we need to approach the battle very differently. What we have been doing it's not working.

Privacy for me is not that important. I have nothing to hide, nothing I am ashamed of. For me it's more of a way of protecting from abuse that a need of its own. I realize it's just me and I do advocate for privacy, but if you look around: we lost. Our data is everywhere and there are no consequences whatsoever. PS: I did mention in my original comment that Google and many others already send drones with cameras to spy on your backyard and that is considered "fine". I am not inviting them to come to your house; they are already doing it. Just check Google Maps.

Honestly I think privacy is lost. Regardless of what side you were (big fan of privacy here) I feel we have nothing to do but move on and think how to live in a world without privacy.

I never wanted privacy anyway: I wanted no discrimination, inclusion, healthy democracy, etc, etc.

Privacy has always been a tool for me.

At this point, selective privacy like we are experiencing today (we cannot know what’s in the epstein files, but google can send a drone and look into my backyard) serves none of the things I am interested in!

People don't hate automation. They hate BAD automation.

From your description seems like: Waymo -> Good Automation, Call Center -> Bad Automation.

The day we will have a chatgpt level automated customer care experience, we will complain every time humans answer our requests, with their accents and attitudes!

Do you have examples of targeted protections against foreign companies? Everything that comes to mind to me applies to all companies local or foreign.

I think a more interesting question is: who is “self”? US is historically more prone to favor business, while EU seems more concerned in protecting consumers. And of course there is the noise generated by incompetence/corruption/lobbying that makes the question of “in the interest of whom are laws made?” very nuanced.

just to note that if “30% voted for this” participation was roughly 60%

Can someone explain to me why EU VAT is considered a tariff, while US sales taxes are not? They both seem a sale tax to me.

Memory Bandwidth 273 GB/s

Not comparable with an H series gpu. I am not sure what kind of applications make sense but I am sure that if it sells enough, developers will find a way to squeeze good stuff out of this.

you can just make a law that websites are required to flag the html for pages that contain rated content so that isp and parents can filter whatever they want. all without infringung on people freedom.

i am sure smarter people than me can come up with an even better solution. this honestly just feel more like imposing religious values than anything else

I agree. It’s as easy as that if you respect people having different values. But these laws come from a “my god told me that this is right” mindset and you can’t really argue with that. if this is what people want, so be it. who cares!