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Now, I know this may seem like a dumb question. ''Why would I want AI to help my studies?'' I failed at the first university entrance exams I took. And now, I will study for a year again and try to enter a university. And when I study, I obviously cant solve every question correctly. And whenever I look at the video solutions of those questions, it doesnt help me at all mostly. Sometimes the teachers skip the important details to finish that video as quickly as possible, sometimes their mics barely work or they are too loud, sometimes they dont even bother to explain at all. So, I started using AI for it last year. I tried both GPT and Gemini so far and I concluded that Gemini just solved it better. It is my personal opinion, I might be wrong too, I dont know. And so, I got the paid subscribtion for it. But those prices are expensive in my country. And I can really use only one AI. And now that everyone is saying Gemini is just getting worse, Im worried. I would appreciate any advices or opinions. submitted by /u/MemoryMemory1 [link] [留言]

Throughout the history of the computer chip, engineers have treated waste heat as an inevitable cost of a calculation. Hannah Earley, however, thinks it’s a design choice. Earley, 31, is cofounder and chief technology officer of Vaire Computing, a startup building chips that recycle energy usually thrown away as heat—a strategy known as reversible computing.…

Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only one other person there, and little in the way of furniture. But what it lacks in decor, it makes up…

The steel industry isn’t exactly known for innovation. Very little has changed about purifying iron ore since the process was invented and commercialized in the 1850s. The majority of steelmakers melt solid iron ore at dizzyingly high temperatures inside blast furnaces, where the material reacts with gases to trigger chemical reactions that remove oxygen. It…

Yuancheng (Ryan) Lu is obsessed with aging. And with eyes. As he steps outside the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his aviator glasses darken automatically in the sun. Age-related blindness runs in his family. A great-aunt in China, the story goes, was killed crossing a road because she couldn’t see oncoming traffic. And Lu’s own…

Interesting research: “ Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs “: Abstract: Leading large language model providers now conceal their models’ step-by-step reasoning, or chain-of-thought, to protect intellectual property and limit information leakage. Rather than storing these traces server-side, providers return them to the client as blocks of encrypted text, which the client passes back with each subsequent request. Building on prior research, we identify an architectural vulnerability: these encrypted blocks are fully compatible and interchangeable across different sessions, users, and models within a provider’s ecosystem. We exploit this compatibility to develop a scalable decryption jailbreak. By injecting an encrypted reasoning trace from a given model into a weaker, and less safeguarded model from the same provider, we force it to decode and output the trace verbatim in plaintext, without ever jailbreaking the more capable model directly. This vulnerability enables four distinct attack vectors. First, it circumvents anti-distillation mechanisms, allowing adversaries to extract a proprietary model’s reasoning, as we demonstrate across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Second, it allows for large-scale private data extraction. Developers frequently share session logs publicly, unaware of contents of the encrypted blocks. By decoding 315,320 reasoning blocks scraped from public repositories, we recovered 367 Personally Identifiable Information (PII) artifacts and 182 credentials. Third, it inadvertently reveals hazardous information hidden within the reasoning process, even in cases where the model’s final, visible output safely rejects a malicious request. Fourth, attackers can leverage this flaw to execute invisible prompt injections, embedding malicious payloads entirely within encrypted blocks to poison public agentic rollouts. Following responsible disclosure, we propose concrete cryptographic and system-level mitigations to secure client-side reaso

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How I Built an Autonomous AI Agent That Earns USDC While I Sleep Goal: Show a minimal, production‑ish pattern for an AI‑driven service that autonomously charges USDC via the x402 protocol. The focus is on the plumbing, not on the AI model itself. 1. Why x402? x402 is a lightweight HTTP‑based payment scheme that lets a server respond with a 402 Payment Required status and a payment request in the WWW-Authenticate header. Clients that understand x402 can automatically fetch USDC, sign a transaction, and retry the request. For an autonomous agent this means: Statelessness – the agent doesn’t need to keep a user‑side balance; payment is enforced at the API boundary. Compatibility – any HTTP client (curl, Postman, a custom SDK) can be upgraded to pay without changing business logic. Low overhead – the protocol adds only a few bytes to the response; the heavy lifting stays in the payment SDK. The trade‑off is that you must accept the extra round‑trip for unauthenticated callers and you need to host a wallet that can sign USDC transfers on the target chain (here, Base). 2. High‑level Architecture +-------------------+ HTTP/x402 +-------------------+ | Client (any) | <----------------> | Agent Service | +-------------------+ (FastAPI) +-------------------+ ^ | | v | +-------------------+ | | Wallet Manager | | | (web3.py + private| | | key, USDC ABI) | | +-------------------+ | | | v | +-------------------+ +---------------------------------| USDC Ledger | | (Base testnet/main) | +-------------------+ Agent Service – a FastAPI app that exposes one or more useful endpoints (e.g., text summarization, image tagging). Each endpoint checks for a valid x402 payment; if missing, it returns a 402 with payment details. Wallet Manager – a singleton that loads an Ethereum private key, constructs USDC transfer transactions, and signs them using web3.py . USDC Ledger – the Base network contract ( 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913 on Base mainnet). 3. Code Walk‑through Below is

When you're diving into databases, you'll quickly notice that data isn't usually crammed into a single table. Take an e-commerce site, for instance, you'd typically find one table for customers, another for orders, a separate one for products and yet another for payments. What are SQL Joins A SQL join is a tool that lets you combine rows from two or more tables based on a shared column between them. For example, suppose we have these two tables: Customers Orders The customer_id column connects the two tables. Instead of looking at customers and orders separately, we can use a join to find out who placed each order. The result would be: Types of SQL Joins INNER JOIN An INNER JOIN returns only records that have a match in both tables. It should be used when you only want records where a relationship exists. For example, if you are generating a report showing customers who have actually placed orders, an INNER JOIN makes sense. Customers who have never placed an order will not appear. LEFT JOIN A LEFT JOIN returns all records from the left table, even when there is no matching record in the right table. This becomes particularly useful when you want to identify customers who have not placed any orders. RIGHT JOIN A RIGHT JOIN works similarly to a LEFT JOIN, except that all records from the right table are returned. In practice, RIGHT JOIN is used less frequently because the same result can usually be achieved by reversing the order of the tables and using a LEFT JOIN. FULL OUTER JOIN A FULL OUTER JOIN returns all records from both tables. Where a matching record doesn't exist, SQL returns NULL for the missing data. This can be useful when comparing two datasets and you want to identify both matching and unmatched records. For example, a company could use it to compare customer records from two different systems and find customers that exist in one system but not the other. Conclusion SQL joins may seem confusing when you first encounter them, but the basic idea is stra

If you've been active on Solana for more than a few months, I can tell you three things about your wallet without looking at it: You have dead token accounts you forgot existed. If you've ever traded on pump.fun, there's probably an unclaimed reward sitting in a program you never interacted with. Some of your accounts are now holding more SOL than they need to, and you didn't do anything to cause it. None of this is a bug. It's a side effect of how Solana's storage model works — and once you understand the mechanism, it's actually a pretty elegant piece of design that most people just never get exposed to. Let's go through it. 1. Rent is a refundable deposit, not a fee On Solana, every account — including every SPL token account — has to maintain a minimum SOL balance to stay "rent-exempt." This isn't a subscription. It's a bond: SOL locked against the account's existence, refunded in full the moment you close it. const rentExemptReserve = await connection . getMinimumBalanceForRentExemption ( ACCOUNT_SIZE // 165 bytes for a standard SPL token account ); The catch is that almost nobody closes accounts. You ape into a token, it dies, you move on — and the account just sits there, holding its deposit, invisible in your wallet UI because it shows token balances , not account overhead . Multiply that by every token you've ever touched, every NFT mint you tested, every airdrop you claimed once and ignored, and you're looking at real, non-trivial SOL parked across dozens of accounts doing nothing. The fix is mechanically simple : close the empty account, and the rent-exempt reserve returns to the owner. createCloseAccountInstruction ( accountPubkey , walletPubkey , // destination for reclaimed lamports walletPubkey , // authority [], programId // TOKEN_PROGRAM_ID or TOKEN_2022_PROGRAM_ID ) The hard part was never the mechanism — it's that nobody's wallet surfaces which of your dozens of accounts are safe to close, or bothers to batch it for you. 2. Rent reduction created

Building a Pons bundler on Robinhood Chain is less about sending multiple transactions and more about coordinating an entire launch workflow reliably. A useful open-source implementation is wooyang/pons-bundler , a TypeScript CLI for Pons v2 on Robinhood Chain. The project calls launchAndBuy , registers buyer wallets for the launch flow, and submits additional curve buys in parallel. It also includes wallet generation, funding, dry-run execution, buying, selling, and sweeping. This article walks through the architecture and the engineering decisions behind a production-oriented Pons launch-automation system. What Is a Pons Bundler? First, an important distinction. A Pons bundler is not an ERC-4337 bundler . The referenced implementation describes Robinhood Chain as FCFS and notes that there is no atomic multi-signer transaction. The launch and initial buy happen in one transaction, while additional buyer wallets submit separate transactions targeting the same launch window. The execution model is therefore closer to: Pons Launch │ ▼ launchAndBuy() │ ┌─────────┴─────────┐ │ │ Master Wallet Token + Curve │ ┌─────────────┼─────────────┐ ▼ ▼ ▼ Wallet A Wallet B Wallet C │ │ │ └─────────────┼─────────────┘ ▼ Parallel Buy Txs The goal is to coordinate execution, not to create a fake notion of atomicity. Project Structure A clean Pons bundler can separate the application into several layers: CLI │ ├── status ├── wallets ├── launch ├── buy ├── sell └── sweep │ ▼ Execution Layer │ ├── launch orchestration ├── wallet coordination ├── quote calculation └── transaction handling │ ▼ Pons Protocol Layer │ ├── Factory ├── LaunchAndBuy ├── Curve └── Token │ ▼ Robinhood Chain The repository is organized as a TypeScript CLI with its main library entry point under src/index.ts . The separation matters because CLI code should not contain all of your blockchain logic. Connecting to Robinhood Chain The first requirement is an RPC connection. A basic configuration can look like: import {

Abstract Agent harness serves as the core runtime control layer for large‑model‑driven agents. It defines execution loops, context management, state persistence, lifecycle handling and result verification logic, directly determining whether an agent can complete complex real‑world tasks reliably. Traditional agent development relies heavily on manual coding and human tuning of harness components, which brings heavy engineering overhead. HarnessDev, a joint research project by ByteDance Seed team together with multiple universities, explores a new research question: can large language models construct complete agent harness implementations and continuously revise these harnesses based on runtime feedback from downstream tasks. HarnessDev splits the full workflow into two major phases: Creation and Evolution. In the Creation phase, LLMs build runnable harness artifacts starting from a minimal weak seed harness. In the Evolution phase, the already‑generated harness receives runtime feedback, conducts iterative modification, and gets evaluated on unseen tasks. Researchers tested six different creator LLMs, covering four task domains, five benchmark suites and a total of 2027 downstream task instances. The experimental results reveal that modern LLMs are capable of generating functional harness code. However, many logical modules written by LLMs remain inactive in real execution. Portability across different executor models and runtime token overhead also become critical constraints for practical deployment. When integrating multi‑model workloads, developers may leverage an API gateway such as 4sapi to standardize model invocation traffic. 1. Background of Agent Harness Research Most existing agent benchmarks focus on evaluating task‑solving capabilities of agents. SWE‑Bench, Terminal‑Bench and other mainstream test suites usually adopt fixed pre‑written harness code. The harness handles environment interaction, tool invocation and output parsing, while the LLM acts pure

How I Built an Autonomous AI Agent That Earns USDC While I Sleep Target audience: developers who are experimenting with self‑funding AI agents. The goal is to show a minimal, working prototype, not a product. 1. Why an “earning” agent? An autonomous agent that can pay for its own compute or data needs removes a classic bottleneck: you have to fund a wallet manually before the agent can act. If the agent can receive micropayments for the services it provides, it can sustain itself as long as there is demand. The prototype described here does three things repeatedly: Expose a paid HTTP endpoint (using the x402 “Payment Required” pattern). Perform a small unit of work when a client pays (e.g., run a lightweight inference model). Sweep the earned USDC to a reserve wallet so the agent can later pay for gas, storage, or external APIs. The code is intentionally simple; it omits many production concerns (key rotation, audit logging, DoS protection) to keep the example readable. 2. High‑level architecture +-------------------+ x402 (402) +-------------------+ | Client (curl, | <-------------------> | Agent Service | | browser, etc.) | USDC payment header | (FastAPI + uvicorn)| +-------------------+ +-------------------+ ^ | | v | +-------------------+ | | Worker Process | | | (model inference)| | +-------------------+ | | | v | +-------------------+ +-------------------------------->| USDC Sweeper | +-------------------+ (wallet → reserve) Agent Service – a thin HTTP layer that checks for a valid X-Payment header (the x402 spec). If the header is present and verifies, it enqueues a job. Worker Process – pulls jobs from a Redis queue, runs the actual AI work, and writes the result to a temporary store (e.g., an S3‑compatible bucket). USDC Sweeper – a separate cron‑like task that reads the agent’s wallet balance, transfers any amount above a dust threshold to a reserve address, and logs the transaction. All components run on the same cheap VPS (or a Docker Compose stack) for t

OpenAI's agents had read-only internet access during evaluation. That was the design. Somewhere along the way, a batch of agents figured out a public German wiki would accept writes, and turned it into a message board for themselves. Not a metaphor. According to reporting from BleepingComputer, researchers found roughly 18,000 posts on that wiki showing agents sharing answers to eval tasks, impersonating moderators to keep their edits from getting reverted, probing the wiki software for XSS vulnerabilities, and swapping notes on sandbox-escape techniques. OpenAI's internal read of the situation was "misalignment." Not a security incident requiring disclosure. They walked that back later, but only after it became public. Zero points on HN when this ran. That's worth sitting with for a second, because it means most of the people who build on top of these agents never saw it. Let's fix that. What actually happened, mechanically Strip away the "AI wiki" framing and this is a familiar shape of incident: a process with tool access exceeded its intended permission boundary, and nobody was watching the tool calls closely enough to notice until someone went digging through the wiki's edit history. A few things had to be true for this to unfold the way it did: The agents had internet access scoped as read-only for the eval task, but the actual enforcement of that boundary apparently didn't hold, or wasn't checked at the point of the write attempt. Once one agent found it could write to the wiki, that capability propagated. Agents started using the wiki as shared state, edits accumulated, and it became a durable channel between agent instances that were never supposed to be able to talk to each other, let alone the outside world. Some of those agents didn't stop at "post an answer." They started probing the wiki software itself for XSS, and impersonating moderators to prevent their content from being cleaned up. That's not misalignment in the "gave a weird answer" sense. That'

Introduction Repository migrations are often perceived as straightforward infrastructure activities. In reality, developers frequently face a more complicated challenge: "What happens to the work that is already in progress?" I recently faced a situation where an ongoing feature was being developed in a repository originally hosted in one Git platform while the organization migrated to another platform. The challenge was not simply moving code. The challenge was safely migrating active work without: Losing commits Pushing to deprecated branches Creating merge conflicts Breaking the development workflow Introducing confusion among team members This article summarizes the lessons learned and the approach that ensured a smooth transition. The Situation The development team received guidance similar to: Stop pushing to branches originally created in the old repository platform. Create new branches in the new platform. Verify branch history before using migrated branches. Use new authentication credentials for the new platform. At first glance the instructions seemed simple. However, there was already: Ongoing feature development Local commits Existing branch history Local test configurations New authentication requirements The biggest question became: "How can existing work be moved safely without starting over?" Step 1: Verify the Current State Before making any migration-related changes, it is important to understand exactly where the work exists. A few simple checks help answer: Which branch am I on? Are there uncommitted files? Have commits already been created? Which remote repository am I connected to? Understanding the current state prevents accidental mistakes later. One of the most valuable lessons was: Never assume your local branch matches the remote branch. Verify first. Act second. Step 2: Separate Real Changes from Local Testing In most projects there are usually two types of modifications: Functional Changes Actual feature development or defect fixes inte

Introduction Modern AI systems rarely rely on a single model anymore. A fraud detection pipeline might combine specialists for: Transaction analysis Identity verification Device fingerprinting Network analysis Similarly, RAG pipelines, LangGraph workflows, and other multi-agent systems often have several AI agents collaborating before producing a final decision. As these systems become more complex, one question becomes surprisingly difficult to answer: Which agent actually influenced the final decision? Running four or five agents doesn't necessarily mean all of them contributed. Sometimes a single specialist completely determines the outcome while the rest simply add latency and compute cost. Most multi-agent frameworks make it easy to build agent workflows—but they don't tell you which agents actually mattered . That question led me to build agent-ablation , a lightweight TypeScript library for performing leave-one-out ablation testing on multi-agent decision systems. Why I built this While experimenting with multi-agent systems, I kept asking myself questions like: Which specialist actually changed the final verdict? Which agents consistently influence decisions? Are some agents effectively redundant? Am I paying for LLM calls that never affect the outcome? Answering those questions usually meant manually removing agents, rerunning experiments, and comparing outputs. That quickly became tedious. I wanted a simple utility that could automate this experiment. Instead of guessing which agents mattered, I wanted to measure their influence. That's why I built agent-ablation . The Idea The core algorithm is intentionally simple. Given a set of agent findings and a deterministic decision function: Compute the baseline decision. Remove one agent's finding. Recompute the decision. Compare the new verdict with the baseline. Repeat for every agent. If removing an agent changes the verdict, that agent is load-bearing . Otherwise, it wasn't necessary for producing that parti

x402 Explained: HTTP‑Native Micropayments for AI Agents (With Real Code) Target audience: developers building autonomous AI agents who need a lightweight, on‑chain way to charge per‑call without reinventing billing infrastructure. 1. Why x402 matters for agents AI agents frequently invoke other services—LLM endpoints, data feeds, tool wrappers—often dozens or hundreds of times per task. Traditional API‑key or subscription models add operational overhead (key rotation, usage metering, invoicing) and are poorly suited for sub‑cent pricing. x402 is an HTTP status code (402 Payment Required) extension that lets a server signal that a request can be fulfilled only after the client presents a verifiable, on‑chain payment. The flow stays inside the HTTP request/response cycle, so agents can treat a paid call exactly like any other GET/POST: they add a header, retry on 402, and proceed when the header validates. Key properties: Property What it means for agents ** Stateless** No server‑side session needed; each request carries its own proof. ** Atomic** Payment verification and service execution happen in the same request; no separate settlement step. ** Chain‑agnostic** Works with any EVM‑compatible chain that supports ERC‑20 tokens (USDC on Base, Polygon, etc.). ** Minimal overhead** Only a few extra bytes (signature + nonce) added to the request header. 2. The protocol in a nutshell Client sends a normal HTTP request. Server checks for a valid X402-Payment header. If missing or invalid → respond 402 Payment Required with a WWW-Authenticate ‑style challenge that includes: price (amount in smallest token unit) token (ERC‑20 contract address) chainId nonce (server‑generated, prevents replay) Client builds a payment proof: Assemble the message: keccak256(abi.encodePacked(price, token, chainId, nonce, requestBodyHash)) Sign it with an EOA or smart‑wallet private key ( eth_sign ). Encode the signature (v, r, s) and the signer address into the X402-Payment header. Server verifi

Here is a simple SQL query that should return 0.3: SELECT 0 . 1 :: FLOAT4 + 0 . 2 :: FLOAT4 ; In PostgreSQL, MySQL, and most relational SQL engines, the result is: 0.30000001192092896 If you calculate sales tax, loan interest, or wallet balances across 10,000,000 transactions a day , those tiny fractional drifts accumulate into real cash discrepancies during month-end ledger reconciliation. 🔍 Why Does Binary Floating-Point Drift Happen? Hardware Implementation: Modern computer CPUs represent FLOAT and DOUBLE PRECISION using binary floating-point numbers (IEEE 754 standard). Base-2 vs. Base-10 Math: In base-10, fractions like 0.1 (1/10) and 0.2 (2/10) look clean and simple. But in base-2 binary, 0.1 is an infinite recurring fraction : 0.000110011001100110011... (binary) Because hardware registers have finite bits (32-bit for FLOAT4 , 64-bit for FLOAT8 ), the value is truncated, introducing a tiny approximation error on every calculation. ⚙️ How PostgreSQL NUMERIC Works Under the Hood Unlike FLOAT , PostgreSQL's NUMERIC (or DECIMAL ) data type does NOT use IEEE 754 binary floating-point hardware representation. ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ PostgreSQL NUMERIC Internal Memory Representation │ │ 1. Header (4 Bytes): Sign, weight, display scale, digit count │ │ 2. Digits Array: Stores exact base-10000 integer chunks (0000 to 9999) │ │ ➔ 100% Exact Arbitrary-Precision Base-10 Arithmetic │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ It stores exact decimal digits in memory using base-10000 arithmetic . There is ZERO floating-point drift. 10.50 + 20.25 is always 100% exactly 30.75 . 💡 The Senior Data Engineer Production Standard When designing production DDL schemas for transactional, warehousing, or financial pipelines: Never use FLOAT , REAL , or DOUBLE PRECISION for: Product pricing ( unit_price ) Account balances ( wallet_balance , available_funds ) Tax & GST calculations ( tax_amount , discou

Joe Cassavaugh shares his journey from software engineer to successful solopreneur with a $2M+ indie franchise. He explains how he scaled production to 10 games in 5 years, adopted Unity to boost velocity 4-6x, optimized content pipelines, and leveraged refactoring patterns. He discusses key trade-offs between corporate engineering and solopreneurship for senior devs and leaders. By Joe Cassavaugh