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We must not grant AI agents legal personhood 18 by andsoitis | 15 comments on Hacker News.

How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt 29 by olalonde | 3 comments on Hacker News.

How orchids inspired the work of Charles Darwin 6 by prismatic | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP 10 by paulsp | 7 comments on Hacker News. I have been using omarchy on my tower since nearly a year now, shortly after it was released first. I really love the experience I am having with it but I still use my macbook for daly work, so I wanted to recreate a similar experience on it. Thats why I created omacosy, a setup for tiling windows, custom menu bar, some themes from omarchy, focus follows mouse, focus rings around windwos, some mac flavors with trackpad events and a custom mission control overview for your workspaces. I used AeroSpace over yabai for the tiling window manager because I didnt wanted to compromise on SIP which is a mac security feature. It is supposed to be keyboard first like omarchy to move windows organize workspaces etc The setup runs around 157mb of ram and consists of AeroSpace, Karabiner (for the super key), and five small self build swift binaries. I am running it daily on my M1 max macboo...

A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers 9 by albertpedersen | 0 comments on Hacker News. Paper: https://ift.tt/kr8AHMl ("Remote-Timer-as-a-Service: Efficient Microarchitectural Leakage in the Cloud with Remote Timers")

Show HN: Frugal Tokens – explore costs and usage across coding agents 14 by dpc94 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called Frugal Tokens. I originally built it because I was curious to see how much all of my sessions cost and how much cache misses affected that spend. I’d noticed people had widely different spend profiles and wanted to better understand what might contribute to that. As I’ve worked on this, the tool has grown to show more usage patterns across all of your sessions. It shows overall usage, estimated working time and overlapping sessions, and where your spend is coming from across models and cache misses. I also have a few session level metrics with percentile breakdowns, along with a list of your sessions and high level info. Clicking into a session opens an explorer where you can see individual model calls and tool inputs and outputs. You can also jump directly to where a cache miss happened. There’s also a rough cost comp...