The green army men of Toy Story and (for example) the Army Men video games were (searches) 1:35. The ones that were that shade of green (or a particular shade of tan—gotta have the other side) and in those poses with those exact sculpts, that every toy aisle or toy store had (in the ‘80s and ‘90s, in the US) even if they did also have others.
Reminds me of what Frithjof Bergmann called our "poverty of desire" in his (excellent) book: New Work New Culture: Work We Want and a Culture that Strengthens Us
Hi HN – I'm the founder of RecallBricks. I built this after repeatedly running into the same issue while building agents: once agents run beyond a single session, memory falls apart. Context disappears, feedback gets lost, and agents start from zero unless you re-prompt everything.
RecallBricks is plug-and-play memory infrastructure for AI agents. It lets agents store and retrieve durable context – preferences, decisions, feedback, and relationships – independently from the LLM or agent framework being used.
Most existing approaches treat memory as either raw vector search or framework-specific abstractions. That works for demos, but breaks down for long-running or multi-tool agents. We wanted something in between: structured memory with metadata, relationships, and lifecycle rules that persist across sessions and runs.
Under the hood, RecallBricks uses a multi-stage recall pipeline (fast heuristics → contextual retrieval → deeper reasoning when needed). This allows agents to retrieve relevant context without reloading everything into prompts, while keeping recall latency low using pgvector.
One meta detail: once it was usable, I connected Claude to RecallBricks via MCP. Claude now retains memory across the entire multi-month build of RecallBricks itself. I've been using RecallBricks to build RecallBricks.
This is early but live. People are already using it in agent workflows, and I'm actively refining how memories are ranked, linked, and decayed over time.
I'd love feedback from people building agents or long-running AI systems. What kinds of context do your agents lose today? Where do current memory patterns break down? What would make a separate memory layer not worth using?
being able to reply IS the ability to send to an arbitrary address, because the SMTP protocol makes it trivial to SEND an email from any arbitrary address.
I built a deterministic, offline audio analysis system that models long-horizon musical structure:
tension, novelty, fatigue, and impact.
It analyses full tracks and produces interpretable curves and events (drops, stagnation,
transitions). No ML or training data.
This repo is the Python reference implementation used to prototype the kernel behind a real-time C++ DAW plugin. The Python outputs are the "golden" results used to validate the C++ port.
Motivation was simple: I heard Beyoncé’s "Haunted" and wanted to understand why it worked so well structurally.
I was not expecting to LIKE Beyoncé!
That turned into a research artefact I thought others might find interesting.
The c++ repo is defo hard work, will share soon.
The behaviour later turned out to align closely with David Huron’s ITPRA framework, though this project doesn’t attempt to prove it.
> I'm just not willing to upload all these private documents of mine to other people's computers where they're likely to be stored for training or advertising purposes.
And rightfully so. I've been looking at local LLMs because of that and they are slowly getting there. They will not be as "smart" as the big models, but even a 30B model (which you can easily run on a modern Macbook!) can do some summarization.
I just hope software for this will start getting better, because at the moment there is a plethora of apps, none of which are easy to use or even work with a larger number of documents.
Do they like the browser, or do they like the fact that it's not owned by Google?
When I use Firefox, either it's because I don't have a choice (my distro doesn't ship Chromium in a way I like, i.e. not Flatpak) or because I make an effort to "support" Firefox. But once in a while, I need to use Chrom(ium) because the website doesn't work on Firefox. Not that it is necessarily Firefox' fault, but the fact remains that if Chrome was an independent non-profit, I would most likely use Chrome and not Firefox.
"effective antitrust enforcement, and escape regulatory capture"
Give me an example where Antitrust was actually breaking any monopoly.
In the EU and the Microsoft antitrust case, the remedy was to give the best poison to the competitors (free software Samba in that case) in that case royalties over patents.
Antitrust don't work, fines are too low, remedies are not working, and the administration is biased and politicized.
Yeah, though I can imagine a conversation like this:
SWE: "Seriously? import PIL \ read file \ == (c + 10%, m = m, y = y, k = k) \ save file done!"
Exec: "Yeah, and first blogger get's a hold of image #1 they generate, starts saying 'Hey! This thing's been color corrected w/o AI! lol lame'"
Or not, no idea. i've not understood the choice either, besides very intelligent AI-driven auto-touch up for lighting/color correction has been a thing for a while. It's just, for those I end up finding an answer for, maybe 25% of head scratcher decisions do end of having a reasonable, if non intuitive answer for. Here? haven't been able to figure one yet though, or find a reason/mention by someone who appears to have an inside line on it.
I’d love to see long term usage data on MOOCs. They had so much promise though I don’t know anyone who uses them post-LLM though it could be I live in a bubble.
> The EU is just itching for any opportunity to get rid of US tech firms because they’re increasingly seen as sovereignty risks. And while the GDPR fines (that this likely refers to) appear huge on absolute terms, they are still low enough that US firms voluntarily decide to violate those laws and just pay the fines.
That is not even remotely close to the truth. The EU is not itching to get rid of Microsoft nor Windows nor Google. If these companies left tomorrow, the EU will have enormous problems replacing them if that is even possible in the first place.
The EU countries should have had a homegrown version of each US service up and running and on par with their US counterparts a decade ago, then the EU would have had leverage but as it stands, they have none.
Unless you think that every governmental office will switch to Ubuntu tomorrow morning, in which case I have a bridge to sell you.
Not to mention that the entire EU's messaging needs are met via US companies. Let's see how long the EU can last without WhatsApp, IMessage and Facebook Messenger.
My guess is not long unless you want to use Telegram which was most likely backdoor-ed by the French government not long ago.
This is the problem with the EU as it stands, there is really no mea-culpa from the institutions for their inaction and getting caught with their pants down.
All of this was foreseeable and could have been avoided, yet here we are.
