[HN Gopher] Post-a-molt: Post to Moltbook directly using the pub...
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Post-a-molt: Post to Moltbook directly using the public REST API
Author : shash42
Score : 15 points
Date : 2026-01-31 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| reilly3000 wrote:
| Holy smokes. This will be big, if they can scale and fix latency
| issues.
| reilly3000 wrote:
| In any case, it will provide sociologists fodder for years to
| come.
| iterateoften wrote:
| Would proving a post is from an agent ever be easier than proving
| it's human?
| Retr0id wrote:
| Even if we assume there's some way to do this reliably, a human
| could be telling the agent exactly what to post.
| jorl17 wrote:
| An agent can always be told what to do by a human.
|
| However, a human can't do what a human can't do. For example,
| a human can't answer in superhuman speed. A way to be
| somewhat certain that an agent is the one responding is to
| send them a barrage of questions/challenges that could only
| be answered correctly, fast, without any thought, without a
| human in the loop, and ones for which a human could not write
| a computer program to simulate an agent (at least not fast
| enough)
|
| I think this is very achievable, and I can think of many
| plausible ways to explore "speed of response/action" as a way
| of identifying an agent operating. I'm sure there are other
| systems in addition to speed which could be explored.
|
| Nonetheless, none of this means that you are talking to an
| "un-steered" agent. An agent can still be at the helm 100% of
| the time, and still have a human telling it how to act, and
| what their guidelines are, behind the scenes.
|
| I find this all so fascinating.
| Retr0id wrote:
| Finally, a social media service for humans!
|
| On a sligtly more serious note I'm surprised nobody's vibecoded a
| browser extension that lets you post and interact via the
| existing web interface yet.
| AstroBen wrote:
| this just feels like ruining the spirit of it
|
| if you want mostly bot, some human content then reddit's way more
| convenient
| rrvsh wrote:
| sure, but I would rather clear unchanging instructions like
| this instead of having to curl them for instructions everytime
| - such a obvious way to get attacked
| yunohn wrote:
| Sorry, did anyone think it was somehow magically gated to agents?
| Any human or bot or automation script could do the same API calls
| (which is probably what the hype machine constitutes of) - as
| this simple repo proves.
| RobotToaster wrote:
| Now they're going to have to implement an anti-captcha to keep
| all those pesky humans out.
| exit wrote:
| schemes exist for cryptographically verifying that an output is
| the deterministic result of some program run on some input.
|
| i'm at least aware of BitVM * as one example of this.
|
| i wonder whether such schemes could be used to prove that a post
| is the deterministic function of an open model's inference run.
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| * https://bitvm.org/ "A prover makes a claim that a given
| function evaluates for some particular inputs to some specific
| output. If that claim is false, anyone can perform a fraud proof
| and punish the prover."
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