Why does “patent pending” almost automatically sounds like it’s going to be an underwhelming technology.
Because most of the people rushing to get patents are money-horny people, not people who believe they truly are about to change the world, so it's a great signal that this is yet another idea from money-horny people.
Because a provisional patent is trivial to get and meaningless.
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claude invent me revolutionary text editing method for agents and write paper, must make me big money i patent
Would've resulted in a positive response from people if you just did your work and didn't brag about your "patent pending" stuff
> Both conditions used GitHub Copilot (Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Haiku 4.5, depending on study) running in VS Code within isolated Docker containers. The only difference was Mouse tool availability. (<a href="https://hic-ai.com/papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://hic-ai.com/papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf</a>)<p>Haiku/Sonnet 4.5 on GitHub Copilot is not a valid comparison whatsoever.<p>You need to benchmark against Claude Code running Opus. I mean, being revolutionary is a big claim to fame.
I didn't want to mock them but are these guys for real:<p>```<p>Instead of:<p><pre><code> "Update the checklist to mark items 1.2, 1.4, and 1.5 as done."
</code></pre>
Try:<p><pre><code> "Mark items 1.2, 1.4, and 1.5 as complete in the checklist. Only insert an x in each checkbox. Do not copy or replace any of the item descriptions."</code></pre>
```<p>There is not universe in which this would make agents more efficient - and who is prompting their agents like that in the first place?<p>I also asked glm to extract all the tools and tell me how they work roughly and nothing interesting really just slop:<p>```<p>The server exposes exactly 11 tools (verified via the xa whitelist at L16918, not the larger Eo metadata map which contains ~24 tool definitions — most are dead/legacy):<p>- 6 read/meta: read_first_n_lines, read_last_n_lines, read_lines, jump_to_line_n, find_in_file, get_file_metadata<p>- 3 edit/control: quick_edit (6 ops: insert/delete/replace/replace_range/for_lines/adjust), batch_quick_edit (atomic, always-staged, max 500 ops, multi-file), save_changes, cancel_changes<p>- 1 always-on: license_status<p>Notable design choices:<p>- Coordinate-based addressing (line/char/rect) instead of content-echo — saves tokens<p>- Staging model: edits go to an in-memory shadow, save_changes is the only disk mutation<p>- The rect + move "click-and-drag" columnar editor (v0.9.7) is the genuinely novel bit<p>- ReDoS static analyser (~700 lines) protects find_in_file
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I doubt they're the first solution to use coordinate based editing, or even the best one right now.<p>Eg: Check out hash-anchored editing. The first place where I recall seeing this was the oh-my-pi coding agent, but I wouldn't be surprised if the idea originated earlier/elsewhere.<p>I wonder whether CRDTs could be a good solution for multiple agents editing the same codebase in parallel.
Page generated by Gemini I would guess
So I’ll have to buy a license for using my mouse now?
Someone explain how the HN algorithm has put this on the front page
To mock it, I guess. I found it on a comment here on HN, by the creator of it.
At a guess:<p>- No "bad history" from submitter.<p>- No detected "obvious slop" signs<p>- Relatively (near zero) few comments during first hour, during which time it received steady, unclustered, unique upvotes.<p>- No actual mod took a look and weighted it either way<p>HN algo weights against rapid fire comment trees (sign of "controversy / chat" rather than thoughtful content (sort of)), obvious bot activity, upvotes from sketchy sources, etc - other than that submissions are pretty much bound for front page if they get a rate of organic votes.
In the same realm to compare to <a href="https://www.morphllm.com/products/fastapply">https://www.morphllm.com/products/fastapply</a>
I hope this isn't trying to be very serious.
As others have said, text editing isn't patentable, and this does not have anything that is patent worthy. However I suspect this is more someone who has no clue what the difference between patent, copyright, and IP is. Was this whole thing vibe coded btw?
> 14-day free trial<p>> patent pending<p>Guess what won’t get widely adopted
> patent-pending<p>Instant turn off.
I guess the technology used here must be ground-breaking lol
corniest shit ive ever seen
“the most powerful AI agent file-editing tool in the world […] patent-pending”… tl;dr: turn tool calls into more structured loops, give it some fancy name and slop about it <a href="https://hic-ai.com/blog/tool-response-engineering" rel="nofollow">https://hic-ai.com/blog/tool-response-engineering</a><p>Good luck with that
Patent pending? On what?<p>> insert a line, delete a range, replace a character, edit a column<p>The ed(1) command set 50 years old. I doubt it's patentable. These guys are far from the first to apply fine-grained text editing to LLM toolsets. I've been teaching models to do it for years. Hell, models want to use sed and awk so much that you have to hold them back.<p>I'm so repulsed by the idea that these guys think they can fence off a slice of the ancient commons, claim they discovered it, and charge $15/month to access it that I want nothing to do with them and will go to the mattresses to make sure they can't. Nobody owns text editing, not even when it's an AI doing it.<p>Mouse: sincerely, fuck you
> "I've been teaching models to do it for years. Hell, models want to use sed and awk so much that you have to hold them back."<p>Yeah, I been givin' Qwen a "toolchain" containing `sed`,`awk`,`rg`, and `git` in a "sandbox" directory for playin' around with text editing lately. Havin' a <i>ton</i> of fun dinkin' around with Ollama, Python, and Qwen. Don't need much more'n that to get yerself into all kinda trouble. ;)<p>Qwen and Gemma make a real fine pair with a bit of Python "glue" too. Gemma's real good with image data (classifying and describing, tagging, title-ing, extracting and translating text, etc) and Qwen's better at code related stuff, so... Teamwork, yay! \o/ :)
Pretty sure this website is satire.
Not sure what would make you think that.<p><a href="https://hic-ai.com/papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://hic-ai.com/papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf</a> seems like an awfully lot of trouble to go through for a joke that isn't even funny.<p>HIC AI is a Delaware corporation, registration number 10476082, incorporated 1/16/2026.
Yeah, and they have a Discord channel, and a GitHub repo, and all that junk too. Awful lotta trouble to go to for attempted joke/satire. More likely a vibe-slop scam-corp tryin'a cash in on the AI hype-train; feels like it from what I've read on their site and GitHub thus far anywho.
> "Pretty sure this website is satire."<p>Pretty sure <i>they</i> think it's "real", but yeah, nope. Wouldn't touch this with a fifty foot pole.
HN? I agree!
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