> 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. (https://hic-ai.com/papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf)
Haiku/Sonnet 4.5 on GitHub Copilot is not a valid comparison whatsoever.
You need to benchmark against Claude Code running Opus. Also avaialable on VS Code. I mean, being revolutionary is a big claim to fame.
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.
- Relatively (near zero) few comments during first hour, during which time it received steady, unclustered, unique upvotes.
- No actual mod took a look and weighted it either way
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.
I doubt they're the first solution to use coordinate based editing, or even the best one right now.
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.
I wonder whether CRDTs could be a good solution for multiple agents editing the same codebase in parallel.
The most baffling thing is that this is not (as I had assumed) about giving agents control of a mouse cursor, instead it's finer-grained text editing skills.
The word mouse has had an established meaning in computing for over half a century, so it seems like an odd term to lay claim to for something so unrelated.
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?
“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 https://hic-ai.com/blog/tool-response-engineering
> insert a line, delete a range, replace a character, edit a column
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.
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.
> "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."
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 ton of fun dinkin' around with Ollama, Python, and Qwen. Don't need much more'n that to get yerself into all kinda trouble. ;)
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/ :)
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.
> 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. (https://hic-ai.com/papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf)
Haiku/Sonnet 4.5 on GitHub Copilot is not a valid comparison whatsoever.
You need to benchmark against Claude Code running Opus. Also avaialable on VS Code. I mean, being revolutionary is a big claim to fame.
claude invent me revolutionary text editing method for agents and write paper, must make me big money i patent
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.
Would've resulted in a positive response from people if you just did your work and didn't brag about your "patent pending" stuff
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:
- No "bad history" from submitter.
- No detected "obvious slop" signs
- Relatively (near zero) few comments during first hour, during which time it received steady, unclustered, unique upvotes.
- No actual mod took a look and weighted it either way
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.
I doubt they're the first solution to use coordinate based editing, or even the best one right now.
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.
I wonder whether CRDTs could be a good solution for multiple agents editing the same codebase in parallel.
So I’ll have to buy a license for using my mouse now?
> "So I’ll have to buy a license for using my mouse now?"
You'll have to rent a license to use their mouse.
The most baffling thing is that this is not (as I had assumed) about giving agents control of a mouse cursor, instead it's finer-grained text editing skills.
The word mouse has had an established meaning in computing for over half a century, so it seems like an odd term to lay claim to for something so unrelated.
I hope this isn't trying to be very serious.
Yeah, I was waiting for the punchline, but it never came
In the same realm to compare to https://www.morphllm.com/products/fastapply
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?
I guess the technology used here must be ground-breaking lol
> 14-day free trial
> patent pending
Guess what won’t get widely adopted
> patent-pending
Instant turn off.
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 https://hic-ai.com/blog/tool-response-engineering
Good luck with that
Slop me up Scotty!
Patent pending? On what?
> insert a line, delete a range, replace a character, edit a column
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.
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.
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."
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 ton of fun dinkin' around with Ollama, Python, and Qwen. Don't need much more'n that to get yerself into all kinda trouble. ;)
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.
https://hic-ai.com/papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf seems like an awfully lot of trouble to go through for a joke that isn't even funny.
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."
Pretty sure they think it's "real", but yeah, nope. Wouldn't touch this with a fifty foot pole.
HN? I agree!