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Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
AI companies claim their hacks were unpredictable accidents — but they follow foreseeably from deliberate design choices, and that establishes criminal intent.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,090 posts.
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Fable Took My Job
Fable is cool yo, it takes jobs yo, - Dario "steve" Altman
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Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage
Pensieve for developers: a local MCP server that gives Claude Code, Codex and Cursor your context. A thread for every piece of work. Free and open source, for Mac.
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500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter
During the last 3 months, I spent some of my time and tokens decompiling a popular first-person shooter. The goal was not to reach a simple proof-of-concept state. Instead, we really wanted an accurate, stable and feature-complete recreation of the game. The avid reader of my blog might have noticed that I had…
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What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI
[This is a guest post by Thomas Hales. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Mathematicians have been weighing in on what they value ab…
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Why are coding agents so dumb?
Models are getting better and better, while the agents that drive them languish.
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Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more
How I used AI to investigate millions of historical records and surfaced a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions.
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OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics
By the time I got out of bed yesterday, I had three people ask me if I'd seen the OpenAI announcement that the Partition Principle does not (...)
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Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
thoughts, talks, docs and unpopular opinions
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I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity
Alex Moon is an Australian-British software engineer and artist based in the North East of England.
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LLMs may have helped my RSI
Just a place to store my random thoughts and contributions to the world.
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Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales
David Gruber wants to know what sperm whales are saying. He thinks it might actually be possible.
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What Meta got right with Muse
Design matters more than ever in consumer AI, as long as you have money to play.
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Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.
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Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model
Why SaaS business is now a harness one.
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The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding
Slop, Alienation, Deskilling, and Team Fallout
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AI Makes Me Sad
Maybe it's because I'm writing this at 2:00 AM, which is about the only time I let myself experience sadness for a prolonged period of time, but every time I see a post on Twitter or LinkedIn about a new development in AI, I feel a sense of hopelessness.
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Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo
Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
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Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met
AI plays well at complex strategy games with uncertainty and incomplete information.
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CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective
Jeff Turkstra's personal website. Contains photographs, memoirs, TI-86 & TI-89 programs/games, quotes, MIDI's, SeaQuest images, links, and more!
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The AI Race Just Got Awkward
Funny how quiet everyone got.
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You said no MCP
Pi now supports MCP. Why we changed our minds, what changed in MCP and in Pi, and what Codemode is.
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Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev
A Visual Guide to RNNs, CNNs, Transformers, and Calibration, with Hands-On Experiments on Accuracy and Efficiency
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It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of carefully planned announcements ... Read more
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The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent
If we think writing code is dead, and AI is generating all codebases, I still think the bigger problem is people or full teams not knowing anything anymore about the system...
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What would a serious AI product look like?
Every “AI” tool is missing critical features that you would need if you wanted to do real work with them. What would those look like, if they existed?
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There are no "rogue" AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
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What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI
Some observations from my War of the Lancehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaroftheLance%28videogame%29 1989 Code Harness assisted modernisation WIP I gave Qwen-3....