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Vibe-Coding a PCB – surprisingly good
I was expecting this to be pretty bad - but it actually came out quite nicely!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,227 posts.
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Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods
Our research shows that even the latest "reasoning" models are vulnerable
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ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence.
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AI agent benchmarks are broken
Benchmarks are foundational to evaluating the strengths and limitations of AI systems, guiding both research and industry development.
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Recovering from AI addiction
Welcome to Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous! We’re glad you’ve found us, and we hope our community can be as helpful to you as it has been for us. ITAA is a Twelve-Step fellowship of individuals who support each other in recovering from internet and technology addiction. This includes social media addiction…
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Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find out Elon Musk’s stance before providing you with an answer. …
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AI coding tools can reduce productivity
Study Shows That Even Experienced Developers Dramatically Overestimate Gains
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Grok 4
Released last night, Grok 4 is now available via both API and a paid subscription for end-users. Update: If you ask it about controversial topics it will sometimes search X …
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Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.
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What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024)
An independent nonprofit research lab, whose mission is to enable universal literacy in a humane dynamic medium. This involves inventing a humane form of computing, and developing educational and community-based institutions in which a culture can grow. [more]
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Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes?
Can Gemini 2.5 replace CNN for object detection?
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The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL
How RL training will scale up to thousands of diverse environments, similar to how pretraining scaled up text corpora.
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Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left
In my previous post I showed how LLMs struggle with coding in q/kdb+; having immediate feedback loops using the q-MCP server does help a…
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LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping
Anamorphosis refers to a category of images that are intentionally distorted, making them unrecognizable when viewed directly. Their true form only reveals itself when seen from a specific viewpoint, which can be through some catadioptric device like a mirror or a lens. While the construction of these mathematical…
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Batch Mode in the Gemini API: Process More for Less
Discover how Batch Mode in Gemini API allows developers to submit large jobs, offload processing, and get results in 24 hours, offering simplicity, convenience, and cost-savings.
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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists
At Soundslice, our sheet music scanner digitizes music from photographs, so you can listen, edit and practice. We continually improve the system, and I keep an eye on the error logs to see which images are getting poor results.
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I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
Welp, Pocket shuts down tomorrow despite our pleas for it to stay. While migrating1 all of my saved articles, I noticed that I’ve got almost 900 saved articles spanning nearly 7 years. That’s a goldmine of stuff-I-like data! Some quick analysis using xsv2: 𝄢 unzip pocket.zip && xsv headers part_000000.csv 1 title 2…
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A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
In many discussions where questions of "alignment" or "AI safety" crop up, I am baffled by seriously intelligent people imbuing almost magic...
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I don't think AGI is right around the corner
Continual learning is a huge bottleneck
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Whistleblower: Huawei cloned Qwen and DeepSeek models, claimed as own
A now-deleted report by HonestAGI on GitHub showed a high number of similarities between Huawei’s Pangu and Qwen 2.5.
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Building a Mac app with Claude code
How I built Context—a native macOS SwiftUI app for debugging MCP servers—almost entirely with Claude Code, and what I learned about building with AI coding agents.
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The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public
This isn't innovation, it's tyranny
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Are we the baddies?
I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts.
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Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming
How local, learnable routers can reduce token overhead, lower costs, and bring structure back to agentic workflows.
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Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately
As a supporter, I would love not to feel this way
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Nvidia won, we all lost
Since the disastrous launch of the RTX 50 series, NVIDIA has been unable to escape negative headlines: scalper bots are snatching GPUs away from consumers before official sales even begin, power connectors continue to melt, with no fix in sight, marketing is becoming increasingly deceptive, GPUs are missing processing…
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Prompting LLMs is not engineering
prompt engineering is nothing but an attempt to reverse-engineer a non-deterministic black box for which any of the parameters below are unknown: - training set - weights - constraints on the model - layers between you and the model that transform both your input and the model's output that can change at any time …
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Data on AI-related Show HN posts
The idea for this article didn't exist in my brain before this morning. But there I was, scrolling the New page and even more tired of all the AI-related Show HN posts than usual. I was confident that their numbers were multiplying and wanted proof. Exactly how much more AI crap is on my lawn compared to last year?
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WASM Agents: AI agents running in the browser
One of the main barriers to a wider adoption of open-source agents is the dependency on extra tools and frameworks that need to be installed before the agents can be run. In this post, we show how to write agents as HTML files, which can just be opened and run in a browser.