1621
The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
We cannot fix probability with more probability. We need to re-introduce assert.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,328 posts.
1622
Everyone in Seattle hates AI
A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.
1623
Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
Update: This post received a large amount of attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.
1624
Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?
Looking at actual token demand growth, infrastructure utilization, and capacity constraints - the economics don't match the 2000s playbook like people assume
1625
AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society
I’ve been thinking about why AI feels like such a destabilizing force for society, and it isn’t just the threat of even greater…
1626
Ecosia: The greenest AI is here
While the AI race is raging, we’ve been building an alternative. One that’s helpful, private, and optional — and designed for you, not for profit.
1627
LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090
I felt like it should be possible to train a GPT-2 small level model on my own hardware using modern tools and open datasets from scratch. It was!
1628
Mistral 3 family of models released
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
1629
AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
On a benchmark of real exploited contracts, AI agents found vulnerabilities worth a combined $4.6 million, underscoring the need for AI-powered defense.
1630
Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"
People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was…
1631
All about automotive lidar
A comprehensive overview of automotive lidar technology — what lidar measures, how it measures distance, and how it determines bearing.
1632
A new AI winter is coming?
Though LLMs had a lot of promise, this has not been demonstrated in practice. The technology is essentially a failure, and a new AI winter is coming.
1633
Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI
OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI’s chances best, but they need an advertising model to beat Google as an Aggregator.
1634
Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
https://slopevader.com/ A search tool and browser extension for avoiding AI slop. Available for Chrome or Firefox. The tool filters web...
1635
Don't push AI down our throats
AI is being done wrong.
1636
Writing a good Claude.md
`CLAUDE.md` is a high-leverage configuration point for Claude Code. Learning how to write a good `CLAUDE.md` (or `AGENTS.md`) is a key skill for agent-enabled software engineering.
1637
Hachi: An Image Search Engine
For quite some time now, i have been working on and off on a fully self-hosted search engine , in hope to make it easier to search across Personal data in an end to end manner. Even as individuals, we are hoarding and generating more and more data with no end in sight. Such "personal" data is being stored from local…
1638
Effective harnesses for long-running agents
How an initializer agent and an incremental coding agent help the Claude Agent SDK make steady progress across many context windows.
1639
Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike
Introducing CS Bench: we ask all top models to build a multiplayer Counter-Strike from scratch.
1640
The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude
A deep dive into how a 'one-shot' Claude headless loop (paired with scoring, defensive tooling, and a simple bash driver) massively accelerates matching decompilation of Snowboard Kids 2 on the Nintendo 64.
1641
So you wanna build a local RAG?
How to build a RAG system that's fully self-hosted.
1642
AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out
Data from the Census Bureau and Ramp shows that AI adoption rates are starting to flatten out across all firm...
1643
A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
The machine learning community is finally waking up to the madness, but the detour of the last few years has been costly.
1644
A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z
A friend made me aware of a reading list from A16Z containing recommendations for books, weighted towards science fiction since that’s mostly what people there read.
1645
We're losing our voice to LLMs
We are losing something precious in the age of LLMs: our unique voices.
1646
TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
I am publishing a comprehensive deep dive, not just a technical overview, but also strategic and financial coverage of the Google TPU.
1647
The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models
When GitHub Copilot was launched in 2021, the fact that its training data included a vast amount of Open Source code publicly available on GitHub attracted significant attention, sparking lively de…
1648
The inefficiency of RL, and implications for RLVR progress
And implications for RLVR progress
1649
Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Add GPUs”
When two of the most influential people in AI both say that today’s large language models are hitting their limits, it’s worth paying attention. In a recent…
1650
I don't care how well your "AI" works
The other day I was sitting on the doorstep of a hackerspace, eating a falafel sandwich while listening to the conversation inside. The topic shifted to the use of “AI” for everyday tasks, people casually started elaborating on how they use “chat assistants” to let them write pieces of code or annoying emails. The…