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AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
A response to Rich Hickey's "'AI' is Not a Tool": automation and tool use can coexist, and wielding an LLM well requires skill, feedback, and judgment.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,518 posts.
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AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed.
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Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
I recently read End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. It's an excellent book and I highly recommend that everyone read it. Tech oligarchs make up an important component of the end-times-fascist coalition. One thing that stood out
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Muse Wonder
Muse Wonder is Meta's frontier AI model that keeps track of what matters to you with Active Memory & Active Focus to work towards your goals at work & life.
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Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later
Kelly predicted AI heavyweights while advocating for a future of open weights
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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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Fable Took My Job
Fable is cool yo, it takes jobs yo, - Dario "steve" Altman
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Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
Over the last several months I have been tracking AI guys trying to create vibe coded clones of popular apps, especially Adobe’s apps which have always been the most pirated apps since the 90s. There are now about a dozen vibe coded attempts to clone Photoshop and some other Adobe apps, not incl
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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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Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence
Self-supervision through better coordination among agents that share one language model.
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things
A UC Berkeley researcher raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in daily life.
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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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Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.
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Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?
The following is part of a series of posts about 2026 summer intern projects – for more, see “What the interns have wrought, special jumbo 2026 edition”
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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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Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0
Agents are unlocking enormous productivity gains for customers, but their ability to work across files, networks, and applications can introduce new security risks. This can leave customers feeling like they only have two choices: give agents unrestr
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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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AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment
Biohub, DOE, NIH, and partners will generate open, standardized data to train AI models that predict how cells respond to interventions.
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Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
An open speech recognition model that runs on the same CPU engine as Needle. It transcribes seven languages, reaches the first token in 11 ms, and loads beside Needle so one binary turns a clip straight into tool calls.
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Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter
Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters).
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I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra one-shot Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino in Three.js: AI design, UX, data visualization and explorable explanations.
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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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Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 is our fastest, most capable small model. Built for high-volume work like summarization, subagents, and browser use.
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GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
GPT‑6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly.
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Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model
Strands Decider 2B is a small, open source, decision model optimized for fast experimentation, local development, and innovation.
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Sharing AI progress in mathematics
OpenAI publishes new results on open problems in mathematics from an internal frontier model and shares Lean proof formalizations and research details on GitHub.