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How much of HN is AI?
TL;DR: 62% as of September 2026. This is up from ~40% in February.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,091 posts.
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I Am Not a Reverse Centaur
About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them. I'm not going to repeat the…
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Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend
Somewhere between 'ask Claude for a quick opinion' and 'Claude is writing our Jira tickets,' we lost the plot. AI agents are brilliant implementers. They're also confidently wrong about every decision that matters. And when it all falls over, they won't be the ones carrying the bag.
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Quantum supremacy: the gloves are off
Links:Google paper in NatureNew York Times articleIBM paper and blog post responding to Google’s announcementBoaz Barak’s new post: “Boaz’s inferior classical inferiority FA…
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METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack
Yesterday I covered the OpenAI technical report on the HuggingFace hack. That report had one key new piece of information, and some good prosaic steps OpenAI will be taking to strengthen its alignm…
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Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding
My >10 year old programming habits have changed since Claude Code launched. Python is less likely to be my go-to language for new projects anymore. I am managing projects in languages I am not fluent in—TypeScript, Rust…
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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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The State of Context Engineering
As models improve, they bring surprising challenges for those building apps and harnesses. How context engineering has changed this year, and where it’s headed.
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Ancient secrets of computer vision
This class is a general introduction to computer vision. It covers standard techniques in image processing like filtering, edge detection, stereo, flow, etc. (old-school vision), as well as newer, machine-learning based computer vision. It was originally offered in the spring of 2018 at the University of Washington .
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Coding agents could make free software matter again
I've been vibe-coding a lot lately. Like, a lot a lot
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A look at Cloudflare's AI-coded OAuth library
I decided today to take a look at CloudFlare’s new OAuth provider library, which they apparently coded almost entirely with Anthropic’s Claude LLM: This library (including the schema do…
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GPT-3 can run code
Enter in code and inputs, GPT-3 will compute you the output!
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AI Art Panic
If you’ve been on the internet at all lately, you’ve seen AI generated art and discussion of the impact of the tools. You’ve also probably seen a lot of hate for AI generated art. There’s a lot of drama going on, as art focused communities across the internet decide how to handle this. Does AI generated/assisted art…
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Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?
Ten lessons for coding with agents, from implementing to learn to remembering that code is cheap but maintenance and security aren’t.
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The Influentists: AI hype without proof
Why we are losing technical rigor to social hype
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Running Stable Diffusion on Your GPU with Less Than 10Gb of VRAM
Constant Meiring - Technology Product Builder
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Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers
The State Space Model taking on Transformers
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From Python to Elixir Machine Learning
Moving on from Python Machine Learning might seem impossible. Let me break down why and how you can do it.
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The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI
For two centuries, the credential system gave intelligence a route to heritable capital. Artificial intelligence is closing that route. This essay builds the argument from first principles - with probability theory, interactive simulations, and a prediction specific enough to be falsifiable - and puts a number on the…
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Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights
Twenty-five years ago, I made my first donation to an open source project and purchased a CD with an operating system as downloading a few hundred megabytes over a 14.4kbps dial-up wasn't very fun.
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Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
Recently I came across a fantastic new paper by a group of NYU and Cornell researchers entitled “How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI.” I’m extremely grateful to see th…
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Beyond agentic coding
AI dev tooling can do better than chat interfaces
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The Gentle Singularity
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Robots...
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AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
AI has dramatically accelerated the path to a first working version. It has not shortened the distance between a first working version and something production-grade.
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OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months
Hello readers! This premium edition features a generous free intro because I like to try and get some of the info out there, but the real indepth stuff is below the cut. Nevertheless, I deeply appreciate anyone subscribing. On Monday I will have my biggest scoop ever, and it'll
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AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service
On January 6th, 1995 two bank robbers in Pittsburgh confused law enforcement by not making any attempts to conceal their faces but instead brazenly looking at security cameras as if they were invisible. The reason is that they actually thought they were.
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LLM=True
Your AI coding agent is drowning in noise