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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,950 posts.
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Harness engineering for self-improvement
The concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI) dates back to I. J. Good (1965), where he defined an “ultraintelligent machine” as a system that can surpass humans in all intellectual activities and design better machines to improve itself. Yudkowsky (2008) used the phrase “recursive self-improvement” for a specific…
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Interaction Models
Interaction models move beyond turn-based AI interfaces by handling multimodal, real-time collaboration natively across audio, video, and text.
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Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
We introduce "observed exposure," combining LLM capability with real Claude usage data, and share early evidence on employment effects.
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OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
OpenAI and Malta partner to expand AI access, offering ChatGPT Plus and training to help citizens build practical AI skills and use AI responsibly.
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We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works
What we lose when we no longer have to learn how our computers work.
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Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Introducing Muse Code, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, with persistent background agents, repository-scale execution, and built-in verification.
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A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
The FCC is proposing to require KYC for anyone who uses a phone. We can act now to stop further erosion of our privacy.
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Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
An attempt to detect AI design patterns in Show HN pages
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Zohran and the Short Link
I’m a big fan of the Zohran Mamdani administration.
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No Man Is an Island
AI makes intellectual contribution superfluous.
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The federated code forge
For most of the past two decades, the code forge has been where projects live: where code is hosted, where changes are reviewed, and where contributors find each other. Forges offered convenience in exchange for centralisation.
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Waymo in Dallas
Starting today, anyone in Dallas can download the Waymo app and hail a fully autonomous ride.
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AI's Affordability Crisis
A year ago in The Back Of The AI Envelope I pointed out that the AI platforms were running the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first one's fr...
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Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses
Stella is the companion app for Meta's smart glasses. Inspecting version 273.0.0.21 of the Android build (com.facebook.stella), I found the entire computational and storage stack for on-device facial recognition: three face models, a local database schema, a cosine-similarity vector index dimensioned to
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Back to Kagi
A reflection on returning to Kagi after trying some alternatives including the much worse search engine called Google.
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JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
JPEG XL has landed, but how does it compare?
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I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC
I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn't fit in a normal motherboard, macgyvered the fan with jumper wires, and now I'm running a model that ties with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on benchmarks, all for £200.
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OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
OpenAI advances AI content provenance with Content Credentials, SynthID, and a verification tool to help people identify and trust AI-generated media.
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Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers
Custom PHP2Shell Exploit Chained with Kernel LPE to Root Versions of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Firewalls in the Wild
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London's Free Roof Terraces
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Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
Why does a five-minute hallway conversation sometimes solve what a week of solo thinking couldn't?
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Conway's Game of Life, in real life
When life gives you switches...
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We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub
We gave Strix a domain. In 25 minutes, it found a live token with admin access to Baseten's product, deployment, and CLI repos in a public Docker image.
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Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS are our most expressive audio models yet.
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LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
The AI agent made for open models, built to get things done.
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My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
I bought a Rodecaster Duo to solve some audio woes, and found that it has ssh enabled by default. I captured the firmware update process and created custom firmware to enable password authentication for ssh.
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Waymo in Toronto
Waymo is officially heading to Canada! We’re laying the groundwork for our fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Toronto, investing in local facilities and jobs, with the goal of welcoming our first riders in 2028.
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Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those…
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Every GPU That Mattered
49 graphics cards. 30 years. From Quake to Cyberpunk.