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xAI joins SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,324 posts.
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GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.
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Gemini Diffusion
Another of the announcements from Google I/O yesterday was Gemini Diffusion, Google's first LLM to use diffusion (similar to image models like Imagen and Stable Diffusion) in place of transformers. …
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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...
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Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
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I said no and Apple said yes
The one where Apple decides consent doesn’t matter anymore.
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Mistral 7B
The best 7B model to date, Apache 2.0
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Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.
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Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2016, at Web Camp Zagreb [ video ] (45 mins)
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YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI
Generative AI is transforming the ways creators express themselves – from storyboarding ideas to experimenting with tools that enhance the creative process. But viewers …
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Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
Three months ago I would have dismissed claims that AI could replace developers. Today, after using Claude Opus 4.5, I believe AI coding agents can absolutely replace developers.
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How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
I was curious how well the predictions of the most widely cited AI skeptic I've seen (Ed Zitron) have done, so I looked at how his predictions panned out. To disclose my own biases, I've never had a particularly strong pro or anti AI progress position. For example, in 2022, I did a comprehensive look at predictions…
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Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Kimi K3 matches Fable 5 on SWE tasks (92.4% vs 92.6%) at up to 50x lower cost on Fireworks. See where each model wins and how routing beats both.
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Facial recognition: It’s time for action
In July, we shared our views about the need for government regulation and responsible industry measures to address advancing facial recognition technology. As we discussed, this technology brings important and even exciting societal benefits but also the potential for abuse. We noted the need for broader study and…
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Stable Diffusion is a big deal
If you haven’t been paying attention to what’s going on with Stable Diffusion, you really should be. Stable Diffusion is a new “text-to-image diffusion model” that was released to the …
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Model Context Protocol
MCP is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, from content repositories to business tools.
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Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
Claude Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks via indirect prompt injection as a result of known-but-unresolved isolation flaws in Claude's code execution environment.
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Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
QWEN CHAT GitHub Hugging Face ModelScope Kaggle DEMO DISCORD Introduction Today, we are excited to announce the release of Qwen3, the latest addition to the Qwen family of large language models. Our flagship model, Qwen3-235B-A22B, achieves competitive results in benchmark evaluations of coding, math, general…
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I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory
Picture Tom Nook greeting you with a sentence nobody at Nintendo wrote. That is what “animal crossing llm” usually points to: an experimental fan…
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AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
Read about the hidden divide between self-inflicted irrelevance and real engineering leverage.
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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared some changes with Google DeepMind teams.
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DBRX: A new open LLM
Explore DBRX, the advanced open-source LLM from Databricks redefining model efficiency and quality, leading in AI benchmarks.
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After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not.
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OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision
OpenCV 5 is here! A massive modernization brings a graph-based DNN engine, over 80% ONNX coverage, hardware acceleration, LLM/VLM support, and a faster Python-first core. Learn why this isn't just an incremental update.
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AI Horseless Carriages
An essay about bad AI app design
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RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license
RedPajama launches to build fully open-source leading language models, starting by reproducing LLaMA's training dataset of over 1.2 trillion tokens.
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GitHub Copilot is generally available
We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. It will also be free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects.