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Slop is not necessarily the future
Everyone's worried about slop, but good code will prevail, not only because we want it to, but because economic forces demand it.
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AI & Machine Learning
The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 3,238 posts.
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Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics Researchers
2016 (>30k signatures) open letter for AI and Robotics researchers calling for ban on offensive autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control.
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How AI destroys institutions
Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies encourage cooperation and stability, while also adapting to changing circumstances. The real superpower of institutions is their ability to evolve and adapt…
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AI for developers and Google Workspace
Introducing new generative AI capabilities in Google Cloud and Google Workspace, plus PaLM API and MakerSuite for developers.
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Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot
A continuously updating analysis of bot vs. human traffic, AI training, fetching, search indexing, browsing, robots.txt compliance, and AI chat referrals across 5,000+ websites.
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All models are wrong, but some are completely wrong
At this critical time in the modern history of the human race, mathematical models have been pushed into the foreground. Epidemic forecasting informs policy and even individual decision-making. Sad…
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StableCode
Stability AI has just announced the release of StableCode, its very first LLM generative AI product for coding. This product is designed to assist programmers with their daily work while also providing a great learning tool for new developers ready to take their skills to the next level.
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We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code
Your AI-built product works, but past 100,000 lines every change breaks two things. Three senior engineers make your codebase maintainable again. One week, fixed price, guaranteed.
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Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS
The new Google Search app for iPhone and iPad helps you with enhanced voice search that answers any question.
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Skills Officially Comes to Codex
Give ChatGPT and Codex new capabilities and expertise
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Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control
Figure was founded with the ambition to change the world.
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V-JEPA 2 world model and new benchmarks for physical reasoning
We’re excited to share V-JEPA 2, the first world model trained on video that enables state-of-the-art understanding and prediction, as well as zero-shot planning and robot control in new environments.
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Alignment faking in large language models
A paper from Anthropic's Alignment Science team on Alignment Faking in AI large language models
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AI is forcing us to write good code
When Best Practices Are Best
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Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction
From the Global South to the Arctic, can machine learning-enabled weather prediction better protect communities and economies?
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Security research on Private Cloud Compute
Private Cloud Compute (PCC) fulfills computationally intensive requests for Apple Intelligence while providing groundbreaking privacy and security protections — by bringing our industry-leading device security model into the cloud. To build public trust in our system, we’re making it possible for researchers to…
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How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
Our AI method has accelerated and optimized chip design, and its superhuman chip layouts are used in hardware around the world. AlphaChip was one of the first reinforcement learning approaches used to solve a real-world engineering problem. It generates superhuman or comparable chip layouts in hours, rather than weeks…
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Lyft releases self-driving research dataset
By Luc Vincent, EVP Autonomous Technology
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What is a transformer model? (2022)
Transformer models apply an evolving set of mathematical techniques, called attention or self-attention, to detect subtle ways even distant data elements in a series influence and depend on each other.
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Introducing ccv, a modern computer vision library
It has been two years since the first commit. Two years ago, I promised 1). an object detection algorithm; 2). a text detection algorithm; 3). a feature point algorithm; and 4). a 3d reconstruction algorithm. With the 0.1, there is: 1
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DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model
Google has long collaborated with musicians, producers, and artists in the research and development of music AI tools. Ever since launching the Magenta project, in 2016, we’ve been exploring how AI can enhance creativity — sparking inspiration, facilitating exploration and enabling new forms of expression, always…
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Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
On February 13, 2026, alongside the previously announced retirement of GPT‑5 (Instant, Thinking, and Pro), we will retire GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini from ChatGPT. In the API, there are no changes at this time.
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The cultural divide between mathematics and AI
A reflection on cultural differences observed at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meeting.
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Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
We watched almost 17k sessions across different types of personas, with 1,163 prompt variations, 75 repositories and 3 coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) actually implementing the solutions instead of just recommending one.
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How Adversarial Attacks Work
Emil Mikhailov is the founder of XIX.ai [http://XIX.ai] (YC W17). Roman Trusov is a researcher at XIX.ai. Recent studies by Google Brain have shown that any machine learning classifier can be tricked to give incorrect predictions, and with a little bit of skill, you can get them to give pretty much any result you…
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Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene
Machine Learning at Berkeley is a student organization at UC Berkeley. Click to read ML@B Blog, by Machine Learning at Berkeley, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Mamba-3
Meet Mamba-3: the SSM built for inference. Faster than Transformers at decode, stronger than Mamba-2, and open-source from day one.
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