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OpenAI Moves to Complete Potentially the Largest Theft in Human History
OpenAI is now set to become a Public Benefit Corporation, with its investors entitled to uncapped profit shares.
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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 674 posts.
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How I use LLMs as a staff engineer
What I use them for and what I don't
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GPTs and Feeling Left Behind
Every time that I read some blog post about “coding with AI”, or how cool new models write entire libraries by themselves, I feel like I’m lagging behind, like I’m missing out on some big, useful tool, and my skills are about to become obsolete very soon.
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AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare
After 2+ years and a tremendous waste of energy and money, my firm Calm Company Fund resolved a lawsuit against us on very favorable terms. What started as one of the most challenging periods of my life became an unexpected masterclass in using AI to level the playing field against well-funded opponents. If you’re…
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xAI dev leaks API key for private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs
An employee at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk’s companies, including SpaceX , Tesla and…
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Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier
In 1950, when computing was little more than automated arithmetic and simple logic, Alan Turing asked a question that still reverberates today: can machines think?
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America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints
If the economy's single pillar goes down, Trump's presidency will be seen as a disaster.
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AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
AI coding has made me much more productive—but at a strange cost. I can't listen to music when I code anymore.
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Why is OpenAI buying Windsurf?
$3 billion seems high to me. Google is on a warpath. And Apple shoots itself in the foot, twice.
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Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?
Looking at actual token demand growth, infrastructure utilization, and capacity constraints - the economics don't match the 2000s playbook like people assume
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Andrej Karpathy's talk on the future of the industry
Transcript of Andrej Karpathy's YC AI SUS talk at Y Combinator on June 17th, 2024.
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The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude
A deep dive into how a 'one-shot' Claude headless loop (paired with scoring, defensive tooling, and a simple bash driver) massively accelerates matching decompilation of Snowboard Kids 2 on the Nintendo 64.
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I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code
Today morning, I came across this reddit post titled Completely losing interest in the career due to AI and AI-pilled people. They describe how in a span of ...
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The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful
Content is infinite and free now. Trust isn't. We're abandoning digital channels entirely because we can't tell what's real anymore.
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What if you don't need MCP at all?
Got Bash and some code interpreter? Skip MCP.
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The model is the product
Old data, new models
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Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal
My startup for terminals wrapped up mid-2025 when the funding ran dry. So I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career convincing terminals they are actually GUIs.
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OpenAI's o1 Playing Codenames
I got OpenAI's o1 to play codenames and the results were surprisingly good
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What was Radiant AI, anyway?
A ridiculously deep dive into Oblivion’s controversial AI system and its legacy
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Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)
Not long ago, I introduced acp.el, an Emacs lisp implementation of ACP (Agent Client Protocol), the agent protocol developed between Zed and Google fo...
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AI slop, suspicion, and writing back
On developing an involuntary reflex for spotting AI slop
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The Differences Between Deep Research, Deep Research, and Deep Research
Dive into the world of AI engineering with this exploration of Deep Research in report generation. Learn how LLM-as-a-judge systems, machine learning, and ev...
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DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase
How I use DeepWiki to speed up real coding work
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FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter
After reading the book The AWK Programming Language (recommended!), I was planning to try AWK out on this year’s Advent of Code. Having some time off from work this week, I tried to implement one of the problems in it to get some practice, set up my tooling, see how hard AWK would be, and… I found I’m FP-pilled.
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Minecraft with object impermanence
I generally am uninterested in generative AI that's too close to the real thing. But every once in a while there's a modern AI thing that's so glitchy and broken that it's strangely compelling. There's this generative AI knockoff of Minecraft that fails so hard
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AI is making us work more
How tools that were supposed to free us up to find meaning work have exacerbated the rat race.