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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 674 posts.
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GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding
OpenAI released GPT-5 yesterday, promoting it as their best model yet for agentic coding.
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I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer
Disclaimer: I am a book publisher & I love technology.
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Vibe-Coding a PCB – surprisingly good
I was expecting this to be pretty bad - but it actually came out quite nicely!
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IBM Patented Euler's 200 Year Old Math Technique for 'AI Interpretability'
IBM Slapped the Buzzwords 'AI Interpretability' on Generalized Continued Fractions and their Series Transformations and was awarded a Patent
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Who does your assistant serve?
ChatGPT and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi
AI, history, and Soviet sci-fi
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Should we use AI and LLMs for Christian apologetics? (2024)
The reasons why I don’t give permission for material I’ve written to be used as training data for an LLM chatbot designed to do Christian apologetics
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OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in
If you thought the 2008 bank bailout was bad, wait til you see the 2026 AI bailout
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MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls
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I think I'm done thinking about GenAI for now
The conversation isn’t over, but I don’t think I have much to add to it.
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Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican
OpenAI partially released a new model yesterday called GPT-5-Codex-Mini, which they describe as "a more compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex". It’s currently only available via their Codex CLI tool …
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Using LLMs and Cursor to finish side projects
Struggling to finish side projects due to limited time? In my latest blog post, I share how I improved my productivity using AI tools like LLMs and Cursor IDE. Learn to refine specs, bootstrap code, and iterate effectively to rapidly build and deploy your projects—even with a busy schedule.
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Diffusion models explained simply
Transformer-based large language models are relatively easy to understand. You break language down into a finite set of “tokens” (words or sub-word components…
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Building a Mac app with Claude code
How I built Context—a native macOS SwiftUI app for debugging MCP servers—almost entirely with Claude Code, and what I learned about building with AI coding agents.
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Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"
People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was…
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Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?
Several days ago, DeepSeek released a new OCR paper. OCR, or “optical character recognition”, is the process of converting an image of text — say, a scanned…
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When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone
I just got back from a 24hr trip to Los Angeles to catch my favorite Portland Thorns team, watching them clinch their playoff spot in a match at BMO stadium in downtown Los Angeles. In May of 2024, I did the same trip to catch a match on Mother's
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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
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Implementing LLaMA3 in 100 Lines of Pure Jax
Hi, welcome to my website! This is where I share my thoughts on things that interest me, mostly tech, philosophy, history, and math.
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GPT-4.5: "Not a frontier model"?
OpenAI's latest model raises more questions than answers, but no, the AI bubble isn't popping quite yet.
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Building a Knowledge System That Enhances Rather Than Replaces Thought
Preserving and augmenting human insight in an age of automated knowledge with Zettelgarden
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How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services
So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to support my work. Here’s $10 off the first year of annual.
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O3 Turns Pro
You can now have o3 throw vastly more compute at a given problem.
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AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion
Our brains, evolved for tribal politics and campfire stories, are ill-equipped for the moral ambiguity of a system with no soul to save or damn.
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After the AI boom: what might we be left with?
Some argue that even if the current AI boom leads to an overbuild, it might not be a bad thing - just as the dotcom bubble left behind the internet infrastructure that powered later decades of growth. It’s a tempting comparison, but the parallels only go so far. The dotcom era’s overbuild crea
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I've been loving Claude Code on the web
It’s very much a “v1” product. You type a prompt to start a new thread, it launches a little container for your agent to work in, and you can keep talking to it. It produces a branch, which you can open a PR for (that’s the only way to see a diff of the changes Claude Code made, for now). Or if you want to keep…
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AI tools I wish existed
The models are powerful as is. But where are the tools?
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Entropy of a Large Language Model output
Large language models like ChatGPT & Claude have become ubiquitous in today’s world. I visited a friend for the New years eve and was impressed by how ChatGPT was being extensively used within the family. The friend’s little kid is going to grow up in a world, where turning to large language models (LLM) for quick…