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Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
Why frontier AI has broken the open CTF format, hollowed out the scoreboard, and made competitive CTF performance a weaker signal than it used to be.
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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 3,090 posts.
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AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
AI-assisted incident response can lower MTTR while leaving engineers less prepared for the complex incidents automation cannot solve.
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A Guide to Natural Language Processing
A guide to Natural Language Processing (NLP): how to analyze text, extract information and understand documents written in a natural language
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LLM architecture comparison
From DeepSeek-V3 to Kimi K2: A Look At Modern LLM Architecture Design
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Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment
Open-weight models are becoming the foundation for the next AI ecosystem. The US should compete in it, not wall itself off.
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Python plays Grand Theft Auto V
Python Programming tutorials from beginner to advanced on a massive variety of topics. All video and text tutorials are free.
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I do not want AI to "polish" me
I was sending an email when a little magic wand popped up that said “Polish” and I thought that was weird because why would I want to translate my email into Polish? I tried to click on…
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My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
The first time I tried to use an LLM to speed up coding was in mid-2025. I was not impressed. I was working on libadbmdns back then, an mDNS implementation in Rust. The code produced would not even compile.
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The Hackintosh Reborn
Almost a decade ago, I released a hackintosh guide on running macOS 10.14 through a VM with an x86 host. A "Hackintosh" is the feat of running macOS on non-Apple hardware, and has a history dating back to the late 1980s. At the time KVM and PCI
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Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
If you've talked to me lately about AI, you've almost certainly been subject to a long soliloquy about the wonders of Claude Code. What started as a tool I ran in parallel with other tools to aid coding has turned into my full-fledged agentic operating system, supporting all kinds of workflows.
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How does GPT obtain its ability? Tracing emergent abilities of language models
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Can gzip be a language model?
A while back I wrote about language modeling without neural networks, where I generated Shakespeare with an unbounded n-gram model: no weights, no training, …
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My finetuned models beat OpenAI's GPT-4
Finetunes of Mistral, Llama3 and Solar LLMs are more accurate for my test data than OpenAI’s models.
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Learning Machine Learning: A beginner's journey
I have been learning about machine learning and deep learning (ML/DL) for the last year. I think ML/DL is here to stay. I don't think this i...
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The AI Race Just Got Awkward
Funny how quiet everyone got.
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What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools
[Hacker News discussion, LinkedIn discussion, Twitter thread]
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A Recipe for Training Neural Networks
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
Software ate the world. Agents are going to eat SaaS.
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Planner programming blows my mind
Picat is a research language intended to combine logic programming, imperative programming, and constraint solving. I originally learned it to help with vacation scheduling but soon discovered its planner module, which is one of the most fascinating programming models I’ve ever seen. First, a brief explanation of…
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Simply explained: How does GPT work?
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Facebook’s LLaMa or even Google’s Bard. They are artificial intelligence programs that can participate in a conversation. Impressively smart, they can easily be mistaken for humans, and are skilled in a…
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Slop Terrifies Me
What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring?
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AI coding
In my old age I’ve mostly given up trying to convince anyone of anything. Most people do not care to find the truth, they care about what pumps their bags. Some people go as far as to believe that perception is reality and that truth is a construction. I hope there’s a special place in hell for those people.
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A visual book recommender
Recreating the used bookstore experience via contrastive learning, t-SNE, and 100M book reviews.
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Visual introduction to PyTorch
An easy to follow, visual introduction to PyTorch.
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We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
[This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When I was an undergraduate student, I remember talking with…
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I think I have LLM burnout
I didn't expect to get so tired of reading LLM output.
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Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination
Somehow I forgot to blog my site: https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/ . I created it back in March 2023 as a clearinghouse for online resources t...