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Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 6,326 posts.
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I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype
I truly and passionately hate hype. From the fakeness of it to the sheer stupidity it represents, but perhaps most of all, because of the devastating consequence it often results in.
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Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?
On my podcast this week, I took a closer look at OpenAI’s new video generation model, Sora 2, which can turn simple text descriptions into ... Read more
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Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
Cunyan Ma’s interactive tool exposes the power structure that extracts low-wage labor from data workers in the Global South to make everyday AI algorithms function.
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Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft
Kaspersky GReAT experts uncover malicious extensions for Cursor AI that download the Quasar backdoor and a crypto stealer.
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SHOW-1 and Showrunner Agents in Multi-Agent Simulations
South Park AI is an example of how to generate high-quality episodic content through the use of showrunner agents in the simulation. #AI #simulation #multi-agent
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Technology predictions
Some of these are probably apocryphal, but making predictions about the limits of technology is really hard: Space travel is utter bilge. - Dr. Richard van der Reit Wooley, space advisor to...
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Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of "autonomous" coding agents: This post describes what we've learned from …
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Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)
A configuration mismatch in GLM 5.3 on Workers AI triggered an SGLang bug that exposed KV cache pages across requests. Here is how we addressed the issue.
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Remembering Doug Lenat and his quest to capture the world with logic
Stephen Wolfram shares memories of Doug Lenat, early AI pioneer and developer of the CYC system. Their discussions around AI & logic and the potential combined uses of their respective discoveries.
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The BeagleBone AI is Available
BeagleBoard.org Foundation is a Michigan, USA-based 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation existing to provide education in and collaboration around the design and use of open-source software and hardware in embedded computing.
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Task-specific LLM evals that do and don't work
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
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Executing gradient descent on the earth
A common analogy for explaining gradient descent goes like the following: a person is stuck in the mountains during heavy fog, and must navigate their way down. The natural way they will approac......
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Amazon Rekognition – Image Detection and Recognition Powered by Deep Learning
What do you see when you look at this picture? You might simply see an animal. Maybe you see a pet, a dog, or a Golden Retriever. The association between the image and these labels is not hard-wired in to your brain. Instead, you learned the labels after seeing hundreds or thousands of examples. Operating […]
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Hacking the Humane AI Pin
On February 18, 2025, Humane announced it would be shutting down all services for the always online Humane Ai Pin in ten days, following a sale to HP . I had been vaguely aware of the Ai Pin, definitely more so than the average tech person, as I have a close friend who was one of the earliest adopters and eventually…
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Farewell, Marvin Minsky
Stephen Wolfram describes his friendship and shared interest in computation with the late Marvin Minsky, pioneer of computation and AI.
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Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba
Today is an exciting day for the advancement of AI at Microsoft. We have agreed to acquire Maluuba, a Montreal-based company with one of the world’s most impressive deep learning research labs for natural language understanding. Maluuba’s expertise in deep learning and reinforcement learning for question-answering and…
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Ollama 0.4 is released with support for Meta's Llama 3.2 Vision models locally
Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.
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I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens
How I burned a full Claude limit in 30 minutes and built my own deep research pipeline instead: 3 subscriptions, shared memory, a clear role for each model. You can build the same from what you already pay for.
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No Language Left Behind
Our work aims to break down language barriers across the world for everyone to understand and communicate with anyone—no matter what language they speak.
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Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
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Aligned to whom?
You are relying very heavily on the priors of the model to do a good job for you. What happens when you cannot judge whether those priors are good?
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Gopher – A 280B parameter language model
Language, and its role in demonstrating and facilitating comprehension - or intelligence - is a fundamental part of being human. It gives people the ability to communicate thoughts and concepts, express ideas, create memories, and build mutual understanding. These are foundational parts of social intelligence. It’s…
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Data scientists shouldn’t need to know Kubernetes
[Hacker News discussion, Twitter thread]
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Remarks on AI from NZ
Last week I participated in a panel discussion on AI as part of a private event in New Zealand.
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Refact Code LLM: 1.6B LLM for code that reaches 32% HumanEval
Today we're introducing Refact LLM: 1.6B code model with infill real-time code completion (including fill-in-the-middle(FIM) capability) and chat.
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Google acquires reCAPTCHA
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture