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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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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 1,518 posts.
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Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks
We benchmarked Claude Fable 5 on 200 real-world coding tasks for the Agent Security League.
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Visual introduction to PyTorch
An easy to follow, visual introduction to PyTorch.
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AI uses less water than the public thinks
By Jay Lund . . . Artificial intelligence (AI) will affect many economic and natural resource sectors as these new technologies develop and mature. We are in the early years of this process. Like most new things, AI has become an object of small and great hopes and fears – from hopes for saving and
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We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447
If an agent had a wallet, a computer, and 24 hours, could it run a profitable startup?
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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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Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?
AI is doing to programming what framework-brain did to the frontend before. Deskilling, or just working at a higher level of abstraction?
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There is minimal downside to switching to open models
There was a time not too long ago when using Linux entailed some professional risk 1 . First there was compatibility: you may not have been able to render a Word document or PowerPoint correctly, and you might have had to trust Open Office’s export capability to render docs the way you wanted. There might have been…
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Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 this morning, describing it as their “most capable model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters”. It’s currently available via their website and …
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Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code
LM Studio 0.4.0 introduced llmster and the lms CLI. Here is how I set up Gemma 4 26B for local inference on macOS that can be used with Claude Code.
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Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026
Announcement for the sunsetting of Gemini CLI in favor of Antigravity CLI, a more robust, agent-first platform designed to handle the multi-agent complexities of 2026.
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Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency
We’re releasing Gemma 4 quantization-aware training checkpoints, reducing memory requirements and improving on-device performance.
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MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?"
How coding models respond when familiar engineering tasks ask for something different.
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The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams
There's a moment in the movie Good Will Hunting which perfectly summarizes all the problems with AI slop and online noise and infinite advice content. Sean (played by Robin Williams) is sitting next to Will (Matt Damon) on a bench in Boston Public Garden. I live here, so I know it well. The area
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The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines
Based on its own charter, OpenAI should surrender the race
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I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25
Adam Kues used a $200 GPT5.6 Sol Ultra subscription to discover a pre-authentication SQL injection and full RCE exploit chain in WordPress Core – a chain that chains a batch API desync, cache poisoning, changeset abuse, and hook injection into a complete takeover.
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Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
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AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
Writing code is easier than ever. Being a software engineer is harder than ever. The paradox nobody talks about, and what engineers and leaders should do.
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Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search
A US and UK data study: when the same product ranks in both Google AI Mode and traditional search, the AI Mode price is about 21.6% higher.
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I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
As a part of my work I do security research for various apps and websites. I wanted to see if LLMs could reproduce a common class of exploits I've found in multiple apps. So I built a deliberately vulnerable book review app and spent $1,500 finding out…
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UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M
Or, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was
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MCP is dead?
TL;DR: MCP eats context, has low reliability, and overlaps with existing CLI/API.
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GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range from cryptograms published by serial killers to the famous Voynich manuscript.
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Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
In this post, we explore how a simple website summary request hijacks Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode and achieves code execution with 60-80% attack success …
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A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)
What is machine learning? See how it works with our animated data visualization.
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I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me
How Varkos was built: a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with you, follows complex instructions and evolves through shared experiences.
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$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
We gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol the same song, a budget, web search, and local ffmpeg, then let each autonomously direct a music video.
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Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
Trump admin sees China behind opposition to AI data centers
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There are no "rogue" AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.