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Don't build AI products the way everyone else is doing it
More and more, people are building products as thin wrappers over other models, especially LLMs. This can cause major issues, and there is a better way.
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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 6,306 posts.
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GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
Backlog getting you down? Drowning in technical debt? Delegate issues to Copilot so you can focus on the creative, complex, and high-impact work that matters most. Copilot coding agent makes…
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No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be.
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Jina AI launches open-source 8k text embedding
Jina AI introduces jina-embeddings-v2, the world's first open-source model boasting an 8K context length. Matching the prowess of OpenAI's proprietary models, this innovation is now publicly accessible on Huggingface, signaling a significant milestone in the landscape of text embeddings.
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Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
AISI’s tests of Mythos suggest a new security economy: to harden a system you must spend more tokens finding exploits than attackers do.
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Computer, Respond to This Email
Posted by Greg Corrado*, Senior Research Scientist Machine Intelligence for You What I love about working at Google is the opportunity to harness c...
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Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solution to binary addition
While training small neural networks to perform binary addition, a surprising solution emerged that allows the network to solve the problem very effectively. This post explores the mechanism behind that solution and how it relates to analog electronics.
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Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
An early update on what we've learned from Project Glasswing.
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Ollama's new app
Ollama's new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
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A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
Introducing SIMA, a Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent
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Claude Memory
Today, we’re introducing memory to the Claude app, where Claude remembers you and your team’s projects and preferences, eliminating the need to re-explain context and keeping complex work moving forward.
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The Tower Keeps Rising
Vibecoding and the possible collapse of a shared language.
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Algorithm allows video editors to modify talking-head videos as if editing text
A new algorithm allows video editors to modify talking head videos as if they were editing text – copying, pasting, or adding and deleting words.
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Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
An introduction to the Decision Trees, Entropy, and Information Gain.
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Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
AI-generated code copyright explained for builders.
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Sycophancy in GPT-4o
We have rolled back last week’s GPT‑4o update in ChatGPT so people are now using an earlier version with more balanced behavior. The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often described as sycophantic.
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Proton spam and the AI consent problem
The one where I get very annoyed with my email provider.
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AI is making me dumb
It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself.
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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
Make intelligence open and accessible to all
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TypeChat
July 20, 2023 by Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, Daniel Rosenwasser, Pierce Boggan, Umesh Madan, Mike Hopcroft, and Gayathri Chandrasekaran
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GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
We’re upgrading the GPT-5 series with warmer, more capable models and new ways to customize ChatGPT’s tone and style. GPT-5.1 starts rolling out today to paid users.
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OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
Our smartest and most capable models to date with full tool access
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GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT
You can now create custom versions of ChatGPT that combine instructions, extra knowledge, and any combination of skills.
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A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition
A mysterious new model currently in testing on Google’s AI Studio is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition but it is also showing signs of spontaneous, abstract, symbolic reasoning.
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I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
Can Claude Recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website? No. Or at least not with my prompting skills.
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Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic
Amazon will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic and become its primary cloud provider, with models trained on AWS Trainium and Inferentia.