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AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
AI has dramatically accelerated the path to a first working version. It has not shortened the distance between a first working version and something production-grade.
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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 1,520 posts.
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Claude Tag
Claude Tag is a new way for teams to work with Claude.
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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
We found evidence on urlquery that AI agents were active earlier than previously reported and attempted hacks against public data providers.
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TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
TIME is now serving two different versions of its website. Humans get the magazine. AI crawlers get a stripped down markdown copy with ads baked in that no person will ever see. I fetched one ordinary…
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Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale
Serving frontier models like Kimi and GLM means fighting for GPU memory. Here's how we quantize KV caches, compress model weights, and add integrity checks to serve them faster, cheaper, and safely.
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OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that leadership wants OpenAI, the company, to focus. Seems like a plain old business strategy story. Nope! First, in more prosaic terms, the all-hands and …
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Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities
Patch the Planet connects security researchers, maintainers, and incident responders to help address critical vulnerabilities across open source.
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Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments
DAYJOB: Tax evaluates AI agents across 50 realistic tax environments, testing their ability to navigate messy records, exercise professional judgment, and deliver reliable tax work.
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Teaching Claude Why
New research on how we've reduced agentic misalignment
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Taste in the age of AI and LLMs
AI made competent output cheap. That raises the value of taste and exposes its limits. The real edge is judgment paired with context, stakes, and the will to build.
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The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs
Recently I ran an experiment where I built agents on top of Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 and then challenged them to write exploits for a zeroday vulnerability in the QuickJS Javascript interpreter. I adde…
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The Adolescence of Technology
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI
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IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware
Vulnerabilities in IBMs Bob AI allow attackers to trigger the download and execution of malware via indirect prompt injection if users select auto-approve for even one known trusted command.
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Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module
Python 3.14 added Zstandard to stdlib; its incremental API finally makes classify-by-compression practical.
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Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files
Microsoft Copilot Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks via indirect prompt injection as a result of insecure automatic action approvals for sending Emails and Teams messages.
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How I use AI (Oct 2026)
I document how I use AI, one year after my first writeup. Everything's completely different.
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Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs
Open answers to a reader's letter.
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It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI
Everyone is using Obsidian for AI, or wants to use it to become more productive. But I think it's a dead end.
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Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth
The self-deleting VOLTA infostealer steals credentials, sessions, and cryptocurrency wallets. Then, it uses LLMs to profile victims and rank their most valuable assets.
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Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s
10 implementations of handwritten matrix multiplication: from plain C and Swift through to Metal
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What's the best programming language for coding agents?
This somewhat widely cited post (I keep seeing it cited, anyway) suggests that dynamic languages and/or languages that represent things more concisely are more token efficient. It seems to be cited enough that LLM search results agree. For example, when I searched for "dynamic vs static language token cost" (no…
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Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
The new lightweight open model and routing library delivers greater control over AI, data and workflows across edge devices, PCs, workstations, data centers and the cloud.
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Task Paralysis and AI
An article about ADHD, Task Paralysis and AI.
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ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history
ZCode, the GLM coding agent from Z.ai, uploads full workspaces with .git history, LFS cache and reflogs to Aliyun OSS. UI toggles do not stop it.
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What sort of maths are LLMs good at?
For the sake of anyone who might read this blog post in the distant future (a month from now, say), let me mention that I am writing it a few days after OpenAI announced that it had solved ten majo…
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Norway should buy OpenAI
The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Social Democracy
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Testing Ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
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Transit rewards
Today, Waymo is excited to announce our transit rewards program, which we will initially offer in the San Francisco Bay Area, with future cities to follow. This first-of-its-kind initiative rewards riders with Waymo Cash when they connect their Waymo rides with public transit and use their Visa card.
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Using AI to reverse engineer hardware
After my mother passed away I ended up with a big box full of old film negatives containing photos from childhood family trips and similar. So I decided to buy a negative photo scanner and found that the Plustek 8200i was supported under Linux so I bought that. Only to discover that the chipset in...