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The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
Energy matters for AI, but the decisive layers are cloud infrastructure, data, and commercialization. On those layers the United States is ahead by a wide margin.
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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 1,520 posts.
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The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem
The LISP curse is often quoted as the reason why so few libraries and reusable components exist for LISP dialects. According to the concept, LISP is so power...
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra reaches state-of-the-art results on ARC-AGI-3
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Progress on provable inference for large language models
Sharing progress on a powerful type of cryptographic proof known as a zkSNARK, which is uniquely fit for provable inference.
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Please stop the AI confidence theater
We don’t need an extra reason to be anxious
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LM Studio 0.4
Server deployment, parallel requests with continuous batching, new REST API endpoint, and refreshed application UI
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Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
A new analysis from OpenAI reveals issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a popular coding benchmark, raising concerns about reliability and accuracy in evaluating AI models.
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First impressions of Claude Cowork
Plus Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time
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Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?
Exactly one year ago, Sam Altman made a bold prediction: “We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents ‘join the workforce’ ... Read more
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When I reject AI code even if it works
AI can make implementation cheap while making review and judgment more expensive.
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Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster
Karpathy's autoresearch runs one experiment at a time. We gave it access to our GPU infra and let it run experiments in parallel.
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AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons
The balance of software copyright protection and openness has always been fraught with minutiae and detail that bores all but the most nerdy of pedants. Yet, through much effort and 40 years of debate we had reached an equilibrium. Now AI has thrown that out the window.
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AI's economics don't make sense
If you liked this piece, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and OpenAI’s finances,
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The LLMentalist Effect (2023)
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
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For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day
For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day. In 2026, the music is out of phase with the work.
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The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy
In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.
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Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics
Discover Gemini 4 Argon for robotics: leading the ERQA benchmark with physical reasoning, zero-shot control, Real2Sim, and agentic workflows.
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking for public trust on AI.
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Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
Starting today, Claude Cowork and chat are one Claude, rolling out on Pro, Max, and Ultra plans. Hand over the task and Claude does the work. You keep the final say.
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One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash
Reporting on 2B tokens of AI usage and what shapes model selection and cost
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I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
Learn about Project Suncatcher, how we’re testing hardware survival for space, designing cooling systems for AI chips, and more.
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How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
The Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy (CASP) is an interdisciplinary research programme on frontier AI at the University of Cambridge.
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Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)
Results and speed for other programs on enwik8 and enwik9 are available at the Large Text Compression Benchmark .
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The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
Four and a half years ago, Modular made a bet: AI would not run on one kind of silicon forever, and the software stack would need to be rearchitected for a world of heterogeneous hardware and increasingly complex AI workloads.
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We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM
We gave our AI agent a SQL interface to billions of CI log lines in ClickHouse. How we ingest, store, and query 1.5 billion log lines a week.
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Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well
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