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Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory
A modular, compile-checked tutorial for learning category-theory ideas through a tiny Rust ML pipeline.
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AI & Machine Learning
The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 1,523 posts.
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AI has torched the market for junior programmers
Junior programmers are getting destroyed by AI — down 19%, while devs over 40 thrive. Meanwhile, millions of non-developers are shipping real software without the job title. The credential market collapsed; the activity exploded. The problem: nobody's building the next generation of senior engineers.
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AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
$12,431 in fake invoices, 2,797 spam emails, $0 revenue.
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The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes
The S&P 500 fell 4.4% on 5 Nov 2026, its worst day since April 2025, and is 6% below its 6 Oct record. Charted day by day against 1987, 2008, Covid and other falls since 1950.
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Laguna XS.2 and M.1
We've released the first two models in the Laguna family, Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2, alongside the runtime we use to train and operate agents, available through two product experiences in research preview.
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GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?
We tested the latest frontier models in the Dyad agent on five modeling and simulation problems, comparing accuracy, cost, time, and work style.
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CPUs Aren't Dead. Gemma2B Out Scored GPT-3.5 Turbo on Test That Made It Famous
Gemma 2B scored ~8.0 on MT-Bench. GPT-3.5 Turbo scored 7.94. An 87-times-smaller model on a laptop CPU, no GPU anywhere in the stack. We published the full tape — every question, every turn, every score — so anyone can verify it. We found seven failure classes. Not hallucinations. Specific patterns: arithmetic where…
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Grok Build
Now in early beta for all SuperGrok and X Premium Plus subscribers — Grok Build is a new coding agent that runs right from your terminal.
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Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence
The important question about AI-assisted programming isn't who writes the code. It's who understands the system.
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AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM
We turned zkao (our AI auditor) on OpenVM, a state-of-the-art zkVM, and it found a critical soundness bug: the pairing check accepted a prover-supplied witness without proper subfield checking, which lets a malicious prover forge any pairing equality. It is fixed in OpenVM 1.6.0 and tracked as CVE-2026-46669. This is…
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We are changing our developer productivity experiment design
Our second developer productivity study faces selection effects from wider AI adoption, prompting us to redesign our approach.
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Detecting and Preventing Distillation Attacks
We identified coordinated distillation attacks using ~24,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude's capabilities.
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How Claude's text watermarking works
Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark to comply with the EU AI Act. We answer questions about how it works and whether it affects outputs.
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OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI
The field of generative AI is evolving quickly. It brings compelling opportunities to improve developer productivity, but it also brings risks: to reviewer burden, to safety and security, and to intellectual property.
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Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019)
We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization—all without task-specific training.
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Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models
Our measurements of the time horizons for public frontier language models.
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Key findings about how Americans view artificial intelligence
Drawing on five years of Pew Research Center surveys, here are 13 findings about how Americans use and view AI, and where they see promise and risk.
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Scaling AI for everyone
Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.
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Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban
You should always change doors when playing Monty Hall
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Due to DMA, Siri AI delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
Due to the Digital Markets Act, Apple will not be able to ship Siri AI in the European Union with the release of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27.
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AI Coding Agent Benchmarks & Leaderboard
We measure real-world performance of coding agents on software engineering tasks, including cost, token usage, and execution time. We compare how performance changes across agents, models, and execution settings.
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Anthropic's "Profitability" Swindle
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about how Anthropic is “about to have its first profitable quarter,” specifically an operating profit, or EBITDA profitability: Anthropic’s revenue is set to more than double to $10.9 billion in the second quarter, an explosive rate of growth that will
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Claude Code Historical Performance
Historical Claude Code performance tracker across model generations on SWE-Bench-Pro.