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How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide
Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023
Topics /
AI & Machine Learning
The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 6,325 posts.
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A Theory of Deep Learning
Where noise hides when deep neural networks generalize.
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World Emulation via Neural Network
I turned a forest trail near my apartment into a playable neural world. You can explore that world in your web browser by clicking right here :
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Transformer – Spreadsheet
Make your own AI by hand ✍️ exercises
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Complete, stand alone Stanford machine learning course notes
The following notes represent a complete, stand alone interpretation of Stanford's machine learning course presented by Professor Andrew Ng and originally posted on the ml-class.org website during the fall 2011 semester. The topics covered are shown below, although for a more detailed summary see lecture 19. The code…
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Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era
The Simons Foundation today announced a new set of initiatives that will help the mathematics community navigate the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in the field. Under a partnership…
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A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms
The OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit.
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The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
We share how AI-native founders are using Claude at every stage of the startup journey, with practical exercises, frameworks, and prompts.
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AI code and software craft
Update (Feb 17, 2026)—I no longer agree with many statements made in this blog post. I am leaving it here unmodified. See my follow-up: AI can sort of code, can't write .
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Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
The moment an agent needs to deploy something, it slams face-first into a wall built for humans. Today we're rolling out Temporary Accounts on Cloudflare Workers. Any agent can now run wrangler deploy — temporary and get a live Worker in seconds.
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Vivaldi on Android bypasses restrictions to let users access Bing Chat
The new version of Vivaldi on Android, tablets, and Chromebooks masquerades as competitors to benefit its users and lets users access Bing Chat.
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I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind
Why I worry about the effect GitHub Copilot is having and will continue to have on the accessibility of the web at scale.
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Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?
Building on the recent empirical work of Kwa et al. (2025), I show that within their suite of research-engineering tasks the performance of AI agents on longer-duration tasks can be explained by an extremely simple mathematical model — a constant rate of failing during each minute a human would take
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Building LLM Applications for Production
[Hacker News discussion, LinkedIn discussion, Twitter thread]
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Hard stuff when building products with LLMs
In this post, Phillip talks through the challenges & pitfalls of LLMs we faced when building our Query Assistant - and that you too may face.
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"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
Four frontier models, a blank canvas, and colored pencils. We tracked every stroke, dollar, and output as they tried to draw the Mona Lisa.
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HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News
Fresh AI generated startup ideas from the current Hacker News front page. Powered by Claude.
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OpenAI Moves to Complete Potentially the Largest Theft in Human History
OpenAI is now set to become a Public Benefit Corporation, with its investors entitled to uncapped profit shares.
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First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English
Facebook AI is introducing M2M-100, the first multilingual machine translation model that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without relying on English data.
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Adventures in Improving AI Economics
AI has enormous potential to disrupt markets that have traditionally been out of reach for software. These markets – which have relied on humans to navigate natural language, images, and physical space – represent a huge opportunity, potentially worth trillions of dollars globally. However, as we discussed in our…
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Here comes the Muybridge camera moment but for text
Posted on Friday 31 May 2024. 2,785 words, 28 links. By Matt Webb.
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Better RAG Results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Hybrid Search
Optimize your support with Assembled's Hybrid Search. Learn how we enhance RAG results using Reciprocal Rank Fusion for accurate, relevant answers.
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Autopsy of a deep learning paper
Introduction I read a lot of deep learning papers, typically a few/week. I've read probably several thousands of papers. My general problem with papers in machine learning or deep learning is that often they sit
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Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol
We’re taking first steps toward agentic commerce in ChatGPT with new ways for people, AI agents, and businesses to shop together.
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A week of using Codex more than Claude
Claude goes above and beyond what is asked and guesses what you might want. Codex does what you tell it and stops at the first sign that it might be done. Ten impressions from a week of using Codex more.
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