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I don't want anything your AI generates
AI output is fundamentally derivative and exploitative (of content, labor and the environment).
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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 6,325 posts.
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Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters
Posted by Sharan Narang and Aakanksha Chowdhery, Software Engineers, Google Research In recent years, large neural networks trained for language un...
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Special projects
Impactful scientific work requires working on the right problems—problems which are not just interesting, but whose solutions matter.
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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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AI is not our future
We are not adding generative AI to our apps. Here's why.
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Are we at peak vector database?
Seriously - why do we need all these vector databases? Do we need dozens of them?
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NaturalSpeech 2: Zero-shot speech and singing synthesizers
Kai Shen*, Zeqian Ju*, Xu Tan*, Yanqing Liu, Yichong Leng, Lei He, Tao Qin, Sheng Zhao, Jiang Bian
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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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Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection
Authors: PromptArmor and Kai Greshake
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Alice's adventures in a differentiable wonderland
A free, self-contained introduction to neural networks and differentiable programming, from automatic differentiation to transformers, with additional chapters on advanced topics.
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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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Capturing the Flag with GPT-4
This weekend I went to BSides SF 2023 and had a blast. I went to some really interesting talks (including an excellent one about adversarial machine learning), but mostly I spent my time solving CTF hacking challenges. And this time, I did it with the help of GPT-4, the
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Behind the scenes of Sound ID in Merlin – Identify birds using your phone (2021)
What is Sound ID? Today we announced one of our biggest breakthroughs—Sound ID, a new feature in the Merlin Bird ID app—and a major leap forward in sound identification and machine learning
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AI is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law
Marc Andreessen famously said that software is eating the world. But the latest and greatest software trend–generative AI–is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law. Like a cruise ship hea…
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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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Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance
Researchers show LLMs respond with improved performance when prompted with emotional context
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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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OpenAI's o1 Playing Codenames
I got OpenAI's o1 to play codenames and the results were surprisingly good
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AI models need a virtual machine
Neural networks are more useful when placed in a suitable, specialized environment.
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What was Radiant AI, anyway?
A ridiculously deep dive into Oblivion’s controversial AI system and its legacy
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Mistral 7B Fine-Tune Optimized
The OpenPipe platform has migrated to Weights & Biases and CoreWeave. Browse migration details and the OpenPipe technical archive.
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GPT-3 Creative Fiction
Creative writing by OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, demonstrating poetry, dialogue, puns, literary parodies, and storytelling. Plus advice on effective GPT-3 prompt programming & avoiding common errors.