Hacker News with Generative AI: AI

Retool Agents (retool.com)
The AI industry has invested $1 trillion to build the most sophisticated reasoning engines in human history. Yet today, we use them as glorified writing assistants — copy-pasting their output into the actual systems where work happens. This isn’t AI’s failure. It’s ours.
AI, Software, Productivity, Work, Automation
18 points by conroy 30 days ago | 0 comments
Voiceover artist urging ScotRail to remove her voice from new AI announcements (news.sky.com)
Voiceover, AI, Transportation, Scotland
5 points by drankl 30 days ago | 0 comments
Vibe coding for teams, thoughts to date (laughingmeme.org)
I’ve got Claude Code running in the background while I tab between writing this, sipping a Powers, and fielding phone calls from a team slightly panicked about the end of quarter QBR. This blog post is being written on May 27th, 2025, things may have changed by the time you read it. It was a toss up whether to post this on Notes on engineering leadership, or here, but eventually decided this was too loose for even Notes low standards.
Software Development, AI, Team Management
31 points by todsacerdoti 30 days ago | 26 comments
Firefox 139 adds experimental AI-powered link previews (9to5mac.com)
Today, Mozilla released Firefox 139.0, which brings an interesting AI-based feature: by pressing a keyboard shortcut, the browser opens a small pop-up with a preview of a link’s content. Here’s how to test it out.
New Releases, AI, Browsers, Software
9 points by todsacerdoti 30 days ago | 1 comments
Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude (techcrunch.com)
Anthropic has begun to roll out a “voice mode” for its Claude chatbot apps.
AI, Chatbots, Voice Assistants, Anthropic
7 points by ashutosh-mishra 31 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: AutoThink – Boosts local LLM performance with adaptive reasoning (ycombinator.com)
I built AutoThink, a technique that makes local LLMs reason more efficiently by adaptively allocating computational resources based on query complexity.
AI, Machine Learning, Performance Optimization, Software
397 points by codelion 31 days ago | 68 comments
The Prompt Engineering Playbook for Programmers (addyo.substack.com)
Developers are increasingly relying on AI coding assistants to accelerate our daily workflows.
AI, Programming, Software Development, Prompt Engineering
18 points by thenameless7741 31 days ago | 1 comments
Google introduces webcam "liveness check" option to reCAPTCHA (google.com)
You’ll need to allow temporary camera access to capture your hand movements
Security, Google, AI, Web Development
18 points by aaaaaaaaax 31 days ago | 7 comments
Show HN: Non-intrusive AI agent to automate email driven workflows (mxtoai.com)
Making AI agents accessible via email
AI, Automation, Email, Workflow, Software
44 points by satwik 31 days ago | 13 comments
DeepMind's Veo3 AI – The New King Is Here [video] (youtube.com)
Artificial Intelligence, DeepMind, Video, AI
11 points by mdp2021 32 days ago | 0 comments
Most leading chatbots routinely exaggerate science findings (uu.nl)
It seems so convenient: when you are short of time, asking ChatGPT or another chatbot to summarise a scientific paper to quickly get a gist of it. But in up to 73 per cent of the cases, these large language models (LLMs) produce inaccurate conclusions, a new study by Uwe Peters (Utrecht University) and Benjamin Chin-Yee (Western University and University of Cambridge) finds.
Science, AI, Research
57 points by lr0 32 days ago | 59 comments
Show HN: AI for Building Design, Planning, and Permitting (spacial.io)
With AI-generated Structural & MEP Plans — reviewed, stamped by licensed engineer, and ready to submit.
AI, Architecture, Engineering, Design, Construction
16 points by pscsbs 32 days ago | 8 comments
Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt (simonwillison.net)
Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes. They recently shared the new prompts for both Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. I enjoyed digging through the prompts, since they act as a sort of unofficial manual for how best to use these tools. Here are my highlights, including a dive into the leaked tool prompts that Anthropic didn’t publish themselves.
AI, Chatbots, Anthropic, Claude
309 points by Anon84 32 days ago | 90 comments
Claude 4 and GitHub MCP will leak your private GitHub repositories (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Security, GitHub, AI
248 points by amrrs 32 days ago | 3 comments
Stopping AI scrapers from taking down my server (ellis.link)
In my earlier post about Forgejo and scraper bots, I mentioned that adding a robots.txt file helped reduce scraping. Well, it turns out the bots only disappeared because I’d set the repository to private, and they were receiving numerous 404 errors. They weren’t actually respecting robots.txt (although Google, at least, was).
AI, Server Security, Web Development, Robots.txt
44 points by JadedBlueEyes 32 days ago | 0 comments
The End of A/B Testing: How AI-Gen UIs Can Revolutionize Front End Development (fka.dev)
Explore how AI-generated user interfaces could make A/B testing obsolete by creating personalized, adaptive UIs for every user in real-time, fundamentally transforming how we approach frontend development.
AI, Front-end Development, A/B Testing
16 points by fka 32 days ago | 6 comments
Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs? (ycombinator.com)
Coding, AI, Programming
345 points by bjackman 32 days ago | 276 comments
Image to Text Converter (vheer.com)
Turn images into readable text with ease using Vheer’s AI-powered tool. Extract text from images in seconds and download it instantly. Perfect for business documents, handwritten notes, and more.
Image Processing, AI, OCR, Text Extraction, Business
14 points by vertex_steven 33 days ago | 4 comments
The Grugbrained CEO (sam-rodriques.com)
Management, Business, Leadership, Technology, AI
20 points by _ihaque 33 days ago | 16 comments
Advice to Tenstorrent (github.com/geohot)
Advice to Tenstorrent If you want to get acquired / become scam IP licensing co...I can't help you. If you want to win AI compute, read on
AI, Hardware, Business, Acquisitions
83 points by lexoj 33 days ago | 63 comments
Microsoft engineer fired for disrupting CEO Nadella's speech at Build 2025 (indiatimes.com)
Microsoft, AI, Technology, Business, Leadership
29 points by Eduard 33 days ago | 24 comments
Urgent decision: Meta may use user data for AI training (heise.de)
The Cologne Higher Regional Court has rejected an application by consumer advocates to prohibit Meta from using Facebook data for AI training, for example.
Privacy, AI, Facebook, Law, Social Media
5 points by I_am_tiberius 33 days ago | 1 comments
Word Tour: 1d word embeddings (data-processing.club)
In the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), a central theme has always been “how to make computers understand the meaning of words.”
Word Embeddings, AI, Data Science
5 points by atrudeau 33 days ago | 0 comments
Claude 4 System Card (simonwillison.net)
Anthropic's system cards are always worth a look, and this one for the new Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 has some particularly spicy notes. It's also 120 pages long - nearly three times the length of the system card for Claude 3.7 Sonnet!
AI, Anthropic, Claude, System Cards
700 points by pvg 33 days ago | 251 comments
Alan Turing papers saved from shredder could fetch £150k (theguardian.com)
Widely considered the father of theoretical computer science, Alan Turing’s influence on modern life continues to be felt in the age of artificial intelligence. But despite this legacy, a cache of his most important papers was nearly shredded – only to be saved at the last minute when their significance was recognised at a family event.
Computer Science, History, AI, Legacy
6 points by ColinWright 34 days ago | 0 comments
I No Longer Recommend RAG for Autonomous Coding Agents (pashpashpash.substack.com)
In the early days of LLM applications, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) was a lifeline.
AI, Coding, Recommendation Systems
6 points by bschne 34 days ago | 2 comments
Show HN: Web Apps for Python Devs with Auto-Generated UI (davia.ai)
Davia transforms your Python code into fully-functional tools with intuitive interfaces automatically. No more spending days on UI development or wrestling with frontend frameworks.
Python, Web Development, User Interface, Tools, AI
36 points by ruben-davia 35 days ago | 14 comments
Microsoft Edge for Mac (microsoft.com)
Microsoft Edge is the AI-powered browser for Mac.
Microsoft Edge, Browsers, Mac, AI
5 points by rob 35 days ago | 2 comments
Show HN: I built a more productive way to manage AI chats (contextch.at)
Easily set up multiple projects with web, file, and GitHub context. Start a new chat, and leverage your saved context to get instant answers and insights
Productivity, AI, Chatbots, Software, GitHub
162 points by tapeo 35 days ago | 61 comments
Avoiding becoming the lone dependency peg with load-bearing anime (xeiaso.net)
While working on Anubis (a Web AI Firewall Utility designed to stop rampant scraping from taking out web services), one question in particular keeps coming up:
Web Development, Security, Anime, AI
46 points by cratermoon 35 days ago | 2 comments