Hacker News with Generative AI: AI

A new experiment from Google to help people explore more career possibilities (google)
Career Dreamer is a new experiment from Grow with Google that uses AI to make career exploration easier and more personalized.
It's time to become an ML engineer (2022) (gregbrockman.com)
AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and DALL-E 2 are actually useful and can perform tasks computers cannot do any other way.
Ask HN: How would you build a dev/design agency in 2025 alongside AI? (ycombinator.com)
I’m a developer and have worked remotely for 3-4 years with various product based companies like rabbithole.gg, paragraph.xyz, pimlico.io etc and for the past few months I’ve been working on a side-project of my own, it’s an open-source form builder platform like Typeform. Through my journey, I've discovered I really enjoy the craft of building products & open source softwares. It got me thinking about starting a small dev/design agency, but with a different approach.
Show HN: Devv – launch your API services in minutes (devv.ai)
Devv transforms your prompts into secure, auto-scaling backends.
Show HN: Tired of building agents? throw an LLM at this framework (github.com/The-Pocket-World)
Build enterprise-ready AI systems—fast, modular, and vendor-agnostic.
AI killed the tech interview. Now what? (kanenarraway.com)
AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What?
The Ultra-Scale Playbook: Training LLMs on GPU Clusters (huggingface.co)
Refreshing
Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby (github.com/mastra-ai)
Mastra is an opinionated Typescript framework that helps you build AI applications and features quickly. It gives you the set of primitives you need: workflows, agents, RAG, integrations and evals. You can run Mastra on your local machine, or deploy to a serverless cloud.
Augment.vim: AI Chat and completion in Vim and Neovim (github.com/augmentcode)
Augment's Vim/Neovim plugin provides inline code completions and multi-turn chat conversations specially tailored to your codebase.
Show HN: Hacker News with AI-generated summaries (vercel.app)
Show HN: Bag of words – Build and share smart data apps using AI (github.com/bagofwords1)
Bag of words enables users to create comprehensive dashboards with a single prompt and refine them iteratively.
South Korea blocks downloads of DeepSeek from local app stores (techcrunch.com)
South Korean officials on Saturday temporarily restricted Chinese AI Lab DeepSeek’s app from being downloaded from app stores in the country pending an assessment of how the Chinese company handles user data.
Mistral Saba (mistral.ai)
Making AI ubiquitous requires addressing every culture and language. As AI proliferates globally, many of our customers worldwide have expressed a strong desire for models that are not just fluent but native to regional parlance.
Biases in Apple's Image Playground (giete.ma)
Although Image Playground is heavily restricted, and we do not have direct access to the underlying model, can we still use the prompting interface with the above image input to influence the skin tone of the resulting image? Turns out we can, and in precisely the biased way most image models behave 🤦‍♂️.
South Korea bans new DeepSeek AI downloads (bbc.com)
South Korea has banned new downloads of China's DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, according to the country's personal data protection watchdog.
Show HN: VimLM – A Local, Offline Coding Assistant for Vim (github.com/JosefAlbers)
VimLM is a Vim plugin that provides an LLM-powered assistant for code editing by allowing users to interact with a local LLM model through Vim commands and automatically ingesting code context.
Diffusion Without Tears (notion.site)
Show HN: Generate instant docs, tutorials and code reviews for any GitHub repo (entelligence.ai)
A woman made her AI voice clone say "arse." Then she got banned (technologyreview.com)
People with motor neuron disease should be allowed to say whatever they want, including “arse” and “knickers.”
Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal (aider.chat)
Aider lets you pair program with LLMs, to edit code in your local git repository. Start a new project or work with an existing code base. Aider works best with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, DeepSeek R1 & Chat V3, OpenAI o1, o3-mini & GPT-4o. Aider can connect to almost any LLM, including local models.
OpenVINO AI effects for Audacity (audacityteam.org)
Intel has built a suite of AI tools for Audacity, useful for spoken word audio and music alike. These AI features run 100% locally on your PC.
Show HN: Dockershrink – AI Assistant to reduce the size of Docker images (github.com/duaraghav8)
Dockershrink is an AI-powered Commandline Tool that helps you reduce the size of your Docker images
Elon Musk will withdraw bid for OpenAI's nonprofit if its board agrees to terms (techcrunch.com)
In a court filing on Wednesday, lawyers for Elon Musk said the billionaire will withdraw his $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit if the ChatGPT maker’s board of directors “preserve the charity’s mission” and halt the company’s conversion to a for-profit.
Show HN: Auto rename downloads by AI and with your own naming rules (chromewebstore.google.com)
Automatically replace messy filenames with consistent and meaningful ones.
A new approach to data handling between systems/for AI (github.com/dev-formata-io)
Stof is efficient, governable, and accessible data that is much simpler to use, offering fine-grained control and sandboxed manipulation between computer systems without the need for additional application code, servers, and dependencies.
OpenAI Roadmap Update for GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 (twitter.com)
Show HN: Mikey – No bot meeting notetaker for Windows (github.com/hotrod462)
Mikey is an application for recording audio, transcribing it using the Groq API, and generating meeting notes automatically.
ElevenReader (elevenreader.io)
Bring any book, article, PDF, newsletter, or text to life with ultra realistic AI narration in one app
Does anyone here uses AI in Production for performing DevOps and SRE tasks (ycombinator.com)
Does anyone here uses AI in Production for performing DevOps and SRE tasks
Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US (wired.com)
Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the United States.