Hacker News with Generative AI: AI

Show HN: Magnitude – open-source, AI-native test framework for web apps (github.com/magnitudedev)
Magnitude: The open source, AI-native testing framework for web apps
Exploring model welfare (anthropic.com)
Human welfare is at the heart of our work at Anthropic: our mission is to make sure that increasingly capable and sophisticated AI systems remain beneficial to humanity.
Freelancers now represent more than one in four US workers (computerworld.com)
As AI integration accelerates, businesses are facing widening skills gaps that traditional employment models struggle to address, and so more companies are choosing to hire freelancers to fill the void, according to a new report.
Claude Plays Pokemon – Starter Version (github.com/davidhershey)
A minimal implementation of Claude playing Pokemon Red using the PyBoy emulator. This starter version includes:
Exploring Model Welfare (anthropic.com)
Human welfare is at the heart of our work at Anthropic: our mission is to make sure that increasingly capable and sophisticated AI systems remain beneficial to humanity.
Llama 4 Smells Bad (fastml.com)
Meta has distinguished itself positively by releasing three generations of Llama, a semi-open LLM with weights available if you ask nicely (and provide your full legal name, date of birth, and full organization name with all corporate identifiers). So no, it’s not open source. Anyway, on Saturday (!) May the 5th, Cinco de Mayo, Meta released Llama 4.
Efficient Code Search with Nvidia DGX (nvidia.com)
Large language models (LLMs) have enabled AI tools that help you write more code faster, but as we ask these tools to take on more and more complex tasks, there are limitations that become apparent.
Figma sent a cease-and-desist letter over the term 'Dev Mode' (techcrunch.com)
We may be witnessing the makings of a new tech industry feud between competitors. Figma has sent a cease-and-desist letter to popular no-code AI startup Lovable, Figma confirmed to TechCrunch.
Show HN: Index – New Open Source browser agent (github.com/lmnr-ai)
Index is the SOTA open-source browser agent for autonomously executing complex tasks on the web.
Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234 (theregister.com)
Video Crosswalk buttons in various US cities were hijacked over the past week or so to – rather than robotically tell people it's safe to walk or wait – instead emit the AI-spoofed voices of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg.
Nvidia HGX B300 NVL16 Will Disrupt the AI NIC Market (axautikgroupllc.substack.com)
The NVIDIA HGX B300 NVL16 Will Disrupt the PCIe Retimer, PCIe switch, and AI NIC Markets
Show HN: Dosidicus – A digital pet with a simple neural network (github.com/ViciousSquid)
What if a Tamagotchi had a neural network and could learn stuff?
Washington Post Inks OpenAI Licensing Deal for Search (variety.com)
The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has gone into business with artificial-intelligence powerhouse OpenAI.
Toyota's Test City Built Around AI and Robot Assisstants (woven-city.global)
Welcome to Toyota Woven City. This test course for mobility is driven by a collaborative community with a shared passion to enhance well-being for all. Here, we come together to co-create, test and bring to life products and services that address everyday societal challenges around the movement of people, goods, information and energy. This is the future of mobility.
More than 20 robots race alongside humans at half marathon in Beijing (abc.net.au)
Humanoid robots have joined thousands of runners at a half marathon in Beijing — the first time these machines have raced alongside humans in a 21-kilometre course.
Show HN: I open-sourced my AI toy company that runs on ESP32 and OpenAI realtime (github.com/akdeb)
🚀 ElatoAI: Realtime AI Speech for ESP32
Figma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term 'Dev Mode' (techcrunch.com)
Figma has sent a cease-and-desist letter to popular no-code AI startup Lovable, Figma confirmed to TechCrunch.
Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue (github.com/nari-labs)
Dia is a 1.6B parameter text to speech model created by Nari Labs.
Gemini 2.5: The First LLM That Understands PDF Layouts (sergey.fyi)
Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams (ycombinator.com)
Alex and Teddy here. We’re launching Magic Patterns (https://www.magicpatterns.com), an AI prototyping tool that helps PMs and designers create functional, interactive designs and websites.
Symphony v0.2: Multi-Agent Software Development Framework (github.com/sincover)
Symphony is a sophisticated multi-agent software development framework designed to orchestrate AI agents in a structured, efficient workflow.
AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 34.5% (ahrefs.com)
Huawei AI CloudMatrix 384 – China's Answer to Nvidia GB200 NVL72 – SemiAnalysis (semianalysis.com)
Huawei is making waves with its new AI accelerator and rack scale architecture. Meet China’s newest and most powerful Chinese domestic solution, the CloudMatrix 384 built using the Ascend 910C. This solution competes directly with the GB200 NVL72, and in some metrics is more advanced than Nvidia’s rack scale solution. The engineering advantage is at the system level, not just at the chip level, with innovation at the networking, optics, and software layers.
Show HN: MidiMaker.pro – Generate structured MIDI music from text using LLMs (midimaker.pro)
Why is OpenAI buying Windsurf? (theahura.substack.com)
The quiet news of the last few days was the leak/announcement of a $3 billion OpenAI acquisition of Windsurf.
The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2 (wildeboer.net)
I guess you have all heard about the growing problem of AI companies trying to aggressively collect whatever data they can get their hands on to train their models. This has caused an explosive surge in web crawlers relentlessly hitting servers big and small. But who runs these crawlers? Turns out — it could be you!
Welcome to the Era of Experience - Richard Sutton [pdf] (googleapis.com)
Russian Propaganda Has Now Infected Western AI Chatbots – New Study (forbes.com)
A troubling trend in which most western AI chatbots are unknowingly spreading Russian propaganda has been uncovered by a NewsGuard audit published last week.
New OpenAI models hallucinate more (slashdot.org)
Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding (anthropic.com)
Claude Code is a command line tool for agentic coding. This post covers tips and tricks that have proven effective for using Claude Code across various codebases, languages, and environments.