Hacker News with Generative AI: AI

AI Coding Assistant Is Gaslighting You – The Hidden Cost of Uncertainty (jc.tt)
The recent Devin review by Answer.AI highlights a critical but often overlooked aspect of AI coding assistants: their maddening unpredictability.
We tried hard to make Devin work for us, But it didn't (twitter.com)
The Former Israeli Spies Building AI Systems at Global Tech Companies (donotpanic.news)
Dozens of former members of Israel’s Unit 8200 - a secretive cyber warfare team accused of building the AI systems that helped enable the Gaza genocide - are now building AI systems for the world’s biggest tech and AI companies.
Show HN: Jolt – AI coding tool for production, 100K+ line codebases (usejolt.ai)
Read CV Acquired by Perplexity (read.cv)
Since 2021 we've had the immense privilege of putting our whole selves into building and growing Read.cv. We're tremendously proud of what we've accomplished, and the wonderful community that has blossomed around it.
Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable (xeiaso.net)
Please, just stop.
Skyvern Browser Agent 2.0: How We Reached State of the Art in Evals (skyvern.com)
We’ve been working hard cooking up something new to share with you all!
Phishing with Gmail's Gemini Summarize via prompt injection (twitter.com)
Migrate TikTok posts to RedNote AI agent (opencord.ai)
Researchers use AI to design proteins that block snake venom toxins (arstechnica.com)
It's a good example of how computer developments can be used for practical problems.
Tiny Corp Nearing "Completely Sovereign" Compute Stack for AMD GPUs with Tinygr (phoronix.com)
George Hotz' Tiny Corp that develops the Tinygrad neural network framework and sells the Tinybox NVIDIA and AMD powered AI workstations is nearing a "completely sovereign" software stack for GPU compute on AMD.
Show HN: News Minimalist – News ranked by significance (newsminimalist.com)
Today ChatGPT read news articles and gave of them a significance score over 5.5.
Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app (google)
The AP will now deliver a feed of real-time information to help enhance the usefulness of results displayed in the Gemini app.
Gemini Advanced now included in Google Workspace (workspace.google.com)
We believe AI is foundational to the future of work and its transformative power should be accessible to every business and every employee, at an affordable price.
Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI (theregister.com)
Most businesses rushing to adopt AI are unprepared for the energy demands it'll place on their infrastructure, and few have a handle on the power consumption of AI systems or the implications for their datacenters.
Show HN: QwQ-32B APIs – o1 like reasoning at 1% the cost (ycombinator.com)
Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace (theverge.com)
If you wanted to use all of Google’s AI features inside Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Meet, and the rest of the Workspace suite, you previously needed to pony up another $20 per user per month for the Gemini Business plan. As of Tuesday, it’s free.
Show HN: Apple Engineer Made Samaltmanprize.com (samaltmanprize.com)
Show HN: Open-Source Document Extraction Tool (github.com/harishdeivanayagam)
Rowfill helps extract, analyze, and process data from complex documents, images, PDFs and more with advanced AI capabilities.
Don't use cosine similarity carelessly (migdal.pl)
Midas turned everything he touched into gold. Data scientists turn everything into vectors. We do it for a reason — as gold is the language of merchants, vectors are the language of AI1.
Snyk Security Labs Testing Update: Cursor.com AI Code Editor (snyk.io)
Snyk’s Security Labs team aims to find and help mitigate vulnerabilities in software used by developers around the world, with an overarching goal to improve the state of software security.
Ask HN: Teams using AI – how do you prevent it from breaking your codebase? (ycombinator.com)
For teams actively using AI coding assistants (Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.), I'm noticing a frustrating pattern: the more complex your codebase, the more time developers spend preventing AI from breaking things.
MathReader: Text-to-Speech for Mathematical Documents [pdf] (arxiv.org)
TTS (Text-to-Speech) document reader from Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, and OpenAI have been serviced worldwide. They provide relatively good TTS results for general plain text, but sometimes skip contents or provide unsatisfactory results for mathematical expressions.
Cheating Is All You Need (sourcegraph.com)
There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is.
CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don't Like Making Music (404media.co)
Mikey Shulman, the CEO and founder of the AI music generator company Suno AI, thinks people don’t enjoy making music.
Show HN: Missio – AI Agent and Copilot for Your APIs (missio.ai)
Connect to all your existing tools, save hundreds of hours on repetitive tasks and workflows and keep your team focused on building better product.
Codestral 25.01 (mistral.ai)
Code at the speed of Tab. Available today in Continue.dev and soon on other leading AI code assistants.
Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming and they'll run Linux (zdnet.com)
I know, I know: "Year of the Linux desktop ... yadda, yadda." You've heard it all before. But now there's a Linux-powered PC that many people will want: Nvidia's Project Digits, a desktop with AI supercomputer power that runs DGX OS, a customized Ubuntu Linux 22.04 distro.
Tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant (github.com/TabbyML)
Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant, offering an open-source and on-premises alternative to GitHub Copilot.
Astral AI startup demos how to flood the Y Combinator subreddit (twitter.com)