Hacker News with Generative AI: AI

GitHub Copilot Pro+ (github.blog)
Today, we’re introducing GitHub Copilot Pro+, a new individual tier for developers who want to take their coding experience to the next level.

GitHub, Software, Programming, AI, Developer Tools

6 points by tyteen4a03 6 hours ago | 1 comments

DOGE's AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs (wired.com)
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been clear about its plans to fire tens of thousands of employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs. New WIRED reporting sheds light on the specific DOGE operatives at the VA and the ways they’re trying to infiltrate and drastically change the agency.

AI, Government, Veterans, Politics, Elon Musk

5 points by panic 7 hours ago | 0 comments

Microsoft 50th Anniversary (microsoft.com)
Microsoft empowers you with AI

Microsoft, Anniversaries, AI, Technology

5 points by LopRabbit 8 hours ago | 0 comments

Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss 'war profiteer' (theverge.com)
A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI.

Microsoft, AI, Protests, Technology, Events

24 points by jrepinc 11 hours ago | 3 comments

GitHub Copilot rolls out Agent mode and MCP for VS Code (github.blog)
In celebration of MSFT’s 50th anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP support to all VS Code users. We are also announcing the new GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan w/ premium requests, the general availability of models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, next edit suggestions for code completions & the Copilot code review agent.

GitHub, AI, Software Development, Programming

11 points by meetpateltech 11 hours ago | 0 comments

Tenstorrent Launches Blackhole Developer Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day (tenstorrent.com)
Tenstorrent launched the next generation Blackhole™ chip family today at their DevDay event in San Francisco.

Hardware, AI, New Releases, Computer Vision

63 points by fidotron 1 day ago | 24 comments

Show HN: MCP Server to let agents control the browser (github.com/Skyvern-AI)
Skyvern's MCP server implementation helps connect your AI Applications to the browser. This allows your AI applications to do things like: Fill out forms, download files, research information on the web, and more.

AI, Browser Automation, Web Development, Software

13 points by suchintan 1 day ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Docsumo's OCR Benchmark Report – Surpassing Mistral and Landing AI (docsumo.com)
In the past month, the AI community witnessed the launch of two much-anticipated OCR solutions—Mistral OCR by the Mistral team (known for their LLMs) and Agentic Document Extraction by Landing AI, Andrew Ng’s company. At Docsumo, we live and breathe Document AI. So when these releases hit the market, we couldn’t resist putting them to the test

OCR, AI, Benchmarking, Open Source, Document AI

3 points by snehanairdoc 2 days ago | 0 comments

How to write good prompts for generating code from LLMs (github.com/potpie-ai)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized code generation, but to get high-quality, useful output, creating effective prompts is crucial.

Generative AI, Programming, AI, Code Generation

11 points by ayush2390 2 days ago | 1 comments

I stopped using AI code editors (lucianonooijen.com)
In late 2022, I used AI tools for the first time, even before the first version of ChatGPT. In 2023, I started using AI-based tools in my development workflow. Initially, I was super impressed with the capabilities of these LLMs. The fact that I could just copy and paste obscure compiler errors along with the C++ source code, and be told where the error is caused felt like magic.

AI, Software Development, Programming, Code Editors

102 points by kiyanwang 2 days ago | 77 comments

Firefox 137.0 released with vertical tabs (mozilla.org)
Firefox’s new sidebar lets you move tabs to the side, pin key sites and keep your AI assistant handy.

Firefox, Web Browsers, User Interface, AI

11 points by Ianvdl 2 days ago | 2 comments

Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with RL (arxiv.org)
Efficiently acquiring external knowledge and up-to-date information is essential for effective reasoning and text generation in large language models (LLMs).

AI, Reasoning, Search Engines, Reinforcement Learning

99 points by jonbaer 2 days ago | 12 comments

GitSummarize – Generate living documentation from any GitHub repo (gitsummarize.com)
Turn any GitHub repository into a comprehensive AI-powered documentation hub.

Software, GitHub, AI, Documentation, Open Source

6 points by hsiYwko 2 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Arrakis – Open-source, self-hostable sandboxing service for AI Agents (github.com/abshkbh)
AI agents can generate malicious or buggy code that can attack the host system its run on.

AI, Security, Open Source, Software, Agents

27 points by abshkbh 2 days ago | 4 comments

Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing (bair.berkeley.edu)
We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone.

Reinforcement Learning, Traffic Management, AI, Transportation, Research

24 points by saeedesmaili 3 days ago | 15 comments

Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers (engadget.com)
Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024, the foundation said in an update. But it's not because human readers have suddenly developed a voracious appetite for consuming Wikipedia articles and for watching videos or downloading files from Wikimedia Commons. No, the spike in usage came from AI crawlers, or automated programs scraping Wikimedia's openly licensed images, videos, articles and other files to train generative artificial intelligence models.

Wikipedia, AI, Generative AI, Data Scraping, Open Source

91 points by bretpiatt 3 days ago | 98 comments

We need a better term for GenAI output – "slop" is too benign (rockpapershotgun.com)
Earlier this month, Snail Games put out a widely and justifiably clowned-on genAI trailer for Ark: Survival Evolved's Aquatica DLC.

Generative AI, Video Games, Terminology, Criticism, AI

10 points by fjghajkhdfgjlk 3 days ago | 0 comments

Kai Scheduler: Kubernetes Native scheduler for AI workloads at large scale (github.com/NVIDIA)
KAI Scheduler is a robust, efficient, and scalable Kubernetes scheduler that optimizes GPU resource allocation for AI and machine learning workloads.

Kubernetes, AI, Machine Learning, Scheduling, Open Source

3 points by sherlockxu 3 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: VaporVibe – auto-generate video demos for vibe-coded projects (influme.ai)

Software, Open Source, Video Generation, AI

5 points by gmdnn 3 days ago | 5 comments

Proof or Bluff? Evaluating LLMs on 2025 USA Math Olympiad (arxiv.org)
Recent math benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) such as MathArena indicate that state-of-the-art reasoning models achieve impressive performance on mathematical competitions like AIME, with the leading model, o3-mini, achieving scores comparable to top human competitors.

Mathematics, Benchmarking, AI, Olympiads

5 points by mauriziocalo 3 days ago | 1 comments

Text to Bark from ElevenLabs [video] (youtube.com)

AI, Generative AI, Video

9 points by explosion-s 3 days ago | 2 comments

Why MCP Is Mostly Bullshit (lycee.ai)
If you follow the AI space closely, you’ve surely noticed the increased interest in MCP (Model Context Protocol).

Artificial Intelligence, AI, Criticism

7 points by kristjansson 3 days ago | 0 comments

How AI is creating a rift at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG (the-ken.com)
Clients’ increasing access to AI tools is transforming the way consulting firms operate

AI, Consulting, Business, Technology, Impact

102 points by rustoo 3 days ago | 94 comments

Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model (github.com/getomni-ai)
A benchmarking tool that compares OCR and data extraction capabilities of different large multimodal models such as gpt-4o, evaluating both text and json extraction accuracy. The goal of this benchmark is to publish a comprehensive benchmark of OCR accuracy across traditional OCR providers and multimodal Language Models. The evaluation dataset and methodologies are all Open Source, and we encourage expanding this benchmark to encompass any additional providers.

Open Source, OCR, AI, Benchmarking, Language Models

211 points by themanmaran 3 days ago | 47 comments

Dual RTX 5090 Beats $25,000 H100 in Real-World LLM Performance (hardware-corner.net)
AI enthusiasts looking for top-tier performance in local LLMs have long considered NVIDIA’s H100 to be the gold standard for inference, thanks to its high-bandwidth HBM3 memory and optimized tensor cores. However, recent benchmarks show that a dual RTX 5090 setup, while still pricey, outperforms the H100 in sustained output token generation, making it an ideal choice for those seeking the best possible performance for home use, especially for models up to 70B parameters.

AI, Hardware, Performance, Benchmarking

29 points by mdp2021 4 days ago | 12 comments

NaNoWriMo shut down after AI, content moderation scandals (techcrunch.com)
NaNoWriMo, a 25-year-old online writing community-turned-nonprofit, announced on Monday evening that it is shutting down.

Writing, Nonprofits, AI, Content Moderation, Scandals

7 points by healsdata 4 days ago | 3 comments

LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite (theregister.com)
Gartner says the market for large language model (LLM) providers is on the cusp of an extinction phase as it grapples with the capital-intensive costs of building products in a competitive market.

Generative AI, Business, Technology, AI

86 points by abawany 4 days ago | 69 comments

OpenAI plans to release a new 'open' AI language model in the coming months (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI says that it intends to release its first “open” language model since GPT‑2 “in the coming months.”

Generative AI, Open Source, AI

4 points by kartikarti 4 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Neuronpedia, an open source platform for AI interpretability (neuronpedia.org)
Neuronpedia is an open source interpretability platform.

Open Source, AI, Interpretability, Machine Learning

6 points by hijohnnylin 4 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: What's the best way to get started with LLM-assisted programing? (ycombinator.com)
Currently, I use Perplexity or ChatGPT via the web prompt for small coding tasks, but sometimes I'll use Ollama. Stuff like writing a shell script perform some task, or maybe a small Python function. I'd like to get to the next level, but I don't know where to start.

Programming, AI, Tools

59 points by mywittyname 4 days ago | 40 comments