Hacker News with Generative AI: Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn't waiting (theregister.com)
Tech textbook tycoon Tim O'Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house's copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o model without permission.
Copyright, Generative AI, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Legal Issues
8 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 2 comments
Teen with 4.0 GPA who built the viral Cal AI app was rejected by 15 universities (techcrunch.com)
Zach Yadegari, the high school teen co-founder of Cal AI, is being hammered with comments on X after he revealed that out of 18 top colleges he applied to, he was rejected by 15.
Education, College Admissions, Artificial Intelligence
14 points by impish9208 3 hours ago | 15 comments
Captured: How Silicon Valley is building a future we never chose (codastory.com)
AI’s prophets speak of the technology with religious fervor. And they expect us all to become believers.
Silicon Valley, Artificial Intelligence, Future, Society, Technology
6 points by defrost 4 hours ago | 1 comments
AI Energy Use in Everyday Terms – By Marcel Salathé (engineeringprompts.substack.com)
I’ve discussed AI energy use from several perspectives in previous posts (here, here, and here), but this time I wanted something simpler and easier to grasp. What if we compared the energy used by a chatbot over an entire year to everyday things we all do?
Artificial Intelligence, Energy Consumption, Comparisons
3 points by absqueued 5 hours ago | 0 comments
So what are people MCP-ing, anyway? (medium.com)
Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short. Released in November 2024 to quiet applause in San Francisco startup accelerator basements. Launched into the tech mainstream in March 2025, confusing nerds everywhere.
Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Tech Trends
5 points by dannyighsu 5 hours ago | 0 comments
AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught (nature.com)
An artificial intelligence (AI) system has for the first time figured out how to collect diamonds in the hugely popular video game Minecraft — a difficult task requiring multiple steps — without being shown how to play.
Artificial Intelligence, Video Games, Minecraft, Deep Learning
6 points by bglazer 5 hours ago | 0 comments
Trump's new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT's (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Politics, Artificial Intelligence, Economics
9 points by ericzawo 5 hours ago | 1 comments
AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating (niila.fi)
For the past few years, cheats have evolved rapidly. First came memory reading aimbots, then colorbots, and now AI aim assist. Cheats have escaped the host PC. How does it affect the players and anti-cheats?
Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Cheating, Esports
100 points by duckling23 6 hours ago | 84 comments
Taco Bell parent Yum Brands partners with Nvidia to speed up use of AI (cnbc.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Fast Food, Technology, Partnerships
7 points by gmays 7 hours ago | 0 comments
Banked Memories for Soft SIMT Processors (arxiv.org)
Recent advances in soft GPGPU architectures have shown that a small (<10K LUT), high performance (770 MHz) processor is possible in modern FPGAs.
Hardware, Computer Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA
6 points by matt_d 7 hours ago | 0 comments
How generative AI is transforming developer workflows at Amazon (amazon.com)
Software engineering stands at an inflection point. While previous technological shifts enhanced what developers could build, AI is fundamentally changing how we build.
Generative AI, Software Engineering, Amazon, Artificial Intelligence
3 points by benocodes 8 hours ago | 0 comments
Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age (kiessling.net)
Over the past few months, I have been experimenting with AI-powered coding tools in both my personal and professional projects.
Software Development, Artificial Intelligence, Programming
150 points by briankelly 8 hours ago | 105 comments
Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters (monkeys.zip)
Show HN, Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Creative Projects
58 points by yathern 8 hours ago | 18 comments
Trump's new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT's (theverge.com)
When President Donald Trump began yesterday’s announcement of the White House’s latest trade policy brandishing a novelty-sized cardboard sign labeled “Reciprocal Tariffs,” the immediate and nearly unanimous response was bafflement.
Politics, Economics, Artificial Intelligence
51 points by marban 9 hours ago | 24 comments
AI 2027 (ai-2027.com)
We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution.
Artificial Intelligence, Predictions, Future, Technology
324 points by Tenoke 10 hours ago | 228 comments
Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O'Reilly books (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI has been accused by many parties of training its AI on copyrighted content sans permission. Now a new paper by an AI watchdog organization makes the serious accusation that the company increasingly relied on non-public books it didn’t license to train more sophisticated AI models.
Generative AI, Copyright, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, AI Ethics
4 points by desertmonad 10 hours ago | 0 comments
Univ of Hong Kong releases Dream 7B (Diffusion reasoning model) (reddit.com)
University of Hong Kong releases Dream 7B (Diffusion reasoning model). Highest performing open-source diffusion model to date. You can adjust the number of diffusion timesteps for speed vs accuracy
Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Research
3 points by bredren 12 hours ago | 0 comments
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50% (arstechnica.com)
Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.
Artificial Intelligence, Wikipedia, Technology, Bandwidth, Wikimedia
5 points by HypnoticOcelot 13 hours ago | 2 comments
AI theorized to have dropped a − sign in Trump tariff calculation (chaos.social)
Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Economics
11 points by eqvinox 17 hours ago | 1 comments
AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught (nature.com)
An artificial intelligence (AI) system has for the first time figured out how to collect diamonds in the hugely popular video game Minecraft — a difficult task requiring multiple steps — without being shown how to play.
Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Minecraft, Computer Science
8 points by alexcos 18 hours ago | 3 comments
Training AI Using 'Pirated' Content Can Be Fair Use, Law Professors Argue (torrentfreak.com)
A group of prominent intellectual property law professors has weighed in on the high-stakes AI copyright battle between several authors and Meta. In an amicus brief, the scholars argue that using copyrighted content as training data can be considered fair use under U.S. copyright law, if the goal is to create a new and 'transformative' tool. This suggests that fair use could potentially apply to Meta's training process, even if the underlying data was obtained without permission.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright Law, Fair Use, Legal Cases
24 points by isaacfrond 19 hours ago | 22 comments
MusiCoT, a chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting technique for music generation [pdf] (musicot.github.io)
Music Generation, Artificial Intelligence, Prompt Engineering
3 points by jinqueeny 21 hours ago | 0 comments
Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access (matterrank.ai)
Search could be so much better.
Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval
55 points by mfkhalil 1 day ago | 58 comments
Kerrick's Wager: On the Future of Manual Programming (kerrick.blog)
It’s been a while since I’ve had a crisis of confidence. But tonight, I read Steve Yegge’s recent post, “Revenge of the Junior Developer.” In it, he lays out a vision of a future—only two years away—in which nobody writes code anymore. I felt a cocktail of anger, fear, worry, and disbelief. Then, I thought through the implications, and came up with a plan of action: Kerrick’s Wager.
Software, Programming, Artificial Intelligence
3 points by Kerrick 1 day ago | 1 comments
We Built an AI Tool to Create High-Quality 3D Models from Regular Videos (ycombinator.com)
We're a team of AI researchers passionate about simplifying 3D modeling. We've built an easy-to-use tool that generates detailed, high-quality 3D models directly from regular videos.
Artificial Intelligence, 3D Modeling, Computer Vision
11 points by unrealizex 1 day ago | 2 comments
Evaluating Agent-Based Program Repair at Google (arxiv.org)
Agent-based program repair offers to automatically resolve complex bugs end-to-end by combining the planning, tool use, and code generation abilities of modern LLMs.
Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Bug Repair, Google
14 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 1 comments
Yann LeCun, Pioneer of AI, Thinks Today's LLM's Are Nearly Obsolete (newsweek.com)
Ask Yann LeCun—Meta's chief AI scientist, Turing Award winner, NYU data scientist and one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence—about the future of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, Meta's Llama and Anthropic's Claude, and his answer might startle you: He believes LLMs will be largely obsolete within five years.
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI
7 points by alphadelphi 1 day ago | 0 comments
Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers (kernel.org)
I'm sad to say that we're following the lead of many others and putting in proof-of-work proxies into place to protect ourselves against "AI" crawler bots. Yes, I hate this as much as you, but all other options are currently worse (such as locking us into specific vendors).We'll be rolling it out on lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org in the next week or so.
Security, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Software
59 points by luu 1 day ago | 82 comments
What, exactly, is an 'AI Agent'? Here's a litmus test (tines.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Technology
90 points by 1as 1 day ago | 40 comments
DeepMind is holding back release of AI research to give Google an edge (arstechnica.com)
Google’s artificial intelligence arm DeepMind has been holding back the release of its world-renowned research, as it seeks to retain a competitive edge in the race to dominate the burgeoning AI industry.
Artificial Intelligence, Google, Competition
11 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 5 comments