Hacker News with Generative AI: Artificial Intelligence

Under new law, cops bust famous cartoonist for AI-generated CSAM (arstechnica.com)
Late last year, California passed a law against the possession or distribution of child sex abuse material (CSAM) that has been generated by AI.
My experience today with Google support, and their AI/plagiarism machine (bsky.app)
She Is in Love with ChatGPT (nytimes.com)
Dr. TVAM – Inverse Rendering for Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing (github.com/rgl-epfl)
Dr.TVAM is an inverse rendering framework for tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing.
FTC Statement in the Matter of Snap, Inc.'s AI Chatbot [pdf] (ftc.gov)
Rumor About GPT-5 Changes Everything (thealgorithmicbridge.com)
What if I told you that GPT-5 is real. Not just real, but already shaping the world, from where you can’t see it.
Ask HN: Request to add an [AI] tag to posts? (ycombinator.com)
This is such a great website, but it's becoming less interesting by the minute.
Apple suspends AI-generated news alert service after BBC complaint (theguardian.com)
Apple is suspending an artificial intelligence feature that made inaccurate summaries of news headlines.
How should software engineers adapt to AI-driven layoffs? (ycombinator.com)
With major tech companies laying off mid-level engineers due to AI efficiency gains, what strategies are engineers using to stay competitive?
Thoughts on a month with Devin (answer.ai)
In March 2024, a new AI company burst onto the scene with impressive backing: a $21 million Series A led by Founders Fund, with support from industry leaders including the Collison brothers, Elad Gil, and other tech luminaries. The team behind it? IOI gold medalists - the kind of people that solve programming problems most of us can’t even understand.
Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption (cryptographyengineering.com)
Recently I came across a fantastic new paper by a group of NYU and Cornell researchers entitled “How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI.” I’m extremely grateful to see this paper, because while I don’t agree with every one of it’s conclusions, it’s a good first stab at an incredibly important set of questions.
Apple pulls AI-generated notifications for news after generating fake headlines (cnn.com)
Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion (federalregister.gov)
With this interim final rule, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) revises the Export Administration Regulations' (EAR) controls on advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs) and adds a new control on artificial intelligence (AI) model weights for certain advanced closed-weight dual-use AI models.
She Is in Love with ChatGPT (nytimes.com)
Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: We don't care about professional coders anymore (semafor.com)
Replit has had a turbulent year, but CEO Amjad Masad’s sonorous voice was almost zen-like as he spoke to me on Monday in an airy conference room, sipping coconut water with a view of the sun setting over Foster City, California.
Interview with Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower (youtube.com)
My subjective notes on the state of AI at the end of 2024 (ycombinator.com)
The AI landscape continues to evolve rapidly. At the end of 2024 I take time to reflect on the current state of AI and make some predictions about the future.
Test-driven development with an LLM for fun and profit (yfzhou.fyi)
Welcome to the very first post in a new blog! Here I will discuss software development, SRE work, and other fun stuff. Sometimes an idea is just too good to pass up. I hope this blog will motivate me to turn sparks and little pieces into general knowledge in writing the words down.
Anduril Building Arsenal-1 Hyperscale Manufacturing Facility in Ohio (anduril.com)
A family of autonomous systems, powered by Lattice, that provides integrated, persistent awareness and security across land, sea and air -- all at the tactical edge.
Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers (zadzmo.org)
This is a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers. Specifically, it's targetting crawlers that scrape data for LLM's - but really, like the plants it is named after, it'll eat just about anything that finds it's way inside.
'Now Is the Time of Monsters' (nytimes.com)
Donald Trump is returning, artificial intelligence is maturing, the planet is warming, and the global fertility rate is collapsing.
MatterGen: A new paradigm of materials design with generative AI (microsoft.com)
Materials innovation is one of the key drivers of major technological breakthroughs.
Show HN: Genious.name – AI Domain Generator That Checks Availability (genious.name)
Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: We don't care about professional coders anymore (semafor.com)
Replit has had a turbulent year, but CEO Amjad Masad’s sonorous voice was almost zen-like as he spoke to me on Monday in an airy conference room, sipping coconut water with a view of the sun setting over Foster City, California.
Anthropic achieves ISO 42001 certification for responsible AI (anthropic.com)
We are excited to announce that Anthropic has achieved accredited certification under the new ISO/IEC 42001:2023 standard for our AI management system.
She Is in Love with ChatGPT (nytimes.com)
OpenAI revises policy doc to remove reference to 'politically unbiased' AI (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI has quietly removed language endorsing “politically unbiased” AI from one of its recently published policy documents.
100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem (cerebras.ai)
Conventional wisdom in semiconductor manufacturing has long held that bigger chips mean worse yields. Yet at Cerebras, we’ve successfully built and commercialized a chip 50x larger than the largest computer chips – and achieved comparable yields.
Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: 'We don't care about professional coders anymore (semafor.com)
Replit has had a turbulent year, but CEO Amjad Masad’s sonorous voice was almost zen-like as he spoke to me on Monday in an airy conference room, sipping coconut water with a view of the sun setting over Foster City, California.
NDEA: A new intelligence science lab founded by François Chollet and Mike Knoop (ndea.com)
Ndea is building frontier AI systems that blend intuitive pattern recognition and formal reasoning into a unified architecture.