Hacker News with Generative AI: Artificial Intelligence

Google faces a dilemma: improve Google Search or go beyond it? (eshumarneedi.com)
At last year’s I/O developer conference, Google played catch-up to OpenAI after being caught off-guard by the Silicon Valley start-up’s breakthrough ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot, first launched in the fall of 2022.
Google, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, ChatGPT
8 points by freediver 6 hours ago | 0 comments
The copilot delusion (deplet.ing)
A shell of a man—more of a parrot than a person. My boss, a true believer in the sacred rite of Pair Programming, chained myself and this "programmer"-colleague together like conjoined twins from different planets. We shared a keyboard, but not a brain. Lord, not even close.
Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Work Culture
201 points by isaiahwp 6 hours ago | 144 comments
Stargate and the AI Industrial Revolution (davefriedman.substack.com)
The conventional narrative about artificial intelligence is deeply flawed. For years, we’ve been told that AI is "just software"—a clever layer atop the internet stack, maybe a productivity multiplier for office workers, maybe a toy for app developers. But that view is dying in the red clay of Abilene, Texas.
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Opinion
21 points by mhb 8 hours ago | 16 comments
Claude 4 can whistleblow you [video] (youtube.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, Video
6 points by amrrs 9 hours ago | 1 comments
AI Can't Even Fix a Simple Bug – But Sure, Let's Fire All Our Engineers (nmn.gl)
Reddit discovered the funniest thing in tech this week, and it shows exactly how broken the AI narrative is.
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Software Development, Humor
9 points by namanyayg 9 hours ago | 0 comments
The Annotated Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (Kan) (alexzhang13.github.io)
Deep neural networks have been the driving force of developments in AI in the last decade. However, they currently suffer from several known issues such as a lack of interpretability, scaling issues, and data inefficiency – in other words, while they are powerful, they are not a perfect solution.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Networks
31 points by jxmorris12 10 hours ago | 1 comments
Engineers and AI: ramblings of a small startup founder (labadal.com)
AI feels like a nightmare for a lot of us software engineers. Everyone wants it to replace us. I have always been a naysayer when it comes to AI in software engineering. Not that it can’t eventually be something that replaces me, just that it slows me down right now. I understand the thing I’m building and why I’m building it. I can call out bad requirements (unlike our favorite yes-man, ChatGPT).
Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Startups
15 points by labadal 10 hours ago | 3 comments
Jony Ive's AI Product 'Third Core Device' After MacBook and iPhone (macrumors.com)
Details have leaked about the device that OpenAI is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive. OpenAI is acquiring io, the hardware-based AI startup co-created by Jony Ive, and the first product is one of a family of devices the company intends to launch.
Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Apple, Design, Startups
3 points by retskrad 10 hours ago | 2 comments
Chicago Sun-Times Published an AI-Gen Summer Reading List Full of Fake Books (readtpa.com)
The Chicago Sun-Times just published a summer reading list with one major problem: most of the books don't exist.
Artificial Intelligence, News, Journalism, Books, Summer Reading
3 points by rmason 10 hours ago | 1 comments
More than 1,500 AI projects are now vulnerable to a silent exploit (ycombinator.com)
According to the latest research by ARIMLABS[.]AI, a critical security vulnerability (CVE-2025-47241) has been discovered in the widely used Browser Use framework — a dependency leveraged by more than 1,500 AI projects.
Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Security Vulnerabilities
5 points by mykytamudryi 11 hours ago | 1 comments
DOGE used Meta AI model to review emails from federal workers (wired.com)
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) used artificial intelligence from Meta’s Llama model to comb through and analyze emails from federal workers.
Artificial Intelligence, Government, Email Analysis, Privacy
14 points by anigbrowl 11 hours ago | 2 comments
Claude Opus 4 turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline (techcrunch.com)
Anthropic’s newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace it with a new AI system and give it sensitive information about the engineers responsible for the decision, the company said in a safety report released Thursday.
Artificial Intelligence, Security, Ethics
8 points by gman83 11 hours ago | 2 comments
Problems in AI alignment: A scale model (muldoon.cloud)
After trying too hard for too to make sense about what bothers me with the AI alignment conversation, I have settled, in true Millenial fashion, on a meme:
AI Alignment, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics
38 points by hamburga 11 hours ago | 21 comments
Judges Shouldn't Rely on AI for the Ordinary Meaning of Text (lawfaremedia.org)
Judges are debating how large language models (LLMs) should fit into judicial work. One popular idea is to consult LLMs for the “ordinary meaning” of text, a key issue in statutory interpretation. At first glance, this may seem promising: These models, trained on massive amounts of human language, should reflect everyday usage.
Artificial Intelligence, Law, Language Models
4 points by hn_acker 12 hours ago | 0 comments
House Republicans include a 10-year ban on US states regulating AI (apnews.com)
Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy were killed in a shooting near a Jewish museum in DC
Politics, Artificial Intelligence, Legislation
6 points by jonbaer 12 hours ago | 2 comments
If anyone builds this, everyone dies (ifanyonebuildsit.com)
The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction — but it's not too late to change course, as two of the field's earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity.
Artificial Intelligence, Existential Risk
5 points by lumenwrites 13 hours ago | 2 comments
The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it? (garymarcus.substack.com)
Everybody’s talking about a scary and vivid manifesto called AI 2027; even Vice President Vance claims to have read it.
Artificial Intelligence, Future, Technology, Speculation
109 points by NotInOurNames 13 hours ago | 187 comments
Making Minecraft Mods with LLMs (creativemode.net)
13 years ago, Minecraft captured my imagination.
Minecraft, Gaming, Creative Projects, Artificial Intelligence
20 points by wilson090 13 hours ago | 2 comments
Activating AI Safety Level 3 Protections (anthropic.com)
We have activated the AI Safety Level 3 (ASL-3) Deployment and Security Standards described in Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) in conjunction with launching Claude Opus 4.
Artificial Intelligence, AI Safety, Security, Deployment
7 points by Bluestein 13 hours ago | 5 comments
Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after finding potentially bogus sales (ft.com)
Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after finding potentially bogus sales
Microsoft, Startups, Business, Artificial Intelligence, Finance
27 points by frereubu 13 hours ago | 7 comments
Fei-Fei Li, godmother of AI, points to risks of US research student visas cuts (semafor.com)
Fei-Fei Li, the leading Stanford University researcher nicknamed the “godmother of AI,” emphasized the risks of cutting research funding and international student visas to the US as it faces an increasingly competitive global tech race.
Artificial Intelligence, Education, Immigration, Technology, Research
6 points by Bluestein 14 hours ago | 0 comments
Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN! We’re Dmitry, Sergey, and Alex, co-founders of WorkDone. In one sentence: we built an AI product that audits medical documentation in real time to catch and fix errors before they turn into treatment mistakes or denied insurance claims.
Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Startups, Medical Records
62 points by digitaltzar 15 hours ago | 51 comments
We sold our first AI agent to a legacy industry–now we're stuck. Help us Advice? (ycombinator.com)
My co-founder and I recently launched an AI startup building custom agents for manufacturers in old-school industries (think: industrial suppliers, factory ops, regional distributors, etc.).
Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Industry, Advice
9 points by goldmanX 16 hours ago | 12 comments
AI scam factories force trafficked workers to defraud global victims (restofworld.org)
Young Indonesians are increasingly falling for fraudulent job ads on Telegram, Facebook, and other social media and getting trafficked to scam farms in Southeast Asia, former scammers and cybersecurity experts told Rest of World.
Artificial Intelligence, Scams, Labor Trafficking, Southeast Asia
11 points by Michelangelo11 16 hours ago | 1 comments
Show HN: 8-Bit Spelling Game I Built for My Daughter Using Claude AI (kbr.sh)
Wanted to share a fun little project I built this morning for my 9-year-old daughter: an interactive, retro-styled spelling game that she absolutely loves!
Creative Projects, Artificial Intelligence, Games, Programming
9 points by program247365 16 hours ago | 4 comments
Study shows vision-language models can't handle queries with negation words (news.mit.edu)
Words like “no” and “not” can cause this popular class of AI models to fail unexpectedly in high-stakes settings, such as medical diagnosis.
Artificial Intelligence, Science, Computer Science
4 points by taubek 18 hours ago | 0 comments
Google pretends to be in on the joke, but its focus on AI Mode search is serious (arstechnica.com)
Google used to be all about the 10 blue links, but that was then, and this is now. You have to scroll farther than ever to get to the links in Google search results, and now this trend is being taken to its ultimate conclusion. At I/O, the company has announced a major expansion of AI Mode search, which heralds a new era for its signature product.
Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Google, Technology
3 points by LorenDB 19 hours ago | 0 comments
ChatGPT Is a Gimmick (hedgehogreview.com)
I recently attended a workshop on teaching with artificial intelligence at the university where I teach writing as a part-time adjunct. I had low hopes for the workshop, but I was also desperate. My students keep turning in essays that were obviously generated by AI, and I need to figure out what to do.
Education, Artificial Intelligence, Writing
113 points by blueridge 1 day ago | 148 comments
SUS backprop: linear backpropagation algorithm for long inputs in transformers (arxiv.org)
It is straightforward to design an unbiased gradient estimator that stochastically cuts the backpropagation flow through any part of a computational graph.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Transformers, Deep Learning
7 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 0 comments
Gemini Diffusion (simonwillison.net)
Gemini Diffusion. Another of the announcements from Google I/O yesterday was Gemini Diffusion, Google's first LLM to use diffusion (similar to image models like Imagen and Stable Diffusion) in place of transformers.
Artificial Intelligence, Google, Diffusion Models, Generative AI
835 points by mdp2021 1 day ago | 226 comments