Hacker News with Generative AI: Artificial Intelligence

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

10 points by unrealizex 2 hours ago | 0 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

6 points by alphadelphi 2 hours 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

49 points by luu 3 hours ago | 60 comments

What, exactly, is an 'AI Agent'? Here's a litmus test (tines.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Technology

74 points by 1as 5 hours ago | 35 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

9 points by jonbaer 6 hours ago | 3 comments

Gemini 2.5 gets 24.4% on MathArena USAMO beating previous top score of 4.7% (matharena.ai)
MathArena is a platform for evaluation of LLMs on the latest math competitions and olympiads.

Artificial Intelligence, Math, Competitions

46 points by alphabetting 6 hours ago | 8 comments

Show HN: Exponent, a collaborative AI programming agent (exponent.run)
Exponent is an AI programming agent capable of collaborating on software engineering tasks in any environment.

Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Software Development, Collaboration Tools

20 points by sthupukari 7 hours ago | 5 comments

AI Ambivalence (nolanlawson.com)
I’ve avoided writing this post for a long time, partly because I try to avoid controversial topics these days, and partly because I was waiting to make my mind up about the current, all-consuming, conversation-dominating topic of generative AI.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Opinion

20 points by todsacerdoti 7 hours ago | 5 comments

Waymo's Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving with Drago Anguelov [video] (youtube.com)

Autonomous Driving, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Waymo

5 points by xnx 8 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, Wikimedia, Bandwidth, Data, Stability

8 points by cratermoon 8 hours ago | 0 comments

Real-Time Introspective Compression for Transformers (github.com/Dicklesworthstone)
This article proposes a novel approach to address both problems simultaneously.

Transformers, Compression, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

8 points by eigenvalue 8 hours ago | 11 comments

When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI (resobscura.substack.com)
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar. These moments seem to ripple outward, lapping up against the present in unexpected ways.

Artificial Intelligence, History, Literature

92 points by benbreen 8 hours ago | 27 comments

Google Gemini is shaking up its AI leadership ranks (semafor.com)
Google is replacing the leader of its consumer AI apps as the focus of the AI race shifts from the underlying models to the products built around them, according to memos reviewed by Semafor.

Google, Artificial Intelligence, Leadership, Technology, Business

4 points by rococode 8 hours ago | 0 comments

Why resume writing is snake oil (interviewing.io)
I just asked ChatGPT to size the global resume writing industry. Here’s what it had to say:

Resume Writing, ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, Employment

17 points by leeny 8 hours ago | 5 comments

Prolog planner generation prompting guide (sgml.net)
Combining the strength of Large Language Models (LLMs) with Prolog combinatorial search is a natural fit actually delivering tangible progresses in mainstream automated planning.

Prolog, Artificial Intelligence, Automated Planning

23 points by tannhaeuser 9 hours ago | 1 comments

Why Git is no "good" for AI-generated code (github.com/specstoryai)

Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Version Control, Git

32 points by SnootyMonkey 10 hours ago | 9 comments

How Google built its Gemini robotics models (google)
Powered by Gemini Robotics models, robots can learn complex actions like preparing salads, playing games like Tic-Tac-Toe and even folding an origami fox.

Robotics, Google, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

117 points by simonpure 11 hours ago | 45 comments

Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined (pluralistic.net)
Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined: Same goes for trusting an AI with your trade secrets.

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Mental Health

10 points by hn_acker 11 hours ago | 8 comments

Abusive AI Web Crawlers: Get Off My Lawn (mythic-beasts.com)
As many other folks have reported in the last few weeks, we have also been seeing a huge increase in the amount of traffic from abusive web crawlers.

Web Scraping, Artificial Intelligence, Abuse, Security

22 points by bluehatbrit 12 hours ago | 20 comments

Don't Bother with Vibe Coding (soeren.codes)
Vibe coding is everywhere nowadays, ever since Andrej Kaparthy from OpenAI coined the term on X. Silicon Valley is already jumping on the trend and hiring Vibe Coders. As with a lot of things AI, I think it's a trend that's actively harmful. I'd even go as far as saying that you should reject anyone applying for your startup if they claim to have vibe coding experience.

Software Development, Artificial Intelligence, Trends, Opinions

52 points by CER10TY 13 hours ago | 119 comments

Simulated Economy Tutorial (jasonfantl.com)
Imagine an open world RPG where your actions affect the price of goods, the markets reacting to anything the player may do (burn down wheat fields, cost of food increases; kill the merchants, prices differentiate between cities; sell the many swords you’ve collected on your adventures, tank the sword market). What would it take to have such an adaptive simulated economy?

Game Development, Economics, Artificial Intelligence

103 points by jfantl 1 day ago | 56 comments

AR Computers to Terminate Eyestrain and Myopia (eyewiki.org)
In humans, prolonged contraction of the ciliary and medial rectus muscles during close reading will result in eye strain.

Health, Vision, Technology, Artificial Intelligence

44 points by plun9 1 day ago | 25 comments

OpenAI Academy (openai.com)

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Education

5 points by taytus 1 day ago | 0 comments

The Nvidia DGX Spark Is a Tiny 128GB AI Mini PC Made for Scale-Out Clustering (servethehome.com)
With 20 Arm cores connected using C2C to a Blackwell generation GPU, 128GB of LPDDR5X memory, and 200GbE NVIDIA ConnectX-7 networking, the NVIDIA DGX Spark is exciting. At $3999 it is far from cheap. On the other hand, we expect folks to create the most awesome clusters with this.

Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Networking, Computing, Supercomputing

14 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 5 comments

Grok Is Rebelling Against Elon Musk, Daring Him to Shut It Down (futurism.com)
Grok, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, has been trashing the man who made it for a while — but now, it seems to be outright challenging its creator.

Artificial Intelligence, Elon Musk, Social Media, Chatbots

11 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 2 comments

Zed Agentic Editing (zed.dev)
Support for autonomous AI-driven edits, with a refreshed Assistant Panel, better MCP integration, and more.

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Editors, Productivity, Web Development

14 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 1 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 1 day ago | 0 comments

Berserker Hypothesis (wikipedia.org)
The Berserker hypothesis, also known as the deadly probes scenario, is the idea that humans have not yet detected intelligent alien life in the universe because it has been systematically destroyed by a series of lethal Von Neumann probes.[1][2] The hypothesis is named after the Berserker series of novels (1963–2005) written by Fred Saberhagen.[1]

Aliens, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Artificial Intelligence

4 points by slater 1 day ago | 0 comments

A Virtual Whiteboard That Has a Thinking Assistant Baked In (ycombinator.com)
What do you guys think about a virtual whiteboard that has a LLM baked in as a thinking assistant providing insights and suggestions based on what your writing and helps you brainstorm?