Hacker News with Generative AI: Artificial Intelligence

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
59 points by jfantl 6 hours ago | 22 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
21 points by plun9 6 hours ago | 12 comments
OpenAI Academy (openai.com)
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Education
4 points by taytus 8 hours 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
13 points by PaulHoule 9 hours ago | 3 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
10 points by Anon84 10 hours 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 11 hours 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 11 hours 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
3 points by slater 12 hours ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Finzz – Stocks That Talk (finzz.xyz)
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Finance, Stocks, Software, Artificial Intelligence
10 points by unsoldbanana 13 hours ago | 1 comments
The Strategy Behind MCP (medium.com)
Model Context Protocol (MCP), first defined by Anthropic, is surfing a wave of enthusiasm right now. MCP has, incredibly quickly, become a de-facto standard for integration with LLMs. OpenAI’s announcement of support for MCP in the last week of March 2025 essentially confirms this position. New announcements of MCP support are emerging on an almost hourly basis.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Standards
3 points by mooreds 14 hours ago | 0 comments
We can, must, and will simulate nematode brains (asteriskmag.com)
Scientists have spent over 25 years trying — and failing — to build computer simulations of the smallest brain we know. Today, we finally have the tools to pull it off.
Science, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Biology
104 points by l1n 14 hours ago | 100 comments
Launch HN: ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN, we’re Daniel and Daniel (the Daniels) from aSim (https://asim.sh/). aSim is a mobile app that can generate immediately usable and shareable mobile apps from your phone.
YC, Startups, Artificial Intelligence
52 points by dli123 15 hours ago | 49 comments
MCP: The new "USB-C for AI" that's bringing fierce rivals together (arstechnica.com)
What does it take to get OpenAI and Anthropic—two competitors in the AI assistant market—to get along? Despite a fundamental difference in direction that led Anthropic's founders to quit OpenAI in 2020 and later create the Claude AI assistant, a shared technical hurdle has now brought them together: How to easily connect their AI models to external data sources.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Anthropic, Technology, Competition
33 points by CharlesW 17 hours ago | 6 comments
We replaced all our managers with AI (yolodex.ai)
Yolodex, a word-of-mouth growth engine for DTC businesses, has made a bold move: we eliminated all human managers and replaced them with a bespoke, multimodal AI management system.
Artificial Intelligence, Management, Business, Startups
11 points by hazzadous 20 hours ago | 3 comments
Jargonic: Industry-Tunable ASR Model (aiola.ai)
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has made significant strides over the last decade, but most ASR models on the market offer general-purpose transcription. They perform well in clean, controlled environments but break down when handling:
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Language Modeling
55 points by agold97 22 hours ago | 7 comments
AI was enemy No. 1 during Hollywood strikes. Now it's in Oscar-winning films (bbc.co.uk)
Inside a soundstage once used by silent film stars Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, Hollywood executives, actors and filmmakers sipped cocktails as they marvelled at what some say is the biggest breakthrough since the talkies: AI-generated video.
Artificial Intelligence, Hollywood, Film Industry, Entertainment
21 points by jeffwass 23 hours ago | 3 comments
DeepMind slows down research releases in battle to keep competitive edge (ft.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Research, Business, Competition
5 points by StanAngeloff 1 day ago | 1 comments
The case against conversational interfaces (julian.digital)
Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in tech go “This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We’ll only use natural language going forward!”. But then nothing actually changes and we continue using computers the way we always have, until the debate resurfaces a few years later.
Artificial Intelligence, Technology Trends
267 points by nnx 1 day ago | 199 comments
OpenAI closes $40B funding round, startup now valued at $300B (cnbc.com)
OpenAI, Funding, Artificial Intelligence, Valuation, Startups
50 points by rvz 1 day ago | 12 comments
Everything is Ghibli (carly.substack.com)
OpenAI unleashed its native image generation in ChatGPT on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, every social feed was drowning in Studio Ghibli-style portraits. (Linkedin, check back next week.) What happened—and why—is another signal of where AI, art, and our attention are headed.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Art, Social Media
187 points by ghuntley 1 day ago | 302 comments
Ask HN: How many jobs will AI eliminate? Which ones are safe? (ycombinator.com)
Over the past few weeks, I’ve spoken with several VCs who confidently claim that companies won’t need to hire anyone in the next year or two because AI will handle everything.
Artificial Intelligence, Jobs
17 points by raj7desai 1 day ago | 32 comments
Doge accesses federal payroll system and punishes employees who objected (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gained access "to a payroll system that processes salaries for about 276,000 federal employees across dozens of agencies," despite "objections from senior IT staff who feared it could compromise highly sensitive government personnel information" and lead to cyberattacks, The New York Times reported today.
Cybersecurity, Government, Artificial Intelligence
50 points by unsnap_biceps 1 day ago | 11 comments
Automating Interactive Fiction Logic Generation with LLMs in Emacs (tendollaradventure.com)
I automated the creation of transaction tracking logic for an Emacs-based interactive fiction book using an LLM (via gptel).
Interactive Fiction, Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Text Editors
95 points by dskhatri 2 days ago | 19 comments
A streaming brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis to restore naturalistic communication (nature.com)
Natural spoken communication happens instantaneously.
Neurotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Science, Medicine, Communication
13 points by delichon 2 days ago | 3 comments
RLHF Is Cr*P, It's a Paint Job on a Rusty Car: Geoffrey Hinton (officechai.com)
RLHF, or Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, is behind some of the recent advances in AI, but one of the pioneers of the field doesn’t think highly of it.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Generative AI
15 points by gitremote 2 days ago | 6 comments
AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please (sergey.fyi)
Artificial Intelligence, Reliability, Research
412 points by serjester 2 days ago | 249 comments
AI image recognition detects bubble-like structures in the universe (phys.org)
To learn more about the deepest reaches of our own galaxy and the mysteries of star formation, Japanese researchers have created a deep learning model.
Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy, Deep Learning, Universe
54 points by PaulHoule 2 days ago | 26 comments
Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – for data scientists with $3k to spare (theregister.com)
Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you're a data scientist with $3,000 to spare
Nvidia, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Data Science, Finance
44 points by rntn 2 days ago | 55 comments
Show HN: GhydraMCP – Agentic reverse engineering across multiple binaries (github.com/teal-bauer)
GhydraMCP is a bridge between Ghidra and AI assistants that enables AI-assisted reverse engineering through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Reverse Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Security
5 points by moeffju 2 days ago | 0 comments
Vibe Coding and Kodak Cameras (stevedylan.dev)
I’m sure many who read this are familiar by now with the term “vibe coding,” a euphoric style of programming where you prompt AI models or IDEs to write software and just “vibe.”
Coding, Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Software Development
3 points by jhunter1016 2 days ago | 0 comments