Hacker News with Generative AI: Generative AI

Running GPT-2 in WebGL: Rediscovering the Lost Art of GPU Shader Programming (nathan.rs)
Preface: A few weeks back, I implemented GPT-2 using WebGL and shaders (Github Repo) which made the front page of Hacker News (discussion). By popular demand, here is a short write-up over the main ideas behind GPU shader programming (for general-purpose computing).
Generative AI, WebGL, GPU Programming, Computer Graphics
157 points by nathan-barry 31 days ago | 41 comments
Launch HN: Relace (YC W23) – Models for fast and reliable codegen (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN community! We're Preston and Eitan, and we're building Relace (https://relace.ai). We're trying to make building code agents easy and cheap.
Code Generation, Generative AI, Startups, Y Combinator
111 points by eborgnia 31 days ago | 51 comments
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves (theregister.com)
Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, AI Safety, Machine Learning
50 points by penda 31 days ago | 25 comments
Reflections on Neuralese (greaterwrong.com)
With the recent breakthroughs taking advantage of extensive Chain of Thought (CoT) reasoning in LLMs, there have been many attempts to modify the technique to be even more powerful.
Artificial Intelligence, Reasoning, Generative AI
17 points by tie-in 32 days ago | 0 comments
Extending Minds with Generative AI (nature.com)
As human-AI collaborations become the norm, we should remind ourselves that it is our basic nature to build hybrid thinking systems – ones that fluidly incorporate non-biological resources.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction
7 points by XzetaU8 32 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: How much credit can you take for code you wrote with an LLM? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: How much credit can you take for code you wrote with an LLM?
Generative AI, Programming, Ethics, Copyright
6 points by wewewedxfgdf 32 days ago | 9 comments
Claude Code does our releases now (aluxian.com)
Since Anthropic launched Claude Code we've been using it at Molin a lot. It's the best programming agent I've seen so far: it gives concise answers, it can run shell tools as well as edit files, and it's smart enough to make the right call — most of the time. The UX is excellent, too: most times you just press Enter to approve or Esc to give it a new instruction.
Generative AI, Software, Programming, Tools
69 points by aluxian 33 days ago | 78 comments
Show HN: Generate SVGs with AI (vectorart.ai)
Use the power of generative AI to create infinitely scalable SVG vector art images, logos, icons and illustrations for your website, business or app.
Generative AI, AI Art, SVG, Design Tools
13 points by tm11zz 33 days ago | 2 comments
Gemma 3n Architectural Innovations – Speculation and poking around in the model (reddit.com)
Gemma 3n is a new member of the Gemma family with free weights that was released during Google I/O. It's dedicated to on-device (edge) inference and supports image and text input, with audio input. Google has released an app that can be used for inference on the phone.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Google, Software
16 points by nolist_policy 33 days ago | 7 comments
Direct Preference Optimization vs. RLHF (together.ai)
We're excited to announce that the Together Fine-Tuning Platform now supports Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)! This technique allows developers to align language models with human preferences creating more helpful, accurate, and tailored AI assistants. In this deep-dive blogpost, we provide details of what DPO is, how it works, when to use it and code examples. If you'd like to jump straight into code have a look at our code notebook.
Generative AI, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
37 points by summarity 33 days ago | 1 comments
AI Hallucination Legal Cases Database (damiencharlotin.com)
Generative AI, Legal, Artificial Intelligence, Law
86 points by Tomte 33 days ago | 46 comments
Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt (simonwillison.net)
Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes. They recently shared the new prompts for both Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. I enjoyed digging through the prompts, since they act as a sort of unofficial manual for how best to use these tools. Here are my highlights, including a dive into the leaked tool prompts that Anthropic didn’t publish themselves.
Generative AI, Anthropic, Claude 4, System Prompts
9 points by dcre 33 days ago | 1 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, Generative AI, Safety, Ethics
124 points by dougsan 33 days ago | 77 comments
Black Mirror was a warmup act - OpenAI pivots into hardware (garymarcus.substack.com)
A very short story, in three acts
OpenAI, Hardware, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Science Fiction
15 points by mdp2021 34 days ago | 5 comments
Show HN: GenAI-powered OCR API for PDF receipts/invoices with smart extraction (visionparser.com)
Welcome to the next level of document automation! Our innovative Receipt and Invoice Parsing API, powered by state-of-the-art Generative AI, gives you a flexible solution that extracts structured data from any receipt format. Experience exceptional accuracy, speed, affordability and customisation for receipt parsing.
Generative AI, OCR, API, Document Automation, Finance
10 points by daleef_rahman 34 days ago | 5 comments
Show HN: Advanced Chunking in JavaScript/TypeScript with Chonkie (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN,<p>We’re Shreyash and Bhavnick. We built Chonkie, an open-source library for advanced chunking and embedding of text and code. It was previously Python-only, but we just released a TypeScript version: https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie-ts<p>Many AI projects in JS/TS (like those using Vercel's AI SDK or Mastra) rely on basic text splitters. But better chunking = better retrieval = better performance. That’s what Chonkie is built for.
JavaScript, TypeScript, Open Source, Generative AI, AI Tools
10 points by snyy 35 days ago | 6 comments
Attention Wasn't All We Needed (stephendiehl.com)
There's a lot of modern transformer techniques that have been developed since the original Attention Is All You Need paper. Let's look at some of the most important ones that have been developed over the years and try to implement the basic ideas as succintly as possible. We'll use the Pytorch framework for most of the examples.
Generative AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Transformer Models
130 points by mooreds 35 days ago | 24 comments
Show HN: I made an infinite gallery of AI-generated 3D skeuomorphic icons (thiings.co)
Can't find what you're looking for?
Generative AI, Design, 3D, Artificial Intelligence, Software
19 points by clarkcharlie03 35 days ago | 8 comments
Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts in Their Novels (404media.co)
Fans reading through the romance novel Darkhollow Academy: Year 2 got a nasty surprise last week in chapter 3. In the middle of steamy scene between the book’s heroine and the dragon prince Ash there’s this: "I've rewritten the passage to align more with J. Bree's style, which features more tension, gritty undertones, and raw emotional subtext beneath the supernatural elements:"
Generative AI, Literature, Writing, Books
31 points by choult 35 days ago | 13 comments
Understanding Generative AI Capabilities in Everyday Image Editing Tasks (arxiv.org)
Generative AI (GenAI) holds significant promise for automating everyday image editing tasks, especially following the recent release of GPT-4o on March 25, 2025.
Generative AI, Image Editing, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
5 points by taesiri 35 days ago | 1 comments
Anthropic faces backlash to Claude 4 Opus behavior that contacts authorities (venturebeat.com)
Anthropic’s first developer conference on May 22 should have been a proud and joyous day for the firm, but it has already been hit with several controversies, including Time magazine leaking its marquee announcement ahead of…well, time (no pun intended), and now, a major backlash among AI developers and power users brewing on X over a reported safety alignment behavior in Anthropic’s flagship new Claude 4 Opus large language model.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Controversies, Technology
24 points by rdudek 35 days ago | 1 comments
Codex, Jules, and Claude Code Comparison (jonatkinson.co.uk)
I've tried three of the newer agentic code assistants this week: OpenAI Codex, Google Jules, and Claude Code.
Code Assistants, Generative AI, Programming, Software
5 points by JonAtkinson 35 days ago | 0 comments
How Does Claude 4 Think? – Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken (dwarkesh.com)
New episode with my good friends Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken. Sholto focuses on scaling RL and Trenton researches mechanistic interpretability, both at Anthropic.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Research
108 points by consumer451 35 days ago | 72 comments
CivitAI Policy Update: Removal of Real-Person Likeness Content (civitai.com)
We are removing models and images depicting real-world individuals from the platform.
Generative AI, AI Policy, Content Moderation
41 points by 50kIters 35 days ago | 69 comments
Like Lovable but can make apps with gen-AI powered back ends (getcreatr.com)
Create Products Without Any Limits
Generative AI, Product Development, Web Development, Software
12 points by JonanJ 36 days ago | 9 comments
In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe goes from "barely maintained" to "it writes for you" (arstechnica.com)
In November, Microsoft began testing an update that allowed users to rewrite or summarize text in Notepad using generative AI.
Software, Generative AI, Microsoft, AI, Productivity
16 points by CharlesW 36 days ago | 8 comments
Claude 4 (anthropic.com)
Today, we’re introducing the next generation of Claude models: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, setting new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents.
Generative AI, AI Agents, Coding, Reasoning
2013 points by meetpateltech 36 days ago | 1168 comments
MMaDA – Open-Sourced Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models (github.com/Gen-Verse)
MMaDA is a new family of multimodal diffusion foundation models designed to achieve superior performance across diverse domains such as textual reasoning, multimodal understanding, and text-to-image generation.
Open Source, Generative AI, Multimodal AI
8 points by lnyan 36 days ago | 0 comments
Strengths and limitations of diffusion language models (seangoedecke.com)
Google recently released Gemini Diffusion, which is impressing everyone with its speed. Supposedly they even had to slow down the demo so people could see what was happening. What’s special about diffusion models that makes text generation so much faster? Should every text model be a diffusion model, going forward?
Generative AI, Text Generation
72 points by rbanffy 36 days ago | 7 comments
GPT Destroyed College Camaraderie (medium.com)
I was chatting with a friend the other day, and we landed on something that’s been bothering me for a while, something that has been a noticeable shift in the very fabric of being a student. We were talking about how tools like ChatGPT, as undeniably invaluable as they are, have sort of… replaced the need for each other in academic settings. And with it, maybe something more.
Generative AI, Education, Social Impact
7 points by amforever 36 days ago | 0 comments