Hacker News with Generative AI: Open source

Open source project curl is sick of users submitting "AI slop" vulnerabilities (arstechnica.com)
"A threshold has been reached. We are effectively being DDoSed. If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time," wrote Daniel Stenberg, original author and lead of the curl project, on LinkedIn this week.

Open source, Software Development, Security, Artificial Intelligence

6 points by cpeterso 17 hours ago | 1 comments

Open source AI agent helper to let it SEE what its doing (github.com/monteslu)
An MCP server that enables LLMs to "see" what's happening in browser-based games and applications through vectorized canvas visualization and debug information.

Open source, AI agents, Computer Vision, Gaming

9 points by monteslu 45 days ago | 2 comments

Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments (thomas-huehn.com)
Scanning source files for licensing information (because the package managers‘ metadata is insufficient) is a lot of work, and a lot of wasted effort, because only rarely do companies pool their resources.

Open source, Software Development, Licensing, Security, Collaboration

113 points by Tomte 81 days ago | 62 comments

Open source back end for role play voice agents (github.com/alievk)
Voi is a free and open source backend for realtime voice agents. Check the JS client.

Open source, Voice Agents, Realtime, Backend, Javascript

4 points by alievk91 88 days ago | 0 comments

Open source inference time compute example from HuggingFace (github.com/huggingface)
One thing that should be learned from the bitter lesson is the great power of general purpose methods, of methods that continue to scale with increased computation even as the available computation becomes very great. The two methods that seem to scale arbitrarily in this way are search and learning.

Open source, Machine Learning, Inference, Computation, HuggingFace

88 points by burningion 144 days ago | 26 comments

Open source audio transcription model that obscures sensitive info in realtime (venturebeat.com)
Businesses looking to use AI models to transcribe audio, specifically human speech, from executives, employees, and customers, may be wary of the idea of an AI program listening to and recording sensitive information.

Open source, Audio Transcription, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Business

16 points by bobismyuncle 166 days ago | 1 comments

Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap (wcedmisten.fyi)

Open source, OpenStreetMap, Tools, Mapping

115 points by wcedmisten 276 days ago | 9 comments

Open source AI is the path forward (about.fb.com)

Open source, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Software

2360 points by atgctg 290 days ago | 888 comments

Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code (visualstudiomagazine.com)