Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)
Article URL: https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620090 Points: 457 # Comments: 310
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Your agent wants to search like a 2010 quant
AI agents need the right information to work well. Whether they manage to find it is the difference between success The post Your agent wants to search like a 2010 quant appeared first on The New Stack .
When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?
On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.
“An agent is an LLM and a harness”: What Nvidia really thinks about OpenClaw
How much of Nvidia is reflected by their visionary CEO, Jenson Huang? With his praise and later support of OpenClaw, The post “An agent is an LLM and a harness”: What Nvidia really thinks about OpenClaw appeared first on The New Stack .
Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27
Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.
Polymarket reportedly paid people to post fake videos of themselves placing bets
According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, Polymarket has been paying people to film themselves placing fake bets and celebrating fake wins on social media. WSJ identified over 1,100 deceptive clips and talked to creators who, despite not stating as such in their videos, confirmed the company paid them to create the clips. The videos […]
AryStinger botnet infected thousands of D-Link routers worldwide
A previously undocumented malware botnet named AryStinger has compromised more than 4,000 outdated routers to turn them into proxies for malicious traffic. [...]
AlgoFly AI
The all-in-one place to build and deploy vision AI Discussion | Link
Cloud World Model
Simulate AWS, GCP & DigitalOcean without paying the bill Discussion | Link
Selector Forge
Browser extension for AI-generated resilient selectors Discussion | Link
Identity verification on Claude
https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ubm53n/official_... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618455 Points: 676 # Comments: 575
How Roomba started a robot revolution
If you had a Roomba, especially in the early days of the robot vacuum, it was in many ways a fairly unsophisticated machine. It would just bump around your house, looking for something to suck up, until its battery died or its (way too small) tank filled up. Not that it mattered, though. You probably […]
AI is inflating student grades, and the effect points to outsourced work, not better learning
A UC Berkeley study of more than 500,000 grades found that courses heavy on writing and coding saw grades jump after ChatGPT launched. The effect shows up mainly in homework, a sign that AI is replacing student work rather than improving learning. The article AI is inflating student grades, and the effect points to outsourced work, not better learning appeared first on The Decoder .
Electric air taxis are stuck in the courtroom
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on aviation, air taxis, and Wi-Fi speeds at 30,000 feet, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Last year, […]
Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)
Article URL: https://www.beyondallreason.info Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48617990 Points: 434 # Comments: 255
Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII is still a phone for the fans
The Xperia 1 VIII marks an attempt at a step change for Sony's flagship phone line. Not only has it had an aesthetic overhaul, but Sony has also revamped the camera system, dropping the continuous optical zoom telephoto that's defined the last four generations of Xperia phone. It's not all different. Sony staples like a […]
Review: Widow's Bay is a boldly original take on comedic horror
An eminently binge-able series that honors classic horror tropes while reinventing them in surprising ways.
Sam Altman says a whole generation of researchers held AI back by underestimating what scaling could do
At a Stanford talk, Sam Altman defended LLM scaling and hit back at skeptics, saying a whole generation of researchers slowed the field by underestimating what scaling could do. He cited OpenAI's recent disproof of a mathematical conjecture as evidence. The article Sam Altman says a whole generation of researchers held AI back by underestimating what scaling could do appeared first on The Decoder .
“In its larval state”
Thirty years ago, Cory Doctorow did an interview showing primitive inklings of the internet future (music, videos, etc.). At the time, it was easy to dismiss it as an irrelevant toy, and most people in power did just that. Around the same time, I wrote an article for Direct Marketing magazine outlining the future of […]
AWS says AI agents lack business context and security, launches two services to patch the gaps
At its summit in New York, AWS unveiled two new services. Continuum automatically detects, prioritizes, and fixes code vulnerabilities. Context builds a knowledge graph from corporate data to give AI agents the business context they need. Both tackle the same problem: agents that write code fast but get things wrong too often. The article AWS says AI agents lack business context and security, launches two services to patch the gaps appeared first on The Decoder .
Google Hits 50% IPv6
Article URL: https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/28/google-hits-50-ipv6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616800 Points: 377 # Comments: 385
AgentX
Evaluate AI agent, pinpoint issues, and fix with one click. Discussion | Link
Animdock Motion Templates in the Browser
Create trend motions in your browser! Discussion | Link
The brain was not designed for this much bad news
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260614012006.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615569 Points: 339 # Comments: 288