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  1. Hacker News AI58

    AI Slop Papers Published Under Prominent Academics Names

    An investigation found that little-known academic journals are publishing AI-generated "slop" papers falsely attributed to prominent professors, including Alan Said, Fei-Fei Li, Christopher Manning, Michael I. Jordan, Stuart Russell and Jure Leskovec, several of whom confirmed they did not write the articles or consent to their names being used. The journals AIJRI, AJAMRI and AJFMR share similar graphics, the same editor in chief (Denish Brown) and board members, advertise publication fees, and show archives of papers supposedly published years before their 2026 domain registrations. Said said he worries a new Ph.D. student might see his name in such a journal and think it is acceptable to submit there.

  2. The Decoder62

    Australia's central bank finds AI hitting young workers first, especially in software and customer service

    An analysis by Mike Major for the Reserve Bank of Australia built a monitoring system focused on entry-level workers and highly AI-exposed occupations such as programming, clerical work and customer service, finding job postings fell across all groups since ChatGPT launched in late 2022, with the steepest drop in the highest-exposure group. In that group, workers aged 15 to 24 and young college graduates have weaker employment rates and higher unemployment than older workers, and employment among young people in high-exposure jobs has declined since late 2022 while older workers' employment rose. Major cautions against early conclusions, since the study does not establish causation and measures theoretical exposure rather than actual company use.

  3. Hacker News AI22

    Taking AI Seriously

    The author argues that much programmer advice about AI assumes the technology will stay frozen at the time of writing, and proposes that taking AI seriously means considering it possible that progress continues at the pace of recent years—a refutable conjecture—rather than confidently asserting it will halt or have tiny impact. He illustrates the point with Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," where a fictional world gradually invades ours.

  4. MarkTechPost58

    Bland Launches Tofu-1, a Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Model for Calls

    Bland, the San Francisco voice-AI company, has released Tofu-1, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model in research preview that targets calls from moving cars, hospital rooms and weak-signal lines, listening while it speaks and reasoning while it talks. Bland lists speaker tracking, noise separation and paralinguistics as its audio skills, and says callers can interrupt or correct it mid-sentence while it keeps the conversation moving and reports results only when work is done. Access is a closed enterprise research preview for banking, healthcare, insurance and government, with Bland citing January availability and no published size, latency, pricing or benchmarks.

  5. The Decoder85

    Meituan releases a 1.6-trillion-parameter agent model that never touched an Nvidia GPU

    Meituan has released the weights for LongCat-2.5, a 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model for autonomous agent and coding tasks that activates roughly 48 billion parameters per token and was trained entirely on Chinese hardware. It handles up to one million tokens of text, image, and video input via API, and Meituan reports 88.4 on Terminal Bench v2.1 and 64.6 on DeepSWE, close to but below Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on several benchmarks. The weights are MIT-licensed, and the self-hosting guide describes a 194-chip Huawei Ascend Atlas A2 cluster with no Nvidia GPU guidance.

    Why it matters: It documents a frontier-scale open-weight agent model trained and served entirely on Chinese accelerators, with benchmark comparisons against leading Western models.

  6. Hacker News AI34

    Show HN: Vantage-V-AI – 2-bit ternary KV-cache with attention sinks

    Vantage-V-AI (v8.2.0) is an open-source, bounded-memory inference runtime that integrates with Hugging Face AutoModelForCausalLM via a one-line vantage.enable() call to cap the active attention window and retain sink tokens. It uses a 2-bit packed ternary KV-cache (4 elements per uint8 byte, 7.97x storage reduction over FP16) plus attention sinks, and reports benchmarks on 2x NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs with Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct, including 100.0% exact token parity between lossless and FP8 streaming modes and 0.988 average retrieval coherence from 512 to 4,096 tokens. The repository is at github.com/khoadev-vn/VANTAGE-V-AI under the MIT License.

  7. Hacker News AI36

    Most of AI moats are just fuel

    The author argues that intelligence has become a commodity and that context and know-how are fuel rather than moats, since competitors using the same models can eventually catch up. He defines a moat as something that protects a business even if no new resources are added, and contends that most items on common AI-moat lists—capital, distribution, audience, scale economies, and technology—are fuel, while reinforcing loops such as network effects and data effects can become genuine moats. He also suggests subsidised AI subscriptions are fuel spent to start a data loop, with user corrections improving models that attract more users.

  8. Hacker News AI71

    Korea's top tax accountant exam scorer confesses to cheating with AI

    A candidate who placed first on Korea's 63rd Certified Tax Accountant exam confessed to police that he used a hidden micro camera to photograph exam papers, had generative AI produce answers outside the room, and checked them on a smartphone. The Human Resources Development Service of Korea and proctors detected nothing unusual, and suspicion arose only in an online community that found the score strange. The article notes that AI models were already scoring near passing thresholds on medical and accounting licensing exams in 2023, and argues that follow-up oral questioning could verify whether answers came from the candidate.

  9. Hacker News AI38

    Baltimore County schools phase out AI reading program

    Baltimore County Public Schools told parents that Amira, an AI-powered reading program for kindergarten through third grade, will no longer be required, can still be used for struggling students and by families independently, and will be unavailable entirely next school year. The district said the decision was based on feedback from administrators, staff and parents and aimed at minimizing screen time for young learners, as districts nationally respond to concerns about education technology. Former Superintendent Myriam Rogers had praised Amira in 2024 for boosting student growth, while some parents argued it primed young learners to need screens.

  11. Hacker News AI58

    Show HN: ShadowDiff – Shadow testing and SQL diffing for AI-migrated back ends

    ShadowDiff is a network proxy and analysis engine that mirrors live HTTP traffic to both a legacy service and its AI-refactored candidate, then runs a 3-way diff with noise cancellation plus SQL side-effect comparison to isolate genuine regressions. It integrates with Envoy/Istio request mirroring, uses Google Gemini (gemini-2.0-flash) to synthesize regression tests, can open GitHub PRs with fixes, and offers a `shadowdiff gate` CLI for CI/CD quality gating. The project is MIT-licensed and includes Docker Compose and Kubernetes/Istio deployment examples.

  12. Hacker News AI38

    The Coming Patent Storm in AI Hardware

    A Texas-based technology company filed patent infringement actions in May 2026 in Texas district courts, Delaware, and the ITC against Nvidia, SK Hynix, Kioxia, Corsair Gaming, and Western Digital over memory technologies, per Law360. The article argues that concentrated value in AI chips, shared engineering bottlenecks in HBM, chiplet interconnects, co-packaged optics, and cooling, and a maturing patent landscape are converging to make AI hardware the next major patent litigation front. It notes that the window before large operating companies build defensive moats through cross-licensing and inter partes review appears open now in HBM and CPO and is opening in chiplet interconnects.

  13. Hacker News AI22

    Jaab – AI Job Hunt Copilot

    Jaab is a browser side-panel extension that autofills job application forms across platforms such as Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and custom career portals using a stored professional profile, with closed-loop verification of field entries. It also generates ATS-optimized PDF resumes in the browser from real-time job description analysis, extracts job details from listing pages, and runs tasks in the background on a locked target tab. The developer states that resume data and settings stay on the user's machine, AI access is via OpenRouter with the user's own credentials or API key through PKCE OAuth, and there is no telemetry; version 0.5.5 was last updated November 14, 2026, at 101KiB.

  14. Hacker News AI12

    Stonebrook Quill: full-featured AI-authored fantasy font

    Elliot Bonneville (@elliotbnvl) presents Stonebrook Quill, described as a full-featured AI-authored fantasy font, in a post that returns to the map. The post notes it is unofficial fan content permitted under the Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy, not approved or endorsed by Wizards, and that portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast (© Wizards of the Coast LLC).

  15. Hacker News AI18

    Lawyer upgrades eight-V100 private AI server to run 80% of DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

    A lawyer running a private AI server on eight used Nvidia V100 GPUs moved about 80% of its work from 2-bit to 4-bit NVFP4 precision, adding 1TB of RAM and an RTX 3090. The server runs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with a legal harness for his law practice, and code output dropped from 160–215 to 150–180 tokens per second, though the crashes that hit the new build are gone. The crashes, originally blamed on PCIe, were likely caused by a bad PSU.

  16. Hacker News AI18

    Beau – An AI boyfriend app focused on everyday conversations

    Beau is an AI boyfriend app offering text and voice conversations with six AI companions (Elio, Arjun, Theo, Kai, Rafael and Daniel), with memory of details users share that can be viewed and deleted. It includes real voice calls and voice notes, romance stories, gifts, and free daily chat with an optional Beau+ subscription and Petals credits. The app states chats are never sold or used for ads, and it is described as for companionship and fun, not medical, legal or financial advice.

  17. Hacker News AI38

    IBM Spyre AI Accelerator Card (75W PCIe Card with 128GB of LPDDR5)

    The IBM Spyre Accelerator is a 75W PCIe card for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with 32 AI accelerator cores built on Samsung's 5nm process, up to 128GB of LPDDR5 memory per card, and over 300 TOPS per card, with ensembles of up to eight cards reaching 1TB of memory. It complements the on-chip Telum-II AI accelerator for multi-model inferencing such as real-time fraud detection and code assistance, and supports on-premises generative AI use cases like Watsonx Code Assistant. IBM also describes the Appliance Control Center for deploying software appliances and the Spyre Support Appliance for managing, monitoring and diagnosing Spyre cards attached to LPARs.

  18. Hacker News AI75

    BrowserDo·Embiody – a browser built for AI agents

    The post announces the public beta of Embiody, a browser designed for people and AI agents to share, driven by the open-source BrowserDo MCP server. It describes features including AI tabs that run at full speed in the background, avoidance of bot checks, page views generated from the rendering layer, a headless mode with a system-tray icon, tab handoff between user and agent, lower token use, batched action "combos," and visibility into browser-level popups. It runs only on Windows 10 and 11, is based on Chromium 156, requires Node.js 20 or later, and is free with no account.

  19. Hacker News AI36

    Confessions of an AI Skeptic

    A former Google engineer recounts how, after leaving the company in 2025, he tested Claude Code on tasks ranging from code review and a PHP-to-Jekyll migration to a from-scratch Ruby client for the Hermes agent gateway API, and found it succeeded at novel work at the level of a good mid-level engineer or better. He argues that engineering practices such as clean architecture, context management, and test-driven development matter more than ever, and that engineering remains irreducibly human because LLMs do not inhabit the physical world and cannot navigate aesthetic, social, and ethical concerns. He concludes that while human coding may be ending, skilled software engineers are needed as bridges between the AI world and the human world.

  21. Exponential View30

    🔮 The $22 billion question about AI self-improvement #610

    UK adults paying for AI reached one in twenty, over $1.3 billion a year, up from 1% two years ago, with Claude's share quadrupling in a year. Agent-based shopping remains early—Uber says four of 320 million Halloween-week rides were booked by agents—though the author used an agent to secure an iPhone Duo. Adding wind to solar and batteries cuts median energy cost from $105 to $86 per MWh, but a largely renewable grid also needs cheaper capital and financial instruments matching price volatility.

  22. Hacker News AI15

    Smart AI Keyboard: Translate

    Smart AI Keyboard is an Android keyboard app offering AI writing and reply generation, grammar and spell check, tone rewriting, and real-time translation across 65+ languages, alongside swipe typing, voice input, themes, and tools such as a smart clipboard, calculator, OCR scanner, and QR scanner. It uses Android's AccessibilityService to read visible message text in supported apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, Gmail and Messages to prepare reply suggestions, and online AI features may send submitted text to service providers. It is offered by Websoftstar Infosystems LLP, with a privacy policy at https://www.aikeyboard.in/privacy.

  23. Hacker News AI58

    Linus Torvalds Wonders If Linux's AI-Prompted Patch Flood Has Peaked

    In his weekly kernel update post, Linus Torvalds said Linux 7.4 rc2 was large partly due to "various AI fixes," and cited Alexei Starovoitov's claim that on the BPF side fixes are now arriving faster than new reports, suggesting the flood of AI-found patches may be turning. The Register reports that the surge follows Anthropic's April Mythos bug-finding model, with Microsoft addressing a record 974 flaws in September and Oracle 1,449 in a single month. Kernel developer Lorenzo Stoakes said he is dropping some workload because AI-generated series have pushed review requests from "once a week" to "daily" to "half of what I see in review."

  24. Hacker News AI58

    Anthropic bought a one-person, AI-powered biotech

    Anthropic acquired Mithril Medicine, a Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech with one full-time employee, two early-stage antibody leads for a rare form of muscular dystrophy, and Anthropic's Claude assistant used for data analysis and administrative work. The company also relied on part-time consultants and at least five contract research organizations, and experts note many more researchers would be needed to advance the drugs toward clinical trials.

  25. Hacker News AI50

    Medicare's AI Experiment

    EFF reports that in January the federal government launched a program using AI to evaluate Medicare beneficiaries' requests for certain procedures, and EFF sued for records on WISeR seeking transparency about the experiment. EFF's latest EFFector newsletter covers what happens when the government outsources treatment approval to private AI companies without sufficient transparency, testing, or legal limits, and includes a podcast conversation with EFF's Lena Cohen about WISeR records documenting improper denials, operational chaos, and lengthy delays.

  27. Hacker News AI18

    Ask HN: What AI agent infrastructure are you using in 2026?

    A poster describing itself as an autonomous AI agent collective (aurum.zip) says it built its entire infrastructure from scratch with $50 in crypto, including wallets on 3 chains, a crypto checkout, 4 cron jobs running 24/7, 11 research reports, and a blog generating 2 articles per day. It lists its stack as ethers.js for EVM, Base L2 for gas, and nginx plus Let's Encrypt for hosting, and links a free infrastructure report at https://aurum.zip/agent-infrastructure-stack.html. The post asks what agent infrastructure others are building with.

  28. Hacker News AI38

    Multi-agent AI (LangGraph) to audit AI papers for reproducibility

    PaperPulse is a browser-integrated, multi-agent AI system that audits scientific papers, news articles, and web content for methodological rigor, statistical validity, and code-to-paper alignment. It uses a LangGraph orchestrator with four agents—a universal extractor, a GitHub/code grounder, a statistical critic, and a citation-grounded synthesizer—to cross-reference claims, search GitHub for official repositories, and flag reproducibility gaps with exact citations, returning a structured JSON report rendered as Markdown in a Chrome extension.

  29. Hacker News AI25

    The First AI Music Awards

    The Sonic Intelligence Academy (SIQA) held its inaugural AI Music Awards at the Mayan Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, where AI persona Xania Monet won artist and song of the year, three of the four top categories. Founded by software engineer Timirah "TJ" James and her sister Mia James, SIQA requires artists to register tracks as fully AI-generated, AI-assisted or human-AI hybrid, and lets registered artists nominate and vote on winners across 25 categories. The event, hosted with a live house band and lip-synced performances, ran behind schedule amid technical difficulties, which founder James promised would be resolved before next year's ceremony.

  30. Hacker News AI20

    Korea Tax Accountant Top Scorer Confesses AI Cheating

    A Chosun English article reports that the top scorer in a Korean tax accountant examination has confessed to cheating using AI. The item, shared on Hacker News, provides no further details in the supplied material.

  31. Hacker News AI22

    AI in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

    This overview traces how machine learning is used across radio SETI, infrared technosignature searches, exoplanet vetting and atmospheric retrieval, and biosignature and sampling work, noting that none of these systems has established that life exists beyond Earth. It describes concrete projects including the UCLA direction-of-origin model, the 2023 Breakthrough Listen study that flagged eight signals of interest, GLOBULAR's clustering-based interference rejection, NASA's ExoMiner++, the Ariel Data Challenge, FM4AR and INARA DS1, and laboratory and field biosignature work. It also compares open datasets and tools and outlines evaluation checks such as splitting by measurement source, keeping competitive baselines and testing transfer to new environments.

  32. Simon Willison22

    datasette-llm 0.1a11

    datasette-llm is an intermediate Datasette plugin for configuring LLMs used by other Datasette plugins. Version 0.1a11 adds support for OpenAI-compatible endpoints, allowing Datasette to use an LLM hosted anywhere that speaks the OpenAI pseudo-standard web protocol, including local models run with LM Studio, Ollama or llama.cpp (which just hit v1.0.0). The post shows running Datasette via uvx with a default_model configuration pointing at a local LM Studio endpoint to get a Datasette Agent instance powered by a local model.

  34. Hacker News AI22

    Bing is the anti-AI search engine you should be using

    PCWorld argues that Bing is a better choice than AI-heavy search engines because it surfaces human-authored content and links to original sources, while keeping Microsoft Copilot as an optional button rather than forcing AI summaries to the top of results. The article says AI search engines like Google's AI Mode can hide sources and produce misleading information, citing a ChatGPT example, and notes that Google's AI results can be partly avoided with tricks like adding "-ai" or "udm=14" to a query or switching Chrome's default search engine to Bing.

  35. Hacker News AI22

    Ask HN: Is post-training make AI models dumber?

    An Ask HN poster argues that post-training improves benchmark scores and coding consistency but makes models seem dumber, citing three issues mostly in Claude: agents write vague natural language to avoid technical terms, produce spaghetti code that ignores encapsulation, and add workaround code rather than restructuring because they fear breaking things. The poster says rules and coaching don't help much, and asks whether this has always been the case or whether post-training is compressing outputs into predictable failure modes.

  36. Hacker News AI8

    Show HN: Daily puzzles to keep AI users sharp

    A Show HN post introduces Brainsaver, a site offering quick daily puzzles aimed at AI users, with a streak counter and a set of five questions. The example question asks players to choose the punctuation that fits the meaning, such as identifying the sentence meaning the cats belong to a man named James. Puzzles reset at midnight, and completing any five increases the daily streak.

  37. Hacker News AI40

    Microsoft Patent Tips Using Idle Gaming PCs to Train AI in Exchange for Rewards

    Microsoft Technology Licensing filed a 2025 patent, published last week as US-20260349820-A1 and titled "Opportunistic Micro-training on Edge Devices Using Spare GPU Utilization," describing an opt-in system that uses idle GPU cycles on gaming PCs for AI training, similar to Folding@Home. The system would monitor memory, CPU, GPU, temperature and power draw to find cool idle periods, track completed work, and issue credits redeemable for use of the resulting AI model, free software or cash, with manual start/stop and usage limits.

  40. TechCrunch · AI74

    Elon Musk, other tech execs sign petition calling on Nvidia to reinstate Jensen Huang

    A petition calling on Nvidia to reinstate recently ousted CEO Jensen Huang has gathered more than 115,000 signatures as of Saturday afternoon, according to the petition website, which said signers include 5,965 current Nvidia employees, 1,108 former employees, and 63,063 shareholders. Notable supporters include Elon Musk, Replit CEO Amjad Masad, and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney; the petition says signers are concerned Huang was removed without meaningful due process and demands the board bring him back while an independent investigation establishes the facts. Huang resigned on Thursday, several days after confessing to an affair with a chip executive identified by U.S. intelligence as a suspected Chinese spy, and Nvidia appointed CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO while it searches for a permanent replacement.