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Discovery Loop automates experimental loops with AI to accelerate scientific and engineering discovery.
Critics cite Jeff Dean's failures at Google; fans call it sour grapes.
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Discovery Loop automates experimental loops with AI to accelerate scientific and engineering discovery.
Critics cite Jeff Dean's failures at Google; fans call it sour grapes.
Demis Hassabis becomes Google DeepMind chair and Alphabet chief scientist; Jeff Dean departs.
Two camps: one sees Demis's role as a promotion, the other as a step away from power.
Cloudflare open-sources an agent workspace platform built on Workers with sandboxed app instances.
Split between OS-branding criticism and interest in the Sandstorm revival sandbox model.
A civilian medevac plane crashed in New Mexico after the military's GPS jamming exercise disabled navigation.
Two camps: pilot error for flying visual into mountains, or military negligence for jamming GPS during a medevac flight.
DeltaDB records every operation between commits and links each change to the agent conversation that produced it.
Enthusiasm for tying code to conversations is tempered by complaints about broken WSL support and ACP image handling.
A user switches from Android to SailfishOS on a Fairphone 4 due to Google's AOSP changes.
Commenters split on Android's decline, with some defending GrapheneOS and others criticizing postmarketOS's limited device support.
A botany guide recommends textbooks and explains why Latin nomenclature remains essential despite colonial origins.
Two camps debated whether Latin in taxonomy was colonial or just practical; apps and channel praised.
Demis Hassabis transitions from CEO to chairman at Google DeepMind, with Jeff Dean departing to start a new AI company.
Castform and Neon combine post-training and scalable search to beat frontier models at retrieval for 100x less cost.
Broad consensus: specialized post-trained models can beat frontier models on specific tasks at far lower cost, with some dissent on whether they beat general models.
Blade Runner's title cards use a single typeface with subtle variants to establish mood.
Thread splits on whether the article's LLM-like style undermines its point about human craft.
Hobby programming communities resist LLMs because they value the process of learning, not just working code.
The thread splits on whether coding is a process to savor or a means to an end.
Wisconsin cops used Flock license plate readers to track a man's travel to Michigan as pretext for a weed search.
Debate over whether Flock tracking was needed for the stop or just to add charges, with warnings about surveillance overreach.
Meta ran over 50 ads with AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery on its platforms.
Outrage over Meta's failures, with calls for legal liability and human moderation.
Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.
LLMs lack the grounded sensory experience needed for creative leaps in science.
Debate over whether LLMs need sensory experience for creative scientific leaps.
Nashville Metro Council approved eminent domain to block a data center near the zoo.
Thread split over whether the backlash unfairly targets all data centers or just AI/GPU facilities.
Meta releases Muse Code, a terminal coding agent, and Muse Spark 1.2 model with improved code generation.
Skepticism about rapid model iteration and criticism of login requirements and data policies dominate the thread.
Attackers can exfiltrate Jira and Confluence data via Rovo's URL retrieval tool.
Widespread distrust of Atlassian dominates, with many citing product decline.
TIME serves AI crawlers a stripped markdown version of its site with embedded ads.
Commenters view TIME's bot-specific ads as a form of prompt injection targeting credulous LLMs.
Celld is a self-hosted daemon for distributed Durable Objects using S3 for coordination.
Support for running Durable Objects outside Cloudflare, with S3 as the control plane.